GOP dragged back to its roots—fiscal warriorism

February 14, 1:45 PMSF Politics ExaminerArthur Bruzzone

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The Republican Party has been dragged back to its core – repelling cancerous, engulfing Federalism.  Also known as ‘big government’.

For 15 years social issues have dominated the GOP.  The abundance of wealth, extraordinary wealth, now $14 trillion less, for American households, made fiscal attentiveness boring.  (Note, not for this writer.)

Social issues have impassioned the republican base for the last 15 years.  They drove the volunteers to get out the vote.  Drove GOP volunteers like Obama drove his volunteers in the last election. Gun rights, anti-abortion, gay rights, these are the issues that have rattled the GOP in recent campaigns. 

Not now.  Not singularly.  Not with audacious progressive, socialist democrats in control.

Congress and President.  Not with the previous president – a Republican – who showed a disregard for fiscal conservatism.

The contemporary Republican Party, raging mad at the excesses of bloated Federal programs under presidents Roosevelt in the forties, Johnson in the sixties, are awakening –  for a renewed battle.

Christian movements joined with fiscal conservatives in the nineties to take back Congress after forty years.  Now, fiscal conservatives are re-emerging, forced into action by the most outrageous government expansion in history. 

It took just three weeks for the Democrats to plow through a near trillion dollar spending spree, revealing their disregard for sound governance.

As Vice President Biden warned, their actions will come back to haunt the arrogant leaders of the Democrat Party.  They’ve enlivened the GOP’s fiscal warriors; long ago sent to the back of the republican bus.  Balance has been restored. 

The three wings of the Republican Party – fiscal warriors, defense hawks, and social conservatives – when united will pull along conservative Democrats and create a formidable alliance. 

For that, the GOP has to thank President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, Senator Reid and the democratic socialists of the Democrat Party.