The American Wisdom Series

Presents
Pamphlet #326

"Republicans being Republicans",
It's time for another tea party.

By: A Pennsylvanian

They told Americans if they elected a Republican to the White House, things would be different.

It was Bill Clinton who was blocking the Republican agenda since 1994, they claimed.
They would no longer be timid if only they got hold of the executive branch of government.

I never put much stock in those vows, although I did fear four years of Gore.

With each passing day, confirmations of our worst fears of Republican control are being realized.

A while back we were blasting Al Gore for teaching impressionable young minds at Columbia Journalism School that global warming was not only a reality, but the only reality.

Wouldn't you know, the very day after we blasted him, President Bush's head of the Environmental Protection
Agency, Christie Todd Whitman, did her level best to assure the American people that Gore's gas-bag theories are correct, and that the federal government must restrict more of your freedoms to fight this phantom threat.

The Democrats made a huge issue in the last election about the federal government providing insurance for prescription drug purchases. They lost. But, no problem, the Republicans immediately added it to their agenda and millions of your tax dollars will be hijacked to expand Medicare, a blatantly unconstitutional program and a
hopelessly wasteful one.

Not long ago, the Washington Post reported that more than 50 members of Congress have co-sponsored a bill creating a federal office of men's health.

I'm not kidding.

According to the Republican initiative, sponsored by Randy "Duke" Cunningham, R-Calif., lives would be saved if only men, their families and health-care providers were better educated about detecting male health problems early. And guess who is going to educate you all now about this latest crisis? That's right. Big Brother. The same
people who are still trying to persuade you that global warming is real.

More money down a rathole, thanks to Republicans.

Now, I tell you, I believe the tax cut proposed by President Bush and passed by congress is wholly inadequate. He says the government should not take more than one-third of any American's income. One-third! And, over the, say, next 10 years, he proposes reducing tax rates to ensure no one is paying more than 33 percent of their hard-earned money to
Washington. This is the great relief we've been waiting for after eight years of confiscation!!!! -- including retroactive confiscation in the largest tax increase in American history.

It's hardly enough! But give Bush credit. Many of his fellow Republicans in the Congress think his plan is way too ambitious.  Bill Thomas, R-Calif. and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, ramrodded though what he calls the first stage of the tax-cut plan. Suffice it to say there is nothing in this bill that will even begin to stimulate the economy.

Thomas explained to a doubting Rush Limbaugh, after all, "politics is merely the art of the possible." He had to scale down the package somewhat to get the votes of all the Republicans on his committee and his colleagues in the House.

In other words, he made my point. Our shackles -- economic and political -- will not be removed because we elected Republicans to control the legislative and executive branches of government.It's business as usual.We're drifting closer and closer to a socialist economy and a command-and-control central government
operating out of Washington. There's no turning back. There is no party of real change -- just two parties headed in the same direction at different speeds.

I say it's time to get off this train.

It's time to reverse directions, not slow it down.

There's too much at stake -- including the American experiment in self-government.

We're losing our country, and the Republicans in Congress seem happy enough to have better committee assignments and parking spaces.

It's time for a revolt -- starting with taxes.

It's time  to just say no. It's time to say, "enough is enough."

It's time for another tea party.