I'm Bummed

About the election. Still. I blame the Republican Congressmen. For not taking prompt and firm action on the scandals, on the illegal alien invasion, on the social security time bomb, on balancing the budget, and on routing the bad guys in Iraq. All they accomplished was to pass bills full of pork, earmarked spending they call it, to buy themselves votes at home. Wow, we can see how well that worked with Republican voters.

Now we have the Democrats in charge, and we know they will not solve any of the above problems. They will be too busy passing tax increases, earmarks to assure their re-election, unfunded mandates (like forcing businesses to pay useless new employees more than they are worth, by raising the minimum wage), and chasing down oil executives for good profits (which are necessary to cover the cost of exploration under the contraints placed by the Democrats in past years), pharmaceutical executives (ditto), and members of the Bush administration, for just doing their jobs. We are in for a rough couple of years here. Maybe longer if the Republicans cannot get behind a new Contract with America.

I had high hopes (perhaps too high) in the summer of 2003. Our troops had eradicated Iraq of a cruel dictator and had started the reconstruction phase. There was talk of the people of Iran overwhelming the mullahs and making their country into a democracy. Now Iraq has warring factions (not really a civil war like Vietnam with opposing armies controlling vast portions of the nation) and Iran still has its mullahs and its yappy dog president.

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