Differences in Political Ideology

"Government is like a baby: an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other end." Ronald Reagan

US Senator Blanche Lincoln, D-AR, was recently speaking in Philadelphia to a group of professional women and compared the United States under the Bush administration to a child who had not been to school for years: "They would be so far behind. They would need so much remediation."

If Blanche Lincoln is the voice of the Democratic party and the Democrats manage to take control of the Congress this election year, I think we better hold on to our hats because if we thought President Clinton pushed through the biggest tax increase in US history during his tenure, I think "we ain't seen nothin' yet".

This attitude is not unlike Senator Lincoln's recent vote to allow minors to be transported across state lines by a non-parental adult (thankfully, the measure failed) to obtain an abortion. Ms. Lincoln failed to acknowledge that this "adult" could be the father of that minor child's baby but, hey, who knows better about what people need than the US government?

At one time there were many conservative Christians who believed that the 2000 presidential race had enormous implications as to what our government would allow, demand, advocate, or remove. I wonder if this election is not somewhat more ominous if the Democrats believe that somewhere, someone or something is due for some "remediation".