Elementary
Back to basics with Doc Z:
Congressmen from obscure districts, where 99% of Americans will never be eligible to vote, acquire gigantic amounts of power over our lives. The American financial system crashed in 2008, largely due to the actions of Barney Frank, who holds his office because of 200,000 voters in the 4th Congressional District of Massachusetts. My fondest desire is to reclaim an America where Doug Hoffman’s position on the St. Lawrence Seaway is more important that where he stands on allowing the government to seize control of national health care… but we don’t live in that country, and the man NY-23 just elected to Congress isn’t going to help us get there.
Independent voters who want to settle local issues locally need to stop voting for representatives of a statist party with an unquenchable thirst for centralized power. If they don’t start taking a firm stand against the surging growth of government, it will become increasingly laughable to refer to them as “independents.” No one will be allowed to assert their independence from Barack Obama’s agenda. When a carnivorous government is bearing down on you, it does little good to protest that you’re a vegetarian.
The Republicans should be careful about drawing dangerous lessons from their victories last night, as well. If their new strategy revolves around hoping every Democrat opponent is as lousy as Creigh Deeds or Jon Corzine, they’re in deep trouble. Not to throw too much cold water on Chris Christie’s stunning victory in New Jersey, but the incumbent he defeated wasn’t far from receiving constituent complaints via flaming arrows fired into the door of the governor’s mansion. That race probably shouldn’t have been as close as it was, and the victory belongs much more to Christie than to the Republican party apparatus. This won’t stop the bigwigs at the RNC from claiming credit for the wins in Virginia and New Jersey, even as liberal commentators are frantically deleting the “New York district 23 is irrelevant” paragraphs from their op-eds this morning.
The truth is that all these races matter, and all of them have something to teach us. Michael Steele doesn’t seem to be learning those lessons.
Be sure to read it to the end; the last two lines really say it all. Not that you weren’t already going to, of course.
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