The End of the Republican Party?

December 18, 2008
by Cliff Carson

The Arrogance of the Bush Administration, the unyielding support of the Republican Party for this morally bankrupt Administration, the absolute refusal of the Republican Party to make any effort to attend the needs of the people of America when it required a repudiation of some policy or desire of this failed Presidency, has led a strong rejection of a once Grand Old Party, once renowned for its moral and ethical base. Today's Republican Party is no longer relevant as a moral and ethical voice for the American people. The Republican Party now owes its allegiance to special interests.

Today the GOP is busy trying to blame the Democrats for everything. And in this effort they have achieved an unintended consequence. They have become the laughing stock of the world. Actually that is not factually true. They are feared by Foreigner and Americans alike due to the misery they have brought both at home and abroad over the past eight years. The unintended consequence? They have rescued the Democratic Party from its gutter position it had achieved when they defended, to a man, an utterly decadent president, who until George Bush, had to be possibly the worst president in the history of the United States.

So what's the average citizen to do? Should we continue to choose between two failed Political Parties? If we have proved nothing else, we have proved that when we elect the lesser of two evils, what we have assured ourselves of getting - is evil. Isn't there a better path to restoring our Nation?

First I believe punishment is in order. The GOP has led us into the worst period of immoral, unethical, corrupt, and arrogant behavior in the history of this country. And there is only one way to punish a Political Party - get rid of it. How do you get rid of an entrenched powerful Party? Don't ever support anything Republican again - ever. When a Republican comes up for election - vote him/her out. In a couple of election cycles the Party will have gone into the dustbin of history.

This Party has been so against what is best for America over the last eight years that the question "Has a Vote for a Republican Become a Vote against America"? is a dead serious question that really needs an honest answer. To examine a couple of issues that are against the people of America's best interest, consider the following:

How many remember that there was a $300 Billion bailout in July of 2008 designed to help 400,000 homeowners with mortgages? This was before the $700 Billion bailout that became $850 Billion (by adding in $150 Billion in pork) before it was passed. And this July bailout was also before the bailout of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Lehman Brothers. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley got $10 Billion each and earmarked $13.3 Billion for bonuses that amounted to over $100,000 each for every employee for those two firms. Goldman Sachs former head man Hank Paulson was made head of the later Bailout Plan by President George Bush and not a peep from the Republican Party ensued.

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A cynical person could say that the common wage earning taxpayer coughed up $20 Billion to pay $13.3 Billion in bonuses for the employees of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Now the Republicans are trying to blame everyone but themselves for this carnage of the Financial System. I call it a politically forced Ponzi scheme.

But back to that $300 Billion to bail out 400,000 mortgage holders. When I divide that sum by 400,000 that equals $750,000 for every mortgage to be bailed out, that is if they bail out 400,000. Just this week it was reported that only 100 people had been bailed out so far using that $300 Billion. Republicans are running this mess. Where has that money gone? We need to send some people to prison.

The total of bailouts are now approaching $2 Trillion (that's 2,000 billion) and some analysts think the final cost will exceed $7 Trillion. And there is no guarantee that even that will stop the financial meltdown. Today Republicans were calling it Obama's Depression.

I know that Democrats have also been complicit but the Republicans were in power and had the clout to stop it beginning back around 2004, when Republican Lobbyists were paid in excess of $4 million to scuttle efforts to strengthen regulations on the Mortgage Industry. But how's this for double dealing: John McCain was one of the four Senators who were pushing for tougher regulations, but at the same time the two lobbying firms leading the opposition to tougher regulations were run by Republican Rick Davis, selected by John McCain to be his 2008 Presidential Campaign manager, and Republican Doug Goodyear, selected by McCain to be the chairman of the 2008 Republican Convention. They were successful in stopping the tougher regulations.

See why I'm calling for the end of the Republican Party? This savage corruption practiced by the Republican Party has cost this country dearly. That behavior is un-American. The rank and file Republicans line up to support their corrupt party, finding excuses or manufacturing such, to keep themselves in power. We the people need to ban such Party behavior and the only way we can do it is to make them irrelevant by turning their people out of office, never again voting for a Republican, for any office. Democrats are you listening?