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Posted on 08/12/2013 4:40:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
Vitriol has gone beyond partisan give-and-take in the nation’s politics. It is now seeping into and poisoning the ranks of the Republican Party.
Mainstream Republican politicians are cringing at the proposal of tea party Senators -– Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT), Marco Rubio (R-FL) -– to hold federal appropriations legislation hostage in their quest to defund Obamacare.
Republicans opposing this strategy see it as lose-lose. They don’t believe this tactic will work. And at the same time, they see it producing more antipathy toward Republicans and branding them as zealots and obstructionists.
I think the tea partiers are on the right track, and I think the “mainstream” opposition misses some key points.
Republicans should be thinking about two objectives.
First, fight public resignation that Obamacare will inevitably become law and continue informing the public of its devastating effects.
Second, continue showing the public the Republicans are not the party of “no” but the party of “yes” -- to a conservative agenda which is really the only viable path to national recovery.
On the first point, the tea party strategy is already working.
If Republicans sit politely on the sidelines and allow business as usual to continue in Washington, the American public can only conclude that everything is basically okay.
But everything is not okay.
Obamacare is already revealing itself as a disaster, without much help from Republicans.
It is the Obama administration itself that initiated a one-year delay in implementing one of the most central features of the law -– the mandate on employers to provide government-defined health insurance. No clearer statement could be made of the unworkability of this bureaucratic nightmare.
Now Howard Dean, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, former governor of Vermont and Democratic presidential contender –- and a physician himself –- calls for scrapping another central feature of Obamacare: the Independent Payment Advisory Board.
This is the unelected committee of 15 Washington bureaucrats who will play the central role of pricing medical services under Medicare.
Opponents of the law said from day one that this bureaucratic pricing of medical services would not work. Now Howard Dean confirms this.
On the second point, Republicans must wake up to the public relations battle they have lost over recent years. Radical left-wing Democrats have been accepted in the public eye as reasonable, and conservative Republicans are portrayed as the nutty extremists.
When President Obama took office, the nation was headed toward the bottom of a terrible recession.
His priority then should have been economic recovery.
It was not. He used the honeymoon of his first year in office to enact his leftist dream of government health care.
Obamacare was passed in March 2010 through legislative sleight of hand and without a single Republican vote.
It brings government to almost one fifth of the American economy. Its core features are regulation and the government printing press. Where is the money going to come from to pay for all the subsidized purchases of government insurance? Where is the money going to come from to pay for the 20 million or so dumped into Medicaid on top of the 60 million already there?
And somehow those who brought us this nightmare are the moderates?
No, the tea partiers are right. We are at war. The future of our country is at stake.
The Republican Party's priority must be to wake up America to what faces us and show who the real radicals are. The only way out of this mess is restoration of personal responsibility, fiscal responsibility, and a functioning free market.
They need 51 in Senate to block a budget or to pass an alternative as budgets dont need 60 Senate votes.
That means every single Republican including Mccain and Grahamnesty and a few Dems too,
Something tells me they are not rounding up those votes.
I notice no mention of congress getting their Obama-care paid by taxpayers, after pleading to Obama for it. Good place to start.
All well and good except The Republican Party’s leadership does not want to wake up America to what faces us and show who the real radicals are. They do not believe the only way out of this mess is restoration of personal responsibility, fiscal responsibility, and a functioning free market. Republican leadership are progressive quislings, traitors to a member.
They need to knock off the nonsense that rube-o is a tea party senator .Nobody buys their shit.
If Graham votes against this, he will definitely be Arlen Spectored. He still may be, but this would make it definite.
Grahamnesty knows it doesnt matter at this point, too many votes with Dems already.
They didnt exempt themselves but they did get Obama Dept of Health to pay for 70% it for both them and their staff and families.
I dont see the overall defunding via shutdown going anywhere, but they could defund that tax $$ to pay for theirs. That would hurt.
Its like they all work together but play out these acting rolls to con us
What they (Republican Apparatchiks and RINOS) don't get is that a tactic is merely a means to an end. And we conservatives believe that for them, that end is keeping their place at the slope trough in DC. Our position should be we are going to stand for righteousness come hell or high water. Can anyone tell the difference between a Chuckie Schumer and a John McCain? Righteousness is not a tactic, it is a position that is rooted in our God... either fight like hell to destroy Obama's version of America or join the other side; as for us conservatives we say, "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead"
Doesn’t anybody remember the “shutdown” under Clinton?
IT WAS A JOKE!
The media found ONE GUY with a candy concession in Yellowstone who was out some $$$$$, thaassit!
We also got Monica and her kneepads, to boot.
It was only AFTER the RINOs caved in, and the $$$$$ started flowing agian, that the media found out it was a “disaster”.
AND the RINOS bought it, natch.
The GOP-e would do well to listen to TEA Party candidates as they are closer to the productive People and actually know and care about what the productive People want.
RINO BE GONE!
Bingo. No longer is there any horizontal separation of power. Scotus, El Presidente, the administrative agencies make more laws than the body charged with ALL legislative power, the congress.
We are precisely in the situation that Patrick Henry feared, and James Madison predicted, if the states were not present in the federal government.
That would be the Mainstream Media, not the public, doing the "antipathy". But we know MSM hostility is a permanent feature of the landscape, and it's time the Right took on the MSM's fundamental credibility. It's time to Attack the Press. Hell, destroy them. They're nothing but a 'Rat tool. Why are we being so nice to those guys?
There's nothing to lose -- take them on, or lose the country.
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