Republicans Should Stop Trying to Humor Obama ["RINOs need to become extinct"]

"We just have a difference here, and I’m president,” said Obama after his first meeting with the Republican leadership on the stimulus package.

Rahm Emanuel said Obama was being lighthearted in his comment and that lawmakers of both parties had laughed. But on the inside Republicans weren’t laughing.

After crushing defeats in two election cycles it will be almost impossible to get a conservative agenda through on any level. They are at very low numbers and hanging on by a thread in the Senate.

With all the respect I can muster, I understand the situation but Republicans cannot continue to flap in the breeze.

President Obama and those who support him in the Media, the House and the Senate are going to characterize any opposition to his agenda -- no matter what -- as undermining the mandate.

Republicans and conservatives be not afraid. RINOS (Republicans in name only) need to become extinct and here’s how it will happen. We need to be intolerant of them trying to humor President Obama. We have to get back to the basics. Cutting taxes and making government smaller, that’s the ticket.

Obama is not going to give you anything without a fight: “it’s the Chicago way.” Take your case to the people the way the Senator McCain took the surge debate to the people. Be proud of being conservatives and what conservatives have accomplished in this country and define accountability by being accountable to your constituents. Barack Obama did not win the presidency by being a liberal: he won it by concealing his liberal record and ideology.

About a year ago, I interviewed Gene Duffy, one of Barack Obama’s biggest fundraisers and donors over the years. At that time Obama was moving a bit to the right and he told me his personal philosophy was as a leftist. In fact, Duffy said, “I’m a leftist, but I know that to win, Sen. Obama has to move to the center.”

Obama won the presidency by promising tax cuts and efficient government -- he took conservative ideas and communicated them clearly. The big lie is he promised government as the answer to everything while saying government is not the answer to everything and he never got called on it.

The Republican leadership and the Republican members need to keep pushing conservative values. As one Congressman said, “a minority in the House plus the American people is a majority every time.” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell needs to get his conservative gloves on and have a meeting with the Northeast Republican Senators and get them on board on taxes, national security and size of government.

The stimulus package as presented Friday will not work. It didn’t work in FDR’s time, it didn’t work in Japan in the 1990’s and it’s not working now. At some point, we are going to have to let this economy land and then build it back.

Republican leaders, we are with you and we are waiting to see you return to your roots. 1994 was not that long ago. Remember what worked and what didn’t and build on that. It’s not a go along to get along time in our history; it’s a time to fight for conservative values.

Ms. Zoller is a political analyst and conservative talk show host for WDUN AM 550 in Gainesville, Georgia and syndicated on The Georgia News Network. She is one of the Talkers Magazine "Heavy Hundred" Talk Shows in America for 2005-2007. She can be seen regularly on cable news. She is the author of "Indivisible: Uniting Values for a Divided America." You may contact her through www.marthazoller.com.

Conservative Republicans need to fight the take over by Democrats.

Oh, sure, they can make life miserable.

We must remember that there will be elections in 2010.

We must stay on the backs of every Republican holding office. Phone calls and emails letting them know that they need to be Conservative Republicans when voting or they will not get your vote in the next election.

It is the only way. We need to band together in order to stop the Socialist machine from gaining anymore ground.

The problem with this is a practical political theory is that "Let let the economy crash and burn, someday it will come back stronger than ever " is not a politically viable basis for a majority party

Take what's currently on center stage.

Federal spending - if large enough - can stimulate economies, at least for a while (if it didn't, you for example wouldn't see congressmen - conservative and liberal alike - fighting to keep military bases open in their districts).

A few months form now now many working-class Americans - including "middle-class voters - who are having a really rough time making it are going to start see some real benefits from the first 30 days of the new Administration: their children are going to have guaranteed access to health care, some of of the going to find that their own access to health insurance is improved if they become unemployed, likely there will be much more effective programs in place to assist homeowners facing foreclosure, and those are working (including many with incomes so low they don't pay Federal income tax) will be receiving larger paychecks due reductions in payroll withholding taxes.

Meanwhile, a good part of the business community continues to act as though we were still in boom times, for example it's not going to be pretty when the leaders of the financial industry sit down before Democrat chaired congressional committees to explain why they authorized billions of dollars in "performance bonuses" last year at the same time that the industry is receiving enormous Federal subsidies.

These voters will be told that to the extent that "emergency" Federal assistance is directed toward them as well as to compensated executives this is Only because you have a Democratic Congress and a Democratic president , we tried to get the Republicans on board , but they just wouldn't listen, they voted against every one of these programs".

IMO, these will likely prove to be extremely effective political tactics, and will probably continue to work until the Republican Party has practical alternatives to such Democratic programs beyond simply calling for tax cuts that don't seem meaningful to the majority of working Americans while advocating that "we let things get as much worse is they have to before they can get better".

"A few months form now now many working-class Americans - including "middle-class voters - who are having a really rough time making it are going to start see some real benefits from the first 30 days of the new Administration: their children are going to have guaranteed access to health care, some of of the going to find that their own access to health insurance is improved if they become unemployed, likely there will be much more effective programs in place to assist homeowners facing foreclosure, and those are working (including many with incomes so low they don't pay Federal income tax) will be receiving larger paychecks due reductions in payroll withholding taxes. "

Having worked for government, my take is that only the later payroll deductions could be implemented in the time frame you have suggested, baring some extraordinay actions.

Laws passed by Congress go through a "regulation-writing" step and process, which can add months and years to the implementation phase.

These times are not like the 100 days of FDR's first administration.

My own opinion is that the quickest stimulus would be a tax holiday and furloughing Federal workers, just as state workers are now being fuloughed in CA and AZ, just to name a few.

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.