Friday, March 25, 2011

GOP Doesn't Get It!!!!

I can't help but wonder what's wrong with the GOP, or any of our congressmen for that matter. Here is a bill, the Obama health care plan and it is full of spending, completely unregulated and yet there is nothing from the republicans about it. The left has every manner of demonstration, admittedly often over the top, yet they win their battles because of it. It is time that republicans made a little more stink about the problematic issues of the democrats.

Republicans need to stop being so timid that they are afraid to call things what they are. Being "civil" is always the way to get things done. They should start calling things for what they are. One example is that they should start calling socialists, just that. They are so afraid to criticize Obama and his administration and name their offenses. The moment one of the administration says, "are you trying to say?????" the GOP loses its voice and so it makes them look like they were just lying or trying to stir things up even though what they said was the truth. On the other side. the democrats have the nerve to say lies and they never back down only make them even more extreme. They come on the attack and in so doing intimidate far too many people.

Have we become a nation of sheep? Are we really so afraid to stand up to the lies being put forward by these outrageous leaders of ours? There has been ample evidence from the mouths of almost everyone in the current administration that they are or have been communists or socialists. There is not one situation of them rejecting those beliefs. When asked directly about them they usually answer the question with another question such as, "Do you really think I'm a socialist?" or the like thus putting the questioner on the defensive. This ought not to be so. They ought to be made to answer.

Bill O'Reilly recently was bemoaning the fact that when you have a guest on the show and try to do an interview they refuse to answer the question you ask and instead just give their talking points. There is a really simple solution to this. You simply turn them off if they're not going to answer their question. Another good option is to begin to put words in their mouths and let them correct you. No one wants to have words put in their mouths and this strategy will usually produce some results. The right has become far too civil in my opinion.

The right is so completely unskilled at putting the left off their game or keeping them off balance. They are continually on the defense which is always a lose position to be in. This is not to say they should resort to the tactics of the left with rioting and obnoxious behavior, but it is to say they really need to "grow a pair" as they say. The left talks about getting "a little bloody" and they literally mean it, while the right can't even talk in metaphoric terms when it comes to taking the gloves off.

Worse still not only is the right too timid but they really don't stand for much different than the left. They like to pretend they're different but they're also for big government and lots of spending of our money. Even now there is a great deal of debate that the republicans aren't really proposing anything much different than the democrats when it comes to the budget. They behave as thougha government shut down is the worst thing that could happen, but what I say to this is that they are afraid that we'll see just how much we can get along without the government. They'll keep essential things running but that is as it should be. Why is the government doing anything non-essential in the first place.

The government wasn't designed to do whatever it wanted. It wasn't meant to be there to just try  things and if the leaders like those things just keep doing them. The federal government at least had very specific restrictions which everyone seems to have forgotten at this point.

What the people still don't want to face is that there is very little different between the GOP and the democrats. They both seem to have the same ends, their demeanor and their methods vary a little but ultimately they seem to have the same goals and seem to represent the same things. They have both allowed the government to grow at alarming rates, they both beleive in such socialist programs as medicare, and social security, and this is because at their root they believe it is the government's responsibility to take care of the people. I don't mean that they beleive their job is to protect the people or to protect their rights. I mean they beleive it is their job to provide for the people. It is as though they think that they have their own money supply and that they can actually take care of the people.

It is not the responsiblity of the government at least according to the constitution to do this. Their only job is to protect the people and to protect the rights given to us by our creator. In some countries they have either decided or had socialism imposed and that is fine if that is what they want, but our nation was not meant to be such a thing.

If we are not willing to name the problem then we are not really ready to deal with the problem. I say don't let other people silence you when you either call them what they are, or when you want to question them about what they're doing. They answer to us not the other way around! Our representatives are just that. They represent us, and if they're not going to do a good job of representing what we want then we have every right to get them out of office and find those who will represent us. They seem to feel it is their job to tell us what we want and what we need and sadly too many people seem to agree with them.

It has become an unspoken law that you shouldn't say something bad about another person or it will be turned into some politically correct slur that can be used against you. We are far too concerned about hurting people's feellings or worrying about what others will call us. Calling someone a racist with no basis whatever is nothing less than, or more than name calling. Call them out on them and demand they give specifics if they can't then sue them for defamation of character. This is what they would do. Oh, but then comes the cry that we don't want to lower ourselves down to their level.

When I say the republicans don't get it, I mean they don't know what the people of the nation want or they just don't care for the most part. Consider how few of the republicans you heard defending Gov. Walker. There were almost none to be found. It seemed to fall mostly to Fox News to make some defense of what he was doing. For the most part none of the republicans wanted to touch it with a ten foot pole. Too afraid they might offend the unions and escalate the situation. It was the perfect time to make their case to the American people. Once again the republicans were just letting things stay with the status quo. This is has got to stop.

The democrats have more than enough people willing to fight about every little thing. They are more than willing to cry foul on every issue. They are willing to name call. Yet can we find a republican anywhere that was willing to stand up for one of his own when it came to the union bullying? There were a few senators and representatives but it was almost exclusively the ones from Wisconsin who were standing up for Walker and making any remarks about the absent democrats. Yet even in this none of them dared to stay how those democrats were standing in the way of democracy. It is almost as though they want to let them get away with it, so that if they fail they'll have some excuse.

This is a fight for the nation and though our non-representing representatives don't seem to care very much because they're the ones helping with the demise of our nation I beleive there are still many good Americans out there who don't want to see the end of our republic. I beleive this is even the majority of people. The majority has been silenced by the minority long enough.

It is time for the majority to begin to confront the environmentalists when it comes to oil and other forms of power, when it comes to private property rights, when it comes to global warming and certainly when it comes to states rights and federal rights. We need to speak up and stop being meeley mouthed about it. If we don't speak up soon our nation will be lost to us.

The GOP's modest efforts at lowering government spending and shrinking the size of government sure doesn't look like a very serious effort on their part. It is like they are doing just  as much as is absolutely necessary to make it look like they're trying to get things under control. In reality all they're doing is what they've always done. They are cutting back on the rate of growth not on the growth itself.

This is another aspect to what is going on that has largely been forgotten. At one time it was covered quite a bit and our non-representing representatives couldn't hide under a rock and parade how much they were doing to cut government because everyone understand they were only cutting the rate of growth not the actual rate. Now they feel free to once again tout how much they are doing to cut government because everyone has forgotten all about that little trick of theirs that they've used so successfully for so long.

It is a shame we have a media so ill equipped to actually research things and report accurately on what the government is trying to get away. As I've often said in the past they are more like the government lapdogs than the government watchdogs. they do nothing to prevent them from continuing pulling these tricks. Instead they faithfully report whatever they're told. I'm not sure if this comes  from the laziness so many of our youth have learned in school and the dumbing down of our kids or it has more to do with them trying to cover for them.

So it is with a heavy and not hopeful heart I keep hoping I will see the media take a more antagonistic view as well as reporting style to the government which is really what they ought to be doing. They ought to be demanding clear answers to their questions and when they don't get them they should expose the answers for what they are. If our representatives waste our time with a lot of evasive answers they should simply be cut off and not given the air time unless they are willing to stop obfuscating. This is the sort of thing O'Reilly used to do. He wouldn't put up with people giving all the spin but now he puts up with it all the time and doesn't continue to press and demand answers from his guests. It seems the reporters are more eager to get an interview with someone really big than to risk insulting them and not having any more access at all. It should be the other way around. Our representatives ought to be made to understand that it is they that will not have access to the reporters if they are not going to speak clearly about what they're doing.

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