Sweeping Up The Debris
By Mitch Berg
Everyone, myself included, has a list of the things the GOP needs to do to repair itself an the nation.
J Ewing, writing at True North, correctly notes that it may be just as important to have a list of things to undo:
I propose that the most positive and effective message Republicans can have for the 2010 election is “The Undo List.” This would be similar to a Contract with America, but would consist only of those things in which Democrats have overreached, and tried to solve the problems created by big government with even bigger government intrusions. If it were to be announced immediately, it could even be effective during debate on these issues, demonstrating to Democrats that “the people” do not agree with their proposals and will punish them at the polls for their perfidy. Democrats HATE that, even more than they hate to cut spending… ever.
We will never “get our country back” until we can undo what the Left has done to us over the last many years, and that will require Republicans to field candidates, at all levels, with the political courage to oppose our socialist drift (now a tide) AND the political power to undo it, one piece at a time.
The list could be as long as the federal budget.
Heck – the list could be the federal budget.
May 22nd, 2009 at 8:11 am
The problem with that idea is that the logical place to start would be with the TARP plan the GOP voted for last autumn.
May 22nd, 2009 at 8:27 am
Tarp 1 could be the start but, the problem came long before Tarp was even a twinkle in Bernake’s eye.
All levels of our government need to be slashed back. We can close entire branches at the state level. Cities can contract out work or decide if it even needs to get done.
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Thank you for the notice. The reason I proposed the list is because you have seen the tremendous resistance just to not greatly increasing spending (and taxing) in Minnesota. We’re going to need to start with some undoes that have popular support, and build political power from that, before moving on to the more “drastic” but necessary things, like privatizing socuial security and medicare and education.
May 22nd, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Jewing said: “We will never “get our country back” until we can undo what the Left has done to us over the last many years”
Haha! Hey Rip Van Douchebag, maybe you missed the fact that the right was in control the past eight years and completely fscked everything up?
May 22nd, 2009 at 4:23 pm
angryclown said:
“he right was in control the past eight years”
Calling someone a “Douchebag” and then being one is bad form, old chum.
May 22nd, 2009 at 5:57 pm
I guess the Dems being in control of Congress since `06 doesn`t count as “in control”.
May 23rd, 2009 at 10:16 am
And, I should point out, having the GOP in control of Congress and asking like Democrats counts as having the Left in charge. They didn’t “undo” anything, and they should have.
May 26th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
The time to seriously reduce government might not be during a recession or depression. The largest employer is government. A 20%+ unemployment rate will have the electorate voting in even more Liberal Fascists. You fell right into their trap.