The Absurd Report

After pulling an all-nighter on Election Day, I finally crashed and had a good night sleep. I got up this morning to a beautiful sun-shiny day with temperatures expected to be in the 60’s.

I decided this was a good day to get away from the computer and run around and get some chores done. While I was waiting for my car at the car wash the cell phone rang and it was an old friend who thought I could use an uplift.

In a matter of minutes he had me laughing and then he said something and immediately the light bulb clicked on in that void between my ears.

“The ball is in their court (the Democrats) now”. Right I said, they are the majority now and with that comes the responsibility of governing. No longer can they sit on the sidelines and criticize, carp, and play Monday morning quarterback.

For the last year or so, I and many other bloggers have felt that we have had to carry the water for the Republicans by having to constantly be on the defensive as they stumbled and bumbled through one issue after another. The playing field has just changed.

Let me just clarify this, exit polls have shown the number one reason the Democrats won this election was that they where not Republicans. Terrorism was number 2 and Iraq was number 3.

The Democrats were the beneficiaries of anti-Republican vote for “Throwing the Bums Out.”

As I see the light this morning there is an opportunity that awaits the conservative movement. This election has purged the Republican Party of many moderate Republican RINOs who could never define who they were. They can now be replaced with people of moral backbone who will put the welfare of the country first.

We have now moved from a defensive position to an offense position. Playing offense is a lot more fun. You and I have just entered the “No Sulking Zone.”

Here is collection of miscellaneous comments for your consideration…..

• All I can say is: The Lord works in wondrous ways; he performs miracles. Let us watch and see what is happening before we have a complete meltdown. It may come to pass that this nation is about to learn a much needed lesson.

• I think I’ve decided that I like it when readers bitch about the president, like this:

Republicans are going to be in a cranky mood over the next 2 years. If President Bush thinks he can rub salt in our wounds by signing some sort of comprehensive immigration plan, they will be supporting John Conyers to impeach him. The type of loss we had last night was actually bad for his immigration policy. I do not think he can sign anything close to what he wanted without suffering the wrath of his base. He has lost all credibility. He has no mandate to do anything but to tack right. If he alienates us in anyway, he will lose all support.

• There was and is no leadership on the republican side of the house other than on the War On Terror. Now the Democrat Senate and House will spend two years setting the nation’s agenda and making the president look totally ineffective so there will be little sentiment for another republican in 2008.

• At the same time, the Bush Administration cannot “scape whippin.” If you start a war, win it. If you fail, the consequences are dire. This domestic route could be the mildest result of that failure.

• The terrorists turned the Spanish election by the deft placement of a few bombs days before an election. They turned ours by killing 100 soldiers in Iraq in one month. (I know, it’s more complicated than that, but that’s how our enemies will interpret it.) American voters that sent such a message is deeply dismaying.

• This is the end of the greatest opportunity to set a conservative agenda that most of us will ever see in our lives.

Conservative voters handed George Bush the presidency and a republican Senate and Congress and collectively they blew the opportunity to use that power to further the conservative agenda.

Bush’s ”Compassionate Conservatism” turned out to be more like liberal pandering and the Republicans in Congress were too busy spending like drunken democrats and pursuing their own interests.

They all forgot who brought them to the dance.

When they weren’t making fools of themselves they let the democrats do it for them.

• So the Communist won in Nicaragua, the Socialist won in Vermont, and the Democrats won in America.

• Terrorist Gloating

Here’s what Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nassrallah told Arab audiences on Al-Jazeera a few days ago (Oct. 31 and translation courtesy of MEMRI):

The Americans will gather their belongings and leave this region - the entire region. They have no future whatsoever in our region. They will leave the Middle East, and the Arab and Islamic worlds, like they left Vietnam. I advise all those who place their trust in the Americans to learn the lesson of Vietnam, and to learn the lesson of the South Lebanese Army with the Israelis, and to know that when the Americans lose this war—and lose it they will, Allah willing—they will abandon them to their fate, just like they did to all those who placed their trust in them throughout history. Technorati Tags