The Republican Rally

 “Don’t call it a comeback, I’ve been here for years” 

                                                –  LL Cool J.

Cool J’s lyrics describe the post 2008 general election GOP.  Much like a stock market bottom, we will look back on the November 4, 2008 – the Obama Tsunami — as the low point of the Republican Party.  Since November 4, and the soul searching that ensued, the has strung together some victories. 

First, Senator Chambliss handily won the runoff election on December 2.  Senator Chambliss prevented a Democratic super majority and also sunk nitwit Al Franken’s hopes of being a Senator. 

Second, the Party picked up a Congressional seat when, Josephs Quang Cao beat Congressmen Williams Jefferson, a criminal, in Louisiana’s 2nd Congressional District.  Cao is this Country first Vietnamese-American elect to Congress.  (As a side note, could the election of Barack Obama and Joseph Cao happen anywhere else but America, what a great country.)  The mainstream media did not cover the political and social significance of the Cao pick up, they were too busy freaking out over Sarah Palin’s wardrobe. 

Finally, the defeat of the bailout bill indicates a return to our GOP principles.  A bailout of the auto industry is absurd on multiple levels.  Frankly, no industry is so vital to America that we cannot bare to see it fail.  If it were so vital then why is it failing?  Also, the arrogance of the Big 3, GM especially, and the UAW is that Chapter 11 is not an option is appalling.  The UAW refuses to take a pay cut, so you would rather have zero wages than reduced wages?  And, we wonder why these companies are a broken mess.  The bailout of the financial industry was wrong and the fact that no one knows what is going on with the $700 billion we pledged to it proves it was a mistake.  The bailout of the auto industry is worse.  Thankfully, Republicans returned to our roots on this issue. 

If the GOP is uncomfortable using Cool J’s as its new theme song, perhaps they would rather quote Mark Twain who said “reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”