Mike and I have been discussing this topic at great lengths lately, and are pretty disgusted with the current direction our national government and Republican party are taking (go figure). At our current pace, the federal government will consume over 70% of our nation’s GDP by the year 2047 (Heritage Foundation budget analysis). The House of Representatives, which is supposed to be the more conservative body by today’s standards and was meant to be the body more responsive to the populace in the Constitution, just passed the 527 reform bill, which further regulates the freedom (or lack thereof) of speech and political organization. Though the Republican Party leadership claims it is for fiscal responsibility (which they would know nothing about) and cleaner elections, the sole purpose of the bill at its core is to silence true conservative groups that hold the RNC’s feet to the fire, most importantly the Club for Growth. Several years ago, a Republican Congress passed and a Republican president signed the 527 bill’s predecessor, the McCain-Feingold election reform bill, which placed unconstitutional (per the 1st Amendment) limitations and regulations on political campaigns. Though that bill was also trumpeted as a vehicle for cleaner elections, all it does is strengthen incumbents’ hold on their precious seats like the Gollums many of them are (and I’m not even a big LOTR fan).
The Contract With America has been torn to shreds, burned, then the ashes defecated upon by our Republican majority. A bill moving the country closer to nationalized healthcare, Medicare Part D, was passed by a Republican majority and president. A federal highway funding bill was threatened to be vetoed by this Republican president if it exceeded a certain amount; that amount was grossly exceeded, bursting at the seams with unconstitutional earmarks, and the president looked the other way and signed the bill.
Rather than stand up against the “tyranny of the minority” and block judicial filibustering, 7 Republicans joined 7 Democrats to form the Gang of 14; while this agreement did result in swift confirmation of several judges that had been delayed for years, it also was the death knell for others whom the Democrats deemed too “extreme.”
All around the country, hundreds of thousands of protestors, many backed up by the Communist A.N.S.W.E.R, marched against a resolution passed by the House of Representatives that would start to enforce our immigration laws and protect our borders. Many of these protestors were illegal immigrants, demanding more rights and privileges from our country despite the fact that they break the law every second they spend in this country. Where was the INS, and the Border patrol, when these demonstrations started? Why not surround these “protestors,” and simply go around asking for green cards, and pick off the many illegal immigrants and send them packing? Even if only a small percentage of the millions of them here were affected by this, imagine what a signal this would send. Why will our president refuse to secure our borders, and why is he trumpeting a plan to simply allow all of these criminals to stay in the country and give them amnesty? What in the world has this nation come to?
A supposedly conservative party has expanded the federal government to historic and frightening proportions both in size and in monetary terms (not to mention incompetency, but I digress). They have passed unconstitutional bill after unconstitutional bill, all the while pledging to uphold the Constitution every 2 or 6 years that they are re-elected. The “Contract With America: Renewed” proposed budget from the Republican Study Committee has had no endorsement from the RNC and hardly any mention by our “conservative” politicians. I can go on and on. I haven’t even touched the ideas and proposals trumpeted by the liberals; the actions of our “conservatives” are sickening enough. I am disgusted, apathetic, and fed up. This isn’t a Republic. This isn’t a representative democracy. Statesmen that the Founding Fathers would be proud to know, such as Senator Tom Coburn, Representative Mike Pence, and many others, are marginalized and ridiculed by our “Republicans.” Our nation, our society, and our national government are going downhill quickly, currently at the hands of the “conservative” party.
Let’s start some comments going, see how much I can stir up the pot around here.
