Posted on 12/15/2014 4:50:59 AM PST by LeoMcNeil
Last month Republicans won a wave election picking up a dozen seats in the House and nine seats in the Senate. Last week the Republicans ignored the will of the voters and voted in favor of President Obama’s budget initiatives. The country is overwhelmingly opposed to Obamacare, so the Republicans fully funded it without making any changes. The country is overwhelmingly opposed to amnesty, in particular the country is opposed to amnesty created by the executive branch alone. Rather than refuse to fund the President’s amnesty power grab, the Republicans are funding it completely. They’re even spending a billion dollars to help Central Americans move and settle in the United States illegally. What is the point in voting Republican if they’re simply going to go along with whatever Obama demands?
John Boehner and company insist that they’re going to vote to defund executive amnesty in February. It’s one of the biggest canards coming out of Congress these days. The time to refuse funding for executive amnesty was now. By the time February rolls around, political opposition will be waning and the program will already be in place and presumably it will be operational. Boehner knows this which is why he wanted it funded now. The fact is that the GOP leadership doesn’t oppose the principles behind Obama’s executive amnesty. They may oppose Obama’s power grab but they don’t oppose amnesty, in fact they favor it. By funding executive amnesty, the leadership is funding an initiative they in principle support. The unintended consequence is that they’re ultimately confirming Obama’s power to write law on his own. They’re creating a precedent that at this point only the Courts can take away.
As we start Presidential campaign season it’s looking even worse for conservatives. Jeb Bush, Chris Christie and Mitt Romney appear to be the establishment frontrunners. The nice thing is that they don’t appear to be lining up behind one of them at this point, meaning their votes will be split just like conservative votes. The problem though is that eventually the establishment will pick one of these guys and get behind them long before Iowa votes. In the meantime, conservatives won’t line up behind any one candidate while grassroots conservatives nitpick at all of the conservative candidates accusing all of them of being heretics of some sort. Then we’ll act like we don’t know what hit us when Jeb Bush becomes the nominee and we’ll really be left scratching our heads when he loses to Elizabeth Warren in November 2016.
The country has shifted to the right, the nation opposes the policies of President Obama. For some unknown reason the last people to get this message are Republicans in positions of leadership. Even Obama knows the country has shifted to the right and in particular away from him. He’s arrogant enough to flip the country the middle finger while doing whatever he pleases, even if it’s unconstitutional. His handlers are more than willing to lie to their base about their defeat. But make no mistake, Obama knows the country has shifted. The country opposes Obamacare, it opposes amnesty and it opposes Obama’s big spending, big government policies. The Republicans apparently didn’t get the message, they’re not only funding all of Obama’s policies but they’re in the process of picking Obama-lite to be the nominee for President in 2016.
The Republicans should have drawn a line in the sand over executive amnesty. Let the Democrats shut the government down over it. The government shutdown in 2013 didn’t hurt Republicans, neither would a shutdown over illegal executive amnesty. Instead, the GOP proved once again how utterly worthless they are. Does anyone believe they have a plan for the first 100 days of the new Congress? Does anyone believe they’re going to pass any legislation on the economy or jobs? Does anyone believe they’ll make anymore than a half hearted attempt at repealing Obamacare or executive amnesty? By running in fear over a government shutdown last week, the Republicans proved once again how weak kneed and lilly livered they are. We have a $18 trillion debt, up $8 trillion since Obama took over. The Republicans, once again, refused to address it. The message they ultimately sent wasn’t a good one. The country is now left to wonder why anyone would vote for a Republican for President.
The GOP-E did not cave.
The GOP-E has always been leftwing, big govt crony socialists.
Rope.
Neck.
Tree limb.
“Some assembly required”—AND I’M NOT KIDDING.
Agree, all of these articles about the GOP caving are just excuses for what really happened - active collaboration by the Republican leadership. They deserve to be tarred and feathered and real conservatives need to repudiate the Republicans and form a new constitutional party. Perhaps a group walkout under the leadership of Ted Cruz and allies would kick start the basic realignment that must take place if the country is not to be lost.
I looked at the voting on this...
Saw a TON of democrats vote ‘NAY’, while every Republican in my state voted ‘Yay’.
