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Tea Party Group Skewers GOP's 'Meaningless' Promises
townhall.com ^ | 9/26/2017 | Cortney O'Brien

Posted on 09/27/2017 6:03:02 AM PDT by rktman

“Promise made, promise broken. Once again, Senate Republican ‘leadership’ has demonstrated that its promises are meaningless. Today’s announcement that Republican Senators will quit before voting on a plan to repeal even SOME portions of ObamaCare is just the latest in a string of failures. When ObamaCare was enacted in 2010, Republicans on both sides of Capitol Hill vowed to repeal every word of President Obama’s government takeover of our healthcare system. It became their rallying cry in election cycle after election cycle. When the American people gave Republicans the House majority after winning the 2010 midterms on the promise of ObamaCare repeal, the people were told ‘We can’t do it with just the House, we need a majority in the Senate to get the job done.’ In 2014, Republicans running for Senate repeated those promises, and were handed a Senate majority. Then they proceeded to tell the American people, ‘We can’t do it with just the Congress, we need the White House, too.’ In 2016, the American people did their part yet again, and delivered Republicans the White House. Now, with total control of the executive and legislative branches, the Republican Senate majority cannot even pass a bill that only repeals a portion of ObamaCare. The American people have a simple message for promise-breaking politicians: If you can’t keep your word, we will find someone else who will.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 115th; ditchmitch; liars; nevertrumpers; nobackbone; teaparty; third100days
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Did they screw up the headline? Shouldn't it have been white supremacists, kkk'rs, nazi, homophobic, misogynistic, islamophobic, gun loving, bible toting, obama hating republicans refuse to dismantle obamacare. Add what you like. Pretty much PO'd. Was there ever any intention to deal with this by the supposed coservatives? The swamp floweth over.
1 posted on 09/27/2017 6:03:02 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

NON print version:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2017/09/26/tea-party-patriots-incensed-at-gops-broken-promises-n2386890

P.S. Oh yeah. Add racis’ to the list.


2 posted on 09/27/2017 6:04:28 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman

The only difference between Rs and Ds is what lies they tell to get power over you and cash from your wallet.


3 posted on 09/27/2017 6:07:10 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Anitfa = Anti-F.A. = Anti-First Amendment)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Tagline.


4 posted on 09/27/2017 6:09:18 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The difference between Rs and Ds is what lies they tell to get power over you and steal your cash.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Lucky for us there now working on tax refo.......... Oh. Never mind. Another loser thanks to our “representatives” most likely. So I suppose the choice is, do we keep the republicrats that won’t work with Trump or put in dementocrats that won’t work with Trump. I hear the toilet bowl filling up again.


5 posted on 09/27/2017 6:09:37 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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Tax reform is really important and the Republicans are all behind it, but that damn calendar is really getting short. This one might need to be moved until after the election. (lowering expectations again)


6 posted on 09/27/2017 6:16:27 AM PDT by caltaxed (ui)
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2008 We can’t do anything because we are a minority in the House, face a fillibuster-proof majority in the Senate, and have lost the White House.

2009 We can’t do anything because we are a minority in the House, and are still the minority in the Senate, and do not hold the White House.

2010 We can’t do anything because even though we have a majority in the House, we still are in the minority in the Senate, and still do not hold the White House.

2012 We can’t do anything because even though we have a majority in the House and Senate, we lost the White House.

2014 We can’t do anything because even though we have extended our lead in both the House and the Senate, we still do not hold the White House.

2016 We can’t do anything because even though we hold the House, the Senate and the White House, we do not have a fillibuster-proof majority in the Senate.

2018 We can’t do anything because even though we hold the House, a fillibuster-proof majority in the Senate and the White House, we just don’t want to.


7 posted on 09/27/2017 6:22:11 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (eliminate perverse incentives)
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To: rktman

Eight republican Rhino voted against the straight up repeal.....primary the bastards!!!!


