Progressive Republicans v. Reactionary Democrats

When Americans voted for "hope" and "change" I doubt many thought they were voting for a trip down memory lane. But in recent days it's abundantly clear the Obama administration is simply going to be an employment agency for Clinton alumni and in economic policy, seeks to turn the clock back almost 80 years.

Time magazine advocates a "New New Deal"  http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1856381_1856380,00.html?xid=newsletter-daily  for the new President.

Republicans should judiciously---but vocally--oppose the effort.

Michael Barone outlines in specifics what was wrong with the first New Deal. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/obamas_new_new_deal_no_better.html. The bottom line is that while massive government spending and regulation may have arrested the slide in the economy, they did nothing to build a foundation for long term private sector economy growth.

The bigger problem with a "new New Deal" is the concept of the New Deal made sense for a 1930's economy and society. FDR's America was comprised mostly of laborers and farmers, and had comparatively little trade with foreign nations.  Credit and demand had dried up, and abject poverty was manifest.

Trying to force a command economy on a 21st Century skilled wired workforce in the age of globalization would be like trying to play an MP3 file on a Vitrola. Americans have become accustomed to making their own breaks, and are unlikely to stand aside and wait for the slow moving hand of government to make them for them.   Even the definition of an economic nuclear winter circa 2009 doesn;t seem all that dire http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/11/16/depression_2009_what_would_it_look_like/?page=full; in fact, it sounds a lot like middle class life in the late 1970's.......home cooked meals, relatives living upstairs, and watchng lots of TV.

The new President says that right now "we should'nt worry about the deficit" http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aOl_Qn1.A4Dw&refer=worldwide 

For Wicca's sake, with the huge Democrat majority in Congress this makes as much sense as making Eliot Spitzer a sorority chaperone.  Every useless, self-serving special interest project known to mankind is going to be funded in 2009 and 2010.

And the Republican Party has best not put its fingerprints on any of it.

We should let the Democratic party fire up the DeLorean and go "Back to the Future" of runway deficit spending  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future

The Republican Party must focus on creating a new , fiscally responsible future based on sustainable budgets, incentives for businesses to grow here in America, an energy policy based on delivering reliable domestic energy to consumers; not appeasing theorists, and yes, building infrastructure based on long term domestic requirements, not wasting captital on short term political agendas.

The 2012 campaign may prove to be the "Battle of the Titans"  Let Barack Obama emulate Franklin Roosevelt. Now we get to fill the void of Ronald Reagan