Posted on 09/11/2013 11:55:53 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
As lawmakers return for what promises to be a busy fall session, GOP congressional leaders face mounting disapproval among Tea Party Republicans. Just 27% of Republicans and GOP leaners who agree with the Tea Party approve of the job Republican leaders in Congress are doing, compared with 71% who disapprove.
The job rating of GOP leaders among Tea Party Republicans has fallen 15 points since February, from 42% to 27%. Disapproval has risen from 54% to 71% over this period. There has been no similar decline among Republicans who do not agree with the Tea Party. Currently, 42% of non-Tea Party Republicans and Republican leaners approve of how GOP leaders in Congress are handling their job, which is little changed over the past year.
This internal dissent contributes to the lower job ratings Republican leaders receive from the public when compared with Democratic congressional leaders. The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center, conducted Sept. 4-8 among 1,506 adults, finds that just 24% of the public approves of Republican leaders’ job performance, while somewhat more (33%) approve of the job of Democratic congressional leaders.
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“You do not need to form a third party. It is actually fairly easy to take over the GOP, but it’s got to be along the Gingrich model of state by state.”
I went to a couple of GOP meetings in Tallahassee. There was a cadre of old GOPers who controlled everything. It did not appear to be easy to take over. You get in. You pay your dues, and by that time you’re so invested in the way things are, you can’t change them.
GOP Leadership?
The GOP has leadership?
When did this happen, Jim?
(I thought those who identified as GOP leaders were just rank-and-file Demoncrap backbenchers)
Yeah, GOP is the same way in AZ. Total waste of time.
Perfect analogy, because that's what Boner Boehner is trying to do AGAIN on Obamacare.
“If you’re going to rebel, you must rebel for a foundation, not just against someone.”
“We need to reinstate our Constitution.”
EXACTLY!
:-)
Need to bend ‘em over and screw ‘em.
Hard and often.
Time to see if they can take it as well as they dish it out.
GOP Country Club is also appropriately descriptive imo.
We are 290 to 300 Million True American Citizens who legally vote as adults, plus 20 to 30 Million Illegal Alien Invaders from Mexico who illegally vote as adults.
Our sorry US Federal Government is currently run by 3 elected politicians and one appointed lawyer, as follows:
1.) The POS Chief Executive Order Giver
2.) The POS Sobber of the House of Representatives
3.) The POS Majority Leader of the US Senate, and
4.) Any POS swing voter in THE NINE SUPREMES.
My question: “Now just where did I put my pitchfork?”
[Maybe I put it in my Minuteman Closet next to my snare drum? I know that it will be in the last place that I look - - - . “]
Ah! Here it is!
REMEMBER BENGHAZI !
The veil is off. The GOP is liberal.
And the RINOS are running as fast as they can to catch up and be as commie as they are.
When you compromise with EVIL what you get is EVIL!
I’m disappointed in the Republican party. Can’t vote for Dems and 3rd party vote is a waste, I’m disenfranchised!!
Linda Graham’s gonna get knocked up by the TEA Party.
Boehner done pulled out all the stops on us, that's just fact, he ain't even trying to hide it anymore.
Spot on.
Wow. A couple of meetings? Did you just expect them to hand it over to you? Are you a baby boomer?
The Ron Paulers took over the Republican Party of Iowa in one year by controlling the convention. The social conservatives have been nominating and winning at the state legislative level for several years, and hence the Iowa GOP caucus is probably about as conservative as you will get.
I’ve been on the front lines too long to know that is a load.
Hey, come on, this is a free country, and everyone votes as he/she pleases: Democan or Republicrat.
Once they arrive inside the beltway, there isn’t a nickel’s worth of difference between them.
T E R M
L I M I T S !!!!!
Plus, about 50% of American voters are dumber than shiite.
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