The U.S.: Will It Rise or Will It Fall?

Will Evangelists and others on the far right in their single-minded determination to save every embryo, regardless of whether it came into being through rape, incest, or stupidity,  end the hope that this great country can regain its footing and proceed on its upward march?  Will the majority of America's women, turned off by a Republican platform that elevates the status of embryos and  fetuses above their rights and their humanity, help sink any hope for a rejuvenated America.  This despite the true meaningless of the nonsensical right-to-life plank in the GOP platform?

Too much has been promised by America's politicians.  It's not simply the entitlements that were granted despite the impossibility of our being able to pay for them.  It's also that methods of providing for healthcare have not been kept up to date.  The same-old-same-old won't do.

Is Simpson-Bowles the answer?  Is Paul Ryan's bill, now in its third iteration, the answer?  I don't know.  But what I do know is that the Republicans have tried to do something.  I also know that whatever eventually gets done with regards to healthcare will leave many Americans unhappy.  That leaves us with the question as to which party will show the necessary leadership to do what's necessary?

Getting the economy to move back to a growth of 4%, or more, would help enormously.  Drilling, and  laying the necessary pipelines would be a major step in that direction.  It would bring lots and lots of jobs and it would put us on the path to energy self sufficiency.  Applying regulations that would be sufficient to keep harm from being done to our markets as well as keeping free markets from doing harm would be a further major step in the right direction.  Excess regulations can do as much harm as inadequate regulation.  Furthermore, policies regarding regulation should be conveyed to the markets so that entrepreneurs could proceed building business with a reasonable degree of confidence that their efforts will not be undermined by capricious governmental interference.

In all these matters, the Republicans seem far better positioned than the Democrats.  But will they be permitted to do the job?  Not if America's women are turned off by the distraction of "right-to-life. "
Will American women come to the realization that this plank in the party platform must be viewed as secondary to revitalizing our economy.