American medicine is the best because it is private and it must stay that way.

~ Ronald Reagan

The shameless tactics of Chicago thug politics were demonstrated on March 21 where President Obama and the Democrats used every Machiavellian tactic to pass his government-controlled health-care bill by a vote of 219 to 212. The real intent of Democrats was articulated by Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., who was impeached and removed from the bench as a federal judge before being elected to the House. Before the bill was signed, Hastings said, There ain’t no rules here, we’re trying to accomplish something. … When the deal goes down, all this talk about rules … we make ‘em up as we go along.

Rep. Hastings’ sentiments are the deserved legacy the GOP has bequeathed to America, a legacy whose latest manifestation is Obama’s $940 billion socialist health-care bill. That’s why I will not join the chorus of Republicans, conservative commentators and radio talk-show hosts in blaming this all on President Obama and the Democrats. That’s too easy and fails to get to the heart of the matter.

How did America devolve into making entitlements a constitutional right protected by the Supreme Court? It didn’t suddenly happen on March 23, 2010, when Obama signed the health-care bill into law. Obama was unwittingly closer to the actual date that America began her tragic love affair with socialism when he said at a rally last week at George Mason University: “We have waited long enough, and in just a few days a century-long struggle will culminate in a historic vote.”

What he meant by that phrase (“century-long struggle”) is that socialist health care for all was envisioned as early as Theodore Roosevelt (1901-09), a Republican who left the GOP in 1912 and ran under the Bull Moose-Progressive Party, where he got 27 percent of the vote and opened the door for America’s first fascist president, Woodrow Wilson (1913-21) to get elected.

Here’s a brief synopsis of how the GOP (and America) lost her way from Reagan conservatism.

In 1980, for crass political expediency, Reagan (1981-89) chooses his arch political opponent as his VP – George H.W. Bush, a liberal Republican who would become the next man in line to become president after Reagan left office. Bush 41 was from a well-connected, politically prominent Connecticut family who made millions in oil. His father, Prescott Bush, was a noted senator and confidant to President Eisenhower, a northeastern, liberal-Rockefeller Republican who voted to denounce Sen. Joe McCarthy in the 1950s.

After Bush 41 came Bill Clinton (1993-2001), an unremarkable FDR/LBJ big-government liberal who falsely ran as a moderate and tried to govern as a socialist. Remember Bill and Hillary’s disgraceful attempt at socialized medicine in 1994? Clinton’s socialist tendencies were held in check by Speaker Newt Gingrich, his brilliant “Contract for America” and GOP majorities in both houses of Congress.

In a previous article, “Obama: A sudden catastrophe,” I cited the 20-year political history since the Reagan Revolution that drove this once-great country into the pitiless arms of Marxism:

When Bush 43 speechwriter Matt Latimer got the assignment to write Bush’s speech for a CPAC conference, Bush was decidedly unenthusiastic.

“What is this movement you keep talking about in the speech?” the president asked Latimer.

Latimer explained that he meant the conservative movement – the movement that gave rise to groups like CPAC.

“Let me tell you something,” the president said. “I whupped Gary Bauer’s a– in 2000. So take out all this movement stuff. There is no [conservative] movement.”

How did we get Obama? We got this catastrophe because the GOP nominated an empty suit who denigrated the 20-year Reagan Revolution, that’s why. We have sown the wind of political hacks unworthy of the presidency for 20 years since Reagan left office, electing Bush 41, Clinton, Bush 43 and Obama – and now America is tragically reaping the whirlwind with economic, cultural and societal collapse as the world mocks us at every opportunity.

Bush 43, like his father before him, did not believe in the “conservative movement” – both men did everything they could to abort the Reagan Revolution. Gerald Ford, Bob Dole, Bush 41, Bush 43, John McCain – it seems like the GOP has a penchant for running candidates that are without rhetorical skills or able to hold a solid grasp of fundamental conservative ideas, including constitutionalism, low taxes, smaller government and free-market capitalism.

