The Mourning After

The message in the media this morning seems to be congratulations to the winners, 'let's just all get along', and make nice with each other. That sounds good, but we all know it's a bunch of crap and meant for sound-bites in the press. I'm not angry with the Democrats. They did what was needed for their party to win. I'm angry with the moronic conservatives who thought that 'sending a message' by voting out Republicans they didn't like and replacing them with Democrats was a good idea.

The truth this morning is conservatives wanted to 'send a message' to Congress that they were not happy with the way things have been run over the past 6 years. Ok, message sent. Now what do you have to look forward to? Just wait and see.

Already the liberal media -- in furtherance of its agenda -- is putting its spin on this election. Already you are hearing that this election was a referendum on President Bush, or a referendum on the war on terror or a desire for "change" on the part of the American people.

But you and I know that nothing could be further from the truth.

You and I know that if the Republican majority had stood firm and given all of President Bush's judicial nominees a fair up or down vote... if they stood firm on the war on terror... if they had not resisted securing the borders for so long... they would have had a filibuster proof majority in the Senate and a larger majority in the House!

And make no mistake, as you read this urgent appeal, our elected leaders are in their home districts soaking in the media spin, listening to the so-called experts and pundits and buying this garbage analysis hook, line and sinker.

That's been part of their problem all along. They've been listening to the WRONG people. Instead of listening to you, they've been listening to the people who were laying the path for their destruction!

That's why it is vitally important that you get your message out RIGHT NOW... LOUD AND CLEAR!

Because now... they are finally ready to listen! source

You can send a fax to eveyone in Congress by clicking here, let them know what your agenda is.

Here's what we now face:

Nancy Pelosi -- who currently holds the title of "Miss San Francisco Values" -- will become Speaker of the House, the most powerful position on Capitol Hill. I'm sure you remember Nancy Pelosi.

She is the most militant "pro-abort" in the House of Representatives. Pro-Choice America, an abortion-advocacy group, has given her a 100 percent rating for her wildly enthusiastic support of such atrocities as partial-birth abortion. Appalled at her unnatural disregard for the innocent and unborn, the National Right to Life Committee has given her a flat zero.

She claims she has a "plan" for the war on terror but in reality she wants to cut and run from Iraq and undo everything our troops have fought and died for -- handing the Middle East over to al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. As House Minority Leader, she actually said: "I don't really consider ourselves at war."

She rabidly opposed the terrorist surveillance program that allowed Homeland Security to monitor overseas calls from Al Qaeda -- an intervention that stopped at least a dozen Islamic attacks on our soil and undoubtedly saved thousands of American lives.

She is adored by the radical gay lobby and she's fanatically opposed to the concept that marriage is between one man and one woman and recently told Fox News' Neil Cavuto that a federal marriage amendment "is a desecration of the Constitution."

According to one estimate, she supports tax increases to the tune of $2.4 trillion.

Who will she put in charge of the House when she becomes speaker?

John Conyers, a left-winger -- whose sleeve is stuffed with race cards -- will head the House Judiciary Committee. Conyers has been salivating for years -- at the behest of the radical gay lobby -- to pass so-called "hate-crimes legislation." And he's chomping at the bit to impeach President Bush. In an article that appeared in Roll Call last December, Conyers said that Congress must proceed "with resolutions of censure, but also a select committee to determine whether there may be offenses that rise to the level of impeachability." You can be certain Conyers will spend his waking hours snarling and tearing at the throats of conservative judges and the Bush Justice Department.

Barney Frank will head the Financial Services Committee. Frank is the guy whose boyfriend ran a male prostitution ring out of his apartment.

Henry Waxman will head the Government Reform Committee. Perhaps the most vicious partisan in the House, Waxman will lead the push to impeach President Bush. Despite what you may have heard, this WILL happen!

John Dingell will head the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Goodbye drilling for oil in Alaska and lower prices for gas at the pump! Hello amnesty for 12 million illegal aliens!

And While We're At It, What Can Be Done Now!

Very soon, our elected leaders will return to Washington for a lame-duck session.

Right now, there's not a lot on the agenda... but it doesn't have to be that way!

So what can the GOP-dominated lame-duck session accomplish in the weeks before the Pelosi gang takes over?

Here's an agenda.

