Hey Republicans: Get To Work!

By Walter Krull

Is the Republican Party self-destructive? Dysfunctional? Ignorant? Just plain stupid?

Unemployment continues to rise. Foreclosures keep rising too as does the contraction of business across all sectors in our economy as companies go out-of-business or severely scale back operations. Credit is still nearly impossible to get despite billions of tax money poured into banks. Anywhere between 48 and 60 million Americans have no health insurance at all or have limited access. In short, we’re a mess and I believe edging closer to an actual depression than recession.

Yet, the clueless and unimaginative Republicans either can’t see the golden opportunity that has presented itself to them or they are just too dumb and entrenched in their old party-line politics to do anything about it. As much as the current Democrat Party may be controlled by sick and pathological liberal leftists who are way out-of-touch with Americans with their endless sermons to us about atheism, the environment, political correctness and slaughtering babies nine months in the womb on-demand, the Republican Party is too influenced by big business and blinded by an extreme limited view on things as per business people and the high-income bracket.

Even the most anti-Democrat has a hard time today supporting a Republican Party that has done little since January to deliver good ideas to the public in answer to the daunting challenges we face economically. Yes, their call for tax cuts on personal income and for corporate tax reductions are sound and solid answers but both are cornerstones in their ideology. They would be important changes that would provide benefit and stimulus to the economy but they must go much farther than that. In addition, it’s time Republicans ended their laziness and assumptions too and get off their asses to explain to the people just why tax cuts for citizens and business are good ideas.  Give us tangible reasons for it. Give us detailed theories of expected results. You know, work.

Then, after doing that, how about shaking off the cobwebs, complacency and lack of creativity and do what politicians and political parties do: campaign with ideas direct to the people. But first get out the thinking caps and draw-up a comprehensive counter-plan to the president and the Democrats that control the government. 

You can start by stopping this self-destructive tunnel vision approach that leans too heavily on appeasing business and the wealthy because even if all of them came out to vote for you, they are in the minority.  Start expanding your reach. And here’s a thought: accept and embrace your moderate brethren in who victory will come if you allow them to lead. It’s time to face a universal truth: a majority of citizens may love traditional values and agree with Republicans on topics like abortion, marriage, gun ownership, less government and less taxes  but most if not all people are going to be more concerned about  food on the table and a roof over their heads first.

Since the Republican Party is so much more about individualism and personal prosperity merging with a favorable business climate how about actually doing something to really merge them together? The Republican Party is far more realistic and in touch with the realities of economic policies and how they relate to a pro-growth atmosphere and yet it has offered little to counter the president’s massive and all-too familar Democrat strategy of bloating government’s size and people’s dependency on it like a tick ready to pop.

The Republican Party was defeated because it didn’t connect with enough people economically. The Democrats have rarely won the White House since 1968 because they didn’t connect with the people socially.  But since we’re facing the first depression since the 1920′s, social concerns are mere trivialities when you’re jobless, sick, hungry, homeless and scared.

There’s nothing coming from the Republicans right now that encourages me to believe they will do any of this now.  What the pary needs is an influx of new young blood. It needs new strategies and a commitment to widen it base and ideology. Being merely the “opposition party” isn’t going to cut it. The party has had a long history of great thinkers who knew how important the delicate balance of free-market capitalism fused with enough social policies to generate prosperity was to the country.  It’s time for that to happen again because the party has forgotten it serves people. It needs people. It represents people.  Many of them are looking for reasons to vote for them. They should begin by actually working on it and working for it.

Walter Krull is a frequent writer for KingNewsMedia.com