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Updates: A response to AJ below.

Article at Tapscott’s got me to thinking about being in the minority or the alternative accepting what is defined as a Republican these days. Here is my answer.

Now, with another legislative subterfuge in the offing, we see all too clearly that we’ve been taken for a ride. Come November, the ride will be over for a bunch of Republicans who think the base “has nowhere to go.”
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Here is a newsflash for the Republican party I don’t believe I have nowhere to go! No matter if it means that Hillary gets in I am not voting in the coming election. In the past two elections I have manned phones and donated money to Republican causes. They can kiss my ass now. They have absolutely betrayed the trust I placed in their hands.

On Republicans spending like drunken sailors, isn’t ironic that the first spending bill that Bush promises to veto has spending for the military on it, typical. I don’t have a problem with increasing Military Spending past the anemic 3.5% of GNP it stands at now. Actually it is scandalous that Clinton’s average military spending as a percentage of GNP was higher with no war than we are spending in the fight of our lives. But instead of spending to defend ourselves against maniacal head choppers, we spend idiot amounts of money on programs that must have Reagan spinning in his grave, education bill, prescription drug… Clue bat to the side of the head Republicans, anytime Kennedy is smiling in regards to a program you have passed you have messed up.

Many tell me that it will be disaster if the Democrats get into office. Perhaps, but I don’t think so. Instead Republicans will get back to fighting to end programs they cannot tolerate while not being able to spend money on programs they love. Deadlock sounds great to me these days. As it stands right now with no deadlock we are spending like drunken sailors. And the worst of it is all this money is being spent on the most frivolous of items while crushing needs go unanswered. Count me out Republicans.

You have gotten cute once too often on immigration. I don’t like participating in the slavery of a ethnic group because you don’t want to enforce laws you don’t like. We don’t get to choose which laws we obey and you don’t get to choose which laws you enforce.

Once too often with that Islam is peace nonsense you have been selling. Islam and peace are not in anyway related and you insult us by continuing to preach that nonsense.

Once too often on the bridges and railroads to nowhere shtick. Not amused anymore.

Not amused to see that after the center of our greatest city was attacked and 3,000 of us died, the main agency responsible for gathering intelligence to stop such attacks was not cleaned out but went on to attempt a virtual Coup d’état against a sitting President. Not amused.

Not amused that the answer to fixing that mess turned out to be adding one more layer of incompetent bureaucracy on top of the already bloated fat cat tea drinking “spy” bureaucracy  . Bourne Supremacy was a hilarious fantasy since there is absolutely no chance that anyone that competent in a position of power exists inside of our intelligence agencies. Was Bourne Supremacy a bit of propaganda put out by Tenet?

I hired you bunch of virtual incompetents to run the government not make excuses on why it isn’t happening. Mineta is still in office…arrrgggghhh. My 74 year old mother is still being  subjected to hour long searches when she flies simply because there isn’t one single person in our government who thinks that is fucking absurd. Besides its easier to pick on a German Grandmother than Ali the bomb carrying Islamic fanatic, we wouldn’t want to get the Muslim Voting blocs panties in a wad (as if the average Muslim is ok with allowing bombs on board because of PC worries). Nope no longer amused. I am used to being in the minority and long for the days when I didn’t have to watch my side act like a bunch of knuckleheads. Bring on the minority status we did better then!

Or convince me in the next 180 days that you actually remember what it is to be a Republican. Show me by enacting permanent tax cuts. Show me by confirming judges, quit whining about the Democrats being mean. The Democrats would have rolled over you had they the same circumstances, while our side gets to watch you whimpering about procedures. Win dammit. Raise military spending to at least 5% of GNP, we can afford it and it would show we are serious about defending ourselves. Fund another 2 divisions of soldiers with the proper equipment. That sort of spending I can wholeheartedly back. Fire the goddam losers in the CIA, starting with Plame. Start enforcing our immigration laws, now.

Oh well a man can dream.

UPDATED A RESPONSE TO AJ STRATA:
AJ it is not simply because the pace of change is slow that I find myself deciding to sit it out this election. It is mainly because the Republicans are going in the wrong direction. In 4 years I won’t recognize the Republican party.

They are going in the wrong direction on Immigration where a sitting President is deciding to not enforce the laws he doesn’t like. We do not have the option of disregarding laws we don’t like, politicians don’t have the option of not enforcing laws they don’t like. The depth of my anger about this abrogation of responsibility on the part of Republicans is vastly underestimated. Its time to send a message.

They have been going in the wrong direction on spending for quite sometime. Witness one of the most conservative members of the Senate throwing a temper tantrum when his bridge to nowhere was being attacked.

The Prescription Drug benefit was exactly the wrong sort of medicine to administer to the ailing medical situation in this country. Republicans who don’t believe in the market and who look to the government coffers to repair damage wrought by the government itself don’t amuse me anymore.

The education bill and no child left behind is a mess. The education system in this country is broken and it is getting worse. Vouchers might have fixed some of it but that was not pushed through.

Islam is not peace and for 5 long years I have been slowly getting more and more pissed off by that bit of nonsense being perpetuated by President Bush. He has dined with the facilitators of terror in the Whitehouse and had them on the campaign trail. At first I merely pushed it off as ignorance but now after 5 years he has had plenty of time to recover his wits.

If I follow your prescription AJ then nothing changes and those in power continue to believe that I can be hoodwinked by their sweet words. I don’t view Republicans and Democrats as that different and sadly it is mainly because Republicans have adopted Democrats ideals in an attempt to move to the center.

Have had enough of the moderate Republicans. Neither hot nor cold I spit them out of my mouth.
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