Hey GOP, Grow A Backbone And Come Home
By Thomas D. Segel
JUne 15, 2009
As fiscal conservatives most of us found ourselves quite lost when the Republican Party left us. We really had no place to go. In our highly structured two party system, no third party has a chance to do anything but act as a spoiler. Taxpayers were really faced with voting Democrat or Democrat-Lite. So, from the time Ronald Reagan left office it has usually been a case of selecting the candidate who was least offensive and giving that individual the vote.
Most of us have never understood how any Republican could change into Democrat-Lite, but they managed to do just that...and they started losing, losing, losing. They are now so weak in Congress that the Left just laughs every time they step in front of a TV camera with some form of protest. The Democrats have successfully branded the GOP as The Party of No.
In their election campaigns, the Republican candidates seem to have reduced themselves to following the Democrat candidates around the country yelling "Me too! Me too!" Has any of this worked? Just do the math.
If any fresh face was ever to attempt entering that pit of moral misfits, vipers and panderers we call Congress, he or she could develop no better practice than to find opposing ideas to just about everything now being offered as legislation.
Most conservatives now realize those individuals who have managed to hold on to their political offices lack the vertebral column to hold themselves upright. If, perhaps one or two exist, they could make themselves national heroes by either creating legislation or attaching amendments to everything moving forward in Congress.
The American public hates all the governmental giveaways and bailouts taking place. Republican bills and amendments to every piece of legislation should call for a stop to the spending and a recall of all unspent appropriations.
The citizenry can't stand the lack of oversight on those 16 czars that the Obama Administration has running everything from payrolls to border fences. How about bills and amendments calling for them to report all their actions to Congress and seek approval before implementation?
Don't you think we need legislation assuring terrorist detainees be kept out of the United States and that they be tried as war prisoners instead of being moved into our already crowded courtrooms and perhaps the American prison system where they could radicalize even more malcontents?
What about amendments to block the carbon tax, the healthcare tax, the energy tax and the tax on using your office cell phone to call home and tell everyone you are working late?
What about legislation to deny government bailouts to any private company?
And we haven't even addressed the Big Gorilla in the room.... healthcare reform. The Obama news networks tell us that 3 out of 4 Americans want the government to give them better healthcare. That may, or may not be the truth. We all know the truth is very hard to find in today's media. Even if it is the truth that number changes to the negative side when you talk about government-run healthcare or socialized medicine. Any Republican bill or amendment assuring the public this will not happen would be a blessing.
The reality of all this is, there are not enough votes to win anything. Whatever the Democrats wish to happen...will happen. But, Republicans who employ that tactic will have the strongest position in years, come the next election. But, the trick is, you can't just say no. There needs to be a positive alternative. If those things happen, perhaps the Republican Party can come home to all of the conservatives it left standing alone.
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