1 Good post. Also, a good problem to have.

2 For McCain and Palin, their only chance to win the major battles in this war will be to go over the heads of Congress and talk directly to the people. They will have to run a completely ([populist] -pj) administration that can excite the electorate to become more involved than it has been historically.

I think that is exactly right.
(Brings a tear to me eye, it reminds me of that NotreDame footballer who was President when I was a lad.)

Congress is just a small to medium sized mob. Lead and they will be happy to follow.

3 His stance on earmarks had better be a warmup for the real work. We still have to pay the bill for all those baby boomers retiring in the mid 2010s.

4

The Republican Congress was part of Bush's problem - he was able to get LOTS of what he wanted passed, the narrow majority stuck together and he got some major accomplishments. 

But the tradeoff was all the pork he turned a blind eye too, considering it a cost of doing business. 

Democrats are going to stick the earmarks in McCain's face in every bill that goes to the White House.  The first one will an emergency appropriation for Iraq - bet money on it.  Palin won't get to play much part in it, there won't be any tie votes in the Senate. 

Best we can hope for is a bunch of vetoes from McCain and legislative gridlock.  Not a bad outcome, really. 

 

5 Continuing with Potosi Joel's comments...

This is where Bush is the miserable failure.  He never tried, ever, to talk past congress right to the American people after the 9/11 unity. 

I don't necessarily blame him - he did have a war to manage and I'm grateful he focused on it. 

6 What's the alternative? Can you see Sen. Obama doing anything to reform the government? What would happen to our economy if we are attacked again due to mixed signals sent from the White House? I don't think mixed signals would be a problem from Sen., then Pres. McCain. I'm hoping that Sen. McCain can pick his battles and his generals well in the reform movement. There isn't an alternative that is realistic.

7 For as much as I disagree with McCain on certain issues, one thing that seems to be consistent about the guys is his tenacity (stubbornness).

Once Palin, however, develops some Washington callouses on her hands, we may see a whole new breed of statesman that the dems and rinos do not know how to handle.

8 #2...thanks for the spell check.  Mine apparently did not find anything wrong with the word "populace".  LOL

9 Not sure I follow, Kat. Assume one of two scenarios;

1. McCain/Palin win, but Democrats keep a majority in the House and Senate. McCain may or may not have any more luck than Bush, but face it, Bush had a lot of luck with Congress. Try to name 3 important Bush initiatives that he didn't get. Name 2. Name 1. So McCain as the same problem, EXCEPT McCain can still attempt reform, even if it is shot down. Now name 3 important initiatives that McCain will lose: Drilling? Any and all military programs? Killing pork? Pick 2. Pick 1.

McCain will likely win everything from Congress, just like Bush did. Okay, so Bush had to listen to Congress gritch and moan before he got what he wanted. Big deal.

2. McCain/Palin wins, and the Republicans take back one or both houses. By now Republicans have to know that pork is dead. Surely, Shirley. What other problem might McCain have.

One area that is a problem: immigration. I would submit that actual, de facto amnesty is not different from legal amnesty, so how much change is that?

But other than that, where will McCain be in trouble. Jimmy Carter he ain't. He has friends, knows the back allies, and whose arm to twist.

10 His stance on earmarks had better be a warmup for the real work. We still have to pay the bill for all those baby boomers retiring in the mid 2010s.

Honestly, I do not know where government is going to find the money to pay back everything it owes and keep social security solvent without raising taxes there.  This is one reason that I have been somewhat ambivalent about McCain's amnesty plans.  In reality, he is wanting to play Reagan's game again with a small increase in taxes AND bringing 12 million or more illegal non-citizens on to the social security pay roll.  Basically, kicking the can down the road, again. 

They may actually be hoping that a significant number of baby boomers die off before or become well enough off with their savings (both parties are encouraging this) to offset pay outs there.  With the current population down turn, the pay outs in 2040 or later could be significantly less.

That creates whole other problems, though, in maintaining a strong work force without even more immigration in order to maintain a strong economy.

