Election Eve

What’s in store for America?
Election Eve musings

God willing we will wake up Wednesday morning to Harry Truman like headlines that say
McCain/Palin Won.

More likely we will have a President-elect Obama who, regardless of his margin, is going to feel enormously mandated to force incredible change on us. Let’s review just some of what we know:

• He is very intelligent and charming but smugly and supremely arrogant. He, like all of the far left, knows that he is right and he must show us the way.
• His sparse record of political achievement does not have even one incident of partisan cooperation.
• Obama will have a filibuster proof Senate and possibly a super majority Congress. They will be able to do anything they want - and they will.
• He will have the power to stuff the Federal Appeals and Supreme Courts with liberal change agents and tort bar lovers. These and their contemptuous decisions are among the changes that will take on a dreadful permanency.
• Our energy mix is in for a shake up that, if taken to the extremes he has avowed, will impoverish us and make our nation look like a slowly blinking Christmas tree from space. Nuclear, clean coal and drilling will be all but lawyered breathless.
• Our foreign policy weaknesses will possibly have people wanting W back within Obama’s first term. He will seek a UN consensus that he will never get unless we adopt the UN’s craven, emasculated and timid postures. Remember, Russia and China have the Veto!
• It is hard to believe he will stand by and maintain a strong and up-to-date military.
• Our taxes will go up in order to provide tax reductions (read bigger rebates for those who pay nothing now) for the middle class
• Corporations will be under an attack dressed as reform but that will only hit middle class pocket books with a vengeance.
• It has not had much attention but Obama is virulently anti-gun in every respect as is most of the left. Expect the worst from them, led by President O. Hide your guns.
• Social entitlement programs of all sorts will either be expanded or invented anew.
• Health care a la Canada.
• Social Security and Medicare privatization or other meaningful reforms are out the window, thanks also in large part to mismanagement on Wall Street.
• The cumulative effect of Obama and the left on our economy could result in the end of growth and prosperity. If they succeed in making wealth a vice and need a virtue then the American Dream will really die an agonizing death.

Anyone of could expand this list. Let’s just hope and pray that McCain somehow pulls it out of the hat. Even that is a mixed blessing. Due to certain legislative domination by the left such an administration would be under even a worse siege than W has experienced, even though W rolled over for it in so damn many ways. McCain will not be able to get much legislation passed but it seems a certainty that we can count on him to use his veto power.

Those who have an adequate understanding of economics and our American heritage will be emasculated by Obama. Those who can’t tell a tort from a tart will be singing kumbaya even while not understanding why their lot in life keeps getting worse. And, for God knows how many years they will be blaming Bush for everything that happens.

Are we going to let them? It’s now time to start forcing change on our political system regardless of who wins tomorrow. We must truly hold the bastards accountable. We must do whatever it takes to restore and preserve our traditional America for future generations. Or those who can still read will certainly curse us.

With aching heart,

Dothan Dan