Be Less Boring

Those of you who know me may be quite surprised at the title quote (from Bruce Bartlett) of this post. It is the truth, however.

I've found myself becoming increasingly disturbed over the past several years by the behavior of the Republican party. They once had great leaders like Ronald Reagan, John Sununu, and Mel Thompson, now they've got the bad joke that is Sarah Palin.

Republicans today are hypocrites condemning Democrats for passing fully funded health care reform while conveniently forgetting their own massive and unfunded expansion of Medicare. They're anti-anything suggested by a Democrat and are unwilling to compromise in any meaningful way.

What's worse, the Democrats, even with their majority, don't have the balls to fight the good fight to make the big, meaningful changes they needed to while they have the power-play. Obama was elected with a mandate that will largely go unfulfilled unless the Democrats grow a pair.

Ah, but I'll let Bruce Bartlett tell you about it. He was senior policy analyst in the Reagan White House and deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the Treasury Department during the first Bush administration. In other words, he was in tight with the real Republicans when they were doing things like bringing the Cold War to an abrupt end.

I don't at all agree with him that a VAT tax is inevitable or even desirable, but most everything else he says is spot-on.

In short, the Republicans have turned into a party of asshats and the Democrats are too afraid of taking on big business to do anything at all. As a result, we, the People, are getting screwed. The Middle Class is well on its way to extinction.

If they don't get their acts together soon, they may find themselves facing the fate of King Louis XVI and Czar Nicholas II.