In Opposition

Ok. It’s official. Barack Obama won.

We are now in opposition, in many ways a much, much easier place to be, politically speaking. We can simply point to the broken campaign promises – of which there will necessarily be many. We can educate people as to why they just might want to reconsider at the next opportunity.

We can pull together and forge a better message, a better theme, a better direction for our policies.

We can not descend to the bitter, vitriolic levels of the left, however. We do have to be better and present a better, more rational choice. We have to be gracious in defeat and never gloating or boastful or needlessly graceless in victory.

But we also have to carry on with first principles. We represent the belief that government is very seldom the solution. Rather it is usually far more often the problem.

We have to point out that spending more for the sake of spending more does not work. Rather, spending more wisely is the right answer.

We have to point out that Washington does not spend money. It spends our money.

We have to point out that we do not work to support the government. Rather, government should work to help us succeed.

We need to point out that it is not government’s place to give a handout. Rather it is the place of the government to give a hand up.

First principles. In loyal opposition.

Congratulations, President Elect Obama.

Now How Much Would You Pay?

Apparently, the Animal Uprising^TM is short on funds. They are now resorting to auctioning off surplus deer on QVC.

On Wednesday afternoon just after 2:00 p.m., a deer jumped through a window at the QVC studios on the 1200 block of Wilson Drive off of Boot Road in West Goshen Township, Chester County.
The deer then ran inside of the building and someone was able to trap the deer in a room.

Gee, the economy is even worse than we thought.