[robroys woman]

All the republicans have to do is support trump at pretty much every turn, regarding what he’s trying to do. It even aligns with the republican platform.

[Morpheus2009]

Democrats will pull in all the turnout they can to ensure victory. People need to realize this.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Electing Bush League Republicans just because they wear an R jersey is as bad as electing Democrats.
We need to elect people who side with the citizens and the rule of law.

[vette6387]

The truth of the matter is that the GOPE seems quite willing to turn the government over to the RATS if in so doing, they are able to get rid of Trump and return things to “normal.” The sad part of it, is that it appears likely that the people of this country don’t care enough about their future to tell the GOPE to GFT!

[butlerweave]

The GOP need Leadership in the House and Senate ,something that disappeared years ago

[redhead]

high five, fist bump, and a big hug...

[Alberta's Child]

I still contend that the GOP destroyed it’s credibility when it couldn’t even pass a half-assed “repeal” of ObamaCare after running campaigns on that very thing for SEVEN ‘EFFING YEARS.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

POTUS, Trump see the danger is is moving quickly to get his executive team in line with his thinking and goals. As for, Paul Ryan, MiTch McConnell and Ronna Romney McDaniel (The RNC).....they have nary a clue. Both Alabama and Pennsylvania proved that.

How McDaniel could have stood by and allowed Rick Scannone to become the GOP candidate in PA-18th-CD, one will never know. But, worse then Ronna, is that most useless Paul Ryan. As speaker of the House he should have been right on top of this misplace from the start. Broom him, Pubbies or die politically...he hates Trump and so does McConnell!!! Wake up!!!

[1Old Pro]

Agreed, all hands on deck

[Avalon Memories]

...there would be two years of investigations...

And this would be different from the last year how? We've had continuous investigations from a Republican congress and an oh-so-special counsel appointed under a supposedly Republican-controlled DOJ. I think the only difference would be that the House would move to impeach on zero grounds other than Trump is a Republican/populist outsider.

[Bratch]

UniParty At Work – Paul Ryan SuperPac Campaigned to Elect Democrat Conor Lamb…

Posted on March 15, 2018 by sundance

It’s well known that Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan doesn’t want to be in an actual leadership position; and it’s also well known -enhanced by the campaign, and victory, of Donald Trump- that Republicans did not want to win the majority position and face having to reveal their true UniParty agenda.

The evidence of this UniParty positioning has been staring the electorate in the face, repeatedly and brutally, since candidate Donald Trump actually campaigned on key tenets of the Republican party and found himself being openly opposed by GOP leadership.

Now, a stunning discovery surfaces of Paul Ryan’s Congressional Leadership SuperPAC, congressionalleadershipfund.org, actually campaigning for the Democrat, Conor Lamb, in the recent PA18 congressional race.

As evidenced by Big League Politics the Paul Ryan SuperPAC sent a mailer to Pennsylvania CD-18 voters touting Lamb’s favorable position on gun ownership rights:

(link to source)

Now, there will be some who think this is just a bone-headed move by Paul Ryan because the Democrats already held a +50,000 registration advantage in the district and the SuperPAC didn’t know this mailer would actually end up supporting Lamb.  However, as mentioned, there’s a history here that tells us “a mistake” is likely not the case.

The real motive, based on an honest review of history, is the professional UniParty apparatus knew that Democrat Conor Lamb needed a lift to offset the cross party voting that was reflected in the district voting (by over 20 points) for Donald Trump in 2016.

The DC Republican apparatus is quite comfortable losing their majority position so long as they are not forced to support Trump policies which are entirely against their financial interests.  [How Mitch McConnell Crushed The Tea-Party]

Even before candidate Trump entered the 2016 presidential race, the agenda was visible for anyone who was willing to admit it.  In 2014 the same Republican leadership paid Democrats to vote against the Republican primary winner of the Mississippi Senate race (Cochran -vs- McDaniel) simply because Mitch McConnell didn’t like the idea of having an actual Republican in the seat.

Remember, this is the GOP wing of the UniParty who operate on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce {DEEP DIVE} and support: comprehensive immigration reform to include amnesty; lax border security to allow cheap labor; Omnibus spending as reflected in their Obama budget-fulfillment votes; the retention of ObamaCare as mandated by the U.S. CoC; the expansion of federal common core education standards; the Wall Street trade agenda to include TPP.  All of these “DC-Republican” positions are opposed by the current Republican President and the majority of Republican voters.