This one item is a very big tangle that is one of the main items I think that McCain will want traded for all the other reforms.  he may be hoping that reducing spending in other places allows the government to pay back some of the money without having to raise taxes significantly or borrow uncontrollably.

It is very ugly one way or the other.  He may be able to pacify the base with a strong border security plan.  I don't know.  My crystal balls a little foggy there.

11
McCain will likely win everything from Congress, just like Bush did. Okay, so Bush had to listen to Congress gritch and moan before he got what he wanted. Big deal.

He had to buy it with earmarks.  McCain is saying no earmarks.  That is the difference.  We're talking long term strategy for the Republican party, not short term administrative gains.

12 So, 2010, we pimp for GOP candidates who will also oppose earmarks.  That's not McCain's job, that's ours.

13

Stack a defense appropriations and McCain can Veto.

Even if the Congress holds out on a vote, McCain can still use the funding that is assigned to other military projects, and co-opt it for the sustained defense of the nation.

My bet is he can co-opt any, already assigned money so that he can perform his primary task under article III, it pushes congress to be seen as the real cocksuckers they are.

McCain is 72, and he can say "Impeach me bitches, I'm 72!  I can still KICK! Stretch! and KICK!! Your asses from here to hanoi."

And with Palin as a spokesperson spreading the truth about the manipulation of vital funding bills, to serve personal political pork projects will lead to a revolte in the left.

I just hope the right learns to tow the line next to McCain Palin's example.

14 The reason that I, just a guy who's poorly schooled would even say that, is because congress authorized action, and by authorizing action, can't say "no more money." they have to ACTUALLY recind the status of confict, I know, I have an ND, I was the LAST group of enlistee's to recieve the ND, because it took congress 4 years to get around to going "Oh shit, we aren't at war."

15 ACK!!!   My ND was for "Desert Storm."  In November of 1995.

16 This can all work out in our favor, that is, if McCain retains the strong will that he is known for.  Congress has already proven they will cave under  stress when it counts.  Think back to Bush's veto of the 2008 Defense Authorization Act.

17 Keep in mind that many earmarks can't be vetoed because THEY'RE NOT IN A BILL.  They're markup lines in committee or conference reports that have themselves never been voted on or reconciled between the two chambers, let alone sent to the White House and yet they are treated as having the force of law even though they don't.  McCain can stop any of these by simply ordering the Treasury not to disburse the funds.  If the intended recipients sue, a McCain DOJ (headed hopefully by AG Fred! or Rudy) should be prepared to argue that the whole practice of unappropriated earmarks is unconstitutional.

18 Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.

19 A law that said if your Congrees-critter holds his or her earmarks below a certain level, his constituents get a tax rebate would help Congress change its priorities.

They would still be able to dish out a few earmarks, which is not necesarrily a bad thing, and the public would have a much better incentive to pay attention and keep the earmarks below the cutoff.

20 My bet is he can co-opt any, already assigned money so that he can perform his primary task under article III, it pushes congress to be seen as the real cocksuckers they are.

One of the important factors may be that Iraq is winding down and the Dems have been crying that Afghanistan is "the real war" so McCain can beat them about the head and shoulders with it if they do start playing tight.  It is Iraq that poses the problem or any added efforts.  Like support for Georgia, Ukraine, et al.

I do not put anything past these folks as they see short term gains for their short term life spans in congress.  they are ery good after all at kicking the can.

21 The term "earmark" also applies to applies to spending attached to any bill via a rider or simply written into the body of the original document. 
These can certainly be vetoed.

22 As Lee said, that's a good problem to have!

When McCain/Palin win, I predict the GOP taking back the house in 2010.

What McCain has in spades is integrity and grit -- he'll beat the Congress like it owes us money. Which it does.

There'll be gridlock for some time early in his term, but you just look at Mav/Cuda (fighter jock/moose killer) and you think "bully pulpit." Congress will cave. They caved to Bush plenty of times when he didn't use the bully pulpit because enough of their constituents had a hissy fit (think FISA and immigration).

