Just a couple of things

Conservatism we can believe in

We know that Colin Powell is a Republican. How do we know this? Well for starters he endorsed, and one supposes, voted for the Dear Leader. Add to that Powell’s insistence that Republicans become more like Democrats and his conservative bona fides are complete. In an over kill measure to prove he was conservative to the core, Powell insisted that Americans wanted more government and were willing to pay the higher taxes required to get it.

And that explains CA overwhelmingly rejecting all of Gov. tax and spend Schwarzenegger’s tax and spend initiatives on Tuesday this week.

After a quick amendment to the constitution, I think all of this portends a Republican Powell Schwarzenegger landslide in Nov 2012. That is if we even have a constitution in 2012.

Using the Post Office and Amtrak as models

Because the Post Office and Amtrak are so efficiently run, we should be encouraged that the Dear Leader has taken it upon himself to run the car companies. And in order to ensure that all of the American car companies go down together the Dear Dope has enacted a new CAFE standard of 35.5 MPG by 2016. How could this possibly fail?

Well as anyone who has engaged in any major undertaking knows, it’s easy to get the 80-85% solution. Anything after that requires a lot of money, time or both. Take car safety. If we added $6,000 to the price of every car we could make them much safer. For some reason we don’t do that. We accept the risk and blow the $6,000 on Dear Leader summer apparel, “Yes We Can Bar-B-Que” wife beater t-shirts, a visor with the Dear Leader logo rising over UAW dad sacked out in a government supplied hammock and Dear Leader flip flops with “Military Tribunals” on one foot and “Bring the troops home” on the other.

Or, we could keep the cars exactly the same and just slow down. Make a national speed limit of 35 mph and we’d save gas and lives. For some reason we don’t do that. We accept the risk, say to hell with the environment, our own safety and habitually drive at least 5 MPH over every posted limit on the way to the next Dear Leader Town Hall Meeting where we beg him for a new car and house.

Well the same is true for gas mileage. The car companies have grabbed all of the low hanging fruit in their endeavor to make cars more fuel efficient. That’s why the new cars are nearly totaled if you hit a hot dog wrapper blowing in the wind at more than 15 MPH. Everything is plastic on the inside and the body sheet metal is so thin that it can be recycled as razor blades without milling it. But the car companies have managed to get the mileage up while maintaining safe and reasonably priced fleets.

That ends with the Dear leader’s initiative yesterday. The Dear leader wants the car companies to reach the 95% by 2016. Something has to give, time, money and/or safety – probably all three.

If you want to see where we are headed listen to IN a Yugo from “well known white comedian Paul Shanklin.”

“But do we simply use our heads
And choose a better way
As those small wheels turn.”