In politics often all that is needed is a little patience, and the political winds will change.  In the last week we have gone from a civil war in the Republican Party that will result in its certain death to the great failure of healthcare.gov and the implosion of Barack Obama’s signature accomplishment of his presidency.  It’s important to learn from what we see plainly happening in front of us, without the spin of political prognosticators, that lesson is to take a deep breath and pause.

It’s amazing how quickly, everyone, right of center can be unified by a good old fashion lefty inspired government failure.  We, Republicans, Libertarians, Patriots acknowledge the limits of government action and government programs as a method to improve every ones lives.  It’s in our DNA, it’s what makes us believers in limited government.  Our opposition to Obamacare/The Affordable Care Act has always been partially based in the belief that a program so massive, so requiring of the heavy hand of Government in its implementation could not work.  Don’t misunderstand me, building a website to enroll millions of Americans in a cost effective program to expand health insurance to many who have been left without health insurance is very doable.  It’s just that Government cannot do it.

We all would be happy to support Amazon, Google or Netflix adding health insurance to their product lines.  We would cheer their success.  Many more would have insurance.  So what’s our problem with Government doing it and why can’t they pull it off.  The next few months will be illustrative.  When private industry and business start failing sirens wail, customers disappear, profits evaporate AND business is required to adapt to the needs of its customers.  The customer is the dog, business is the tail. The customer is king, money and authority flow from the customer to the business.  Screw-up that value proposition and the business is dead.  When Government screws-up a different relationship is revealed.  See Government asserts itself as King, it is the dog and the citizen is the tail.  Obamacare requires a mandate, a requirement to do business with it.  If you don’t like the web site, tough use the phone, if not the phone the mail!  You may not assert your wants, needs, or priorities, because Government has decided for you.  Hundreds of thousands are being thrown off their healthcare plans, because they do not meet the Governments specifications.  Initially, millions of Americans went to healthcare.gov to look, to explore, to learn.  And for three weeks they have been largely unable to do that, yet the President encourages them to continue, with no regard for their wants, needs, desire for efficiency.  He brings a lone Delaware enrollee to the White House and holds her out as an example of perseverance; she only spent 7 hours buying coverage (Dog to tail, just do what I want you to do).  Good government empowers individuals.  It makes us better citizens, better members of our communities.  It does not order us around like serfs.  It doesn’t bludgeon us with web sites that do not work, that are only the tip of the iceberg of failed centralized healthcare planning.

One week ago democrats ruled supreme.  For the next 2 and ½ months they will be tested, their vision of a Government run healthcare system will be forced to work, not eventually, but in real time.  They will have to enroll millions, issue policies, verify coverage, make Obamacare work. This is about America’s sense of wellbeing, their sense of security.  Americans will need to feel in their gut that Government healthcare is working and they are better off because of it. Mess with my children’s access to medical care and you will invoke the wrath of mothers across America.  Make me feel insecure about my parent’s care and I will hunt you down in November and vote for your opponent regardless of your party affiliation. War on women? Just get between a lady and her access to a physician and you’ll know which side wins when women go to war.  In December, they will seek to once again expand the nation’s debt, to ask Americans to give them more money to make Obamacare work.  See in Government, unlike business, when you fail you ask for more.  More taxes, more laws to fix the ones that don’t work, more, more, more.  That value proposition between the customer and the business has gotten reversed, it’s what governments do.  When it comes to policing, and courts, and food safety you need written rules that we all must follow.  Healthcare? Did democrats know what they were asking for?  Earlier this year a young girl in Philadelphia needed a lung transplant to live, she was too young to be put on the transplant list.  Her parents took her plight to the media to save her life.  HHS secretary Sibelius refused to intervene.  A judge did and she lives today.  These sort of care decisions will multiple across America, did democrats know what they were asking for when they asserted themselves into everyone’s healthcare decisions? Americans do not like to be told what to do.  If Obamacare is going to work, they will need to fix a broken website and create a sense of wellbeing in America that currently has a great feeling of unease and concern.  When Jon Stewart is ridiculing you on the Daily Show and he calls HHS Secretary Sibelius a liar, and your target demographic is young people, YOU ARE IN TROUBLE.

