Worse, I see no evidence whatsoever that anyone anywhere in the Republican establishment has a clue. The Bush administration would not close the border and would not prosecute vote fraud while they held the executive branch. We are holding nothing now but our own asses. The first thing we have to do is get rid of Bush's establishment crowd and get some guerrilla fighters.
I fear in the next election we are going to see, as I posted before, the political version of shock and awe.
Please explain, if possible add to your previous postings--what do you see since this past election that tells you we're in for even bigger trouble next election?
I have my own ideas about this. I defended Bush frequently around here, but the bailout thing still has be stunned, an unbelivable acceptance of Big Government as Big Brother, Sister, Mom, Dad and Maiden Aunt, there to soften all blows. As we've seen since, this "gotta have it NOW!!!!" boondoggle has not only inspired companies to simply say "Forget new business models, we'll just go get more money from our customers through the government!" but it's not even what it was to begin with! It seems like Paulson just got this big pile of money and THEN thought about what he would like to do with it.
Bush sure did Obama a big service with this. And McCain went along with it, no surprise--he is a fan of Teddy Roosevelt, but not the one most conservatives seem to like but the real TR, who was a liberal no matter how you slice it.
Forget that McCain looked like he was panicking, Bush trusted his economic team, and now it looks like all their Chicken Little stuff did precisely what it was intended to do--deliver even more control over the economy to DC. Does anyone seriously believe that Obama's economic team will be more conservative than Bush's? And how conservative was Bush's?