Inkwell Institute
2010/2012 Election Series
The GOP has been struggling to find a message that the people of the US will be attracted to for the next election….the Congressional Repubs have been the Party of No, as the Dems call them and of course, the GOP sees it differently….but now the GOP is going to the people for answers to their failures in issues….I thought this was what the whole idea of our democracy was the whole time….but then this could be just another politician’s trick to give the people an illusion of what is being done….
As report in the Washington Times:
In an effort to shed its image as a “party of no” with few original ideas to challenge the Democrat-controlled Congress and White House, House Republicans on Tuesday will begin a campaign to ask the general public for input in drafting their next agenda.
The nationwide “America Speaking Out” campaign seeks to capitalize on growing voter frustration of the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress. Organizers say they welcome ideas from all voters, regardless of party affiliation.
“American Speaking Out is an effort to open the back rooms and closed doors that have defined Congress and allow Americans to be a part of drafting a governing agenda from the start,” the outline says.
The campaign’s mission to tap into the “growing disconnect between the priorities of the American public and the agenda that is debated in Washington” echoes the grass-roots “tea party” movement that has swept populists like Senate candidate Rand Paul of Kentucky to victory in recent Republican contests at the expense of party-backed candidates.
Good idea! But is this an admission to their inept form of governance? Is this truly a return of the slogan, “of the people, by the people and for the people”? Or as I have already asked, just another political scene in the political theater of the absurd?
A nice idea – what a shame they don’t mean it and it’s irrelevant anyway, because the world and the voters will have moved on by 2012.
Still, full marks for apparently trying at least…
If they mean what they say then it is an excellent idea….but I believe it is like the generic “what thew American people want”….so far I have not seen it in print ..of what we want that is….this is just another political blowjob….
Of course, but like I said, what the people want is likely NOT what they will want in two years time, so even if it was genuine it wouldn’t work.
If they REALLY want to follow what the PEOPLE want (unlikely as that may be) they have to monitor it probably monthly on a whole range of subjects and THEN ACT ON THAT INFO!
What out for flying pigs and airborne cows… 😆
Since lives and wants change almost daily…you are, as usual, so damn right….