So the Republican Whip website announces a National Council For a New America.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) today issued the following statement upon releasing a letter announcing the formation of the National Council for a New America, a forward-looking, grassroots caucus intended to bring together Congressional leaders with a national panel of experts.
“The National Council for a New America will engage with and empower the American people to develop innovative solutions that meet the serious challenges confronting our country. It is the right time to begin a thoughtful conversation about the future of this country.”
Sounds like a bunch of “Hope and Change” to me. Sorry GOP but the Democratic Party already ran on that platform and they won. You want to try something really innovative? Your constituency cares about the fundamental principles on which the United States of America was founded. Your constituency cares about traditional values like the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and national sovereignty. And in that regard you have only been slightly better than the Democrats causing us to have to hold our noses when we vote.
From Politico:
The common thread at the forum was that the Republicans Party’s struggles are rooted in its nostalgia for a more successful past, and inability to offer a policy agenda suited for the 21st century. To make a political comeback, the GOP leaders argued, the party needs to modernize its ideas and agenda.
Modernize ideas and agenda? You tried that already and that’s why you lost. You ran liberal lite John McCain for president who chose open borders advocate Juan Hernandez as his National Director of Hispanic Outreach (I have nothing but respect for Senator McCain’s record of military service, but he’s no conservative). And the real conservative, Sarah Palin was chained down by the campaign.
So now that you’ve made yourselves totally irrelevant, you want to launch a listening tour? Well you can start with losing this part:
A Blueprint for our Conversation with America
You see, “listening” doesn’t mean you tell the American people what the issues are; they tell you and you get your asses to work on it. The Tea Party movement should have been a wake up call for you. A million people rallied against excessive government and nanny state policy and you by and large weren’t invited.
Want to to know why you weren’t invited? Because you are part of the problem and today you still don’t want to be part of the solution. You’re just jealous of the Democrats who won majority of the Legislative and Executive branches of government and might soon have the Judicial branch too.
Conservatives know that politicians ALWAYS vote to put power and control in their own hands and never into the hands of the people. And that’s why you abandoned your base (conservatives) because you would prefer liberal, nanny state, sheep as a constituency (yet another reason why you’re jealous of the Democrats).
Want to become relevant again? You can start by reading every hand crafted sign carried by an American citizen at one of the many hundreds of Tax Day Tea Parties across the country on April 15. Get started now because there’s a million of them for you to catch up on. Ignore the agenda driven mainstream media and the liberal blogosphere and the slanted polls. They hate you. Get used to it. Focus on traditional values of smaller government, less taxes and strong national defense. Abandon the bogus global warming crap. Secure the border and make citizenship available to those who want citizenship bad enough to earn it, not just those who need a job.
If you can’t do the above, then just get the hell out of the way and let a real conservative step in. Oh and by the way, lose the National Council for a New America. Your constituency likes the old America just fine.