Is the Republicans party of Nebraska grooming young Republican candidates (in their 30’s or 40’s), for Statewide offices, Governor or Senator, and wouldn’t the office of Omaha’s Mayor be a great springboard? Although Hal has done yeoman’s work for the party, times need to change. We need some real conservatives to move up the ranks now. Bush’s brand of Republicanism, growing the federal government by 60%, has cost us dearly. Grooming some small government, fiscally responsible, tax cutters, who can make it to Washington in the future in the attractive, youthful mold of a Bob Kerrey, need to be identified. Fortenberry has those clean good looks and a charismatic quality but we need to give more youthful candidates a shot at Mayor, in my opinion, to build a stable of real conservatives.
Even with our financial house close to collapse, the Bush administration (Secretary Gates) is spending $8+ billion in South Korea for families of servicemen. Korea is so safe now, the tour is being extended to 3 years with family and the SKs will be assuming all protection of the DMZ soon. Then I ask, why station 28,000 service personnel in Korea? If their salaries were being spent here in the US, wouldn’t that assist our economy rather than Korea’s? My position on military bases outside of the US may seem extreme, but we live in extraordinary times when few have read Hayek’s, ‘The Road to Serfdom’, explaining our cloudy future as we march directly into the welcoming arms of Socialism (note: Paulson now buying banks). If the more solvent banks try to buy struggling banks (pick up a bargain), a hallmark of free enterprise, the fed is going to cut off their assistance.
With the NK leader’s health in question and their almost starvation level existence, loosening the DMZ could result in a situation similar to the collapse of the Wall in Germany. The whole of NK could be moved into the free market camp that SK so profoundly exemplifies.
Strutting around, “tough on crime and terrorism”, is starting to ring hollow now. Homeland security’s debacle in New Orleans is only the tip of the iceberg. Homeland Security is progressively funding our first responders and has taken a turn in the direction of an every more centrally controled federal police force. It’s time to change our tactics and act like the calm assertive father image we once were.
Obama, Pelosi and Reid will not roll back the Bush administrations’ expanded powers because ‘power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely’. I for one am hoping the GOP gets its act in gear to represent the individual and their individual liberty and property protection again.
Possibly Bush could write an executive order before leaving office making ‘confiscation of property’ without conviction of a crime illegal again. Possibly he could rescind the validity of signing statements. And maybe he declare the rights of the individual, not just Americans but all individuals created by God, to possess unalienable rights whether Afghans, Iraqi or any other nationality. The Congress would find it hard to overturn an EO declaring all humans to have inalienable rights, wouldn’t they? Individual rights and protections of those rights is not an old idea, it’s a new idea in the course of history. Lets hope we don’t let it circle the drain of lost principles during our lifetimes.
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