Help Wanted: A Congressional Reminder

It’s time to get honest with ourselves. The Republican National Committee has worse taste in candidates than I have had in boyfriends and boy have I dated some doozies. After George H.W. Bush’s tax gaff and his failure to launch a kill strike on Saddam Hussein, we got Clinton, then we allowed ourselves to be duped into running Bob Dole and while he was a good senator an honorable fellow and WW2 veteran he wasn’t a closer when it came to a Presidential race. After eight years of the Clinton 3 ring circus it was time to try a re-tread of the same blue print. We ran another Bush. Silly us we assumed that George W. Bush was a conservative. How could we be so stupid? It’s not like he didn’t have a track record of capitulating in Texas. Then again, Democrats in Texas are Republicans in Minnesota. So he was touted as being a coalition builder. We bought into his snake oil salesman pitch of being a “compassionate conservative” the very statement makes me want to lose my lunch.  The reality is that “compassionate conservatism” was nothing more than liberalism wrapped in the flag. George W. Bush blew so many ‘golden opportunities’ it’s just silly. So here are just a few:

1.    After the heinous Saudi sponsored terrorist attacks on our soil he came up with the brilliant strategy that Americans should continue to shop and travel – to keep the engine of the economy going – well now with 20/20 hindsight we know where that idea got us …

2.    Medicare Drug Benefit – one of the biggest government entitlement programs designed and we have NO way to pay for it.

3.    No Child Left Behind – Great idea George – teach to a test rather than tried and true principles. While I appreciate your attempt to take on the Teacher’s Union and weeding out teachers who were worthless, this was not the way to do it. What we needed was expanded Charter Schools and a National School Voucher Program so that parents could use their tax dollars to send their child to private schools.

4.    Failure to name our enemy – Islam – and instead going out of your way to embrace domestic enemies through the likes of CAIR. 

5.    A totally mismanaged “War on Terror” … Because you were afraid of offending your Saudi business contacts and failed to name the enemy you allowed the UN and the media to run the war rather than the military until it was damn near too late. Shock and Awe became a bumper sticker. The very notion of ‘nation building’ in the Middle East is ludicrous. We should have done a Dresden Style Attack on Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Iran simultaneously and airdropped the rest of the Islamic world sample bottles of Kaopectate. The message: You attack us, we destroy you …

6.    The economy … well what can be said he started us on the road to the destruction of the free market, capitalism, and private industry. He started the bailout and nationalization of banks and industries that would have been better served by declaring bankruptcy, getting out of toxic contracts with unions and re-organizing. The problem with government is that they are into instant gratification (can we call that a Monica?) rather than allowing the market to correct for bubbles and baubles.

Ok, enough of Bush and his failures … History will judge him and I don’t think it will be kind.

The Republicans under the Bush administration screwed the pooch big time. They were a rudderless ship in a squall. We watched them carry the water for the Bush policies and we lost in midterm elections and in the Presidential year. The Republicans have become impotent not only because they lost their majority standing in both the House and the Senate but also because they gave up the principles that got them elected in the first place. They drifted to the middle, buying into the “lie of the day” that moderation would allow them to keep their jobs. 

12 Values

• Honesty
• Reverence
• Hope
• Thrift
• Humility
• Charity
• Sincerity
• Moderation
• Hard Work
• Courage
• Personal Responsibility
• Gratitude

All of the principles of Conservatism fit within these 9 Principles and 12 Values. It’s time that Congress gets on the same page as the people of this nation. That we put our National Security, Our National Interests, our National Sovereignty ahead of their desire to keep a job that was only supposed to be a temp job anyway. The founding fathers never imagined that we would have career politicians; it would be an affront and an obscenity to them. It is time to clean house – the entire house. If you want to keep your job then prove it and earn it … there is NO Tenure track any more. We the people are tired of this globalism of the internationals being allowed to dictate our policies. We believe that in order to be a Superpower, once again that we will not capitulate to the UN or to NATO. We do not need nor do we require the world’s permission to defend our sphere of influence. We demand that our government stop living in a utopian pipe dream and start answering to the real threats facing us. We demand that you, congress, represent us or submit your resignation. There are many Americans looking for a job these days and I am betting more than one of them could do a better job than some of you. This is reality … do your job or get pink-slipped. We’ve had just about enough.