Secure the borders and allocate the rest of the money to build that fence. No amnesty gets discussed until that fence is built... No "guest worker programs," or "comprehensive reforms," or whatever the pro-amnesty forces are calling it this week!

Open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil drilling as quickly as possible. Experts say the polar bears and walruses in the small oil-rich sector won't be bothered in the least. Gas prices are eating lower-income Americans alive. According to the Department of Energy, this field alone will yield "about one million barrels of oil per day -- about 20% of our domestic daily production."

Invoke the "nuclear option" and confirm ALL of the President's nominations to the federal bench, some of whom have been waiting for years. Do them all at once -- an up-or-down vote.

Confirm John Bolton as Ambassador to the United Nations.

Our conservative leaders must understand this simple message: Get tough or get out!

Winston Churchill once said:

"We shall have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst, and we will do our best....We do not expect to hit without being hit back, and we intend with every week that passes to hit harder. Prepare yourselves then, my friends and comrades, for this renewal of your exertions. We shall never turn from our purpose, however sombre the road, however grievous the cost, because we know that out of this time of trial and tribulation will be born a new freedom and glory for all mankind."

That's just the message that conservatives in Congress must send to the liberals and it's a message that can not wait! source

Other reading:
Communists and Islamic Terrorists Agree, Vote Democrat!, from The Independent Conservative

The Most Corrupted Countries 2006, Strawberry Juice
Dems (and Al Qaeda) appear to be winning at 9:30 p.m., Judicious Asininity
Dreams Into Lightning

Commentary. Here's Orson Scott Card: 'There is only one issue in this election that will matter five or ten years from now, and that's the War on Terror. And the success of the War on Terror now teeters on the fulcrum of this election.' Americans, ... (more)

KnoxNews.com has all the Tennessee election information, including "Disappointed But Happy"

Purple Cows and Politics, from Pat Sullivan Blog

So...we don't want illegal immigrants to get any sort of governmental services or punitive damages, we do want English to be spoken, but we don't want any of the candidates that were fighting the hardest for those things? I don't get it.

Conservative Posts Blog has a roundup on the election

I'm tired of labels, Biga's Rants

A Day Which Will Live In Infamy!", Hyscience

Yesterday was a sad day for America! A day which alongside December 7th 1941 will live in "infamy" in the annals of American history. A day which marks the beginning of the decline of our once great nation as assuredly as the Roman's effeminate, hedonistic, refusal to fight off the barbarian hordes ushered the fall of Rome! A day in which cheering Jihadist terrorists and enemies of America all over the world celebrated in triumph the victory of the Democrats in taking over the House in Congress. (more)

Election after-thoughts, from Fore-Left

One more thing. To my 'angry liberal' friend Glenstein, this pretty much shuts the door on the ole Rovian conspiracy theory about manipulating the Diebolds, doesn't it!

Political Blogging Here, Cheap., from Islamanazi

The outcome of the elections will not be decided by the very wise, as they are few in number. The outcome will be decided by the great majority, those with the herd instinct, the incredibly stupid and inept, the cows and sheep.

To all the Republicans who stayed home to teach Bushco a lesson: ... by Old War Dog here and here

The campaign to take back our country starts today. Maybe, just maybe, there will still be something worth saving by the next election.

Stander's Point scares me with "President Pelosi?"

The Kag Report says: " . . . the important thing to remember is everyone trying to be elected is so incompetent they will not be able to prevent, or initiate the end of the world as we know it."

Wake Up America has ALL the results

CarrY on says Woman Honor Thyself

Planck's Constant OTA

Disappointment 2006 at 123Beta

Comments

[Rastaman]

BUZZ! Utterly wrong from start to finish, Roadknight. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge encompasses 19 million acres and provides habitat to millions of migratory birds, caribou, three species of bears (polar, grizzly and black bears), wolves, Dall sheep, muskoxen, arctic and red foxes, wolverines, plus many more. This is your "little, desolate wasteland".

http://www.savearcticrefuge.org/scientist.pdf More Than 1,000 Scientists Confirm Drilling In Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Will Harm Wildlife.

"At peak production in 2026, oil from the Arctic Refuge would only still account for just 8/10 of one percent of world production per year, and only 3 percent of U.S. oil consumption. Even then, gas prices would only be affected by one penny."

BUZZZZZZ!!! Wrong on all counts, Roadkill.

