That’s right, the 2008 general election means a possible return of a Conservative majority in the Senate and perhaps the House as well if the GOP plays its cards right. Notice that I didn’t say Republican? I said Conservative.

The key to making this happen is an active search for Conservative candidates. Just because someone has a GOP membership card doesn’t necessarily mean that they will return fiscal restraint and limit social expansion of our government. I need no further example of the danger of RINOs than John McCain and George Voinovich. Two individuals whose Conservative credentials are less than those of Blue Dog Democrat Zell Miller.

That said, who is vulnerable on the left side of the aisle in the Senate? How about Mary Landrieu (D LA)? She’s up for re-election from a state that has been under the Democrat thumb for decades. A state in which corruption is the norm and where funds designated to maintain levies were irresponsibly spent on other projects that state legislators wanted instead of maintaining levies. Levies which ultimately failed after Katrina made landfall in Mississippi. Those levies failed because the much needed maintenance was never performed.

In spite of the failures of Katrina, citizens of New Orleans re-elected Ray Nagin as Mayor and William Jefferson, who is under a 16 count federal indictment for corruption and racketeering, as their US Representative. An indictment which was expected before the election but wasn’t handed down until last month. House GOP members are already calling for Jefferson’s head.

Now, in a complicated twist of fate, a Republican is mounting a serious run at becoming Governor and is expected to win. A Conservative Democrat, yes there are a few left, is considering switching parties and mounting a challenge to Landrieu. And the most shocking revelation is that his name is Kennedy.

According to Robert Novak from Townhall.com:

John N. Kennedy, Louisiana’s conservative Democratic state treasurer, is expected to change parties and run against Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu as a Republican at the urging of White House aide Karl Rove, despite harassment from the Democratic-controlled state legislature.

Kennedy long has considered changing parties, but wanted to wait until the current state legislative session ended. His switch was discussed on Mother’s Day in a private lunch attended by Kennedy, Rove and David Vitter, Louisiana’s Republican senator. When Vitter leaked Kennedy’s intentions, the legislature began machinations to obstruct operations of the state treasurer’s office.

A strong fiscal conservative, Kennedy is fighting maneuvers intended to chew up a state budget surplus, as a Republican, Rep. Bobby Jindal, is expected to be elected governor of Louisiana this year.

The key in the article by Novak is the statement, “A strong fiscal conservative, Kennedy is fighting maneuvers intended to chew up a state budget surplus…” The fact that he’s been courted by David Vitter isn’t a hindrance but Dems might make an issue of his friendship with Karl Rove. Personally I like Rove. He knows how to win.

Another seat that will be key is South Dakota’s seat currently held by the ailing Tim Johnson. Johnson is not likely to make a return to the Senate and South Dakotans are not being adequately represented. Johnson’s handlers are not allowing the Senator to retire on the grounds of his health in order to maintain the razor thin majority in the Senate. They know if they resign the seat on the grounds of retirement, Republican Governor Mike Rounds is likely to appoint a Republican state Senator to replace Johnson in the US Senate thereby eliminating the razor thin majority.

South Dakotans will likely remember their political sacrifice at the hands of the South Dakota Democratic Party come November 2008 so there is another seat that the GOP can pick up should a Conservative enough candidate be fielded.

I’m tired of hearing that the people want more centrists in Congress. People who will work together. I’m of the belief that the American people want the clear differences. Differences prevent errors like the recent immigration bill. It was Republicans acting like centrists that allowed that bill to be resurrected from its first death. And the American people did not like that idea.

The House is quickly being seen as the mass of incompetence that it is. Nancy’s crew is showing that they are incapable of governing and at this point, 8 of the 9 most vulnerable seats are likely to return to the GOP come November 2008. We are talking about 8 seats in districts strongly won by George W. Bush in 2004. Two of which were stolen through political trickery. Mark Foley’s old seat where the Florida Democratic Party successfully kept his replacement’s name off the ballot. And Tom Delay’s old seat where the Texas Democratic Party successfully did the same.

The lesson that should be learned as to what happens when you grant control of Congress to a group of people who run on the platform ‘we aren’t them’ but offer no agenda of their own.

The Democrats gained control of the 110th Congress in spite of the fact that they came into power with no agenda. Here we are 6 months into their majority and they have only gotten 1 of their projects passed. And that project had to be slipped into the War Supplemental as a rider - the increase in the federal minimum wage. Everything else they have attempted has failed enhancing the perception that the 110th Congress is the “Do Nothing Congress”.

