Thoughts on the 2006 election

Well since the Democrats have already decided they’re “going after” their boogeymen, I guess we can all get ready for a rolicking two years. Don Rumsfeld has resigned which will give them less targets to fire off their shotguns at – I’m sure he won’t be the last.

All of the usual suspects we remember so fondly from the 90s like that dork Waxman and that borderline thug Conyers are chomping at the bit to get in front of the cameras again. And we can bet that the mental midgets in the media will be more than accomodating.

Already the press is wetting themselves thinking about lining up Haliburton, the CIA, Big Oil, Big Energy, Big Drugs against a bullet-ridden wall and an angry Democrat Congress wasting the taxpayers’ money on stupid pointless investigations in front of the cameras.

The Democrats remind me of an old master sergeant I knew who told me that the best way to avoid real work was to walk around with a clip board and an angry expression. No one ever bothered him, it seems, because he always looked like he was busy and pissed off. Looks to me like the Democrats have been taking notes from his biography. All bluster and no results.

But we brought this on ourselves. We let the media let us get riled up over the little nothing issues like the Dubai port deal, we complained that his Supreme Court nominees weren’t conservative enough. We got wrapped up in the details of the Iraq War instead letting the commanders win. We stayed home from the election to “make a point” over minutae. We let the media get to us. The American people always get the government they deserve.

We can take solice in the fact that Congress will get nothing done with the tiny Democrat minority – it’s not veto-proof and the President doesn’t seem to be the mood for getting along with anyone too soon. I think the Democrats burned up any of his good will for them in the first six years. He’s got nothing to lose by being a real Conservative now.

But I guess the real bad news for today is that Daniel Ortega won the Presidency of Nicaragua today. All of the Communists are having a real good day.

Category: Foreign Policy, Politics