And I think he really will out the porkers who are keeping true reform from happening.

So they'll all look weak and the great unwashed will love the drubbing they get and toss lots of Congress-critters out on their butts. So GOP is back in control of things. That's when it gets interesting.

What will have to be in place when that happens is a large crop of dedicated, conservative Republicans. We need to toss the RINOs out. And as Kenneth Mars says above, that's our job.

23 A law that said if your Congrees-critter holds his or her earmarks below a certain level, his constituents get a tax rebate would help Congress change its priorities.

Two things I didn't post for the purpose of keeping it short and not crossing my total point are "earmarks" for infrastructure or specific needs and the Open Checkbook that Palin pushed through in Alaska.  One of the reasons that she can hold the line there is that she has quote made "them famous".  People can see the business of government.

I think this is another area, besides energy, that Palin could be useful in touting for the administration.  I wish she would say more about it in her speeches.  When congress must fear what people will see and think about where their money went and it could be used against them in elections without having a very strong and compelling argument.

Oh, the fun is just beginning.

24

I still think McCain can say, "you want it to go to Afghanistan?  become president.  Cocknozzles."

I don't see how McCain can be accused of any wrong doing by diverting discretionary funds into serving the purposes of the goals assigned to him by the Constitution.

I'm sure Ginsberg can, but noone, from the time of when the constitution was written.

25

I think that the rewarding people for doing the right thing shit is stupid.

It's not anyones fault but washington, lay it at the feet of those responsible.

26 3 His stance on earmarks had better be a warmup for the real work. We still have to pay the bill for all those baby boomers retiring in the mid 2010s.

We have to grow our way out.  Shitcan the the stifling corporate taxes and  make-work regulations at every level.  Enact tort reform and light a fire under the trade protectionist dipshits in Congress.  Everyone benefits -- more jobs, higher standard of living, and greater tax revenue with lower marginal rates.  Well everyone but the trial lawyers and unions.

27 We have to grow our way out.

I agree, but I'm not sure everyone here will agree with what and how that growth will go because it requires a labor force willing and capable of being part of that growth.  Frankly, our current population replacement rate is not very supportive of it.

28 Yes, Powdered Milk Man, I know.  Earmarks in actual bills are "hardmarks" that have the force of law; earmarks in reports are "softmarks" that don't.

29

Excuse my ignorance on things, but wasn't Bush actually threatening an Executive Order to effectively ban all earmarks at one point?

 

I think most people don't have issue with the government spending money on things, the biggest issue is the idea of "hidden" money.  Tacked on with no accountability.

30 The bold move would be to start shrinking government. Return responsibilities to the states, starting with, for example, the Education department. The Feds would reduce their take of taxes, and the states would raise theirs to cover the responsibilities they took on. The Federal money pot shrinks. Sarah Palin could be an evangelist for this approach, since she has already started weaning Alaska off earmarks.

31 Kat-Mo

I assume you're implying immigration, which most don't really have a problem with if it's done right.  People with skill and work ethic who want to assimilate legally.  OTH think of all the non-productive lawyers who can be retrained for something productive.  We've got to reverse this litigious, big government trend or it's all academic.

Just think if you could also break the union stranglehold on public education and start turning out self-reliant members of society instead of Obama voters.  A real leader can make this case to the public.  Bush tried some of it, like Social Security reform, but he just didn't have the horsepower to make it happen.  Maybe Palin can sell it.

32

The Education thing is AWESOME!

Go reagen.  With the ginormous amount of spending the fed puts into re-"education", deregulate education at the federal level.   If you don't like it?  Don't ask for federal money.

33 Win the first battle first.

34

True, but the NEA is a fucking socialist indoctrinational beauracrcy (I spell like I went to a public school because, HEY! What the fuck!!!   I did.)

It takes REAL nuts to shut that bullshit down, and I don't think sarah has them.

