EMS: Tapscott’s Advice to the GOP, plus Primary Predictions!
posted at 1:30 pm on May 20, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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Today, on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), Mark Tapscott joins us in the first half to discuss his latest advice to the Republican Party. Will they listen and act, or will they continue to offer empty rhetoric about reform? Find out more during Mark’s appearance. In the second half, we’ll talk to TMV’s Jazz Shaw about the Tanker Test, and we’ll talk more about today’s primaries.
My predictions: Hillary wins Kentucky by 24, while Obama wins Oregon by 10. No surprises.
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I have read Tapscott’s recommendations. I have 2 comments. Drop the term limits recommendation. Elected representatives already have “term limits.” They are called elections. The electorate can choose not to reelect a senator or representative they believe is no longer doing the proper job representing them. It is unfair to force a representative who the electorate wants to continue to represent them to not be allowed to run, again, because they have reached an artificial limit.
Wildcatter1980 on May 20, 2008 at 3:59 PM
Comment 2 is regarding taxes. Don’t just stop at “no more taxes.” Come out strong for the “FairTax” proposal already introduced in Congress. The elimination of Federal income and payroll taxes (and the IRS with the need to complete tax returns with all its attendant invasion of personal (financial) privacy) in favor of an inclusive national sales tax will do a lot more to further the Republican Party as the party that cares more about the rights and freedoms of the individual than special interests. Also, such a policy shift will show genuine “change” that will help rather than be hollow, empty promises.
Wildcatter1980 on May 20, 2008 at 4:07 PM
Term limits by all means! The process is so rigged in favor of the incumbant and promotes earmarking. Pandering with our dollars for our votes. Its’ badly broken when you have Senators like Byrd W.Virginia that doesn’t even know what day it is still winning elections based on the power he has and the pork he rakes in..
And while we’re at it take away their cushy pensions (Lifetime) and put them on medicare healthcare.
dhunter on May 20, 2008 at 4:17 PM
Great show today Ed. Thanks
originalpechanga on May 20, 2008 at 4:18 PM
+1
jdog on May 20, 2008 at 5:50 PM
WaPo headline on McCain’s IMAGE consultant quitting as promised, Mark McKinnon’s FRONTLINE 4/12/05 confession of his political epiphany to work for Bush was based on CHARACTER. So what’s it all amount to today? McKinnon promised McCain he’d quit if Obama got the DNC nomination, BASED ON CHARACTER?
This fair weather support should make it blatantly clear to McCain that his only REAL vote will come from conservatives, certainly not reliably from the “center” of the whirlpool.
As to judgment, this brings McCain’s into question. Why would he hire his main consultant on a shifty temporary basis based on the gamble that his opponent would not be his opponent?
Again, McCain needs to pull out his arsenal posse now. Is he afraid that he’s only garnered political “supporters” like McKinnon? Who needs enemies with close friends like that?
Ed, I look forward to your post on the ill spawned McCain/McKinnon tryst.
maverick muse on May 21, 2008 at 8:29 AM
I second dhunter. The system is so corrupt that no new fresh faces or ideas even get a chance. By the time the new guys are through paying their dues, they’re already GOP’s – Grumpy Old Poops.
And as far as a “good” congressman or senator being thrown out, well, it rains on the just and the unjust. Let him sit out one cycle then come back for re-election, maybe.
And as far as elections serving as term limits, this allows the corrupt to put up the same old faces and you have no real choice other than to stay home. We need real term limits and we need them now. Virginia has term limits on her governor, one term, and it seems to work really well.
When the Fathers set up this government, they never intended Kennedy, Byrd and Thurmond to be lifetime senators.
abcurtis on May 21, 2008 at 10:55 AM
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