With everything the GOP has done over the past year on pushing amnesty and gun control and not fighting Obamacare and not cutting spending, stunts like this are just empty PR. And the party thinks its “base” is stupid enough to believe that they really do want to cut government and defend the borders and protect constitutional 2nd Amendment rights.
About time they do something!
This is how these “REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT” treats the voters. In the front room, they are telling us how “HARD” they are fighting for us;IE OBAMACARE, IMMIGRATION, MORE TAXES, etc,etc, etc. While in the backroom they are making deals so as not to do anything about these “LAWS”, because it may “UPSET” everything they have been trying to do. Ask these “REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT” who their biggest enemies are in Washington? It sure as hell isn’t the liberals, socialists and communists that call themselves “DEMOCRATS”. Their biggest enemies are the LIBERTARIANS, TEA PARTY, and all the other CONSERVATIVES that are making their lives very difficult. Wake up AMERICANS, it’s your own politicians that you elected that are screwing you every day of the week that they are in Washington.
Suspicious timing to suddenly become conservative. Isn’t there something happening in August? Oh right, a recess where they are worried about facing their constituents over their amnesty...er, comprehensive immigration efforts. These guys are like welfare hustlers, if they actually spent half as much time fighting the Democrats as they spend fighting their base they would probably be very successful.
I would feel better if they would talk less about it and do more. Seeing them trying to pass amanesty just because some rich contribiuutors are promising them $ if they agree to jump off a cliff is sickening.
Watching John Boehner or Eric Cantor or Mitch McConnell or just about any other Republican going before their electorate and saying "“Every day I serve in Congress, I work to fight Washington” with a straight face is about the funniest thing I can imagine.
Where is the push back on the Congressional employees getting 75% Obamacare subsidies. Where is the Republican outrage on this? Where is Boehner?
Except...they ARE Washington...
The GOP has squandered every opportunity it has had to “do something”.
Yeah, I don’t buy this for the simple reason that they haven’t said *what* they are going to change.
This comes across almost like Muslim apologetic, which when somebody demands they condemn a specific act of clearly Muslim terror, they won’t, instead “condemning all terrorism”. And then, when pressed, insisting that non-terrorism acts that Muslims don’t like are terrorism, and that terrorist acts that Muslims perpetrate on others are not terrorism.
In other words, it is why their eyes are brown.
So, Republican leadership, give us a list of what you are going to cut when you get power. Be specific, and definitely use as many pages as you need.
Here are some suggestions:
1) Purge all government agencies of bureaucrats who have violated the law, misused their office, abused members of the public with oppressive regulations, etc., while reversing every decision they made.
2) Slash the entire budget of several unconstitutional agencies, reducing them entirely. Don’t make a big issue of preparing to do it, so they can establish defenses and hire lobbyists. Just do it.
3) The best way to do this is to subdivide or rearrange appropriations bills so that the constitutional agencies are in some, and the metastatic cancer agencies are in others.
These crooks want to fight Washington, they ought to defund most everything including their pensions and then leave after 2 terms Max.
DC will never reform itself, too busy extorting cash from the working class and living high on the hog