Discipline
By Jim Lyde
Chief Operating Officer
This country has just reached a political position that enables our recently elected leadership to examine the false hope and failed promises we have sustained and develop real plans to move us toward the country our forefathers envisioned. For this exercise to be successful, old fashioned discipline will be required.
We must we must we MUST be willing to create compromises untainted by politics and driven by honest evaluation within a quest for intelligent solutions. Agreements reached based on the issues, not getting reelected. Jefferson’s Declaration that “all men are created equal” led to a nation that could unite only after the horrible state of affairs created by the implementation of the infamous Three Fifths Compromise, which upheld the absolute opposite of equality. This terrible but necessary agreement reaffirmed slavery, set forth a property tax policy on slaves and decreed that a slave was three-fifths of a citizen. Thank goodness the Constitutional language of this case (Article 1, Section 2) has been obliterated by subsequent amendments, but without the resolution of that issue there may never have been a United States of America. Progress is still being made toward the complete solution to that abomination, but there can be no better illustration of the need for compromise.
Before Republicans can have standing to influence our neighbors and neighborhoods we should right ourselves and our own houses. That exercise requires unity. The division between establishment and conservative Republicans is more vociferous than it should be. The activities of the Republican Party during the Thad Cochran senatorial runoff in Mississippi were indefensible. How does Senator Cochran now view his mandate, since the national Republican party persuaded liberal Democrats to vote for him over conservative Chris McDaniels, who had just beaten Cochran in the primary? One might suppose that the sleazy effort required in that election would give conservatives pause to contemplate how people like Cruz, Paul, Lee and a whole new group of conservatives got elected! Conversely, how should moderate Republicans feel after conservatives ignored experienced advice and insisted on a strategy that resulted in accusations from across the country that Republicans shut down the government? Establishment types need to acknowledge and move toward the principles they claim to support and away from their true selfish motives. Conservatives should move toward the historical legislative methodology that brings success. Success won not only by adherence to principle, but by way of compromise, with both sides protecting values and moving the effort forward.
For the past six years our nation’s fortunes have been controlled by a highly unlikely merger of conditions: an illogically elected socialist Muslim President whose legislative minions are pseudo-intellectual, mean-spirited sheep. Until now this union has controlled from two-thirds to all of the government. Conservatives must abandon the childish personality contests to avoid continuing the current dismal and negative condition. If this superfluous bickering does not cease, the President will utilize his oratory and his ownership of the national media to prevail in the future.
By Jim Lyde
Chief Operating Officer
This country has just reached a political position that enables our recently elected leadership to examine the false hope and failed promises we have sustained and develop real plans to move us toward the country our forefathers envisioned. For this exercise to be successful, old fashioned discipline will be required.
We must we must we MUST be willing to create compromises untainted by politics and driven by honest evaluation within a quest for intelligent solutions. Agreements reached based on the issues, not getting reelected. Jefferson’s Declaration that “all men are created equal” led to a nation that could unite only after the horrible state of affairs created by the implementation of the infamous Three Fifths Compromise, which upheld the absolute opposite of equality. This terrible but necessary agreement reaffirmed slavery, set forth a property tax policy on slaves and decreed that a slave was three-fifths of a citizen. Thank goodness the Constitutional language of this case (Article 1, Section 2) has been obliterated by subsequent amendments, but without the resolution of that issue there may never have been a United States of America. Progress is still being made toward the complete solution to that abomination, but there can be no better illustration of the need for compromise.
Before Republicans can have standing to influence our neighbors and neighborhoods we should right ourselves and our own houses. That exercise requires unity. The division between establishment and conservative Republicans is more vociferous than it should be. The activities of the Republican Party during the Thad Cochran senatorial runoff in Mississippi were indefensible. How does Senator Cochran now view his mandate, since the national Republican party persuaded liberal Democrats to vote for him over conservative Chris McDaniels, who had just beaten Cochran in the primary? One might suppose that the sleazy effort required in that election would give conservatives pause to contemplate how people like Cruz, Paul, Lee and a whole new group of conservatives got elected! Conversely, how should moderate Republicans feel after conservatives ignored experienced advice and insisted on a strategy that resulted in accusations from across the country that Republicans shut down the government? Establishment types need to acknowledge and move toward the principles they claim to support and away from their true selfish motives. Conservatives should move toward the historical legislative methodology that brings success. Success won not only by adherence to principle, but by way of compromise, with both sides protecting values and moving the effort forward.
For the past six years our nation’s fortunes have been controlled by a highly unlikely merger of conditions: an illogically elected socialist Muslim President whose legislative minions are pseudo-intellectual, mean-spirited sheep. Until now this union has controlled from two-thirds to all of the government. Conservatives must abandon the childish personality contests to avoid continuing the current dismal and negative condition. If this superfluous bickering does not cease, the President will utilize his oratory and his ownership of the national media to prevail in the future.
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