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