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Fiscal Conservatism: RIP By: Amy Vedder  |
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 Fiscal conservatism is now officially dead. Presiding over the funeral service was President Bush and Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson.
Fiscal Conservatism had been struggling on life support for quite a while, and then in a move that could only be called a mercy killing, the President delivered the final blow with the mother of all bailouts.
For reason known only to himself, the President has done what the Democrats have been trying to do for decades. He has ended and discredited Conservatism to the point that there is no way we can be taken seriously.
We rightfully have been strong opponents of liberal spending on social programs that seemed unnecessary and unjustified, but all the liberal spending over the last thirty years doesn’t come close to the handouts that this Administration has willingly pulled from the pockets of average Americans.
The damage that has been done to the Republican Party is still incalculable. The Presidency is nothing. How many seats will we lose in Congress this time around? All of them?
Nancy Pelosi has been saying since the day she took office that impeachment was off the table and now I know why. The President has been the biggest political ally the Democrats have ever had. His administration has destroyed the Republican Party, and set up generations of Democratic rule.
We may have to consider abandoning the Republican name and creating a new party, because the possibility that we will be taken seriously under the Republican name is slim to none. How can we run as the party of change? How can we possibly say that we will clean up Washington when we have been in control of Washington, who is going to buy it?
Bush has betrayed his Party and the nation. And maybe we deserve it to take the hit, if for nothing more than the fact that we went along with this flim-flam artist every step of the way.
We could have stepped in and prevented a lot of what has happened, but we didn’t. We could have told the president no, when he asked for authorization to attack Iraq, but we didn’t, we could have created financial protection for the American people, but we didn’t.
And now John McCain is asking for our votes. We could give our votes to John McCain, but what will we get in return? We’ve asked for leadership and we got Sarah Palin. Who is a joke!
As Republicans we are going to have to make some hard choices. Fiscal Conservatism is dead. The President is mysteriously absent. Like it or not, we are at the dawn of a new political age. What is that we offer?
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