Posted by
Eric Blankenburg on Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:48:50 AM
House minority leader John Boehner recently stated that people who vote for Bob Barr will be “throwing their vote away”. Sorry John, but that’s not what recent history has shown.
In 1992, Perot got 19% of the vote, running on a platform of kicking the scoundrels out of office who are mortgaging our children’s future. In 1994, the GOP adopted Perot’s reform message and swept into control of both the House and Senate for the first time since the 1950s. Bob Barr was part of the GOP freshman class that balanced the budget a couple of years later.
The GOP have lost their way under Bush. According to the conservative Heritage Foundation, total federal spending under Bush and his GOP Congress has increased a whopping 60%, after adjusting for inflation. Most of this spending wasn’t for national security. It was for the largest new entitlement since the Great Society (prescription drug benefit), the biggest federal intrusion into the classroom in history (No Child Left Behind), and a drunken orgy of pork barrel spending that gives new meaning to the phrase “waste, fraud, and abuse”.
The GOP’s fiscal recklessness has imperiled America’s future. Inflation is escalating to Jimmy Carter levels. The housing market is in the worst condition in 70 years. Gas is $4 a gallon. Banks are failing. More of the same is on the way.
There are more scoundrels that need to be booted from office Mr. Boehner. This time, they are GOP scoundrels.