The Republican-controlled Congress has adjourned and gone home — and none too soon. Who, back in 2001, when they took control of both the House and the Senate, would’ve seen in their worst conservative nightmares the spending and intrusion into our everyday lives that we’ve seen in the past six years. The Patriot Acts aside, and similar measures aimed at conquering the spread of radical Islam, the purposes with which we can agree, although some of the methods are certainly open to dispute.
Yes, those wonderfully conservative Republicans gave us:
- A $40 billion expansion of the Department of Education budget, with an attendant increase in its meddling into how we locals educate our children
- McCain-Feingold “campaign reform”, a horrific censorship measure more aptly titled “The Incumbent Protection Act”
- “Faith-based” disbursement of tax-funded welfare services, rather than the reduction in taxes to allow the faithful to have more of their hard-earned money with which to do their own charity work as they best see the needs
- Additional socialization of our health care system under the guise of reduced-cost prescription drugs for seniors
- The refusal to deal with the flood of illegal immigrants, except to try to reward them with work permits now and citizenship later for having broken our laws in getting here and continuing to break our laws once they’ve gotten here
- The acceleration of Ross Perot’s “giant sucking sound”, as our manufacturing and technology infrastructure is dismantled and sent abroad
And, last, but certainly not least, in returning to the Patriot Acts, the military portion of the war on Islamo-fascism has been “fought” with both of our hands tied behind our back and our legs shackled together at the knees. Instead of sending in the Air Force to cut the enemy to shreds and then the Infantry in to collect up all the pieces and put things back together in our image, they sent in the Infantry to get cut to shreds by the enemy and the Air Force in to pick up the pieces of our soldiers after the enemy has turned the place into their image. We won’t even begin to discuss the diplomatic side of things…
Well, it looks like the next two years will finally give us conservatives what we expect from a Democrat Congress and a RINO in the White House. At least, this time we’ll not be disappointed by what comes out of Washington, DC. We’ll also get to see how the Democrats deal with their DINO’s — perhaps we ought to start taking notes.
