Frankenstein Republicans?

Where have all the Republicans gone? The Republicans I knew when I was in college were fiscally responsible. This isn’t true of the party today. Today’s Republicans are the worst combination of the parties from the recent past. They have assumed prominent parts of other parties. They have kept the laissez-faire business attitudes of the party from the 80’s. They assumed the pork barrel spendthrift nature of the House Democrats from the same decade. They incorporated the foreign policy interventionism of the Kennedy years. They made prominent the right-wing religious factor that was long dormant within the Party.

LA Times columnist Patt Morrison wants to know where are the Teddy Roosevelt Republicans? The Party cast aside that part when assembling today’s monster. The party no longer cares about issues like deficit spending, environment or even global public opinion. The Republicans Morrison writes of and the ones I knew are apparently extinct. Left long dead when the Party assumed its role as leader in writing the federal budget.

Writing more seems pointless. Those who would listen have died. Those left behind have no sense of history or responsibility.