The Solution to the GOP's Problems Isn't More Democrats

The Solution to the GOP's Problems Isn't More Democrats
by John Hawkins
Posted May 24, 2006



Over the last few weeks, the conservative blogosphere and punditocracy have been aiming a wave of venom at the GOP in Washington that’s so wide and deep that you could practically surf on it. The grumbling over out-of-control spending, the Gang-of-14 compromise, Harriet Miers, the Dubai Port deal, and most of all, illegal immigration, has become ceaseless and increasingly bitter.

The dismay at the performance of Congress has gotten so bad that a conservative stalwart like Peggy Noonan has actually begun speculating that the “White House has decided it actually doesn’t like the base,” while in other quarters, the idea that the GOP might benefit long-term from losing power in the elections later this year has already started to jell into conventional wisdom.

This is understandable because the GOP in Washington, President Bush included, has been “stinking it up” since the 2004 election. To be fair, the House has shown some signs of life on spending and illegal immigration since Rep. John Boehner has become Majority Leader, but the same can’t be said of the Senate, which has performed abysmally—or Bush, who, in his second term, has shown about the same level of political competence as a fourth grader running for hall monitor.

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So if the solution to the GOP's problems isn't more Democrats, is rewarding the GOP for a less that stellar effort over recent years the solution? It seem to me that when you reward someone for something you reinforce the behavior, the same way you get a dog to fetch a stick.

So what the GOP pundits are saying is, "Yes the GOP is not performing up to standards, but we want you to reward them anyway because the Democrats are so much worse." I don't buy that old shell game and each time I think about reversing course and again voting for the GOP this fall I find another one of these articles that appear to be written by a member of the GOP's re-election staff. (You'll see more and more of these articles as panic sets in with the GOP and election time draws nigh)

I'll tell you what, I'm voting Democratic in this fall in the hopes that the GOP loses control of Congress. The GOP like the dog I alluded too before needs reinforcement training. The GOP isn't fetching the stick like it should, so I say let's take a rolled up newspaper to the GOP's nose and see if that gets their attention.

Yes I do believe that teaching the GOP a lesson is worth any price. You don't reward liars, cheats, and sell-outs. Besides its only for two years. The GOP has had six years of power and have screwed up what could have been the best years for Conservatives this nation had ever had. For that alone the GOP needs a good bashing with a rolled up newspaper.