[whmatthews]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/200 ... -bailouts/

EXCLUSIVE: RNC draft rips Bush's bailouts
Ralph Z. Hallow (Contact)
Tuesday, December 30, 2008

In what would amount to a slap in the face to a sitting Republican president and the party's Senate and House leaders, national GOP officials, including the vice chairman of the Republican National Committee, are sponsoring a resolution opposing the resort to "socialist" means to save capitalism.

"We can't be a party of small government, free markets and low taxes while supporting bailouts and nationalizing industries, which lead to big government, socialism and high taxes at the expense of individual liberty and freedoms," said Solomon Yue, a cosponsor of a resolution that would put the RNC -- the party's national governing body -- on the record as opposing the U.S. government bailouts of the financial and auto industries.

Republican National Vice Chairman and constitutional law attorney James Bopp Jr. authored the resolution and is asking the rest of the 168 voting members of the committee to sign it.

"The resolution also opposes President-elect Obama's proposed public works program and supports conservative alternatives," while encouraging the RNC "to engage in vigorous public policy debates consistent with our party platform," Mr. Bopp said.

The RNC has never played a leading policy role or any policy role except once every four years in framing the national party platform, which is quickly forgotten and almost never referred to for another four years.

"Jim Bopp is the author of the no-bailout resolution because he wants to articulate our core principles now, not every four years when we have a presidential election," said Mr. Yue, an Oregon member of the Committee. "This is based on the thinking that articulating political philosophy is equally important as applying it consistently."

"Failing to do so, we have today's identity crisis, which resulted in our losses in 2006 and 2008," Mr. Yue said. "The bailout is a good example ... In my view, if we are not going to address this, we will see more losses in 2010."

North Dakota GOP Chairman Gary Emineth said he too has had enough of the never-ending disconnect between what the platform says and what elected Republicans do.

"It is time the party gets involved in policy issues and forces candidates to respond to the platform," Mr. Emineth said. "Frankly the way we view the platform is a joke. We work hard to drive our principles into the platform, then candidates ignore it."

[AZjonz]

This is a great start. Hopefully, we will find leaders with a backbone to push this.

The RNC called me looking for a donation. The lady was reading from a script telling me we need to act now before Obama raises our taxes and implements socialist policies. She said that my donation would help rally the Republicans to fight back. Whatever.

I got her off script and said when I see real leadership, I’ll make a donation. I told her we need leaders who push fiscal responsibility, free markets, and Kissinger foreign policy. I look at the Republican Party and I see a bunch of Democrats.

She hung up on me.

Maybe all of us who are traditional conservatives are getting through to our leaders. This article seems to indicate that.

Just my small rant, though I’m positive I’m not alone.

[ALUmnus]

The RNC has never played a leading policy role or any policy role except once every four years in framing the national party platform, which is quickly forgotten and almost never referred to for another four years.

So true.

[mrmacphisto]

I thought this was going to be about the Bud Lite ad campaign.

[Rocketfan]

I thought this was going to be a "GI JOE" story......

[Fumblerooskies]

I thought this was going to be a "GI JOE" story......

...but now we know...and KNOWING is half of the battle!

[RagingTireFire]

I thought this was going to be a "GI JOE" story......

...but now we know...and KNOWING is half of the battle!

I would have never known NOT to hide in a refrigerator if not for Recondo and the good people at Hasbro.

[Fumblerooskies]

I would have never known NOT to hide in a refrigerator if not for Recondo and the good people at Hasbro.

Yet you continue to sport the COBRA logo.

[RagingTireFire]

I would have never known NOT to hide in a refrigerator if not for Recondo and the good people at Hasbro.

Yet you continue to sport the COBRA logo.

Well, if they hadn't told me how dangerous it was to play hide-and-seek inside major appliances, my boys and I wouldn't still be at war with them.

Stupid Joes.

Speaking of which:
http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-20-stup ... cles-ever/

[ALUmnus]

That's awesome. I owned all but four of those vehicles. I think most of them are still in my parents' basement.

[El Scorcho]

Can we go ahead and hijack this thread to talk about "G.I Joe: Rise of Cobra"? 'Cause that's what I thought I was getting into when I clicked it and now I'm disappointed. Since we've arrived at G.I. Joe anyway, we may as well right?

So, Snake-Eyes is pretty much the best ninja ever.

[Fumblerooskies]

I was always more of a fan of Scarlett.

[LUconn]

Did anybody used to wonder how someone as gay sounding as Cobra Commander had authority over a evil mastermind like Destro?

[JMUDukes]

Republicans with backbone! I believe!!

[RagingTireFire]

Destro was actually just the arms merchant who supplied Cobra with its neon purple weapons. He was more interested in the money angle and less of the whole global domination thing. Frankly, it speaks more to the bureaucracy of the US military that they couldn't defeat an opponent led by an utter moron whose single greatest accomplishment was that of wasting billions of dollars in an effort to engrave his face on the surface of the moon.

Also, I'd take Storm Shadow in the ninja deparment. Every. Time.

[LUconn]

Storm Shadow didn't even come with an animal. Snake eyes had a wolf!

[RagingTireFire]

I always hated the ones that came with an animal friend because, honestly, who brings their pet to a war zone? On top of that, they didn't have any movable joints so when they got killed -- not if -- they just laid there on the shag carpeting with their stupid little immobile legs sticking up in the air.

[Rocketfan]

just laid there on the shag carpeting with their stupid little immobile legs sticking up in the air.

personal experience?

[El Scorcho]

I was always more of a fan of Scarlett.

[RagingTireFire]

Scorchy, you tease.