By Robert Laurie ——Bio and Archives--August 2, 2017
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The Republican Party is dead. At one time, the blood of the people coursed through its veins, enlivening the party with their values and virtues, their goals and dreams. The party became its own energizing force, compelling people to sacrifice for a higher moral purpose. But today’s Republican Party abandoned these people. It no longer represents their values. It no longer has a vision for a better America. And no one is stepping up to provide that vision.
The national debt approaches $20 trillion, saddling each American with more than a $60,000 share. We’ll be servicing this debt for decades. Our children will spend a good portion of their livelihood paying off our generation’s extravagant spending. Meanwhile, they will also contend with a collapsed health care market and a tax code that favors the rich and well-connected. A continual undervaluing of the rule of law and influx of illegal immigration will devastate the American family and the American worker. Both parties have proven their inability to deal with these problems.That last bit is wrong. The Democrats are actively working to make the situation worse. It's not an "inability to deal" with the problems if your goal is to perpetuate and expand the issues in question so you can continue your "fundamental transformation." They like these problems, and they want more of them. The Republicans, on the other hand, are completely able to "deal with the problems," they're simply not willing to do so. For some of them, that's because they generally agree with their Democrat counterparts. Folks like McCain, Murkowski, and Collins (as well as several others) have made it clear. Just like Dems, they're statists who view the government as the end all and be all, so they grow it as best they can. The rest of the GOP, people who should be interested in shrinking the federal beast, have realized that "hard work is hard." They're either too lazy or too self-centered to do what's necessary, and they drown out the voices of legitimate small-government conservatives. So, as Buck points out, things get worse.
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But what have we done? Congress passed an omnibus spending bill that betrays our values. A replacement for Obamacare lies dead on the Senate floor. We’ve heard about tax reform but seen nothing yet. Immigration reform is talked about more on Fox News than it is on the House floor. After eight years of assuring that unified Republican government would allow for conservative policy, our Republican Congress has accomplished little, except for passing a spending bill that shackles the aspirations of future generations with crippling debt."Done little" is extraordinarily generous. I'd personally argue that they've done next to nothing. The one big conservative win in 2017 has been the appointment of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, and that's owed mainly to the President, with his list of strict constructionist judges. Congress has been content to spend its time squabbling, focusing on gossip and barely-existent scandals, or re-litigating the last election. There is no forward momentum, and - aside from 'wacko birds' like Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and Mike Lee - there's virtually no one willing to lead a charge. Some will argue that Buck's proclamation that "the Republican Party is dead" is a bit melodramatic. I disagree. The ObamaCare repeal appears to be dead. If the GOP makes it through 2017 without passing a massive, and I mean massive, tax overhaul I'd be inclined to agree with the Colorado Representative. The GOP is on life support. The ObamaCare failure 'pulled the plug' and now we're all waiting to see what happens. They have until the end of the year to make a miraculous recovery. Be
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