Friday, 19 November 2004

Mort Kondracke on Democrats

Normally, I am not a big fan of Mort, but he has avery insightful article about the current state of Democrats and where they need to go from here. He rightly states that they are now minority party, and their only chance to reverse their status is to become the party of reform. He also rightly points out that it will be nearly impossible to do that without pissing off a number of their special interest groups. Fortunately, I don't see that happening anytime soon, so we can all rest easy with the fact that the Democrats will continue to be a minority party.

Other Articles

  • Oliver North writes about the untold story of the Marine's shooting of an wounded terrorist in Fallujah.
  • The Wall Street Journal has an editorial that explains Iran's attempt to gain nuclear weaponry and what can be done to stop it.
  • From powerline today there is a powerful entry Sharansky's message. Natan Sharansky, former Soviet prisoner and current Israeli cabinet minister, tells two stories about his words of praise for both Reagan and W when he had the opportunity to meet them. He thanked them for standing up for freedom even though both were derided and hated for it.
  • Ruffian has a funny post today about debunking a Berkeley study on voter irregularity.
Posted by elendil at 10:27 AM in National Politics
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Get Over It

At first, I was amused by these stories of post election stress disorders.But it is three weeks since the election and we getanother article about depression from the election results. This isabsolutely ridiculous.

I remember when Clinton won the white house the second time. We joked aboutleaving the county, but no one was ever serious about it. And yeah, I wasdown after the election. For one day. Then I realized it was time to moveon with my life.

The reality is that the president has very little to do with your success.You can be successful regardless of who is in the white house. In Covey'sSeven Habits of Highly Effective People, he tells us that all people havea circle of concernthat is comprised of all of things we care about deeply. Inside this area is our circle of influence, and with the circle of influence is our circle of control.

By working within our circle of control we can expand our circle ofinfluence. By expanding our circle of influence we gain more control overour area of concern. The occupant of the white house has nothing to dowith our circle of control or our circle of influence. By spending timeworrying about things outside of your circle of control (like who wins anelection), you are shrinking your circle of control and therefore shrinkingyour circle of influence.

Bottom line is you control your own fate. You are not a dependent unless youmake yourself a dependent. Of course I am not surprised that the left isgoing through this process. They are the masters of creating victims, andnow they can claim a new victim status: victims of stupid red neck American. I guess they made this bed and are now they are lying in it.

My challenge to the left is stop feeling sorry for yourself and move onwith your life. Besides I am tired of hearing you whine.

Posted by elendil at 10:13 AM in National Politics
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