Peggy Noonan has an excellent article out this week: "America Is at Risk of Boiling Over."
She is quite right, sad to say, and her prognosis for us has me worried.
Will all of this unaffordable government spending re-awaken our American work ethic and independent spirit?
Or instead will we nestle and nudge ourselves into every nook and cranny of our rapidly expanding nanny state?
Alrighty then.
On a brighter note, who ever said the Rs march in lockstep and don't eat their unelectable, embarrassing own?
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Yeah, but are we SURE he's unelectable?
We have no contested seats this year where I am, so it's irrelevant, but--
The Republican party continually marginalizes what could be an enormous power base: people like me. Fiscal conservatives, social liberals.
We are massively divided. And up for grabs for the first party that seems to give a flip.
I am not proud to say that Basil is in fact in my home state. Oh my!
I think that we're just always going to have those who like being tucked in my a nanny state, and those who are going to fight it. People who like the nanny state of things are not those who are independent go-getters anyway--they want someone else to take care of them and don't want to do the work themselves. So long as there are people like this, there will always someone supporting the nanny party.
My husband's parents had two kids. My husband is a fiscal conservative, social liberal, independent,hard-working guy who doesn't want the state meddling in his life and wants to use his own money to take care of his own problems. His sister is on welfare, had two children with an illegal immigrant, and occasionally will work part-time at McDonald's. She doesn't talk to us because we wouldn't give her money after she went out and bought a PlayStation she couldn't afford. She's not going to change. And she loves Obama. No surprise there.
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