The Worst That Could Happen

I haven't forgotten about this blog. I've just been extremely busy with various work-related projects, including options research.

However, I did want to note some thoughts I've had recently regarding the upcoming 2008 Presidential and Congressional elections.

Last month, among other political discussions I had with my father on a our fishing trip, I mused about what is the worst outcome a conservative could reasonably imagine for those elections.

I guess that would have to be that the House and Senate remain in Democratic hands, by margins similar to today, with the White House going to either jug-earred Obama Bim Baden, or Hillary.

You know, it's not all that bad. Here's why.

Culminating with last week's announcement that the FBI is searching Alaskan Senator Ted Steven's office for evidence of corruption from his time as chair of a key Senate spending committee, it's clear that the voting public's view of Republican party credibility is simply in tatters.

President Bush had done a great job, but he's near the end of an eight year run. Americans always tire of a two-term President, no matter who he is. Were it not for the war, it's not clear that FDR would have won his third term, or his fourth.

This being the case, I think it's about time American voters got a taste of that against which they have been warned. A full-out Democratic run of the legislative and executive table.

My own prediction is that no amount of hand-wringing and warning now by Republicans can match the impact of two years of unfettered Democratic excess.

Think witch hunts of Republican Congressmen and Senators, ex-Bush administration executives, nationalized universal health care, global warming-related energy and agricultural legislation, crippling tax code changes, higher taxes, more glutinous spending on the teachers unions and such.

Within two years, whatever ideas these morons have cooked up will begin to crack. The vendettas will sicken most voters. Count on a return of at least one House to the Republicans in 2010, and maybe both. That's the end of active Democratic mischief-making.

The President, whether jug-ears or the First Skirt, will have a veto which probably can't be overridden, but without the active power of setting the legislative agenda.

Gridlock!

With a largely do-nothing second two years of his/her administration, the sitting President will be easier prey for a Republican who will now have a clear target of restoring sanity and reversing the worst legislative excesses of the first two years of the newly elected (in 2008) President.

That's the real genius of our system. Even with a total lineup of liberal idiots, their efforts can be stopped within two years, and largely nullified within four, six at the most.

I have come to believe that nothing will convince and remind American voters of the nasty, vengeful, inept agenda of the liberal Democrats as simply giving them two Federal branches of government and watching what they do.

Sometimes, warnings are less effective than simply letting people learn for themselves by experience. This is probably one of those times.