It takes much more self control than Jay H. Ell has,
to not say that "He has been telling you so for over a year now". He
also has been blogging again and again as to the intellectual and political
bankruptcy of the Republican Party. It is totally out of sync with the
demographic, political, social and financial realities of the new millennium.
With all that money, voter suppression activities, the parlous state of the
economy, their total neglect of veracity and their unashamed harping that Obama
was "Un-American" - code for African American - they still lost the
Presidency.
"COMES DOWN REALITY"
The temptation will be to blame Romney, Hurricane
Sandy, Christie or whatever but that really doesn't fly. They can maintain that
it was Karl Rove's fault, (in fact he is favorite for the position
"scapegoat in chief"), that Obama was better organized and on
and on. The crisp point is that their electoral future is just going to get
worse.
The Republican Party are at a crossroads. The
establishment can still continue to pretend that they control the Party but
they don't. The Tea Party does. The establishment was powerful enough to get
Romney as their nominee; their last best shot, but if they stick with the Tea
Party, the Republican Party will gradually become more and more insignificant.
The Tea Party can believe they are an alternative
government but they are not. It was their policies that were so soundly beaten.
They are the Party of yesterday and as the years roll on they will become
vestigial.
MORE POSITIVES
Besides Obama's victory there are other bright
spots to this election. One was that no group made an issue of Romney being a
Mormon and the other was that America did not get the best President money
could buy.
The Supreme Court's Citizen's United decision to
allow screeds of money to imbalance the voting process had limited impact. The
major donors to the Republican cause are apparently furious that their money
yielded no return. Trump, for example, has turned his bile on Rove. Rove, as a
guru is history. Some of his explanations were bizarre maintaining, "Obama
had suppressed the vote". Sheldon Adelson, as a multibillionaire, who made
his money from gambling ventures, should know that if you put all your money on
red that black can come up even if you own the casino.
The positive impact of all this money is in
accordance with the Republican credo of trickle down economics. Instead of all
the money going down to the Cayman Islands it was poured into the economies of
the swing states providing plenty of jobs. Also that money is taxable helping
to reduce the deficit. Political Action Committees are not tax havens. So the
Republican plutocrats have already improved the economy.
The impact on the Republican Members of Congress
who have been shackled by the Tea Party and their paymasters is evident.
Republican House leader Boehner has already asked Obama for his plan to avoid
America going over the fiscal cliff and agreed to compromise. After this mess
Boehner can take charge and crack the whip. He may even have to risk just help
create a majority with the Democrats with some members of the Tea Party voting
against.
GOP FUTURE.
As Jay H Ell has written American politics relies
on consensus. (Blog: The Republican Party after Romney). The GOP have
been given a breathing space to adapt and make a contribution to the future of
the country. If they don't they will be condemned to the sidelines for a long
long while. Against all odds the Democrats held their own in the Senate and
picked up seats in the House. In case it passed unnoticed more Democrats voted
for House of Representative candidates than Republican candidates. Only the
fact that the Republican State legislatures were successful at gerrymandering
the voter districts allowed the Republicans to hang in.
As Bill O' Reilly of the Fox stable wailed,” This
is no longer a White Male Country". In that vein the Republicans have to
ignore the unelected media leaders whose every beck, (pun intended), and call
they respond too.
So they have to change their policy from
obstructionism and "preventing Obama a second term" to
involvement. (They don't have to worry Obama is not allowed a third term
anyway). They have to dump the arrogant Grover Norquist and recognize to solve
the fiscal dilemma they have to increase taxes of the very rich. Who is Grover
Norquist anyway? Who voted him in? What constituency does he represent? What is
he going to do if they break a "pledge" to him about not elevating
taxes for the rich? Sue them?
OBAMA
Obama too has to get his act together. This after
all this is HIS second term. He has to lead, initiate, caucus, mediate and
circulate. He cannot just leave it to Pelosi and Reid. In negotiating a package
he cannot let go of his fundamental election platform plank to alter the
American tax structure to get the "rich" to pay their fair
share.
WAR OR PEACE.
It is not just a cliché to say that America is at
a crossroads. However only slightly more than half the country has leaned
towards accepting the change as women’s glass ceilings get shattered, that the
newer Latin American immigrants have begun to assert themselves as Americans
and that the youth have refused to accept the shibboleths of their elders. (Blog:
Half of America has Romnesia).
America's history has been punctuated by such
crises, the first being the Civil War and the last, a half century ago, in the
aftermath of the assassinations of the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King
and the midst of a futile war where America lost 70,000 of it's youngest and
finest died, Voting and Civil Rights were enshrined and the Founding Voters
ideal for Votes for all American was realized.
How the leaders and society and its leaders now
behave will dictate how the world's most powerful nation inches into the new millennium.
Will it be a peaceful change or will this metaphorical war continue?
Will the businessmen unleash the capitol they are
hoarding and get the economy going and co-operate in creating a fairer and
equitable society? Will the leaders of all branches of Government reflect the
clearly stated will of the majority of society?
Only time will tell but Jay H Ell is optimistic.
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