<<< If Boehner continues to compromise conservative values, this statistic is going to eat him alive.
One of the headlines floating around the
polit-net is this one:
As
much as most of us respect Charles Krauthammer,
he really has this wrong. Obama
is not the reason for the GOP divide. What Krauthammer has missed is the fact that the GOP’s publicly viewed problems began with the
2006 elections and are a response to the ever increasing progressive agenda within the GOP.
Timeline:
2006: it was in that mid-term election that the GOP
lost its hold on congress, following the 1994 victories and the Gingrich “Contract
with America.”
George W. Bush was a social justice type
fellow, a man who was a sincere
Christian, a believer in Constitutional
values, but a social justice
politician, nonetheless.
As a result ,
he issued only one “spending” veto in his eight years as president (if memory serves me well). A social justice center piece was and, sadly, is, a thing called “Affordable Housing.” At the center of “Affordable Housing” is the Utopian belief that home ownership is
more than a privilege, it is a right of every
American. Bush believed this and worked
to lower both interest rates and qualifying requirements, opening the door for “cheap” mortgage
financing and the greatest sub-prime lending boom and bust in American history.
Fanny and Freddie were used to take these loans
out of circulation, leaving the banks
with increased opportunities to fund more of these cheaper than dirt
loans, and, eventually, the sky fell in and around this bit of Utopian
nonsense. Monies and bailouts funds were funneled into banking coffers as well as Fannie/Freddie, and government spending rose, as a
result.
Bush passed his big-pharma bill, adding another
70 million to the debt ($700 billion
over ten years). Of course, the Democrats helped pass this bill into
law, but used it to stigmatize the
president as a “big spender," a rather curious criticism since this bunch of progressives believe that "all government spending is stimulus" (B Obama in the springs of 2009).
By the time G.W. finished as president, the level of deficit spending had risen form 250 billion on
average, to more than $440 billion per year (Obama has tripled this to 1.3 trillion, btw).
And, on
top of it all, the RU 486 “abortion pill,” once the cause of great debate between libs
and conservatives, was passed into law
by Bush and his GOP congress.
By 2006,
the Right wing of the GOP party,
had had enough. They no longer could identify a meaningful difference between the two parties, and finally said, “If you are going to abandon all our
conservative principles, you are going
to do so without us.” And they stayed
home while the US Congress “flipped” into Democrat hands.
In 2008,
the GOP nominated the much despised RINO, John McCain. Almost immediately, the Grand Old Party knew it had a
problem in addition to the candidacy of our first Revenge President, B Obama. So McCain went out an brought in Sarah
Palin. Without her presence on the ticket, he would have lost that election by 15 points instead of seven points. In spite of Palin, however, some 5 million conservatives stayed home in
that election. Again, the message was this, “Try winning an election without us.”
As a result of the 2008 elections,
the political process in America,
became that of “one party rule.” For
two years, the Democrat Socialists who
were swept into power, did so bad a job
of governing (even without any
legislative opposition) , that a grassroots rebellion took hold and the “tea-party” was born
in the fall of 2009. The 2010 midterms
was a statement to the GOP, “this is
what happens when we conservatives are included.”
Understand this: the tea-party is the expressed reality of "civil war" within the GOP. It is the end game, not the beginning of the political divide. And if the this grassroots effort is defeated, the GOP will be have signed its death sentence.
At no fault of Mitt Romney, in 2012,
we wound up with another well intentioned RINO. Despite the fact that Obama lost 8 million
votes in the 2012 election (compared to his 2008 victory totals), less than 60 million folks voted for
Romney, and the election was lost.
And now,
we have this fiscal cliff mess,
going on in Washington.
The “civil war” that Krauthammer is talking
about, has been in the works for nearly a
decade. And Boehner is about to insure a
serious loss of congressional power for the GOP (in 2014) if he continues his compromising
ways.
Understand that I am not angry with
Boehner, He simply does not know any
better. He was never a “tea – party”
supporter, really, and now his fear of losing status is leading
him to a position of supporting the status quo.
While Boehner is worried about popular opinion, he really should be more concerned with the
loss of the conservative vote within the party.
You are looking at 15% of the party's voting base or around 9 million
voting conservatives. If they walk off
the stage, the GOP will never win
another election -- and Obama knows this.
And THAT is why Krauthammer is wrong, historically speaking.
Sadly,
Hussein understands the politics of the GOP better than does
Boehner. He knows, full well, that the fiscal conservatives within the party have no intentions of compromising on these issues. Even if there is a compromised bill written, take it to the bank, there will be hell to pay come 2014.
Me? I will be working on my man-bike come election day, 2014. I am no longer a believer.
