Use the Jersey enforcers on Lindsey Graham.
When democrat activists gang up on a politician pushing their commie agenda, then it is a fine example of good old democracy in action. When conservatives do it, it’s “browbeating”. I HATE the so-called media.
“for fear of local folks”
McCain is a big brow to beat.
“Nobody wants to go first,” said Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.), who received nasty phone calls, letters and tweets after he penned an August op-ed in The New York Times, calling on Trump to release his tax returns.”
Those calls, letters and tweets were well justified. He was a traitor to his own party jumping on the lefts narrative. Hell, check his phone records and you’ll probably find he was the phone making death threats to electors if they didn’t go against Trump.
Congratulations Mark Sanford, you just made the list.
I guess they didn’t watch the primaries and then the general election.
Trump likes to win and I think he has no problem sliming those that get in his way.
It’s not that congress hasn’t had the first opportunity to lead. Now they better fall in line as we have a leader.
String a few of them up ,castrate them publicly and make examples of them then watch the rest fall into place.
Use the Jersey enforcers on Lindsey Graham.
Granted, the Obama proposal to restore the economy along with the infrastructure by funding "shovel ready jobs" was a flat-out lie, the bulk of the money went to support voter ready Democrat infrastructure, as Obama was later ruefully to admit when he said that the shovel ready jobs were not so shovel ready. But Republicans who initially opposed Obama's proposal could not then have been aware of the corruption that was subsequently occur, only that they were dealing with Democrats and that was to be expected. The same people will now argue that Donald Trump is a builder by profession who has a stellar record of bringing projects in under cost and we can expect better from him. We shall see.
Those who oppose these kinds of projects as job creators are mindful of Milton Friedman's reference to the shopkeeper's broken window hypothetical in which the cost to repair a vandalized window was said to ripple through the economy enriching everyone from glass manufacturers to carpenters etc. But the conservative points out that the money used to replace the broken window was money that the shopkeeper did not now have to enlarge his business and perhaps hire new employees, causing his own ripple effect.
The argument is that when the government takes money out of the economy, even to improve infrastructure, it is taking money that the marketplace knows better where to invest for greater return.
There are two counterarguments to this: first, the infrastructure needs to be fixed anyway and that is certainly true in America now; second, the money taken out of the economy by the government to fund infrastructure repair is borrowed money and therefore the reduction of available money to the private sector to invest is minimized and or postponed. Anyway, there is disagreement about whether government borrowing diminishes the funds available in the private sector because there is so much foreign money coming into the United States. In rebuttal, it is noted that our income tax rates are so high that much money he staying out of the United States.
My view is that there are arguments on both sides. This is in the nature of American government and it is quite proper that these arguments be waged from both sides. On one hand, every president to be effective must be feared by Congress. On the other hand, any president who operates unfettered by Congress, is liable to overreach and even become tyrannical as we have seen with Franklin Roosevelt and Barack Obama.
It is unfortunate that those who speak on behalf of Congress are the likes of Mark Sanford who hardly lends credibility to any issue.
"We won, get in the back seat."
Would these be the ‘conservative’ Congressmen and Senators who cowtowed to Obama for 8 years ? THOSE Congressmen and Senators?
“’People are naturally reticent to be the first out of the block for fear of Sean Hannity, for fear of Breitbart, for fear of local folks,’ Rep. Mark Sanford said.”
Tell Sanford to go take a hike!
Lawmakers SHOULD fear We the People, and not the other way around!!
‘Some of Donald Trump’s proposals, the Texas Republican cautioned, “are not going to line up very well with our conservative policies,” ‘...
I wonder of which ‘conservative policies’ doth he speak?
“(Trump won the Electoral College handily but lost the popular vote by 2 percentage points.)”
How is this relevant ? The article is about GOP congressmen being afraid to break ranks with Trump and being attacked by Trump supporters. The only vote percentage that should be relevant is how GOP voters voted — ie, 90%+ for Trump. So breaking ranks with Trump is breaking ranks with their own constituents !
Good. It’s about time the politicians were more afraid of their base than the NYT / WaPo.
The reason he may not line up with their "conservative policies" is because his policies are much more conservative....
Guys like Levin and Beck come to mind.
Trump is a patriotic pragmatist. Folks who live in theoretical rigid ideological fantasy-land will be run down by the Trump Train.
It is called Party Discipline something these preposterous jackass wanna bees desperately need.
You want to be a clown and mug for the Fake Media? Go right ahead, but do not expect the party to support you when you treacherously stab it in the back daily for media attention.
For too long these clowns have had it both ways. Kiss Democrat butt while expecting the party to support them