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The Republicans were elected in the 2010 election to enact reforms to make America economically competitive again. The American dream is dying as upward mobility and good jobs are becoming a thing of the past that belonged to America’s golden age (1945-2000). The voters want bold action on the fiscal and economic front. However it seems the GOP is reverting back to their old ways. There is talk of bi-partisanship, which means GOP surrender to Tranzi Progressive Democratic demands. Paul Ryan’s road map is now being discarded and there’s even talk of mixed seating at the State of the Union speech. In short, the Republicans are poised to sell out Conservatives again to please the leftists establishment.
What should the congressional GOP’s policy objectives be for the next two years regarding federal deficits and prosperity?
Two very different strategies are being considered by authentic conservatives: 1) attempt to govern from their majority in the House and actually try to start the process of reducing the costs of entitlements (most conspicuously Social Security and Medicare) as a path back to prosperity and good jobs; or 2) recognize that the GOP cannot govern without holding the White House, and that, therefore, they should not touch entitlements but merely tinker with discretionary spending and frame the issues for 2012 when they may win the presidency and Senate, as well as hold the majority in the House.
I believe we should follow the first option. The second strategy was championed by, among others, the Wall Street Journal (the esteemed wheelhouse of modern journalistic conservatism) in a Jan. 4 editorial headlined “The GOP Opportunity: The main Republican task will be framing the issues for 2012.”
Read the rest: Avoid GOP Timidity in 2011
The longer economic stagnation continues, the more use to it Americans will get. This will allow Obama and the media to claim this is as good as it gets. The goal of the Democrats is to take the economy off the table as an issue. Instead, they want it to be about Obama as national savior. If the GOP does not attempt to make the needed fiscal, economic, tax and regulatory reforms needed to restore economic opportunity to America, Obama will eat their lunch in 2012 as he did during the lame duck session.
This is the Republican party’s last chance. For too long they have made promises of small government when under the last Republican they expanded it a rate not seen since the administration of LBJ. To cover up their Progressive policies, they enact useless tax cuts and talk about family values to keep Conservatives in line. Meanwhile wages decline, good jobs disappear and upward mobility is gone. It’s a trick and pony show and if they don’t come through with what they promise, they will go the way of the Whigs.
The Republicans must be serious about tax and regulatory reform. This will force Obama to defend the current stagnant state of the economy, which the vast majority of Americans are not benefiting from. The GOP needs to be aggressive and not passive.
