Not long after Obama was elected, he introduced a new website called whitehouse2.org where you can set the nation’s priorities.

Whitehouse 2 describes the purpose of their website as: “We’re imagining how the White House might work if it was run completely democratically by thousands of people on the internet. Get started by setting your priorities for the nation.”

When I created my account- I set my top 10 priorities for getting the country on the right track. 

1. Restore, uphold and defend the constitution.
2. Cut spending, reduce the national debt. 
3. Replace the federal income tax with the Fair Tax.
4. Build nuclear power plants. 
5. Drill for oil in our own country. 
6. Protect gun owners rights. 
7. Permanently end the death tax. 
8. Stop the bailouts and implement free market solutions. 
9. Let the banks that make bad loans go out of business. 
10. End corporate welfare. 

On February 18, not even one month since Obama was sworn in, I received an email that priority 2- Cut spending, reduce the national debt has failed. 

And boy did it fail, Obama and his big spending democrats- passed the largest bailout bill (that Obama refers to as stimulus) at over a trillion dollars- much of that in new spending for new government entitlements. I am proud of our Republican leaders stepping up to the plate on this one and not voting for this waste of taxpayer dollars. 

But that was just the beginning, today the congress approved another 400 billion in pork spending. Hey don’t forget that is on top of the 300 billion that Bush released for spending shortly before leaving office that has not even been spent yet. 

I am not surprised by this, Obama announced after his election that he was going to spend his way out of this. Every time it has been tried- it has failed. It didn’t work with Carter, or FDR and it won’t work now. 

But as Joe Scarborough and Tucker Carlson, reminded everyone at the convention last weekend, this is not the end- just the beginning. Brace yourself for more bailouts and big spending packages on the way. 

We are engaged in the war of ideas with the left, and while we do not have the majority at the moment, we  need to stick to our principles of personal liberty, personal accountability, and limited government. 

Soon the country will tire of big spending, and higher taxes and they will have to make a choice of whether to continue on the same path or elect new leadership. That first choice will come during the midterm elections in 2010. 

I know Bernake and other are optimistic that the economy will turn around later this year, but I am more cautious. I really can’t see how the policies of the left and their reckless spending, and more government oversight will get us out of this mess that they created. 

It was government intervention during the Carter presidency starting with the Community Reinvestment Act that forced banks to loan to people who couldn’t afford homes in the first place. That coupled with the mismanagement of Freddie and Fannie by the democrats- Chris Dodd and Barney Frank caused the housing bubble to burst and the economy to collapse. 

Now those same Democrats are in charge of cleaning up this mess? Sorry, I don’t have confidence in government to solve this. I do however, have confidence in the market to correct itself- but it can’t do that with government running interference for banks and companies that should fail. 

I’m with Rush- I hope Obama fails- if this is going to be his answer socialism and nationalism of banks. We cannot afford for him to succeed. That is why it is more important than ever for Republicans to stand up for their principles in this time of moral and ethical uncertainty.