Posted on 06/12/2014 8:20:03 AM PDT by ken5050
Are they kidding? Are they serious? Did they learn NOTHING from Tuesday's results? Are they really going to try and make us swallow Kevin McCarthy as the next majority leader? And HELLO!!!!!..in case anyone is paying attention, that would make him the presumptive Speaker in waiting. The conservatives in the House GOP conference have the votes to stop it..they need the cojones, and someone to step forward as an alternative to McCarthy.
And let's not forget that if Boenher bails, that would inevitable move NcCarthy up.
So we'd go from having a perpetual "cryer" as Speaker, to s perpetual "grinner." McCarthy's a lightweight. Period. He lacks the intellect, the vision, to be majority leader, let alone Speaker.
But he can be stopped. At least one principled House conservative has to step up to the plate and run..
There are several conservative affinity "blocks" in the House that in one form or another, or combined, have more than the votes needed to elect a movement conservative as Majority Leader, and then the next Speaker.
1. The conservative Republican Study group has a majority of GOP House members.
2. The class of 2010..60+..were nearly all elected with strong Tea Party support.
3. The RED State caucus..those GOP representatives from Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgis, South Carolina, and Florida..WAKE UP..this is where the strength of the conservative movement in the GOP is.
Or, to put it another,AND CRASS way:
WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' MAJORITY LEADER FROM CALIFORNIA!
I felt the need to rant this morning...
FYI
They are liberals. Of course they will push a liberal.
McCarthy is an amnesty pimp.
Is no conservative
Is from a state(CA) that hasn’t voted GOP for decades.
It had better not be McCarthy.
If it’s possible, McCarthy could be an even bigger F.U. to the base than Cantor. Outrageous and unacceptable.
They learned alright. They learned that they have to stomp out dissent. Imperial Walkers approaching!
” - - - - Republican voters are not happy with the GOP’s establishment position on amnesty for illegal immigrants and other hot-button issues fracturing the party. - - - “
The above quote, from another (today) FR thread article by author Adrianna Cohen describes the disconnection between the GOP-E leadership and that of the Republican voter.
To her credit, she did not rely on the usual defensive Liberal smokescreen tactic of using Liberal Media Polls based on OPINIONS to magically transform her case into a beyond question “Scientific” Case.
What Ms. Cohen and much of the rest of the Right and Left Stream Media are mis-reporting is that there is a “fracture” in the Republican Party.
The basic assumption of these journalists is that a political party must be monolithic, united, and speak “with one voice.”
Any deviation of opinion within the party is viewed as a danger that must be quickly healed before it becomes, (gasp!), a fracture.
The current Democrat Party is a perfect end example of what today’s Journalists view as normal political party behavior.
The reality is that The GOP-E Leadership has chosen to arrogantly ISOLATE itself from its voters.
The triple Presidential losses of Dole, McCain and Romney has curiously served to strengthen the GOP-E Leadership’s resolve to isolate themselves even more from their former and present Republican voters.
While the GOP-E Leadership has been busy appeasing, caving-in and otherwise “marching to the drum beat” of Obama, Reid, Holder and Pelosi, they have marched themselves into ever-increasing isolation.
After 4 + years of handing Obama a blank check, ignoring all illegal bypasses of Congress and caving-in to whatever Obama, Reid, Holder and Pelosi demand, the GOP-E Leadership has effectively isolated itself in the eyes of the average Republican Voter.
This is the reason that Cantor resigned immediately. They believe that they have the support and the votes to replace Cantor with one of their ilk. By doing it now and giving the new Majority Leader six months to do favors for members, they believe that they can prevail when the new caucus assembles for the New Congress. They intend to roll over the newbies.
Your expectations are way too high. This is the Stupid Party we’re talking about.
unless he is Tom McClintock... Congressman representing California's 4th District... as conservative as can be... :)
The Establishment is doubling down, intent on teaching the serfs a lesson. Of course they learned nothing.
You’re right. Good post.
If Cantor was doing his job he would still be there. He was working for himself not the people of his district. Just like Mitch and Jonh.
Cantor lost the forest for the trees because he was more focused on the Washington "process" than on first principles.
McCarthy is the go-to candidate because he is the majority whip and is therefore "next in line" for majority leader.
Process over principle again.
The triple Presidential losses of Dole, McCain and Romney has curiously served to strengthen the GOP-E Leadership’s resolve to isolate themselves
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After this trifecta of failure you would think that the GOP might have done some soul searching and would embrace the force behind the only success that the party has had of late (i.e., the Tea Party victory in 2010 which gave them the House). But the Stupid Party marches on....
Well stated.
Couple of guys named Hunter are from Southern California and both father and son have been pretty solid.
An establishment Republican would rather be a leader in a minority caucus than a backbencher in a majority.
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