THE NEXT STEP

It appears that sometime Tuesday night, America will elect Barak Obama President. While the campaign has been difficult and demanding, that will be the fun part. Now he has to govern. Rhetoric will have consequences. The single most difficult thing for a President to learn is that EVERYTHING he says will be analyzed for a national security leak or a hidden message to foreign enemies. “Can I have oatmeal for breakfast?”, is a hidden message to the Russians that we are going to increase our oat shipments to Georgia and their only appropriate response is to invade Latvia.

And then there are the critics like Rush Limburger or Rusty Crash Cart that are going to tear everything you do down, no matter what. Pardon the Thanksgiving Turkey, you are soft on crime. Eat the damn thing and you are an evil terrorist, just like we told everyone.

Worse yet will be your friends, the Democratic Majority in Congress. In their minds the vault is open and Christmas is just around the corner. Outside of a very brief period in Franklin Roosevelt’s first term, whenever the President and Congress have been from the same party, it has not worked well.

So, ignore the idiots, put together a cabinet that has Chuck Hagel and Dick Lugar in it, perhaps find a place for McCain, keep Gates in place and explain nicely, “We ain’t got it, so we ain’t spending it!!!” Balance the budget first, save the world second. Lastly, don’t cave into special interests – except the ones I like.