tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20943181.post631959964719852496..comments2023-08-25T10:49:59.802-04:00Comments on One Reality: Shock and Awe: Obama’s First Forty DaysStephen Bourquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13699468585645166392noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20943181.post-46005943503937730252009-03-05T18:48:00.000-05:002009-03-05T18:48:00.000-05:00Great post! Thanks for sending it to the carnival...Great post! Thanks for sending it to the carnival!Jenn Caseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07849654785544313839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20943181.post-6381979382912883032009-03-04T23:14:00.000-05:002009-03-04T23:14:00.000-05:00Thanks for the comments, GB and Anon.What can we d...Thanks for the comments, GB and Anon.<BR/><BR/>What can we do? My wife and I talk about this all the time. I'm not sure what to do beyond writing letters to the editor, blogging, and not letting an opportunity go by in ordinary conversations at work, etc., to plug the right ideas.<BR/><BR/>Where can we go? If Galt's Gulch exists, somebody please let me know where it is.<BR/><BR/>Will there be enough of this country left in four to eight years? Well, if by four to eight years, you are referring to the next president, I don't hold out much hope for that. I do not think things would be any better if we had elected John McCain or any other Republican. In fact, it would be worse. The dive toward socialism would have been a little weaker - say, only about 70% to 90% of what Mr. Obama is doing - but appallingly, everything would have been blamed on <I>freedom</I>. At least now, with the Democrats holding the Executive and Legislative branches, we have a chance that the right ideas - that is to say, the <I>wrong</I> ideas - will receive the blame. Unless the Republican party entirely remakes itself in the next few years by explicitly eschewing religion and embracing individual rights, I don't <I>want</I> a Republican to replace Mr. Obama.<BR/><BR/>Though I get discouraged at time, I don't despair. Like Dostoyevsky's "seven righteous men," if a few of us hold the right ideas and spread them as we can, there is hope. We are very badly outnumbered, but we have one enormous advantage: Reality herself is on our side.Stephen Bourquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13699468585645166392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20943181.post-4059384918288469802009-03-04T21:57:00.000-05:002009-03-04T21:57:00.000-05:00Excellent post, but to me at least it begs the que...Excellent post, but to me at least it begs the question, "What can we do"? Is there some place those of us who fancy ourselves producers can go where we won't be punished for our hard work? Will there be enough of this country left in 4 to 8 years to make it worth salvaging?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20943181.post-13642034015521237302009-03-04T09:38:00.000-05:002009-03-04T09:38:00.000-05:00Nice post. You do a great job of providing a high ...Nice post. You do a great job of providing a high level overview of the whirlwind of Obama's first 40 days of power-grabbing, and tying it to the principles it represents.<BR/><BR/>Hear, hear!Galileo Blogshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02592692929747610846noreply@blogger.com