Posted on 10/29/2015 7:38:39 AM PDT by don-o
By almost any political measurement, the Republican party is the strongest it’s been in generations.
Voter reaction against the leftward lurch of the Obama Administration has won the GOP a share of federal, state and national offices it hasn’t enjoyed since the 1920s. It is a dramatic turnaround for a party that many observers left for dead after Democrat sweeps in 2006 and 2008.
The Republican party’s resurgence, however, was driven by explicitly conservative campaign messages and rhetoric. The party tapped into voters’ economic anxiety and frustration with a rapidly expanding federal government and unsustainable spending and debt. The party leadership in Washington, though, never fully absorbed, or apparently even believed, its campaign rhetoric.
As a result, the Republican party is cracking-up before our eyes. In doing so, it is forfeiting yet another incredible opportunity to recapture the White House. Future historians may point to this past week as the moment the emerging dominant political party blew apart.
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The budget deal reveals the fundamental political weakness of Republicans, as opposed to conservatives. Republicans want to avoid any political fights on or around elections, while conservatives relish them as a means to frame an election. Removing questions about government spending from the political debate prevents conservatives from using voters’ anger about deficit spending to power Republican victories.
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Is a two-year budget Constitional?
Honestly, it would be better if all the RINO lawmakers just took the plunge and formally switched to the Democrats.
Yes, we’d have to take the hit of a Dem-controlled legislature for the next year and a half, but it would also force them to defend a bunch of Red districts as Blue lawmakers, meaning the Congress would just revert right back - only this time, to hopefully genuine conservatives who are no longer beholden to a RINO party leadership.
Bill Clinton had 1400 FBI files to keep people in line. Now the NSA spies on everyone. I wonder if any blackmail is going on.
Truer words never spoken. Purge the party “leadership” and anyone who supports them!!!
It’s time to leave the Republican party and let the liberal lite donor whores either die on the vine or journey to their natural home the Democratic party. I love you Rush but the whole structure including the foundation is rotten and unsafe for true conservatives to inhabit, it’s time to tear it down or move to another lot and rebuild a more solid house for conservatives to inhabit.
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
If you’re a Republican, its what’s for breakfast every day.
This is one reason why character/integrity matter in everyone but especially elected officials. The more dirt you have the easier you might be controlled.
Yes, we’d have to take the hit of a Dem-controlled legislature for the next year and a half, but it would also force them to defend a bunch of Red districts as Blue lawmakers, meaning the Congress would just revert right back - only this time, to hopefully genuine conservatives who are no longer beholden to a RINO party leadership.
That is the most important message out there.
We need to get Liberal Republicans out of Conservative Republican seats and replace them with Conservatives. In order to do that, individuals here need to get out there and get involved in individual Congressional Districts. Find Conservative votes to run for Congress.
We are in an era in which money is possibly less important in many areas than on line computer skills and knowledge about use of the social and other on line platforms.
My own personal mission is the Second Congressional district of Oklahoma. We have a Liberal, Markwayne Mullen, sitting in a Conservative district. He needs to be replaced.
I do not believe so unless they used a parliamentary motion to change the rules, but it is enumerated about the frequency
U r on to something...
Keep putting RINOS in positions of power and see how many conservative Republican votes you get.
Budget
The president submits a budget to Congress by the first Monday in February every year (has Obozo ever done this?.
The budget contains estimates of federal government income and spending for the upcoming fiscal year and also recommends funding levels for the federal government.
Congress then must pass appropriations bills based on the president’s recommendations and Congressional priorities.
If Congress does not pass all appropriations measures by the start of the fiscal year (October 1), it has to enact a continuing resolution to keep the government running.
So they used a CR and made it by “Mutual Agreement” a 2 year span so no one has to answer questions about it on the campaign trail...
Still think there is no RICO going on?
I say that’s ALL we ask them about
DC needs an enema.
Sorry, Mike Flynn, but this is what revolt looks like. The UniParty asked for this, and they’re getting it.
Go TRUMP!
There, fixed it.
The problem is, unless they formally make the jump, all you have are a bunch of incumbents who you have to primary, but who have the name recognition and the CoC money backing them up.
If you’re speaking of an ESTABLISHMENT Republican, you are absolutely correct.
However, conservatives are not cooperating in the Establishment’s daily fold-over to Obama.
This article misses one key point that is fundamental to the differences between the GOP Insiders and the Conservatives.
The Insiders are Statists who do not believe in a higher power than the State. They believe that all rights emanate from the State to be granted or taken away as the State sees fit and of course that the State is omniscient as well as omnipotent they see voters as irrelevant once the election is over.
That is why John Roberts approved Obamacare. He is Statist also and believes if those in power want to take some sort of action, they have the right to do so.
The Republican Insiders would rather have a President Hillary than a President Cruz. They happy just rubber stamping the Democrat agenda. The proof of this is the fact that they are allowing Patty Murray to run for re-election unopposed.
I would bet that buried in that budget deal is the extension of the export Import Bank, too.
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