I'd vote for them if the Republicans could do that.
On Apr 19, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Robert Munn wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Gruss wrote: > >> >> Meghan McCain. The only Republican with a vision to chart the future >> and the courage to blow up the failed past: >> >> "old school Republicans are scared shitless" >> >> "I feel too many Republicans want to cling to past successes ...There >> are those who think we can win the White House and Congress back by >> being 'more' conservative. Worse, there are those who think we can >> win >> by changing nothing at all about what our party has become. They just >> want to wait for the other side to be perceived as worse than us. I >> think we're seeing a war brewing in the Republican Party. But it is >> not between us and Democrats. It is not between us and liberals. It >> is >> between the future and the past." > > > She has a great point. Democrats have already gone through this > process; > Barack Obama emerged as the leader of the party because of it. > Republicans > are stuck with old leaders and old ideas. Here is my list of new > ideas for > the Republican Party: > > - Support gay marriage. It is an individual rights issue and it is > shameful > that Republicans don't support it. > > - Admit the war on drugs is an abject failure and find a new way > forward. I > don't think outright legalization will work, but certainly > decriminalization > is part of the solution. Twenty years ago people were saying that > drug abuse > is a medical issue; that is still true today. > > - Give up trying to outlaw abortion. Reasonable people disagree > about the > issue, which to me means that we need to allow people to make their > own > choices based on their beliefs, not our own. > > - Support the growth of the House of Representatives back to something > closer to what the Founders intended. 1:30,000 sounds good to me, > that would > mean I could drive a few miles down the road and visit my Rep's > office, and > he/she might actually have time to see me and listen to my concerns. > We have > strayed far from the Founders' intentions of local government, local > control. We need to get back to it. > > - Fight bureaucracy. Republicans should fight to dismantle the federal > bureaucracy and move to a system more like the ones modern > corporations > employ, with fewer permanent positions and many more contracting > opportunities within the government. This change will only work if > we vastly > expand the size of the House otherwise it will just end up as a > system for a > handful of Reps to feed federal contracts to their favorites. We > still need > a federal workforce, but what we have today is a mess. > > - Support serious re-structuring of the tax code. Flat tax, fair > tax, VAT, I > don't know what a good solution is, but everyone agrees that the > current > system is broken. > > - Immigration. Stop the insanity of trying to militarize the border > to fight > a war on drugs that has failed. Support Mexico in reforming their > economy. > Until Mexico works better for the average Mexican, this will > continue to be > a problem. > > - Entitlement reform. The problems are so huge and so obvious that > it is an > embarrassment we have not managed to do this already. Every member of > Congress should be ashamed of themselves. > > - Health care. Tied in with entitlement reform. We should focus on > childhood > and preventative care, instead of on care for the last three months > of a > person's life, which is where altogether too much money goes today. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:295442 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
