Richard Steele's Prognostication of Malfeasance

Richard Steele, Chairman of the GOP, took a day off yesterday from his regimen of bringing down the Republican party from within. He wanted to warn the Party that they probably would not take back the house of representatives in 2010, despite obama's rampant unpopularity. He spent almost twenty million dollars in the last round of gubernatorial elections, leaving the GOP war chest with a scant eight millions dollars for the 2010 election. And no one wants to give the Republican party any money right now; they would rather fund the Tea Party movement and Sarah Palin. Steele basically said that the Republican party probably could not handle a majority in either house. I guess he's referring to the Abramoff scandals from a few years ago, but I'm not sure if that kind of honesty really helps the party. In a strange way, though, he's right. The Republican party is flailing, and needs to unite around a core set of Fundamental values that a majority of the Country can relate to. Less spending leads to lower taxes leads to more jobs, spending, and a healthy economy. That should be the Conservative path to victory, not this ridiculous infighting. If we run three candidates in the 2012 elections, the result will be the same as the 1992 election, where Perot threw the vote to Clinton and ushered in the destruction of America.

The Apocalypse Can't Wait Until 2012.

I'm starting to regret that I didn't build a bomb shelter and stockpile food during Y2K. It seems like the next Great Depression is right around the corner. The only thing that could have saved us was a strong dollar, but that's gone forever. One point six trillion dollars created since the stock market started to tank in 2008, and meanwhile the American economy is still struggling. Everyone applauds Obama, but I'm a school teacher. I know the truth. In 2010, schools in New York and all across the country are more segregated than they were in the 1950s. That is an indisputable fact. My heart goes out to Rush Limbaugh, and I hope he feels better.

obama and the middle east.

The "man" is out to get you America. Our money will soon be worthless. obama's troop escalation has two flaws. He's not sending enough troops, and he isn't paying for it. This is exactly what Russia did in the 80s to collapse their empire. Our weak economy, a new and unexperienced leader, and a massive war in Afghanistan weighing us down. It's the exact same thing.

Finally, Afghanistan

Enough Already, Bill Meradeia. I'm sick of your liberal posts. I'm calling on all my three loyal readers to blanket his site, http://fawksnews.wordpress.com with Hate emails, spam complaints and negative responses. Obama will announce a decision to increase troop levels in our war soon. Oops, I mean obama. Now, I'm not going to pretend that spending three months forming a strategy was a bad idea. But I knew what needed to be done in Afghanistan six months ago. Increased troops, more Arabic, Farsi and Pashtun speakers to train the locals, and more bribe money. Lots more bribe money. The Taliban warlords have allied themselves with heroin druglords, after the first group of conservative scholars were killed or removed during the last eight years. The people controlling the fundamentalist militias now are even more insane than the ones who planned 9/11. We need to win this war, America.

Conservatives in Trouble

This doesn't make sense. I had assumed that obama would at least force the Republicans into a unified opposition. Instead, I'm watching the entire party collapse into Partisan bickering. I just found out today that Hillary Clinton is more electable to most Americans than Sarah Palin. How did that happen? Her husband has done everything for her. Dear Lord; if she is elected president, then...no, let's not go down that road. And the Tea Party Patriots are lost among an in-house legal battle that has stopped them from planning future protests. The only posts on any TP blogs lately have been accusations of wrongdoing and subsequent defenses. This wouldn't be bad if we were arguing with Liberals, but all this is coming from the people in charge of conservative organizations. Instead of mainstreaming and becoming acceptable to America, the Republican Party is driving itself into an isolated corner. In that vein , an order to both sides of the aisle:

Please stop paying attention to Sarah Palin.

Now, I love Palin. She's a great woman, and her book reads like an abject lesson in saving America. But the base needs to stop propping her up and politicians needs to stop attacking her electability. Have you ever heard of a self-fulfilling prophesy? The level of importance we place on Palin will literally decide her fate, which has now become tied to the Party. If America views Palin as a source of division between her most loyal supporters and the centrist number-crunchers, then our party will inevitably collapse. We might as well split the conservatives into two smaller, equally doomed parties. Republicanism is not about Palin; it's a massive conservative coalition that has reached an important crossroads. We could either spend the next three years squabbling over which ideology is best (and purging the traitors), or we could unite and reach out to moderates who decided the last election. The Party is neither a small radical base, or a few isolated political leaders trying to keep their dying hold on the Legislative branch. The Party is a widespread grassroots movement, as large and diverse as the Democrats, full of voters with DIFFERING OPINIONS about the direction America needs to move. I would love to be surrounded by people who agreed with me on every point, but that probably means I'd end up alone in a room with Dick Cheney and the corpse of Will Buckley. And while that sounds like it would be a great conversation, it would also mean that obama's election victory was just the beginning.

Afghantistan and the Abdullahs

I called in sick to work today for the first time in a year. I was staying home to watch and celebrate the collapse of Barack Obama's Afghanistan policy. Here is a man who ran as a reformer, promising to bring order to the cosmos and teach the terrorists how to love. I'm exaggerating, but just a little. And here we are, almost a year later, not having moved an inch. How is this any different from the Bush years, except that the violence is magnified tenfold? Obama basically set himself up to fail. He staked the decision to increase troops levels on the hope for a stable democracy in Afghanistan. This would be a pipedream in the best of circumstances, never mind in the middle of a resurgent Taliban. Abdullah Abdullah has bowed out of the race, taking the entire minority Tajik population with him. The Bedouins are already in the extremist camp. That leaves only Karzai's tribe, the ethnic Pashtun. God only knows whose side the Persians and Farsi speakers are on. What this means, of course, is that Afghanistan is rapidly descending into a civil war fomented by Al-Qaeda extremists. Now, I am an honest person, so I must tell you this is not entirely obama's fault. But he isn't helping. Over at The Post Liberal Post, Bill Meradeia wants you to think that the war is going well. How is that possible, when more people are dying now than before?

DC Conservative (and Liberal) Protests

I've been gone since October 6th, and I arrived in Washington DC at about noon on October 7th. I was chaperoning for a class trip. They wanted me to go because I'm the moderator for the Young Republican Club. We stayed at the Holiday Inn near Dumbarton Oaks Park, and I took a few kids on a tour of GW University, in case they wanted to apply. On the first day we were there, one of my students saw a group led by moveon.org demanding an immediate withdrawal from Afghanistan. She turned and asked me, "Ms. Destofy, what are the liberals protesting?"

I laughed and told her, "I'm not sure Kate. They already won."

Then on Saturday, October 17th, there was a much smaller anti-media protest. I would point out that I didn't attend any of these rallies, partly because they were liberal ideals but also because a teacher can get fired for having political views on the job. I had to watch from afar as people gathered all over the Washington Mall with signs and big Obama puppets. It was such a hilarious reversal of the last eight years. You see, in Sun Tzu's the Art of War a moving army is always victorious. Once you fortify and set up defenses, your defeat is inevitable. That's why Bush made such an easy target. He was trying to defend America from the worst series of tragedies that had befallen it in recent memory. After he won, liberals spent a full eight years spreading lies, protesting, and burning flags. Now it's our turn, and Obama is on the defensive. We are the guerilla fighters (Metaphorically- no guns. As a teacher they terrify me. I am extremely pro-gun control) and Obama is the man behind the city walls. We must fight him using the tools and weapons that Liberals developed for Bush over the last eight years.