The Real News: Causes of the GOP resurgeance

This is a progressive view of the GOP resurgence. Rightardia will discuss the ones we thought were interesting and relevant

5. Not investigating  Bush and Cheney which was probably fueled by Obama's naive belief in bipartisanship. 

Obama was reluctant to go after Bush and Cheney who committed many crimes in Iraq and also bugged the Internet with NSA's help, which was also against public law. Perhaps Obama feared a GOP backlash. He got that regardless. This was simple Democratic timidity.

4. Bailing out bankers but not the banks.

Rightardia suggests that administration should have let more the banks fail. FDIC Laws insure the small accounts. The government should not be bailing out CEOs and billionaires.

3. Not defending the public option for health care reform.

We agree that the heath care debate went on far too long and the insurance industry was modestly reformed at best. Political stock  was squandered on one initiative.

Extending Medicare to age 55 and to other age groups like children would have been simpler. The Democrats probably could have rammed through a budget resolution in three months or less if Obama had abandoned bipartisanship early.

2. Old mindset in US foreign policy.

The defence budget actually increased and Obama escalated the war in Afghanistan. The big cuts that were needed in defence never happened.

1. Allowed the GOP to re-brand itself as populist with Tea Party.

I agree with the Real News that The Democrats abandoned their populist agenda. The Bush Tax cuts should have been rescinded before the election. A jobs program was needed and Employee Free Choice Act passed to bolster union organisation.

At the end of WW2, one in three Americans was in a union. Today less than 10 per cent belong to unions because of GOP union busting efforts such as "right to work laws which are really the right to not pay union dues. 

Obama talked the talk, but he didn't walk the walk. He went centrist far too early and lost much of his base.

Republicans are "in the box" types and it is unlikely they will abandon their principals which are irrelevant in the present economic crisis. Cutting taxes that will give the 'have mores' more won't get us out of the ditch.

The Real News is right: the real problem in America is the views of billionaires and millionaires are very different from the rest of society.

Cutting government spending won't help either.  We got out of the Great Depression by increasing government spending, not balancing the budget. An increase in defence spending will simply benefit small group of corporate elites in the defence industry. It will not spread the government largesse around.

Rightardia believes the Tea Party is a bad brand and once exposed to the light of day and it becomes Sun Tea, it will be rejected by Americans. It is unlikely that anything the GOP Congress will do in the next two years will help unemployment or the economic recovery.

Mitch McConnell and most economists have stated that unemployment will not subside until 2011. Any improvements that occur in the next two years will primary caused by the Obama-Pelosi economic stimulus, not anything the GOP does. The GOP, in fact, could slow the recovery beyond 2011 with its regressive policies.

Republicans will be forced for once to try to fix some of the mess they created during the Bush presidency. Rightardia wishes them luck, but know they will fail. You cannot teach that old dog any new tricks!


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