When Republicans lose control of the House and Senate in 2006, and possibly the White House in 2008, they may want to ponder the following:
- Campaign Finance Reform Act (McCain-Feingold).
- Kelo vs. New London (property confiscation by the State).
- Free prescription drugs for seniors.
- No new domestic oilfields (eg. ANWR).
- No Social Security reform.
- No income tax reform.
- The abnormal influence of “moderate Republicans” (ie. really Democrats) like Olympia Snowe and Lincoln Chafee on the conservative agenda.
- Supporting moderates like Arlen Specter in the Republican primaries, for fear of alienating them. Yeah, that worked well: Specter hasn’t exactly been a stalwart defender of the President’s agenda since, has he?
- Outrageous growth in government spending, in a Congress controlled by Republicans.
- Unchecked illegal immigration, and talk of “amnesty” for illegals.
- Harriet Miers. Did GWB really think that this blatant cronyism would fly? And if this choice was not cronyism, but an attempt to avoid a fight with Democrat senators, did GWB not realize that we conservatives want a showdown with these socialist scum?
Here’s the thing. Almost all of the above give conservatives a simple message: passivity.
The Republicans seem to have forgotten that they are the majority party. It's either that, or they're just as big a group of statists as the Democrats.
Ronald Reagan used his post-1984 political capital to great effect, against a Democrat-controlled Congress. GWB hasn’t even come close to The Gipper in that regard, and that with Republican control of both House and Senate. Quickly: when was the last time you heard GWB say anything remotely like: “I don’t believe in a government that protects us from ourselves”, or “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’ “?
Just about every single thing GWB and the Republican Party have done in the past two years has been in direct contradiction of those two statements.
Little wonder we conservatives are upset. We’re the ones who brought this President and this Republican Party to the dance: and they’re dancing with the others instead of with us.
The Dimocrats are looking at low poll numbers and gloating "See, I told you America thinks like we do!"
Uh, no we don't. The Republicans are polling low because the so-called Republican congresscritters are acting like FUCKING DIMOCRATS! Maybe if these spineless assholes would actually do WHAT WE ELECTED THEM TO DO, then their poll numbers wouldn't be low at all!
Grrrrrrrr......
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