The landscape and the agenda:

Friday – November 5, 2010

The landscape and the agenda:

I wrote yesterday that the president will use the new political landscape to his advantage. He is already demonizing the winners and has started on his new excuse agenda. He said yesterday that he didn’t articulate the meaning of the liberal agenda and its legislation. He said, “The agenda as opposed to an emergency.” What does this mean? It means that the emergency drove the President, the Speaker of the House and the Senate leader to pass the most liberal agenda and legislation in our history, all under the guise of an emergency.

The President went onto say that the electorate confused the emergency and consequent legislation, as government intrusion. In other words, the emergency made us do it. This is very artful and creative articulation of the facts. This is exactly what the new incoming House and its leaders will have to put up with. This is exactly what is wrong with this administration and the leaders still in power in this administration.

This is how the president his advisors and the remaining leaders in his party will defend the mistakes made since the president took office. They will continue to use the excuse of the emergency to defend their brand of radical liberalism. Truth be told, the democrats labored for all these programs well before the “emergency.”

The president has no intention on changing course and this is why the Republicans should publically defend their position at every step in the process to repeal, defund and reject the agenda and future desires of this president. Call it obstruction, call it not playing by the rules, call it what you will, the agenda is still alive and can still take our liberties away. The debate over healthcare will grow quickly, the debate will center on 16,000 pages of regulation within the bill. This will bring into focus why the Republicans said “no” to the bill. Pay close attention to the debate and view the landscape with these regulations in mind.

If the liberal can’t pass their agenda through legislation, they will do it, administratively, through cabinet department heads. This is more dangerous than some of the legislation itself. This is why the president moved so quickly to appoint the czars and to place other individuals in powerful positions with in the government.

They will rewrite the history of the emergency to craft a political platform for the 2012 election. They have already scripted the scenario with the televised cabinet meeting yesterday. They have already scripted the economic landscape with the passage of QE II that I wrote about yesterday. The market may rise, but the job loss numbers will also rise. Just today, new unemployment claims unexpectedly rose from last weeks numbers and the unemployment rate is still 9.6%.

What we fail to understand is that more money injected into the system only satisfies the urges of the liberal. If they don’t spend tax payer money they don’t get satisfaction. What we need to do is send a message to Congress that says we don’t need money being injected into Wall Street. We need sales on Main Street. If companies don’t sell their items then they’re not manufacturing, and when they aren’t manufacturing they are not employing people. This is a simple formula, but it has to be communicated to Congress. QE II might be great for Wall Street and the IPO coming for General Motors, but it does nothing for you and me, unless we’re heavy hitters or investment bankers.

I end this week with some words by Ronald Reagan. Some have equated the political earthquake that happened this week to a second coming of Reagan conservatism. It took Jimmy Carter to bring us Reagan. It will take the presidency of Barack Obama to give us another great president like Reagan. We must remember one thing about Reagan. He raised government spending, but he had the revenue to do it, because he lowered taxes and created job growth. This president still does not have a plan that will create jobs. This is the big difference and this is why the words of Reagan still resonate today.

January 11, 1989 farewell speech to the nation:
“I’ve spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don’t know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That’s how I saw it and see it still.”

Reagan and Entrepreneurs:” Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.”

Reagan and Government:” Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”

Now you tell me what landscape makes sense to you? What part of the argument are you still unsure of? Can you communicate some of this to your friends?

Gregory C. Dildilian
Founder and Executive Director
Pinecone Conservatives

A footnote: These arguments are still appropriate in today’s articulation of the issues. The difference is that most of us understand the simple view of the landscape that these words are meant to convey!