Wrong again.

Having taken most of a month off from blogging, much of which was spent holding breath over the election, I have been able to reflect (like the President, Katie Couric, and countless others) what this election means. But do you need someone to tell you that? Some things seem obvious, others less so, but here goes.

1. This isn't an embrace of Republicans or Conservatives, but a thorough rejection of Obamacare, Cap-and-Trade (energy credits trading and taxing), an incredibly ineffective stimulus program-the largest success of which has been political paybacks to large labor unions and other Democratic supporters. It's also a rejection of the people who created and enacted these...things. And it's a rejection of the Pelosi/Reid closed-door politics which denied the people a healthy legislative debate on the content and execution of these topics.

2. The citizens want their country secured. No one has seen to that. How many terrorists have walked uncontested into America shoulder to shoulder with other illegals? Where are they right now, and what are they planning?

3. The citizens want their economy fixed. The proven remedy is to reduce taxes and reduce even more the spending of government funds. Of course this makes political paybacks and buying loyalty through government freebies much more difficult and is unpopular among Democratic legislators. This is a simple cyclical occurrence which we routinely have in our economy. It isn't rocket science, and folks want the leaders to do what they know has to be done.

4. The citizens want the debt of the country reduced, and fast. If we have to go without a stimulus, and departments all have to cut budgets across the board, so be it.

5. The citizens want the health care bill repealed, Cap and Trade dead (and not run by executive order through the EPA, but dead as a doornail), the stimulus program cut off and spending controlled. Soon.
That's basically what the election was about. It isn't complicated. I was pleased that people finally woke up and recognized that Candidate Obama was telling us exactly what he intended to do, and to his credit, got it done. Unfortunately people were voting for a rock star, for the first black president, for a nice guy, all the while overlooking what he was actually saying.

Really, people need to listen more. Obama, Pelosi, Reid--they did exactly what they said they would. It is going to take some time to undo damage of this scale. That's why so many Democrats were discarded, and may yet be cast out in 2012. On the strength of his charm, Obama will probably be reelected but severely limited by an unfriendly Congress and suspicious electorate.

At any rate, this is our take here on what the election means. The President, all the network media talking heads and the daily papers will tell you that this election was the people clamoring for more cooperation in Washington. Horsefeathers. That's just more spin from the liberal spin machine whose fax machines and emails carried that message to Democratic leaders all morning on Wednesday, November 3rd. And they got it wrong again.