Let’s revisit this from my last post, shall we?
“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.” – President Barack Obama, Inauguration, 1/20/09
Remember what Obama said when you go to the polls on Tuesday: “I am not on the ballot this fall. Michelle’s pretty happy about that. But make no mistake: these policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them.”
Elections have consequences and so do the people who are voted into office. Tuesday, we get to decide all over again. Steve Hayes at the Weekly Standard (I love listening to him on the roundtables on FNC’s Special Report – smart, insightful guy) makes it clear this election is all about an Obama activist Govt and how it has not worked. I’ve reformatted and bullet listed his points for emphasis:
- Not only is this election not about nothing, it is being fought over exactly the kinds of things that ought to determine our elections.
- It’s about the size and scope of government.
- It’s about the rule of law.
- It’s about the security of the citizenry.
- It’s about competence.
- It’s about integrity.
- It’s about honor.
- It’s about a government that makes promises to those who have defended the country and then fails those veterans, again and again and again.
- It’s about a president who offers soothing reassurances on his sweeping health care reforms and shrugs his shoulders when consumers learn those assurances were fraudulent.
- It’s about government websites that cost billions but don’t function
- [It’s] about “smart power” that isn’t very smart.
- It’s about an administration that cares more about ending wars than winning them,
- [It’s] and that claims to have decimated an enemy one day only to find that that enemy is still prosecuting its war against us the next.
- It’s about shifting red lines and failed resets.
- It’s about a president who ignores restrictions on his power when they don’t suit him and
- [It’s about] who unilaterally rewrites laws that inconvenience him.
- It’s about a powerful federal agency that targets citizens because of their political beliefs and
- [It’s about] a White House that claims ignorance of what its agents are up to because government is too “vast.”
- In sum, this is an election about a president who promised to restore faith in government and by every measure has done the opposite.
- As even Barack Obama acknowledges, the upcoming election is about his policies and those elected officials who have supported them.
- It’s about an electorate determined to hold someone responsible for the policy failures that have defined this administration and the scandals that have consumed it—even if many in the fourth estate will not.
So, is “your candidate” of the “Govt can never be cut, Govt is only benign and helpful” crowd? Think twice about those that are incumbents – have they actually accomplished what they promised?
And are YOU willing to hold them absolutely accountable for their promises and the outcomes of them?
