What Rush is missing is that it isn’t enough for the GOP to simply oppose 0bama’s stimulus.
The GOP has to present a *popular* alternative.
If we can’t do that, then we’ve got to go along with the only (popular) game in town: 0bama’s.
Otherwise, we’re the new Whigs (no matter how tough we talk to ourselves).
He is not missing it on his program. He and others are presenting the conservative alternative. In so far as His program is effective he is also popularizing it. Sean, Levin , Heritage Foundation etc. are all doing the same. They do not however control the MSN propaganda organ.
It is really up to the GOP to both oppose Obama (and explain why) and set forth alternatives, and educate and sell them to make them popular. They are not doing it. Because of this Rush who is a talk show host with others has become the only effective opposition.
There is no leadership at present in the GOP on the national political stage which is the real problem. Governors like Palin and Jindal are first of all state or local officials with a state focus. We need someone with mettle nationally and there is not one at present.
Rush leads by GOP default. The GOP has helped to create this mess by pulling the rug from under GOP leaders like Delay, Allen and others and by the RINOS and their compromises.
All the GOP has to do is offer a spirited, principled opposition to the stimulus, and then make the Democrats pass it on a party line vote. That way they alone will own it. That’s the key. Obama wants Republicans to sign on to this because he wants to have an insurance policy if and when the public realizes it was a disaster. Speak out against it, offer a principled alternative, and then vote against it. That is what Obama wants to avoid, and that’s all the GOP needs to do.
The Republicans do have a plan. They brought it to the meeting with Zero. His response was that he won and that trumps their plan. The Repubs have got to make public all the crazy things in the Stimulus Bill like the millions to be spent on contraceptives. I think that would help a great deal to kill the bill!
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It isn't going to work, so the republicans can safely go on record opposing it, fiercely so. Even if they came up with what would be a popular alternative, the media wouldn't report on it, and few people would know of it anyway.
The fact is that spending money we don't have isn't going to help our economy. Especially with what they are looking to spend on. If spending money helped the economy, the economy would be booming as we speak...