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I agree that sequestration is going to be devastating. I also agree that anyone who signed on to that was our enemy. I thought so at the time.

I don't know if it will or not. Too Much GOP hype as usual. Well, I disagree with that, but it's not a disagreement that reaches the level of thinking you couldn't be right, at least in part. You open with that sentence that essentially means the same thing. We'll have to wait and see. Is it too much hype? I'm not sold on that yet.

You see how much they are spending? It certainly got O through the election with little pain. Yes, it did. A number of times I have had to remind myself that Congress has the purse strings. Problem is, we didn't take the Senate. And boy did some of our candidates work to make that happen.

Republicans in this congress made the mistake of thinking they got a mandate when they had no real power and Obama knew to focus all negative attention on the ‘Republican congress’. Clinton did it in 1995 effectively too to win re-election. I agree with this. I honestly do think we could accomplish a lot more, even if just swaying public opinion, if we had a better speaker. Boehner is a disaster IMO.

Now would be a good time for the Republicans to make O own everything bad. If taxes go up and those cuts go into effect at the same time the economy will slow some. They need to start calling it the Obama congress. Go back to 2009 and 2010 when all focus was on Dems. I'm not sure 'the Obama Congress' will work when we have the majority in the House. Focusing on the President's failings and the Senate blocking better plans, could be powerful. I do think we need to tie more around these entity's necks. Strangely though, I think quite a bit was tied around the president's neck during this campaign. Perhaps you can explain why I am wrong, but I don't see it yet.

I always thought Ryan was a real crappy choice to team with Mitt, Another DC insider white guy to go with the rich white guy. What type of thinking was that? Well in fact Romney was the outside Washington guy. I'm not convinced Ryan had to be an outside Washington guy too. Romney was a good ecnomic policy advocate, and Ryan pretty much fit like a glove there. I'm not convinced there has to be a minority on all future tickets. If someone comes along that is great, I would back it. I thought Ryan was great too though. Compare the guy to Biden, which is exactly what we should be doing, and he's head and shoulders better. I liked some of the minority players some folks were pushing. I just didn't think they were seasoned enough. Another four years, and I might view their inclusion more favorably.

Allen West would have made a great VP attack dog and he is a vet. He could have taken the fight to Obama and America would know that the GOP is NOT just a club of rich white guys. I've never bought into the idea that the Republican party is a party for rich white guys. Conservative policies help the non-rich white guys better than the Leftist policies do. For instance, were blacks better off yesterday than they were four years ago? Unemployment figures reveal they weren't. Hispanics had lost lots of jobs too. This economy sucks for everyone, particularly for those at the bottom.

I have no doubt that Allan West is a good guy. I'm still not convinced he would have made a better vice-president than Ryan. I'm not convinced he would have pulled in more votes from the black community. Why would they forsake a perceived black president, for a black vice-president?

Just because a guy agrees with us, it doesn't mean they are qualified to be vice-president, or in short order the president.

” I’m still not convinced he would have made a better vice-president than Ryan.”

A black can attack a black in public, and the MSM couldn’t/wouldn’t be able to pull the race card.

Obama pulled 900 Executive Orders the first time. Expect this to double. Now for my tin foil hat. I am a man of finance, and what Obama has set us up for is a complete financial collapse.

1) Don’t buy anything you don’t need on credit.

2) Stay out of the stock market.