The message of last night's election is pretty clear.  America does not like they way Democrats lead by Pelosi and Obama ruled the land from on high.  The message to the Republicans is don't give us fake conservatives. The message to the Tea Party is vet your candidates better! Agreeing is just not enough, learning some personal editing and decorum is needed also.

Lets talk about Delaware.  O'Donnell losing probably says more about Delaware having standards for candidate credentials higher than say the fools in Minnesota.  This is the state that elected Jessie Ventura and Al Franken.  Al Franken is no more qualified to be in the Senate than O'Donnell and yet there he sits. Problem was Castle was ready to "cross the isle" and be Obama's fig leaf on some key issues, and exit polls show he was not a sure thing either.  We need to make it clear to America what the Democrat progressives own and not add a single name to the list from the GOP.

We can all smile that the face of the Democrats in the Senate is Harry Reid and Al Franken, that should be easy to run against in 2012.  Harry is now impotent, with Nancy gone and the jar she kept his man treasure in gone with her

Unlike some conservatives, I am not opposed to crossing the isle if they are meeting me half-way.  For me as a libertarian thinker, Obama is a nightmare.  He is a progressive, which is not the same as a liberal.  Progressives are about power, personal power and agenda power.  If you look at his agenda it always skews to more control for him, for government, and for his operatives in the unions. This is why he is pro-war and slow to deal with "don't ask don't tell."  This is why he removed the ability of poor kids in DC to have a shot at the same schools his daughters are in.  This is why he has admitted that he knows raising tax rates can hurt real tax revenue for his programs, but he wants it more fair (meaning "let me spend the money").  This is why he has over and over in real action curried favored to Wall Street and helped them recover while many of us are out of work.

Liberals have a desire for more liberty and a feeling that we can all just get along if you buy everyone a free lunch and hug.  That is an over simplification for course, but it is very different from the use of government money to buy votes and favors to gain power vs trying to actually help people who are down and out.  If Democrat liberals are wondering what happened, its simple.  You mistook progressives offers of gifts paid for with the money of others for an actual social conscience.  This is why things like gay rights, help for illegal immigrants who you see as Americans in waiting and Gitmo have had nothing but lip service. Obama and Pelosi don't care about these as they don't advance real power.  They have gained a lot of power from fighting rules asking for proof of citizenship in voting, and they know that pushing too hard on amnesty will cost power from other places so they pretend to care and that is where it stops.

Finally, if you look at what they forced through the congress related to health care.  They did not guarantee coverage so much as guaranteeing that we will all pay more for coverage.  Unions may not see this until their next contract, but your benefits will cost you more in real pay to keep and soon Obamacare will tax you for having such nice plans,  What the bill did do is let the progressives tell us what we can't choose like lower cost plans and health savings accounts.  In the bill they protected control and took away more choice.


Now Republicans need to be clear on what they want to do.  Health care needs some changes.  Insurance companies have violated morals by using technicalities to remove people in crisis.  Their executives do make too much for what they do.  And we as a people do have a moral obligation to make sure there is access to basic and emergency health care for all our people.  Some of this should be the work of active shareholders who need to police pay for executives with votes from their shares.  But some of this might take government, because morals do have a place in government.  However, anyone who knows the reality of "free" government health care knows it is not a moral choice.  (I am close to someone who lost a friend waiting for a test in a good UK hospital, but still his access was slower than in the US.)

GOP HEAR US NOW!!! This is not about you spending on your projects or even you legislating your social agenda where it limits the rights of others.  This is about liberating our economic engine so there is real opportunity for success for all, not a system of Washington DC choosing winners and losers.  Let the people choose.

The Tea Party was smart in not going the third party route.  But the GOP needs to know they failed in what they had become and only succeeded with Tea Party principles of fiscal restraint and expanded power to the individual.  The new GOP needs to stand tough, because it will take years of real restraint to let the economy catch up to the size of government and the debt.

Even today Obama is talking about debt and credit cards for the next generation.   The shopping spree is over!! The truely needy need protection, but programs like we have had here in WA state that helped families making almost 90K buy homes must end.  Things like that just inflate the market and raise prices for everyone.

I am sad to say in Washington State the Kool-aid is still potent. But also the GOP candidate, Rossi, while a generally good man, doesn't get it.  He did not utilize the grass roots of the Tea Party and he ran the same campaign he ran that split the state and cost him the governors race twice.  Both the "I always vote (D)" crowd and the state GOP need to realize no more politics as usual.

My last message:  This is just the start!  Democrats you need to take your party back from the progressives and get it back to where it can work with a strong free market to empower all people and help the needy without punishing success.

UPDATE: See Gloria Alred Destroyed by superior legal mind Greta Van Susteren (Video Below)

Democrat Jerry Brown's attack dog, Gloria Alred, in an attempt to help her retread friend return to his glory days, has launched a campaign to make life harder for hard working Hispanics in California including the millions that are citizens and legal immigrants.  How do we know this? Would Democrats be running this smear attack if Meg Whitman's former housekeeper was Scandinavian?

Democrats Attack Whitman for Trusting a Hispanic
They are attacking Meg Whitman for hiring a Hispanic woman, paying her $23 an hour for nine years and accepting her employment papers as genuine.  She didn't pay her a low rate. She didn't forget to pay her taxes. She didn't pay her under the table.  Democrats are attacking Meg Whitman for treating her Hispanic house keeper like an American!


Democrats Explain How Employers Can Avoid Legal Action When Employing Hispanics
What is the real message employers are hearing from the Democrats in California?   Employers are hearing anytime you hire a Hispanic you should do a deep background check or you are placing yourself at risk of being sued.  Democrats are saying that it is wrong to trust a Hispanic when they say they are here legally and sign thier name legally to attest to that fact. Democrats are saying the first time you get any paper asking for information about a Hispanic worker, you should assume they are illegal and fire them right away.