When Obama signed that socialist health-care bill March 23, the U.S. effectively became a socialist country and provided hundreds of millions of Americans the ability to steal money from a shrinking number of wealthier Americas to fulfill their medical needs. But John Adams once said: “The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.”

Indeed, we are living in tyrannical times, and that’s why I blame Bush 43 for faking like he was a Ronald Reagan conservative in 2001, all but ignoring conservatives for his first nine months in office, until 9/11, bankrupting America during his two terms as president, two ill-advised wars, demoralizing the voters with a $7 trillion prescription-drug bill, a Kennedy education bill (“No Child Left Behind”), TARP and bailing out corrupt Wall Street investment banks.

These socialist policies allowed the Marxist Barack Obama to ascend to power; a man who utterly hates America to the core and is hell-bent on seeing this country pay for all her sins by systematically deconstructing America from a republic and transforming her into a servile, socialist state.

I call universal health care “Stalincare” because every country that has socialized medicine ultimately devolves into reduced medical services, long lines, rationing, and European-level taxation and death panels. America, we always get bad policy like this when we elect incompetent leadership that despises America, liberty and the Constitution.

© Ellis Washington

Ellis Washington, authorized biographer for the conservative intellectual Dr. Michael Savage (see www.MichaelSavage.com), is former editor of the Michigan Law Review and law clerk at The Rutherford Institute. He hosts a radio program Thursdays at 11 a.m. Eastern on 1620 AM in Atlanta. It can be heard online at the Radio Sandy Springs website. Washington is a graduate of John Marshall Law School and a lecturer and freelance writer on constitutional law, legal history and critical race theory. He has written over a dozen law review articles and several books, including “The Inseparability of Law and Morality: The Constitution, Natural Law and the Rule of Law” (2002). Washington’s latest book is “The Nuremberg Trials: Last Tragedy of the Holocaust.”

 

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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

~ Sir Edmund Burke

The Republican Party used to be called the “GOP” – Grand Old Party. Implicit in that name is the storied history of being the “Party of Abraham Lincoln” – the party that ended slavery, instilled liberty, freedom, God, morality and a fidelity to the Constitution. In the Age of Obama, all of that is gone.

In an earlier article, I referred to the GOP as the GIP – the “Grand Irrelevant Party.” Why? Since Ronald Reagan left office the Republicans for the past 20 years have been operating from a position of weakness, ineptitude and fear; where polls, positivism, political posturing and platitudes mean more to these craven pols than God, principle, constitutionalism and Veritas (truth).

When I read a recent link I saw on the DrudgeReport.com, “Palin to stump for conservative Democrats?” I almost fell into despair: Why are Republicans campaigning for Democrats while Obama is campaigning for Democrats? Who’s standing up for conservatives? Where’s Edmund Burke? Where’s Lincoln? Where’s Churchill? Where’s Reagan? We need a real leader of the conservative movement to reform and organize the GOP and craft a coherent message of hope for a brighter future during these Orwellian times of despair and angst.

I realize that the Republicans lost the presidency and are in the minority in both Houses of Congress as well as on all of the influential committees; nevertheless, why on the first day of the confirmation hearings did that Quisling, Sen. Lindsay Graham, proudly exclaims that “absent a complete meltdown” Judge Sonia Sotomayor will be confirmed to the Supreme Court? Remember the confirmation hearings of Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg and Breyer? The GOP seems most comfortable grabbing the ole ankles and allowing the president to ramrod yet another radical liberal activist judge to the Supreme Court without even a pretense of a fight.

GOP or GIP?

Obama’s socialist power grabs and the overreaching of liberal Democrats installing FDR’s New Deal, Part II have provided the GOP with a golden opportunity to regain the Congress in the 2010 elections, but instead of solidifying their powerbase and streamlining their platform to distinguish themselves from President Obama, what is the GOP doing? They are mired in dumb ethics scandals. The most notable being Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina and his mistress from Argentina that he is apparently still in love with. What about Sen. John Ensign of Nevada who has spent almost $100,000 in bribes and hush money to his mistress and her husband, both former members of his staff?

