Where Is The Tipping Point?
With the electorate choosing the far left candidate on Tuesday, it’s not surprising to find many of the conservative pundits wondering when and how conservatives can take back the presidency and Congress. Some wonder if President-elect Obama (D) and the Democratically-controlled Senate and House of Representatives will overreach, and go too far with their desired programs. Not so Mark Steyn, who writes in his weekend column for California’s Orange County Register:
“I disagree with my fellow conservatives who think the Obama-Pelosi-Reid-Frank liberal behemoth will so obviously screw up that they'll be routed in two or four years' time. The president-elect's so-called "tax cut" will absolve 48 percent of Americans from paying any federal income tax at all, while those who are left will pay more. Just under half the population will be, as Daniel Henninger pointed out in The Wall Street Journal, on the dole.
“By 2012, it will be more than half on the dole, and this will be an electorate where the majority of the electorate will be able to vote itself more lollipops from the minority of their compatriots still dumb enough to prioritize self-reliance, dynamism and innovation over the sedating cocoon of the Nanny State. That is the death of the American idea – which, after all, began as an economic argument: "No taxation without representation" is a great rallying cry. "No representation without taxation" has less mass appeal. For how do you tell an electorate living high off the entitlement hog that it's unsustainable, and you've got to give some of it back?
“At that point, America might as well apply for honorary membership in the European Union. It will be a nation at odds with the spirit of its founding, and embarking on decline from which there are few escape routes . . . .”
As RedPlanetCartoons.com puts it in the cartoon below, "Bob the Gardener" just might decide to plant shrubs next year.
