It is time to tell the conservatives in Congress and elsewhere that their backward reaching political program is no longer, if it ever was, relevant to the vast majority of Americans. We've moved on, and there is no returning to the failed policies that the conservatives espouse.
The lame duck congressional session is ending, and of course, the "Fiscal Cliff" is at the top of the agenda. As I write in the morning of December 31, 2012, nothing has yet been accomplished on this, and our congress seems as disfunctinal as it ever has in my 63 years on this Earth. Approximately one dozen of the most radical Republicans in Congress lost their seats, but the Republicans and Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, still hold a diminishedHouse majority in the new congress. But, the last gasp of the defeated radicals may be to once again, hold America hostage to their "Pledge" to Americans for Tax Reform's president, Mr. Grover Norquist. To those radicals, I say, We've moved on.
Below the fold, I will offer my observations and opinions on just how yesterday the Republicans are, and how I, and America have Moved On.
NOTE: I started writing this diary prior to the Newtown, Connecticut massacre of children and teachers, and partway down the page, rather than abandon my work, I simply added a new section concerning gun control and violence in our nation. I put a dozen proposals, none of them original to me out for discussion. Please excuse the somehwat disjointed organization of this piece.
To Mr. Wayne LaPierre, and his call to arm peaceful teachers of children, and to put armed vigilantes in our schools, this represents an unfunded mandate on our overstretched public school systems for additional security costs, which would inevitably come at the expense of our children in the form of less rich academic programs, and a sense of fear in the one place where they should feel most safe, I say to Mr. LaPierre, we've moved on, neither your proposal nor the status quo will stand. America has said, we've moved on.
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