Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Republicans as Bad as Obama - 3rd Party Time!

A number of comments I have received seem to indicate that I have been attacking the president because I am truly a closet Republican. Rereading my posts I can not disagree with their conclusion.
So to be clear, the Republicans are the party of nothing. Not even worth mentioning to complain about. Their is no opposition to the president. He sets the agenda and defines the debates. The Republicans are reactionary at best. Where are the "true" conservatives out there? Where are alternate proposals for Health Care or Energy? Where are the fiscal conservatives these days? Have not seen one of them since the eighties. That was 30 years ago.
Today's conservatives says since the wasteful spending has been passed I need my share of it also. Instead of sticking to their convictions and be able to call the president out and point to how they have refused to be a party of the orgy of tax payer dollars. They justify it by saying they would not be doing the job the public elected them to do if they did not go after the money. This is the statements made by all of the leading conservatives of congress. Bond, MO....Wilson SC.....Alexander, TN....Bennett, UT all have gone after federal pork with a vengeance and then criticize the president about spending too much. Try Practicing what you preach.
George Mason wrote in the late 1700s that when our legislators start making different laws for themselves rather then being treated the same as the citizenry we have begun our decline. This has been occurring in Washington more and more these days. health care, Air Travel, Retirement, Bouncing Checks for free , deficit spending - doing all kinds of things that we, the public, could never get away with in the "real" world.
Washington is broken and the we need a clean slate to right the ship. With the Republicans and Democrats both spending recklessly (see Bush and Obama's records) it is time for a third party to emerge. It has begun with the tea party protests and if it really is populist anger that is fueling them, watch out. It is time to throw the politicians out of Washington and let the people take over. Stay tuned for more on the cleaning out of Washington.

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