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Trumpmania may scare establishment into fighting for limited government (we can only hope)
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| 7/23/15
| Kent Kellar
Posted on 07/24/2015 12:06:54 PM PDT by cotton1706
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The Establishment will just do what it has to to quell the uprising hoardes, for example, McConnll fast-tracking a defund Planned Parenthood bill, which he knows will be vetoed.
We're not so easily fooled! Well, some are!
To: cotton1706
When you run for office again and again promising that you are going to repeal Obamacare, yet you never really planned on taking the hard but necessary steps to do it, people are going to feel betrayed. When you run for office saying you are going to fight tooth and nail against Obamas executive amnesty, and then cave in when the President shockingly threatens a veto, dont expect the people you convinced to give you one more chance not to turn away in disgust.
And when you run promising to rein in Obama and then make giving him an enormous grant of power through fast track trade authority, the people who believed you get even more incensed.
Three home runs
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posted on
07/24/2015 12:09:54 PM PDT
by
SGCOS
To: cotton1706
If the GOPEs do, in fact, "fight for limited government" you can bet that at first it will half-hearted ... but if the pressure stays on them they'll probably fight ... but there not without "much wailing and gnashing of teeth".
What the GOPE/RINO leaders need to do is to pretend they're in a battle with conservatives ... they always fight extra hard then.
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posted on
07/24/2015 12:12:54 PM PDT
by
glennaro
To: cotton1706
Trumpmania may scare establishment into fighting for limited government (we can only hope) The peasants rose up against socialized medicine and the GOP-e was "fighting" to repeal 0bamacare in 2014 - UNTIL THE ELECTION WAS OVER.
NOW they're "FIGHTING" Big Government.
Let me talk to you aboust some land down on a Bayou in Mississippi.
To: cotton1706
And CRUZ!
Calling out the GOPe for suppressing the will of those that got them elected.
GREAT!
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posted on
07/24/2015 12:14:09 PM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: cotton1706
I don’t believe it.
It is all BS magic words to lie, get elected, and vote with democrats.
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posted on
07/24/2015 12:14:16 PM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: cotton1706
I doubt the GOPe’s will fight for anything except for their crony friends.
They will simply offer more lip service.
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posted on
07/24/2015 12:15:15 PM PDT
by
tennmountainman
("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance.)
To: cotton1706
It had better scare them into something !If not, the next popular uprising will be a hell of a lot scarier!
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posted on
07/24/2015 12:17:34 PM PDT
by
Savage Beast
("You can, in fact must, shout 'Fire!' in a crowded theater. It just has to be the truth." J.Goldberg)
To: cotton1706
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posted on
07/24/2015 12:17:48 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: The Sons of Liberty
We owe a huge debt of gratitude to Donald Trump. These worthless republicans thought they could get away with breaking their promises to the voters. Now we have loudmouth guy with big ego and carrying a stick is coming after them. I don't know what is ultimately going to come of this, but I for one am grateful to this man for his efforts. No one else has been able to get these lying grifters in Washington to listen to the people who elected them, but he has certainly got their attention, and I suspect he is going to scare more than a few democrats as well!
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posted on
07/24/2015 12:18:03 PM PDT
by
erkelly
To: cotton1706
Why would pigs shrink the trough.
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posted on
07/24/2015 12:18:07 PM PDT
by
The Toll
To: cotton1706
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posted on
07/24/2015 12:19:13 PM PDT
by
Cheerio
(Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
To: erkelly
I meant to say “carry a big stick.” I was trying for a Teddy Roosevelt allusion.
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posted on
07/24/2015 12:19:32 PM PDT
by
erkelly
To: cotton1706
And on Trump allegedly changing all of his positions between 2004 and 2011, he’s 69 years old.
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posted on
07/24/2015 12:20:29 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: cotton1706
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posted on
07/24/2015 12:25:07 PM PDT
by
TBP
(Obama lies, Granny dies.)
To: cotton1706
The establishment is more than willing to give the appearance that it’s fighting for limited government.
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posted on
07/24/2015 12:27:04 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: cotton1706
So...what exactly makes people think Trump is for limited government?
To: cotton1706
As soon as the election is over they will forget all about it.
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posted on
07/24/2015 12:32:32 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
( Muhammad was a ruthless terrorist, mass-murderer, thief, slave trader, rapist and pedophile.)
To: MrB
If the other GOP candidates really cared about this country, they would withdraw and let Cruz, Trump and Fiorina forcefully make their points without the needless distraction of people like Jeb Bush and Lindsey Graham.
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posted on
07/24/2015 12:33:24 PM PDT
by
JennysCool
(My hypocrisy goes only so far)
To: cotton1706
Any fool that elects someone that has to be forced into doing something is too stupid to be allowed to vote in the first place.
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