Two Republican Moderates in Senate Worry About Future of GOP

Had your read my first comment on this article you would know that I actually advocated the philosophy of Lincoln and Jefferson explicitly. I will re-post my first comment on this article for you again here:

“Katherine Skiba, You wrote:

"Weeks later, Specter, a moderate who had long been courted by Democrats, abandoned the GOP, his home for 43 years, in an about-face that was both stunning and predictable: stunning because he had often insisted that he would never flee his party, and predictable because in doing so he joined a long list of moderate Republican senators who are yesterday's news."

You think it's stunning when a politician breaks his promise? Those of us paying attention to such things think it's stunning if they don't break their promises. For the sake of your own credibility you may want to consider choosing your words more carefully in your pursuit of irony, as I doubt you could be that naive. Obviously Specter knew that his Republican constituents counted his vote on the stimulus package as one betrayal too many. Obama’s promised bipartisanship exists in name only as it depended on such treachery. Apparently Specter had polls showing he could not get re-elected as a Republican after that. Apparently polls showed he had a better chance as a Democrat. He had already switched sides long ago; this just makes it official. Now Republican voters will have the opportunity to vote for a Republican who agrees with them, not a closet Democrat calling himself a Republican.

You wrote:

"And this, she says, isn't good for the GOP's prospects: "We're not going to win presidential elections if we become increasingly a party of white, Southern men.""

I've never been a Southerner, but I'm offended by this constant impulse to categorize people demographically. Is it impossible to discuss the philosophical issues affecting us all, related to how people should govern themselves, or must we always be divided into categories assigned to us by others, and pitted against each other based our demographical or geographical differences, for the purpose of defeating each other? We are united in defense of our certain inalienable rights, but the politicos always want to divide and conquer us. The politics of group identity is profoundly bigoted, and has ravaged Europe, Asia, and Africa for thousands of years. Our ancestors escaped such tribalism coming to this continent. Why must we return to it?

The philosophical beliefs expressed by Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln are alive and well, and would be successful if journalists and politicians had any interest to discuss and defend them. Unfortunately, seeing how such an awareness would limit the power of their political class, they go to great lengths to obscure such an understanding.”

Barry of CA 6:18PM July 29, 2009

I cite as my sources Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg address:

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met here on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But in a larger sense we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled, here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but can never forget what they did here.

It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

The philosophy of the Democrat Party is evident by their past deeds:

‘Trail of Tears’ – Ordered by Democrat president Andrew Jackson

Slavery – Advocated by all Civil War era Democrats

Segregation – Advocated by four term Democrat governor George Wallace

Japanese American Internment – Franklin Roosevelt’s executive order 9066

Nuclear holocaust on Japanese civilians - “Give ‘em Hell Harry” Harry Truman

KKK – Democrat Senator Robert Byrd

(still in the US Senate, being re-elected each time by Democrats!!!)

Your party’s past shows you are all about sacrificing one’s group’s interests for another, usually for racist reasons. You practice the politics of ‘group identity’. The Republican Party exists to defend the rights of the individual, which we all have in common equally, which we believe are inalienable. There is a reason why the two most recent presidents whose faces appear on Mt. Rushmore happen to be Republicans: No Democrat since Jefferson is worthy of the honor.

Barry of CA 6:01PM July 29, 2009

Obama’s attack on our free market economy began long before the current crisis. The following legal documents, news articles, and videos show his part in causing this crisis over the past fifteen years. Now he uses it as an excuse to do even more damage. To him, our free enterprise system is a giant merciless beast that he and his allies have succeeded in wounding. In a free market, your choices as a consumer, select against society’s losers, which he represents. This is why the Obamabots, having won, are still seething with hatred for their opponents. Having wounded the beast they are now closing in for the kill. The recovery of our free market economy is not their objective. They would rather replace it with something else. So their policies are only making matters measurably worse. They want revenge for the unfairness they perceive in the free market.

