You saw it here in October:
The difference between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama is a matter of degree, not of kind. They are both aggressively expansionist in their view of Government's proper role. Obama admittedly goes further (some might say much further, but I'm not at all sure about that), but that just describes the length of the vector. Both point in the same direction.
And so again, let me say that this Republic will be better off with a Republican Congress and Barack Obama putting his Italian loafers on the Oval Office desk for another four years. The Republican Congress will aggressively resist Obama's every plan, being (rightly) suspicious of his every motive. That same Republican Congress will not rein in a Romney Administration, feeling the need to "go along to get along".
George Will on Thursday:
“[T]here would come a point when … conservatives turn their energies to a goal much more attainable than … electing Romney or Santorum president. It is the goal of retaining control of the House and winning control of the Senate… [C]onservatives this year should have as their primary goal making sure Republicans wield all the gavels in Congress in 2013,” writes Will.
Will argues that a Republican-controlled Congress would be able to strongly oppose the president’s agenda.
“If Republicans do, their committee majorities will serve as fine-mesh filters, removing President Obama’s initiatives from the stream of legislation … [A] re-elected Obama — a lame duck at noon next Jan. 20 — would have a substantially reduced capacity to do harm,” he says.
The only difference is that I say that Romney doesn't deserve to win; Will says that he
can't win. Good article, although I disagree on Obamacare not being repealable - Congress can simply refuse to fund its implementation.
Do you think that if the Senate and House were R-rated they would stop caving to the D's any more?
ReplyDeleteMany battles are won well before the shooting starts. This election cycle is a great example of the battle space being shaped. Consultants and professors will be talking about it for years to come.
ReplyDeleteAfter November's elections, conservatives, Republicans, The Tea Party, yo mamma... we'll all form a big circle, aim at the people directly across from us and open fire.
If I thought a GOP-controlled Congress would defund czars, actually find ways of keeping Obama from "doing what Congress won't do," and so on, I'd be more sanguine about the idea.
ReplyDeleteWhat Rick C said. Isn't this the president that has never met with half his cabinet? The one who stands on the dais with Biden and talks about doing everything by executive fiat because congress isn't cooperating? Even if it's his own party that blocks him? Isn't this the justice department that has filled its rank with "oppressed minority" representatives (including lawyers who represent Al Qaeda against the US) and openly thumbs its nose at you and me when implementing illegal long gun restrictions along the border?
ReplyDeleteNeed I go on?
I'm not saying having Stupid Party in all those place fixes everything. The only thing that starts to fix things is sending about 40% of the federal workforce home for good - and cutting 75% of what they're enforcing.
If by some strange combination of events the Stupid party does win, we still have to beat them like a rented mule until they do what needs to be done.
Reminder that defunding is not equal to repealing. If it's still on the books, there's always a danger that it will spring up at a random time.
ReplyDeleteNot that I favor him (Oh, no. Not again), I'll still believe Jeb shows up to save the day until it's no longer possible ... which may not be until the convention.
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There's a lot of months left until the election. Good thing, too, because I am mostly in the same camp as you. I still can't get past the judges, and not just the SCOTUS variety. But on that topic, even though I don't think Mittens will be determinedly appointing Scalias to the bench, I sure as hell think he'd do better than Obama. With that nut we'd like as not get Bill Ayers on the SCOTUS.
ReplyDeleteOther than that, I'm with you.