Republicans: do not seek a spirit of bi-partisanship and all-around good fellowship with a party dedicated to their total destruction

After November What?

By Philip V. Brennan
Friday, September 3, 2010

It seems that a Republican takeover of the House is already seen as a fait accompli with a similar result in the Senate a remote possibility.

Most polls accept that given public anger over the nation’s struggling economy and President Obama’s manifest inability to do his job capably, the proposition is that the GOP will most probably take the House with a comfortable margin while a similar result in the Senate remains possible but probably unlikely.

With the House firmly under their control for at least the next two years after January, Republicans will find themselves part of a divided federal government, with the legislative power – the ability to make laws and control the nation’s purse strings - largely in their hands even if they lack full control in the Senate.

Given that probability it is essential the GOP leadership on Capitol Hill begin now to plan for a two year struggle with an executive branch they must understand remains in enemy hands and must be dealt with in those terms and those terms only.

Lethal temptation for bi-partisanship That would be where RINO's like John McCain / Lindsey Grahmn come into Play

Lurking in the wings, however, is a lethal temptation to which Republicans in the past have succumbed – the tendency to seek a spirit of bi-partisanship and all-around good fellowship with a party dedicated to their total destruction.

I get tired of insisting that what really exists between the two major parties is a state of war in which the Democrats never forget that Republicans are intractable enemies while Republicans prance around brandishing an olive branch in a fruitless effort to be nice guys even when there’s a firing squad taking aim at them.

At issue is the proposition that government, being all-wise, must rule absolutely and citizens, lacking the intellectual ability to know what is good for them, must obey the government’s dictates without question.

The dominant left wing of the Democrat party views democracy as a system in which government must take control of just about every facet of civic life since the American people, who in their superior opinion they insist will wander aimlessly if not directed by the wisdom that exists only within the confines of their party’s upper echelons, must be led around with a Democrat ring in their noses.

A Republican party that fails to go all-out in opposition to that enormous fallacy fails to fulfill its very raison d’etre. It does not exist to work hand-in-hand with the opposition – it exists in these days to protect the American people from a party wedded to he idea that anyone who disagrees with them is a decadent racist who wants to abolish Social Security, allow the “richâ€