November

This November's midterm elections will be crucial in determining the course of both the War on Terror and the fate of many domestic programs. A swing the wrong way will give Democrats command and control of all House committee chairs and hinder Republican efforts to move our nation forward. One can easily say that the GOP is the party of progress, since House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's stated policy is currently to block all Republican legislative efforts. This approach begs the simple question, "does the Democratic party have its sights set on helping the American people, or winning elections?"

After years without a terrorist attack, the Democrats have caught the public in a "lull", and they have the greatest political weapon of all: hindsight. They can look back at Republican ideas and legislation and pick it to pieces. At the time such actions were taken, they more than likely either went along with it or offered no substantive alternative, but now it is fair game.

Here is why we need a Republican congress:

-Your taxes WILL be raised. Every Democratic leader in Congress has mumbled the talking point, "Sure, we'd love to cut taxes, but right now it's just not responsible." This is Big Government B.S. It is simple economic fact that cutting taxes creates jobs (more income taxes collected), increases personal spending (more sales taxes collected), and INCREASES tax revenue. The tax cuts of the '20s, '60s, '80s, and '00s all created more vastly more revenue for the government than was collected during higher tax periods. The Democrats think that they can spend your money more wisely than you can - and that's that.

-The War on Terror WILL be compromised. Consider last week's "Path to 9/11" miniseries on ABC. The movie told the story of the leadup to the terrorist attacks of 9/11 - and much of it cast a dark shadow on Democratic appeasement of terrorists during the '90s. They were outraged that ABC would claim that Bill Clinton could have prevented 9/11. He was offered bin Laden several times and failed to act, fearing political consequence. That movie outraged the Left because it was TRUE. Furthermore, the Democrats have attempted to block the PATRIOT Act and every major attempt by the administration to monitor terrorists - including electronic surveillance, which the British used to foil last month's terror attempt - one that would have been worse than 9/11.

Politics are cyclical, and the Democrats will control the government at some point in the future. But we must hold off on that recession for as long as possible. There is too much at stake right now.

Republicans - get out and vote. Democrats - demand that your party forge an identity other than the "Party of the Filibuster".