{"id":14912,"date":"2010-11-01T22:32:37","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T03:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14912"},"modified":"2010-11-01T22:56:46","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T03:56:46","slug":"riding-a-wave-of-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14912","title":{"rendered":"Riding a Wave of Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"

America is afraid tonight.<\/p>\n

Afraid that the great recession is far from over. Afraid the government, having pulled every lever in the cockpit, may not be able to save us this time.<\/p>\n

Make no mistake, no matter what the results tomorrow, occupational anxiety will persist. High unemployment levels will not soon abate. Waves of foreclosures, bank and insurance company failures will pepper the landscape for months and maybe years to come while Obama administration policymakers chant eenie meenie miney moe.<\/p>\n

Small businesses are wondering when the recovery will come in their<\/em> mailbox. Many Americans are wondering when Obama and his people are finally going to show up and save them from their misery. Those that can see farther are afraid America itself may not be salvageable and that no one can save us from the misery to come.<\/p>\n

The numbers are so large and the odds so long…they might be right.<\/p>\n

Everybody knows the GOP is going to hand the DNC it’s ass tomorrow but I agree with Rasmussen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

…a fundamental rejection of both political parties.<\/p>\n

<\/a>More precisely, it is a rejection of a bipartisan political elite that’s lost touch with the people they are supposed to serve.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s not so much that America sees the GOP as the party that has the secret sauce. No. It’s more like right now they’re the cream of the crap.<\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong. I like Emmer and Paulsen and Hann and Stensrud and will be voting for conservatives across the board out here in the West. But the victories tomorrow night, and there will be many, will be empty for many of us that wonder if anyone anywhere has the stomach to make the decisions that America needs now.<\/p>\n

Fact is, George Bush’s fiscal policies destroyed any claim the GOP had on fiscal reserve. And yet, Obama, belying thin hopes that his presidency would be more about ambition than ideology, drove the agenda so far left that it would be a conservative’s dream if it weren’t for the monumental damage it has done to our nation.<\/p>\n

It took policies so wasteful, so misguided, so unpopular and on a scale so inconceivable to manifest a contrast with the GOP’s fiscal policies. It is solely stupefied disbelief that will drive Americans to vote for Republicans tomorrow in a proportion that may make statistical history.<\/p>\n

To think that the GOP will soon be jettisoned back to 1994 politically was unthinkable just a few months ago.<\/p>\n

We must hope – demand – that the opportunity this time won’t be equally squandered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

America is afraid tonight. Afraid that the great recession is far from over. Afraid the government, having pulled every lever in the cockpit, may not be able to save us this time. Make no mistake, no matter what the results tomorrow, occupational anxiety will persist. High unemployment levels will not soon abate. Waves of foreclosures, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-conservatism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14912"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14936,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14912\/revisions\/14936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}