“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” – P.J. O’Rourke

January 20, 2009 – Despite my sincere best wishes for the incoming administration, I remain a prisoner of reason and empirical evidence. We all should want President Obama to succeed, for as he goes so goes the nation and the republic.

However, as main stream enablers wallow in self congratulatory euphoria, the London Daily Mail offers a chilling reality check. “A victory for the cult of the cult,” the Daily Mail writes. “Victory for style over substance, hyperbole over history, rabble-raising over reality.”

Bush’s Legacy: Conservatives Were Betrayed
“This administration has had a good, solid record, and I’m very proud of it. I tell people I leave town with a great sense of accomplishment and my head held high.” — George W. Bush, Jan. 13, 2009

As the 43rd president waves goodbye to Washington, relatively few Americans share his proud assessment of his own presidency.

January 20, 2009 – A nation of believers has been promised “change” and “hope”. They believed! They went to the party at the Colosuem in Denver, and they went to the polls, and they spoke. And now he has ascended to the throne of power. “So let it be written. So shall it be done.”