Comments on: Punditish Provides The Perspective http://informedspeculation.com/2006/11/07/punditish-provides-the-perspective/ Refunds Cheerfully Given To All Who Disagree Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: too many steves http://informedspeculation.com/2006/11/07/punditish-provides-the-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-131612 too many steves Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:18:19 +0000 http://decision08.net/2006/11/07/punditish-provides-the-perspective/#comment-131612 Erosion of support for the GOP was not an event but, just as it is in geology, a process. Slow but steady abandonment of conservative principles (smaller government, lower taxes, less intrusive government, security, & economic issues) bring us to where we are today. Actually, I am willing to bet that were Katrina to happen 100 times, and incidents 2 - 100 occured with the full benefit of hindsight, it would play out exactly the same way. Not because the response was a failure of leadership, which it was, but because large, bureaucratic organizations do not move fast, efficiently, and effectively. As for the Dems winning control of some or all of Congress: I don't see a huge downside in that happening. The majority will be small, the Dems have proved themselves to be less cohesive on the issues, and they are likely to run into a President who opposes their agenda. Thus, GRIDLOCK is my prediction should the Dems prevail today and GRIDLOCK in government makes this voter happy. Erosion of support for the GOP was not an event but, just as it is in geology, a process. Slow but steady abandonment of conservative principles (smaller government, lower taxes, less intrusive government, security, & economic issues) bring us to where we are today. Actually, I am willing to bet that were Katrina to happen 100 times, and incidents 2 – 100 occured with the full benefit of hindsight, it would play out exactly the same way. Not because the response was a failure of leadership, which it was, but because large, bureaucratic organizations do not move fast, efficiently, and effectively.

As for the Dems winning control of some or all of Congress: I don’t see a huge downside in that happening. The majority will be small, the Dems have proved themselves to be less cohesive on the issues, and they are likely to run into a President who opposes their agenda. Thus, GRIDLOCK is my prediction should the Dems prevail today and GRIDLOCK in government makes this voter happy.

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