Oh, the Republicans. Have you ever seen such moaning and crying over
a political party’s losses? Maybe if you were a Democrat in 1994, and
had to watch the [1] Republicans take over for the first time in 40 years,
you know the pain the GOP is supposedly suffering now. Let’s recall why
the Democrats lost so badly in 1994. Bill Clinton was a failure as
President at that point, not just the failure as a person he is now,
with goofs like a botched takeover of the medical industry headed by
his wife Hillary and her secret meetings team. Clinton wasn’t as bad as
Jimmy Carter, whose one term ended with a [2] misery index
of 19.72, but at the start of his Presidency, Clinton’s misery index
was 10.56. In contrast, George W. Bush’s misery index averaged 8.10,
much less than his father at 10.68 and Ronald Reagan at 12.19.
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Oh woe, the Republicans. It’s not just the Democrats that are
attempting to shove the elephant in the coffin and pound in nuclear
nails; we have any number of bubbly chipmunks on our side chattering
goofily about “new ideas” but mostly interested only in advancing their
own public profiles. Patriots? It’s a punk riot.
It’s time to get Biblical, here in this Christian nation ([4] sorry you didn’t get the memo, Mr. President). We remain, despite any word to the contrary from the chattering class, [5] a majority Christian nation with 76% of U.S. adults in 2008.
There is a Biblical parallel in what is going on in America. It’s [6] the story of Joseph,
from Genesis in the Bible. Here are the main points, in case you missed
Sunday school or never read the story that is generally held to be
historical fact:
The son of Jacob and Rachel, Joseph was the first born of his
mother. He had brothers who were born to Jacob from three other women.
Later, Rachel gave birth to Joseph’s brother Benjamin. Jacob (who did a
lot of begating and was much admired) was in his nineties when Joseph
was born, and the young boy spent copious time with his dad and became
Jacob’s favorite.