Bob Beckel is an idiot.

I heard Bob Beck on Fox just a few minutes ago (YouTube embed when available), he says that Republicans got their chance and couldn’t govern and that they cause the economic crisis. Further he says that we must give President Obama a chance, since he has only been President for a month.  Well, I call B.S. on this and I will tell you why.

While it is true that we got our chance to govern and in some ways failed, we were not responsible for this economic crisis, not as a party.  

The Republican Party is against the bailouts, against the original TARP, against stimulus, against high risk loans to individuals who show no means of being capable to make payment, against the tax payer insuring those very same loans once default.  Heck the Democrats have been saying that on the T.V. for year’s right??  I say why fight it, they have painted us as obstructionist, fine they own it.   

The problem with Beckel’s concept of how this happened and who is to blame, is the fact that he lives only in the present, the past is just a waste of time for him.  For the last two years the Federal Government has been, ideologically, under the control of the Democratic Party in both the House and the Senate along with a pre-occupied and marginalized Republican President.   President Bush, for all his greatness as Commander and Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces, completely gave up the reigns to domestic policies to the moderates and communist/socialist left.  Due to this we had the first Auto-Bailout, back when approx $30 Billion was still a lot of money. We also saw the first Bank bailout, the TARP, the next mini loan to Auto, Stimulus.  All that equates to a 21.36% drop in the Dow since Election day, with precipitous falls coinciding with the passage of the stimulus and the Treasury Sect. Tim Geithner’s answer deficient presser.

Look here Bob Beckel, you guys have talked down the economy for six years now.  Reap it.

Us conservatives who live within our means will be ok.  We will keep our wits and put communist/socialist leftists and the useful idiots, such as yourself, back in the minor leagues come 2010.  Freedom is incompatible with the ideology of the left.  

I encourage all conservatives to re-read Goldwater’s thoughts on negotiation with communists in The Conscience of Conservative.  The communist only enters negotiation when it is strategically beneficial to them, giving away only what they never really wanted in the first place.  Since they do not negotiate in the sunlight, our goal should be total victory over their ideology.  Part of that is calling out the useful idiots, who repeat the big lie ad infinitum.

Bob Beckel, you’re an idiot, straight from the mold.  This isn’t something you inherited…this is something you created with your rhetoric.  I hope you are happy.

(Crack Dealer)

So I am a crack dealer, and I like you. In fact go ahead and have this rock..for free, really it’s on me. I know you are thinking that this crap could kill you, but it wouldn’t make much sense to have you die. You are a valued customer, so trust me, I would never give you more crack than you could handle. Now you come back when you want some more ok??

(First time user/eventual crackhead)

Wow, this crack makes me feel alive, I feel like I can do anything…Yes.We.Can!!

A few months down the road…

(eventual crackhead)

Man I remember that time I tried crack…I felt so good while I was high…I need more.

(Crack Dealer)

I hear ya…I can hook you up…you know cause I really do like you..this time though I have to charge you…just business, you know.

(eventual crackhead)

Well I really don’t have the cash for that right now…

(Crack Dealer)

That’s ok man, I will let you put it on credit, once you are feeling good again you will be able to pay me back….::evil grin::

(eventual crackhead)

Thanks man….if you every need me for anything you just let me know, I will be your guy.

(Crack Dealer)

Oh I know…::that evil grin again, wierd::

A few years pass by and everybody in town is craked out…the Crack Dealer is the only shmuck in town with any money and also the only guy with crack. There remains a large contingent of people who just never liked crack, but they are continually demonized and blamed for the joblessness and low benefits that the crackheads need to survive.

(Crack Dealer..sensing the chance at complete domination)

Crackheads, there was a time when you had no crack, and I provided it for you. There were days when you needed crack but couldn’t afford your rock, but I had your back. Soon we can achieve our goal, and crack will come out of the water faucets, free to all. But, in order for that to happen you must protect me from the non crackheads amongst us. You must vote for me to be your Crack Dealer forever. You know that they will take your crack away, don’t you. Besides, you owe me. And I will collect what is owed!!

So goes the story in Venezuela. Chaves has been giving them Socialism in peicemeal, single rocks at a time, always sure to avoid overdose. Now he has achieved his next step towards a socialist dictatorship, the end of term limits for all government officials.

As sad as this is for the people of Venezuela, we have our own crack dealer here at home. President Obama and the Democratic party at large will be employing the same strategies in our country that Hugo has employed in Venezuela. The first bit of crack is already out the door, waiting the final signature of President Obama. All on credit. The Fairness Doctrine is next in the hopper of egregious offenses to the Republic. They have given the people socialism as peicemeal, next they will silence the opposition. Then they will come for our weapons. Then they will insist upon chains, for our own safety.

I am not yet a crackhead, nor do I intend to become one. I don’t intend on taking money via the stimulus, other than those things which I cannot deny. I encourage everyone else to deny, as much as possible, the money that may flow your way via the stimulus. Don’t take the crack rocks. Not even the T.V. converter coupons.

We need to wake up before we all wake up with white ashy lips, crack pipe in hand and chains on our ankles.

I hope that some of the Governors of the States would also fight accepting the Stimulus funds.

This may be our last chance to beat back the wrongheaded ideology of socialism.

I propose a 60% / 40% split between tax cuts and infrastructure projects repsectively.

The 40% that would go to infrastructure we would require language insuring fastrack approval of all valid projects, which would go to a private contractor within any given state.  The contractor who receives the contract will be chosen by the States Legislature with consent of the Governor.  The State will have an open bid process where the local citizens can see the business and their profiles, allowing them to influence their State legislatures in the desire they choose.  The work would have to take no longer 2 years, unless they continue without money from the federal economic stimulus plan.

The 60% percent that would go to taxes would be a progressive tax cut across the board.  Now I know what you are thinking, this is a good progressive thing.  We would lower all of the tax rates, drop income tax rates by 25% and the corp 10% and so forth (I would need a good mathematician to work this out for me, but it’s the idea I am selling, not a detailed plan…works for Geithner..).  In addition the tax bracket of he income tax would be slightly progressive in nature cut the lower incomes at a higher rate then the higher incomes, clause out the small business reporting as income, this would create wealth at all levels and still satisfy the idea of equality.  Now I know that this won’t win us bipartisan support, but it will show that we tried, and it is not as destructive as other options and can be changed later.

I believe these two things would jumpstart the economy and create private wealth to everyone in the nation no matter the income level.  This could be used to bring targeted, timely, and temporary stimulus to our nation.  We are 7 months into the recession (can’t cite this right now, heard it today somewhere) and the fact is that we may start out of this slump naturally pretty soon.  Even with today’s jitters in the market I still think we are near the bottom and the signs of growth are just over the horizon.

This plan would more than likely speed up a healthy economy, and I think it will also have the capability of saving our sick economy.  Then again, I ain’t no economist, just a simpleton who has had to deal with some tight budgets.  What do I know?