It is a foregone conclusion that, regardless of the outcome of the presidential election, both houses of Congress will have a Democrat majority in 2009.  As such, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi will continue to be a tail that wags the dog -- a function that she has recently begun to intensify.
 

For instance, in Pelosi's leftist agenda there is no room for proposed alternative energy legislation that would include domestic or offshore oil drilling let alone such a progressive-unfriendly solution as the construction of nuclear power plants. 

So rather than honoring over 100 bi-partisan legislators' request for a little extra time to cast a simple "yes" or "no" vote regarding the initiation of alternative energy legislation before the close of the most recent session, the Speaker overruled them and shut the House down at the earliest possible moment.

Thus far, in so many words, the Speaker has told her fellow legislators and their constituents that compromise is for people without power.  Madam Speaker, apparently, is prepared to do anything in her disproportionate discretion to block future introduction of any legislation that does not fit her ultra-liberal agenda.

It can be argued that Pelosi's arbitrary decision amounts to little more than a stalling tactic and that when Congress reconvenes, watered-down alternative energy legislation will be introduced in a format that the Speaker might actually allow our representatives to discuss and bring to a vote.

Then again, after the hiatus, the Democrat majority could ultimately decide to follow in lock step with its most powerful colleague who, herself, is preparing to run interference for the man who could be our nation's very first far-left president by late January. 

Should that be the case, nearly half of the electorate will cease to have proper representation in a Congress that currently suffers from a twenty-something percent across-the-board approval rating -- lower even than that of the currently unpopular president they so passionately hate.  Disapproval of our representatives is due, in large part, to Pelosi's failure to embrace the Speaker's job as little more than a position of leadership within the Democrat party and a platform from which to lead the anti-Bush hate chants.

Other than painful and dangerous temporary changes like higher taxes, increased social program spending and a shift in homeland and international defense policies, the one long-lasting change that would come from Obama's Carter-like one-term presidency is the appointment of as many liberal Supreme Court Justices as possible before he gets the boot.

It is reasonable to assume that, with similar partisan arrogance and even more disproportionate discretion than is afforded to the Speaker of the House, youthful Supreme Court appointees could facilitate radical liberalism for generations, maintaining what would turn out to be Obama's legacy.

His legacy.  Our epitaph.

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August 15, 2008

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