Wednesday, May 31, 2006

ANOTHER 40 YEARS OF WANDERING?

STHIS NOVEMBER THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WILL BE CASTING BALLOTS WHICH WILL IMPACT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY LIKE NO OTHER ELECTION SINCE NEWT GINGRICH LEAD THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OUT OF THE "WILDERNESS" IT HAD WANDERED FOR 40 YEARS. HE DID THIS WITH "THE CONTRACT FOR AMERICA". DESPITE ALL OF HIS PERSONAL FOIBLES NEWT GINGRICH WAS ONE OF THE PRIMARY LEADERS IN THIS RETURN TO REPUBLICAN POWER IN 1989.

WHERE ARE THE "NEWT GINGRICHES" WHEN WE NEED THEM? FOR THEIR PERFIDY, THE REPUBLICANS DESERVE TO LOOSE THIS ELECTION! BUT THE CONSEQUENCES AND DISASTER OF HAVING NANCY PELOSI AS SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE AND "SHADDY" HARRY REID AS MAJORITY LEADER ARE TWO THINGS TOO HORRIBLE FOR THIS LIFE LONG REPUBLICAN TO CONTEMPLATE. THE PRESENT REPUBLICAN MAJORITY IN CONGRESS HAS DEMONSTRATED THEIR LACK OF CONCERN FOR THE VALUES THAT SWEPT REPUBLICANS INTO OFFICE IN 1989. WITH THEIR WILD SPENDING AND DEMONSTRATED IGNORANCE FOR THE REAL CAUSE OF GAS PRICES BEING SO HIGH. AS DID THEIR DEMAGOGUERY AND ECONOMIC IGNORANCE DEMONSTRATED BY DRAGGING BEFORE THEIR COMMITTEES THE OIL COMPANY EXECUTIVES. INSTEAD OF PASSING BILLS THAT WOULD ALLOW DRILLING FOR THE VAST SUPPLY OF OIL UNDER THE ALASKAN TUNDRA OR WELL OFF SHORE. THE HOME TO CARABOOS AND PENGUINS WHO WOULD NOT BE HURT ONE BIT BY THE SILENT DRILLING RIGS HAS BEEN PUT "OFF LIMITS". NOR HAS THE REPUBLICAN MAJORITY MADE ANY ATTEMPT TO FURTHER PROMOTE THE USE OF CLEAN NUCLEAR POWER. TODAY EUROPEAN COUNTRIES LIKE SWEDEN (75%) AND FRANCE (50%) USE NUCLEAR POWER FOR THEIR ENERGY. WE IN AMERICA USE ONLY 20%. CONTINUING TO USE THE OLD STANDBY COAL, WHICH BY THE WAY COMES IN LARGE PART FROM WEST VIRGINA WHERE TOO MANY MINERS HAVE DIED RECENTLY. WEST VIRGINIA IS HOME TO SENATOR BYRD. THE OCTOGENARIAN WHO SHOULD LONG AGO HAVE BEEN SENT BACK HOME TO BE WITH HIS OLD "KLAN" BUDDIES.

WALTER WILLIAMS THE DISTINGUISHED WRITER FOR "TOWN HALL" WRITES TODAY ABOUT THE "CONSPIRACY OF COWARDICE AND STUPITY OF CONGRESS" IN HIS ARTICLE "THE ECONOMICS OF PRICES". HE CONCLUDES HIS ARTICLE WRITING THAT GAS STATIONS SHOULD PUT A PICTURE OF A CARIBOU, POLAR BEAR AND PENGUIN ON EACH PUMP WITH THE CAPTION "THANKS FOR PAYING (PICK A $ NUMBER) SO WE CAN PLAY ON LAND CLEAR OF OIL RIGS". TO ME THIS EMPHASISES THAT CONGRESS SEEMS TO CARE MORE ABOUT THE "ECOLOGY" AND ANIMALS THAN THEY DO THE CONTINUATION OF OUR WAY OF LIFE AS WE ENJOY IT TODAY! WILL WE SEE IN NOVEMBER THE BEGINING OF AOTHER FORTY YEAR WANDERING BY REPUPUBLICANS WHO ARE LOOKING FOR THE POWER THEY HAD AND GAVE AWAY?