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		<title>Clueless at the top &#8211; GOP needs wake-up call</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://derekwalter.com/clueless-at-the-top/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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:</p>
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<li>As a lawyer, Obama once sued the same financial institutions on behalf of radical groups like ACORN for failing to use <span style="text-decoration: underline;">leftist social engineering criteria</span> for lending instead of an applicant&#8217;s ability to repay a loan.</li>
<li>And now, anyone who dares speak out against or challenge Obama&#8217;s ultra-liberal agenda, such as the hundreds of thousands of patriots who attended last week&#8217;s Tea Parties, should expect to be labeled &#8220;unhealthy&#8221; by this Adminstration.  Now, THAT is arrogance!</li>
<li><em>You know</em> that Barack Obama&#8217;s hubris and charisma conceal the inexperience and lack of wisdom that our country cannot afford in its president.</li>
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<p>When you have a popular president and an economic crisis this same old junk just doesn&#8217;t work. <span id="more-551"></span>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.</p>
<p>I have been reading a lot about Lincoln lately (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Team-Rivals-Political-Abraham-Lincoln/dp/0743270754/ref=pd_sim_b_3/180-2350531-3758342">Team of Rivals</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lincoln-Biography-Writer-Fred-Kaplan/dp/0060773340">Lincoln, The Biography of a Writer</a>) and today&#8217;s Republican Party is starting to remind me of the Whig Party of Lincoln&#8217;s day. Its lack of unifying vision and moral bankruptcy over slavery is what gave  birth to the Republican Party.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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