8 posted on 09/27/2017 6:30:05 AM PDT by ontap
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Does anyone really believe the GOP will produce meaningful tax reform?
Dorkbama care reform: fail.
IRS prosecution: fail.
Cleaning the swamp: fail.

Give me a break.


9 posted on 09/27/2017 6:36:04 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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There are quite a few of the GOPee who like deficit spending and taxing the kr@p out of you....


10 posted on 09/27/2017 6:36:10 AM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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⚖. Lois Lerner jail? Nah, nice GS pension pkg. Yawn. Swampsylvania is doing just fine.
11 posted on 09/27/2017 6:45:43 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Paladin2

Business is great for the GOPe. Washington DC has six of the ten richest counties in the US.


12 posted on 09/27/2017 6:49:15 AM PDT by caltaxed (ui)
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To: Uncle Miltie
The only difference between Rs and Ds is what lies they tell to get power over you and cash from your wallet.

That would make a great tagline

13 posted on 09/27/2017 6:52:35 AM PDT by HangnJudge
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No worries, trump, Pelosi n shumer.. they got this! A blank check til December when there will be endless parades of grandma who can’t buy Christmas gifts for their kids. Mean Scrooge conservatives.
Funny how the left loves Christmas when there is another big pot of taxpayer money on the line.
It’s obvious that voting doesn’t matter.. we have no Wall, Obamacare or some big insurance company bailout.. amnesty for dreamer like the Sudanese church attendee murderer. And a trillion dollars in stimulus for a union bailout.


14 posted on 09/27/2017 6:53:40 AM PDT by momincombatboots (White Stetsons up.. let's save our country!)
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To: momincombatboots

Well at least one of us is optimistic. ;-)


15 posted on 09/27/2017 6:58:31 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Does the size and scope of government ever decrease during Republican control? Nope, it just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Just like when Democrats are in control.


16 posted on 09/27/2017 7:15:42 AM PDT by Starboard
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Does anyone really believe the GOP will produce meaningful tax reform?

************

That’s what they will call it, if they can pass it. Even then it will be a watered down version of what is really needed to stimulate the economy.

The GOP side of the senate is a train wreck.


17 posted on 09/27/2017 7:24:00 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: ontap
primary the bastards

Won't do a damn bit of good. The ballot box is broken. We piss & moan about the traitors on the Right, and then like idiots, we go back and vote for them. This isn't their fault, it's ours.

18 posted on 09/27/2017 7:26:46 AM PDT by dware (If you think voting still works, you're part of the problem. The ballot box is broken.)
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Does anyone really believe the GOP will produce meaningful tax reform?

No. Their big donors like the system the way it is - they can afford the attorneys and lobbyists needed to manipulate it in their favor, and it effectively locks their smaller competitors out of marketplace power.

19 posted on 09/27/2017 8:09:24 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Uncle Miltie

I don’t agree with that. Here is the real difference between Democrats and Republicans. Most Democrats genuinely and even fervently believe in the Leftist agenda. They are eager to advance it, and when given the chance they don’t split into factions so as to kill/deny the Leftist legislation. They vote in a block.

Republicans don’t believe in conservatism. They believed in Obama. Anything and everything he asked for he got—sometimes even more than he asked for. There’s a quote from McConnell about how excited and even ecstatic he was to fulfill Obama’s legislative goals. He sounds like a gushing schoolgirl.

But McConnell is hardly alone. When did the so-called conservatives ever band together and demand Ryan and McConnell stop complying with Obama’s every whim? When did they vociferously protest his unconstitutional lack of a budget (Rand Paul, anyone?) and unconstitutional use of CRs??? Obama got away with that for eight years, with nary a peep from the vaunted ‘conservatives.’

Our great ‘conservatives’ only remember the Constitution when there’s an effort afoot to rollback any of Obama’s agenda. Otherwise, they are the swamp.


20 posted on 09/27/2017 8:19:32 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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