“… that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the political class, by the political class, for the political class, shall not perish from the earth.”
– Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, repurposed for today’s political officeholders
Alas, the Republican Party has embraced this twist of Abraham Lincoln’s words and enshrined it in the election process. “Outsiders are not welcome. If you persist in trying to play the game, we are going to take our marbles and go home.”
Please do. You’re pathetic. You won’t get ten Millennial votes when the election finally rolls around.
Since the party has been unable to cull the generous herd of candidates seeking the Republican nomination for president, the leadership has decided to limit their visibility (via the network) in the upcoming debates. The threshold for getting your debater’s ticket is … being a two-percenter. “If you absolutely must have an election for president, let’s at least limit the damage to a list to candidates that know how the game is played once they get into office!”
Indeed. Heaven forbid that anyone should have to keep the promises they made when they ran for election! How uncivilized. And how terrible for property values in D.C.
The biggest and most persistent promise Republicans make – and they do it election after election – is to cut the size of government. Let’s be charitable: We’ll limit accountability to the years since LBJ and his “Great Society,” now collapsing underneath the weight of its own bureaucratic and demographic overhead.
Has the Republican Party EVER eliminated a federal agency? Which one, and when was it? I’m not talking about “eliminating” the Biannual Commission for Quality Control of Fountain Pen Tips. I’m talking about a federal agency born over Republican objections, raised to adulthood in Republican day care, and today joining its fellow “youths” by inflicting terror and mayhem on the citizenry which rightly expects that the Constitution still means something.
Name. One. Agency.
Today’s Republican Party is not the party of Lincoln. It’s the party of political incest and the resultant Potomac inbreeding, with the tragic results we see before us every day.
“The Republican Party is committed to smaller government!” Sure, maybe in Zimbabwe. But not in Washington, D.C. At some point an organization has to be judged by the results of its behavior. And for the Republican Party, that time has arrived with the debates.
Republicans have a lot of contenders for the nomination. Instead of working to curtail participation and new ideas, shouldn’t they look for a different format that would permit wider participation? If that solution were technological, it might catapult the party forward in voters’ minds. As it stands, their two-percenter rules will exclude:
- Women. No Carly Fiorina. If I’m not mistaken, roughly half the voters are women.
- Social conservatives. Nope, don’t want any talk of abortion, how it ties in with illegal immigration, or Supreme Court impeachments.
No, let’s stick to the old, reliable Republican promises. Repeal Obamacare. Reduce the size of the federal government. Cut taxes. Reduce the deficit.
Maybe it will work. Just one more time.
What’s really happening as the world around us disintegrates?
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