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A minority posture for House GOP
The Hill ^ | 1/19/2013 | Molly K. Hooper and Russell Berman

Posted on 01/19/2013 9:14:11 AM PST by Alter Kaker

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To: Alter Kaker

I could picture the Democrats being where the Republicans are right now in DC.

They’d be fighting everything like militant lunatics. The Republicans just roll over and die.

This party isn’t worth a sh**.


41 posted on 01/19/2013 3:32:27 PM PST by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: DustyMoment
There are only two options available to us - 1) outright revolt to retake America and reset the Constitution to what the Founders gave us or 2) the red states must secede and re-establish the original Constitution as the rule of law. There are no other options.

Number one is not viable, most on this side of the fence are gutless. Number two is viable, but most on this side of the fence are gutless.

42 posted on 01/19/2013 4:19:27 PM PST by Founding Father (The Pedophile moHAMmudd (PBUH---Pigblood be upon him))
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To: Alter Kaker
If Nancy Pelosi found herself in the same position as Boehner, she'd be out there screaming that she runs the country.

Not our boys, though. Roll over and play dead.

43 posted on 01/19/2013 4:20:02 PM PST by BfloGuy (Workers and consumers are, of course, identical.)
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To: BfloGuy

“Not our boys, though. Roll over and play dead.”

So in other words, Republicrat’s cunning plan is right on track.


44 posted on 01/19/2013 4:33:29 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: SoFloFreeper
"“Popular [p]RESIDENT”? Last I saw, Gallup had the Assclown at 49%."

Well, it's "The Hill" -- they drink the same water/Kool-Aid as everybody else inside the Beltway. It's not like it's any sort of an objective news source.

45 posted on 01/19/2013 4:37:26 PM PST by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: Alter Kaker

Yeah, they were guilty of passing grandstanding bills that got and got them nowhere last term.

But the also approved gobs of spending that they didn’t need to.

All they really need to do this term is not approve or pass bills to spend what our federal government shouldn’t be spending and they’ll be heroes.


46 posted on 01/19/2013 5:22:02 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Norm Lenhart
America's Party: The new home of conservatism

We'll be holding our National Leadership Round Table call at the top of the hour. All of good will are welcome!

47 posted on 01/19/2013 5:26:09 PM PST by EternalVigilance (It's amazing how expensive "free" can be.)
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To: Alter Kaker
So the Republicans had a big retreat in Williamsburg, VA to figure out how to sellout Americans to the socialists/Marxists of the Donkey Party and Left.

Retreat is a good term for this collective group of gutless, spineless, clueless elitist RINOs run by Boehner, Cantor, and McConnell.

These a**holes couldn't lead a gaggle of perverts through an Oriental cat house with a fistful of $1,000 bills.

48 posted on 01/19/2013 6:51:42 PM PST by MasterGunner01
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To: Founding Father

Well, I think that we both agree that most on this side of the fence are gutless, but I don’t understand your assessment that option 1 is not viable. Why do you believe that?


49 posted on 01/19/2013 6:54:53 PM PST by DustyMoment (Congress - another name for anti-American criminals!!)
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To: Alter Kaker
Republicans “have to recognize the realities of the divided government that we have,” said Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), the party’s budget chief and 2012 vice presidential nominee.

Jeez...what happened to Ryan...he sounds like a complete loser now. The House of Representatives can wield tremendous power Constitutionally, but these current bunch of spineless GOP-E wonders (including Ryan) have absolutely NO will to do it.

Joe Cannon is spinning in his grave!

50 posted on 01/19/2013 7:11:23 PM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Norm Lenhart

So I take it you did not vote for Romney? Who is to blame for Romney’s loss?


51 posted on 01/19/2013 7:14:56 PM PST by Girlene
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To: Timber Rattler

Yes...what DID happen to Ryan? He sounds completely defeated.


52 posted on 01/19/2013 7:20:10 PM PST by Girlene
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To: Girlene

Well, lets see.

First: Romney. When the time came to hit the Dems with the past 4 years of Obama/Reid/Pelosi’s failures, he attacked his own base and candidates/supporters who followed the party platform.

Second: The GOP who spent tens of millions of dollar ssavoiding any web/TV/Newspaper advertizing that might act as a go-around to a heavily biased MSM...And instead used it to attack their base and candidates/supporters who followed the party platform.

