Posted on 03/03/2009 5:34:18 PM PST by Wrangler22
I listen to the lamentations of Republicans about the speed with which President Obama is transforming the country into the socialist model he has staked his Presidential legacy to. If you watch the method to the implementation of each policy proposal, and every action he is taking, it is clear he is checking off the items he promised the left as quickly as possible to satisfy his liberal base. People are on the talk shows exclaiming that they never knew the change would be this quick and this wide spread; that the very fabric of American capitalism would be rent in two. What did they expect when the most liberal senator from one of the most liberal states gains the Presidency?
I think back to a year ago as I listened to the talk shows while the primary races were going full tilt. Many conservatives had had enough of moderates Republicans In Name Only (RINOs), and with good reason. We had just seen 8 years of moderate Republican control, the result of which was the expansion of government at an unprecedented rate for a GOP President, increases in entitlement programs like the Medicare prescription drug benefit and the no child left behind program. The way the Bush administration spent money and grew government overshadowed his strength as a deterrent to terrorism. Nobody launched a second attack on the United States after 911. He clearly had put the fear of God in the radical Islamic forces that target our Nation.
The sub-theme of the disillusioned conservatives was that they would no longer vote fore “Moderates and Mavericks” who sell out their conservative constituents for personal political gain. Too many times we have seen the RNC roll out the old horse whose turn it is to be President only . . .
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Seems to me our children and our grandchildren could make a claim that they have been victims of taxation without representation. We are borrowing money that will have to be paid back by the taxes they will have to pay. Is that not taxation without representation? We are the ones with representation in Congress, at this point when the obligation is taken on, but they are the ones who will have to make good on the debt and they will have no say in it whatsoever.
Right on the money, it is taxation without representation, ot at least stealing form children. Maybe the tea parties will gain momentum and become a significant protest.
The way I sees it A) Conservatives must re-take the Republican Party. B) Conservative Republicans need to run and unseat the leftists in the next election. C) Conservatives need to retake both houses as well as state governments.
D) Lastly, they must undo as much of these porker bills as they can and set the nation on a firm financial foundation.
Obama can do nothing by himself and I believe the people will be sick of one party rule in time.
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