About Time for Accountability

So Alito is now the Pres’s choice to join the Supremes. Good. And all it took was the entire base of the Republican party to rise up in protest.

About time. Kind of makes you wonder what would have happened if they had spoken up before hand.

The price of blind obedience to the man who says trust me is that you often don’t get what you want. The religious right has elected 4 of the last 5 presidents. And since their revolt against the last President bush resulted in the election of Clinton the first time around, I suppose the case could be made that they have elected all 5. Even if through their own inaction.

So what did the right do after electing the current president? Nothing. Not a darn thing. In the face of rising statist policies, increased regulation, fewer freedom, they did nothing. Their response to the affronts to liberty and even their own stated ideals was to apologize for the president’s need to accommodate the political realities.

After pushing the limits of credulity with Roberts, the Miers nomination activated a tipping point for the support of his base. I image that the president was surprised that the silent ignorant masses that had blindly supported him for 6 years suddenly rose up in protest. But he shouldn’t have been. And the right should have risen up in protest years before.

Everyone needs somebody to hold them accountable. And the president hasn’t even tried to live up to the principles that he originally ran his campaign on. If the conservatives had held his feet to the fire years ago, then perhaps all the work in The District would have been held up. But when you consider that 95 out of every 100 things that happened in the capital benefited the socialists and democrats; that lack of action would have been a good thing.

Let’s say it together now:

Blind Obedience: BAD

Accountability: GOOD

You will be tested on this again...