If I could only trust that they’d really do this, I’d vote for all of them again in 2010, despite the issues I’ve had with 90% of their stances previously. The shuck & jive stimulus snake oil bill is far too damaging and horrific to let go. I thought it was all over but the paying and crying but this gives me a tiny bit of light at the end of the socialist tunnel:

“I would like to say tonight that if the American people will let the Republicans back in charge, the 60% of this bill that won’t be spent until after the next election, we’ll cut it off and let it go to the Americans.”

One problem is that he still doesn’t get it – the 60% that won’t be spent should never be spent. Period. Not to the American people, not to Congress, not to anyone. That 60% needs to just be cancelled and erased. If it hasn’t been spent, it shouldn’t be spent. On anything except maybe fixing the damage the 40% of the bill does.

Main problem is that I don’t believe any of them. I don’t believe they would all do it. I don’t believe they won’t just swap the funding from Dem pet projects to Repub pet projects. I don’t believe enough of them actually care about fiscal responsibility or balancing a budget or lowering taxes. Too many of them voted for the original TARP. Too many of them have been vacillating, weak spined, go-along-to-get-along fuckheads. Too many of them seem to think that the Dems will accord them the same courtesy they may have accorded the Dems while they were in the majority. It just won’t happen and nowhere near enough of them realize that or will admit that they are gonna have to play hardball to get things on a sound footing again and that the folks who really are moderate and conservative – not the nuts on either side – will applaud them for doing so.

Most folks like to think they are moderate and common sensical. Most folks probably are. The problem is that being moderate and common sensical means that you have a job or two and you can’t fly to another city on a whim to hold up giant signs and march around and scream. So you don’t get noticed. The press makes the narrative and they don’t cover the phone calls, letters and emails to Congress. They cover the shiny stuff – it does after all make more entertaining material.

So the broad middle ground in this country gets no coverage and doesn’t shape the narrative. You start to feel alone and come down with a case of the why bothers.

Don’t give up. Don’t let the media convince you that you are in the minority and don’t matter. You don’t have to wear giant paper-mache heads or lie in chalk outlines on the pavement to get results. You do have to hit your elected folks where they live – in the vote. Tell them you are in support of the above statement – if they cut off the stimulus you’ll put them back in. If they go back on their word once they are in, they won’t ever see another red cent or vote from you – ever. This is their last chance to not lie and to stand up for fiscal conservative principles. If they don’t, they aren’t worth the effort expended to make a little check mark next to their name.

The other thing we have to do is raise our kids to believe in the best things America stands for – opportunity, freedom, self-determination, self-reliance, exploration, all that stuff. Counter what the schools tell them and instill virtues in them that will help them withstand the indoctrination of their young lives. While not religious, I have always liked this: “Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.” When they get to be adults, they will live those principles. That will help give our nation a future brighter than the one you see before you today.

Via Gateway Pundit

Update: I heard about this on the radio this morning and now I see Michelle Malkin has a post about it and other anti-stimulus activism going on (man how I hate that word – activism – but it is sometimes necessary). There is going to be a protest at Dennis Moore’s office on Saturday. I have been hesistant to get involved in any of this stuff – I deplore the loonies on both sides and really don’t want to associate or be associated with any of them – but maybe it is time to hold my nose and dive in despite the nutjobs that give both liberalism and conservatism a bad name.

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