I’m Excited About 2009

Steve Brown January 6th, 2009

I'm excited about 2009.

No, that isn't a Christian cliché where Christians (it's part of the liturgy) say they're "excited" about everything from a Christian concert to a funeral. I'm not excited because I'm a Christian.

Frankly, sometimes being a Christian isn't exciting at all. It's as dull as dust. If the level of my commitment were dependent on "excitement," I would join some Wicca group. They don't tithe, have very few rules and–I'm told–"do church" naked.

Sometimes truth isn't exciting at all. It's just…uh…well…true. I'm a Christian because it's true. But that's another subject.

I'm still excited about 2009.

You're crazy! The economy is tanking, everybody is losing their jobs, the terrorists are growing bolder and the earth, as we know it, is going to be cooked (or frozen) to death (depending on which issue of Newsweek you're reading). India and Pakistan both have nuclear weapons and really scary people have their fingers on the "hot buttons," the Middle East could go up in flames tomorrow, radical Islam is talking about imposing Sharia law on Hollywood and Wall Street looks like Jericho after the trumpets.

We're all going to die and you're excited?

Yeah, I'm excited. Do you know why?

I'm excited because I'm a Republican and it's now my turn to throw rocks.

I liked Bush okay…but I'm glad he's going. Even when he was right (and he was a lot of the time), he sounded wrong. I wish he could have taken one of my communication courses or, at least, stuck to what his speech writers wrote. I'm glad that Democrats have a "filibuster proof" congress and that Al Gore is going to finally get his friends to vote on Kyoto. I'm pleased that power now resides on the other side because…

…now I get to play "gotcha!"

I'm tired of our family values guys getting caught, as it were, with their pants down; our small government advocates voting for draconian laws that would make Genghis Khan blush; and our "protect the sanctity of marriage" guys getting divorces or making passes in men's rooms.

And, frankly, I'm tired of trying to defend them.

It's already started.

Al Franken??? What were the folks in Minnesota smoking?

And I've decided that I really like Governor Blagojevich. He's a crook, but he's fun.

Even as I write this, Roland Burris, the governor's appointment to the Senate, is showing up in Washington, claiming his seat, while Harry Reid stands at the door, looking for all the world like George Wallace standing at the schoolhouse door. You have no idea how much I love watching a white liberal prevent an African American from being seated in a "white only" club.

And not only that, the Democratic leadership says they won't allow Burris to take his seat in the Senate until Illinois Secretary of State, Jesse White, signs off on it…and good old Jesse says he "doesn't want the ball."

Is that great or what?

When MoveOn goes after their guy because he isn't as wacko as they are and Nancy Pelosi is ticked with President-elect Obama's appointment of Leon Panetta as CIA director because she wasn't consulted, this old cynical conservative wants to jump up and sing the Hallelujah Chorus. And what's with the Panetta appointment? Isn't that sort of like asking a student nurse to do brain surgery?

And it's just starting!

And they say there's no God!

Yes, I'm exited about 2009!

Okay, okay. I repent.

I was kidding…sort of.

Actually, I'm growing to like our new president. I'm praying for him and our flawed leaders (aren't we all flawed?) that God would guide and bless them. After all, as Lincoln said to his critics: "When someone is crossing Niagara Falls on a tightrope pushing a wheelbarrow with everything he owns in it, don't throw rocks at him until he gets to the other side."

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