DISQUS

Jim_Satterfield · 11 months ago

Well, I read his suggestions. There is no way the Republican Party with its current support base will try to follow them. None of them have any appeal to the Rush Limbaugh crowd and the recent kerfuffle over the "humorous" CD being distributed by Chip Saltsman and the defense of it by so many of the base shows who the base supports. They don't care about government efficiency. It's all about attacking the liberals and justifying sweeping statements about the evil of government, not looking beyond ideology.

superdestroyer · 11 months ago

the difference between the David Axelrod verus Karl Rove types is that Axelrod was smart enough to say that he was going to lower taxes by raising taxes on others. The Rove wannabes cannot do that as a strategy.

Of course, now that obama administration is talking about extending the Bush tax cuts instead of letting them expire.

Why the Republicans have zero credibility is that they talk about smaller government but never propose any cuts. president Bush cut taxes but he also expanded spending. Tax cuts require spending cuts. The Republicans refuse to face that fact.

kritt11 · 11 months ago

I agree with Jim- That crowd never listens to anything approaching common sense.

I am not always a fan of big government solutions- but I do support smart government.

jasperjava · 11 months ago

Both parties believe in big government. It's just that Democrats believe in spending on infrastructure and programs that actually aim to help people, while Republicans like to squander money on tax cuts for the rich, weapons systems that don't work, wars that accomplish nothing but senseless destruction, and subsidies to big business.

The Republicans can't say with a straight face that they're the party of fiscal responsibility, balanced budgets, and small government. They posted the worst deficits in history and increased the national debt to toxic levels.

kritt11 · 11 months ago

Jasper- that's because Republicans support their big corporate donors either by disarming the Federal government's regulatory agencies , awarding big contracts, or giving huge subsidies or tax breaks.

superdestroyer · 11 months ago

Jasper, tax cuts are not government spending. Of course, the Republicans expanded all parts of the government, create a huge new entitlement programs (prescriptions for Medicare), expanded education spending, operate an open borders program for eight years, and expanded the civil service workforce. Of course the Repubicans have no credibility on fiscal issues but to blame it on weapons systems (when no new weapon systems were really fielded during the Bush Administration but tings like the Crusaders was cut).

kritt11 · 11 months ago

SD- But tax cuts lead to deficit spending- especially if you enact them in wartime. Deficit spending weakens the entire economy.

All the GOP would have to do is stop sticking to their worthless dogma-- that they abandon at every opportunity-- and institute real solutions for real people. Unfortunately, the choice to abandon the middle class and poor has cost them dearly. You cannot simultaneously side with industry and the American worker--- so all they have left are the rich.

superdestroyer · 11 months ago

Tax cuts lead to deficit spending if they are not accompanied with spending cuts. The idiots in the Bush Admnistrartion wanted tax cuts while increasing spending. that is why the U.S. will soon be a one party state. The country only need one big government, big spending party.

I love how real solutions for real people is now code for massive government spending with zero consideratins for the long term consequences of the spending.

Once again, the progressives want to have a welfare state, they have to close the borders and deport 30 million illegal aliens. You cannot have a welfare state and open borders at the same time. Yet, the current Democratic Party thinks that it can. See California (a blue state) for what happens when the government tries to pay for real solutions for real people while maintaining open borders.