These legal documents show Barack Obama suing Citibank under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) from 1994 to 1998, where he and other lawyers got $950,000 in legal fees without finding any evidence of wrongdoing:

http://clearinghouse.wustl.edu/chDocs/public/FH-IL-0011-9000.pdf

http://clearinghouse.wustl.edu/chDocs/public/FH-IL-0011-0007.pdf

This was part of a legalized protection racket perpetrated on our nations banks, and part of a widespread systematic shakedown, described in detail in this article published in the year 2000: "The Trillion-Dollar Bank Shakedown That Bodes Ill for Cities":

http://www.city-journal.org/html/10_1_the_trillion_dollar.html

The New York Times reported on this in 2003, and explained what additional regulatory action the Bush administration tried to initiate to protect the banks, in "New Agency Proposed to Oversee Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae", only to be blocked by Democrats in congress:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/11/business/new-agency-proposed-to-oversee-freddie-mac-and-fannie-mae.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1

Obama, ACORN, Bill Clinton, the Clinton Administration, and members of congress explain what happened here in their own words in these videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivmL-lXNy64&feature=channel_page

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vJcVgJhNaU&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs&feature=related

This video connects the dots:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RZVw3no2A4&feature=iv&annotation_id=event_597487

Thomas Sowell summarized it all in his column, "Do Facts Matter?":

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NGRjODM1MTJlOGZiZDk2ODI4NTUzMWMxYjgwMjliMGQ

The Washington Post provides additional detail: ("Where Was Sen. Dodd? Playing the Blame Game On Fannie and Freddie"):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091102841.html

The Wall Street Journal provides additional detail: ("Blame Fannie Mae and Congress For the Credit Mess "):

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122212948811465427.html

This pattern of behavior must be stopped to protect the economic future of our country.

Barry of CA 2:04PM July 28, 2009

Quit deliberately trying to create a false caricature of the Republican Party. You don’t know what a Republican is, because you are not one.

With Obama’s approval rating in a nosedive, his main initiatives about to crash and burn, you predict, “It is already increasingly likely that PBO will be a 2 term'er”. It’s not even clear “PBO” knows the difference between Iraq and Afghanistan, the latter being a place where the Soviet army met it’s demise, where “PBO” could get us over-committed with no exit strategy, as Clinton did in Somalia, escalating the mission while failing to identify a vital national interest, now telling us that victory in Afghanistan may not be the objective, echoing Johnson’s prosecution of the war in Vietnam. Democrats personalize war. So Clinton fixated on the Somali ‘warlord’ as they now fixate on Bin Laden, who is more a symptom of a larger disease that needed treatment.

We still don’t have a clear sign that this recession has hit bottom, or any indication that Obama’s policies will even allow a recovery, as he does everything imaginable to keep investors on the sidelines. No his over-reaching and incompetence are about to cause the type of backlash created by Clinton’s over-reaching that swept Republican majorities into the house and the Senate in 1994, like the backlash Jimmy Carter created which launched the presidency of Ronald Reagan. The realities of war ruined Republican chances last time, but now it’s Obama’s war. As I mentioned earlier, the racism you would like to attribute to the Republican Party with your subterfuge all belongs to the Democrats. I don’t know any Republicans like the ones you pretend to describe. This is the Democrat legacy:

‘Trail of Tears’ – Ordered by Democrat president Andrew Jackson

Slavery – Advocated by all Civil War era Democrats

Segregation – Advocated by four term Democrat governor George Wallace

Japanese American Internment – Franklin Roosevelt’s executive order 9066

Nuclear holocaust on Japanese civilians - “Give ‘em Hell Harry” Harry Truman

KKK – Democrat Senator Robert Byrd (still in the US Senate!!!)

The Democrat party has always been the party of ‘group identity’, concealing racist hatred and bigotry, whereas the Republican Party has always been the party of the individual and individual rights. Following the Democrat Party requires you to be gullible enough to believe that Al Gore created the Internet, and believe that the Earth is still warming, after it has been cooling for more than ten years, or be capable of inventing such bald faced lies to mislead your followers. In contrast, membership in the Republican Party requires individuals to ignore such lies from the media and other sources. We think independently and reach our own conclusions. Your reliance on subterfuge illustrates that your cause is not just, a point that may have meaning to others though it clearly has no meaning for you.

Barry of CA 12:10PM July 28, 2009