Barack Obama has been talking a lot recently about “bipartisanship.”  More precisely, we have heard him talk about the need for a more “unified” nation. Speaking of a recent White House meeting President Obama held with Congressional leaders, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid stated that the new President, “stressed the importance of bipartisan support for his economic stimulus plan…” (“Bipartisan,” of course, being the key word here.)  Even during the campaign Obama supporters touted the message of national “unity” that was frequently touched upon by their candidate.  In his “Closing Arguments” Speech, Barack Obama strongly emphasized his message of so called “unity” saying, “It’s [“the American story”] about rejecting fear and division for unity of purpose…Yes we can argue and debate our positions passionately, but at this defining moment, all of us must summon the strength and grace to bridge our differences and unite in common effort…” Unity, as we see here, was a mantra commonly promulgated by the Obama campaign, but now that the campaign is over the question still remains, is Barack Obama going to attempt to unite the nation?  Well, in the first days of his administration we have begun to see the answer unfold.

            In his first meeting as President with Congressional leaders from both sides of the aisle, President Obama gave us a taste of the kind of “unity” his administration will uphold.  President Obama’s stimulus plan was the topic of the lively discussion and soon the fine line between the Conservative and Liberal fiscal message emerged, the Wall Street Journal reported,

“…Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Arizona…challenged the president and the Democratic leaders over the balance between the package’s spending and tax cuts, bringing up the traditional Republican notion that a tax credit for people who do not earn enough to pay income taxes is not a tax cut but a government check.”

There is nothing abnormal about this. Quite frankly, this kind of criticism by the opposing party is part of what a President should here in his meetings with Congressional leaders.  It was not John Kyl’s remarks so much as President Obama’s response that was astonishing. As President Obama so eloquently phrased his response,

“I won.”

I won.  I won, John Kyl, and you better take that in stride.  I won Republicans, so you better except it, and fall in line behind me.  I won Conservatives, so now you must conform to my Liberal agenda.  I won, so now you must accept my ideas as is.  That doesn’t sound united! Is this “the change we need,” or is this the same partisanship that we have had forever in Washington?  Is this the “unity” Obama promised?  To answer both questions “I won.” sounds more like a snobby Liberal politician then a crusader for unity, and maybe us Conservatives were right in saying that this is the kind of man the new President is.  The only kind of unity the new President is calling for is that of drawing the Republicans closer to the Democrats, and that is the problem that the Republican party has been brought to shame by. In fact, this kind of so-called “unity” is part of the reason the Republicans and the Conservatives lost the election!  Barack Obama’s form of unity is nothing more than turning the Conservative view further left.  WE CANNOT LET THIS HAPPEN!  If this happens our ideology will be blurred and the Conservative ideology will be crippled, forced to bow down to the alter of Liberalism.  Conservatism lost this election because its ideology was not promoted strongly enough, we cannot afford to make it weaker.  Maybe the only kind of “unity” the new president wants is a combination of Liberalism with Conservatism, flushing out Conservative views till they are gone.  Maybe the new President would be happier to divide, then to really unify.