the Senate in 2014 and the Dems cry about Power Sharing again.
of course; 2014 is decades away (if ever)...w/ 'ol Mitch "GA2GA" McConnell In Charge
Posted on 01/24/2013 10:09:15 AM PST by ConservativeMan55
Fox is reporting Mitch Mcconnell is working on a deal with Harry Reid on the filibuster.... If this is true I may give up the R next to my name. It means nothing anymore...
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Not the best, but based on comments made by people on this forum, it seemed McConnell gave up everything and totally capitulated.. He didn’t.. Credibility goes to hell when people overact..
Agreed. There’s no way. It doesn’t add up.
I read it and I don’t like it.
I have been a registered Republican since Ronald Reagan ran in his first primary.
What I am currently witnessing exceeds even the gutless and traitorous display of non-support for Barry Goldwater by the “Rockefeller Republicans” back in 1964.
Boehner and McConnell are caving in on EVERYTHING and ANYTHING they can and getting NOTHING in return. Obama has drained them of the little testosterone they possess. This allows Boehner to control the Tea Party COnservatives in the House and Reid to control any Republicans who get out of hand in the Senate.
The GOP IS the GUTLESS OLD PARTY. Unless these people can be flushed out of office somehow, a new political party is needed and people like Boehner and McConnel can slither over to the Democrats where they belong.
A question:
IS THERE REALLY ANY REASON TO REMAIN A REPUBLICAN?
Seriously, why should we remain Republicans?
McConnell and Boehner are subreptiles.
Just look at Congress where we are in charge....yet fail to hammer the opposition. The GOP think this is old-school politics. The liberals know this is war...and are attempting to annihilate us....and they're winning.
I agree with your comment but I think most people are upset because it is capitulation after capitulation and we are being told by our GOP masters to eat the crap sandwich and be happy - it could’ve been worse.
“Once we have a GOP prez and senate, this will work to our benefit.”
This is aimed at ensuring what you say will never happen.
That question needs to be posed to Mcconnell.
McConnell’s failure (and of the other Republican Senate and House leaders) to reign in spending initiatives by Bush and by Republican Congressmen during the years that they controlled all three levels (Jan 2003 to Jan. 2007), is enough to have disqualified him from ever remaining in the Republican leadership. He is a big government hack who sees his role of gagging and binding his felllow Republicans to make sure they “go along to get along” with his buddies on the other side of the aisle. McConnell is poster boy for everything that’s wrong with Washington.
Sun rises in the East-Republicans cave.
Doesn’t sound like Harry got much of anything.
http://www.rollcall.com/news/filibuster_deal_reached_in_senate-221072-1.html?pos=hln
Of course McConnell’s job was to give Harry much, much less than his crazy-liberal bloc wanted so they would be unhappy with Harry.
This sounds like it might do the job (pending further info).
It’s like not every Muslim is a terrorist but every terrorist is a Muslim.
at the risk of repeating known information. there is no effective representation for conservatives in D.C. (our representation is at the state level and below where it exists). this has been the case for the greater part of 100 years.
thanks to tea party individuals acting at the grassroots, there is now a small group of senators/representatives present in D.C., able to monitor and perhaps influence what the ruling elite statists in both parties are doing. i estimate that presence at between 5 and 10 senators and 15 to 20 representatives. that’s it.
thus, logic dictates that the answer for conservatism is outside the two party elites, working at the state level and below for non-partisan, conservatives. e.g., sheriffs, judges, local officials, while picking off RINOS and squish R’s when opportunity presents and replacing them with true conservatives.
i believe a third party will eventually emerge, if the country still exists by then, from an ‘none of the above’, other, decline to state, group of conservative (God fearing) ‘independents’, who are geting near a plurality in the electorate, and already acting already as members of a defacto a Conservative Party.
The agreement creates a way to speed up the process for limiting debate, or invoking cloture, once the bill comes to the floor.
Basically neuters Republicans.
There is no reason anymore. If I could change my registration, I would but my state doesn’t register party. That said, I’ve stopped giving and have removed myself from mailers. when they call, I politely explain that, after being a strong GOP support for more than 20 years, being a BPOU precinct chair, running for more county party leadership etc., I am no longer a Republican. I am a Conservative. The party is no longer Conservative and I’m tired of settling for the lesser of two evils. So I won’t do it anymore.
“Once we have a GOP prez and senate, this will work to our benefit.”
Yeah, good luck with that. From 2002-2006 was the first time since Hoover that the GOP controlled all the legislative branches and the presidency. How did that work out for us?
Agreed!
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