Around the country, the conservative movement has been rallying in opposition to the current administration and the Democrats have replied by using their congressional majority to silence the debate on spending bills. They have used Bush as an excuse for everything they’ve done wrong. They have tried to portray the opposition party as the “party of no.” The Republican Party has, to its merit, circled the wagons and has been united in its opposition to the skyrocketing spending and to the increased taxation that the Democrats have been forcing through Congress.

For Congressional unity, the Republicans can thank House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (VA) for keeping the party on message. He even helped put together a strategy of ambushing Democrats in Congress asking them tough questions on their questionable positions and votes. In the meantime, the Democrats are repeating that same old line, that we just keep saying “no.” Their recent ad against him shows just how much of a threat a united opposition poses to the liberal agenda. The video claims that Cantor and the Republicans have not offered an alternative budget and instead just say no… to set the record straight, the Republicans have indeed offered up an alternative budget that won’t bankrupt this country like the Obama team is planning on.

The Democrats accuse the Republicans of having no new ideas, while they peddle a policy of class warfare through taxation and spending that echoes the old socialist ideals that the Party of Reagan discredited. The liberals know that they cannot get America to agree to higher taxes and the redistribution of wealth without running up the national debt to what economists describe as unsustainable. Only then will America be forced into a position where it must substantially raise taxes and deal its death blow to the free enterprise system that is already under attack. The reason is simple: a political party is an organization whose purpose is to win elections and remain in power, in order to remain in power they must appeal and expand their voting bloc, and when we consider that people with union or government jobs and people who benefit from entitlement programs vote predominantly Democratic, the liberals must expand government and increase the number of dependents on the government in order to keep winning elections. This analysis might seem a bit extreme, but one only needs to look at their policies and realize that they set out to undermine private property, free enterprise, and Constitutional rights in the name of the “greater good"… these are old tactics recommended by none other than Karl Marx, the godfather of universal unionization, universal public sector employment, and universal welfare, i.e. communism.

At the same time, we have North Korea launching a missile over Japan while the president was in Prague preaching “disarmament.” Iran, in the meantime, continues down the road towards developing nuclear weapons in the face of UN sanctions… the opposite of disarmament. This is not the time to treat these hostile regimes to a diplomatic slumber party at the White House or commit to “disarmament” treaties that will prevent us from building missile defenses (like Russia is pushing on us and Obama said he was willing to talk about). The Republican Sarah Palin, on the other hand, has been pushing for a missile defense shield in Alaska to protect against anything the North Koreans might throw our way. Good idea if you ask me… but no, the Democrats still brand us as the party of failed ideas, the party of no.

To my conservative friends I ask: what’s wrong with being the party of NO? Especially when you take into account what we are saying no to:

The Republican Party of…

NO democrat ONE-PARTY RULE
NO extreme wealth REDISTRIBUTION
NO foreign policy WEAKNESS
NO excessive TAXATION
NO skyrocketing SPENDING
NO unsustainable DEBT

Sounds like my kind of party. In fact, I might even change the name of this blog to “NoRepublica"… on second thought, no.

Republicans should embrace this label… and until we stop the Democrats we must be the party of:

-AG