It's not a Republican Wave ...

... but it might be the start of a Conservative wave.

As I write this the Senate is 2 Independents, 43 Democrats, 52 Republicans, and 3 seats to be determined.

The House is 157 Democrats, 235 Republicans, and 43 seats to be determined.

If there was a veto proof Congress I might believe we had a Republican wave, but I think we see the sand being wiped from the peoples' eyes. Maybe the voters realize after voting for a black man (if you can call a half white half black man raised by his white mom and white grandparents in Hawaii black) twice and yet be disparaged for being racist, or being promised they can keep their doctors and insurance by Democrats, and many other lies, maybe people realized the lies from honey dripped lips of snakes promising the government will be there to make it all okay while destroying their world.

With so many lies, maybe Republicans are not racist; after all they were spawned with Lincoln; Republicans put the first black man on the Supreme Court and the Democrats fought it. They might not be sexist since they put the first woman on the Supreme Court. Maybe, the Democrats tell a lot of lies about Republicans or just tell a lot of lies.

This could be a turning point for Republicans. Both Libertarians and the Tea Party are the most credible criticizers of their actions. The press are a fluffy pillow for the Democrats.

Let us wait and see.

Is there an Obama energy war?

The Cato Institute is a wonderful organization and day by day I realize I am more Libertarian than Republican or conservative. Recently Cato has released a couple of podcasts about Obama's energy performance, NOT policies, and the criticism he has received.

The Cato podcasts bring up some interesting points. If you are anti-Obama or strongly against his policies these podcasts might take a bit of your enthusiasm out of your objection to Obama's administration. However, maybe you will take away from these podcasts what I did:

• Obama's opponents make a mountain out of a mole hill. Single incidents that they do not like are reframed as Obama's whole policy.
• Cato has looked at how Obama has handled coal and oil seperately. It is a wider view of what has happened across the board in those individual energy fields and whether or not there are differences from his predecessors.
• The Cato podcasts do not address Obama's overall policies. An even wider look would show that what looks like a lack of change in oil and coal policies ignores the tendency to promote wind and solar over coal and oil.

In the end, for all of the information these podcasts gave, it can be considered a bit of a highlighting of how incompetent Obama might be. Obama has stated he wants to limit coal and oil. Has he failed to do that?

Depending on how wide or narrow we change our views on politics changes the perception of what is happening. Also, we need to remain conscious of the differences are between what a politician says the will do, what they set up as policies, and what actually happens.

Sometimes what actually happens is less important than what they want to do. If some one says over and over they are going to stab you but don't do it does not mean you ignore them. One of those times they will try and you will want to be on your guard!

War on Oil

War on Coal

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I'm not going to "Suck It Up" and vote for Romney.

I do not want Obama to win the election in 2012, but that does not mean I am voting for Mitt Romney. TokenLibertarianGirl (Julie Borowski) won't be voting for Romney either. She has a neat video here about the Republicans trying to woo the Ron Paul supporters.

I do not like Ron Paul, but what was done to him at the Republican convention was wrong. It highlights how bad the mechanism of the Republican party is, just like the Democratic party. I am not saying the two parties are the same; they are not. They are just steamroller political processes of different ideologies.

So if I do think the parties are different, why not Romney? Remember 2008? I had to hold my nose to vote for McCain. Now we have Romney whom couldn't beat McCain for the Republican nomination in 2008. How bad do you have to be if you can not do that?

Face it. It has been a while since we had a true Republican be the nominee of the Republican party. Time to jump ship and find a better candidate.