Posted on 10/21/2013 10:02:00 AM PDT by onyx
CBS’ 60 Minutes aired an investigative report on Sunday by Steve Kroft who interviewed Government Accountability Institute (GAI) President and Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer which revealed how politicians on the hill abuse their leadership PACs by spending lavishly on themselves. However, when it comes to applying PAC money for its original proposed use of campaign contributions, some members can be downright stingy with their PAC donations.
The Center for Responsive Politics reported in early October that House Republican Leadership has raised a massive amount of funds through their various PACs. However, according to Open Secrets, twenty conservative Republican members, who The New York Times identified as a constant “thorn” in Boehner’s side, received very little if nothing at all from these leadership PACs and the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) during the 2012 election cycle.
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It only meant a delay in the amendments to Obamacare with possible spending implications by the GOP.
Both parties are taking us to the cliff and over it.
Hi Johnny,
I regret not sending a few bucks to McCain’s opponent in McCain’s last primary. If McCain tries to run again, I’ll not make that mistake again.
I’d like to support a Conservative against Lindsay Graham, but, since there’s a “divide and conquer” scam going on there, I have no idea where to send my check.
Can you explain to me how it’s MY fault that SC “Conservatives” are destroying one another? And thereby handing a “win” to Graham...
Hi Johnny,
I regret not sending a few bucks to McCain’s opponent in McCain’s last primary. If McCain tries to run again, I’ll not make that mistake again.
I’d like to support a Conservative against Lindsay Graham, but, since there’s a “divide and conquer” scam going on there, I have no idea where to send my check.
Can you explain to me how it’s MY fault that SC “Conservatives” are destroying one another? And thereby handing a “win” to Graham...
It's not divide and conquer, since SC has a run-off election race for Senate. As does Texas.
In the initial vote of the primary, if no-one gets 50%+ of the vote, then it goes to a run-off. At that point, the top two vote getters run off against each other, so it's one on one.
Your abject ignorance of how things work leaves you in the awkward position of being completely ineffective.
It doesn't matter which challenger you support at the start. The more the merrier. Swamp him and either send him to a run-off, or make sure he doesn't make the run-off.
/johnny
Our Constitution provides that a “majority” in the House can NOT dictate the LAW to the other branches.
Therefore the ANSWER to America’s danger must be: elect MORE Conservatives! To the House. To the Senate. And to the White House.
It’s hard for me to see how sulking and pouting and stamping our little feet will actually DO that...
Once again, you are wrong. All bills for spending MUST originate in the House per the Constitution. If the House doesn't fund it, the money can't be spent. Simple as that.
The House DOES dictate spending.
/johnny
What we’ll get is one party rule. It’s like Illinois. The democrats are in control, use govt largesse to pay off their cronies, and republicans collaborate in order to get the crumbs that fall off the table. It’s a criminal enterprise
If Graham doesn’t win outright against the three dwarfs, then he’ll only have to win against ONE of them with the support of the two losing dwarfs.
So it appears that the inability of Conservatives to support the “best” Conservative candidate actually ensures that Graham will win.
I really hope I’m wrong here.
If so, I’ll send a few bucks accross the state line, but not a penny for Graham, though.
Really?
So Obama and the Senate did NOT just “win”? BIG TIME!
Hmmm.....?
Whom should I trust on this?
You?
Or Ted Cruz?
There's no law that says Graham will even make the run-off.
/johnny
That's what Cruz was trying to explain to idiots in the GOP.
/johnny
Hi Johnny,
I really hope I’m wrong here.
Time will tell...
Dewhurst went up against 6 little guys and Cruz came out on top of that pack.
Cruz got a lot of support after it was just him and Dewhurst.
It's a proven technique in run-off states.
/johnny
I am explaining the realities and at the end of the day I would like to elect more conservatives but not the 200 plus House Republicans and 40 plus Senate ones who fake being conservative.
The article linked in this post proves the point that only a few good ones (20 or less) aren’t being bought by the liberal leadership like Boehner and Cantor in the House.
SCOTT BROWN!
I am all for tp candidates, this bastard fried us all.
He was a crappy MA Congressman, his wife a big TV lib and his daughters looking for Careers...
Susan Collins, Kelly useless Ayotte, Lindseed Graham. Cochroran, Cochran, McQueeg.... they all gotta go!
+1
I hope you’re right.
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