Posted on 12/05/2014 7:41:38 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Old habits die hard. The media are so enamored of the continuing (and largely contrived) story about the great Republican civil war that they fail to appreciate that the real internecine fight is being waged on the other side of the aisle.
I grant that there’s a lot of shouting today among Republicans. But it’s a ritual skirmish over whether a government shutdown would force the president to withdraw a signature measure — last time, Obamacare; this time, executive amnesty.
And it will likely be resolved with the obvious expedient of funding the government through next year, except for a more short-term extension for homeland security. That way, defunding the executive order could be targeted at just the issue at hand, namely immigration, and would occur when the GOP holds the high ground: control of both houses of Congress.
It’s a tempest in a teapot, and tactical at that. Meanwhile, on the other side, cannons are firing in every direction as the Democratic party, dazed and disoriented, begins digging itself out of the shambles of six years of Barack Obama.
The fireworks began even before Election Day with preemptive backstabbing of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, by fellow Democrats. This was followed after the electoral debacle by bitter sniping between Obama and Harry Reid when Reid’s chief of staff immediately — and on the record — blamed the results on Obama. In turn, Obama got his revenge last week by sabotaging a $450 billion “tax extender” deal that Reid had painstakingly negotiated.
But the Democrats’ civil war goes far beyond the petty and the personal. It’s about fundamental strategy and ideology. The opening salvo was Senator Chuck Schumer’s National Press Club speech, delivered three weeks after Election Day, that openly denounced Obamaism, its policies and priorities.
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The GOP is heading for a major break-up.
None of this is about policy. It’s about who comes out on top with the most goodies and how best to fool the public that the new dems are different than Obama. At least the R’s are having a war about real ideas.
Same ol’ Same ol’
“Who is going to give me the most?” is the name of the game.
The unlicensed Nonconformists are shrinking in number.
Growing up, I used to ask my German mother how in the world Hitler came to power. Now I see.
I agree. The Democratic party has been totally taken over by the Communists. It is now literally the Communist party. There’s no going back for them at least no time soon.
The GOP is split between the progressives and the the conservatives so there is a true ideological war going on.
Congress and the Senate. Bums all.
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