Mutinies Abound in the Republican Party
You’ve heard of the winter of discontent? Welcome to the autumn of mutinies. In the United States and beyond rebellion is in the air and those who aren’t rebellious enough could be forced to walk the political plank.
The Republican Party is facing a mutiny and a counter mutiny. It’s 2011 Cain mutiny is led by Godfather Pizza’s likable former CEO, conservative Herman Cain, who zoomed to the top of Republican Presidential nomination polls and who has (for now) won the hearts if not yet completely the minds of Tea Party members. He is de facto leader of a spontaneous movement rejecting not just Republican establishment candidate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney but also the unlikable Texas. Gov. Rick Perry, who was declared darling of the Tea Party movement by many in the new and old media before he even jumped into the race.
So far the campaign-contribution- rich Perry is as much of a turnoff to Republicans as he is to independent voters. Perry recently morphed into a birther — rebelling against serious political thinkers while wooing the GOP’s Twilight Zone/Fantasy Island vote. If moisture oozes from White House walls, it’s Barack Obama drooling as he watches Perry trying to claw his way to the nomination…
So The GOP Establishment Strikes Back, trying to oust the new emerging Captain Cain: Republican political maven Karl Rove appeared on Fox News complete with whiteboard to list how Cain “created an image of him not being up for this task” for being President. Many believe Rove wants Romney and reflects Bush family views.
Meanwhile, Barack Obama’s declaration that the Iraq War will be definitively over by the end of the year sparked a Republican rebellion. Arizona Sen. John McCain blasted the total withdrawal as “a harmful and a setback for the United States in the world” that would be considered “a strategic victory for our enemies in the Middle East, especially the Iranian regime….”
McCain’s political best bud, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, then charged Obama with formulating Iraq and Afghanistan policy “out of Chicago,” suggesting policy decisions were hard-ball Chicago style politics. Obama does Chicago style politics? Since when is patty cake Chicago style?
Across the globe, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai is rebelling the against billions of American dollars poured into the Afghanistan war and the 1,694 American military lives lost that helped prop up his drug-dealer-enabling regime.. He announced that if war broke out between the United States and it adversarial ally, Pakistan, Afghanistan would side with Pakistan. Your tax dollars at work — and our martyred soldiers disdained.
And then there’s Occupy Wall Street.
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One Response to “Mutinies Abound in the Republican Party”
I’m 57. As far back as I can remember I have been saying we need a flat tax system. My idea is different from any of these candidates. You see, I really mean Flat Tax. 10% of all earned income to the Federal government, every man and woman, who works. In this way everybody, the rich, the poor, and everybody in between contributes equally to the well being of our country. All businesses should pay 5% of their profit, with only the exception of foundations & non-profit businesses, such as Domestic Violence Shelters. The Federal Gov should use tax dollars to provide one-third of non-profit business’ general assistance. The Fed. Gov should pay soc sec with tax dollars.
The fed gov should secure our nation with tax dollars. The fed gov should pay 10% of the cost of wages to private business making new hires for salary or wages that fall between 35 to 50K$/yr. That’s it, no other handouts..let capitalism reign. I would also consider doing away with fed & state minimum wage laws. People should be able to take any job they want … that’s between an employer and an employee… nobody is forcing anybody.
State taxation of commerce & income should be entirely up to each and every state in the US… People will decide where they want to live based on the choices and governing. The rest of the gov income should be dibbied-up to all the other fed departments.
These are only a handful of ideas to create a less ‘political’ fed gov. Unfortunately, politics are now inextricably aligned with power brokers and ALL their nasty deeds. We the people need to take our gov back. We need to XNAY the IRS as it is and reboot it to SERVE THE PEOPLE instead. This my friends is TRANSPARENCY!
I Call this campaign: Less is More…let true capitalism reign.