I am privileged to spend three hours a day, five days a week behind a microphone. I love what I do, and I do it quite well. At times I laugh, but these days, more often than not, I get angry, very angry. I get angry because I take pride in informing and educating my listeners, but unfortunately, the same cannot be said for elected representatives in Washington whose charge it is to get the conservative message out. Ever since I can remember, the GOP and those on the right have been just plain lousy at communicating. They get run over by their counterparts on the left and let the mainstream media set the agenda. If the GOP and conservatism is to survive, this problem must be remedied.

The public needs to be made aware of what is happening under the Obama administration and the Democrat leadership in Congress. We need to stop assuming that the public knows. They don't. From behind my microphone, I went on an extended rant over the accusations made by our Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. She claimed that we, the United States, bear a “co-responsibility” for the drug war in Mexico. On her way south of the border, Mrs. Clinton blamed America’s “insatiable demand for illegal drugs” and its “inability to prevent weapons from being smuggled across the boarder” for the deaths of Mexican police, soldiers and civilians. It's our fault! So the Republican leadership took to the steps of the Capitol and expressed their collective outrage over these vulgar remarks, right? Wrong.

Do you think Americans are aware of the fact that Rep. Greg Harper (R-MI), who sits on the budget committee, proposed that nearly half of the $900 million slated in aid for Hamas and the Palestinians be given instead as a raise to our brave men and women in the armed services? Do they know that not one Democrat voted in the affirmative for this proposal? My listeners know this, but the leadership was AWOL on this.

So it turns out that Chris Dodd's (D-CT) wife served as an "outside" director of IPC Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda-based company controlled by AIG! What did the great communicators who run the GOP have to say at their massive press conference on this? There was, of course, no such presser.

The three issues discussed above all became news on the very same day, Wednesday March 25, 2009. For those at the helm of the GOP and the conservative movement, it should have been a day at the beach. Instead, they were all missing in action. The problem is this is the norm, and it is nothing less than an abdication of responsibility, as well as dangerously poor politics.

Also on March 25, our new Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano testified to Sen. Joe Lieberman's (I-CT) committee and refused to use the term “illegal immigrant” during testimony on Mexican illegal aliens. This comes on the heels of the elimination of terms like “Global War on Terror” (replaced by “overseas contingency operation”) and “terrorism” (replaced by “man caused disaster”). The public would be outraged to learn this. It's a winning point for our side. But of course, we let it slide.

One day earlier at his press conference, President Barack Obama exhibited unprecedented arrogance in claiming that anyone who contributes to charity in whole or in part for tax deductions, which he now wants to limit, is not in keeping with the spirit of charitable giving. This is extremely pompous and condescending. Yet I didn't hear one word from our fearless leaders in response to this. If the GOP is to move forward, our message must be made clear not only by folks like me, but by the people running the real show. In addition, as we edge ever closer to the midterm elections, the Republican National Committee must do what it failed to do in the 2006 elections. They must nationalize them.

In 2006, I launched daily pleas which fell on deaf ears. The party needed to run national TV and radio spots featuring the remarks made by the likes of Sens. John Kerry (D-MA), Richard Durbin (D-IL), Harry Reid (D-NV), and Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), who trashed our men and women in uniform.

Since Mr. Obama's swearing in, he has been a gift for the GOP that keeps on giving. The library of video and sound bites that exist on the president, Mr. Biden, Mrs. Pelosi, Mr. Reid, Mrs. Clinton, et al, can provide the GOP with more than enough ammunition with which to put together multiple winning spots for November 2010. But based on past and current performance, or should I say the lack thereof, I have serious doubts that they are up to the task. Sometimes, I just think they don't want to win.