In addition, this whole point about the congress role as a custodian of our tax money. Is that a joke?
Where were these representatives when the conservative government shipped to Iraq $12 billion dollars hidden in bricks? Did they express their outrage when nobody could account for the majority of the money? http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/10/iraq_billions200710
Should the same eagerness to protect taxpayers’ money apply to the uncontested Halliburton and black Water contracts among many others?
Would these representatives have the same concerns when it come to spending on extremely expensive weapons that we can’t use in traditional wars, let alone the low-tech war we are facing today?
Would the day come when some representatives have the courage to ask, what would a few billions of the current $650 billions annual pentagon budget –taxpayers’ money- do for education, healthcare, and social security without hurting our national security?
The Republican Party in its desperate attempt to find a voice after two humiliating defeats took unattainable positions that mainly stress the Reignite simple ideological views. At the mean time, the whole world moved significantly to the center -post ideology- after realizing that the extreme positions of capitalism and communism failed. This move opened the door to a new pragmatist approach, where both private and public sectors have important roles to play in the lives of the citizens.
This change is prevalent everywhere you look, from Obama’s positions since his election, to the comments of the capitalist “newbies,” Russian and Chinese premiers at the World Economic Forum in Davos
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/30/AR2009013002726.html
The conservative party has the right to play politics, to propose tried and failed policies, to see the world as good and evil, the economy as capitalism and communism. At the mean time, I predict that the American people will have only two more years before they can say in a loud and clear voice Bye Bye GOP, unless of course the GOP discovers its own path to substantial reform.
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