Third: The Republican party voters who stood staunchly by MSNBC and others trashing people like Palin and Cain, using the very same words as those paragons of virtue to ensure the general public, who doesn’t consider politics a full contact sport, believed the BS and turned away from actual conservatives based on a lie for the sole purpose of ‘winning’.

And look what you won. People who through away everything they claimed to believe in, IE the people who campaigned for Mittens and trashed everyone who would not bow and scrape at his liberal BS, are now showing the unmitigated gall at bitching that they have a House filled with Republicans every bit as unprincipled as he was and who refuse to defend ANYTHING the party of Reagan once stood for...much less the Constitution and the rights it enshrined.

That about cover it?

And if you can show any actual FACTS that disprove a single thing I said, please, by all means, do so.


53 posted on 01/19/2013 7:45:03 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

So, again, I take it you did not vote for Romney?

and, yet, your answer as to who is to blame for ROmney’s loss is: everyone EXCEPT those who did not vote for Romney, including yourself, I presume?


54 posted on 01/19/2013 8:12:22 PM PST by Girlene
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To: Girlene

I ‘assume’ you can read and just chose not to. I also ‘assume’ you think a Republican who stands for the opposite of what I believe in is ‘entitled’ to my vote. I am not a Republican. The repub has to earn my vote. That’s how it works. If they don’t, then that’s their problem.

What a very liberal way to look at it.

Had the GOP ran someone to the right of Christie, I might have voted for them. But I will NEVER be held responsible for the liberalism of the GOP, Romney, or any one else that chooses to vote, campaign for, run as or be a liberal.

Now since you dodged my entire post, I ‘assume’ you cannot refute any of it. Of course you cant. It’s all true.


55 posted on 01/19/2013 8:24:52 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

lol, Norm.....

Yes, I can read....it would make it rather hard to write if I couldn’t.

So you did not vote for Romney. You bear responsibility, along with many others, for his loss and for obama’s win. Doesn’t matter whether you like Romney, whether he “earned” your vote, whether blah, blah, blah.

In the end you chose not to vote for Romney. That helped obama win; that helped Romney lose....so, therefore, you are part of the reason Romney lost.

That is a fact..


56 posted on 01/19/2013 8:41:06 PM PST by Girlene
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To: Girlene

OK, you might be able to read, but logic isn’t your strong suit ;) Your concept presupposes there were two candidates and we ‘had’ to vote for one of them. Neither is true so your argument fails the test.

When you can show me proof that I ‘had’ to vote for one liberal or the other when non liberal candidates were available (even as write ins), ping me. If it makes you ‘FEEL’ (like a liberal) good to blame me, please do. Aside from the fact that I derive entertainment from hearing stupid arguments, it might make the blamestorming you are wont to partake in less shameful.


57 posted on 01/19/2013 9:46:36 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: loveliberty2

The same men/women who don’t read the bills that they pass? The same ones that can’t articulate that the Dems have not passed a budget in 4 yrs; despite it being LAW? The same GOP that have already laid out a defense plan B of ‘3 more months if the Senate THINGS about passing said budget’?

I hope you were being sarcastic....But I was supposed to vote GOP, ‘cuz otherwise I was voting O? What is the definition of insanity again???

The current Congress couldn’t recite any damn passage of the Constitution, aside from them affirming their oaths of office to the same....

There are days I hope that the Dems win in ‘14, so a new party can arise when in ‘16 they f*ck up the country enough that people start to wake up. The GOP isn’t doing shit to stop the liberal/fascist path we’re currently on.


58 posted on 01/19/2013 9:50:21 PM PST by i_robot73
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To: Norm Lenhart

I do just fine with logic. You seem to do “fine” throwing around emotional word bombs designed to get a reaction.

You did not vote for Romney. You share in the responsibility for Romney’s loss. (That WAS my original question to you - who is to blame.)


59 posted on 01/19/2013 10:25:08 PM PST by Girlene
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To: Alter Kaker

They only have “a majority in name only” because they are cowards.

Go back and look at the crap the House, under Dems, did when Reagan was president and the GOP had the Senate. They had balls.

But of course, Bob Dole would give it all away...what a douche.


60 posted on 01/19/2013 10:51:54 PM PST by Fledermaus (The Republic is Dead: Collapse the system. Fire all politicians and impeach the judges.)
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