I’m optimistic. I’m optimistic that the Dems in the House will drop the ball so badly that the people will likely not want another 2 years of their incompetence. There needs to be a 17 seat swing to the GOP and 8 of those seats are almost certain. It is up to the Conservative blogosphere and talk radio to keep this Congress’s failings in the public eye.

As dust begins to collect on the now lifeless sellout known as the "Grand Compromise" by its promoters, a new threat is beginning to gain steam among those on the left who wish to silence the only media completely controlled by Conservatives - talk radio.

The Fairness Doctrine was an FCC rule that was allowed teeth just as long as no one challenged it in court. During the Reagan Administration, the Fairness Doctrine finally went the way of the Do Do. So we thought.

Now, disgruntled liberal Senators and Representatives are now beginning to grumble about the return of the Fairness Doctrine - this time through legislation.

Diane Feinstein, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and others are a bit miffed at talk radio's influence over the masses and its ability to rally those who oppose the majority's efforts to buffalo the American people. They've even gotten several Republicans to parrot their anti 1st Amendment rhetoric.

Trent Lott is supposed to be the Minority Leader. He is supposed to lead the opposition to the Democrats' attempts "to pull a fast one" on the American people. But in the past few weeks he was holding hands with some of the most liberal of Senators further proving that liberalism is the only communicable mental disorder and those who begin to age are susceptible to acquiring such a dangerous illness from which the only cure is the truth.

The American people saw the truth and did battle against those willing to sell us out in the name of bipartisanship and protecting business interests which rely on the modern day slave trade. They saw the truth because the bogosphere dissected the provisions of this complicated and evolving pig of a bill and talk radio exploited it's failings. The American people listened and called their Senators' offices clogging the phones until they crashed. This my friends is democracy in action.

If left solely to the Main Stream  and Dead Tree Media, this bill would have passed and we would have had the 1986 so-called "compromise" all over again. The '86 bill took a "problem" of 3 million illegals, made them legal, and in doing so encouraged 12 - 20 million more to come in to replace them. Some fix huh. If the '86 bill resulted in compounding the "problem" 4 - 7 times, I wonder how bad this pig would have made things in another 20 years?

But it was the modern media that sunk its teeth into this legislation and derailed it. We derailed it utilizing the democratic power granted us by the internet and talk radio to express our opinion over that of the rhetorical politicians whose number one priority is to keep their jobs.

Those advocating the return of the fairness doctrine for talk radio, are only interested in returning politics to the smoky back rooms so that 'We the People" are shielded from its ugly compromises and dirty  deals. The advocates want to return to the days of "what they don't know won't hurt them".

Those of us opposed to their legislative "fix" to a "problem" that doesn't exist see it for what it is. They wish to silence talk radio from rallying the people. They know that liberal talk radio failed because no-one wants to tune in for 3 hours of liberal tripe. Air America got old fast because Franken et al didn't offer anything but calling people liars for exposing the liberal agenda. (Sounds like someone who trolls Gribbit's Word).

Those who advocate the return of the fairness doctrine conveniently forget that liberals control network television and fail to talk about its imbalance. Those who advocate the return of the fairness doctrine conveniently forget that the editorial boards of the vast majority (I'd say 9 out of 10) newspapers are controlled by the left and forget to talk about their imbalance. Even 2 of the 3 big cable news networks are firmly in the grip of leftist thought. And yet no one sitting in a position to revive that dinosaur speaks of balancing that out - because they can't.

If we allow the return of the fairness doctrine to occur, then terrestrial radio will follow network tv into the gutter. TV news ratings are down across the board. Network TV is on the brink of introducing what PBS has been doing for years - introducing membership drives in order to stay afloat.

As more and more sports leagues move their television coverage to cable, no longer will sports be the savior of network news operations that are losing viewers like passengers off a sinking cruise ship. CNN and MSNBC continually lose the ratings war to Fox News Channel because of the liberal tripe that is permitted to dominate their coverage. Market forces are demanding balance in the news.

Talk radio however is driven by market forces as well. People tuned out Air America because they got tired of the personal attacks and overwhelming negativity. The same mentality driving leftist attacks pages in the blogosphere (like one that trolls Gribbit's Word) was pervasive on Air America. Those meaningless little blogs that contribute nothing to the national discussion but rather spend their time trolling Conservative blogs in pitiful attempts to anger enough writers and readers of those blogs to strike back. For a while we fell for it. But many like myself have chosen to not engage these leftist trolls here in the blogosphere. And now they wallow in their obscurity without learning that their shrill comments on their insignificant blogs go unread.

Air America had their bite at the apple and lost. They lost because of poor management and talentless hosting. Because they were unable to compete the Democrats controlling Congress now want to legislate a success for talentless hosts. And this is the sellout that is on the horizon.