Posted on 10/19/2010 10:33:15 AM PDT by DestroyLiberalism
PORTLAND, Ore.—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. Races in 2010
"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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So predictable.
Those who still believe that the Republican Party is conservative are in denial.
Tired of RINOs!
We need these people OUT!
My advice on this site as far back as the 2004 election is not to waste one’s vote on a third party.
My advice will be the same in 2012, no matter whether the Republicans do what they will be elected to do or go the RINO route.
But if the Republicans we elect do wimp out, then they will be the “third party” I will tell people not to waste their votes on.
I wonder how different things would be if senators were not elected by popular vote, but rather appointed out of the state legislatures?
Translation:
"Yeah, let's pass some more (crappy, unconstitutional, socialist) laws, or at least make people believe we're doing something! That'll fix everything! (Well, at least it will help us keep the power we think we're about to regain...)"
Well then, get ready. Some things are as predictable as the sun coming up in the morning. Republican wimpiness is one of those things.
Last conservative out of the GOP, turn out the lights, please...
If the Republicans win back the majority in the House maybe they should ask Nanzi if she would like to share the speakership. Idiots!
Did they say who they were “quoting?” I think this is from some of those elite RINO’s who are dreading what the elections are going to do to them. If a writer/reporter can’t name names, I don’t believe them.
To prevent duplication, please do not alter the published title, thanks.
“Well, this is their last chance”
LOL!
No, it isn’t.
The next time they will still be the “lesser of 2 evils”. Adn there will still be plenty here crying “a third party is a sure recipe for defeat!”.
Rinse, and repeat....
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Oh, contraire... You’d better believe THIS IS THEIR LAST CHANCE!
I don’t mean to shout at you personally, but I’m deadly SERIOUS about my ultimatum with the GOP and I know for a fact I’m far from alone on this. If the GOP blows this once-in-a-generation opportunity to end this all-out radical Marxist assault on our great nation and get recommitted to our constitutional principles and individual liberties as put forth by our founding fathers, then I will be among the first in line to form a third party that WILL do these things!
You can take that to the bank.
This was reported on FOX last night. I am not sure that it is being interpreted the right way.
I am wondering if Issa meant that the Republicans were not going to shut down government, that they were going to work hard, trying to pass one bill a week, but their success depends on Obama’s willingness to compromise. Anything that the Republicans pass, short of all out repeal of the Obamacare is a compromise.
The RINOs are trying to save their new socialist system and snow the incoming newbies about go-along/get-along and maintain the system. They are WORSE than left Democrats because they say they are on our side but they are the same people as Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi. They are SOCIALISTS as effectively as those who own up to the term.
Let me introduce you to your NEW leaders...
Speaker of the House, Michelle Bachmann
Senate Majority Leader, Jim Demint
Sorry, Moderator... I had copied and pasted the headline of the story as it currently appears on Fox News, which is: “Some GOP House Leaders Push Compromise”.
I do however wish you hadn’t erased my comments after the headline which I typed in parenthesis: “We need to tell them HELL NO!!”.
That's a stab in the back and proves that the housecleaning is not going nearly far enough. These folks are desperate now and likely to get with the Democrats to pass Amnesty and Cap&Trade in the lame duck session so they can get this stuff all cemented in place before the 2012 election. The problem is not Democrats. It is Politicians who have built a true Oligarchy and are intent on maintaining it. Republicans are part of it, too, and will fight hard to keep it.
Right out of the Democrat playbook. Stories like this always get printed by the media just weeks before the election.
I fixed that ;)
“I am wondering if Issa meant that the Republicans were not going to shut down government, that they were going to work hard, trying to pass one bill a week, but their success depends on Obama’s willingness to compromise. Anything that the Republicans pass, short of all out repeal of the Obamacare is a compromise.”
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As obscenely fraudulent, wasteful, and abusive the federal government has been acting over the past two years, could someone please explain to me why shutting down the government for a period of time in protest of Obama’s radical Marxist policies would be such a bad thing?
Thanks! :-)
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