Cliff LyonRepublican Reality Check
Although dated by about a week, this video gives us an historical record of a popular and contemporary characterization of todays Republicans.
As anyone who’s paying attention knows, Republicans have a serious identity crises of their own making. I never would have guessed back during the height of Gingrich/Delay/Rove/Republican preeminence, that there genius tactics would be their own undoing.
The resulting vacuum in party leadership darkened by an ideology run-amuck has produced this panic to re-define conservatism without raising elephant in the room alarm bells.
If anyone saw David Brooks at the Young Republicans National Convention, you saw one of the very few examples of an honest conservative in tears over impending doom of Republicans in November.
Some Hand-Holding For Conservatives In Their Identity Crisis
Republican Reality Check: Which will have a quicker impact on our dependence on foreign oil, and prices?
a. Properly inflated tires
b. Off shore drilling
August 6th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
This whole so-called “debate” over offshore oil leasing is totally bogus because drilling is constrained by the unavailability of drilling ships, not lack of leases. The Bush administration has already been leasing to the max like there’s no tomorrow, and that includes 8 million acres of the Outer Continental Shelf.
However, this works politically for the GOP because it takes media attention away from the fact that Bush and his friends in the oil biz took us from $1.46 a gallon gas to $4.59. There was the Enron Loophole, the invasion of Iraq, the threats to bomb Iran, and the weak dollar. Also, since 2001 Bush has been buying oil at premium prices to sock away in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.