Republicans Will Need 60 Senators For Conservative Reform

In just a few months under the far left leadership of President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid America's policies have been pushed drastically to the left. And it may get worse if they don't suffer massive losses in at least one house of congress next year. Such a defeat would only give them pause and causing them to slow down for a spell before continuing to advance their far-left agenda.

In fact, even if Republicans are able to take back both houses of congress and the White House in 2012 the Democrats will stonewall 90% of a Conservative reform agenda. The Democrats as a minority will use the filibuster at every conceivable opportunity. Then they will use this to call the majority a do-nothing congress and hope things fall apart enough for them to be able to slither into power again.

America needs several reforms that Democrats will never support. Offshore drilling, real tort reform, securing our boarders, streamlining government, campaign finance freedom, education reform, tax reform, and smart deregulation to name some needed reforms.

Unless the filibuster is taken away from the Democrats as an option they will stonewall and demonize every single reform that they can. To stop this, Republicans need 60 Senate seats minimum, preferably 61-63 to be able to handle the odd defection or two on some issues, and a majority in the House of Representatives, a House with at least 240 Republicans would be needed to handle defections and Democratic pressure of vulnerable Republicans from left-wing special interest groups.

If Republicans can mount a smart enough campaign they can retake the majority in the House in 2010 and reduce the Democratic majority in the Senate, defeat Obama in 2012, and retake in Senate in 2012 or 2014. Getting a 60 seat majority would likely take at least one or two cycles more, unless Republicans are lucky. I'm pessimistic of the likelihood of this happening, but Republicans must try if they are to enact positive change for the country.

Bernard Goldberg's Brilliant Plan on Affirmative Action

On the O'Reilly Factor today, Conservative author Bernard Goldberg gave an ingenious solution that would satisfy both sides of the affirmative action debate. White Americans who really believe America would be a better place with affirmative action should give up their jobs on the condition that the person who replaces them is not white.

If they are serious about their desire for "justice" they would have no problem with offering their job, after all, many people have given a lot more for civil rights. When you think about it most of them would not even have to give up their jobs. All they need to do is offer to give up their job and once racial equity has been established in the workplaces across America the remaining liberals can keep their jobs.

I would be curious to hear what objections white proponents of affirmative action would have to this plan, it would change America forever and give minorities the equity in the workplace they have long sought.

If the left does object to this it will confirm what I have always suspected about them, they don't mind using the government to force other people to sacrifice for their ideological beliefs, as long as they don't have to sacrifice anything.

I suspect we will see fierce attacks on both Goldberg and his idea by the left without actually addressing why they oppose it. The reason being that Goldberg's plan, whether serious or not, exposes the left for exactly what they are, and they won't let that stand without demonizing the man and the idea without actually addressing the particulars.