By Susan Swift
GCC/Staff
Feb. 24, 2010

With the Healthcare Revival Summit just hours away, I have a queasy feeling that the Republican strategy might echo felon Rodney King’s ironic quip:  “Can’t we all just get along?” 

Indeed, five recently paved the way for the Jobs Bill, including Massachusetts’ darling Scott Brown, and Republican leaders are meeting with President Obama in an obviously-stacked summit on healthcare. 

Patton once said, “America loves a winner and will not tolerate a loser.”  Right now, Republicans, not Democrats, are positioned to be the winners on healthcare, jobs bills, cap-and-trade and who knows what tomorrow’s jam session with Emmanuel might bring.  But, it will take a team effort. 

Gridlock is liberty’s friend with a far leftwing ideologue in the White House.  Instead of “can’t we all just get along?” the Republican motto should be “Nuts!” – adopting General McAuliffe’s reply to the Nazi demand for American surrender at the Battle of the Bulge.  

If the Republicans had any moxy, they should send in a summit team of one, namely Congressman Joe Wilson to reiterate his famous words “You lie!” or maybe truck up a large Sarah Palin papier Mache hand with the words “Talk to this” scrawled across it.

The worse irony is that, for the past year, an undersized, outgunned, written-off-as-dead GOP minority has shown uncharacteristic pluckiness and nerve, fought tenaciously, and have thwarted the Democrat supermajority, with the result being a sweeping Democrat crash-and-burn, and with the Anointed One, Obama himself, suffering devastating drops in approval ratings.

Is the healthcare summit the GOP’s effort to grasp defeat from the jaws of a spectacularly achieved victory?  I hope not.

I cringe as GOP leaders begin their march to the photo op at the White House to once again try to persuade the MSM that Republicans aren’t the obstructionist Party-of-No.  No filibustering.  No attempts to put in bill-killing language. 

Nope.  Have these brave defenders of liberty decided that Obamacare is a fait accompli (French socialist-speak for “done deal”)? 

I wonder if Republicans hope to look kinder and gentler to America come November 2010.  Instead they risk looking weak and disorganized.

Republicans once claimed to stand for certain principles, among them individual rights, small restricted government, and sanctity of life.  Now it too often it appears they stand for “getting along” with Democrats when the media heat is turned on. 

Message to Michael Steele: Dump the Wolfgang Puck catering, roll up your sleeves and stop being intimidated and outmuscle.

At least when voters elect a liberal to office, they can be sure of what they’re getting.  I rarely feel the same thing about Republicans anymore.  I hope this summit proves me wrong.

 

Susan in Glendale. Promoted by God to the position of Mother

 

Source: Susan in Glendale

 

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