Thursday, January 19, 2012
Is the Republican Party doomed?
LOOKING AHEAD by Wally Dobelis
National Republican leadership, e.g. ex-Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Gov Nikki Haley (R-SC) and the US Chamber of Commerce, as well as some of the powerful talk show hosts are finally waking up to the devastation of the GOP that the mutually destructive Presidential candidates are wreaking, and are gently begging to cease and desist, allowing Mitt Romney to proceed to the lead. It is a bit late, with SC primaries on January 21 and Florida on January 31.
Bur the social conservatives, ex-Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA), Gov Rick Perry (R-TX) and ex-Gov, Sarah Palin (R-AL) are on a roll, well, maybe not Perry who just lost a top donor Barry Wynn for calling Mitt a vulture capitalist or some such. However, Gingrich has been refueled by a $5 million donation from Nevada gambling power Sheldon Adelson (hello, Supreme Court, is this what you meant in the Citizens United decision, allowing a corporate steamroller vote to overwhelm citizens' franchise guaranteed by the US Constitution?), all to be spent in videos, speech and TV commercials denouncing Romney as a Massachusetts moderate and a position changer, with the objective of trouncing Mitt in the primaries, while Newt rises and saves the Republican party.
Gingrich as a conservative savior came forth when Newsmax (the print and internet news service for Conservatives, founded by Christopher F. Ruddy in 1998 with financing from Richard Mellon Scaife the Clinton hater and similar backers) set up a half-hour laudatory pro-Gingrich program on major TV.
Newsmax has also been active in denouncing Rep. Ron Paul (R-TH), by highlighting some of the really ugly racist statements in his periodicals published by RP&A (Ron Paul's Investment Newsletter, Survival newsletter), e.g. nasty descriptions of Martin Luther King as a person and of his memorial day, rumors of deliberate infections of white women with AIDS and the like, which Paul claims were written without his knowledge. Although the newsletters brought him literally millions of dollars, the claims may have a basis; Dr. Paul has been busy building a post-twoparty system organization. One must understand Dr. Paul’s career – 1963-68 a flight surgeon in the US Air Force, then a pediatrician near Galveston TX, performing many free deliveries for poor people, concurrently reading Ayn Rand and economics of the Austrian School that blame the Weimar Republic’s collapse and WWII on runaway Socialism , selectively citing Frederick Hajek, but ignoring Arthur Pigou’ s warnings about negative externalities. The bellowed pediatrician was elected to the Congress in 1976 a served in several periods, 1976-85 and 1997 to now, taking time to run for US presidency as a Libertarian in 1988 and Republican in 2008. In Congress he busily wrote 464 items of legislation, to abolish income tax, the Federal Reserve, reinstate the gold standard and to immediately withdraw from wars and stop giving money support to foreign countries including Israel. Only one law passed a land grant for a park.
A mid-Manhattan person really has trouble understanding the mentality of the mostly western and midwestern voters who have readily embraced the Tea Party and have sent some 86 representatives to the Congress, with strict commands to break through the democratic system of checks and balances, ignore the realities of international economics and get millions of government employees fired, in the name of a balanced budget.
It is not only the TP people who embrace Dr. Paul, it is also the young crowd who four years earlier loved President- to- be Obama, now in disfavor because the inherited world situation did not permit him to keep many of his promises. Now they like Dr. Paul who is totally revolutionary and offers anarchism, forgetting that government is the key to the social compact that brought the Neanderthals out of wilderness and into a society. One can read his plans in Restore America Now, his campaign website, offering to rebalance the $14Trillion budget in three years, starting by saving $1Trillion in first year, by eliminating five cabinet departments – Commerce, HUD, Energy, Interior and Education, also abolishing Transportation Security Administration, and returning responsibility for security to private property owners. He would also abolish corporate subsidies, foreign aid and foreign wars, cut federal work force by 10% slash congressional pay and vacations,(as President, Dr Paul will take in pay $39,339 a year, approximately the median personal income of the American worker) Further, he would repeal ObamaCare, Dodd-Frank, and Sarbanes –Oxley, lower corporate tax to 15%, extend all Bush tax cuts, abolish the Death Tax, end taxes on personal savings, allowing families to build a nest egg. He is against WTA and NAFTA as being too managed. He will require thorough congressional review of all regulations, before implementing new ones. As to entitlements, he will honor the country’s promise to seniors and veterans while allowing young workers to opt out, and block grants to Medicaid and other welfare programs to allow the states to use their ingenuity and flexibility to solve their individual unique problems. He will conduct full audit of Federal Reserve and implement competing legislation to stabilize currency. President Paul will also cancel all onerous regulations previously issued by Executive Order.
Presidential rule by Executive Order will exist in other quarters also, pointing to distrust of the Congress. One feels Dr. Paul’s soft speech and sloppy language treatment hides some big dictatorial tendencies. Of all the candidates still in play, including Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, both smart but greedy and given to flip-flop, honest Dr. Paul would be the least desirable. It is scary to see how many leaders out there, acting out like children, can rip up the GOP, wipe out one side of our two-party system and destroy the ballgame.
Wally Dobelis and the staff of T&V wish our readers a much improved New Year.
