Category: Politicians Suck

Letter to Senator Specter

I can’t tell you how angry I am at this stimulus passing, and the double cross from Arlen Specter was just the icing on the cake.  He’ll be hard pressed for getting me to vote for him.  Like, he better vote against an assault weapons ban or something.  I will definitely support any primary challenger against Specter.

Dear Senator Specter,

I have been a long time supporter of yours since I started voting at eighteen years of age.  I can’t tell you how disappointed I am that you broke with your fellow Republicans and voted for this wasteful, and pork laden “stimulus” bill, that is basically a decades old wish list of Democratic Party spending that will do little to help fix our economic situation.

I can not stomach the thought of passing off a bill this large to future generations, when our government was already too much in debt.  I have to admit, I will have a difficult time justifying supporting you in 2010.  If I’m going to vote for a Senator who votes like a Democrat, I might as well just vote for a Democrat.  At least I’ll know what to expect.

Sincerely,

[Someone Who’s Voted For You But Never Enjoyed It]

Specter is the poster boy for lesser of two evils, and he’s consistently been.  The Democrats tend to run far left candidates against him, because he does well among moderate Democrats.  If polling is to be believed, Democrats like him better than Republicans.  That’s hardly surprising.  He’s consistently won my vote by being less stomach turning than the other guy.  I’d say he’s not going to do it again, but if I had a dime for every time I’ve sworn off voting for Arlen Specter I’d be a rich man.

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Blago’s Bonkers

I think the Illinois Governor has  pretty clearly lost his mind.  Aside from his attorney quitting because he wouldn’t listen, and odd prattle about him thwarting conspiracies to raise taxes, now he’s saying his impeachment is rigged, and is comparing himself to Nelson Mandella.

I think it might be time to fit the governor for a straitjacket before he hurts someone.

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Stay Classy Mr. President

This doesn’t speak very highly of President Obama’s character:

According to TSO who was at the “Salute to Heroes Inaugural Ball”, this newly sworn-in President for the first time in 56 years blew off the ball (that’s 14 Inaugurations).

That means even Bill Clinton, who had an uneasy relationship with the military, went to the American Legion ball to honor the service of these men.  Jimmy Carter?  Went too.  Carter was a navy man, even if his foreign policy was disastrous.  Obama?  No votes there, those guys didn’t vote for him, so who cares, right?

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Still There

I woke up this morning, opened up my safe, and did a quick inventory, just to make sure that Obama didn’t execute a secret plan to employ the Underwear Gnomes to secret into my house at night and steal all my guns.  Fortunately, they were all accounted for.

Of course, I have not yet been to the range to see if The Messiah has altered the laws of chemistry to make powder and primer cease to function.  There are also reports of failures of rainbow farting unicorns to appear, and Obama has yet to offer Tam to pay for replacing her car battery.  Pretty clearly some have been seduced by a false messiah.

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The Pros and Cons of Being Everything to Everyone

There have been minor grumblings by some of the left about Obama’s cabinet picks and moderation on some issues post-election. But it’s rather quite shocking to see some of fury unleashed when he announced the man who will lead the Inauguration prayer. But it was Jim Geraghty’s comment that made me smile when thinking about Obama’s rhetoric and approach during the election versus the reality now.

Maybe this is a reflection of a disappointing second term for President Bush, but I’m more or less used to politicians disappointing me. The Right pushed hard to reelect the guy in 2004 because they didn’t want an economic liberal, and four years later we’re hearing, “I have abandoned free-market principles in order to save the free-market system.” Henry Paulson was supposed to be the most savvy treasury secretary in ages; now he seems to be making up the plan as he goes along. Two disastrous cycles for the GOP in Congress, and they keep the same leadership in both chambers. John McCain took only a few weeks to start complaining about unfair tactics from the RNC again. Every politician fails to live up to expectations in one form or another — even Reagan gave conservatives only one-and-a-half good Supreme Court justices out of three opportunities.

Yes, I do think that Bush has been responsible for quite a few conservatives being disappointed, disillusioned, or otherwise bitter about politicians.  However, I also realize that Obama’s broad messages – not the few attempts at talking policy – were designed to allow voters to make of him what they wanted.  They recoiled at our suggestion to look more closely at his background and actual votes because his message about hope and change was vague enough so that they could interpret it to match their views.  It would be like telling them to question their own personal histories.  In all honesty, even though he initially pledged not to run because he was too inexperienced, I really wonder if he didn’t have to run now in order to keep his record as short as possible so he could use such lofty ideals without being so easily called out on it.

But back to people being disappointed.  They feel mislead.  I would say it’s really their own fault, but I also view Obama’s message as similar to a very successful ad campaign.  Since his base really hates that kind of stuff, they may just now be opening their eyes to see that while they weren’t actively lied to, they did buy into a message that left all the icky stuff out.  And rather than hating themselves for not looking into it more closely, they’ll hate him for it.  But I think most of them will get over it.  I think we’ll see the farther left members of Congress do just enough to make them happy and they will forget about this affair.  However, if Obama doesn’t come out as a strong advocate for their causes at some point (he was a community organizer, you know), then they may redirect their energy to the Congressional and state candidates who don’t leave them with less buyers remorse wondering, “Where’s the hopechange?”

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