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2009 Commentary Archive

6/14/09 A Monumental Government Land Grab
6/12/09 Obama's Un-healthy Hypocrisy
6/7/09 DIY Obama
6/5/09 "... My re-set button is broken."
5/31/09 UPS: Urgent Passage Syndrome
5/29/09 Axis Upheaval
5/24/09 Dealing With The Car Czar
5/20/09 Lanny Davis: Spin Doctor Heal Thy Self
5/17/09 Mortar Board Rhymes With...
5/15/09 Dick Cheney: His Aim Is True
5/10/09 Taliban: The Renewable Resource
5/8/09 Tour de Farce
5/3/09 Fix It Again Taxpayers
5/1/09 Swine Flew
4/26/09 The Beautiful Last 100 Days
4/24/09 Oversteering to the Left
4/19/09 Propaganda...By The Book
4/17/09 Yo Ho Ho...
4/12/09 Captains Courageous
4/10/09 What's Wrong With Being A Superpower?
4/5/09 Numbing Your Census
4/2/09 Ugly Americanism
4/1/09 eddobloggo may need a bailout
3/29/09 Liberals HATE To Be Wrong
3/27/09 Republicans: They've Gotta GO!
3/22/09 Pulling Ticks Off RINO's
3/20/09 Selling Books to Deadheads
3/15/09 Detainees of Political Correctness
3/13/09 It's All About The O
3/8/09 The Weak Get Going Too
3/6/09 Put a Rush on it!
3/1/09 Sneak Peek: GM's Latest TV Spot
2/27/09 Our Love's In Jeopardy
2/22/09 Buddy, Can You Spare A Yuan?
2/20/09 Cam-pains In The Neck
2/15/09 Shovel-ready?
2/13/09 The Energy to Stimulate
2/8/09 Car & Driver Review by Tom Daschle
2/6/09 Everybody Funny
2/1/09 Blinded By Transparency
1/25/09

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1/23/09 Appointments Beget Appointments
1/16/09 Plane Talk About Homeland Security
1/9/09 The Cadillac of Bailouts
1/2/09 Good News About Heart Attacks

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Conservatism is far from dead.  Even if you have just a little bit of faith in Gallup Polls and allow for a margin of error, Gallup's updated political ideology survey says...Conservative outnumber liberals by a surprising 2 to 1 margin despite the president's vaunted popularity.

 

In conjunction with the latest political ideology trend data, the erosion of the president's performance and popularity ratings and with the related findings of the respected pollster RasmussenReports, Americans' growing concern over the Obama administration's fiscal policies would indicate that anti-left sentiment is growing as support for liberal hyper-spending and its inevitable hyper-taxing and hyper-inflation has peaked and appears to be declining.

 

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Quoting Gallup's deeper explanation of its findings:

 

"There is an important distinction in the respective ideological compositions of the Republican and Democratic Parties. While a solid majority of Republicans are on the same page -- 73% call themselves conservative -- Democrats are more of a mixture. The major division among Democrats is between self-defined moderates (40%) and liberals (38%). However, an additional 22% of Democrats consider themselves conservative, much higher than the 3% of Republicans identifying as liberal."

 

So while unabashed right-wing Conservatives may actually be the 10-percenters that the left has smugly mocked since Election Day, the Democrat Party's own "very liberal" contingent is barely half the size of the GOP's "very conservative" segment. 

 

As the above Gallup graph indicates, liberals account for, at best, no more than 21% of the mix.  That is in spite of their ongoing assumption that the same 53% of the electorate (or more) that accounted for their long-awaited victory would continue to be liberal enough to vote for Obama again if the election were held today, let alone 3-1/2 years down the road.

 

Is it any wonder then that liberals have been dreading the possibility of the right taking back some of the unchecked power that this leftist administration has so perversely seized and that it could be done far ahead of the "generations" of elapsed future time predicted by James Carville and other Obama spinners and apologists?

 

Is it any wonder that fearful liberals so vehemently hate anyone who makes a case for a more conservative government; anyone who dares to criticize the Dear Leader?  This fear has led the left to demonize and marginalize even the most thoughtfully accurate opponents of Obama's economic, defense and social program policies. 

 

So be prepared for a more militant smear strategy that will take hold as minds and legislature seats are won back by conservatives and moderates from both parties.

