Posted on 07/12/2017 3:16:45 PM PDT by COBOL2Java
RUSH: By the way, folks, while all of this is going on, the health care bill status over in the Senate’s looking very, very bad. You see what Rand Paul has said? Has a written a piece — I saw it at Breitbart — and I think he’s trying to get people’s attention with this. But he’s saying if anybody’s paying attention, Obamacare is staying, the essential health benefits are staying, Obamacare taxes are staying, nobody wants to do anything about it, and it’s all a bunch of smoke and mirrors.
The insurance companies are gonna have to be bailed out once again, that lobbyists had a big role in writing the legislation that McConnell and everybody in the Senate is dealing with, which is a common thing. Legislation in Washington doesn’t originate on Capitol Hill. It originates on K Street. It really does. Lobbyists, donors, they write the legislation, the outline. Legislators and staff actually write the legalese of the stuff, but the concepts are put together by donors. That’s one of the perks you get as a donor.
Anybody, while everybody’s focused on this, things like that are happening. Now, what ought to be happening here is that the Republican, instead of acting frightened and scared, ought to be aggressive as they can be. Because if I can see what’s going on here, so can they. But I’m seeing all these stories out there now that Mike Pence is inching closer and closer to the Oval Office, and that Mike Pence is not discouraging people who want that to happen from thinking about it. I’m seeing all this stuff. No, no, no. Don’t misunderstand. Pence isn’t behind any of this. This is just more of the onslaught that’s designed to portray the Trump administration as unstable and incoherent and out to lunch and all of this.
| Advancing the Republican Party agenda, call it the Trump agenda, whatever, but moving forward on it would be the sweetest thing that they could do. It would exact revenge if people are interested in that, but it primarily would be what they were elected to do. It’s just waiting out there. Political fortune is just waiting to be grabbed and run with if the Republican Party would get off their… (pause) and do it. |  |
They could bury the Democrats for a generation if they would simply begin seriously implementing the agenda that Trump and thus the rest of them ran on: immigration, the wall, tax cuts, and Obamacare, go for it! Instead of saying, “Well, Chuck Schumer is blocking.” I know Democrats are blocking Trump judicial nominees and we’re just sitting here and taking it. “Well, you know, we only have 52 votes.” So while all this is going on so is all of that big bunch of nothing happening.
The party of Eisenhower is fundamentally a party that doesn’t repeal the lawlessness and abuses that progressives manage to implement. They may drag their feet over implementation but once something is done and they can do something about it their spines become like well boiled linguine.
The average Republican in some sort of position of power agrees with the Democrats. There’s no other explanation as to why Congress didn’t have a hell of a good plan ready to go as soon as Trump was sworn in.
Bought and paid for. Follow the money. This was a huge change for them to cash in. Too many money interests wanted it. It’s an entitlement and tax so Dems wanted it. Welcome to the Uniparty.
The elites would prefer a system like the EU. Democracy no longer relevant. Controlled completely by the elites and their court system.
We are on our way. Look st the sixty plus million morons that voted for Hillary. They’ll be back with more crap next time.
The GOP deserves to end. THey are now hated beyond belief.
They promised the voters to end ObamaCARE,
and then increased their control of Americans medical
and surgical care, while CONTINUING their coverup
of the IRS Atrocity.
Only Pres. Trump has TRIED to do what he promised.
The only agenda the GOP has nowadays is the agenda of their corporate lobbyists. Everyone else can go screw.
We Need the House,
We need the Senate,
We need the White House,
We only have 52 votes in the Senate,
Those big bad Democrats are blocking us.
Corporate lobbyists and the power of incumbency.
PUKE
We Need the House,
We need the Senate,
We need the White House,
We only have 52 votes in the Senate,
Those big bad Democrats are blocking us,
There’s just not enough cash for my donors in this bill.
Maybe it’s time to march and occupy K street...
Ironically, this R bill could hasten the move to single payer. Treacherous move by the R leadership. I would not be surprised if some of these snakes were to switch to D, if the base got aggravated enough.
Unfortunately that isn't going to change a thing. Just like writing letters, emails, town halls, etc, etc,etc. don't work. They DO NOT care what we peasants think. Period. They belong to "The Club" and that's the only thing that matters to them.
Drastic measures for drastic times. They are lucky their houses are still standing.
“..Those big bad Democrats are blocking us.”
No, they are controlling the Trump agenda. The public needs to speak to congress loudly - we need paid advertisements calling for action, phone calls, emails, etc. Get the Republicans off their posteriors. This slow walking must stop.
What happened to our conservative organizations of a few years ago that did such a good job getting the word out?? What neutered them?
Eisenhower was a patriot who used the U.S. military to deport 3-5 million illegal aliens. He warned against the corrupting influences of donors, lobbysists and corporations. Mitch McConnell isn't fit to shine Ike's shoes.
You’re never going to solve it completely, much of it is just human nature. As long as you allow politicians the right to control/regulate commerce (buying & selling) and other human activities, politicians will be bought & sold!
All you can do is throw up obstacles, make it harder & more expensive to influence them. That’s why I think we desperately need Congressional term limits. A decade in DC and even the most conscientious GOP’er to his constituents will transfer his allegiance to himself & “the beltway”. He won’t even realize he’s done it and will vociferously deny it!
1. Twelve years (two six terms) in the Senate & he/she/it must sit out a full term (6 years) before returning.
2. Twelve years (six two year terms) in the House & must sit out six years (three two year terms) before returning.
This allows the parasite professional political class (or as Mark Twain described them, “Our native criminal class!”) to exist & fester. You will never get rid of them you have find ways to control them. In the time period that they sit out I would love to find some way to send them home! (Maybe they might actually get a private sector job!)
Nevertheless, he did NOT honor his oath of office and either move to revoke FDR’s lawlessness or try to amend the Constitution so that they would be lawful.
His job did not stop where he stopped. Because he was okay with Arbitrary government our nation is now facing financial ruin and ever increasing lawlessness in government.
US businesses, which are now mostly international, don’t want to pay for employees insurance. Has the price of anything gone down since Obamacare was passed?
Oh, and deaths by heroin overdose in the black community were up 400% in Obama’s 8 years. I guess it’s clear who he really worked for.
Good job Obama.
What happened to our conservative organizations of a few years ago that did such a good job getting the word out?? What neutered them?
I would say that Lois Lerner and her IRS bandits did that!
I think the best way to solve the problem is to have single six-year terms for all offices. Senate. House. Presidency. No second term. No re-election. A lot of problems would be solved.
Some time ago, Mark Steyn accurately pointed out that Republicans are like European "conservatives". When they attain power, they never repeal anything the Left has enacted, only say they can "make it work better".
It seems like the Republicans read that and thought it sounded about right.
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