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Against the Dangerous Myth that the GOP Has ‘Given Obama Everything He Wanted’
National Review ^ | May 6, 2016 | CHARLES C. W. COOKE

Posted on 05/06/2016 9:34:43 AM PDT by reaganaut1

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To: Paine in the Neck

When?

When?

When?

When?


41 posted on 05/06/2016 10:22:28 AM PDT by sport
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To: reaganaut1

The President cannot spend a single dime without it having gotten through Congress. Blame it on “mandatory programs”, “baseline budgeting” or agreed budget deals, the fact remains that Congress has the power of the purse. But this is a power that the GOPe is afraid to use for political reasons and/or does not want to because they actually agree with the spending.


42 posted on 05/06/2016 10:24:18 AM PDT by Stingray51
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To: reaganaut1

You’re one of the few in here that goes to NR, much less posts their crap.

How is Resurgent and Ted State these days?


43 posted on 05/06/2016 10:25:49 AM PDT by datura
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To: reaganaut1

Gee we only gave 75% of what the Democrats wanted. But it COULD have been 100%.


44 posted on 05/06/2016 10:25:50 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Donglalinger

NR can sink even LOWER ?

Well, maybe : )


45 posted on 05/06/2016 10:26:41 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: reaganaut1

The latest Obama Budget Deal the Republican Congress passed has resulted in a Trillion Dollar Deficit in just six Months.


46 posted on 05/06/2016 10:27:04 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Hillary Clinton has killed four more People than Three Mile Island.)
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To: TTFlyer

What’s the National Review. I seem to remember back when I was a kid there was a conservative mag. with that name, but somebody must have stolen their name.


47 posted on 05/06/2016 10:27:46 AM PDT by The Continental Op
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To: reaganaut1

Well I feel much better.


48 posted on 05/06/2016 10:31:02 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: reaganaut1

Hell - even now Ryan may as well be endorsing Hillary - it ain’t a friggin’ myth....


49 posted on 05/06/2016 10:35:53 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: reaganaut1

Against the Dangerous Myth that the GOP Has ‘Given Obama Everything He Wanted’


They can’t be serious.


50 posted on 05/06/2016 10:37:20 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: kaehurowing

They’re completely serious.

These people are basically masochists who see their rightful role as that of a merely symbolic opposition party which will always lose, but at least they’ll have their ‘principles’.

There’s no pragmatism or ambition at all. Only conceited melodrama.


51 posted on 05/06/2016 10:46:57 AM PDT by Utmost Certainty
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To: Stingray51
You nailed it. Instead of the weak apology of the National Review article, the naked truth is that Speaker Ryan--who now arrogantly wants Trump to compromise principle--forced through an outrageous budget, late last year, which should clearly have been rejected. You cannot simply agree to fund unconstitutional idiocy simply to get along.

What is intolerable is the "whipped cur" variety of Republican, who either through cowardice, an inferiority complex, or actual perfidy, is unwilling to engage a President who refuses any compromise on his agenda, lest such Republicans get blamed for a shutdown, directly attributable to anyone with a mind to reason, to the intransigence of the President.

52 posted on 05/06/2016 10:56:25 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: reaganaut1

They not only gave it to him, they smiled and asked “What else can we do, sir?”

Trump is not damaging the Republican Brand, Congress has done it to themselves by selling out the voters for so many years. That parrott is dead, folks!


53 posted on 05/06/2016 1:28:17 PM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: reaganaut1

NR = No Reality!


54 posted on 05/06/2016 5:09:46 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (The good news for Mexico is Trump will get the wall built under budget!)
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To: DEEP_e; AuntB
what foundation funds these ivory tower bozos?

Aunt B can shed some light on that. It will take a few minutes of reading.

55 posted on 05/06/2016 5:13:21 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (The good news for Mexico is Trump will get the wall built under budget!)
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To: Donglalinger

This is such a grear reply whenever some Never Trumper tries to use NR to slime Trump and those who support him, us!

Thanks!

Can’t wait to see the elites stop funding these losers and WS.


56 posted on 05/06/2016 5:16:29 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (The good news for Mexico is Trump will get the wall built under budget!)
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To: reaganaut1

The other day Michael Medved was ranting about how the deficit is the lowest it’s been in years under the Republican congress. As usual, he’s missing the point. There shouldn’t be a deficit at all! Sure, Republicans block things, but they just allow the same crap to grow just a little bit slower — whether regulation, debt, or social anarchy — it still happens under Republicans, just a hair slower.

...and as usual, they just don’t get it.


57 posted on 05/06/2016 5:24:14 PM PDT by Magnatron
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To: Grampa Dave; DEEP_e

Is this what you’re looking for?

Who runs the GOP and owns Paul Ryan & Marco Rubio? Let’s name names!
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2016/05/who-runs-gop-and-owns-paul-ryan-marco.html


58 posted on 05/06/2016 7:09:19 PM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: AuntB

Thanks.

Your link was what I was looking for

Who runs the GOP and owns Paul Ryan & Marco Rubio? Let’s name names!

http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2016/05/who-runs-gop-and-owns-paul-ryan-marco.html


59 posted on 05/06/2016 7:35:03 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Vote for Trump and break your cycle of Battered Conservative Syndrome!)
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