 

Before long at least 53% of Americans -- a "very conservative" estimate -- will also have had their fill of unrepresentative liberal rhetoric and reportage. Hopefully, their demands will trickle down to Congress before the administration has the chance to go all-out Big Brother on dissenters in the media and in the streets.

 

The only thing progressive about liberalism these days is its decline.  It will be interesting to see who they will blame for that.

 

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John Gibson White

The Conservative Underground Nation


Remember that it was Carter that made Reagan possible.

 

KipAllen

Palm Springs, CA Desert Sun

[You don't have to remind me!  Maybe we can get one for the Kipper this time. -ED]


Except for the part about hyper taxing, hyper inflation, and weapons grade plutonium levels of spending declining, I think you're right on. people are getting tired of it and calling it what it is, same old same old Crown Party support of the Church of Bigness and an attack on the nation and citizenry.

That's what living beyond a planets ability will bring on. I guess they left like they deserved it and everyone would be wrong not to see it the same way. Go figure.

 

deminn

St. Cloud, MN Times


eddobloggo, nice write up, but I think you've missed an important question: WHY is the percentage of conservatives voting for the Democratic Party so high? The left doesn't have to "demonize and marginalize" opponents of Obama's policies, their own behavior is enough.

The lack of Republican leadership and constant refusal to help solve our nation's problems, combined with the far right hate speech, will keep these voters away for a long time.  When a Republican leader finds the guts to tell Limbaugh to get lost, let me know...

 

KRidge

Des Moines, IA Register

[I think you missed the highlighted quote that says "...However, an additional 22% of Democrats consider themselves conservative, much higher than the 3% of Republicans identifying as liberal..." and my subtle point that the Democrat Party seems more likely to lose a big chunk of it's 2008 voters before the GOP loses any more of its former supporters.  Personally, I'd be happy to vote for a Conservative candidate of either major party, a third party or a coalition -- especially if it means getting rid of Obama sooner than later -- and my best guess is that Limbaugh would say the very same thing.  -ED]


I don't get what all the hubbub is about Obama's leadership. I started following it in my personal life and Im waiting to reap the rewards! For example, I live paycheck to paycheck, but Obama showed me the way, I now just spend on my credit cards ad nauseam, and don't pay any of my bills so I can spend that money as well. I'm waiting to officially become a millionaire from all this, after all, how can the worlds smartest man be wrong? Wait - unless he isn't?

Lets just pray America wakes up before we are all saying Zieg Heil OBAMA.

 

Z-mang

Great Falls, MT Tribunei


I find the conservative/liberal labels to be tiresome at best, more like the bleatings of the ignorant extremists from both sides. As one who is fiscally conservative, but often labeled as a liberal because of my support of gay marriage and dislike of war I find it very limiting to try to simlify folks to one label or the other. Unless the terms are used as qualifiers, they are totally useless. Kind of like hot and cold. Is my glass of water hot or cold if it is the same temp as a cold cup of coffee and a hot soda? Ed, I've been reading your blog for a while and I know you are smart, but you constant beating of the conservative drum makes you look less than intelligent. It would be nice to read your opinions without the name calling.

 

rainbowed

Great Falls, MT Tribunei

[I'll be happy to live with your "less intelligent" **LABEL** before I forsake my principles. Besides, it's a lot less disrespectful and vulgar that what many lefties have called me. -ED]


No sign of inflation - in fact the signs are just the opposite with consumer prices down. There are signs that the GOP is galluping out of relevance, however.

 

angelcount

St. Cloud, MN Times

[And what have you spiked your Kool-Aid with today? -ED]


I gotta hand in to you lombago - you stick to what you advertise. Please take a chair as it appears that you may be in the early stages of HYPER-ventilation. Rasmussen Reports. Wasn't Stanislof Rasmussen the main "torch" guy at the Salem witch trials - or was it Alfred? Keep up that top notch reporting (no intended reference to Woody Woodpecker). Love your stuff!

 

mostlymalarkey

Wausau, WI Daily Herald

[I hate to bust your bubble malarko but I'm sitting here with a 44 bpm pulse while the lefties are strokin' out over what I write.  But they're some of my most loyal rant-readers so I try to cut 'em some slack. -ED]


Ed, I gotta admit that's a wicked cool avatar.

