GOP takes back U.S. House

This letter was edited then published in The Daily Astorian on Nov. 12, 2010.

I’m so thrilled that the GOP won the House back and picked up seats in the Senate. I had to take a couple of days before commenting about the impressive nature of the turnout because I’ve been way to angry, frustrated, and frankly exhausted worrying about what would happen Tuesday for over a year and half.  I finally feel like I can relax a little, breathe again and rest a little easier knowing the voters at long last can put the brakes on Obama’s far left wing agenda.

The voters who put Republicans in office this time just will not tolerate anymore tax and spend nanny state government policies by the Neo-Conservatives.

If the leadership of the GOP believes that it can govern with a RINO mentality as in the George W. era they too will be booted out of office in 2012. The mandate is simple and easy to understand, DC must get back to fiscal conservative principles because people are informed, awake, paying attention and expecting accountability. 

I love how the Daily Astorian gave all the Democrats who won reelection a full blown victory lap in their paper. It’s extremely sad how the people who live in this plastic bubble out here in Oregon just don’t get it.

The Democrats won but the people of Oregon lost. Taxpayer’s lost, and business lost…again. Businesses are fleeing the state in record numbers because of the high tax burden and over regulation.

50% of the people who live in Oregon get a State, County or City government paycheck and as a result over half of the registered voters will vote to maintain big government and higher taxes. The unions own this state and breaking the stalemate of these unsustainable taxpayer funded phony baloney jobs and pensions is going to be a long and tough battle to overcome.

The Democrats want the giant bureaucracy maintained and even expanded no matter what the cost to the taxpayer but one day soon the well is going to run dry. It’ll be another sad day when Oregon goes hat in hand to the Feds asking for a bailout and none will be forthcoming.    

It’s not just the unions, there’s a whole slew of people who depend on one form or another of a government stipend. Not just depend but have totally convinced themselves that they’re entitled to something when far too many have not earned nor deserve it.

It was one of the most important and historic days in our nation’s history on Tuesday but another huge setback for business and taxpayers with the reelection of the same old Democratic hacks for both the State and Federal seats in Oregon.