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The Republican Party is hostage to well-heeled extremists who continue to push their I-Me-My-Mine agenda.
As an American who grew up in the age of Eisenhower, when a conservative Republican built the interstate highway system and levied taxes on the upper 2% at levels of 90%, I am sad to see it no longer exists as a moderating force in the country.
It was the party of civil rights at a time when racist Democratic machines ran a system of segregation known as Jim Crow in the American South. No more.
It was a party born in opposition to slavery and in support of the working man.
No more. Today the party regularly attacks voting rights which were established by bipartisan laws passed 50 years ago.
South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint, known as one of the most conservative senators on the Hill, will leave office in January to take a position as the President of the Heritage Foundation next fall. Current Heritage President Ed Feulner, who helped build the conservative think tank, will step down in April and serve as Chancellor of the Foundation and Chairman at the Heritage Asian Studies Center.
Feulner has been associated with Heritage from its inception. Indeed, it was he and conservative activist Paul Weyrich, who first came up with the idea of creating an independent institute able to...
You say that the Republican party supported the working man, and various liberals say the Republican party is the party of the rich. This kind of class warfare talk is not conservative, it is more
Far from being for the working man, the Republican Party has become known as the party of the rich.
Unfortunately, the Reagan Revolution transformed the party into a party of tax cuts and Jim Crow.
Prior to this, Republicans prided themselves on maintaining balanced budgets and supported civil rights.
After Reagan, everything changed.
The Bush tax cut and Republican penchant for their spending has only bankrupted the country and the intellect of the Republican Party.
Now the Norquist Luddites own the party, and the rich nuts are the only Party members who count to them.
This is not sustainable to any party.