We are in for a wild ride, the political winds will blow both left and right, our future and the next election cycle will hinge on the successful implementation of Obamacare.  The Democrats have the ball, its early in the game.  So far they are having trouble lining up correctly, let alone gaining a yard. If private industry were on the field I would bet the family farm on getting this right.  However, It’s the Federal Government on the field.  They are arrogant, have difficulty playing by the rules, and have a track record of ineffectiveness. I’m predicting a self-inflicted safety, if not a fumble and a touchdown by the opposition on the first possession.  Obama should have kicked-off and continued to make the Republican’s play offense. Betting on Obamacare, a massive Government run program, is like taking the Soviet Union and giving the Free World points.  Take a deep breath.

So I am setting here looking through my Facebook, when I come across a link sent to me by a friend. The link leads me to a blog article written  by someone who hides like a little girl behind the name “Bumper”. But I guess hides isn’t quite right, it seems to be an alter ego, as if this guy needed two egos, the one is large enough.

As much as I hate to actually send people to this site and drive the readership to two, I am going to link to this particular “ARTICLE”, that is dated 10/17/13.

http://blog.saltair.tv/2013/10/17/the-gop-is-a-dying-species.aspx

Okay, now that you have read this tripe let me give the unfamiliar readers a little background.

The web-based media site that “Bumper” is talking about is the one you are currently reading this post on, our own Delaware Right. And so, I must be the uneducated writer that “Bumper” is talking about.

The one thing that “Bumper” seems to be afraid of is the truth. So let me take this lie filled bag of garbage apart piece by piece.

In the first paragraph he attacks the idea of a web-based media outlet that included a web-site, a blog, a web-radio platform, social media outlets, by saying, “They found a wealthy Rehoboth Beach conservative willing to bankroll the effort.  Why the fellow just didn’t buy a real radio station and couple it with a website is beyond me!”

So, smart boy believes that thinking outside the box he lives in is doomed to failure, why? Because he didn’t think of it? That’s it genius, keep living in the stone age, and you will end up along with the newspapers. At least he recognized that the “fellow” was a conservative, but I guess “Bumper” is just upset he wasn’t offered the bankroll.

His next misrepresentation of the truth is when he says, “The platform launched some months ago.  Haven’t heard a peep since.” Really? Well you are reading this now, and while we may not have the same amount of followers as some sites, we are constantly growing and moving forward, unlike some people who merely wish to forever live in the days of their childhood. We here at Delaware Right are working with as many types of people as it will take to move Delaware Forward, not some closed circle of closed-minded tomfools.

Now this is where Mr. “Bumper” gets a little personal, when he says, “The effort at Republican radio also includes writings by aspiring GOP social climbers.  While I know a great many people who’ve been successful in life without schooling I’m not sure having a fellow bragging while blogging about his lack of education is a winning formula.”

“GOP social climbers” ?

Really?  Come on “Bumper” you can do better than that. By the way, since I know who you are, and I know a lot about where you have been since you came to Delaware, and I know the people you have tried to rub elbows with, one might also label you, an aspiring  GOP social climber yourself, if not a successful one.

“Bumper”, while I am not ashamed of my high school education, I am not sure that I have ever bragged about my “lack” of education. Personally I don’t feel I lack anything, and your attitude smacks of the elitist attitude that I have often heard you condemn. Are you saying that only college educated people have anything worthy to say? Wonder how your 912 Patriot friends would feel about that? There are a lot of college educations in D.C., what is your opinion of them?

Now we get to the part where “Bumper” must have bumped his head on that phallic shaped instrument that hangs in front of his face all day. when he says,

 “The same fellow accused me last fall of being behind a series of robo-calls
attacking a liberal running in a primary as a Republican.”

