Posted on 11/26/2011 8:09:02 AM PST by Kaslin
Not your grandfather’s Republican Party
My lifelong friend and high-school classmate had an wonderful op-ed on iPolitics today. Please consider Not your grandfather’s Republican Party by David Wise.
Here again is the link to the entire article: Not your grandfather’s Republican Party.One of the most negative things to have happened to the increasingly dysfunctional political system in the United States has been the transformation of the Republican Party over the last generation into the party of fiscal deficits. At one time, the bastion of balanced budgets and no free lunches, 70% of gross public debt through the last fiscal year was accumulated under the last three Republican presidents who ran deficits twenty out of twenty years averaging 3.9% of GDP.
Having inherited a budget surplus from Bill Clinton, George W. Bush presided over a doubling in federal debt, simultaneously cutting taxes while running two wars on credit. Railing against domestic spending, the same administration implemented a large new unfunded prescription drug benefit. Yet now, as the opposition party, Republicans pontificate about the dangerous levels of gross public debt (now at 101.1% of GDP) and last summer set about playing chicken with a possible default on our financial obligations. In now trumpeting national debt as a paramount evil, the Republicans approach the debate by taking tax increases and defense spending off the table – which is somewhat like resolving to set about losing weight by eschewing dieting and exercise.
Conservatives are right to raise issues about what they see as a tendency to throw money at domestic programs, yet refuse to apply the same logic to spending on the military. In a world with no existential threat such as we faced during the Cold War and in which 85% of global defense spending is by the US and its allies, the US defense budget is higher now on a constant dollar basis than it averaged during the Cold War. There is probably no part of the Federal government that is more poorly and wastefully managed than the US weapons acquisition programs where massive cost overruns are common.
The current situation is dangerous and unsustainable. This year the US government will collect taxes equal to 14.4 of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) – the lowest level since 1950 – yet spend 25.3% of GDP. Serious people know in their hearts what has to be done. ....
FUMR!!! FUBO!!!
if obama salaama were a splodey-dope muslim intent on destroying western civilization and declaring himself the 12th imam, what would he have done/be doing differently?????
Romney - no matter what his shortcomings - loves America. Obama hates it. To me that is a HUGE difference.
“President Obama and Mitt Romney are Nearly One and the Same!”
EXACTLY! This is why if Romney is the GOP candidate they will lose the election.
If we keep voting for these Dem Lite candidates the GOP put out there, they have no incentive to get it right the next time
Deep down, Conservatives and Independents know this so is it Newt and Bachmann....for starters? If you listen to what Newt says, or find the text and read for yourself, the man is pretty much on target and NOT how the MSM presents his remarks...he is misquoted quite a bit so beware, Soros and others don’t want this man upsetting their sand boxes *~*
That is the only difference between them
Stopped reading right there. Clinton had nothing to do with a budget surplus. A Republican controlled Congress controlled the purse strings. Just like with zero, a rat controlled congress gave him everything he wanted. If the author can't get the most basic facts right, how reliable will his analysis be?
Clinton got into office with the mantra, “It’s the economy, stupid.” There had been a minor recession shortly before the election, but it was already ending. The clinton years were good partly because congress kept him leashed in, but mostly because the Reagan tax cuts were finally kicking in to full effect.
But it is true that Bush1 folded and broke his promise not to raise taxes. And it’s true that Bush2 was an idiotically big spender, even before the Dems took over congress and made things even worse.
Which is another reason why the lamestream media desperately wants Romney to be the GOP nominee.
Romney has a lot of backing from primary voters in early states who think they know best even though they are consistently wrong.
Why what for? Mike Shedlock did not claim that President Bush inherited a budget surplus from Bill Clinton. It was an Op-ed by David W. Wise
http://www.ipolitics.ca/2011/11/25/op-ed-not-your-grandfathers-republican-party/
I have said many time when ever the left claims that President Bush inherited a budget surplus from Billy Jeff, that he wouldn't have if Clinton didn't have a Republican Congress. At the time time 0bama can not claim that he inherited a bad economy and the high unemployment, because as everyone knows before the rats took over in January 2007 the economy was thriving and unemployment was practically nonexistent. BTW 0bama was part of the economy turning south because he voted for the deficit
romney is very bad, he is a flip flopper. obama is evil incarnate, a despicable and loathsome creature destined for the pit in Hell. Because romney actually is a flopper, there is some chance to bring him to our side when pressure is applied. With obama, you only have guaranteed misery, depression and tyranny. This country wil NEVER survive 4 more years of the devil obama.
Basically, between romney and obama, the choice is Purgatory or Hell
If we keep fishin from the same ol pond, were gonna keep catchin the same ol big mouth bass.
Vote for true conservatism, not this moderate, left leaning perversion of it.
Eww eww, just had a thought, maybe we could call Romney's version compassionate conservatism, yea that's it, compassionate conservatism.
Enough of the RINO stuff already.
Then take Purgatory. Purgatory is short, a refining fire, and leads to complete holiness and entrance into Heaven.
A couple of quotes from the 1964 Republican presidential race, mostly Rockefeller v. Goldwater: the Party's internationalist establishment v. citizen patriots, respectively.
1) Nelson Rockefeller's public relations head, Stuart Spencer, said that Nelson's instructions were, "We had to destroy Barry Goldwater as a member of the human race."
2) Here is Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, Republican of Ill., at the 1964 Republican convention that picked Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona as the Republican candidate for president: Today, the Illinois Senator said, "it is the fashion of our critics to sneer at patriotism, to label positions of strength as extremism, to find other nations' points of view right more often than our own. Perhaps too long the bugles have sounded 'retreat' in our relations with other lands," he said.
The Dirksen quote is from a Tom Wicker report to the NY Times, July 1964.
Barry Goldwater was picked to end that sorry state. Though we eventually got Ronald Reagan we had to endure Jimmy Carter and later Bill Clinton and now whatever his real name is.
It's come time to get it over with. Whose America is going to survive? Don't leave it for the children.. again.. and again.
No I do not know what it takes.. it seems that anything is better than this slow death of the Republic in the hands of the likes of the anonymous street agitator and the Republican Washington establishment.
The Party (tm) is infested with interior decorating RINO-crats who game the system for their own progressive activist causes instead of conserving the values this Republic was founded upon.
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