Rastaman

[Debbie]

Thanks guys and gals. I've been gone or busy all the stinking day long.

Tomorrow I get off politics and back to other important subjects.

Doesn't do any good to cry over spilled milk.

[RoadKnight]

"Number one, competent expert inviromentalists tell us that drilling there would be an ecological disaster. I'm not an environmentalist so I will take the word of THE EXPERTS."

BUZZZ! Wrong answer, thank you for playing.

The fact is that the area for propsed drilling is a desolate wasteland. What little bit of wildlife that is there would, just like with the caribou and the Alaskan Pipeline, actually florish thanks to the warmer (relatively) tempatures. This has actually been proven by the pipeline itself. Biologists and arctic climatologists have been saying this for years.

"Number two, the amount of oil from there added to our total domestic oil supply will increase it by LESS THAN ONE PERCENT!"

Wrong answer number 2! Aspointed out above: According to the Department of Energy, this field alone will yield "about one million barrels of oil per day -- about 20% of our domestic daily production." The studies (there have been several) of ANWR done by the Department of Energy were started under Clinton. They have consistantly shown this amount (approx 20%) of our domestic daily production. Are you claiming that Clinton is also tied to Big Oil?

"Time to stop buying into all the Texas bullshit from George Liar Bush. I hope they impeach his rotten ass."

Name one thing that he has lied about. BTW, to be a lie it has to knowingly be a falsehood.

Though I'm not entirely happy with President Bush or the GOP, having the Dems in control is going to be far, far worse than anything the GOP could have even dreamed of doing.

[Rastaman]

"Goodbye drilling for oil in Alaska and lower prices for gas at the pump!"

It was never "Hello Lower Prices" to begin with!!!

Why so many people believe this blatant lie is beyond me. Number one, competent expert inviromentalists tell us that drilling there would be an ecological disaster. I'm not an environmentalist so I will take the word of THE EXPERTS.

Number two, the amount of oil from there added to our total domestic oil supply will increase it by LESS THAN ONE PERCENT! Our domestic supply accounts for about a third of our total oil consumption. This means that raping ANWR will augment our oil usage by less than 0.3 percent. Less than a third of one percent. There will be no decrease in the price of gas at the pump. NONE! The oil companies will make huge profits and a wildlife preserve will be raped and we, the American public, won't get shit. This is the truth of it and this is why even 30 Republicans have repeatedly voted against it.

Time to stop buying into all the Texas bullshit from George Liar Bush. I hope they impeach his rotten ass.

Rastaman
www.islamanazi.com

[Ma r t i n @ b l o g b a t]

Bush just announced in today's press conference that he's glad the dems are taking over so he can get his amnesty for foreign haters of American laws and customs. Can't say it's too surprising, but still, I'm still disgusted. This is truly Nixon II.

[Angel]

Chin up Deb...it will all work out somehow!

[James Biga]

We get what we deserve. I don't look forward to the next couple of years.

So you know, I put a trackback to this on my site.

[Thomas Hamilton]

We can kick and whine and throw stones at the Republicans that voted for Democrats out of anger, but lets put the blame where it really belongs.

The only ones to blame for the Republican defeat are the Republicans who over the past 12 years failed to act like Republicans.

The present situation should not be hard for the Republicans to swallow because even when they controlled both the congress and the executive branch, they continued to act like they were in the minority. What’s worse, many of them acted like Democrats.

Over the past 12 years the Republican congress with the help of George W. Bush has managed to grow government to over twice what it was in 1994 with spending nearing the double-digit trillion-dollar category. Usher in the Medicare prescription drug program, potentially the largest entitlement program in history.

The Republican senate piddled around all this time over this huge backlog of judicial appointments. They could have been brave and exercised the “nuclear option”, put the minority Dems in their place, and ramrodded through these conservative judges. But, NO, they chose to play nice. Now with the fate of the Senate still hanging in the balance at the time of this writing, who knows if any more of GWB’s appointments will ever be brought to the floor for a vote?

The Bush tax cuts were much needed and pulled our economy out of the doldrums but were was real tax reform? Our tax system is still broken now with no hope of a solution.

Social Security I guess will still run out of money in 2018 or whenever they said it was going to happen. No real reform in site!

