Senate to Debate Bailing Out the Automakers on Monday

 The senate is going to debate bailing out the automakers on Monday. Once again the taxpayers will be on the hook for billions of dollars, this time to save a private company that should be left on it’s own to either succeed of fail.

 By now readers here understand that I have stood against this bailout bill and the president on this issue from day one. It sucks and it isn’t our responsibility to save the banks, the mortgage brokers, or Wall Street, and it sure as hell isn’t up to us to bailout the big three automakers from their own failings.

 But I am not going to use this post to bitch and moan about the senate and the fact that they are going to debate, and let’s face it, pass a bailout of the automakers. I want to use this post instead to bitch and moan about the Republicans who seem more than willing to go along with this journey into socialism.

 Republicans are still licking their wounds from another defeat at the polls. They are confused and have lost their way. They are spinning in circles while trying to figure what went wrong. In their daze they look at the Democrat’s gains and figure that in order to win they must become more like them. Republicans have forgotten that John McCain was one of them, that is why they had no shot at winning. There was no Republican, even the biggest RINO of the all (John McCain) tried to out-Democrat a Democrat, and he couldn’t do it. Republicans would have been better off offering an alternative to liberal Democrat policies instead of trying to embrace them.

 That being said it appears to me that Republicans still haven’t learned their lesson. Maybe the haze that surrounds them from their defeat is still clouding their vision. It amazes me that a number of Republicans may be willing to end the free market economy and sell America into socialism.

Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, said in a letter to Reid and Pelosi that any bailout should “include restrictions on executive salaries, compensation packages, and excessive internal spending,” along with commitments from the carmakers to develop more fuel-efficient vehicles.

 Yes that is an “R” after Grassley’s name although you wouldn’t know it by his statement that he believes the government should set limits on how much a private company can pay a person.

Sens. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., said through a spokesman that he would review the proposal, noting that he had backed a similar program for Chrysler in 1979 only with taxpayer protections and “serious concessions from the company, its dealers and the United Auto Workers.”

Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., told The Morning Call of Allentown, Pa., that he was “prepared to consider it,” but wanted answers on “whether the situation is so precarious that it would take more than what is proposed” to save the auto companies.

Bond, a conservative, said he was putting aside his distaste for federal intervention in the interest of his constituents.

“The idea of the government getting involved in the free market is very troublesome and potentially dangerous to the health of our system, but we have to act in unique times of crisis when tens of thousands of Missouri workers are in danger of losing their jobs,” he said in a statement.

 Seventy percent of Americans were against the bailout bill from the beginning, and yet these Republicans think that the answer to their problems is going along with the socialization of America? Republicans are becoming more and more like Democrat every day and it starts with the president and his “compassionate conservative” bullshit.

 The Republicans need to get back to their conservative roots if they want to have any chance of winning any elections. They have to show that they are different from the tax and spend liberals if they want a chance to win again.

 This bailout bullshit gives them the perfect opportunity to do so but they are going to fall in line with the Democrats and sell us down the river. I still think that one of the biggest reasons that John McCain lost was because he campaigned as a reformer, he said he would veto any bills that contained earmarks and that he would make the authors famous. But then along came the bailout bill that seventy percent of Americans disagreed with and what did John McCain do. He suspended his campaign and went to Washington to sign a bill that was filled with earmarks. He lost the campaign right then and there.

 Now Republicans are following John McCain sown the same path. The path to their own ruination. Why would voters vote for faux Democrats when they can vote for the real deal.

 It is time for conservatives to unite under a new leader, it is time to stand up and fight, it is time to make our positions known, to run on our ideas, and to stop trying to act like Democrats. We must present the American people with a true choice and then if they decide that they reject our ideas we must continue to define ourselves, not redefine ourselves as Democrats. At least if we lose it will be as conservatives and not as faux Democrats. We must show America that we offer an alternative. Sadly that doesn’t appear to be the path the current leadership is willing to take.