35 Great post. I only wish I hadn't had all that beer at that wedding reception so I could form a more cogent comment.

36

Actually, the President has two options for bringing Congress to heel, Executive powers and information. Firstly, Congress may write the laws, but it is the President who actually enforces them. Most of this enforcement is done on the little guy, who can't put up much of a fight. However, if the President should bring the crosshairs on anybody associated with a Congressman, pretty soon the number of large donating friends begins to dry up. LBJ did this tactic with remakable success. Another variation on this is the fact that earmarks are not carved into law. They are suggestions as to how the beauracy "should" spend its money. Remember how everybody was telling Bush to issue an executive order nullifying earmarks at the end of 2007?

The other tactic would be to identfy who is getting what money and how it is being "laundered".  Imagine the stark terror on Capitol Hill if McCain interrupted regular programming and detailed how both a Democrat and Republican Congressman were getting massive donations from PAC's and 527's that directly benefitted from designated earmarks. Granted, he would get the image of crazy ol' Grandad in the attic, but at least Grampa now has a gun. If McCain has the reputation of a maverick, then he should use it.

37

President McCain vetos an appropriations bill. Congress refuses to enact an amended version of it. Govt employees go home and offices lock their doors. The MSM covers Pelosi and Reed's ass the same way they did for Slick back in the 90's and blame the shut down on McCain. That's certainly a scenario that I could envision. McCain announces a prime time address from the oval office and is probably granted the face time out of a sense of holding to tradition if nothing else. The camera turns on and he looks straight in to it and says, "My Fellow Americans. The federal government is currently operating with a bare bones skeleton crew. I want to apologise for any inconvenience that this might cause you as a citizen who expects their govt to provide the services that you pay for out of your pocket, but there's a larger principle at stake here. There's a good reason the govt is shut down right now. Congressman Murtha from PA has slipped $2.6 million into the latest appropriations legislation in order to fund a research center that doesn't exist except on paper and is the wholly owned entity of a man who loaned his campaign $25,000. Congressman Stoyer from Maryland has a line item in this bill which authorizes the Bureau of the Interior to install a granite statue of a douchebag in front of a federal building in his home district that will be named after him." And name off about 5 more democrat boondoggles inserted into the legislation, and just to be fair list a republican larceny or two, and then stop and give the number of earmarks and the dollar amount involved. Conclude by stating, "I will sign a bill when it comes across my desk w/o this thievery included. Please join me in  contacting your congress person and insisting that they accomplish this important job immedietly. In order for democracy to work the way the founders intended for it to, you must participate in the process."

Nice little fantasy I got going here huh?

38 The real war is now.  If Obama goes down hard and loses big it may wound liberalism for years to come.

The fight for reforming government is secondary.  Security first, corruption second.

39

OR! by using executive priveledge, to shut down defense projects in certain congressional districts so that those funds be funneled into ACTUAL military projects, like fighting wars, and opening up those said same projects in other districts to make up for the reduced supply.

How's that sound?

10 million to build a new military plant, to make up for the more expensive plant in murth, McDermot or pelosi's district?

THAT is Bully Pulpit.

40 David! is just an adorable sweety.

41 A seldom-mentioned but potentially very important piece to this puzzle is a line-item veto.

42

I don't like the line item veto.

thats just the legislature passing the buck, and it gives the executive too much power.

43 Thoughtful Post. Thank You

44 38 The real war is now.  If Obama goes down hard and loses big it may wound liberalism for years to come.

The fight for reforming government is secondary.  Security first, corruption second.

Well, part of the fight now will be if McCain can get support for his bid for presidency in certain battle ground states.  He needs people to stump for him when he's not there.  It is why I mention the declaration of war that some Republicans might not be excited about.  We might get the Bill and Hill Republican show in these contested states. 

I think we need to think about it in the short AND long term since it all goes back to the short term on Nov 4.

45

I don't like the line item veto.

thats just the legislature passing the buck, and it gives the executive too much power.

