What I am about to say will probably not make some people happy. Looking at the blowout on election night caused me to look back over the past couple of years and try and understand what went wrong. I read a book by C.S. Lewis a while back called "The Screwtape Letters" If you've not read it I think you should. I think the demons won a round in yesterdays elections. Paul the Apostle stated in Ephesians that "Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places". So how did they pull this off?

Well let's start with Social Security. The President went on an all out campaign to restructure and update this lumbering giant. What happened in my opinion was the first big blow by screwtape and his buddies. The Democrats came out in unison against this move, (because they are against anything that benefits the nation, they only want to look like they are for the people, when what they are all about is personal power). The problem blossomed when the conservative talk show host decided that they should set the President's agenda and joined ranks with the democrats in criticizing the SS remake, and the elected Republicans in congress bought the lie that the president was a "lame duck" and they did nothing to support the President's agenda. A house divided...... Screwtape and his buddies high fived each other over that victory.

Next came Harriet Meyer, what a shameful cacophony of arrogance the political hacks in conservative punditry displayed, Laura Ingraham decided she should choose the next Supreme Court Justice and went on a blowout campaign to destroy poor Harriet, as did Bill Bennet, Also in the line up were the pundits on Special Report with Brit Hume, I am sure there were others, those are the ones who come to mind. The whole ordeal put a bad taste in my mouth. In the meantime Screwtape and company along with the Democrats rejoiced and the average John Q Citizen looked on or joined in, and the President was beginning to believe he was a lame duck, so he caved and threw Harriet to the wolves. I don't know that Mrs Meyer would have been a good candidate but I do know is that she should have been given the chance to bomb on her own. As for her replacement I am not at all impressed that Roberts and Alito are conservatives after viewing some of the decisions that have come out of the Supreme Court since they were confirmed. The next firey darts thrown by Screw & Company was the Dubai Ports deal. I got so tired of hearing pundits say that they did not want this deal to take place, I kept screaming at my radio it's not about what you want, you're not the President you don't get to choose. But they did get to choose, because with enough pressure the President caved again and canceled the deal, when I think he should have stood his ground and investigated further. I began to lose respect for the President rapidly. Now the talking heads might have been right about Dubai, but they mishandled the whole thing because for the third time in less than a year they came out publicly swinging at the President. Rather than try to persuade him privately they aired their dirty laundry in view of everyone, including the Democrats who were look for another log to help build the very house they now occupy.

O yes, Iraq, Iraq, Iraq. The Dems first wanted more troops, then withdraw all troops, then the President had no strategy, then a poor strategy so change course, oh yes let us not foget kill Rummy, (and along came the pundits again helping the Dems, Bill Kristol at the helm) well today they succeeded in ousting a very able man, the Dems started accusing the president of being incompetent and it began to appear true. It never ceases to amaze me how skillfully the whole demise of the Republican party was orchestrated. The American public bought the lies the Democrats told, along with the help of conservative pundits and turncoats like John McCain who so loves the camera, and his elected brethren who were more concerned about being reelected than they were about governing. And, the arrogance of the talk show host like Laura Ingraham and Hugh Hewitt, who boasted that the Democrats could not win elections, hmmmm guess again. Scripture says when your enemy is being punished by God for his wickedness, do not gloat lest the Lord relent and remove the punishment, I believe we just witnessed that. Now we have Democrats in charge of everything in the legislative branch, O Lord have mercy. The cess pool we were living in has become an ocean of refuse. The left has won the culture war and we are at the mercy of the world forces of darkness, the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

I have noticed since the election that the very talking heads who helped orchestrate this downfall see only that everyone but themselves are at fault. The blind leading the blind; both will fall in a ditch.

As for the President, I think he lost sight of his relationship with God, and power went to his head. He seems to have forgotten that it is God who wins battles, not the might of weapons or human strategy. So we have not won this war and will not unless we humble ourselves and remember who goes before us into battle. Unfortunately I fear it will be said of the President that he did evil in the sight of the Lord and did not walk humbly with his God. I had hoped that during his second term he would lead the nation back to a right relationship with God, and God would have exalted him and the nation. Instead it seems he exalted himself and in doing so reduced himself and the nation before God. Our God is merciful, holy and loving, and says of himself that He exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness in the earth. And wants us to know and understand Him. We do not worship a god who demands that we chop off heads and murder the innocent to gain entry into heaven, but we worship a God who gave Himself that we might be reconciled to Him. I have a suggestion, God's word says if My people will humble themselves, confess their sins and turn to Me , I will hear from heaven, forgive their sins and heal their land.