WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM

DATELINE: Clulessville, Dec 24 – With the catastrophic “roll-out” of Obamacare and the huge negative press dogging the President, where oh where is the brain trust of the GOP? Out where the buffalo roam. That’s right. They’re plain buffaloed by the challenge of coming up with any good ideas of their own. They aren’t that great at leveling criticisms, but they are far worse at presenting cogent plans or any plans at all, really.

If anyone knows the GOP healthcare plan, raise your hand and let the rest of us in on it. Don’t bother with the usual response – that several GOP members of Congress think big thoughts and have come up with a variety of schemes. So what? A bunch of competing plans aren’t going to feed the bulldog. Republican leaders need to provide unified responses to the issues of the day like healthcare, a weakening international presence, spending and the anemic economy.

The vaccuum of solutions to these serious problems is the biggest disappointment among the GOP failthful in this Country. By their failure to come up with answers, GOP leaders cede the field to Democrats. They put themselves in the secondary role of harpies snatching crumbs off the table of mistakes set by the Democrats.

So, why aren’t there GOP solutions? Because there aren’t any true GOP leaders. Yeah, there are people in the top positions who have the title. But, they don’t actually lead. They are old guys with old ideas who have been around so long that no one pays much attention to them. For sure, they’re always out behind the microphones droning on about this and that, but nothing ever comes of it. They lack the charisma, force of presence – call it what you want – to bring together the ideologically disparate groups among their number.

Until that happens, you’ll find them out roaming with the buffalo.