As far as I can tell, most presidents avoid using the line item veto in order to maintain some status quo.  It is that whole "going to war with congress" thing along with the party line.  No one party wants to imagine what will happen if their party is not in office and the president deploys the line item veto.  It is like the nuclear bomb of washington politics.

46 Don't forget that much of corporate lobbying/political contibution is really shakedown money extorted from business by Congress.  True, some are bribing Congress to promote a monopoly or government contracts, but lots of businesses would prefer to keep their money if Congress would just stop trying to screw them.  Smaller, less intrusive government means less opportunity for corruption -- see win-win already.

The real challenge is to turn around the philosophy that punishing business is a noble undertaking in and of itself.

47 "I will sign a bill when it comes across my desk w/o this thievery included. Please join me in  contacting your congress person and insisting that they accomplish this important job immedietly. In order for democracy to work the way the founders intended for it to, you must participate in the process."

Nice little fantasy I got going here huh?

Put congressional spending on line, out front, not buried.  People will see and be wondering already.

48

As they said in "Kelly's Heroes",

"Shut up with the negative vibes"

Let's win the election, McCain can TELL the rest what the Fuck to do, or ELSE, Sarah is going to cut their balls off.

That clear enough, cocksucker? (keep those numbers up!)

49

nothing will change until people wake up, and notice that the two major political parties are just playing good cop/bad cop so they can roll the public and get what they want, and what they want is ever more control and power for themselves and more importantly for the people who pay for their mansions and limo's, namely the lobbyists. how long has it been since the MSM has done a major immigration piece? why? because Corp. America wants that cheap labor and Corp. America always gets what it wants.

is Leman too big to fail?.... i suspect it will be

 

50 President McCain vetos an appropriations bill...

President McCain arranges a signing ceremony for the bill in the Rose Garden. Members of Congress are invited, with 5 of the biggest earmarkers from each party getting seats at the signing table. Then he vetoes the bill, and reams their asses out in public and on camera.

Of course this trick will only work once...

51 There's a missing part of this analysis: President McCain would be only in office 4 years, it doesn't matter if he has a "read my lips" moment. In any case, all he has to do is direct the executive branch to disregard the earmarks.

52

heeeeyup Kat.

Having the pres say it face up, is impressive.

I try to teach all of the older women I live near, about how to handle panhandlers.  "Look them in the eye, stop moving, don't touch your purse, or anything, Just look them in the eye, and say 'NO'"  don't yell, just mean it.

NO, is all it takes for the people to realize that these thar earmarks are real things, and they really CAN be stopped.

53 Really, it is pretty easy.

If McCain is elected, it will be the Palin factor.

If it is the Palin factor, it will be the do something on principle factor.

If it is the do something on principle factor, it will be the enforce fiscal responsibility and deny the political pigs factor.

And if it is the fiscal responsibility and deny the political pigs factor, it will be the earmark plus more factor.

The Bushes are assholes.  When puerile Bush prez one had 90 % approval rankings, it was so obvious he should have enforced fiscal discipline then.  Instead, he went on the around the world absurd ego trip, and allowed Perot to powerfully undercut him because he was so clueless.  He was an asshole, more absorbed with his own patrician noblesse oblige ego, than good governance.

So too, the son.  He makes the right move in confronting Al Queda, but does not have the slightest clue how or why to lead US in that war, but instead just stupidly marinates in his "achievement" of becoming president.  Whooppty-do.

  

54 @kat-missouri

You are right that we will not win by being lunatics like the left, but lets be honest this is a war.  The war is on two fronts.  The military which is doing just fine despite the spin.

The other front is the war of ideas and that is something that anyone who loves what America stands for must fight for.  The crazy left must be stopped.  Obama is truly the first national candidate that represents them  Make no mistake, Obama has been pushed like no candidate before because this is the best(only?) chance the crazy left will have to win the presidency.  If they can't win now it will take forever to regroup.  They are exposed for all to see. 

