While Republicans complain about the New Deal and the Great Society politics, they are left arguing many of these programs must be fixed rather than stopped--even when its evident the damage they have done to the Great Republic. Then you have Republicans who helped get bureaucracies like the EPA (remember Richard Nixon signed this anti-business bureaucracy into existence) and the Constitutional butchering Department of Homeland Security empowered with the Republican approved Patriot Act, which I argue removes more Constitutional rights than Obamacare and both need to be repealed based on the power they give the federal government.
Yes, there has been too much cooperation in Washington and too many Republicans like John McCain crossing over to the other side on too many occasions ready to work together, and look where it's gotten us. The Republican party isn't a party of lesser government. They are just as guilty of spending and growing the government--they just don't do it as fast. Even in their most recent announcement of budget cuts, when you look at the minimal $100 billion in spending cuts they now propose in the House, you realize they really aren't serious about reducing the national debt. They just aren't going to grow it as fast as Democrats.
So Ron Paul spoke to my political heart last night at CPAC. He is begging for conservatives to end this bipartisanship, which has led to bigger government every time it's been tried.
"We've had way too much bipartisanship for about 60 years," said Paul, in comments that drew one of many standing ovations during the 25-minute speech. "It's the bipartisanship of the welfare system, the warfare system…it all goes through with support from both parties. "
"There is truly a revolution going on in this country. We live in a time where we don't just need a change in attitude and a change in ideas," Paul also said. "We need to change our philosophy about what this country is all about. "
Paul is once again, and when he says we need to change our philosophy of what this country is all about, he says we need to return it back to the Founder's vision--where we are a Republic and a union of 50 sovereign states which have more power than the federal government. That's the vision of the Founding Fathers, and the federal government's role in all of this was really to be quite limited.
Unfortunately, seeing how most of the Republicans this week voted for the Constitutional killing Patriot Act, including a few Tea Partiers like Michele Bachmann, Billy Long, and Blake Farenthold, there seems little chance these Republicans will fight for the Founder's vision.