No, wrong again. This is where I am going to out “Bumper”, because this is where I will set the stage for the truth, and not hide behind some pseudonym like my good friend Bill Colley of WGMD.

He is right, I did call into his talk show on WGMD, and challenged him about a robo-call that had been funded by a so-called conservative PAC.

Mr. Colley on that day had a studio guest on with him, Glen Urquhart, who was running against Ernie Lopez for the 6th State Senatorial seat, a seat the Mr. Lopez happened to win.

During this interview with Mr. Urquhart the topic of the attack robo-call against Mr. Lopez came up, and both Mr. Urquhart, and Colley denied any knowledge of who was behind it, and also denied any knowledge of who was behind the PAC that paid for it.

Well since, as Mr. Colley states in his blog piece, I had been involved with the organization, and did know who they were, I also knew that both Mr. Urquhart and Colley had also been involved with the organization, in fact, Colley had been the M.C. for several of their events. So knowing that they were both sitting in studio and lying to the listeners, I called in to challenge them on air.

What I got was more denials and smugness from Colley. I never once accused them of being behind the calls, I simply pointed out that they certainly knew who was. But their denial leads one to believe that maybe they were involved in the actual calls.

As for never speaking to Mr. Colley again? Well this is true, I made a promise to myself never to call his show again, and I haven’t, and I never will. I also have not had the opportunity to speak to him in person, but would not shy away from having a conversation with him. I simply will not patronize  his product. Which in my opinion has become nothing but a hate filled wannabe of  Rush Limbaugh.

Now to address his accusation of slander, well this is the tool of the weak, if they can’t argue a point made about them, they fall back and cry slander. In their world, the truth is slander, it seems to be a disease that many in the fringe right suffer from. I have often been accused of slander by these fringe lunatics. I tend to believe that if they are offended, then I have hit very close to the truth.

They attempt to hide their xenophobic tendencies behind shirt-sleeve patriotism, and anyone with the audacity to challenge them becomes a liberal, and they will accuse you of not loving America, as when Colley says,

“The guy is now a local GOP committee leader.  From my perch the party is filled
with a great many men and women such as him.  He’s been flattered by the elites
and they’ve promised him rewards for serving the party if not his community and
country.”

May I first point out the use of the phrase, “From my perch”? Again, a perch implies being above others, again a Freudian slip perhaps? Again showing Colley’s elitist attitude towards those he sees as being beneath him.

Notice that he says that I have been promised “rewards”. Well Mr. Smart Guy, if you know so much, why don’t you tell us all what those rewards might be?

Notice also his alluding to the fact that I am not the good patriot in his eyes, because in his opinion I am not serving my community or country. Well Mr. Arrogance, that is not for you to decide, now is it?

It is at this point in the post that he runs out of steam, like a child throwing a temper tantrum. He then falls back on his dog-eared playbook and rails against the “establishment”, an establishment that he and his ilk have been trying to become a part of for some time now.

I wonder Colley? Do you know that many have taken to calling WGMD, “Hate Radio”? And that we only troll  there for laughs.

I wonder if the timing of this blog post has anything to do with the fact that you couldn’t compete with Dan Gaffney on 105.9 in the morning slot, and you had to go running back to your hole in the ground, in the afternoons?

The entire station is becoming nothing more than a hate filled rant. With Beatty on Saturdays, spuming his anti-white rhetoric in some attempt to rid himself of some deep-seated white guilt. Then you have Bill Rogers who simply rants when challenged. Jim Rash is most likely the most rational on air personality there now, who actually allows people to disagree with him without belittling them. The morning show with Mike and Judy has become just that, a morning show that is at least fun to listen to, if not what one would call hard news or even political. But at least they are people who you can like.

However, Colley is the anchor at WGMD, and he has been and most likely will continue to be nothing beyond belligerent. His style is to hang up on those who disagree with him and then hide behind the dump button as he then calls names and attacks the caller’s patriotism.

