Don't Get Me Started

GOP gets an F

Andy Hefty

By ANDY HEFTY

CHARLOTTE, NC - A year and a half ago, I wrote that the Republican Party "must learn quickly." At present, they haven’t learned a whit. Republican voters gave their party "leaders" a thumping because they failed to control spending, seal the borders, and fight back the moonbats who prefer to blame our troops rather than support them.

How often have we told Congress to build the fence along our borders? How often have radio-talk hosts called upon citizens to rally themselves to demand that illegal immigration be stopped in its tracks? What did our esteemed elected officials do? They "authorized" the fence, but they didn’t allocate the funding.

At the end of September, the authorization for the fence expires. Don’t hold your breath on that one.

President Bush appointed judges -- good judges -- to the federal judiciary. Various senators have blocked any number of judges for the entire time Bush has been in office. Presently, there are so many vacancies in the federal benches nationwide that most experts call it a crisis in justice. Even the Supreme Court of the United States has officially held the Senate in contempt for stonewalling their constitutional mandate.

What is the Senate doing about this now that President Bush is a lame duck? They are holding 30-second sessions when congress is adjourned -- just so the president cannot generate any recess appointments. No one in the Republican Party has enough gumption to show up and call for a quorum to start pushing these nominations through.

The Farm Bill, laden with over $300 billion of pork-barrel spending, not only passes the Congress, but they actually voted to override the President’s veto. When the American people are demanding that Congress tighten its own belt as we have to do the same, it wasn’t the smartest thing in the world for the so-called "conservatives" to bring in the largesse of a truckload of local projects. In fact, it was rather foolish.

Republicans pander to the environmental (socialist) activists by believing the hoax of global warming and wonder why the price of gas is so high. The take their trips to Saudi Arabia, asking them to produce more oil, but ban any domestic efforts to do the same. With that in mind, what do you call a lawyer with an IQ of 60? Senator. Rather fitting, don’t you think?

The Republican Party faithful seem to have John McCain’s campaign "on the ropes" a year ago. Yet somehow, the "establishment" prefers to nominate the man who more closely resembles the opposition. And this is despite the number of candidates more conservative than McCain. Ronald Reagan, he is not.

Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid calls the war "lost." Congressman Murtha weaves tall tales of murder by our troops that didn’t take place the way he fantasizes. Senator Dick Durbin equates the guards at Guantanamo with soviet gulags and the Cambodian killing fields. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi credits the success in Iraq with Iran’s decision to calm down rather than our troops kicking some serious backside.

What is the official Republican response? Chirping crickets. These clowns won’t even stand up for themselves, let alone our troops.

I could go on, but for once I am getting weary of repeating myself. Is it possible to just give them a failing grade, send them to the corner for a brief time-out, and have them move over for better leadership?