Enhancing and emphasizing my argument that this mailer as a deliberate effort to elect a Democrat, I would remind everyone of a few brutally obvious points:

♦the Republican controlled senate voted unanimously to block any Trump recess appointments (summer 2017);

♦and also the reality that both the House and Senate had no legislative constructs prepared for a Trump victory in January/February 2017;

♦and top off the cake of duplicity with the fact it was Republican controlled House and Senate committees who willingly opened ridiculous investigations against their own elected president claiming a ‘Vast Planetary Russian Collusion Conspiracy’.

In short, both Republicans and Democrats want the threat of Donald Trump removed.

There is no desire on the part of Paul Ryan/Kevin McCarthy or Mitch McConnell/John Cornyn to actually win seats in 2018.  These GOP “leaders” would just as soon lose their majority position so they can go back to the comfortable indulgences of remaining in leadership in the minority status.

In the minority the leadership of the GOP are no longer threatened by President Trump and can hide behind the smokescreen of loyal opposition.

Substantively nothing changes, and the GOP leaders are just as well compensated in the minority by the lobbyist industry within DC.

The only threat to the financial interests of the GOP is President Donald Trump remaining in office and having to actually face carrying out a conservative Trump agenda in 2019 and 2020.  That Trump agenda is entirely against their “establishment republican” interests.

The Paul Ryan mailer to elect a Democrat is just another example of how corrupt the entire UniParty political apparatus is within Washington DC.

That truism is entirely why this MAGA graphic, from 2015, remains accurate:

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Koch, Ryan, Koch, McConnell, Murdoch

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[JonPreston]

Outside of DJT, and most of the Freedom Caucus, I can’t think of many Rs who are worth a damn.

[TallahasseeConservative]

I don’t understand why people continue to view PA-18 as some kind of repudiation of Trump. For God’s sake, Lamb ran as a Pro Life, Pro Gun and Pro American worker candidate, if anything Trump is forcing the Dems to run to the right, not away from him. I’ll be honest, if the choice is a Pro Gun, Pro Life and Pro American worker candidate with a D after his name and a milquetoast Chamber of Commerce anti gun Republican (McCain, Flake, McConnell) what benefit is there pulling the R lever?

[Democrats hate too much]

But we are being sabotaged by elitist establishment uni party people calling themselves republicans.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Unfortunately, guys like Paul Rino and Mitch McTurtle, have done everything they can to hurt Trump and the conservative Republican brand. And, they’re not the only pubbies doing it. They just happen to be leadership. Piss-poor at that!

[SaxxonWoods]

Been watching this stuff since JFK. Dems likely to take the House and it won’t be pretty.

The idea that Democrats will be better than GOPe RINOs is truly insane.

[Teacher317]

The GOP and RNC need to wake up, sure... but what exactly do Trump and Pence need to do about it? They’re trying to keep their promises to us!

[Jim Noble]

Here’s the problem (IMO).

Trump beat 17 Republicans to win the Presidency. He got enough Democrat votes in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio to go to the White House, and he almost did the trick in New Hampshire and Minnesota, as well.

But Trump is not a Republican. He’s much too conservative for the GOP. There are more nationalists who are working-class Democrats than there are nationalist Republicans.

He had six months after January 20, 2017 to decide whether or not to continue to use the GOP as a vehicle, or to dump it.

He chose to keep it, reasoning (as a businessman would do) that, after a successful hostile takeover, most of the middle manager types (county chairmen, club leaders, Members of Congress and wannabes) would board the Trump train.

But this has not happened. The GOP electoral class is NOT on the Trump train. At best, they are sullenly cooperating. At worst, they are waiting for their friends across the aisle to take the majority back and kick him out.

Conor Lamb was a better Trumper (as a candidate) than Saccone. You can expect this pattern to be repeated in every purple and blue CD that Trump won in 2016.

I supported Trump from the day he declared, and I still do. I even send money (as if they need it!). But his alliance with the GOP after November 2016 was and is a mistake.

Out there in the United States, where the rubber meets the road, the only thing people hate worse than Democrats is Republicans. As we are about to find out.