Let’s Get It Started
There’s a movement gathering momentum across the nation, a movement based almost exclusively on fiscal discipline. It first manifested itself during the stimulus bill debate. It continued with the bailouts of the UAW and AIG. Proof that it’s continuing was provided Tuesday when Californians sent the political equivalent of a California earthquake.
Nonetheless, parts of the GOP refuse to get on board with the message of fiscal conservatism. Colin Powell recently told us that American citizens wanted to pay more taxes in exchange for increased services. Tuesday night, putting it politiely, Californians said that Gen. Powell doesn’t have a clue.
Last night, Rush called into Greta’s show to talk about this. Rush said that blueblood Republicans were holding the party back. That said, Chris Dodd is still trailing in Connecticut, Republicans have a better than average shot at retaking the New Jersey governor’s seat and an excellent shot of reclaiming the Virginia governor’s mansion.
If the GOP makes efficient use of social networking technology, they could rebuild the party faster than the punditocracy thinks.
Something that’s undeniable is that there’s a great anti-bailout, anti-big spending movement building across the nation. People voted for Obama and the Democrats mostly because they transferred their priorities onto the blank slate known as Barack Obama. That won’t work next time because people are appalled at how he’s governed.
They see his bailout of Chrysler and they get worried because government isn’t geared for running auto manufacturers. They worry some more when they see him getting ready to bail California out of its crisis. In both cases, the American people don’t believe that his policies are the solution to our nation’s problems.
There’s a movement gathering momentum across the nation, a movement based almost exclusively on fiscal discipline. It first manifested itself during the stimulus bill debate. It continued with the bailouts of the UAW and AIG. Proof that it’s continuing was provided Tuesday when Californians sent the political equivalent of a California earthquake.
Nonetheless, parts of the GOP refuse to get on board with the message of fiscal conservatism. Colin Powell recently told us that American citizens wanted to pay more taxes in exchange for increased services. Tuesday night, putting it politiely, Californians said that Gen. Powell doesn’t have a clue.
Last night, Rush called into Greta’s show to talk about this. Rush said that blueblood Republicans were holding the party back. That said, Chris Dodd is still trailing in Connecticut, Republicans have a better than average shot at retaking the New Jersey governor’s seat and an excellent shot of reclaiming the Virginia governor’s mansion.
If the GOP makes efficient use of social networking technology, they could rebuild the party faster than the punditocracy thinks.
Something that’s undeniable is that there’s a great anti-bailout, anti-big spending movement building across the nation. People voted for Obama and the Democrats mostly because they transferred their priorities onto the blank slate known as Barack Obama. That won’t work next time because people are appalled at how he’s governed.
They see his bailout of Chrysler and they get worried because government isn’t geared for running auto manufacturers. They worry more when they see him getting ready to bail California out of its crisis. In both cases, the American people don’t believe that his policies are the solution to our nation’s problems.
The message of the Obama campaign was simple: Hire me. I’m competent. After Iraq and after Katrina, people wanted competence. I’m betting that Obama’s bailoutmania isn’t playing well where unions aren’t the dominant part of the culture. I’m betting that the public notices that the real people getting bailed out are the various unions.
Think about it: The people who’d benefit the most from California’s bailout would be public employee unions, specifically the pension funds. The winners of the Chrysler bailout was the UAW.
I didn’t lay out the winners and losers just to whine. I did it to offer a solution. The biggest part of the solution is finding and recruiting great candidates, which requires an organization that works hard for their election. That’s where We The People come in. We The People need to get active in our local parties. Think of this step as the maturation of the tea parties. Getting involved is harnessing the Tea Party Movement’s energy and using that energy to electing fiscal conservatives.
Another part of the maturation process is to decide that the state should only spend money on needs, not wants. That’ll be difficult in California and Michigan, where voters haven’t stopped electing politicians who haven’t said no in decades.
It’s time that we got things started. It’s time that We The People took control of the process by being the people picking their legislators. It’s too important to leave that responsibility to the pundit class.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
May 18th, 2011 at 1:35 am
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