Well, after a couple of weeks of computer glitches which kept me away from Political Mavens, I’m happy to say I’m back. For those that missed me, thanks! For those that didn’t, well…

 So, a week after the elections the pundits and politicians are still debating who lost and who won. It’s pretty clear that the biggest winners in last Tuesday’s elections are the illegal aliens who have invaded the USA. It appears clear that after Nancy Pelosi parks her pumps and broom in the Speaker’s office, she’ll get busy with Senator John McCain (RINO-Arizona) and President Bush to give us all the Bush-McCain-Pelosi Amnesty for Aliens bill. This legislation will reward law breakers for breaking the law. How long until our prison population determines that they too should be rewarded for criminal activity.

 It’s also pretty clear that the Islamoterrorists feel they have won. They were able to change the government of Spain with a bomb on a subway. Here, all they needed was an impatient populace and a Donald Rumsfeld voodoo doll. This election sends a message to them that the American people don’t have the will to fight a long term battle against terrorism. Considering that our enemy is still fighting battles from the seventh century, they must find it rather amusing that we’ll cut and run after just a few years. Interestingly, a poll released just yesterday indicates that 78% of Americans are concerned that the election sends the wrong message to terrorists. Did these 78% vote last week?

 More winners? Sure, give props to the Democrats who were able to win both houses of Congress without advancing a single idea or plan. There entire campaign was, “Hey, We’re not Republicans!” John Kerry returned from the political graveyard to reprise his post-Vietnam role as lead slanderer of American troops and Dick Durbin is crowned one of Harry Reid’s senate princes. Nice comeback for Durbin who most recently attracted attention for comparing American troops to Nazis.

I know we all heard a lot about Abramoff, but wait until the ethics questions arise with the new Democrat leadership. John Murtha, most famous for his starring role in an FBI sting tape a number of years ago should be especially enetertaining to watch.

 My Dad used to tell me as a kid, “don’t be stupid.” He’d usually punctuate it with a playful slap to the back of my head. I know its not Socrates or Plato, but it really is pretty good advice if you think about it. Follow those words and you never need sexual harassment training, you don’t shoot heroin in to your arm and you never rob a bank.  Well, my fellow Republicans failed to follow this advice, I’m afraid.

Republicans were the losers in this, but which Republicans. Principled Republicans like Tom Tancredo and Sue Myrick? No, it was the arrogant House leadership that lost this, coupled with Senate leaders who continue to treat the upper chamber as the ultimate billionaire boys club and not as a legislative body. Newt Gingrich and the class of ‘94 went to Washington with a plan to clean up the House and they did great work in that effort. But just twelve short years later, many of the Republicans had become as arrogant and unprincipled as the Democrats they replaced. On the Senate side, millions of dollars were wasted trying to protect the seats of nominal Republicans like Mike DeWine and Lincoln Chafee.

So, in a political sense the Republican Party (version 20.06) lost. Let’s hope that Republicans rediscover what it is that we believe so that we can wage a real campaign on issues in 2008. Of course, after two years of Pelosi and Hillary Clinton, the GOP might be able to just say “Hey we’re not Democrats” but that is not right for our nation. We as a party must stand up for our country and be willing to defend it. We’ll see who answers the call.

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