Principled Politics - 12/22/09

Democrats Ensure America Will No Longer Be the Last Best Hope of Earth by Dennis Prager at Townhall
As the passage of the bill that will start the process of nationalizing health care in America becomes almost inevitable, so, too, the process of undoing America's standing as The Last Best Hope of Earth will have begun.
  That description of America was not, as more than a few Americans on the left believe, made by some right-wing chauvinist. It was made by President Abraham Lincoln in an address to Congress on Dec. 1, 1862.
  The bigger the American government becomes, the more like other countries America becomes. Even a Democrat has to acknowledge the simple logic: America cannot at the same time be the last best hope of earth and increasingly similar to more and more countries.
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America's Party by Pat Buchanan
  For Democrats like Harry Reid, who called them "evil-mongers," and Nancy Pelosi, who called them "un-American," the NBC News poll must have hit like a sucker punch at a Georgetown wine-and-cheese. The Tea Party movement, those folks rallying against spending last spring and Obamacare in the summer town halls, are viewed more favorably than the Democratic Party.
  The Tea Party movement, those folks rallying against spending last spring and Obamacare in the summer town halls, are viewed more favorably than the Democratic Party.
  Forty-one percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of the Tea Party movement, to 35 percent for Obama's party. Only 24 percent view Tea Party activists unfavorably, while 45 percent hold a negative view of the Democrats….
  The West is disappearing into a New World Order, and against globalism, the Tea Party folks may represent our last best hope.
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Notable & Quotable - Those retiring Democrats at The WSJ 
Charlie Cook, editor of the Cook Political Report, writing at NationalJournal.com, Dec. 15:
  It's an exaggeration to say that the dam is breaking for House Democrats as incumbents in tough districts retire. But it's an understatement to say that four such members announcing their retirements in four weeks is a trickle. . . . On the other end, former Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Martin Frost of Texas recently suggested that the Obama White House be willing to guarantee post-midterm election jobs to certain members if they opt to run for re-election and still lose. . . . the current number of Solid and Likely Democratic seats is 218, coincidentally the barest possible majority.