Some random thoughts for today.

• How can you have lower costs or cut the deficit when you add 32 million new people to the insurance rolls?
• Since Nancy Pelosi has “kicked open the door” for more legislation, what’s the next issue that they will try to ram through?
• Hello to Washington politicians – We’re a representative republic, not a democracy.
• Quote related to prior thought: “Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation.” - Karl Marx
• Will the 10th Amendment stand in the way of Obamacare?
• How much will Democrats try to shove through Congress before possible losses in November elections?
• Is buyers remorse setting in for any Obama voters?
• From Neal Boortz’s site: “Never in the history of the United States has the Congress has never passed a law which required any citizen to enter into a contract with another citizen or a private business against their will….Never, that is, till now.  How’s that for change?”
• Its nice to know from Nancy Pelosi and company the real reason I am against what they passed is that scare tactics were used on me. 
• Its also nice to know that once I really get to see the legislation that changes almost 20% of our economy from free market principles to socialized ones, that I am going to love it!

Greetings!
I’ve been working on the site the past few days; and I think we are finally getting it where it needs to be. For now, I just need to work a few kinks out. We’ll be adding a podcast section to the site very soon, giving opinions from both sides of the political fence and have a “featured video” section coming soon.

Stay tuned!

Jason

It has been just under a year ago I posted my one blog entry about “AA for Conservatives”.   At that time, conservatives like myself were under fire from center-left to far-left politicians, commentators, bloggers, and the average American about our views.  As I stated in my entry, liberals considered us “irrelevant” and ”out of touch”.  Our ideals were claimed to have been rebuked by the American voters and were seemingly pushed to the background of American politics.  All of this came as a result of the election of President Barack Obama.  How things change in only 352 days.

I started off the body of my last entry with series of four questions.  Question number one stated “Are we conservatives truly irrelevant?”  The answer I gave in March of 2009 has not changed one bit.  According to a Gallup survey done in June of 2009, 40% of Americans surveyed said they would consider themselves conservative.  Compare this with the 21% who consider themselves liberal.  Just based on numbers, we are far from irrelevant.  What has to be considered (and talked in depth at a later date) is the role of the rest of the population, those who consider themselves moderates.

352 days later, my second question, “Have our ideas been rebuked?” is answered with a resounding “NO“.  With the rise of the “Tea Party” movement, the townhall fiasco’s for Democrat politicians, and the outcry on ever larger deficit spending (just to name a few), conservative ideas have not been rebuked, but revived.  While still labeled “hypocrites” because of our failure to stop then President George W. Bush from bloating the government to its pre-President Obama stage, our moral standing has definitely increased with the explosion of government spending in 2009 alone (hence the Tea Party Movement).  Though the idea of smaller government is a cornerstone to our way of thought, what really needs to be pushed is smarter government (I know, I know….an oxymoron if there ever was one).  By smarter government I mean the following:

• No new expansion of current levels of government.
• Independent audit of the federal government for “useless” or “redundant” programs.
• True fiscal responsibility.
• True tax reform (I still push the Fair Tax as the way).
• Limit or end the entitlement handouts (freebies to the people & earmarks)

These are just a few things to say the least.

What it really boils down to is what would help the average joe like you, me, or my neighbor across the street.  It boils down to what thoughts of ideology are going to continue to make America the country that everyone has flocked to, in order to seek the a better way fo life.  Granted, we conservatives don’t own the market on ideas, but we certainly do have ideas that involve more practical ways than the sledgehammer of more government oversight and wasteful spending.

352 days……we have weathered the storm.  Now its time to regain our place.