No Change

It was always just a slogan:

Liberals love the way things are and don't want them to change. They love a national debt of $37 trillion. They don't want to cut a penny (except military spending, of course) from a national budget that's $2 trillion in the hole. They don't mind a bloated, intrusive, overstaffed, overbearing national government that seeks to control every aspect of our lives from birth to death. An ideology that boasted of its revolutionary ideas is now desperately bending every effort to stop a revolution in its tracks. And what are they working so hard to thwart? A leaner, more efficient, more focused government with a workforce more responsive to elected authority. A government that removes obstacles to success for all Americans while allowing merit to dictate who ultimately succeeds. "Hope and Change" was an empty promise. Real change—the kind that makes a difference in ordinary people's everyday lives—is extremely difficult. It's like trying to pull a locomotive down a track. You must overcome the engine's inertia before you can begin to move it. It takes a herculean effort to get it started.

The change train won't run on words alone...