On Saturday, King and I filled in for John, Chad and Brian on the second hour of NARN Volume I.\u00a0 To kill the time with as little effort as possible, we did our “Top Ten” lists of best and worst things about having an Obama Administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Because it beat doing show prep, that’s why.<\/p>\n
Anyway, one of “best things” was “Conservatives make better underdogs”.\u00a0 Another was “Maybe our ‘leadership’ will finally get the message” – but we’ll get back to that.<\/p>\n
“Evil Conservative” over at TvM extrapolates on the thought<\/a>:<\/p>\n My first feeling and it\u2019s a surprising one both in how strong it is and that it\u2019s lasting even until now \u2013 relief. Relief from the stress of following the election. Relief from defending George W. Bush all the time<\/em>. Relief from defending Bill Frist when he wants to ban internet gambling. Relief from defending House and Senate Republicans when they get together to do something colossally stupid like, y\u2019know, banning internet gambling!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n For all of you on the “right” that tried to ignore all of us Forbes supporters back in 2000 – you may express your apologies, at least as re spending and economic issues, in the form of bottles of single-malt and\/or good vodka.\u00a0 Thanks.<\/p>\n The bottom-line: the pressure is off us at last. We have had some semblance of control of the federal government for 14 straight years. In that time, many Republicans have lost their way (Lott, Bush, Santorum), many have become embarrassingly corrupt (Foley, Abramoff, Stevens), and many are flat out hypocritical (Larry Craig, most who voted for socializing the banking system especially the No votes the 1st<\/sup> time around who voted Yes the 2nd<\/sup> time around when it was loaded with pork).<\/p>\n One last bit of relief that connects my points above about the past and my points below about the future. I\u2019m relieved that our side is taking the correct steps to right the ship. We are not reacting like spoiled little babies like MoveOn and the nutroots in the DailyKos did in 2004.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Actually, I’m impressed by all three of the principals’ approaches to the transition, so far.\u00a0 Bush is by all accounts being gracious about the transition (and seems unlikely to tolerate the vandalism and less-visible obstruction that his predecessor did eight years ago); McCain has done his best to quell the anger on the part of many of his supporters (although I’m looking forward to him dropping the hammer on some of his more petulant soon-to-be-ex staffers<\/a>), and Obama has exercised his prerogative to be manganimous in victory.\u00a0 All to the good.\u00a0<\/p>\n Suffice to say I’ll be particularly merciless to any rightybloggers that want to take the low road.\u00a0 Don’t bother; its still <\/em>too crowded with leftybloggers who’ve been squatting there for the past four years.<\/p>\n Onward:<\/p>\n There are no more targets on our backs. The media has to report on Obama, Pelosi, and Reid. They have no choice but to be negative to sell, re-state their expectations of The One that they have promoted for the last 18 months, and resist the backlash now that the meme of the media favoring Obama is accepted by at least half of the audience \u2013 many who are refusing to watch or buy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Not so sanguine here.<\/p>\n Of course<\/em> they have a\u00a0choice.\u00a0 The media soft-pedalled\u00a0Bill Clinton’s transgressions years ago (remember,\u00a0it took Matt\u00a0Drudge to get Newsweek<\/em> to stop sitting on the Lewinski\u00a0scandal?), and I see no reason to believe they won’t try again.<\/p>\n Of course, the media scene has changed since 1998; blogs, talk radio and a phalanx of alternative media have broken the logjam of “gatekeepers” that so benefitted Clinton.<\/p>\n Prediction:\u00a0 Congressional Democrats will try to institute the “Fairness” Doctrine; it’ll be a dumb, ugly overreach that starts people thinking “maybe these people are <\/em>too powerful”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Saturday, King and I filled in for John, Chad and Brian on the second hour of NARN Volume I.\u00a0 To kill the time with as little effort as possible, we did our “Top Ten” lists of best and worst things about having an Obama Administration.\u00a0 Because it beat doing show prep, that’s why. 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