That is the war in a nutshell and I can't think of a better way to give back to those who have fought for our freedom and security than to not give it away at the ballot box.

55 and let me add, I don't think there should be any Corporate tax, i don't hate the Corporations, i just hate that they have all the influence in Congress and what the public wants is ignored.

56 You also have to remember McCain promised not to touch a large chunk of earmarks directed toward the military, Army Corps of Engineers, etc. which I believe is over half the earmarks now in the budget. This brings earmarks down to less then 1/2 a percent of the total budget. While cutting earmarks should be a concern and is definitely popular I don't think it will make or brake his administration.

57 51 There's a missing part of this analysis: President McCain would be only in office 4 years, it doesn't matter if he has a "read my lips" moment. In any case, all he has to do is direct the executive branch to disregard the earmarks.

I think I mentioned a potential Palin run in 2012.  This would definitely kill any ability to run on a continuing reform platform and leave her with whatever few accomplishments she can't attach herself to under McCain.  But, make no mistake, the Democrats will not forget this election if they lose and they will beat her with a failed reform platform all day long. 

so, no, it is not a problem for McCain.  It is a problem for whoever comes next.

58 48

As they said in "Kelly's Heroes",

"Shut up with the negative vibes"

Well, my thoughts are simple on the matter.  Do not get so full of hubris on early polls.  Keep reality in sight and remember why we fight. 

59 There's a missing part of this analysis: President McCain would be only in office 4 years...

Did you see his mother at the GOP convention? She's 96 years old and apparently in great shape. He may have no problem running for a second term and completing it.

60 This should be an interesting preview of a McCain administration --

Earmark War Looming Now
*********

General Motors has contributed $29,000 to Sen. Carl Levin's campaign.  In exchange, he earmarked $10 million dollars for them in the Department of Defense Appropriations Bill.  That's a substantial return on an investment.
 
Senator Levin apparently does not like the press he is receiving from his earmarking efforts (49 requests in this legislative cycle alone), so he has devised a scheme to cover up his activity - a scheme that threatens the entire fight against earmarks. 

I am reliably told that Senators DeMint and Senator Coburn are willing to go to war on this issue.

To cover up his activity, Senator Levin is attempting to place earmarks in committee reports instead of including them as part of the legislative language.  He did this by hiding some language in the Department of Defense Appropriations Bill which changes the way earmarks are viewed.

***********

61

line item veto = politcal nuclear bomb... that's a true statement,

washington needs a good nukin'

if McCain/Palin win you will be able to judge their commitment to true reform by the enemies they make and how hard they go on the attack, if McCain wins and really tries to enforce reform, they will be calling for his head on a pike.

62 Please Please see the Higgs field

K

63 "As far as I can tell, most presidents avoid using the line item veto in order to maintain some status quo."

No, most presidents (i.e., all of them) avoid using it because they don't have it.  The federal constitution doesn't provide for it, as many state constitutions do for governors.  When Congress created one by statute, it was (correctly) found unconstitutional.  And I tend to err on the side of nobody getting in the habit of proposing federal constitutional amendments.

64

ok, not line item veto...

then just use the regular ol' veto, then get on the TV and tell everyone why, the key is getting the public on your side, the liberal media will do everything they can to confuse the issue, he will have to speak directly to the people and often...

 

65 63 "As far as I can tell, most presidents avoid using the line item veto in order to maintain some status quo."

No, most presidents (i.e., all of them) avoid using it because they don't have it.  The federal constitution doesn't provide for it, as many state constitutions do for governors.  When Congress created one by statute, it was (correctly) found unconstitutional.  And I tend to err on the side of nobody getting in the habit of proposing federal constitutional amendments.

Good point.  Got a little ahead of the mark.  McCain won't have it so it will be ALL or NOTHING as I noted in the post.

66 45

...As far as I can tell, most presidents avoid using the line item veto ....

Am I missing something? 

