Radio, Jan. 7: Time to grow a spine
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Out with the old, in with the new. Enough of 2006, “the year of retreat” as Ben Shapiro aptly called it. America slumped as a world leader, and conservatives got shellacked at the polls. Let’s say goodbye to all that and roar into 2007. True principles and iron will to enact them, the spirit I call backbone, should be our resolve for this new year.
“Backbone Radio with John Andrews” on Sunday, January 7, will shrug off the snowstorms and sound the call that it’s time to grow a spine. We’re back to live shows after two holiday weekends. We invite you to listen and call in.
** What’s next on the left-liberal battle plan to transform our country? I’ll ask David Horowitz, author of “The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party.”
** How will Gov. Bill Owens stand in history? Sean Duffy, formerly his deputy chief of staff, weighs in.
** Can the Reagan coalition be revived? Kevin Miller of Vanguard Forum will bring his insights.
** Plus my conversations with French political scientist Jerome Noirot about anti-Americanism and with columnist Mike Littwin about the Darrent Williams murder.
Our show is your positive antidote to downer headlines like Pelosi taking over in DC and labor pushing around the Dems in Denver. We’re the most principled, most patriotic, most faith-based, most Colorado-proud spot on your weekend radio dial. Please be with us this Sunday at 5pm.
Yours for self-government,
JOHN ANDREWS
The author can be reached at John@BackBoneAmerica.net
In my estimation, that little trip to the woodshed was a positive thing for the Party. When you are riding the crest of the wave, you tend to get full of yourself, and forget what “got you there.” As Orwell observed, the object of power is power, and once the Party went down that garden path, seeking power at all cost, the end was inevitable.
When you use the “Reagan test” for evaluating the last six years, the only conclusion you can reach is that the Bush regime was a total, unmitigated disaster. Dumbya presided over the most massive redistribution of wealth since Lenin, destroying the American middle class and enriching the landed gentry to the point of gross obscenity. Our tax, immigration, and trade policies were calculated to collapse the wage base and as a result, workers’ real wages have fallen to pre-1967 levels. Bush swamped us in a tsunami of debt, and embroiled us in a war we had no business engaging in. Are you better off than you were in 2000? Most Americans have to say no, which is why the Reagan coalition has been shattered — arguably, beyond repair.
Bottom line, American conservatives stopped being conservatives, and the result is obvious.
So what do we do, John? What we have been doing isn’t working, and won’t work for the foreseeable future. We can’t continue to emulate China (we have the same GINI score — 43!) and attract the middle-class support we enjoyed under Reagan. We have to endeavor to improve the lot of the common man, in a manner consistent with our positivist philosophy.
As Bill Clinton used to say, “It’s the economy, stupid!”
Wealth inequality is a problem that periodically gets solved. Cezar Chavez was given a mandate, because the Venezuelan gentry failed to learn the Wall Street axiom that “pigs get slaughtered.” The Democrats have been granted a charter to solve it their way, because we didn’t learn that lesson. Teddy Roosevelt was right: “This country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a reasonably good place for all of us to live in.”
by Charles | Friday, Jan 5, 2007 | 3:20 pm