The price of moderation

by BD Pisani ♦ 27 jun 2009

Today is B2's birthday and to celebrate, I'm giving all of you B2J readers a gift rather than the other way round. The gift? A reminder of just what can be accomplished when you elect moderates rather than conservatives.

Thanks to eight moderate Republicans, we have just witnessed the largest tax increase in the history of the United States approved by the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives -- by seven votes.

Forget the facts that: Man-made global warming is a myth-based cult; Obama has turned an economic slowdown into an economic meltdown; and, Since January, 2.4 million private-sector jobs have evaporated.

Forget even that Cap and Tax will ultimately trickle down as regressive in nature and will adversely impact the poor far more than it will the affluent.

But whatever you do, remember that principles matter, and that moderates have nothing to offer other than ineffectual fence-sitting, weak-kneed blather, and defeat.

And now to the gift, especially for you voters in California, Delaware, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, and Washington State.

Gift-wrapped below are the eight House members who turned away from the First Principles and by doing so harmed America more than they know:

Each of these moderates could have held firm, joined ranks with their leadership, stood on principled ground and voted a resounding no. They could have even taken the obsequious, safe, smarmy, moderate approach and abstained from voting, or voted present.

But no. They chose to betray their congressional leadership, their constituencies, and the nation. They chose to ignore the fact that they were not elected District Representatives to serve as craven statists or servile Democrat Party churls.

Just seventeen months from now, these eight jellyfish will be up for re-election. See to it they are replaced.

Hype and Chains.