National Republican leadership, e.g. ex-Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Gov Nikki Haley (R-SC) and the US Chamber of Commerce, as well as some of the powerful talk show hosts are finally waking up to the devastation of the GOP that the mutually destructive Presidential candidates are wreaking, and are gently begging to cease and desist, allowing Mitt Romney to proceed to the lead. It is a bit late, with SC primaries on January 21 and Florida on January 31.
Bur the social conservatives, ex-Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA), Gov Rick Perry (R-TX) and ex-Gov, Sarah Palin (R-AL) are on a roll, well, maybe not Perry who just lost a top donor Barry Wynn for calling Mitt a vulture capitalist or some such. However, Gingrich has been refueled by a $5 million donation from Nevada gambling power Sheldon Adelson (hello, Supreme Court, is this what you meant in the Citizens United decision, allowing a corporate steamroller vote to overwhelm citizens' franchise guaranteed by the US Constitution?), all to be spent in videos, speech and TV commercials denouncing Romney as a Massachusetts moderate and a position changer, with the objective of trouncing Mitt in the primaries, while Newt rises and saves the Republican party.
Gingrich as a conservative savior came forth when Newsmax (the print and internet news service for Conservatives, founded by Christopher F. Ruddy in 1998 with financing from Richard Mellon Scaife the Clinton hater and similar backers) set up a half-hour laudatory pro-Gingrich program on major TV.
Newsmax has also been active in denouncing Rep. Ron Paul (R-TH), by highlighting some of the really ugly racist statements in his periodicals published by RP&A (Ron Paul's Investment Newsletter, Survival newsletter), e.g. nasty descriptions of Martin Luther King as a person and of his memorial day, rumors of deliberate infections of white women with AIDS and the like, which Paul claims were written without his knowledge. Although the newsletters brought him literally millions of dollars, the claims may have a basis; Dr. Paul has been busy building a post-twoparty system organization. One must understand Dr. Paul’s career – 1963-68 a flight surgeon in the US Air Force, then a pediatrician near Galveston TX, performing many free deliveries for poor people, concurrently reading Ayn Rand and economics of the Austrian School that blame the Weimar Republic’s collapse and WWII on runaway Socialism , selectively citing Frederick Hajek, but ignoring Arthur Pigou’ s warnings about negative externalities. The bellowed pediatrician was elected to the Congress in 1976 a served in several periods, 1976-85 and 1997 to now, taking time to run for US presidency as a Libertarian in 1988 and Republican in 2008. In Congress he busily wrote 464 items of legislation, to abolish income tax, the Federal Reserve, reinstate the gold standard and to immediately withdraw from wars and stop giving money support to foreign countries including Israel. Only one law passed a land grant for a park.
A mid-Manhattan person really has trouble understanding the mentality of the mostly western and midwestern voters who have readily embraced the Tea Party and have sent some 86 representatives to the Congress, with strict commands to break through the democratic system of checks and balances, ignore the realities of international economics and get millions of government employees fired, in the name of a balanced budget.
It is not only the TP people who embrace Dr. Paul, it is also the young crowd who four years earlier loved President- to- be Obama, now in disfavor because the inherited world situation did not permit him to keep many of his promises. Now they like Dr. Paul who is totally revolutionary and offers anarchism, forgetting that government is the key to the social compact that brought the Neanderthals out of wilderness and into a society. One can read his plans in Restore America Now, his campaign website, offering to rebalance the $14Trillion budget in three years, starting by saving $1Trillion in first year, by eliminating five cabinet departments – Commerce, HUD, Energy, Interior and Education, also abolishing Transportation Security Administration, and returning responsibility for security to private property owners. He would also abolish corporate subsidies, foreign aid and foreign wars, cut federal work force by 10% slash congressional pay and vacations,(as President, Dr Paul will take in pay $39,339 a year, approximately the median personal income of the American worker) Further, he would repeal ObamaCare, Dodd-Frank, and Sarbanes –Oxley, lower corporate tax to 15%, extend all Bush tax cuts, abolish the Death Tax, end taxes on personal savings, allowing families to build a nest egg. He is against WTA and NAFTA as being too managed. He will require thorough congressional review of all regulations, before implementing new ones. As to entitlements, he will honor the country’s promise to seniors and veterans while allowing young workers to opt out, and block grants to Medicaid and other welfare programs to allow the states to use their ingenuity and flexibility to solve their individual unique problems. He will conduct full audit of Federal Reserve and implement competing legislation to stabilize currency. President Paul will also cancel all onerous regulations previously issued by Executive Order.
Presidential rule by Executive Order will exist in other quarters also, pointing to distrust of the Congress. One feels Dr. Paul’s soft speech and sloppy language treatment hides some big dictatorial tendencies. Of all the candidates still in play, including Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, both smart but greedy and given to flip-flop, honest Dr. Paul would be the least desirable. It is scary to see how many leaders out there, acting out like children, can rip up the GOP, wipe out one side of our two-party system and destroy the ballgame.
Wally Dobelis and the staff of T&V wish our readers a much improved New Year.
# posted by Wally Dobelis @ 1:44 PM 
