The GOP Needs New Leadership
Posted: Thursday, November 19, 2009
by Richard Vail
Chisel & Plane
It's well past time to clean house in the GOP leadership, both that which is elected, and appointed to the RNC. They have all lost touch with reality inside the beltway. That mentality led to the loss of the "permanent majority" in 2006 and further losses in 2008. It's time to break out the brooms and bring in some new people who haven't lost sight of what the GOP is supposed to stand for. We are NOT democratic lite, we stand for smaller, more efficient government (no that's not redundant idiocy--government CAN be made more efficient if it's run as a business), a stronger more responsible foreign policy (Teddy Roosevelt was right--speak softly and carry a big stick), eliminating those government departments that have become Federal Jobs programs--Education (give the money saved as proportional block grants to the states) for example.
Our elected leaders have come to care more about remaining in office and passing out financial favours to their campaign donors than about what is good for the country. It's well past time to pass an amendment that limits the number of terms in office ANY Representative, Delegate or Senator can hold. It's time to limit the number of days per year that Congress sits in session. Their endless sessions produce huge bills that no one can genuinely comprehend until after they are enacted and the disaster that they are can be fully realized.
The men and women who founded this country never envisioned that we would have a class of professional politicians. Even a quick reading of the Federalist Papers, by James Madison, et al, gives a sense that their intention was that new men and women would come forward every few years to SERVE in Congress, then return home to their businesses and farms, not remain in life-long tenures. Most of the men and women serving in the present Congress have never actually worked outside of politics in their lives.
It's time to sweep them away and bring in new leadership who actually can comprehend what running a business really means. Because running the government has become a means to an end...larger budgets and more people sucking on Uncle Sam's hind tit is not the answer. Throw the bums out.
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Top-level comments on this article: (5 total)Good article. Well done.The article was quite well written. However, I don't know what GOP stands for. I would advise that everytime you use an the short hand you need to write it out the first time.Anyway, Welcome to SearchWarp.GOP = Grand Old Party, it's term that was coined in the late 1800's to refer to the Republican Party. Thanks for your input. I'll keep that in mind for the future.
I agree with cleaning the house and start over.Thanks for your input.
GOP = Grand Old Party, or the Republican Party, this started out as a comment on a blog...and kinda grew of it's own accord...and I posted it on my blog then here.
Great article. Thank you for writing a well-written article. Yes, I agree to new leadership. Stay Well. Happy Thanksgiving Day! ~Nenita~Thanks for responding...I've way too much to say on this subject...so I thought I'd keep it brief.
Hi Richard, I couldn't agree more with you. If the GOP would have cleaned house a few years back maybe they wouldn't have lost so horribly in the last elections.Thanks Jeremy, I've taken to sending all of my blog/article entries to the RNC lately....just to let them know that some of the purported base is "@#$@#&*ed" at the way they are handling things. They have yet to answer, if I could get EVERYONE wo is annoyed with the way the GOP is going these days would do the same, perhaps we could get something done about it. Thanks for commenting and coming by.Rich
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