My, how the game has changed! Several months ago the GOP was spoiling for a fight, thinking that they had finally broken the back and spirit of President Barak Obama. The Senate lost their majority, the Tea Party was in full swing and Republicans were crowing about "taking back America". Now, the lines have blurred because ever since passage of the health care bill, Republicans have gone into a swoon. President Obama gave them a gift. He gave to green light for letting oil companies drill in areas of our coasts and Alaska. Environmentalists were outraged, but little did anyone realize that our President gave them a gift, a gift that will keep on giving in November and beyond. The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could be larger than the one off the coast of Alaska in 1989. What's even more shocking is that the technology is not there to clean up this mess. All of a sudden, drill baby drill, doesn't sound so good. The slick is headed towards those conservative Southern states that let out the rebel yell to drill.
On the economic side, while unemployment is still high, people are going out and spending money again because they feel that the tide has turned. People still argue whether or not the stimulus worked, but at this point, who cares? The fact of the matter is that the recession is long over and people are confident to open their wallets again. I look for real job growth to occur towards the end of the year and flow strongly into 2011.
Even the illegal immigration issue, one that Republicans pride themselves on have left them in a quandary. States like Arizona are now taking the lead with disastrous results. While Tea Party people love this, state officials are now bracing for a backlash from foreign countries wanting to set up shop. Do they want to invest in a state where their foreign employees could be targets? What about foreign tourists and investors. The genie bottle has opened, with states not adopting these laws now leading the pack for foreign investment. Republicans sensing this, have now backed off what once looked like a slam dunk.
These are examples of incompetence in the 21st century. Republicans and conservative Democrats think that just because they enact a law or edict that people will have to abide by it. No sir, won't happen! People will adjust, adapt and move on, leaving those who made the laws and wrote the edicts holding the bag. What needs to be understood is that we now living in different times where you either adapt or die. People could give a snot nose about "conservative principles" or what the founding fathers thought they wrote. I have yet to meet in person an original signer of the Declaration of Independence. If you are living your life like it's 1776, 1876, 1976, 1986, 1996 or 2006 then you, my friend, are in big trouble. Republicans and conservatives have yet to learn that this is a new century and the winners of the previous one will be losers in this one if they don't change. For you whiners and complainers I have but one thing to say.....
CHANGE IS HERE SO GET USED TO IT!!
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Donald, I said the same thing yesterday. Those Republican Governors don,t have time to bitch and school the president. They did not want congress to bail out the North, GM, Chrysler, or the banks, which have paid that money back with interest. When the southern states come begging will they ever be able to pay the taxpayers back? I DON'T THINK SO! I feel sorry for the people who follow these fools because they lead them to the "bridge to nowhere!"
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