Posted on 10/19/2010 12:14:04 AM PDT by RC Clayton
Republicans on the campaign trail are bashing the president and his agenda and some are vowing to shut down Washington if they don't get their way. Behind the scenes, key party members are talking a different game.
A number of House Republicans, including some who are likely to be in the leadership, are pushing a post-election strategy aimed at securing concrete legislation, with the goal of showing they can translate general principles into specific action.
Among the ideas is to bring a series of bills to the floor, as often as once a week, designed to cut spending in some way. Longer term, GOP leaders say they recognize they may have to compromise with Democrats in tackling broader problems.
If they recapture the House, Republicans say they are wary of following the example of the class of 1994, which shut down the government in a standoff with President Bill Clinton. Top Republicans contend that passing legislation, or at least making a good faith effort to do so, will earn them more credibility with voters than refusing to waver from purist principles.
"It's pretty clear the American people expect us to use the existing gridlock to create compromise and advance their agenda," said Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.). "They want us to come together [with the administration] after we agree to disagree." GOP leaders stressed that this depends on the willingness of President Barack Obama to compromise as well. And some say if the post-election atmosphere is especially toxic, such compromises may be difficult.
The approach stands in contrast to the Senate, where Republican nominees including Kentucky's Rand Paul and Nevada's Sharron Angle more clearly represent the anti-establishment instincts of the tea-party movement...
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still a lot of work to be done folks. The elites will sell us out if we dont make noise. Keep fighting!
Meet the new lyin’, overtaxin’. unprincipled bastids...same as the old...
This is a confusing message and serves the republicans absolutely no purpose coming out two weeks before the election.
Firstly - there is no “current gridlock”. The liberal dems control EVERYTHING.
Secondly - if you’re ALREADY telling me “I have to settle” after the countless hours of work, toil and sweat by thousands and thousands of people to get to the cusp of where we are now; means the rebellion will just continue.
Thirdly - I think it’s a wee bit early to start worrying about the republican image running up to 2012.
“They want us to come together [with the administration]...”
No, not really, Darrell.
What is to stop a Republican Congress from simply passing small bills one at a time as riders on bills Zero can’t defend vetoing ? Like gutting the EPA as a rider on the bill extending unemployment benefits for one month ? Then adding medical malpractice tort reform as a rider for the next month’s extension ? etc.
McCain !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Read what Issa said, again. He said that it depended on Obama compromising. So, far Obama has shown no interest in compromising.
It seems to me that Issa is trying to reframe the situation to make it clear that the Republicans are going to try to move things along and if Obama doesn’t compromise, we will have gridlock.
“They want us to come together [with the administration]...”
mot going to happen, it is this damn adminstration we want rid of
“They want us to come together [with the administration]...”
mot going to happen, it is this damn adminstration we want rid of
I’m choosing to be optimistic based upon Issa’s background. I tend agree with you that they have to reframe the debate because we already see Obama laying down markers warning that the GOP had better work with him. Of course Obama will demand he gets his way any anything less will be used against Republicans by an eagerly willing MSM.
But woe to the GOP if they start caving to Obama or bend on conservative principles. Too, on some level the new GOP class will have to say screw the old corrupt MSM and move on principle.
no legislation is better than crappy legislation
Wow, that's real encouraging...
God help America if these are the scumbags Americans elect.
Republican incumbents in 2012: Jon Kyl of Arizona, Richard Lugar of Indiana, Olympia Snowe of Maine, Scott Brown of Massachusetts, Roger Wicker of Mississippi, John Ensign of Nevada, Bob Corker of Tennessee, Open seat in Texas, Orrin Hatch of Utah, John Barrasso of Wyoming. Democrats have 21 seats up for election, not including 2 independents who caucus with the Democrats. Do something stupid: Then you are Done. All 435 voting seats in the United States House of Representatives will be up for election. Oh and this damn adminstration is done also!!!
No compromise with fools and tyrants. If the government gets shut down in lieu of compromise, so be it. We will likely be better off for it.
Still alot of RINOs out there. Just have to deal with them as we can. Up next, round two...2012. Keep marching, keep the faith.
I understood it the first time.
I'm too old to buy any of their "THIS time it'll be DIFFERENT" B.S.
When Issa says "We'll compromise if Obama will," what the hell is THAT going to get us but more of the same we've been getting?
No, I'm not talking about the actual fact of realistic compromise, but taking the stand as he has isn't impressing me that this bunch will be any different unless the conservatives among the Republicans actually show up and say TO REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP "If you don't start behaving as conservatives we'll go straight to the nearest microphone and denounce YOU as we would Obama."
I've been promised "Trust me, I'm not like the others" for too long by Republicans to be fooled again.
First, pass a Sense of the House Resolution to freeze ALL spending at 2010 levels. NO NEW INTIATIVES. WE’RE BROKE.
Second, All committee charmen are tasked with keeping a lid on all spending proposals by demanding an audit of necessity for the specific program.
Then, get on with repealers to unwind the Dems disaster.
Oh, and no feel-good bi-partisan crap where we give up 80% just to get agreement. If the DEMS don’t bend over backward to us...then stiff ‘em.
Here is what I just sent to him:
"Dear Representative Issa,
While I sincerely appreciate your Congressional record, your latest remarks, as featured on the Fox News website, were rather alarming.
In short, Sir, former staunch Republicans like myself have left the party in lieu of the TEA Party because we saw our principles "compromised" extensively over the years. The impetus of our departure came not during a Democrat administration, but by a perceived abandonment of principles at a time when Republicans controlled all three houses during the Bush Administration.
It's a shame, really, that the coalition we are building between Reagan Democrats, fiscal independents, and hard line Conservatives is apparently going to be tossed under the bus in favor of a more "friendly" and compromising GOP.
Unfortunately, I believe that what your comments have done is not reframe the current movement in a more media-friendly light, but instead prompt the local groups to rally against your re-election in the next session.
Do not presume a Republican victory will be a mandate to continue governing in the same old fashion. It is a mandate to start dismantling the over-reaching monstrosity the Federal Government has become and paying down our exhorbitant federal debt.
If the Republican leadership doesn't understand that in this cycle, they will be replaced in the next.
Sincerely,"
TheWriterTX
As you said, we are BROKE. The only way to get out of it is to spend substantially less than we bring in and to pay down the debt.
Start slashing the FedGov budget immediately. I don't want a microderm abrasion on this monstrosity, I want a crash diet and lipsuction!
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