start the commotion
Start the Commotion
I may have misspoke in my last entry, but fear not I did not flip flop on you, dear reader. I have a grave fear that the forces of hate will overwhelm the Republic and Senator Kerry will become the President of the United States. This is not the hope I have for our Republic.
It is still my hope to see President George W. Bush to stay in Washington four more years. He has displayed disciplined, principled leadership during his tenure as our Chief Executive. He has assembled a skilled cabinet, the likes of which have not been seen since the last time a George W. occupied his office.
Critics point to the fact that President George W. Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney have had an agenda during their time in Washington, D.C. Good for them, a leader with vision is something we have not seen in the White House since Ronald Reagan. I admire the President�s father, who led in much the same way that Winston Churchill did, an excellent wartime President who had a failed domestic agenda while President Clinton spent eight years reacting to world crises, co-opting Republican issues and taking credit for their legislative accomplishments. You did not see a balanced budget or any major reforms until Newt Gingrich, who is a bad, bad man, took over the Speaker�s Office.
What has President Bush�s Agenda been? Education, a reform that to be honest remains to be seen if it will work or not, is the first of its kind since Lyndon Johnson was President. It may not be perfect, but it was better than Al Gore�s plan and it was the only thing done to restructure Education in American in forty years. No one has come up with a better alternative and the �funding� issues brought up by Democrats has more to do with states not applying for funds than funds being unavailable.
Securing the Homeland is another issue that has been on his agenda. Sure, he opposed the 9/11 Commission initially, considering the level of partisan rancor that ensued during every political investigation since Richard Nixon was President, I cannot say I blame him. Dr. Rice�s testimony is a good example of why the 9/11 Commission was an idea to be mulled over before being implemented. Dr. Rice was pounced by the Democrats on the Commission, who admitted to being perfectly cordial during the closed-door sessions of the testimonies. Then, the commission found that the aggressive pursuit of Al Qaeda had made America safer, although we were not yet safe. The Department of Homeland Security is another idea that needed to be thought out before being implemented. You cannot restructure the United States Government without first thinking about it.
The Economy was going up when the first George Bush left office and it was going down before the second George Bush took office. The tax burden has been lifted, jobs created and a swift end was brought to the recession. This cannot be done by raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans, and why should they be punished for their success. I am sorry but there are many people who need our Government�s help but there are just as many who do not. There are many programs that need the Government�s funding and others that do not. Economic turnaround cannot happen in an environment where business is not allowed to thrive or encouraged to. Kerry�s plans, in contrast, will cost hundreds of billions that just taxing his wife and her friends will not pay for.
There are other issues, but those three are the closest to my heart and foremost in my mind. Kerry in office is damaging to our education system, our economy, and our National Security. Look at his Senate record, he has not led. He has never taken an initiative in his twenty years.
There are many things that I can point to as to why people hate George W. Bush, but it boils down to his faith. His faith bothers the leftists in America and abroad. His faith scares the leftists. Why does faith scare you so? That big empty space in your life that you have filled with hate for a wealthy, successful man with a beautiful family (read: what you lack) might be filled with that abiding faith � if your pride was not creating a roadblock to it.
Senator Kerry lied when he said that he was a Catholic, that he had a deep faith in Catholicism and that he respected it. As I wrote previously, and have said all along, if your faith is not influencing your decision it is no faith at all. Faith then becomes a label you apply to yourself for person gain and benefit. Someone who believed in Catholicism, and Christianity, would understand, appreciate and stand up for our beliefs � not fight those ideas and mock those who seek to uphold them. Yes, Senator Kerry, I feel mocked by your lip service to our Faith, our ideals and way of life.
I want to see President Bush reelected because I do no want to validate the hate of men like Michael Moore, George Soros, and Dan Rather validated. I want to see their dirty tactics rejected by the American people just as strongly as I would like to see Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich bound and gagged. I did not believe the crazy accusations against the Clintons, I do not believe the crazy ones against Bush (or Cheney). I have a hard time believing that intelligent people bought into the Anti Bush movement, and all this silliness. I would like to see the scourge of leftist hatred wiped from the country because as virulent as the right could get during the nineties what has happened since November of 2000 is appalling.
Hopefully on November 3, we will see George W. Bush reelected. Dick Cheney said in 2000, �Hope is on the way,� John Edwards reminded us of that in Boston. Hope is on the way, but the Democrats are not, nor never have been the road to Hope, they pay lip service to a place called Hope and they will only stifle the return of President Reagan�s Springtime of Hope.
Other Stuff
There are now eight habits of highly effective people and I was having trouble nailing down seven. Just when you think you are about to catch up, someone changes the rules. I think I should write, �Seven Habits of a Highly Effective Spritopias.�
1. Instant Message Kipp too much
2. Drink Diet Coke
3. Snark, lots and lots of snark
4. Talk on the phone for hours on end with Marie or Jeremy
5. Clean with a compulsion
6. Listen to terrible music, dance in your chair to aforementioned terrible music
7. Update Diary Land instead of grading papers
I hope you feel edified. I feel like I did you a service by sharing that with you.
Some people commented on the sex scene in I Heart Huckabees and my prudish attitudes about things. There are three types of sex scenes in movies that are not pornography. There is the sexy sex that turns you on physically; passionate, romantic sex that turns you one emotionally and then there is Huckabees sex that makes you cringe and say, �I don�t know what you�re planning Homer, but count me out.�
