A lesson from the left

The US credit rating has been down graded. How could this have happened? We raised our debt ceiling; we agreed to allow the treasury to borrow trillions more now in exchange for phantom cuts in the distant future! How on Earth can anyone doubt our sincere commitment to fiscal responsibility! This is what the line of BS our leaders fed us over  the last few weeks, oh we conservatives tried, we wanted real cuts not just reduction in the rate of growth, we wanted cuts in excess of what was necessary to avoid a credit downgrade, we wanted a balanced budget amendment. WE WERE RIGHT! Cut cap and balance is the way, but even as the house passed this piece of legislation the brilliant Republican leadership was already falling over themselves to come up with the compromise that would a dear them most to the establishment media and the old guard DC crowd, instantly undermining their strong position and busting the knee caps out of our children’s future. Thanks Boehner, McConnell, and the gang of six!

Before we chuck aside the Republican Party completely lets remember one cold hard fact: in current government not all Republicans are true conservatives but all the true conservatives are republicans. Our stunning victory in last November’s midterms was only a start, and we knew it at the time. The temptation now “will be to take our football and go home”, but to paraphrase the liberal hippies who have infected our politics: heck no we won’t go”

We of the tea party are still here; we have learned a thing or two from our liberal adversaries. How many times did we bury healthcare reform in the last hundred years? Long before people like me were paying attention to these things a small group of dedicated folk stopped abortion in state after state time after time, when have we failed to vote down gay marriage on a fair ballet? Yet like zombies in a horror film, they came and they came, and finally they got their way. They don’t fight fair, what they fail to do in accordance to the constitution they do in spite of it. This we cannot match but the tenacity, the determination, the grit, and the unwillingness to compromise these we have in spades. If the constitution has been a formidable obstacle to them, imagine what a weapon it will be for our side when we return the judiciary to constitutional constructionism! We did not get a balanced budget amendment this time but we won the public debate hands down. To quote the legendary Bum Phillips, “First we knocked on the door, then we banged on it, next time we will kick the SOB down!”

Saving this country won’t be easy, and the debt and spending debate is not the most crucial issue except that it goes to the size and scope of Federal power, and that issue is fundamental.

We are fighting a firmly entrenched enemy in the Washington so my advice hit it as hard as we can and if it doesn’t break hit it again! (Constitutionally speaking of course)

Until next time, keep on the firing line!