The Death of the Republican Party

We are currently witnessing congressional actions that will lead to the death of the Republican Party. It seems that Republicans are so used to being nay-sayers that they just can’t help but oppose the stimulus package. It also seems that they may have found their true platform a little too late.
See, in a booming economy, the tax and spending cuts that the Republicans are now proposing (I guess the lesson is that you get to spend money on war and pet projects for your buddies, but not when that money is slated for the creation of jobs) work well—the government can afford to give up some revenue and doesn’t need to spend as much money to create demand. Ideally, in a good economy, the government should run a surplus (I don’t think Republicans are even aware of what ‘surplus’ means). In a bad economy, however, this is ass backwards. If the government cuts spending, then demand for consumer goods and services drops, as do wages, leading ultimately to a loss of production, which leads to a greater loss of job and so on and so forth…this is the downward spiral of a recession and it is a difficult cycle to break without some kind of stimulus from outside sources i.e. the government.
Tax cuts are more complicated. Realistically, tax cuts are not a bad idea during a poor economy, because again, the government should want to increase the supply of money, leading to greater demand. This means, that again, ideally, we should have tax increases during times of prosperity. Of course this is assuming that we want tax rates to regulate the economic cycle of recession, depression, recovery, prosperity. I’d rather just have a fair tax code that taxed wealth rather than work, but that’s another argument entirely.
Getting back to the demise of the Republican Party, their problem lies primarily in the fact that they just say the same thing all the time, like a child throwing a fit, “What do you want to eat Rushy?”
“I want a peanut butter sandwich!”
“We don’t have any peanut butter.”
“Peanut Butter Sandwich!”
“Rushy, you’re allergic to peanut butter.”
“PEANUT BUTTER!”
“Rushy, how about an oxycodon and a prostitute?”
“Yaaaaaaaaay!”
Like little Rushy, who desperately wants a PBJ, Republicans constantly want tax cuts. No matter what the economic, social, or political problem is, the solution is simply to have more tax cuts. But no matter how much they beg, plead, and use the corporate media microphone, the plain truth is that tax cuts aren’t going to work when Americans are buying Chinese products, our government allows illegal immigrants across the border unabated, we continue to lead the world in prison population, our healthcare system is bloated and inefficient, our schools are poorly funded, and our public infrastructure is crumbling to the ground. None of these problems are going to be solved by tax cuts, nor is any simple increase in money supply, because these problems are systemic products of years of bipartisan ignorance. They require leadership, dynamic problem solving, and the word that is anathema to politicians: action.
If Republicans want to criticize the Democrats for not addressing these issues, and start offering solutions and plans of action to boot, they will have my vote in coming elections, and I would guess the votes of many other Americans. If, however, they continue down this path of small government, tax cuts, and social conservatism (an issue I won’t even begin to discuss here), they are going to continue to lose, and finally, they are going to die. And America isn’t going to shed a tear when they do.