I thought we don't have a  line item veto on the federal level.  We have it in Illinois, and our governor is a total douche about how he uses it.  The legislature was tied up fighting all last summer over the budget, wasting tons of money on special sessions, and after they finally got an agreement hammered out, he used line item veto to insert a provision giving free rides to seniors.  Even though he had come up with the idea weeks earlier, he used the line item veto to claim all of the credit for the idea. (even though it sucked.)

 

Also..

The press secretary will have to be a strong and capable advocate of these positions as well.

Megyn Kelly for Press Secretary!

67 The Republicans in congress cannot be any happier about this potential war cry than the Democrats. He is threatening their power base as sure as he is threatening the Democrats.

This assertion is the whole problem in a nutshell and a frame of mind that must be reversed.  If neither had the power of money at their disposal then undoubtedly they would be on the same footing.  This would require of them actual service and governing to remain in the good opinion of their constituents.  I think that's what our founding fathers envisioned.

68
Hey, hey, Notre Dame beat Michigan, uh-huh, uh-huh.

69 so, no, it is not a problem for McCain. It is a problem for whoever comes next.

Pretty tough to pin a president's perceived failings on the vice president, given that everyone knows that the job is basically a figurehead with no power. In any case, no matter what President McCain does, they'll portray it as a failure to reform and try to pin it on Vice President Palin.

70 "Megyn Kelly for Press Secretary!"

Seconded.

71 I hate to be a negative Ned, but the battle is going to begin 5 seconds after the election is over if McCain wins. Some leftwing rag in Michigan is already pushing the line that the GOP is going to disqualify black voters. So from the get-go, the line is going to be that McCain stole the election. McCain's hands will be tied up dealing with that bullshit.

72 OMB should setup a nationwide polling web site where people could register to cast opinions on the earmarks.

Q: "Do you support spending $10M to study the mating rituals of the Patagonian banded earth worm". 

3 possible answers  - Yes, No, What the fuck!?!?

73 Let's not get ahead of ourselves. We will be incredibly lucky if McCain wins this. The MSM, which provides information to the vast majority of Americans even in this day and age, will simply refuse to publish anything negative about Obastard. They will refuse to report anything positive about McCain. The bias has become so stark that only the ten percent or less of Americans who pay attention to this stuff can finally agree that the MSM is the DNC, and that is the way it is now and forever. But the remaining ninety percent are the larger voting bloc, and remain spoonfed by the MSM. We will lose this thing yet.

The weird part will be walking around in a world where people are saying the political equivalent of "The earth is flat" while the small sliver of us who take the time to actually look stuff up and learn, will be saying "WTF? Did you have your brains removed and compost installed in its place?"

America, as a nation that loved liberty, is dead. Modern life in an industrial West is so comfortable that far too few can be bothered to look to the future and see the consequences of discarding liberty in favor of nanny state promises. I predict a century of economic stagnation, slouching towards Western Europe, and beyond that, who knows? A resurgence of Islam in the EU that makes the USA cower even more? With an accompanying degradation of entrepreneurialism as baksheesh becomes the watchword of economic activity? An increasing Puritanism in the USA based upon "health" and "wellness" that turns us into a nation where eating beef will be considered a vile vice, injuring others as well as Mother Gaia?

I don't even want to extrapolate further. In the words of Barry Saint Hussein O'Guiltwhite, "This isn't the America I knew."

74 Regretfully, trusting the Maverick on any promises is a waste of time.

After 24 years in the Senate, the Beltway Insider has done nothing really worthy of mention.

Why didn't he try to reform pork long ago?

Why didn't he try to stop spending in major fashion over the past decades?

Why did he fail to stop the Clintons tear down Our defense, intel, law enforcement capabilities in the 1990's?

Why bother to believe John McCain after he lied about his 'class warfare' reasons to vote against the Bush Tax Cuts?

The regretful Nominee, may get there on the coattails of the amazing Gov. Palin.

One can only hope so, with the horrid Democrat alternative, but the Maverick is as vapid as a Washington Beltway Celebrity comes...

He was even trying to push Cap Taxation with Joe Lieberman, to address Global Warming!

