Congressional Issues 2006
GOVERNMENT
"Left," "Right," and the "Politically Homeless"

The 109th Congress should:

• ignore the traditional division between "left" and "right," and the partisan distinction between "Republicrat" and "Demoblican"
• pursue "Liberty Under God" with non-partisan consistency.

The traditional "left"-"right" spectrum of political analysis is utterly defective. At the far left is communism, a form of totalitarian socialism. At the far right is fascism, a form of totalitarian socialism. What is the "middle of the road?" A form of the absence of all government? No, it's usually implied that Keynesian socialism or Fabian socialism is "middle of the road." But this is exactly what our Founding Fathers broke away from now-socialist Britain to avoid.

More and more Americans don't feel represented by either major political party.

Both the Democrat and the Republican Parties now advocate what the Socialist Party advocated during the early years of the 20th century:

Toward a Socialist America

An American Classical Liberalism

• The Myth of Republican Conservatism
• Republican Party Opposes Ten Commandments
• Republicans and Big Government
• A Bush-Clinton Ticket Would Be Unbeatable
• The Bush Betrayal: New Era of Big Government   Former Congressman Bob Barr
• Republocrats
• GWB: The Mask Is Off
• GWB's Big Government Record
• The embarrassing GOP
• Trading Places: Jeffrey Frankel [alt]
       "The pattern is so well established that the generalisation can no longer be denied: the Republicans have become the party of fiscal irresponsibility, trade restriction, big government and bad microeconomics.
        "Surprisingly, Democrat presidents have, relatively speaking, become the proponents of fiscal responsibility, free trade, competitive markets and neoclassical microeconomics. This characterisation sounds implausible. Certainly, it would not be recognisable from the two parties' rhetoric. But compare the records of Presidents Carter and Clinton with those of Presidents Reagan, Bush senior and Bush junior."
  Jeffrey Frankel is professor of economics at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government
• Middle-of-the-Road Policy Leads to Socialism
• Bush or Kerry? No Difference
• The return of the living dead: Federal programs that survived the Republican revolution
• Republicans Love Big Government
• Attack on Conservatives (jbs)
• Conservatives Only (fff)
• On Spending, Bush Is No Reagan
• The Bush Betrayal
• Republicans Become the Party of Big Government
• The Republican Spending Explosion
• The Mother of All Big Spenders: Bush spends like Carter and panders like Clinton
• Bush’s Bigger, Fatter Welfare State
• Bush continues Clinton agenda (wnd)
• How Conservative Is President Bush?
• Was Clinton more conservative than Bush?
• Tweedledee or Tweedledum?
• Individualist Anarchism (69)
• Contemporary Libertarianism (584)
• Leftism Revisited
• Strange bedfellows
• Libertarian Party (lp-pr's)
• Polling Data (lp-pr's)
• Politics
• Politics (fff)
• Politics and Political Parties
• Politics and Politicians (lp-pr's)
• Waste Your Vote!
• Lies, Damn Lies and Republican Rhetoric
• Libertarian Mainstream Caucus - GOP Watch
• 'Conservative' Bush Spends More than 'Liberal' Presidents Clinton, Carter
• Cost of government gets more taxing under Bush
• Spending and Lying by Rep. Ron Paul
• GOP: Gigantic Outlay Party
• For Libertarians, Candidates Offer Little Choice
• With Republicans Like These, Who Needs Democrats?

• U.S. will keep oil flowing for now -- The Washington Times
  Bush Administration gives your tax dollars to Big Oil, and gives the oil to North Korea, freeing up funds for Pyongyang to develop Nuclear Weapons. But at least Al Gore isn't President.
• The Bush-Kerry Conundrum
• Double Standards: Clinton and the Bush-Haters
• The Cato Institute: Federal Spending
• Bush's Budget Betrayal :: Ludwig von Mises Institute
• The Myth of the Kerry Calamity
• Socialist Hawk vs. Warmongering Commie
• Down With Left and Right

Harry Browne on the Non-Differences Between the Two Major Parties:

• Aiding & Abetting Republicans?, Harry Browne, January 11, 2001
• Believing in People, Harry Browne, December 16, 1999
• Conservatives Looking More Like Liberals Every Day, Harry Browne, February 13, 2001
• Death of the Republican Party, the, Harry Browne, November 4, 1998
• Forsaking Microsoft for Janet Reno, Harry Browne, December 22, 1997
• It's Still the Economy, Stupid, Harry Browne, January 23, 2001
• Libertarians Are Not Part of the "Right", Harry Browne, March 7, 2001
• Only Way to Smaller Government, the, Harry Browne, September 27, 1998
• Republican Betrayal from A to Z, the, Harry Browne, July 28, 1999
• Separating Ourselves from the Pack, Harry Browne, April 3, 1998
• Should We Give George Bush Another Chance?, Harry Browne, January 1, 2001
• Truth about the Republican & Democratic Parties, the, Harry Browne, March 23, 1999
• We're More Ambitious than the Republicans Are, Harry Browne, September 22, 2000
• What Do You Want from Politics and How Will You Get It, Harry Browne, May 31, 1998
• Who Gave the OK on Kosovo?, Harry Browne, July 6, 1999
• Why Clinton's Morals Seem Important, Harry Browne, January 25, 1998
• Will the 2000 Election Be the Most Important in a Generation?, Harry Browne, June 1999

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