Whitman Failed By Not Assuming Dias was Illegal
If Meg Whitman had racially profiled Nicki Diaz and made a deeper check of her identity she would not be under attack.  If they would have racially profiled and assumed clerical letters from Social Security which are "just paper work" for most Americans must be a red flag for Hispanics, they would not be under attack now.

If you are Hispanic in California, you had better have all your papers correct and make sure there are no mistakes on your computer records, because you can be sure employers, especially employers of domestic workers are getting the message Democrats are sending.  The message is being sent to money seeking attorneys statewide.  Every copycat low class attorney will be using Gloria Alred as template for new lawsuits against people who hire Hispanics.

The fear of copycat legal actions may lead many good people to require extra documentation from Hispanics just to get and keep a job.

Meg Whitman Treated Nicki Diaz Like An American
It was the Republican that paid Nick Diaz $23 an hour and paid all the proper taxes.  It was the Republican that allowed Nicki Diaz to bring her sick child to work. It was the Republican that did the minimum under the law when she learned Nicki Diaz was not here legally and did not report her long-time employee to immigration.


Democrats Treat Nick Diaz Like a Pawn
It is the Democrat that is saying employers who don't distrust the word and signature of Hispanics are now open to legal attacks. It is the Democrat that thinks it makes sense to do more background checks on Hispanics than one would expect for other American workers.  It is the Democrat that has now publicly identified Nick Diaz as here illegally. They have told the world that Nicki Diaz committed fraud to get her job.  It is the Democrats that may get her deported.


Jerry Brown is willing to teach Californians to distrust Hispanics, so he can win an election for a job he walked away from years ago to seek greater power.

New Video Added to Original Blog
Go Greta!!

  
This blog is written in the context of thoughts I laid out in my blog “The Poison of Right Meets the Teaparty.”

Utopia Declined
This week it is clear that Obama is clinging to his own “rightness.”  He is so sure of his academic theoretical vision of equality distributed by the educated elite; he refuses to see that more than half of America knows Utopia cannot be paid for with opportunity stolen from our children.

The Choices of Leaders
Not one of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence did so to increase their bottom line or lay the foundation for a coming election.  When they signed that document the chances that they would hang for it were very high.  They did so for one reason, they were proclaiming to God and humanity that the future of America, of their children and their neighbors’ children was more important than their personal safety and comfort.

America has reversed direction.  Not only do we have leaders that think the immediate safety and comfort of their supporters is worth borrowing from the future.  We now have leaders that are sure their own personal needs are more important than the future of a nation that includes their supporters.  They now buy personal comfort and power for themselves on promises that not only will burden our children with their excess, but promises timed to collapse after their term in office ends. 

We see the proof of this in a congress that has amassed a fleet of private jets so they not only can avoid flying with the “common folk” but will not be subjected to hopping a ride with our troops.  We have a congress that has failed for the first time ever to accomplish its primary job of creating and approving a budget, but will soon recess to ask for use to send them back to fail some more.

We have a President who claims he doesn’t go to church because it will create inconvenience for others but has no problem shutting down major sections of New Your City and Washington DC to take his wife on a date, this even as the White House hosts world class acts for his personal entertainment.  Entertainment enjoyed while oil spilled into the gulf and millions of Americans are losing their homes.

Intentions
At the very best President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid believe they are smart enough to chart the destiny of 300 million Americans.  They assume they are wise enough to choose the winners and losers across the diverse American map.   At best we have good intentions leading us to the hell of fiscal insolvency.

But history tells us we may have a new pantheon of political elites whose self-esteem is not built on personal accomplishment, but demands the edifices of generational reorganization with their names chiseled on cornerstones quarried from liberty of our children.

Do we have leaders who are comfortable fiddling while America’s future burns?

Strong Words
Yes these are strong words.  Words earned but a congressional leadership who made deals and twisted arms to pass legislation they never read.  Words earned by leaders who demanded a man leave his mother’s graveside to pass a bill in the middle of the night before America could read it.  Words earned by leaders who have confused an election with a coronation.

This week President Obama managed to create some passion.  Passion to blame others for problems he has created or failed to address.  He blamed his supporters for being lethargic, while failing to deliver well on even one promise. 

Utopia Denied
His supporters are not lethargic, they are feeling cheated.  They are cheated by a Gitmo without even the illusion of a plan to close it.  They are cheated by inaction on “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” They are cheated by the 50,000 troops in Iraq who still are in harm’s way but have been politically renamed “non-combat”  They are feeling cheated by a healthcare bill that was more about winning than healing.  They feel cheated because they see the political price their progressive movement has paid while the actual vision has moved forward very little.

Conservatives just know the cost of these incomplete promises will be opportunity and choice for generations to come without even the specter of Utopia that some progressives see in their policies

Enough Blame for All
From stump speeches in Wisconsin to his interview in Rolling Stone, we see a President who claims success and will deflect all blame towards his own supporters as easily as he will towards those who oppose his policies.  He has created a tightrope of “rightness” stretched over an America he sees as either lethargic and uncommitted or ignorant and selfish.   He walks above us on the thin idea that if we only understood his intentions we could forgive his results. 

His lack of ability to complete a single promise with overwhelming control of congress will not inspire his base.  His willingness to compromise America’s future for an incomplete vision of an impossible Utopia has created the Teaparty

No More Excuses
Obama, Pelosi and Reid are only the figureheads of a political class that has become more about being right, than constitutional rights.  They are more about personal comfort than economic empowerment.

America has been poisoned from the top down.  Come November not only should we want leaders who will move the country in the right direction, but we need leaders with the humanity to own when they are wrong or the same mistakes will be made with new excuses.