Posted by
AJH on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:31:00 PM
P.J. O'Rourke, one of my favorite writers, has a great piece in the November 17, 2008 issue of The Weekly Standard. The "We Blew It" title pretty much sums up the Republican Party. His subhead is "A look back in remorse on the conservative opportunity that was squandered." Words such as "squandered" and "ruins" are apt descriptive words.
Bush, like his father and Gerald Ford before him and even Nixon in so many ways beyond Watergate and the scandal leading to his resignation, was doomed to failure once he decided to abrogate his authority, his obligation to protecting the common citizen. Where he was so good at realizing the need to assert the executive office for the security of the nation and its people from foreign threats, Bush 43 failed to use the veto pen. He decided, very wrongly, to let his fellow Republicans spend and spend and spend.
Sadly the corrupt, pork-barrel loving Congress was without a doubt worse than Bush. A wish more of the bums had lost in the 2006 and 2008 elections. Too many thick-headed morons remain as leaders. Big government obviously isn't the answer to our problems and now no party represents the people's interests.
Where this wandering in the desert leads conservatives is all very much open range. Disaster has hit before, as in Goldwater and the years of FDR, but what emerged out of this punishment for pure banality was the likes of Ike and Reagan. It's time to reassert the conservative message of the shining city on a hill. It is well beyond the time to clean up the godawful stench permeating from that cesspool of D.C.
AJH