White House Joins Republican Eagles

White House Joins the Republican Eagles

Monday, May 5th 1997 — In case you thought Republicans had a lock on wealth favoritism, check the President's deal with the GOP on this year's budget. Basically the budget agreement now stands to hand out whopping tax cuts for the rich while at the same time cutting programs for the poor and working families in America. Sound familiar?

The few liberal Democrats surviving in Congress are more than irate at the White House for having been ignored during last week's round of talks between "New Democrats" and Republican leaders.

Representative Barney Frank all but called Bill Clinton a Republican in Democrat clothes and House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, the oft-mentioned challenger to Al Gore for 2000's Democratic Presidential nod complained that House Dems were completely shut out of the budget negotiation process. They were - by design.

You don't have to be a genius to see that the nation is quickly moving toward a one-party, "Republicratic" system.

Republicrats are the majority in both houses of congress. They are made up of men and women who have one goal - to get re-elected, and each moves across traditional party lines with impunity. Republicratic theory is based on one thing - poll results. In Republicratic circles, absolutely no attention is paid to leadership - which. in politics, is defined as taking unpopular positions in the name of general good. The co-founders of this movement are Newt Gingrich, Bill Clinton, Ralph Reed and Dick Morris who learned the secret to appealing for American votes - fear and greed.

Promise them anything, but give them what General Motors wants -- the credo of Republicrats -- pays quarterly lip service to America's call for lower taxes and a balanced budget , two things that don't usually go hand in hand. This credo is a fundamental prescription for success based in the Dickmorrisian philosophy that voters are too stupid to remember anything for much longer than a week, but that campaign contributions from the wealthy have long-lasting earmarks, carefully noted, and representing expected quid pro quos that, if gone unpaid, will result in defeat by way of challenger funding "next time."

Even if Republicrats are correct in their low rating of American intelligence, it's only a matter of time before even the thickest voters realize that there is no choice. Once this occurs, watch out for third parties (I mean second parties) which will rise to challenge the too-obvious status quo.