Monday Meanderings

I have to admit my commute drive, while long, is quite sublime this time of year with the lightshow in the clouds and the swirling maelstroms of migrating fowl over the rice paddies. It is sunrise and sunset season in California and a camera should be at the ready, as mine has not been, alas, or that glory would be posted.
So many of us overlook the little things that make life worth living and we grow cynical and bitter, I am trying to overcome that by avoiding negative influences, mainly our MSM. My personal motto is to learn from the negative and move in a positive direction towards fulfilling a goal. To concentrate on the failures and not the accomplishments is a loser attitude and will not get you very far in life.
My friend, Mark, who runs a very good blog, Pearls Before Swine, has been through the grinder and just got himself a home, is a great example of optimism and faith in the Lord to provide for us. I am also a single homeowner because of my faith in myself and my Lord.
It is not the government's job to provide for us, it is our job, and it is our job to elect those that know that simple premise of small government.How do we accomplish that? Term limits and Paul Jacob says it best. I like this guy's attitude!
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Tired of election analysis? Think there should be some kind of limit, rather than allowing it all to drone on and on and on?

Well, here's some analysis you'll like. It's about a limit. An article by Andrew Cline, titled "Finally Term Limited," recently ran in American Spectator.

Cline argues, "Republicans might have saved their majority by keeping a single signature promise from 1994. More than any other point in the Contract With America, the promise of term limits showed how serious these reformers were about changing the culture in Washington." And he calls it a "fateful decision" that most Republican reps who came to Washington believing in limits "chose to stay put rather than step down."

Cline points to scandals that rocked the GOP congressional majority and concludes, "Term limits likely would have prevented each of these scandals."

And he believes that "Term limits also would have prevented or mitigated other Republican apostasies, such as the massive expansion of Medicare, the federalization of public education, the gross abuse of the pork barrel process, and the irresponsibly large increases in non-defense discretionary spending."

Who am I to argue? I agree 100 percent. Cline gets it.

He writes, "Each of these violations of principle occurred for one reason: to maintain power. Yet the GOP went down to electoral defeat precisely because of the leadership's decision to trade ideals for longevity."