From NRO’s The Corner:
Rod Blagojevich, $1 trillion “fiscal stimulus”, Harry Reid, expiring tax cuts, Nancy Pelosi, socialized health care, Charlie Rangel, reinstitution of the oil drilling ban, Joe Biden, liberal judicial nominees, Al Franken (maybe), nuclear Iran, John Murtha, car czars, Dennis Kucinich, PC culture, Chris Dodd, entitlement explosion, Barney Frank, entitlement implosion, Barbara Boxer, card check, the Clintons, Russian adventurism.
If Republicans can’t come back in 2010 they should be sued for political malpractice.
As for me, I figure 9-10% unemployment…one friend of mine figures that is too optimistic, and that 12% is more likely. There is a fairly easy fix to prevent all of this – deep spending cuts, across the board tax cuts and a fiscal stimulus not for dinosaurs like GM, but for small businesses willing to hire and expand. Obama could do this or a variant of it – but he’s unlikely to for the simple reason he and his advisers probably don’t suspect the existence of such possibilities. So, we’re likely to have a pretty bad dose of economic liberalism, and thus my friend’s negative view.
Now, my dear liberals, you can say all you want that the economic legacy Obama deals with is all Bush’s fault – it isn’t (though he certainly played a role, being President for the past 8 years), but Bush’s fault or not, by June of 2009, its Obama’s economy, not Bush’s. For good or ill, the praise or blame for how things are going falls on the guy in charge, and his political party, as we GOPers learned to our sorrow this past November. The MSM will do what it can for you in burnishing Obama, downplaying the ills of the economy and laying as much blame as they can on President Bush…but when push comes to shove, the government on January 20th, 2009 becomes all yours, and thus what happens in the country is your responsibility. If things work out well, you’ll reap the electoral benefits – if things don’t, then you’ll reap the electoral whirlwind.
As for me, I’m expecting a pretty good 2010 for us – I’m not, at this time, predicting a GOP Congressional majority, but I can see us picking up a score of House seats, and perhaps a bit more, without too much effort or too large a GOP wave. As for the Senate, I was convinced that we didn’t have a chance of a majority before 2012, but now with Obama, Hillary, Biden and Salazar moving from the Senate to the Executive, Kennedy’s longevity in doubt, Byrd not looking too healthy and a mid-term with the other party in the White House, I figure we’ve got an outside shot at a majority in 2010, and a pretty sure 4-6 seat gain.
And like the NRO comment, if we can’t do well in 2010 then we are the biggest bunch of losers in political history.
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