I may be wrong, but my prediction is that the move back to afternoons will be a short reprieve for the failing numbers of the Bill Colley Show. His small core base of support, of like-minded haters, cannot sustain even a three-hour show.

So Mr. Colley, unlike you, I have said my piece from behind the name my parents gave me, I did not hide behind some made up name, though having seen you, I am sure bumping is something that you do quite often.

I don’t know why you have chosen to call me out at this time, but be assured, I, in my uneducated way, will be glad to exchange niceties with you.

The ongoing question of whether or not Millsboro needs a bypass to reduce the congestion that results from Rt. 24 being a major east, west route to and from the beach area, has once again bubbled to the top recently.

If you have ever sat through the back-ups, trying to get into Millsboro from the east, then you know that this is not some made up reason for government to build a new road. And no, it is not just in the summer, though of course that only adds to the problem. I know this because I travel that road everyday, both going west and east.

So if the congestion is real, who would oppose relieving it with a bypass?

Well of course the farmers whose land would be used oppose it, and it seems that a certain element of newly discovered environmentalist are concerned about the impact on local ponds, depending on which route were to be chosen.

I will not presume to comment on the farmers, they have every right to want to protect their land, and I can only imagine how having a bypass running through the middle of your farm would negatively impact your operation.

As for the environmental impact on the ponds? Well we need to remember that the ponds in question are not natural occurring phenomenon, they are man-made trapped ponds. So if it weren’t for man’s impact upon nature, these ponds wouldn’t even exist. So that in my view is of little importance.

So where is all of the resistance to the bypass actually coming from?

I believe that the majority of opposition is coming from two factions. The one being NIMBYs, the “not in my back yard” crowd. These are the same people who oppose the new chicken processing plant in Millsboro, the one that would create something like 700 new jobs. And of course the other would be the people who oppose anything that the government proposes.

Okay, we know the usual cries of those opposed, the cost, the imposition upon the people living there, in some cases you might even hear how the bypass would hurt the businesses in the downtown area, I don’t think that would be an issue here, since there are no businesses that rely on passers-by traffic.

So what are the positives of a bypass?

Well it would first, and foremost relieve the congestion. Is that enough? Well if you have sat through the back-ups it just might be.

However there are other reasons to build the bypass. The number one is that it would create jobs for a number of years. Hopefully not the thirty years that Gov. Markell said the project would take.

Pres. Eisenhower ushered in one of the nation’s largest and longest lasting booms by building the nation’s Interstate system of roads.

Now the people who oppose all things government will tell us that it is just government waste to build roads. But we know that our infrastructure is an ongoing responsibility that must always be updated and kept in good repair. We have seen bridges that have fallen, and roads that turn into parking lots during rush hours.

But for this type of project to have a real impact on the economy in a positive way, and not just another drag on the tax payer, a couple of things would have to change in Delaware. The first, and most important would be prevailing wage laws. This would open up the bidding process and allow for the best deal for the buck.

The other thing is that Delaware would have to rethink its study process. Should it really take ten years before a single shovel of dirt is turned? I think not. This process of doing impact study, after impact study before actually beginning the work is what leads to the government waste that so many oppose in these projects. If we could streamline the process, we could cut the over-all cost, and decrease the pain and impact on the surrounding communities of these projects.

I would say that it is not these types of government infrastructure projects per say, that are bad, but it is the layers of bureaucracy that have been added to the process over the years. It is time that we all, that being Republicans, Democrats, liberals and conservatives to realize that the process is broken and needs to be fixed.

We need to reduce the amount of time and cost that has been built into these projects, then and only then might we reduce the amount of opposition to them.

The people who still think that the act of shutting down the government was a good idea, just don’t get it.

The shut down that was orchestrated by the TEA people in congress, and supported by TEA people around the nation. These people just don’t get it.

The TEA people see this as some sort of political statement to demonstrate their total discontent with the direction the nation is headed in, a discontent that many non-TEA people share. However, the growing opinion of TEA people is that they are fanatical and detrimental to the good of the nation. The TEA people don’t get that either.

