What's the plan?


Democrats claim to offer an alternative. So what is it?
It's a little early to be calling the midterm elections just yet, but I think I see some trends. While people aren't happy with the Republicans, they aren't all that convinced that the Democrats offer a better solution.

Robert Traciniski sums up the position for many conservatives.

Let's take a look at every major issue that might be a concern to a pro-national defense, pro-liberty voter.

Are you concerned about big government? The Republican-controlled Congress has ballooned the federal budget. The problem is not "earmarks" or "pork-barrel" spending, which account for only 1% of the federal budget. Nor is it welfare for the poor. The real driver of runaway government spending is welfare for us--the automatic growth of Social Security and Medicare, the "middle-class entitlements."

Which party offers a solution to this problem? The Republicans certainly are guilty of egregious failures. In 2005, congressional Republicans abandoned President Bush's very modest Social Security privatization plan. Two years earlier, Bush himself rammed through, over the objections of congressional Republicans, the biggest new middle-class entitlement, the Medicare prescription drug benefit.

But what have the Democrats offered? They have campaigned, not to reduce government spending, but to increase tax rates to keep up with runaway spending.

If you want to have a debate over big government versus small government, you'll have to have it within the right. The left contributes nothing of value.

I've said before I want to see something from the Democrat party other than "get Bush" and pandering to special interest groups. But everything I see just exaggerates the Democrats lack of a plan.

This week the sound bites have been about Mark Foley and the corruption of the Republicans. But I want to know why when it is a Republican just before election, it's a scandal, but when it is a Democrat, it is a privacy issue.

Can anyone give me a positive reason to vote for Democrats?

Otherwise, I am just choosing the lesser of two evils.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Wed - October 4, 2006 at 05:51 PM  Tag


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