Posted on 05/06/2016 9:34:43 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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The Republican party is an imperfect vehicle and it has, of course, made mistakes. But the idea that it hasn’t effectively and consistently opposed President Obama’s agenda is little more than a dangerous and ignorant fiction. Had the GOP not been standing in the way — both from 2008, when it was in the minority everywhere, and from 2010, when it regained the House — the United States would look dramatically different than it does today. Without the GOP manning the barricades, Obamacare could well have been single payer, and, at the very least, the law would have included a “public option.” Without the GOP manning the barricades, we’d have seen a carbon tax or cap-and-trade — or both. Without the GOP manning the barricades, we’d have got union card check, and possibly an amendment to Taft-Hartley that removed from the states their power to pass “right to work” exemptions. Without the GOP standing in the way, we’d now have an “assault weapons” ban, magazine limits, background checks on all private sales, and a de facto national gun registry. And without the GOP standing in the way in the House, we’d have got the very amnesty that the Trump people so fear (it’s fine to oppose Marco Rubio for his support for the “Gang of 8″ bill, but it’s not fine to pretend that it didn’t matter that the Republicans ran the House when the reform bill left the Senate; it did).
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Shove it, NRO. Your time is over.
There’s a number of impotent gasbags over at NRO, but Cooke is one of the worst.
Obama wanted MORE????
The "National Respew" mouthpiece of the GOPe. I'd like to know what major issue the Boehner, McConnell and Ryno aka "GOP leadership" has not sold out the voters?
In defense of GOPe globalist, they only mostly sell us out.
Great. Can we move on to President Trump please?
Well, they didn’t let Obama....
....Wait, I’ll think of something.
Of course he wanted more, but thinking back to Obama's 2008 campaign promises, union card check is about the only item not enacted.
I believe Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) gets more credit for this than the 'pubbies.
Well, GITMO is still open. Congress can try to get reelected on that gem.
Without the GOP manning the barricades
Ha ha ha ha. Hilarious assertion. Does this guy write comedy for a living?
If that's the case, all he had to do was ask -- maybe supplemented with a little bit of stomping his feet and shouting "racists!" -- and Boner/Ryan and Old McConnell would have fallen all over each other in their haste to give obama whatever he asked for.
The time for this article was a year ago or more. After the Omnibus Spending Bill the impression that the GOP gave 0bama everything he wanted is indelible and based on cold fact.
“Dangerous” is the Establishment Word of the Week. I wouldn’t read an NR article even without the words “dangerous” and “myth” in the title.
Cooke is a sanctimonious wanker.
So we have to work harder to make certain we the people get what we want.
CHARLES C. W. COOKE = Fantasy and Fiction Parleyed to Propaganda
The GOPe is real, its globalist agenda is real, its deceit is palpable. Facts confirm all of this.
“dangerous” for the faux TC (True Conservative) Nobles
Not all...
Only 99.44%
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