RE: Ambrose Sums It Up
Jay Ambrose said...
I can't say I agree. (Pauses while Republican readers stop screaming and cursing)
Our form of government only works well when there is a strong and principled opposition. The Republicans, as Ambrose points out, have blown it. They have not opposed Bush's foolishness where they should have and they have become a rubber stamp for socialism. The Democrats are unable to mount a principled opposition, mostly because they utterly lack any principles. The opposition they mount consists of demagoguery on tired old class and race warfare topics and statist privilege (a la Cynthia McKinney).
P.J. O'Rourke said Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it. They have certainly proved it well over the last 6 years. They have pushed national government into places it doesn't belong and they have failed to act where national government was needed. In short, they have made a complete hash out of an opportunity that many Republicans worked decades to achieve, including my former self.
I believe we need to adopt Thomas Sowell's solution of a single term for everyone, and we desperately need to repeal the seventeenth amendment. I believe Democrats are too lazy and unprincipled to occupy the executive branch of government. Therefore, the best government for us is to have a Republican in the White House, but a real Republican, not the sham socialist who occupies it now. Most importantly of all, we need a Republican to lead the military. People who become Democrats, for whatever reason, are not properly wired for that task. I believe the Democrats should control the House of Representatives. When properly focused, the Democrats have proven in the past to be the ballast that anchors the common man in the storm of big events. I also believe the Democrats work best when they focus on real debate and discourse, not the pandering and demagoguery that is their trademark these days. That sort of focus works best in the House. I believe Libertarians should control the Senate. The Senate has far more weight in the realms of controlling the bureaucracy due to their constitutional "advise and consent" role. I believe libertarians would do more to control the excesses of the judiciary by properly vetting political appointments to keep out judges with political agendas.
Finally, the Republicans do not deserve control of the legislative branch. They have abused our trust. They need a wake-up call. That call would be no better served than for the Democrats to take back the House this fall.
It would be worse for the Republic if the Democrats win the House this November, but to what extent I am not sure.
I can't say I agree. (Pauses while Republican readers stop screaming and cursing)
Our form of government only works well when there is a strong and principled opposition. The Republicans, as Ambrose points out, have blown it. They have not opposed Bush's foolishness where they should have and they have become a rubber stamp for socialism. The Democrats are unable to mount a principled opposition, mostly because they utterly lack any principles. The opposition they mount consists of demagoguery on tired old class and race warfare topics and statist privilege (a la Cynthia McKinney).
P.J. O'Rourke said Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it. They have certainly proved it well over the last 6 years. They have pushed national government into places it doesn't belong and they have failed to act where national government was needed. In short, they have made a complete hash out of an opportunity that many Republicans worked decades to achieve, including my former self.
I believe we need to adopt Thomas Sowell's solution of a single term for everyone, and we desperately need to repeal the seventeenth amendment. I believe Democrats are too lazy and unprincipled to occupy the executive branch of government. Therefore, the best government for us is to have a Republican in the White House, but a real Republican, not the sham socialist who occupies it now. Most importantly of all, we need a Republican to lead the military. People who become Democrats, for whatever reason, are not properly wired for that task. I believe the Democrats should control the House of Representatives. When properly focused, the Democrats have proven in the past to be the ballast that anchors the common man in the storm of big events. I also believe the Democrats work best when they focus on real debate and discourse, not the pandering and demagoguery that is their trademark these days. That sort of focus works best in the House. I believe Libertarians should control the Senate. The Senate has far more weight in the realms of controlling the bureaucracy due to their constitutional "advise and consent" role. I believe libertarians would do more to control the excesses of the judiciary by properly vetting political appointments to keep out judges with political agendas.
Finally, the Republicans do not deserve control of the legislative branch. They have abused our trust. They need a wake-up call. That call would be no better served than for the Democrats to take back the House this fall.
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