Good riddance to Jim Jeffords. No need to dwell on this wee
man for a moment longer. With his deed done, conservatives must
wash their hands of this Vermonter, and formulate a strategy to
cope with the abrupt change that’s suddenly thrust the
American Fabian Party’s Tom Daschle into the Majority Leader’s
seat. We need to strategize about how we’re intending to deal
with a Senate that rests safely in the hands of a party that is
completely opposed to capitalism and the free market, to missile
defense and American hegemony, and to overly qualified jurists
that display any sort of affinity for the doctrine of Original
Intent.
With Democrats now boasting chiefdom over all committees and
over the floor schedule, President Bush faces a monumental task
in pushing our agenda into law and in stamping his print on the
federal judiciary. Ted Kennedy, Joseph Biden and Patrick Leahy
will see to this, as they employ the type of obstructionist
tactics they’ve become so famous for.
Corporations and small businesses haven’t a prayer either;
the inevitable prostitution of the democratic party to the will
of wacko greens means business gets hit with another flurry of
regulatory uppercuts. You can forget about a three-pronged
missile defense being deployed any time soon, too. Obtaining the
essential funding necessary for the research and development
that can perfect such a system and justify its deployment will
be next to impossible.
And I don’t mean to sound so despondent; it’s just that I
see this as the reality of a dreadful situation. Unlike many of
my heroes that control the airwaves (Rush Limbaugh) and those
that dominate FOX News, I don’t see this jump by Jeffords as
having only short-term consequences. I see the potential for a
lame duck President Bush. Sure, we still have the same 100
Senators (62 of whom voted to pass President Bush’s tax cut)
that have shown a tendency to support a few of Bush’s
initiatives; indeed, the President seems to have 51-52 votes he
can count on most of the time. And even when he hasn’t had
those votes during these first few months, a Republican majority
has been able to hold off on a vote until enough senators could
be secured for a bill’s passage. But now, with the Democrats
at the helm, you can expect the party’s liberal core of 45 or
so senators to kill the President’s proposals either in
committee or else bring them to the floor before Republicans
have garnered enough support. Worse, when they know the
President’s bills have a majority of Senators behind them,
they’ll wield their scheduling power to allow themselves ample
time to spread lies and foment unwarranted anger and fear
amongst the clueless masses, thereby influencing polls and
persuading moderates to change their vote. So in effect, a
minority of liberals in the United States Senate controls the
entire agenda, simply because a "D" is conjoined with
more Senators names than an "R".
To illustrate my point, I dare say that the President’s tax
cut wouldn’t have seen the light of day in the Senate had Tom
Daschle been at the reins to begin with, or else the plan would
have been pared down to below a trillion dollars. Not because
the President didn’t ultimately have the votes to pass a $1.35
trillion tax cut (back-loaded as it is), but because the
democrats would have put it to a vote before sufficient numbers
had been amassed to pass the legislation or even nuked it in
committee.
President Bush has serious problems, as you can see. I don’t
believe there to be a danger of democrats actually getting any
liberal legislation passed since they have to contend with a
usually conservative House and a conservative White House. But
they can certainly frustrate and block our agenda.
So how do we combat this? Let me count the ways.
For starters, Senate and House Republicans must continue to
push our agenda. Duh! Fervent passion for our causes is needed
now more than ever; shying away from principled stands
accomplishes nothing in shared government. What you’ll get if
you cave in is more watered down legislation, and consequently
bigger government. The past 4 years have shown that to be true.
Until next year’s mid-term elections, Republican congressmen
must articulate to the American people not just why the notion
of across the board tax cuts is merely a good idea, or
why missile defense is merely an option with which to
protect Americans. Now is the time for Republicans to speak to
the American people about why our ideas are BETTER than anything
proposed by the democrats. The sort of confidence and
assuredness that has marked the liberals these past couple of
decades, is the sort of bravado that we conservatives and our
leaders in the congress and in the White House must espouse in
the coming months. We have to assert our ideological and moral
supremacy! Remember, we are right, and we are on the side of
Truth! Democrats have done this for years, even when they haven’t
been in power. If Republicans want to maintain any clout and
sway, the days of wishy-washy "bi-partisanship" and
"compromise" (which are code words for liberal
primacy) must end. Otherwise, there really isn’t any
difference in voting for Republicans rather than overt liberals.
In its place, President Bush and Tom Delay and Dick Armey and
other conservatives need to adopt the tactics of our great
standard bearer Ronald Reagan. President Bush in particular,
needs to eventually go before the American people, over the
heads of congress and the press, and tell Americans why exactly
our vision is better than liberalism. He needs to make a better
case for vouchers and local control, for missile defense,
for the immediate repeal of the death tax and the
marriage tax, for the outlaw of partial birth abortion,
for further reductions in marginal tax rates, for why
wealthy Americans should get a larger tax reduction than
those that pay little in government excise, and why atheistic
communism (and its sneaky little brother liberalism/socialism)
is still the most evil force in all the world. If he has to take
20 minutes one night every week on the major networks and the
cable news networks, then do it! If he has to cloak his aims in
more pedestrian garb to justify his weekly time slot, then do
it! Just get it done.
In the Congress, conservatives must also work to paint these
clowns running the Senate as the dastardly obstructionists they
are. Paint them as socialists and liberals and friends of big,
expansive government; those aren’t bad words or inaccurate
descriptions. Actually, it’s the Truth! More than this,
though, tell the American people which of our proposals these
goons are opposing. Every time, Tom Daschle or Ted Kennedy or
Dick Gephardt proposes to increase spending (taxes) or straddle
business with another regulation, we need to go before the
American people and quote them line and verse the tax increase
and/or the regulation these socialists have in mind for
Americans and our businesses. I suggest Congressman Steve
Largent take on this duty as spokesman to go before the cameras
whenever the time is appropriate. He isn’t a lightning rod
like a Tom DeLay or a Bob Barr, and the Congressman is a
handsome man, which scores points with women. If he runs for
governor of Oklahoma, then I propose another solid conservative
that isn’t a lightning rod like DeLay or Barr.
And hey, if none of this works, we can take heart in knowing
that that blow-hard Al Sharpton will be in the Puerto Rican pen
for possibly 90 days. Better than nothing.
See also: The
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