Course Corrections

Ships at sea do it; Space ships and satellites do it; even aircrafts do it. When a vessel is off course, a correction must be made to hold it to a true course. Our country’s ship-of-state is way off course. November fourth we will have a chance to make a crucial course correction.

The approval rating for congress is at an all-time low, and the President’s isn’t much better. In California – the land of fruits and nuts – things are getting nuttier by the day.

Ever since the October 2001 high of 84%, the approval ratings of Congress have been in the toilet. Today it hovers around 18 percent. One amazing factoid is that during that high in approval both the Senate and House were controlled by – you guessed it – Republicans. In fact, the oft-maligned 43^rd President George W. Bush was in the Whitehouse during that period. How soon we forget.

True, Republicans wrenched the House leadership from Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats in 2012, but the Democrat controlled Senate and the head Democrat in the Whitehouse continue to kill any worthwhile legislation coming from the Republican controlled House. At present there are 352 bills sitting on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nevada) desk, awaiting action.

Here’s another interesting factoid; 98 percent of those bills languishing on Reid’s desk – or possibly in his round file – passed with bipartisan support, 50 percent of the bills passed unanimously – with no opposition, 70 percent of the bills passed with two-thirds support in the House, and over 55 bills were introduced by Democrats! Clearly, the blockage in this process is not with the Republican controlled House of Representatives. The Democrats in the Senate that are holding up the works!

But what the heck, even if a bill could squeeze out of the Senate, there isn’t much of a chance Obama would sign it unless there were some political advantage for the Democrats.

Why are the Congressional approval ratings at an all-time low? There you have it. The Democrats are fouling up the works.

Then of course, we have the great Blue State super-majority in California running things into the ground. The California unemployment rate, while dropping, is 7.4 percent, still higher than the national average of 6.2 percent. Now look at the unemployment rate of Texas, at 5.1 percent. Could the fact that Texas is so easily sucking businesses from California have anything to do with the difference in unemployment rates?

This state is leaking jobs faster than a cheesecloth patch on the Hoover dam. And it is only bound to get worse. Not only has the state not done anything to stem the leak, they continue to make it worse with more asinine regulations and additional taxes disguised as “fees.” The trend toward much higher minimum wages, the ban on plastic bags, and the state grab of motor vehicle fees from cities are but a few examples of the hostile – there can be no other word – actions taken by the Democrat super-majority and Governor “Moonbeam.”

Folks it’s payback time. Time to reverse this assault on normality. Drive the Philistines out. Purge our government of the foul insidious virus that is destroying our state and the country at large. Help change the catastrophic direction of our ship-of-state away from the rocks we are now headed for. On November 4, vote the Democrats out, and restore some sense of reason to our government. The course correction is in your hands.