Flush Boehner!
Posted on 09/30/2013 8:57:10 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
The latest GOP compromise on defunding Obamacare may well lead to a midterm massacre.
During a crucial battle of the military campaign that ultimately propelled him to supreme power in Rome, Julius Caesar put himself and his outnumbered army in such a vulnerable position that he briefly considered suicide. He and most of his troops survived, however, because the man commanding the opposing force was too timid to take a tactical risk. Afterward, surprised to find himself alive and his army relatively intact, Caesar made an observation that the leadership of the GOP would do well to remember: “Today the enemy would have won, if they had a commander who was a winner.”
I was reminded of those words when I heard Senator Ted Cruz tell Rush Limbaugh that, in the Republican Conference, “We don’t even talk about winning a fight … they don’t believe we can win.” This defeatism has not been lost on the GOP’s conservative base, which has been waiting with increasing impatience for the party to do something — anything — about Obamacare. Sadly, the Republicans can’t shake off their pessimism long enough to permanently defund that pernicious program. The result may well be that the voters who restored them to the House majority in 2010 will sit out the 2014 midterms.
This contradicts the conventional Beltway wisdom, of course. The same geniuses who told us in 2012 that Mitt Romney should get the GOP presidential nomination because he was “electable” now assure us that the voters will punish the Republicans if they defund Obamacare and force a partial government shutdown. In fact, Romney himself did an interview last Friday in which he articulated the self-defeating diffidence of the Republican establishment:
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
That’s because they want a NEW base. And you and I ain’t it.
A hugh blowback? Hugh Hewitt will be glad.
Both Hugh and Series!
What kind of seats will we gain?
If we gain what we have now we have nothing.
How will we gain seats if the Republicans in Congress now sell us out.
I know I am not ready to vote for any more Republican chicken Shiites. IF we cannot get Conservatives we need to Primary the incumbent trash. Some of those we primary may lose.
Certainly I would like to see more republicans and hope they gain seats, but if they don’t do any better job than they have been doing screw them.
Majority of Senate Republicans Cave on Obamacare Funding
Republicans could have stopped the funding of Obamacare dead in its tracks, but the following Obamacare-supporting Republican Senators ignored the will of the American people and caved when it really mattered:
Alexander (up for re-election in 2014)
Ayotte
Barrasso
Blunt
Boozman
Burr
Chambliss
Chiesa
Coats
Coburn
Cochran (up for re-election in 2014)
Collins (up for re-election in 2014)
Corker
Cornyn (up for re-election in 2014)
Graham (up for re-election in 2014)
Hoeven
Isakson
Johanns
Johnson (WI)
Kirk
McCain
McConnell (up for re-election in 2014)
Murkowski
Thune
Wicker
Two Republican senators did not vote:
Flake
Hatch
As the law authorizing President Obama to spend more money on Obamacare expires this Monday, it is up to the House to make the final stand. As Article 1, Section 7 of the Constitution requires, all spending bills in Congress must originate in the House. Therefore, funding of Obamacare cannot happen without Republican support.
Slow learner, I am.
You can’t be series???
We need to support the Rs that stood with the American people...go after the traitors but help those that are taking a stand.
I blast the GOPe every chance I get but also show support to those earning it! Its a fight WITHIN.
The 'pubs might gain seats in the US Senate. Besides vulnerable dems, they might replace some traitorous RINOs with conservatives.
Now you can go where people are one
Now you can go where they get things done
What you need, my son…
What you need, my son…
Is a holiday in Cambodia
Where people dress in black
I predict the republicrats surrender meekly in this fight and in the process kill any chance for taking the senate and almost insure their loss of the house in 2014. The conservatives want to engage but why waste your powder and effort on the current rift-raft that is the GOP, they have not proven they are worthy of anything but contempt for their cowardice aside from Cruz, Paul, Lee...
I further predict Rove and the GOPe cram another presidential nominee like Romney down our throats with that old familiar cry, only they can win, blah-blah-blah, Christie etc... and the GOP only carries about 8 states with that ticket this time around. Sadly Hillary will be president in 2017 if we get another mush mouth RINO on the ticket.
The only way the republicrats take the senate and hold the house in 2014 is is obamacare is so horrid that democrats actually vote republican and that is not going to happen. Right now I am a conservative with no party and only a smidgeon of representation at the political table with Cruz and Paul.
When 40% of your population sees itself being an ATM and doormat for the rest of the population and held in utter contempt by the opposition party and worse still their own political party and has no representation at all you have an explosive situation that will eventually develop.
I heard Senator Ted Cruz tell Rush Limbaugh that, in the Republican Conference, “We don’t even talk about winning a fight ... they don’t believe we can win.”
Let’s start that conversation by acknowledging we aren’t going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants... bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society. Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors. [but he’s not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
...by softening its edge on some volatile social issues and altering its image as the party always seemingly "eager to go to war... We do need to expand the party and grow the party and that does mean that we don't always all agree on every issue" ... the party needs to become more welcoming to individuals who disagree with basic Republican doctrine on emotional social issues such as gay marriage... "We're going to have to be a little hands off on some of these issues ... and get people into the party," Paul said.
Flush Boehner!
Flush both Obama and Bohner!
The Dems and the RINOS are in for a BIG SHOCK come next year. The tea party is resurging and so is the conservative meovement.
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