During this last year, the Republicans haven’t had the power to “obstruct” anything and the Democrats know it. Now Republicans do. The fact that the Democrats are left sitting in the legislative ruins of their own making is no skin off the GOP’s nose. They had their chance and they blew it. If the GOP isn’t completely deaf, what they heard last night with the election of Brown was the people don’t want what the Democrats are selling.
So what should happen? The GOP should reject that premise outright and upfront and they should adopt one that is the polar opposite of that which Democrats are trying to push in their talking point memo.
Specifically: The GOP has the responsibility to obstruct/block/say “no” to the Democratic agenda as they have determined that agenda unnecessarily increases the size, scope and cost of government.
So who are you going to listen too, Republicans? The people or the Democrats?
Yup – That’s test question number one and it’s not multiple choice.
I have warned previously that it is shaping up to be a “throw the bums out” election. It would be a really, really good idea for the Republicans to keep that in mind. The lesson of Massachusetts is just that. People are getting very, very mad at out of touch elitists who claim they know what’s best for the average people in this country.
The average people just told Washington that they have a rather different view.
Stop the mad spending, stop the growth of an already over-large bureaucracy and keep the government out of our day-to-day lives and you will win in November. Block any attempt by the Democrats to do any of those things and gain ground.
Listen to the Democrats and Obama and face the same fate in about ten months.
That simple.
Keep on saying no – make it stick. Offer solid alternatives that people can talk about and understand. Not 2,000 page monster bills that nobody has ever read.
Introduce a stand alone bill to limit malpractice lawsuits. Make the Democrats cuddle up to trial lawyers to defeat it.
Offer a stand-alone bill to open health insurance markets to sell/buy coverage across state lines. Let Democrats explain why they oppose it.
Make those bills short, sweet and written in plain English with no loopholes, no special interest payola, no screwing around.
Easy for people to discuss and understand. And support. And they will support what they can understand.
Say no – a lot – when the Democrats try another power/control grab. (They will, they can’t help it. There is no 12-step program for their statist addiction.)
That is a winning strategy. Playing footsie with the Democrats is not.
Or just what McQ wrote. It is not multiple choice.
The Republicans did offer an alternative last May that does much of what you suggest, but the leadership of both houses squelched it and it never got any MSM attention. (Big surprise.)Perhaps they need to do so again.
Sorry for the double post: I forgot to include a link to an article about the Rep. plan: http://tinyurl.com/q7xwnw
Am I imagining things, or is there a similarity between what is happening to the democrats as they fritter away their power to do what _they_ want, on the one hand, and what the Gingrich-era Republicans did to _our_ dreams?
No “twelve-point program” … that’s a good one!
You mention, in an unkindly way, “out of touch elitists who claim they know what’s best for the average people in this country”. Would that include the out of touch elitists in the GOP/New Whig party?
We need to party like it was the 1850s again and rustle us up s new party. The Dems pander to staple vices like greed, envy and race hatred, so they’ll be here forever. It’s the Republicans who need to be sent the way of the Whigs and replaced with a Wide-Awake party that is prepared to do what needs to be done to stop the Dems — again.