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We Won!
We're starting to hear, "But we won!" This means don't tell us we can't get our way. You lost, we won so we get to do what we want. You know the media is dead when this has now been around for a week or so and it's still being repeated. Let's just get the facts straight. You did not win all the seats in the Congress or Senate. And, just if you've forgotten, winning as president does not mean you can ignore the rest of the duly elected Republicans. Winning means that you must serve all of the country, even the 45% that voted for the other guy. Are we back in kindergarten or what? No, you have to play fair and follow the rules.

What is so sad is that all the Democrats seem to think about after gaining the power they were so desperate to get, is funding their pet projects and taking care of their friends with billions of our tax dollars. Their greedy, power crazed, spending hearts see this crisis as an opportunity to spend more than they ever thought they could hope to. That's why they are all in a rush. They know that as more light is shed on this spending bill, the American people will see it for what it is and them for who they are.

Note to Democrats, we won means years of sacrifice and service as public servants. Not a rush to spend.

The failed policies of the last eight years...
How typical is this? Does anyone else notice that Democrats start name calling instead of talking substance when anyone disagrees with them. Smart people warn that the spending bill will be bad for our country, bad for our children and won't make jobs, that it only gives tons of money away to pet social projects. Instead of coming back with some sound reasons why it will work, all we get is talking points about the failed policies of the past.

How about those failed policies? Policies like low inflation, record low unemployment, record gains in the stock market, are those the failed policies that we want to move away from? How about the failed policies that forced banks to make bad loans? How about not overseeing Freddy Mac and Fanny Mae and dismissing Republican warnings that oversight and change was necessary? Remember Barney Frank's failed policy that assured us that they were doing just fine?

That government is best which governs least.
We deserve the government we elect. What we have now is a bunch of politicians bent on social change and greedy for power and they want to do it all with our money. Count it as the Republicans' failure that they did not communicate a vision of what a healthy and strong government looks like. It's a government that governs least. The Obama generation is going to learn a hard lesson over the next few years. Let's just hope that part of that lesson will be the virtues of what makes America great. It's something they won't find at the end of a bailout.