You’re mixing things up. These Republicans didn’t vote for FDR or Hoover’s programs that grew government. They didn’t vote for the Great Society follow on that is currently crushing us. Republicans have consistently fought these things. Reagan is a Republican. Don’t smear the entire Party over 79 RINO/Rats.
Government is nearly all Executive power granted by Congress. How easy do you think it is to undo that without the WH or Senate control of 60 seats? The key here is to elect the most conservative POTUS possible and move the Senate toward a 60 seat GOP majority. Then we will see real movement and change.
Here is a partial list of items Mr. Obama has requested from Congress since the GOP took the House back in 2010:
— The American Jobs Act
— The Paycheck Fairness Act
— An increase in the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour
— An array of gun control measures
— Universal pre-kindergarten education
— A week’s paid sick leave for all
— Higher tax rates on the rich
— A new minimum tax on multinational companies
— Overhaul and expansion of unemployment benefits
These diverse proposals have one thing in common: they went nowhere because congressional Republicans blocked them all. Of course, with Senate Democrats willing to filibuster, the President with his veto pen and plenty of votes to sustain him, the Republican agenda hasn’t gone anywhere either. The House GOP hardliners like to characterize this as “surrender,” but a much better word for it would be stalemate.
Stop the handwringing and do something about stopping the Government Party. There are some 300k active FReepers allegedly. If only 1 in 10 would run for some office our nation would already be well on the way to recovery. Instead we get cry baby talk and whining. Stop trumping around and go do something.
Your party is dead, completely corrupt and nothing but an arm of a Fascist dictatorship they have made possible with complicity.
Obama got nearly EVERYTHING he wanted to do, and when he didn’t get it from Congress, he violated the Constitution and enacted it by decree - of which the GOP REFUSED to hold him accountable for.
Then the GOP capitulated their own Constitutional duties and surrendered the power of the purse. This budget ‘deal’ your Republican Party championed is an UNMITIGATED DISASTER. Communists could not have constructed a monstrosity as sickening as what your party drafted in secret and passed without reading this past week.
As to doing something, I’m doing plenty. But none of it falls within the delusion that we can vote out tyranny - because I understand what party hacks refuse to acknowledge: you cannot stop tyranny via civil means. The Republic is gone. Wake up and survive.
Or stay asleep and perish.