A Victory by Default
Dale Netherton
November 11, 2006
The recent election that found the Democrats victorious and in control of both houses of Congress cannot be attributed to a winning message but the results of Republicans thinking if they could gain power they could mold a nation. The kind of mold they demonstrated was the kind you find on decaying fruit. Since the Republicans weren’t courageous or ideologically consistent they relied on pork promises to gain power. They out Democrated the Democrats. This led to the stupid spending sprees that proved they were not and would never act in a fiscally responsible manner. The American voter sighed and announced that if the Republicans can’t do what they say we might as well have a party in power that does what it says, i.e. tax and spend.
The same conclusion could be drawn from the Republican President’s contradictory war policy. After two hundred and fifty five recitations of “ hard work” and no definition of victory the conclusion must be drawn that it doesn’t matter what party fights a “limited’ war. Limited wars are ongoing and never result in victory. Ask Israel.
It is almost with a national sigh of relief we can proclaim where hypocrisy can lead when political parties try to emulate whatever they think will give them power instead of pride in a reducing the role of government. Now we can watch the consistent growth of government and debt openly announced and acted upon. It will be painful ,but it will show the power hungry Republicans who thought they could proclaim Republican principles while committing Democratic practices what the voters think of their antics.
The Republicans also found out there are not just bible thumping fundamentalists in this country. The voters by and large separate their spiritual practices form their politics. It is the power hungry theocrats that attempt to blend church and state even as they watch the results of such attempts in the Middle East. Republicans often spoke of a “large tent’ when there was divisiveness over abortion. Knowing the nation was not in favor of the government forcing women to have babies they acknowledged there were some “moderate” Republicans who might be pro-choice. But gradually the mantra of evangelical fundamentalism shrunk that tent to the size that would only accommodate the revivalists and since the only party left that could be expected to gain power was the Democrats the exodus began.
Now we have a Republican party in shambles waiting for a new crop of wide eyed candidates hoping to cash in on the disgust the Democrats will generate in the next two years. There will be no principled stance on individual rights from these newbies. They will exhibit the same pragmatic approach their predecessors exhibited. The battle cry will be ,” Get elected and then do....what?” They will have no foundation and there will be very little support for shrinking the size of government. Just as they uphold “holding the line” in Iraq they clamor for the same old welfare state that is collapsing under the strain of overwhelming debt. When you watch the endless commercials crying to homeowners to mortgage what limited equity they have left, you can extend that vision to a government looking for a lender in the form of a taxpayer who is having his equity reduced by government confiscation. This the victorious Democrats think is their mandate. Already the talk is about those terrible Bush tax cuts. This must mean everybody that got a six hundred dollar check should start saving to return it to those parasites in Washington who will waste it on some bum unwilling to get up and go to work. They recognize their soul brothers and sisters as worth recipients of their fraud.
All the jubilation and blather of bipartisanship will soon fade as the reality of the tasks ahead shakes these pretenders into facing facts. The only saving grace is the gridlock which will keep Congressional action at a minimum. Remember the greatest growth of government ( and spending) has come from a major shift in power of either party. For no matter how they speak of their non-ideological leanings their actions speak volumes of what kind of a world they consider ideal. So far no party has championed the person who pays their salary, the individual taxpayer. And so far the march to dictatorship has continued as the Republicrats fight skirmishes in a campaign going nowhere domestically and in the Middle East.
The same conclusion could be drawn from the Republican President’s contradictory war policy. After two hundred and fifty five recitations of “ hard work” and no definition of victory the conclusion must be drawn that it doesn’t matter what party fights a “limited’ war. Limited wars are ongoing and never result in victory. Ask Israel.
It is almost with a national sigh of relief we can proclaim where hypocrisy can lead when political parties try to emulate whatever they think will give them power instead of pride in a reducing the role of government. Now we can watch the consistent growth of government and debt openly announced and acted upon. It will be painful ,but it will show the power hungry Republicans who thought they could proclaim Republican principles while committing Democratic practices what the voters think of their antics.
The Republicans also found out there are not just bible thumping fundamentalists in this country. The voters by and large separate their spiritual practices form their politics. It is the power hungry theocrats that attempt to blend church and state even as they watch the results of such attempts in the Middle East. Republicans often spoke of a “large tent’ when there was divisiveness over abortion. Knowing the nation was not in favor of the government forcing women to have babies they acknowledged there were some “moderate” Republicans who might be pro-choice. But gradually the mantra of evangelical fundamentalism shrunk that tent to the size that would only accommodate the revivalists and since the only party left that could be expected to gain power was the Democrats the exodus began.
Now we have a Republican party in shambles waiting for a new crop of wide eyed candidates hoping to cash in on the disgust the Democrats will generate in the next two years. There will be no principled stance on individual rights from these newbies. They will exhibit the same pragmatic approach their predecessors exhibited. The battle cry will be ,” Get elected and then do....what?” They will have no foundation and there will be very little support for shrinking the size of government. Just as they uphold “holding the line” in Iraq they clamor for the same old welfare state that is collapsing under the strain of overwhelming debt. When you watch the endless commercials crying to homeowners to mortgage what limited equity they have left, you can extend that vision to a government looking for a lender in the form of a taxpayer who is having his equity reduced by government confiscation. This the victorious Democrats think is their mandate. Already the talk is about those terrible Bush tax cuts. This must mean everybody that got a six hundred dollar check should start saving to return it to those parasites in Washington who will waste it on some bum unwilling to get up and go to work. They recognize their soul brothers and sisters as worth recipients of their fraud.
All the jubilation and blather of bipartisanship will soon fade as the reality of the tasks ahead shakes these pretenders into facing facts. The only saving grace is the gridlock which will keep Congressional action at a minimum. Remember the greatest growth of government ( and spending) has come from a major shift in power of either party. For no matter how they speak of their non-ideological leanings their actions speak volumes of what kind of a world they consider ideal. So far no party has championed the person who pays their salary, the individual taxpayer. And so far the march to dictatorship has continued as the Republicrats fight skirmishes in a campaign going nowhere domestically and in the Middle East.
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