The New Congress

Already, the new Congress is making waves and they're not even sworn in yet. You'd have thought power has already changed hands to hear it in the antique media. Still, we see the fallback to the same old tired way of doing business that the Democrats were known for pre-1994. It seems, in addition to the Republicans not learning from their defeat by electing the same failed doing-business-as-usual House leaders, the Democrats think the last 12 years didn't happen, or at the very least were not a reflection of the nation's desire NOT to be inflicted with their age-old socialist claptrap.

The antique media acts as always as their eternal cheerleader. Peripherally related is the "Big 3" auto manufacturer meeting with the President. They sought and did not receive help in bailing them out from their pension and health concerns. The industries long ago let themselves be bullied in to every expensive contracts that they are finding it almost impossible to dig themselves out of. Their solution, and one they hoped the President would help them with (being that he is such a big government fan and all) is to get you and I to pay for their liabilities. Honestly, I like Ford's product line and have owned nothing but, but I'm not going to subsidize, nor do I think anyone else should, their compact with the UAW. They made their bed and now they and their workers can lie in it together. Don't invite the U.S. taxpayer for some sort of sordid, kinky threesome. We're not interested.

Getting back to Congress, though, let's look at some of the items being proposed, though. Charles Rangel (D-NY), is once again trotting out his Draft nonsense. Not only is his own Party trying to distance themselves from his ridiculous rhetoric and blatant canard of only poor and minorities serving (he'd have been very much at home in the USSR's propaganda departments), but even he has trouble admitting if he's serious or not. And wasn't it those self-same Democrats who only two years ago SWORE that Bush would reinstitute the Draft if he won reelection? Wow, Nostradamus they ain't. The security of this nation is something that the Democrats do not now, have not and will not take seriously. That's why they throw up political issues like "the Draft" to try and score a few points against the opposition, then accuse the opposition (in this case, Republicans) of the very same tactics they just used. Hypocrites.

Rangel also wants to see ALL the tax cuts of the last five years repealed and he thinks he now has the votes to do it. That includes the child credit and repeal of the marriage penalty. But they said they wouldn't hurt the middle class! If you believe that I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. They live for hurting the middle class.

Carl Levin wants all U.S. troops withdrawn from Iraq, because if it's anything to do with the military, that's the one area of spending that a Democrat can't and won't tolerate (unless it's for a useless unneeded defense contract in his or her district).

Barbara Boxer wants an American "Kyoto Accord" as she single-handedly tries to save us from global warming. First, prove to me that global warming is man-made or even different than it has been through the late Cenozoic and we'll talk. Second, she wants to cripple U.S. industry in the face of burgeoning Asian juggernauts like China and India, who by the way will NOT be cutting any emissions anytime soon and who will soon be surpassing the U.S. in same.

Chucky Schumer is vowing to never see another Justice like Sam Alito on the Supreme Court. Kiss any hope of having Constitutional Constructionists on the bench again. At best, we'll get another Kennedy. Yay. Another vacillating "moderate" is not what we need. Unfortunately, the American voters ensured last Election Day that that's the best any of us can hope for. At worst, we'll get another Breyer or Souter.

And let's not forget Madame Hillary. Mrs. Clinton says "Health care is back on the table." This is a woman who almost single-handedly wrecked health care when she wrested the job from her husband's administration thirteen years ago. Clinton may be using her husband's old tactic of fake right and then run left, but she's got 20 years of quotes dogging her regarding just what a rank socialist she has always been. Any person who lives their life by Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" is someone we should be very concerned about having a place at the table to decide Senate policy.

So, that's a glimpse at what we have to deal with for the next few years. We fight the battle from the bottom of the slope again, perhaps a little wiser and perhaps better armed and maybe this time we can counter some of the Left's agenda.

Update: Although not entirely related, some of the numbers are in and, SURPRISE, there's more to state that it wasn't Democrats flashing their gams that won them the election and it certainly wasn't a voter embrace all of a sudden of Democrats' bread and butter issues. Emily's List candidates, those who strongly favor the courts telling the states what they can and can't legislate (in this case, abortion) faired quite poorly.