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 Carolina

Source: 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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Rush Limbaugh is being touted as the current leader of the Republican party, but he’s not their leader. He’s a radio show talking head with an average listener-ship who mindlessly follow his absurd rhetoric. He is a conservative, not necessarily a Republican, and with the GOP in its current position, the GOP won’t be able to count on Limbaugh’s supporters as contributors to the party coffers. Limbaugh has preached to his audience to stop supporting the GOP financially.

The recent media blitz about Republican leadership, uh lack of leadership, gave Rush a huge forum in the mainstream media to promote himself. They’ve been talking about Rush all week on multiple shows. He even has Republicans who dis him on talk shows and then apologizing to him for dissing him. That so many Republicans hurry to kiss Rush’s ass is counterproductive for the party and even may prove fatal to it.

Republican politicians who are trying to distance themselves from Rush are walking a very thin line between standing for their own principles and offending Lord Rush. If these bozos can’t stand up to Limbaugh, how are they going to stand up to Al Quaeda, terrorists in general, and leaders of other countries when our own interests must be defended? It’s a circus and it’s disgusting to watch.

And don’t get me started on Sarah Palin, Bobby Jindal, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Michael Steele, and Eric Cantor. These are the most often seen on TV Republicans and all are buffoons. I wouldn’t call any of them leaders.

Ultra conservatives like Limbaugh, which make up about 15%-20% of the population, are not enough people to win any national elections. Yet the party keeps playing to this too small base that is becoming more likely to stop financially supporting it. The GOP is on the wrong path and have their heads so far up their ideology that they can’t perceive reality anymore. In reality, the country is moving to the left. It is becoming far more centrist than it was just 8 years ago, and some who were at the center have moved left of center to outright liberal or progressive.

The GOP doesn’t seem to have a clear message about what they stand for, nor a leader to present it in a way that will rally support outside their base. If they can’t find a way to expand their appeal to moderates, the GOP may become a minority party, and some other party may step up and become the second majority party. Only time will tell, but in 8 months, the GOP doesn’t seem to have made any progress. If anything, they seem to have taken steps backward.

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LMAO! This is so funny, yet so timely and serious at the same time. Watch and see what I mean:

Do your sides hurt?

The question is will Michael Steele be able to transform the GOP from a practically all-white party to one of diversity? If the GOP doesn’t change and become much more diverse, it won’t recover in today’s America.

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