Incorrect, Bi-partisanship is Not the Answer

... and the question is - "Can the Republic be saved?" Some questions demand a "Yes" or "No" answer, so compromising to agree on "maybe" is just wrong. In America, the mantra of bi-partisan government has ruled the day since Ike's first term - Democrats favored ever bigger government, with ever growing federal budgets, while Republicans favored smaller government, with balanced budgets. Accordingly, to govern "effectively", so that the voters could see that their elected officials were getting thing done for them, Congress and presidents compromised, agreeing to "moderate" expansions of federal programs each session - less than progressive democrats sought, but more than conservative republicans favored.

So, from 1970 until 2006, this wonderfully moderate bipartisanship took the annual United States budget from 200 billion dollars per year to more than a trillion dollars, borrowed and spent. Then, in 2009, President Obama was inaugurated with substantial majorities in both Houses of Congress, so the dems had no need for their mantra of last nite - "we all must work together to give Americans a productive government". Instead, without consultations with or support from repubs, the democrats in Congress increased the Bush Administration's annual appropriations by another two and one-half trillion dollars of borrowed money. Of course, this highly productive, one-party rule, got us to the precipice of fiscal disaster, where a hostile foreign power (owning hundreds of billions of our debt) sends its chief thug into the White House to be serenaded about the glories of killing American soldiers.

The calamitous consequences of Obama's ruinous spending spree will not be corrected by a bi-partisan compromise to now stop spending more than what we are currently spending. A federal budgetary freeze for the next five years will only ensure many more Lang Lang invitations to spit on the graves of our Korean War veterans. No, the repubs need to save the Union and our national sovereignty by adopting fully balanced federal budgets. Should that course of action cause the dems to try to defeat this return to fiscal sanity, the public will fully understand, indeed will support, such partisan conflict as they are two very different views of how the nation will prosper. After all, when the stakes are this high - Saving the Union - Americans were willing to endure four years of bloody civil war. I'm confident that Americans will not shudder in fear when our elected representatives in Congress use the fighting words needed to save my soon to be bilingual granddaughter from the need to learn mandarin, as well. I'll gladly join this essential partisan fight over fundamental principals in the 112th Congress, because the alternative is to work together on rearranging the chairs on the deck of the Titanic.