Happy New Year, Happy New Congress

It's a new year, and finally a new Congress. While the new Republican majority in the House should prevent any more radical legislation from being shoved through, We the People cannot rest on our laurels and must continue to be vigilant and keep an eye on all of them, particularly the newcomers. The days of going about our lives and not worrying about what's going on in Washington, and our State capitals are over. Too much damage has been done and if we are going to prevent any more, let alone reversing the damage, we have to keep one eye on every move they are making.

With that said, today is a good day for America.

The difference between the political parties

For a long time I kept hearing "there is no difference between the parties" as a defense of why people were not being active in politics, or even not voting. I was doing some work online today and two back to back headlines struck home how wrong that notion is for anyone that still may have it.

The first was "Obama pushes DREAM act (aka amnesty for illegals) as lame duck session priority".
The second was "Republicans approve ban on earmarks".

One party wants to make a whole lot of illegals legal thereby encouraging more illegals to come and further collapse the social programs and health care system that are already bankrupt, the other party wants to stop earmarks and wasteful spending.

Which party appears to be listening to what the voters said on November 2? The Democrats haven't gotten the message yet. It's why they need another historic defeat in the next election as well until they learn that this nation is not Europe and wants nothing to do with their socialism and social experimentation upon the population at the expense of our fiscal future.

The Next Stage

So the elections are over, and there weren't very many surprises nationally (at least not for me). I was a bit appalled over Harry Reid being there still, but when people are convinced they want tyranny they're going to get it. (People wanting tyranny in California is much less surprising). The biggest surprise was the massive turnover in the state legislatures. That is what made this a total wipe out.

Now it's time to hold the feet of the people put into office to the fire and continue to push on for the next round of primaries. I'm also interested to see who declares their candidacy for President, as right now I'm not seeing anybody very appetizing (and the last round of bozos need to stay on the lecture circuit and out of campaigning).