 

PetrFisk

Fort Collins, CO Coloradoan

[Who says you've got to be a lefty to be a hip, intellectual renaissance man? Thanks for the thumb-up, PF. -ED]


...or, the fact that the economy, is still plunging off the Bush Cliff of Idiocracy, in the full grip of science based gravity.

 

Wintour

Green Bay, WI PressGazette

[Read the last sentence of my commentary, look in the mirror and have another sip of Kool-Aid. -ED]


Pollstering, and opinion poll data crunching, is for chumps. Anyone with a given agenda could take the same questions, phrase them a little differently, and come up with completely different results. Yes, poll trends over the long haul are indicative, but snapshots in time are worthless. The only poll that counted for now was last November 4.

 

UknowIknowU

Montgomery, AL Advertiser

[The aforementioned polls proved to be fairly accurate in the lead-up to 11/4/08 and I doubt that you were crying "chump" when they were being referenced by the media and bloggers at the time. -ED]


I find it amazing how all of a sudden after five months, the conservatives are coming back...just more conservative bullsh**. Just face the fact that you conservative right-wing nuts are the minority and with the way the repub party is acting, will become smaller in 2010. I also find it amazing after eight years, you conservatives all of a sudden care about what happens to this country, give me a flipping break. Just go away, don't look back, just go! 

 

Tacoma

Montgomery, AL Advertiser

[So you lefty Kool-Aid drinkers really believe that a majority of American voters will allow Obama to lead us out of Great Depression that HE created and the World War III that HE allowed to happen? Public opinion of the Dear Leader's programs is not what it used to be and even his vaunted rock star popularity is down according to all polls and surveys. Not to mention that he started out with only 53% of the popular vote.  You want us to go away but we're coming right back so you libbies better get used to it -- again. -ED]


Obama's approvals are slipping, the guy is surviving on a corrupt media and being "cool".  Korea, Iran, and Intelligent Americans are calling his bluff and the youngster isn't up to the challenge. The "change" the gullible voted for isn't the change they are getting. The gay lobby is certainly in a tizzy and other groups will follow. A clear conservative message of the Law and the Constitution along with fiscal restraint will bring the people back to center right. obama knows this and that is why he and pelosi are rushing everything they can to be game changers before the majority wakes up.

 

deserttrek

Palm Springs, CA Desert Sun

[Right on Dez! -ED]


You [another commenter at the linked website] think Rush Limbaugh is calling the shots?--man you libs don't know "Jill S---T" I wouldn't blame anyone for not listening to R--Limbaugh, don't take me wrong, Rush is on my side. Looks like TV has B S'td your brains, try to claw your way out, look around, smell the world. Don't follow some braying donkey just because he can lie and look good in a green suit at the same time.

 

phlovnce

Des Moines, IA Register

[Limbaugh, Gibson, Ingraham, Beck, Hannity, etc.) articulate the thoughts of their audiences as the listeners themselves are less able to do. Kind of like the way Obama makes a speech just about every day but without the teleprompter. Unlike Obama, however, they take real questions and comments from real people who often disagree with them. Put another way, Rush (et al) works for the advancement of people, not government -- which defines Conservatism. -ED]


Hey eddobloggo...Interesting reading.

Hope the 2010 elections will bring Senate/House majority/minority numbers much closer in line with one another. Or with luck, create a divided Gov. again.

However, the GOP has a lot of rebuilding to do. Even though I'm a fiscal conservative with "some" moderate social views, I purposely neglected to vote at all in the '08' elections for lots of reasons.
Anyway, at this point, divided Gov. would be interesting and maybe even a blessing for the U.S. !

Hope The GOP will put forth some decent candidates, without neg. baggage, to offer up.

You know the old saying : The grass always looks greener on the other side of the fence! Hope by 2010 that lots of the Obama indie sheeple will think so.

Keep on a-bloggin' !

 

JoseComoVa

Salinas, CA The Californian


You conservative extremists want to go back to the fascist policies of the Bush.Cheny administration.

 

historystudent

Mansfield, OH News Journal

[Yes, because it would make the government a lot less fascist than it is today...and that it is soon going to be. -ED]


 


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