This Iraq war makes me sick. Were we wrong to go in? No, I don’t think we had a choice. I still think Saddam had WMD’s with plans to make more, including nuclear weapons. Now we sit bogged down in Iraq, playing nice, taking half measures, negotiating with Muslims. We could end this thing in a blinding flash, as we could have done in Vietnam. The solution would not be popular on the world scene or at the UN, but who cares? George W. Bush and the Republicans as a whole have forgotten that we are really at war. They fail to identify the enemy (Islam). Even worse, the Democrats just want to cut and run.

Iran is working on the bomb. The rest of the Arab states want the bomb. The gargoyle in North Korea has tested the bomb, we think! All the while we sit like a bunch of Euro-weenie-wimps licking the butt of the United Nations. When, oh when, are we gonna get with the program?

The real shame of yesterday’s election is that now nothing stands in the way of amnesty for criminal invaders. The Republican Senate wants it. GWB wants it. The only reason we don’t have a bad law now is because the house Republicans blocked it. If the president and the senate had said, “We are closing our borders. We are sending the illegals home, we are prosecuting those who hire illegals, we are cutting off services to illegals.” I betcha the president’s approval would have shot up to well over 50 percent and the Republicans would have maintained control by substantial margins.

So as a Tennessean I am relieved that my congresswoman Marsha Blackburn retained her seat. I am relieved that the liberal in moderate clothing, Harold Ford, along with his family of crooks and thugs, lost his bid for the Senate (I figure that Harold will run for governor in 2008 and president in 2012 or 2016). I am dubious that Phil Bredesen, our Democrat governor, now entering his second term and now term limited, will not go the way of our last governor (a Republican by the way) and try to ram a state income tax down our throats. He has said up until now that he is against an income tax, but after all, HE IS A DEMOCRAT!

I am happy that although the Republicans did not do well yesterday, that I still have the right to complain, because I DID VOTE!

[Rastaman]

Voter polls show the majority voted against the GOP on the issue of corruption first. Iraq came in fourth.

There has been an awful string of bad behavior that's been ongoing, one thing after another. Saying stupid things is one thing but sex offenses and bribery are another. Then all the denial and stonewalling didn't help much either.

That's the problem with an unremitting attack on the Democrats and Clinton. When the shitbird comes to roost in your own chimney, then it's your turn to have your house blackened. All of the people on both sides should shut the hell up about each other and let their own lights shine instead of darkening the other persons.

At least the rubber-stamp Congress is no more. That can't be bad even if the balance of power now results in total impasse. No President should have a Congress that does anything he says.

About abortion, I put it in the same category as Terri Schaivo. Our government has no business regulating or interfering in life or death decisions that belong to the individuals themselves or their immediate families. As much as it deeply pains some of us to not be able to tell others what they must do with their bodies, this is my goddam body and if I want to kill it or give someone else permission to kill it under certain dire circumstances, that's my goddamned business. Not some Florida governer, not some advocacy group. MINE!

I hope that the Democrats have learned a greater lesson from this than that people want change. I hope they figure out that people want what they say they want and not what the politicians want.

Somehow, though, I doubt it. Democrats and Republicans are exactly alike in ways that matter most. Both are politicians. Both seek personal power. Both are more concerned about getting and keeping power than they are about doing right for America and I don't expect sudden improvement or even much change with the changing of the guard. Considering the state of financial chaos Bush has wrought us, I don't see how it can get much worse, either. But hey, they might surprise me.

We have a President who turned his back on America. I speak in particular about the swarming tide of illegal aliens. Right before the elections he finally allowed a bill to pass that permits the building of a section of border fence. However, the bill is toothless and the fence won't be built because no money was allocated to build it.

There are some hardy souls in both parties who want to fix our borders and attack our real enemies where our real enemies are. Whether they'll get their chance now or be silenced as before, I've no idea. Politics isn't my strong point. America is my strong point. I care about America.

[Bill Faith]

I just excerpted and linked and stole your post title. -- There's a lot I like about TypePad but I don't trust their trackbacks. Excellent post.

[Debbie]

Thanks, Mushy. That means a lot. I like reading your site because it is uplifting. It makes us think about times past and look at the beauty around us.

[Mushy]

Debbie - not only do I enjoy reading what you write here, I pass the URL along to none bloggers I know who are sympathic to the cause.