Marsha Blackburn

As I was typing the title, I subconsciously began typing "Republican Congresswoman Maggie Thatcher". In1979 my favorite lady politican/free market economist came on the scene with the same mandate to reverse the UK's economic decline that Barack Obama's been given in 2008 to create a new economic decline for the U.S. Her first act as Prime Minister was to distribute copies of Friedrich A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom to every member of her cabinet as a homework assignment.

Originally published in 1944—when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and barrel to the socialist program—The Road to Serfdom was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. For F. A. Hayek, the collectivist idea of empowering government with increasing economic control would lead not to a utopia but to the horrors of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.

"What!?" you may ask, Barack Obama isn't creating an economic decline, he's working day and night to reverse the failed policies of the last 8 years of the Bush Administration. That's why the House Republicans were so wrong not to vote for his stimulus package when he specifically and generously reached across the aisle to them this week.

House Republican Marsha Blackburn (who voted NO on the TARP funds, the Detroit bailout and the Obama "stimulus" package) explains that the Obama plan stimulates nothing but the cronyism and payback of the Democratic special interests and the agenda to create social justice by manifesting so much debt that neither you, your children, nor your grandchildren will see the end of it. Marsha knows that the only way to stimulate the economy is for the government to create an economic climate that will support private entrepreneurs to create more jobs.

Marsha will explain to you how the waning desire of our foreign allies (and former allies?) to carry our debt may make it impossible for us to continue going back for seemingly unlimited credit a second, third, or fourth time as the Bush Administration, the Obama Administration and two Democratic Congresses have so nonchalantly done. Given Tim Geithner's alienation of China over their alleged currency manipulation in Week One of his reign as Treasury Secretary, this is a very real risk. Marsha will let you know exactly why this year's pork belly stimulus package will more likely rain down hyperinflation rather than jobs - and that the jobs it does produce will be limited to projects, not career employment, and cost taxpayers $250K for each $50k per year salary.

When the Obama Administration returns us to the failed economic strategy of Jimmy Carter, rising Republican stars like Marsha Blackburn and Darrell Issa will lead us back to the job-creating, economy-stimulating free market strategies of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.

Tennessee Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn, interviewed by Shepard Smith on FOX News  this afternoon, pointed out an opening for Republicans.

Democrats came to power two years ago. Are you really better off today than you were two years ago?