On Monday, March 9, Congressman Patrick McHenry said the GOP plan is to bring down the Democrats as much as possible before the 2010 mid-term elections:
We will lose on legislation. But we will win the message war every day, and every week, until November 2010. Our goal is to bring down approval numbers for [Speaker Nancy] Pelosi and for House Democrats. That will take repetition. This is a marathon not, a sprint.
Congressman Patrick McHenry
(R) North CarolinaSource: National Journal
This country’s economy is in serious trouble and its people are in serious trouble. The economic problems we face must be dealt with head on and now. In the midst of this crisis the Republicans decided their agenda and party are more important than we the people, more important than the United States of America, and more important than the world economy.
The conservatives and GOP are showing themselves to be unconscionably selfish and self-centered at a time when this country needs Congress to work together to find solutions for the huge problems we face. So far, they are the party of “no” and no new ideas.
Conservative and GOP policies won’t work and it’s been proven in history. They want to freeze spending, balance the budget, cut taxes and reign in monetary policy. President Herbert Hoover’s policies of cutting taxes, freezing government spending, balancing the federal budget and monetary policy that didn’t provide a sufficient money supply are what made the recession that started in 1929 the Great Depression of the 1930’s. These idiots are dumb enough to ignore history, or worse, take part in revisionist history that actually blames President Franklin Roosevelt for creating the Great Depression so he could have his New Deal!
The recession that turned into the Great Depression started in 1929, 4 years before FDR was sworn into office in 1933. It took seven years of substantial government spending on public works projects and social programs to help the people who were suffering, and the massive government spending needed for World War II to get out of the Great Depression. By World War II, FDR reduced unemployment from 25% to 15%. The build-up to the war took that unemployment figure down to 1-2%. It took so long because President Hoover refused to do anything about the recession for 4 years, not because FDR’s programs didn’t work. They worked and brought us out of that horrible time in our history. Had FDR’s policies been implemented within the first year of the recession, it might not have been so bad and so long.
The GOP and conservatives are delusional enough to believe that by obstructing the House and Senate Democrats and federal spending that there will be a country and an economy left in 2010 to win back. They fail to realize that if our economy fails, so does the world’s economy.
What would a post-modern world look like? I don’t know, but I feel like it would be really bad and there would be lots of wars over dwindling supplies of everything we need to live a modern life. The worst could be that since there isn’t really anything to live for anyway, why not destroy a lot of the world using nuclear weapons?
By using this strategy, the GOP will insure it is marginalized for a long time to come. It may take the party decades to rebuild if another party doesn’t spring up in its place, and there are a lot of contenders out there. One thing is certain. We can’t have a major political party that doesn’t know when to work and when to play politics. We sure can’t survive with a party that is dumb enough to fail to learn from history. And we definitely don’t need a party with hubris enough to put itself before the very country it is meant to lead.
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