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Why Washington’s Political Class Is Losing Control
The Daily Signal ^ | March 14,2016 | Sen. David Perdue

Posted on 03/14/2016 12:13:33 PM PDT by Hojczyk

The Washington political establishment has hit the panic button. Not because they are afraid of any one individual or candidate, but because they are afraid of losing their own political power.

This town is filled with well-intentioned people who believe they are doing the right thing, but far too many have lost their way after years in Washington. Politicians pay more attention to special interests groups and powerful lobbyists writing checks to their next campaign, than listening to the people back home who sent them here in the first place.

A recent survey of likely Republican primary voters showed that 86 percent believe that “people like me don’t have any say about what the government does.” Another recent exit poll in my home state of Georgia showed six in ten Republicans felt “betrayed” by their political party.

This sentiment is something I heard countless times during my campaign for the United States Senate just over a short year ago. It is what pulled me to get involved personally to try and make a difference. But this is not just happening in Georgia. People across America are angry, frustrated, and scared because they feel like Washington is not listening to them.

This dangerous power vacuum has fueled frustration and created an entirely new breed of disenfranchised voters who are fed up with the status quo. These are real people, their anger is palpable, and it’s not going away anytime soon.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailysignal.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Georgia; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 114th; 2016election; dailysignal; davidperdue; districtofcolumbia; election2016; georgia; gope; newyork; trump

1 posted on 03/14/2016 12:13:33 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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“This town is filled with well-intentioned people who believe they are doing the right thing”

Wrong. It’s FILLED with money / power hungry whores with a small peppering of well-intentioned people.


2 posted on 03/14/2016 12:18:15 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (We need a separation of press and state!)
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re>Georgia showed six in ten Republicans felt “betrayed” by their political party

I feel and it's a FACT!

3 posted on 03/14/2016 12:18:29 PM PDT by IC Ken
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To: Hojczyk

The question is will our angry deliver us into the jaws of the Democrats who will devour us?


4 posted on 03/14/2016 12:19:47 PM PDT by centurion316
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5 posted on 03/14/2016 12:20:16 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: Hojczyk

Most of the RNC/GOP is owned lock, stock and barrel by The Cheap Labor Express.
They have been actively working against the wishes of the people for decades.
Enabling the illegal alien inundation while giving lip service to national security.
GWB reduced border and interior enforcement AFTER 9/11. Totally unforgivable.
Kay Bailey Hutchinson defunded the Secure Fence Act with an amendment in a subsequent bill.
They will burn the party to the ground rather than let us elect a President who would enforce the laws.

They are arrogant, they are far from stupid or clueless.
They have been playing conservatives for years and years.
We have only had amnesty candidates since the last amnesty.
It was not accidental. It was quite intentional.

They still think they can prevent us from electing a President who will enforce the laws and borders. They want to deny us the ability to stop the illegal alien inundation.

The most important thing to the RNC/GOP is keeping the people pipeline operating.

The Cheap Labor Express has already paid them for an amnesty candidate.

I believe they are willing to do anything to block us from keeping the rule of law and our country.


6 posted on 03/14/2016 12:23:09 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Hojczyk

“This town is filled with well-intentioned people who believe they are doing the right thing”

Bull sh.. if it is. Filled with self serving globalist lap dog traitors to the Republic.


7 posted on 03/14/2016 12:36:25 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“They will burn the party to the ground rather than let us elect a President who would enforce the laws.”

Then burn it. The important thing is that patriots do not back down.


8 posted on 03/14/2016 12:45:47 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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”… , but because they are afraid of losing their own political power."

Patriots, please note that the political power that the corrupt Washington cartel is afraid of losing is actually 10th Amendment-protected state powers that the feds stole from the states over most of the 20th century.

In fact, consider that the only federal domestic service that the Founding States had expressly constitutionally authoritized the feds to tax and spend for is the U.S. Mail Service (1.8.7). Most other federal domestic services are based on 10th Amendment-protected state powers and state revenues which the feds have stolen from the states by means of unconstitutional federal appropriations bills as evidenced by the following excerpt.

“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

Remember in November !

When patriots elect Trump, Cruz, or whatever conservative they elect, they need to also elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support the new president, but also protect the states from unconstitutional federal government overreach, including putting a stop to unconstitutional taxing and spending.

Also, consider that such a Congress would probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.

9 posted on 03/14/2016 12:48:14 PM PDT by Amendment10
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David Perdue’s a politician AND he ‘gets it’. That’s new... and very strange.


10 posted on 03/14/2016 12:55:12 PM PDT by GOPJ ("When Cruz has a riot at his event will he blame himself for being ‘divisive’?"freeper TigerClaws)
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11 posted on 03/14/2016 1:09:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Hojczyk

May they starve, suffer, be hanged, guillotined, drawn and quartered, the remains be burned, mixed with cow dung, and flung into the sun.

Otherwise, I really like the Washington establishment.


12 posted on 03/14/2016 1:35:50 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: IC Ken

I think he’s unshooting the total a bit.
And he forgot to include himself...


13 posted on 03/14/2016 1:51:25 PM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: Da Coyote

Don’t hold back - tell us how you really feel...


14 posted on 03/14/2016 3:14:30 PM PDT by GOPJ ("When Cruz has a riot at his event will he blame himself for being ‘divisive’?"freeper TigerClaws)
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