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Day By Day November 21, 2012 – The American Scheme
The American Dream used to be hard work, self-reliance and liberty.
Today it is whatever it takes to get the American entitlement.
Some prospect for the future….
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Day By Day November 20, 2012 – Foreign
Chris, self-reliance is becoming a foreign word.
Everyone today feels some sort of entitlement.
But, wait, what about the story of the American Thanksgiving….?
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Day By Day November 19, 2012 – The Man
Chris, the RIGHT does NOT need to be supportive of anything but the American people and the Constitution.
If the LEFT wants to be divisive and win elections in this manner, then let them.
Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz said the Republican Party “got whiter and more male” while the Democratic caucus is “majority minority and female.”
“Take a good look when the House convenes after this next Congress is sworn in at what our side of the aisle looks like versus what the Republican side looks like. I mean they got whiter and more male, and we now have a majority minority and female Democratic caucus – first time in history,” Debbie Wasserman-Schultz said Wednesday at a discussion hosted by the Emily’s List, a group known for supporting pro-abortion female candidates.
She said when women run for office, “Democrats win.”
So, let’s see. Man versus woman and whites versus people of color.
I thought politics was about issues and public policy?
Pretty pathetic….
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Day By Day November 18, 2012 – Paperwork
Chris, all of this talk of “Secession” from the United States is just “Sour Grapes” talk because President Obama was re-elected.
So what?
All conservative activists knew that Mitt Romney was NOT a conservative anyway.
A Romney Presidency would have been a smoother talking McCain Presidency or Bush-lite without the wars.
The national Republican Party needs to retool and reinvent itself with a younger generation of voters – you know the ones who were born after Ronald Reagan was President.
The GOP has a good bench with 30 Governors and control the House – a better position than in 2008 when Obama was elected with “Hope and Change.”
Who will the Democrats nominate in 2016?
A tired and worn out Hillary Clinton who will be approaching 70 years of age? Probably.
Conservatives need to regroup and help the Republican Party nominate a conservative candidate for President and develop a conservative bench for lower offices in the House and Senate and the statehouses.
Secession talk is just HOT AIR.
Conservatives need to get busy – there is a lot of work to do.
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Day By Day November 16, 2012 – FEMASpotting
Chris, I feel your frustration….
In the meantime, President Obama has a perfunctory meeting this morning with Congressional leaders regarding the “Fiscal Cliff” and then he is off for his Asian trip.
So, the financial markets will be jittery as the President jaunts off on a Thanksgiving week trade trip – junket.
There will be NO leadership there since Obama really doesn’t care if the Bush era tax cuts expire or not. And, he knows the feckless GOP will cave at the last minute anyway.
Time for the GOP Congressional leadership to call the President’s bluff and vote to cut taxes for all, but the top wage earners. Then, hit Obama hard on spending cuts that, so far, he has refused to enumerate.
Let’s see if anything gets done by the second week of December.
Somehow, I doubt it.
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Day By Day November 14 – 15, 2012 – Underwater and Illumination
Chris, President Obama will be traveling today to New York to view the Hurricane Sandy damage and for the obligatory photo opp with his Democratic POL colleagues.
In the midst of a political tempest that has engulfed his former CIA director and his top military commander in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama is traveling to New York City to view recovery efforts from the massive East Coast storm Sandy.
While there today, Obama will meet with affected families, local officials and first responders who have been dealing with the deadly storm, which slammed into New York, New Jersey and other East Coast states late last month, killing more than 100 people and leaving millions without power.
Obama’s visit will include an aerial tour of storm damage, during which he will be joined by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan. Obama also will visit a Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster recovery center and take a walking tour of a neighborhood affected by the storm. Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, both New York Democrats, will travel with the president aboard Air Force One.
Symbolism over substance?
Well, Obama has proven to be better at campaigns than governing.
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Day By Day November 13, 2012 – Dive, Dive!
Chris, you remember the story and the saying President Ronald Reagan used to tell on the stump:
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.'”
The same here with Hurricane Sandy.
Folks are seeing first hand that “Big Government” even in Blue States is not always the answer to their problems.
On the other hand, Governor Chris Christie who was sketchy for re-election as New Jersey Governor may be winning favor with his constituents.
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Day By Day November 11, 2012 – Bread & Circuses
Chris, do not despair.
Mitt Romney isn’t a conservative anyway and it would have been four years of angst before he could have been challenged in a GOP Presidential primary.
In 2016, conservatives will start with a “clean slate” from perhaps a new generation of POLS.
Undoubtedly, some policy issues will “EVOLVE” or “MODERNIZE” and the GOP will refine its message.
On to the 2014 midterm elections and the rebuilding of conservative coalitions within the framework of the demographics.
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Day By Day November 7, 2012 – Establishment
Congratulations to President Obama and the Democratic Party who persuaded American voters to prefer freebies over freedom and redistribution over initiative.
But, now, they will have to pay for it with a Divided Nation and a House controlled by a conservative Republican Party.
Obama and Harry Reid will attempt to exact a compromise with the GOP to make them appear bipartisan and magnanimous. This would be a big mistake.
What the Republicans should do is accept the new paradigm of entitlement politics and the demographics of racial divide while preparing to defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016.
There is NO need for the GOP to compromise with the Democrats for The LEFT owns the government – let them accept the consequences.
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Day By Day November 6, 2012 – Remember
Remember, indeed!
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