75 Sorry to say, I second Orwell's doom and gloom. The MSM's lies, distortions, omissions and fabrications seem to be increasing both in degree and in frequency. It's an uphill battle, but we have no choice but to fight it. I'm glad our standard-bearers, John and Sarah, are two individuals I honestly regard as heroes. Now I see why having heroes is important--they inspire you to fight on when you're tempted to throw in the towel. We can yet win this thing!

Besides the media, another problem we need to deal with is the dirty tricks the Dems always pull before, during, and immediately after Election Day. They will stop at nothing to "win" this election, even if it means outright stealing it, as they attempted to do in 2000. If anything, they'll be much worse than in 2000, since the stakes are so much higher now than then.

Among other things, we've GOT to make sure our military men and women overseas get their votes counted.

76 I expect that the issue of give the President line item veto authority will again be a an issue and job one for a McCain administration. Personally, I don't understand why this was every an issue; other than to protect earmarks.

Governors can line item veto, a practice that Palin seems very fond of. Without this authority, a President is little more than a rubber stamp. McCain seem man enough to pull off getting line item veto authority, even if it means vetoing everything else that comes to his desk (including his own priority projects) until he gets it. The only exceptions will be things like troop funding, which will inevitably slip through laden with pork initially.

You can't change Rome in a day. Without question, there will be pork projects that get through in a McCain administration. What matters to me is not the practice, it's the abuse of it. It's like Palin tried to say in the interview, but was edit out so that Gibson could try to spin her as a hypocrite. The fact that AK gets earmarks is not the issue and it would be impossible to go from billions to zero overnight without collapsing the entire infrastructure of the State. What she has done is cut it in half and laid the groundwork to a zero earmark futher while implementing responsible spending.

Balancing a budget is not hard, It only requires the willingness to say a firm "No" when needed and to set priorities. This is also why Obama CANNOT be President. He has demonstrated, consistently and without question, that he is not willing to even make the most simple decisions or risk the slightest bit of opposition. Anyone who has run anything know that to be a leader is to be alone and be willing to be unpopular. Obama would not exist were it not for greasing wheels and fostering a popularity contest over substantive debate. These are qualities of a career legislator, but never a leader.

77 "The concern for the McCain presidency and a potential Palin presidency in 2012 must be whether McCain's "no earmarks" will become a George H. W. Bush "read my lips" moment."

That's a stupid thing to say. McCain is the original warrior against pork, for the last twenty years, long before you kids starting screaming about it. Congress may override his veto, but you can be damned sure he'll use that pen.

Stop using Obama as a role model. Learn to use Google before you shoot off your mouth.

78
" Try to name 3 important Bush initiatives that he didn't get. Name 2. Name 1."

Social Security reform.

79 Not to go all Huckabee on you guys, but Tax reform is the way to go.  Take all the air away from Congress.  Sales taxes will force the system to improve.  READ THE BOOK before you blast me.  Boortz has it right. take the fundamental power away and the problem solves itself.  It has to be an sales tax and not a flat tax.  Flat tax puts them in a box but, it is still THEIR box.  We need to take the power of taxation away from them. Then they have to fight each other for the money, not just take it from us!  It puts market reforms in place for government.

Catman

80

Don't count chickens before they are hatched.  It will still be a challenge for McCain to win. 

If Obama wins, expect the moonbats to come seeking their spoils.  And that will be a war here as Obama tries to pay them off with meaningless stuff, and they demand meangful stuff, and the country rejects it out of hand. 

See Clinton, Don't Ask Don't Tell. 

 

 

 

81 You're waaaaaaay ahead of what's reasonable here. Let us do our utmost to win this election: let us volunteer, let us send contributions to the Compliance Fund; let us try to convince our reluctant neighbors, relatives, friends! Let us do it now: 50 days separate us from the election. Stand up and fight!

82 "Governors can line item veto..."

SOME governors can line item veto.  We have 50 different state constitutions, remember?

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