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.
Oh, I don’t know Beck, maybe stuff like…
Day 1:
Executive Order 1. Eliminate the thirty-nine White House “Czar” positions created during the current administration. The president does not have the authority to appoint bureaucrats to power who are not accountable to the Congress
Executive Order 2. “Mexico City Policy” of Respect for Life. Reauthorize President Ronald Reagan’s policy – also known as the “Mexico City Policy”— to stop tax payer dollars from being used to fund or promote abortions in foreign countries.
Executive Order 3. Restore conscience clause protections for Healthcare Workers. No American working in a medical environment should be forced to perform any procedure that he or she finds morally or ethically objectionable based on religious teaching. This protection should include, but not be limited to abortion. Existing conscience clause protections need to be strengthened.
Executive Order 4. Respect Each Sovereign Nation’s Choice of its Capital. Each sovereign nation, under international law and custom, may designate its own Capital. Accordingly, the U.S. State Department should be instructed to respect the choice of each sovereign nation and place the American embassy in their Capital. (Israel is the only country the United States discriminates against in this regard. The people of Israel have designated Jerusalem as their capital. Yet the United States retains its embassy in Tel Aviv.)
Executive Order 5. End the Attorney General’s Assault on the States. Instruct the Attorney General to withdraw all immigration-related lawsuits against states immediately, including those pending in Arizona and South Carolina. The Obama Administration refuses to enforce federal immigration laws, and instead sues states who are merely trying to enforce the laws that the federal government neglects. The Gingrich Administration will secure the border by Jan. 1, 2014 by any means necessary.
(Republicans may trick Obama into allowing this, but in case they don’t…)
Executive Order 6. The Keystone Pipeline Unleash American Energy by Approving the Keystone XL Pipeline. Instruct the State Department to approve a Presidential Permit immediately for the Keystone XL pipeline, a project that will send 700,000 barrels of oil a day from Great Plains and Southwestern states to Gulf Coast refineries lower staggering energy prices, and create up to 120,000 American jobs.
add to all that, his “21st century Contract with America”:
1. Repeal Obamacare and pass a replacement that saves lives and money by empowering patients and doctors, not bureaucrats and politicians.
2. Return to robust job creation with a bold set of tax cuts and regulatory reforms that will free American entrepreneurs to invest and hire, as well as by reforming the Federal Reserve and creating a training requirement for extended federal unemployment benefits to encourage work and improve the quality of our workforce.
3. Unleash America’s full energy production potential in oil, natural gas, coal, biofuels, wind, nuclear oil shale and more, creating jobs, stimulating a sustainable manufacturing boom, lowering gasoline and other energy prices, increasing government revenues, and bolstering national security.
4. Save Medicare and Social Security by giving Americans more choices and tools to live longer, healthier lives with greater financial independence.
5. Balance the federal budget by freeing job-creators to grow the economy, reforming entitlements, and implementing waste cutting and productivity improvement systems such as Lean Six Sigma to eliminate waste and fraud. Pass a balanced budget amendment to keep it balanced.
6. Control the border by January 1, 2014 and establish English as the official language of government; reform the legal visa system, and make it much easier to deport criminals and gang members while making it easier for law abiding visitors to come to the US.
7. Revitalize our national security system to meet 21st century threats by restructuring and adequately funding our security agencies to function within a grand strategy for victory over those who seek to kill us or limit American power.
8. Maximize the speed and impact of medical breakthroughs by removing unnecessary obstacles that block new treatments from reaching patients and emphasizing research spending towards urgent national priorities, like brain science with its impact on Alzheimer’s, autism, Parkinson’s, mental health and other conditions knowledge of the brain will help solve.
9. Restore the proper role of the judicial branch by using the clearly delineated powers available to the president and Congress to correct, limit, or replace judges who violate the Constitution.
10. Enforce the Tenth Amendment by starting an orderly transfer of power and responsibility from the federal government back “to the states, respectively, or to the people,” as the Constitution requires. Over the next year, state and local officials and citizens will be asked to identify the areas which can be transferred back home.
That’s Tea Party principles put into actions, perfectly. Its exactly what we have been looking for, and exactly what we should be championing… Yet when someone outlines exactly what we want, we are to dismiss it or we are racist?