Fiscal Responsibility In The Coming Years

Life as a Republican has been rough of late. As it should be. Spending billions of dollar can cause a hangover the size of Texas that is as pleasant as Washington DC on a sultry August day when the temperature and the humidity are competing with each other. Then comes the Obama.

Obama, like most rookies playing a part, is looking to some of those in Congress for guidance who are showing how to spend some serious money. Trillions. More money than we have in the United States some say. It is a good thing that our most prestigious and respectable Secretary of State had the opportunity to crawl the halls of Beijing begging for more cash. No need for us to sell the rope to to our enemies as Stalin said of capitalists. We'll just give it to the Chinese Communists, with interest. It's easier that way.

Republicans had their day and a good day it was, but unfortunately they stayed to long at the ball and started acting like Democrats. Reagan and Newt Gingrich gave Republicans the weapons and the power to stay in control for a good while. Unfortunately, they did because Clinton got the credit for budget surpluses while Republicans spent money like drunken whores in Tijuana using our checkbooks. They handed the issue of fiscal responsibility back to the Democrats wrapped in pretty paper with a bow as if a gift and it's a gift that keeps on giving when you look at the last two elections which tumbled Republican power out of the House, the Senate and out of the White House.

Now the Obama has come.

He is whispering, stating aloud and shouting that he must spend, spend, spend in the name of fiscal responsibility. Oh, he will cut some things, taxes aren't one of them, but look for a fire sale at the Pentagon. The Brass will have to hock their gold just to keep the doors open.

Republicans know this and have answered appropriately. At least in their minds. They are responsible for approximately 40% of the nearly 9,000 earmarks just passed in the Pelosi-Reid-Obama-Soros (PROS) legislation this week.

The Republican Party and its elected legislators stretching across the country have a golden opportunity to return to their roots, which will bring the base back, to once again be the party of fiscal responsibility. This isn't done with lip service to principle nor by the copious display by aging legislators of photographs with Barry Goldwater or Ronald Reagan.

Fiscal responsibility is cutting budgets, cutting taxes and shrinking the size and scope of government.

A long ago Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, once said, "Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master." That today's Republicans have forgotten this is not only a loss of Party identity, but a loss for our country and our society.

Jenkins Hill was bucolic pasture land for cattle when President Washington made it part of the permanent capital of the United States of America and specifically, Jenkins Hill the location of the Capitol itself. This capital with its Capitol Building soon became the shining city on the hill that was the guiding light for freedom around the world. Now it has become just another dull Euro-Socialist style home to a legislature that sees itself as a caretaker of society instead of a legislature leading a vision of a free and prosperous world. It's become a giant social service office afraid of the rod and spoiling the child. Think 435 nannies with lots of support staff.

Republicans helped take the luster off that shine and they need to repair not just their party, but the Capitol and the nation by being a true loyal opposition and bringing fiscal responsibility, real fiscal responsibility, back to Capitol Hill.

Otherwise, give the damned hill back to the cattle. They'll graze, digest and leave something less odious than what is there now.