"Trust Me Charlie Brown"

Trust was the lure used by dear Lucy van Pelt to entice poor Charlie Brown to kick the football. Of course no matter how many times Charlie trusts Lucy he always ends up on his backside looking up at the sky.

Well, dear friends, the poor stupid Republicans are once again being seduced by those dastardly Dems into trying to kick the football. Every time the Democrats get spanked in an election we can count on the same reaction. The determined ones are in no way going to let a little electoral stupidity by the unruly locals derail their plans to control us all.

Recall please the amazing reversal of power in 1994. As the year began the Democrats were at the helm of all power in DC. We were all careening toward the cliff on the runaway train called HillaryCare. Then the November to Remember. Not just a spanking - the mighty unwashed in fly-over country tossed the bums out and put in a new set of bums. Newt's gang was in control and the Senate was basically a split decision.

What was the party of Bill to do? Simple. First, blame their reversal of fortune not on their un-American policies, but on the unreasonable anger of the people. That anger of course was caused by the unreasonable blockade of those rascally do-nothing Republicans.

Then the seduction begins. The Republicans were woefully unprepared for power. Newt Gingrich is a genius and pulled of a modern political miracle with the Contract With America. However, the party bosses did not have faith in Newt's ability to run the House. The Senate was even worse.

Newt could not be seduced so the left-wing willing accomplices who control the nation's media began a brutal campaign of character assassination. The birth of Fox News Channel was nearly two years away. Rush Limbaugh was just over mid-way into his first decade on the air. The big broadcast news programs were still king along with the NY Times and Washington Post.

Poor hapless Bob Dole was now the Senate Majority Leader. Senator Dole is a hero of the Greatest Generation. He is an honest and honorable man. He wanted nothing more than to be an honest broker to advance American Exceptionalism. Unfortunately, the opposition didn't give a damn about what is good for America. Tom Daschle and his cronies cared only about being out of power.

Bottom line is the Democrats launched their predictable mantra of "moderation and cooperation" and seduction.

As usual, the Republicans fell for it, ran up to the football and ended up on their collective butts.

Newt was hounded into retirement. Bob Dole retired. And the Republicans sowed the seeds of their destruction by acting like Democrats and spending our children into near serfdom to the state.

Here we go again. The Democrats have lost their bulletproof Senate majority. They may likely lose the House, or at least end up in a virtual deadlock, in November.

The campaign to seduce the Republicans has begun. Today, President Obama actually met with the Republicans for the first face-to-face since his election. The voices of 'moderation' within the Republican party are tuning up their siren's song. The Dem's lapdog press is advocating 'co-operation'. All this as a preemptive strike to blunt the momentum of a new Republican Revolution and to avoid another 1994.

The Big Question. Will the Republicans run up and try to kick the football again? Or will they launch a hard kick into the backside to the Democrats by sticking to conservative Ronald Reagan principals?

As the song goes "...I'll get on my knees and pray - we won't get fooled again." [Hat tip to The Who]

Until the next epiphany,

~Paul M. Laperruque