Some have recently heralded the Republican loss of the House and Senate as a day of gloom and doom. I'm actually fairly upbeat about the whole matter.
The Republicans, who did not live or govern by their campaign promises to protect life, lower taxes, preserve religious liberty, and to create an administration above scandal, have been swept from office. In their place, we have a much more honest bunch. At least the new group tells us up front that they support homosexual marriage, sex education for pre-schoolers, abortion on demand and a litany of other issues. Down with the apathetic Republicans!
As a life long conservative, I long for a stable and righeous government led by men and women of integrity. In the absence of Christ, who alone will provide this government, I must be solaced by being governed by short-sighted, prone to failure, fallible men and women. Cleaning out Congress was exactly what was needed. When the short-sighted, prone to failure and fallible men and women prove their inability to keep their promises, I should not have to convince myself to vote for them every election season.
Perhaps this will provide the much needed wake up call for the Republicans to heed their conservative base. If not, the Republicans are guaranteed to continue to lose elections.
Whatever may happen, the Bible tells us that we deserve the Democrats...
"Let every soul be subject to the higher authorities. For there is no authority but of God; the authorities that exist are ordained by God" (Romans 13:1).
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I respectfully disagree my friend. The following are some of my thoughts on the past election which can be found at:
http://thattheymayb1.blogspot.com/2006/11/about-election-we-should-quit-pointing.html#links
In summary, I believe the problem with last Tuesday’s election wasn’t with a failure within the leadership of the Republican Party, as it was with a failure within the leadership of the Church.
We saw it manifested by misapplied righteous indignation towards poor Republican leadership in Washington. We should have taught bad Republicans a lesson in the spring primaries by replacing them with good Republicans. Instead, we failed to recognize the right time to discipline. We waited too long and resorted to teach them a lesson in the fall general elections. This misapplied anger hurt us more than them, by allowing even worse (liberal) leadership to take their place.
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