Twelve (12!) Years on

Twelve years ago this morning, as Barry Soetoro was inaugurated, we were metaphorically wandering metaphorically dazed through the wreckage of the neo-conservative movement. So confident and cocky after W's win in 2004 were we. We thought we'd cracked the code and the Dems had a serious long term problem. Stop laughing...okay? Just stop. 

The Dems annihilated the GOP in 2006 and then again in 2008. McCain (Self-promoter, Media) never really had a chance, even before the financial meltdown. On January 20, 2009 we asked ourselves, what now? 

We knew that new ideas were needed. We thought the GOP should move away from tax cuts and toward tax reform. We still believe that, actually. We started following some of the new reformist conservative blogs that were out there. The most important for us was David Frum's New Majority. Would you just please stop laughing?... It didn't take us long to realize Frum was interested in a kind of lib-light conservativism that was palatable at DC parties.  It was at that year's CPAC that Rush Limbaugh, clad in black, himself annihilated the likes of Frum and challenged the right to stay the course. When did the left ever compromise or change, Rush demanded. That's always stuck with us.

We knew Obama and the Dems would overreach, and so they did with the failed Porkulous and of course, Obamacare. 'But this time you've got me,' Barry told nervous Dems. Now we laugh. And so the Tea Party was born and in 2010 the GOP and the Tea Party did indeed annihilate Obama and the Dems. 

The Biden Regime is actually in a hell of a lot worse shape than the Soetoro Regime was in 2009. The Dems controlled the House and had a veto proof majority in the senate till Ted Kennedy joined Mary Jo Kopechne. Today the GOP is just a few seats away from controlling both, one death in the senate, heh. Mitch McConnel ran parliamentary procedural rings around Harry Reid back during Soetor's rein and he's in excellent position now. Still we can't help but feel the GOP is worse off. There's a huge problem with support and confidence from the base. No cocaine for Mitch till he figures that out. This blog is not optimistic.