GOP Must Show Courage and Conviction

The Obama Administration is already preparing the attack on the GOP House. Obama has prefaced this with admonishing the GOP not to play politics. Yeah, and that totally isn't what you've been doing for the past two years Mr. President. We all know your game of "reaching across the aisle" is nothing more than "follow me, GOP!" You've played politics alright, but you've played the game poorly by passing healthcare legislation that the majority of the people didn't want and want to see repealed, antagonizing Midwesterners by pushing "cap-and-trade", and emptying $787 billion on a stimulus that wasn't even close to worth its price tag. All this is why your party got creamed in the midterms.

The Republicans have set a goal of a $100 billion cut in the budget. Given the level of our national debt, this only constitutes a start, and doesn't include defense spending, which comes only second to entitlement spending in what is most responsible for raising debt. If the GOP can't meet this basic if harrowing goal, it might as well let the Dems spend the nation into bankruptcy. Tax cuts are not the only solution to this problem, in fact, tax cuts only lead to future tax increases unless coupled with decreases in spending. Real cuts in spending must come too, and the liberal sector of the media is coming out against these cuts and trying to scare Republicans out of it by claiming the voters will backlash once they realize what these cuts will mean. However, Dems made a similar claim that voters would come to their side on healthcare once they realized what it will mean, but so far this hasn't materialized. The voters voted Republican in 2010 because of Obama's big spending programs and to rein in spending. Do not heed the liberal media hubris and "conventional wisdom". Much of the voting population knows there is a spending problem, and the GOP must make real progress and let the voters know they made the right choice last November.