Self Talk Analysis

It’s time for the Democrats to step back, take a deep breath, and recalibrate.  The stunning loss last night for the democrat’s senate race in Massachusetts to Republican Scott Brown should send political shock waves to liberal politicians across the country.  This was the seat Ted Kennedy held for 5 decades and now it’s in republican hands.  So what happened?  If you listen to the main stream media (MSM) pundits they’ll tell you it’s because of ethics probes with the local democrats, or Martha ran a campaign worthy of political malpractice or that Brown ran a clever campaign.  Chris Matthews, the pMSNBC left winger, chalked it up to Coakley’s ill timed vacation during the Christmas holidays. But the one excuse that still has me scratching my head is, it’s Bush’s fault.  I can’t make this stuff up. The logic (or illogical)  reasoning goes something like this; Bush left the economy in shambles, people are just plain angry and voted for Brown. White voter rage. Whatever.  No.  She lost because of the message content and lack of substance, not the campaign presentation.

I believe there are three things that keep American people up at night; the economy, jobs and unemployment, and national security.

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After the fanfare and good tidings which created that tingling sensation that ran up and down our spines when Barack Obama and team redistributed more of our federal tax dollars through the TARP scheme for “shovel ready” jobs (remember Jobs, Jobs, Jobs) it’s time to see exactly what the consequences are.  First of all, no one can really document the success or inherent failure of the bailout because much of the statistics reported on the government web site are fictitious, listing districts and towns that don’t exist as having received dollars from nanny.  We do know that most of the money has never been spent even though we were told that we must act immediately.  Today on the front page of the Philadelphia Inquirer, our liberal governor, “slick Eddie” Rendell is calling for natural gas drilling taxes and raising tax on personal income. Taxes that will stifle exploration and extraction of this energy source which is still in its infancy.   We just witnessed the Pennsylvania lawmakers from both parties object to a broad based tax increase which delayed a budget approval by 101 day impasse.  Why is Rendell bringing this unpopular idea up again?  To deal with the budget shortage “tsunami” created as the federal stimulus dollars dry up. Get it?  Now additional taxes must be raised on a state and local level to continue supporting all these “jobs” that were allegedly created.  As long as liberal democrats and sleepy citizens continue on their drunken spending spree, the working men and women of this great country will have to work even harder so that Washington can continue to spend our money.  The actual cost of spending dollars  at a federal level is often times pushed down to state and local government to make up for shortfalls for the local working citizens (those paying taxes) to deal with.  I hope you’re enjoying your TARP funded job.  By the way, do you know anyone who received a job as a result of TARP?