The one thing that the TEA people really don’t get however, is that every time they pull one of these circus acts, all they do is to make Pres. Obama seem reasonable.

I heard Pres. Obama’s victory lap press conference yesterday, and while I don’t believe that he actually believes all that he said, he got to come out and speak to the American people in a reasonable manner, to say all the right things, that make him and his party seem as if they have the best interest of the citizens  in mind.

The Republicans on the other hand come out of this looking like a bunch of spoiled children holding their breath until they get what they want, and then when they realize they can’t hold their breath forever? Well now they just look like a bunch of spoiled children.

All of this could have been avoided, if the Republican Party would simply rein in the TEA faction of the party, or better yet, completely distance the Party from the TEA movement and its tactics of destruction. Because  every time the TEA people go off on one of their tangents, the Republican party is the one that ends up holding the tab.

And then Pres. Obama gets to take another victory lap.

So the Senate has passed a bill to raise the debt limit, and to “restart” the government, and the House will be voting on it later tonight, if they haven’t already as I write this.

So what was gained by the whole shutdown the government move? Nothing, not one damn thing.

Wait, that isn’t exactly true. Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senator from Kentucky, who helped to draft the legislation, that President Obama has said he will sign immediately upon its arrival on his desk, did manage to get nearly $3,000,000,000.00, (I used all the zeros for dramatic flair), for a damn project, Oh wait my, mistake, that would be a dam project, but I guess either is right.

And I guess one could say that President Obama got a little something out of this whole shutdown the government fiasco. He gets to keep Obama care, (was there ever any doubt?), any so-called budget cuts amount to little more than crumbs from the king’s table, but I am sure Republicans will be touting their hard work to find a compromise that was good for all. So Pres. Obama and the Democrats get to keep their spending ways.

Of course Pres. Obama also get to brag, again, that he has smacked down the Republicans.

The Republicans don’t get anything of any real value, they do however get to keep the TEA people, oh happy days.

The TEA people in Congress orchestrated this whole mess, they did it with no real hope of actually rolling back any part of Obama care. They knew from the start they had no chance, that in the end they would cave, and that is just what has happened. Even their hero of the shut- down, the man who showed so much courage in the early days of this mess, the man who dared to read Dr. Seuss on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Ted Cruz, today said that he would do nothing to block the vote, or to delay it in any way. So here is a quote from Yertle The Turtle for Sen. Cruz,  “I know up on the top you are seeing great sights, but down at the bottom we, too, should have rights.”

So it would seem that these TEA people did not do this to stop Obama care, they didn’t do it to lower the budget, they didn’t do it to keep from raising the debt, they didn’t do it to make the lives of the citizens better. They did it for only one reason, they did it to fire up the rank and file TEA people in the hope that those rank and file TEA people would reach into their pockets and send a dollar or two to the elected officials who like to call themselves patriots and conservatives, and the biggest laugh of all, they like to call themselves Republicans. They are not Republicans, they are RINOs, they are anarchist, they are destroyers, they are in many cases nothing above simpletons.

Their patriotism goes no deeper than rhetoric, their conservatism is nothing beyond cover for their hatred of everything, and their Republicanism is none existent.

It is time that the Republican Party excise this tumor that has grown fat upon the soul of the Grand Old Party, this cancer that threatens to consume the heart of the GOP, to rid ourselves of the stench that surrounds these sideshow con artist, these snake oil salesmen. They shutdown the government for their own selfish reasons with total disregard for the nation, the people, or even the party they call their own.

Take note Republicans, the TEA  people’s disapproval ratings are at their highest ever, with 49% polling with a negative view of the so-called TEA “party”. And as I have written in the past, the negative views of the TEA people reflects upon the GOP. That is unless we make a concerted effort to distance the GOP from the TEA people and their detrimental antics.

And could someone tell me why this fool is smiling?