GOP needs a new plan for solutions
“Bush 43” inargueably got just about everything he wanted during his presidency. Tax cuts, authorization to start wars, deregulation — after 9/11 he could have asked us all to walk on our hands for an hour each day and he probably would've gotten it.
Conservatives held solid majorities in both houses of Congress for most of his term and were not shy about enacting major legislation in a hurry. So why aren't things all hunky-dory now? The market fell apart like a pyramid scheme. Quick invasions turned into long, drawn-out disasters. A major American city was swallowed by the sea.
Bush unleashed the power of the free market, didn't he? Conservatives pushed for small government solutions, didn't they? So why didn't it work? Did they just not push hard enough?
What was the missing component that kept a conservative majority from bringing peace and prosperity to this country? I ask that question to ask this one: If they couldn't get it done when all the stars were aligned and everything was in their favor, how will this time be any different? Is there a new game plan? All we're told is that our glorious secret Muslim Communist Nazi overlord is a bad man who hates America, and when he's done destroying it he's going to retreat to his Kenyan doom fortress. And yet he was elected because the guy before him wasn't doing so hot either.
If true conservatives, however they're defined, want power back, fine; good luck and godspeed. But are they going to do anything differently? Because there's a word for trying the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome, and it's not a flattering one.
John Boske Jr.
Bartlett