Outgoing (please, please, please) Chairman of the Republican Party has something to say.
“The RNC welcomed the energy and limited government principles of Tea Party voters and grassroots conservatives, and worked hard to ensure that their views found expression within the Republican party, and not in a potentially ruinous third-party movement,” Steele said in a five-page memo sent to committee members Thursday.
He worked hard to ensure that limited government principles found expression in the Republican party?
What?
I mean, what?!?
Frakkin what????
If the “Republican party” has to “work hard” to “make sure” that “limited government” views are “expressed” then the “Republican party” is “doomed” I say, “doomed!!”
Doomed.
November 21, 2010 at 11:46 am
Ronald Reagan is turning over in his grave about now!
November 21, 2010 at 1:36 pm
"and worked hard to ensure that their views found expression"
Indeed they are doomed. This is progressive-Speak at its worst.
Reminds me of Robert Fripp commenting on the arts: "Anytime you hear an artist talking about 'expressing himself' you know it's going to suck."
November 21, 2010 at 5:48 pm
Proof positive, Steele and the RNC did not get the message this November.
November 21, 2010 at 6:15 pm
First, I would strongly urge all to read this
article.
Second, Boehner's proposal to attack all "non-defense, discretionary spending" is wimpy in the extreme. No one with a clue about our current deficit will be appeased by such a minuscule reduction. For my part, I'd like to see a 20% spending cut in each of the next three years, applied to all but defense.
Third, I don't know that anyone in Washington is ready to do what really must be done:
1. Repeal Obamacare
2. Make deep spending cuts
3. Permanently ban all earmarks
4. Finally start sunsetting the Social Security Ponzi scheme
5. Apply means tests and other reductions to Medicare and Medicaid, as triage in preparation for closing them down.
No one does a worse job of management than the Federal government. No one. And that's nature, not a fluke.
November 21, 2010 at 8:10 pm
Bill,
Since "no one does a worse job of management than the Federal government", why don't you support ending the Federal government's role as manager of the world. End the empire, declare victory (we've already done that twice in Iraq!), bring the troops home, honorably discharge the lot of them, and we'd all be a lot safer and richer. Except, of course, for the military-industrial-government racket.
November 22, 2010 at 2:23 pm
Heh. Reminds me of playwright David Mamet's conversion from liberal to conservative. As another blogger put it, he went from being liberal and hating his goverment, to being a conservative and…hating his government? Who's doing donuts on the Road to Damascus Dave?
And here it is again, neocons hate the State Department but love the Pentagon. Liberals hate the Pentagon but love the State Department. As one of my professors pointed out, yes, I've heard of the military-industiral complex; but I've also noticed an academic-media complex, which is pretty powerful in that they get to keep score.
November 23, 2010 at 5:29 am
Why exempt defense spending? Let the world defend itself. It's all a joke anyway – the Bildeburg (or Build-a-burger group, or something like that) own the Dems, the GOP and the rest of us anyway. Enjoy the fireworks.
November 25, 2010 at 3:26 pm
Oh please. Neither party wants limited government. It's just a matter of differing over what part of the government they want bloated.