How About Some Old Ideas?

Republicans are about to fall into an old trap cleverly set by the President. It concerns what in my days on the Hill was known as CRAP - the Constructive Republican Alternative Program - and Mr. Obama and his fellow Demagogues - oops, I mean Democrats - simply lust over the thought that House Minority leader John Boehner falling for it anew.

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Americans don't need having any more new ideas shoved down their throats by Washington - what the President and Congress have done - think health care reform for instance - and the last thing Republicans need is a new strategy bound to have a deleterious effect on the coming GOP tidal wave in the November elections. What the nation needs is to adhere to the old ideas - those set in concrete by the founding fathers in a document Mr. Obama and his allies wish had never been written - the Constitution of the United States. They abhor it, as Mr., Obama has said, because it deals with what the Government may not do to the American people, rather than what he thinks it should do the people ... Such as take over the system that in private hands has given the nation's the world best system of medical care. The purpose behind the Democrat's challenge to Leader Boehner is plain as the nose on your face - to give them targets at which to spew their venom. After all, they can't attack you for what you haven't done - ergo, they need you to do something they can target - and the leftwing media will take it from there. As November approaches what the Republicans need to do is step up their attacks on the failed Obama agenda. Keep the drumbeat of criticism pounding away and never let the President distract them from job one - driving the greatest number of Obama supporters from Capitol Hill. That's the only issue the GOP needs to deal with. Forget wasting time looking hither and yon for some new idea for Obama and his minions to demagogue over. Americans are angry - and they should be. A few days before his inauguration, Barack Obama told the nation he was about to transform America. Still smarting with resentment over what they believed were the excesses of the Bush administration, and forgetting that much of what they resented was the work of a Congress solidly controlled by the Democratic party for the last four years of the Bush Administration they looked forward to Mr. Obama's promised "change." Well we got it, but it wasn't the change we expected. Instead what we got was a narcissistic pseudo-Marxist seething with resentment against a nation he profoundly dislikes - a weak man with weak policies that reeked with apologetic rhetoric that ignored much of what made America great to concentrate on what he imagined made America evil and in needed to change. The American people were deceived, mainly because the media, wallowing in ecstasy over the arrival of their long-awaited political second coming blatantly refused to do their job of digging into every aspect of a candidate's past - a job crucial when the candidate's past was full of holes - a vast wasteland of inexplicable contradictions. Shivering with thrills they felt climbing up their limbs, they gave him a complete pass and as a result the nation got a cipher as its chief executive. New ideas? Who needs them. It is old ideas - you know, such as the fact that in this nation the people rule, not some distant government now in the hands of crazed ideologues - that we need. Mr. Boehner, do your job - keep exposing the majority for what they are, cling to the old ideas enshrined in our Constitution and next January we, and a virtual horde of new Republican House members, will be calling you Mr. Speaker.