Foxnews.com called me yesterday and asked if I still felt the same way about John Boehner. I told them not only was Charlie Sheen making more sense than John Boehner, at least Charlie Sheen is winning.
It isn’t just Boehner that is not winning. The Tea Party is not winning, and if the Tea Party is not winning, that means America is not winning.
Only five months after our electoral triumph, conservatism is not advancing, which means our movement is not winning.
Do we need proof? Look at the budget. After a promise to cut $100 billion from this year’s budget, the House only passed a budget that cut $61 billion and now when it goes to the Senate and the final version comes out, it looks like there will only be cuts of between $25 to $35 billion. That isn’t a cut, that is a joke. Despite the promise to defund Obamacare, nothing is being done to stop Obamacare. The James O’Keefe videos gave conservatives the ammunition to defund NPR and PBS. That is not happening. Defunding Planned Parenthood has huge support. That is not happening either.
Boehner claims his hands are tied and there is nothing he can do. In other words, its perfectly okay for Reid to say, “We won’t pass anything that defunds Obamacare, Planned Parenthood and NPR,” yet Boehner is unable to (or won’t) say, “You either cut $100 billion from the budget or we won’t pass anything and the government will shut down.” Instead of backdoor cocktail party wheeling and dealing, Boehner should be out on the steps of the Capitol telling the American people exactly what the Democrats are up to and ask for their help.
Congress will soon deal with the issue of the debt ceiling. By April, our national debt will equal 100% of our gross domestic product. In plain English, we owe an amount equal to what America makes in an entire year. There is every indication that congress will simply ignore this horrifying number, raise the debt ceiling and let us slide even further into debt.
The obvious answer is to stop spending. Unfortunately the answers that are being discussed in Washington do not involve cutting spending. The Congressional Budget Office has just come out with a proposal suggesting that we should be taxed for every mile we drive. The CBO is complaining that because people are going to more fuel-efficient cars, gas taxes are down. Instead of cutting wasteful spending, the CBO is proposing that there be a mandate that technology be installed in every car that would measure the number of miles driven and the government would tax you based on that. How would you measure the miles driven? With GPS of course. Big brother would be watching and charging you for every mile you drive.
Speaking of waste, it has been a month since the General Accounting Office released a report on waste and inefficiency in government. According to the GAO report, hundreds of billions of dollars could be saved by eliminating programs that are inefficient or are duplicative. Republican Senators and Congressmen should have been wrestling with each other to see who would be the first to get in to introduce legislation to eliminate these programs.
To date, nothing.
Perhaps it is asking too much for those who eagerly sought our support in the election to now do what they promised to do.
It is a time honored GOP tradition for Republican elected officials to come home, talk a great game, yet when they go back to Washington, they conveniently forget what they told the folks at home. The Tea Party rose up to say we are not tolerating business as usual. Unfortunately, John Boehner has not gotten that message. The question is, are we going to get the message they are not listening and not paying attention. And if we do, what are we going to do about it?
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