Has the time come for a re-assessment of the GOP
leadership? Have they lost touch with
what the base of the party really desires.
In Congress, the leadership of John Boehner has increased spending through "continuing
resolutions" instead of passing a budget.
That is a huge problem because those "CR's" have increased
spending in each of the past 4 years...which was when the Democratically
controlled Senate last passed a budget (2009).
Instead of passing a budget and sending it to die in the
Senate, and effectively shutting down the Federal government, the House
leadership has gone along to get along...which is the root of the problem. We, the American people, don't want our
leaders to just go along. Oddly enough, we expect them to lead. That's something they've just not done.
Furthermore, our "elite" party leadership, through
their top notch consultants have lost the last four elections. 2006 (GOP lost control of both houses of Congress...and
the Dem's increased spending, except Defense, 25% across the board).
2008 was disastrous because we chose a Moderate candidate
(aka Democrat Lite) as our standard bearer...who ran the worst GOP presidential
campaign in modern history and managed to lose badly to a candidate who was wholly
unqualified for the office of President, and allowing a Socialist to be elected
for the first time in our history.
In 2010, those candidate anointed by our "elite
leadership" lost, while those chosen by the Tea Party movement returned
control of the House of Representatives back to the GOP...leadership of whom,
promptly squandered the opportunity to
force the Democratically controlled Senate to do their Constitutionally
mandated jobs...and produce a budget...something they have yet to do. Instead, they chose to "go along to get
along" and passed "continuing resolutions" to fund government operations. Those CR's included regular increases in
spending each of the past 4 years.
In 2012, having NOT learned a damn thing from 2008, the
"elite leadership" of the party anointed yet another Moderate (aka
Democrat Lite) who ran arguably an even worse campaign against a President who
has had the worst recovery from a recession in history...yet...
We expect Rince Piebus and his coterie of inside the beltway
strategists to be able to figure out where they went wrong. These guys ARE the problem...they aren't part
of the solution. We in the GOP aren't
called the "party of stupid" for nothing. Thinking
that these people will be able to solve the party problem is like asking
an alcoholic if just one more drink will help him over the finish line...
It may well be time to boot all these people out. Start fresh...those of us who are small-time
bloggers and grass roots activists have been calling for this for four long
years. It's time for a change in the
GOP. Unless we want to be come the
irrelevant party of a permanent minority, we need to dump the current
leadership and find new.
Remember that Rand Paul, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz were NOT
selected by the "elite leadership" they were chosen by We The People
as our voice in the corrupt cesspool inside the Washington Beltway. They're now the standard bearers of the
future of our party, NOT the Rince Priebus', John Boehner's and Mitch
McConnel's...they are the past that has gone along to get along and helped put
us into a debt that our great grand children won't be able to pay off...
It's time for a change in leadership. The current leadership has led us down the
primrose path to ruin. It's time to dump
them, because dammit, we can't do
any worse than they already have.
