After getting the latest GOP e-mail, I decided it was time to unsubscribe. It was loaded with recycled one-liners and leftover rhetoric from the presidential campaign. Here are some quoted examples:
- As a lawyer, Obama once sued the same financial institutions on behalf of radical groups like ACORN for failing to use leftist social engineering criteria for lending instead of an applicant’s ability to repay a loan.
- And now, anyone who dares speak out against or challenge Obama’s ultra-liberal agenda, such as the hundreds of thousands of patriots who attended last week’s Tea Parties, should expect to be labeled “unhealthy” by this Adminstration. Now, THAT is arrogance!
- You know that Barack Obama’s hubris and charisma conceal the inexperience and lack of wisdom that our country cannot afford in its president.
When you have a popular president and an economic crisis this same old junk just doesn’t work. Even if there is no hope of passage, someone at the top needs to articulate legislation with a vision of optimism that calls Americans to something greater than themselves. And a plan for government and industry to be held more accountable. Right now that person is President Barack Obama. Even though his budget is bloated and bleeds red ink, he is the only one with any sort of substantive proposals.
I have been reading a lot about Lincoln lately (Team of Rivals and Lincoln, The Biography of a Writer) and today’s Republican Party is starting to remind me of the Whig Party of Lincoln’s day. Its lack of unifying vision and moral bankruptcy over slavery is what gave birth to the Republican Party.
If the GOP continues to be guided by Michael Steele, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham et.al., we will need a rebirth of the party or face being overrun for years by the Democrats.
Couldn’t agree more. This is a ship without a rudder right now. The election is over, and now we need our Republican representatives to both work with the current administration to get out of this mess AND to stand guard to make sure that the country isn’t put further at risk by a free spending President and his free spending legislative branch. This can NOT be done while launching petty, baseless personal attacks. My goodness, if that stuff didn’t work DURING the election, how can it help now? It’s time for a realistic third party, one that more accurately reflects the everyday American. Most of us are neither far right nor far left, yet our parties continue to trot out candidate after candidate that gets forced to pick a side. It is senseless.
Derek. I’ve been all over this for a while (Here, here, and Here for example). I am glad I left the party when I did, especially as the latest torture memos are shedding an even more negative light on the previous administration.
PS. I am just finishing Amity Shlae’s “Forgotten Man”. Very disappointing. I almost stopped reading it half way through. Very, very short on economic details, and reads more like a poor mans Joseph McCarthy screed, that talks mostly about who may have been communist sympathizers in the Roosevelt administration. I have a copy of “Team of Rivals” waiting in the wings.