Then there is the irrepressible Sarah Palin, who outdid the two GOP politicians cited above in shock value. On the day before America’s 233rd birthday, Palin dropped a bombshell announcement that she would resign before completing her first term as governor of Alaska effective July 31, to “do other things” and “to help conservatives win.” I’m just glad Ronald Reagan isn’t around to see the party he spent so much of his life almost singlehandedly reforming descend into the flames of self-immolation.

GOP or GIP?

Where do we go from here? If economic projections and unemployment rates remain depressed a year from now, I think the GOP will be poised to retake both houses of Congress, rendering Obama a lame duck president into the 2012 election and almost assuring that a Republican will become the nation’s next leader. That’s why Obama is so desperately trying to pass his FDR welfare state legislation before the August recess.

Here’s what the GOP must do:

Like Reagan did 30 years ago when he ran against the bumbling socialist Jimmy Carter, get three or four policy platforms on economics, domestic policy, foreign policy and health care, and get behind a person who can best articulate this focused vision.

We need candidates not intimidated by Obama’s radical racialism. Any GOP candidate will be relentlessly demonized as racist, sexist, homophobic Nazi. Here is the GOP platform in a statement: Obama is a certified socialist with fascist tendencies. The welfare State he erected has destroyed our civil liberties and has made us all slaves of the federal government. The Democrats have ruined this country economically and made America a joke internationally. If elected, I vow to return America back to the Constitution.

Any politician running on the GOP ticket that doesn’t have the guts to spend 15 minutes in the crucible of “The Savage Nation” radio show in my opinion cannot and should not represent my country, because I would consider them cowards and duplicitous and therefore untrustworthy when it comes to zealously defending America’s vested domestic and foreign interests.

We need GOP candidates that can speak in the authentic voice of the American people –freedom, liberty, Natural Law, constitutionalism, limited government, anti-socialism, anti-welfare and an America-first foreign and domestic policy.

In conclusion, whether the GOP wins in 2010 and 2012, or the GIP loses in 2010 and 2012 will be a simple matter of determining which candidates can stand flat-footed without a teleprompter, without a deer-in-the-headlights look, without saying “uuuhhh,” “aaahhh” or “you know,” without vacuous rhetoric of bipartisanship or “my friends across the aisle.” We don’t need another Benedict Arnold, another Neville Chamberlain, another “Maverick”; no more Fords, McCains, Bushs or Upper Eastside, country club Republicans. This is war! Therefore, we need a wartime consigliore in the GOP to stop Obama’s ruination of America, not an empty suit or a ventriloquist doll with lipstick, a tight skirt and a convoluted sports metaphor to explain simple questions. Enough is enough!

The great English writer and Christian apologist C.S. Lewis wrote: All that is not eternal is eternally forgotten. My paraphrase of Lewis is this: “All that is not eternal is eternally irrelevant.” Republicans, what will you be: the GOP, the Grand Old Party, or the GIP, the Grand Irrelevant Party? If you continue to forsake the eternal truths America was founded upon, you will continue to be the Grand Irrelevant Party with the tombstone inscription of your Whig Party predecessor … R.I.P.

© Ellis Washington

Ellis Washington, currently a professor of law and political science at Savannah State University, former editor at the Michigan Law Review and law clerk at The Rutherford Institute, is a graduate of John Marshall Law School and a lecturer and freelance writer on constitutional law, legal history, political philosophy and critical race theory. He has written over a dozen law review articles and several books, including “The Inseparability of Law and Morality: The Constitution, Natural Law and the Rule of Law” (2002). See his law review article “Reply to Judge Richard Posner.” Washington’s latest book is “The Nuremberg Trials: Last Tragedy of the Holocaust.”

 

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