How disgusting. How UTTERLY disgusting, when fellow democrats vote AGAINST obama while Republicans vote WITH him!
We’re up against the wall, people.
DEMOCRACY’S FATE
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.
From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”
- Alexis de Tocqueville
ca. 1840
Alinsky’s 11 rules of ethics can be boiled down to 3 basic tenets.
1. An organizer’s ethics must be flexible
2. The more important the goal the less the organizer should be concerned about ethics
3. If a tactic was successful it was ethical.
Dictionary.com defines ethics as “rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, etc.” It is sad to say that Alinsky’s rules define the Left and much of the Democratic Party as it is today.
FWIW, the Senate Conservative Fund is already airing some very tough radio ads against Boehner, McCarthy and Scalise. I’ve donated a bit for the ads; it made me feel a little better. The ads tell it like it is, and will hopefully cause others to think it out rather than backstabbing those who voted for them.
Why did the GOP “fold?”
The so called progressive majority lined their own pockets with the bill.
Obama has bought them off repeatedly.
End of story.
Result? The GOP has alienated its populist conservative base and that means they will stay home during the 2016 election. Say hello to another leftist president in November of 2016. The American people will have to tolerate another term of Hillery Clinton of Elizabeth Warren while the GOP annoints another drone loser GOP candidate such as Jeb Bush or Mitt Romney.
Horrid.
The real problem in 2016 is that conservatives won’t get behind one candidate. Instead, we’ll have 5-7 conservatives running all of whom will accuse the others of being heretics to the cause. If the GOP progressives get behind one of their candidates (Bush, Romney or Christie) they’ll win the nomination easily. If on the other hand conservatives line up behind one guy we can win easily. Romney only got 39% of the vote in the GOP primaries in 2012. That means 60% went to conservative candidates. Unfortunately, we conservatives are too foolish to, as a voting block, get behind one of them.
“In the meantime, conservatives won’t line up behind any one candidate while grassroots conservatives nitpick at all of the conservative candidates accusing all of them of being heretics of some sort. Then we’ll act like we don’t know what hit us when Jeb Bush becomes the nominee and we’ll really be left scratching our heads when he loses to Elizabeth Warren in November 2016.”
But don’t worry, we will still strut around calling the GOPe the stupid party when they keep getting everything they want.
If on the other hand conservatives line up behind one guy we can win easily>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Agreed. Thats why we need a Cruz candidacy.
I think the indys and moderate Dems(not very many but some) who actually shift the Republican Party are going to be surprised how liberal the GOPe really is.
It is clear that politics will not save this nation.
Why Cruz over Rand Paul, Scott Walker or some other conservative? My issue with Cruz is that he’s basically another Barack Obama in that he’s been in the Senate for four years and doesn’t really have a ton of experience. I think in 2016 experience is going to be very important to voters, especially if the Dem nominee is Hillary.
That is absolutely true. The only thing that will save this nation is Jesus Christ. We must pray that God would call this nation back to faith. Only then will things change for the better.
Winning the election is another matter, which is why Democrats aren't terribly worried about that, as they know (history backs this up) conservatives out in fly-over America, simply won't show up to vote, when GOPers put lipstick on their pig!
Now that ALL of the GOP Rinos came out of the shadows and voted with the Democrats to prop up Obama and do the bidding for Wall Street we can be assured that there will be plenty of part-time jobs available at minimum wage for ALL!
There are four million Republican voters who didn’t show up to vote for Romney. Apparently the GOP isn’t interested in these voters as they chase after the mythical independent voter.
They consider the non-voters to be "hard core 'wingers'" and don't want to be caught anywhere near them, as the MSM might make nasty comments about them.
” In the meantime, conservatives won’t line up behind any one candidate while grassroots conservatives nitpick at all of the conservative candidates accusing all of them of being heretics of some sort. Then we’ll act like we don’t know what hit us when Jeb Bush becomes the nominee and we’ll really be left scratching our heads when he loses to Elizabeth Warren in November 2016.”
I find this to be a frighteningly accurate prediction of what is going to happen. Conservatives here on FR attack every possible conservative candidate for this or that. We are going to end up with Mitt again IMO. He will not allow Jeb to edge him out.
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