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As I ready myself to attend a fund raising dinner for a great conservative candidate for the House,  Lt. Col. Allen West, I cannot help but wonder where our party has recently turned wrong, or our country.  

In the midst of a deep recession  our elected officials are poised to do what the rest of us refuse to, and that is to spend money we don’t have. Our common sense dictates that when prospects in the immediate future look dire, we’d be wise to spend our money carefully.  Yet our politicians scramble like ants to get the injudicious spending party started as soon as possible.  

Many of us wonder why this is so.  

As Larry Kudlow put it so well a few days ago in National Review OnLine, 

“However, stocks traded strong on Friday, with the Dow Jones finishing up over 200 points. Broad stock indexes are up 15 to 20 percent from their November lows. How can this be? Well, the stock market is telling us that the economy’s future is a lot brighter than its past. The stock market looks ahead; the employment report looks behind.”

So, as indicators tell us, that as bad as things are now, the light is beaming at us from around the corner, and the liberal cure is going to be given after the recovery has begun.    So again, we ask, “ What’s the hurry?”  

This reminds us of the con man who tells us that the proposed deal is fabulous, but it is only good for today.    Why?  So they can leave on the next train just before we figure out just how badly we’ve been swindled.   Most Republicans have become all too familiar with the scam.  

Senators, Snowe, Collins and Specter, we are way ahead of you.   Your votes in this so called stimulus debacle and many others that preceded it,  can always be counted on to go against the wisdom of the American people.   But be forewarned.   This time,  your recklessness might well be the over due death knell to American liberalism.   Your votes may just be what the American people need to take that last dose of  hateful medicine that we must have in order for the next stage of the American saga to begin.  

For you see, Senators, as the iconic song goes, “The revolution will not be televised”. Yes it will be ignored on CBS, NBC, MSNBC and ABC.  No, “it won’t go better with coke, and it won’t kill the germs that cause bad breath”.  But Mr. Heron was right in many ways, more right than he could possibly have known.  

Oh, yes, it WILL be live, but also be podcasted, blogged and e-mailed.  The revolution will be swift and sure.   Liberalism will become a vague demented memory of the aging hippy’s that promoted it.  This spending frenzy might well be liberalism’s last hurrah. We shall not look into the rear view mirror to watch it go.  

As I ready myself to attend a fund raising dinner for a great conservative candidate for the House,  Lt. Col. Allen West, I cannot help but wonder where our party has recently turned wrong, or our country.  

In the midst of a deep recession  our elected officials are poised to do what the rest of us refuse to, and that is to spend money we don’t have. Our common sense dictates that when prospects in the immediate future look dire, we’d be wise to spend our money carefully.  Yet our politicians scramble like ants to get the injudicious spending party started as soon as possible.  

Many of us wonder why this is so.  

As Larry Kudlow put it so well a few days ago in National Review OnLine, 

“However, stocks traded strong on Friday, with the Dow Jones finishing up over 200 points. Broad stock indexes are up 15 to 20 percent from their November lows. How can this be? Well, the stock market is telling us that the economy’s future is a lot brighter than its past. The stock market looks ahead; the employment report looks behind.”

So, as indicators tell us, that as bad as things are now, the light is beaming at us from around the corner, and the liberal cure is going to be given after the recovery has begun.    So again, we ask, “ What’s the hurry?”  

This reminds us of the con man who tells us that the proposed deal is fabulous, but it is only good for today.    Why?  So they can leave on the next train just before we figure out just how badly we’ve been swindled.   Most Republicans have become all too familiar with the scam.  

Senators, Snowe, Collins and Specter, we are way ahead of you.   Your votes in this so called stimulus debacle and many others that preceded it,  can always be counted on to go against the wisdom of the American people.   But be forewarned.   This time,  your recklessness might well be the over due death knell to American liberalism.   Your votes may just be what the American people need to take that last dose of  hateful medicine that we must have in order for the next stage of the American saga to begin.  

For you see, Senators, as the iconic song goes, “The revolution will not be televised”. Yes it will be ignored on CBS, NBC, MSNBC and ABC.  No, “it won’t go better with coke, and it won’t kill the germs that cause bad breath”.  But Mr. Heron was right in many ways, more right than he could possibly have known.  

Oh, yes, it WILL be live, but also be podcasted, blogged and e-mailed.  The revolution will be swift and sure.   Liberalism will become a vague demented memory of the aging hippy’s that promoted it.  This spending frenzy might well be liberalism’s last hurrah. We shall not look into the rear view mirror to watch it go.