Posted on 02/03/2019 2:34:50 PM PST by Kaslin
Rasmussen a poll recently showing that only 37 percent of Republican voters thought the GOP leadership in Congress was doing a good job of promoting Republican values. While it found that 53 percent of Republican voters think the Republicans in Congress have lost touch with GOP voters over the last several years. Many were surprised that the numbers weren’t even worse.
t helps explain why Republicans lost 40 seats in the House last November, including many districts where the President’s approval was hovering around 50 percent. Districts that Mr. Trump carried, in some cases by double digits. There just wasn’t much enthusiasm for warmed-over mush. Their time in the majority was mostly wasted, fecklessly treading water.
Over in the Senate, at least they confirmed some decent judges. They gained seats.
For a party that claims to champion free market principles, there is a feeling that our Leaders have forgotten the most basic one of all. Serve the customer. Even large, once successful companies sank into bankruptcy when they forgot who their customers were. Successful enterprises are supposed to serve them. Not the other way around.
Just recount the accomplishments of the GOP while they had the majority. They passed important tax reform that has helped fuel the economic recovery that we enjoy today. Second, they blocked a lot of goofy ideas proposed by the Left. Good things, both.
But, it is the failures that have caused so much frustration. The failure to replace ObamaCare. The failure to actually embrace the President’s America First agenda. The hand-wringing over the President who is finally standing up to the decades of trade abuses by the Communist Chinese. Failure to have a clear position on immigration. Failure to fund the wall when they had the majority. Failure to show some semblance of fiscal restraint. Failure to defund Planned Parenthood or NPR. They not only failed to hold wrongdoers at the FBI and DOJ accountable for their unethical (criminal) behavior, they went along with a bogus ethics investigation of Chairman Nunes when he began to blow the whistle.
To top it off, their messaging on issue after issue has been pathetic.
To quote Mr. Potter from It’s a Wonderful Life, “Do I paint an accurate picture? Or, do I exaggerate?”
These folks could screw up a three car funeral. Lou Dobbs is not alone. Many activists are done making excuses. The Leadership’s actions (or inactions) have made them fair game. Coaches with years of losing records are soon called former coaches. Fans and alumni have grown restless.
The Left can say or do whatever they want without consequence. They can kiss up to anti-Semitic Muslim leaders. They can engage in the most vile vocabulary. We are daily treated to their name calling, virtue signaling and character assassination. They can even call the President of the United States a Motherf##ker. We get mostly crickets from our leaders who claim to be advocates of civility.
But, let a Republican Member who talks openly about defending Western Civilization and our Southern Border make a clumsy response to a loaded question from a New York Times reporter. He will be smothered with jam and tied to an ant hill. Much like the boys in MAGA hats who smiled and stood their ground in front of the Lincoln Memorial, he is criticized in the harshest terms. By Republicans!
This is beyond stupidity.
It must not be tolerated. Groveling to the gods of political correctness will not appease them. It will only embolden them. Feeding the hyenas one of your own only sharpens their taste for blood. They will surely be back for more. It is the classic description of the stupid party. Mark Steyn did a brilliant job of explaining this while sitting in for Rush a few weeks ago. He said that if they cannot even defend Western Civilization, there is nothing left to defend.
Political stupidity is seldom curable and is almost always fatal. The modern day leadership of the Republicans in Congress seems determined to lead their troops wandering aimlessly. Without direction, purpose or principle they are in serious danger of going the way of the Whigs.
We are not customers, we are owners AND WE WANT THE WALL.
CHECK OUT THE PELOSI VIDEO HERE
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nancy-pelosi-wrap-up-smear/
The video has Pelosi saying: “We (Democrats) call it the ‘wrap-up smear’ You smear somebody, with falsehoods
and all the rest, and then you merchandise it to the media,” Pelosi blithely revealed at a press conference last year.....
as if she were giving out the recipe for apple pie.
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SOUND FAMILIAR Even though Peloi was far-removed from the Senate scene,
the patented Democrat "wrap-up smear" was used against Justice Kavanaugh. (snopes.com)
Hillary was very good at the "wrap-up smear"----she'd "leak" what she said was damaging info on Trump to the media.
Then when the smear was published---she'd wave around the clipping to show how she was the superior candidate.
Ryan was a disaster. McConnell stood his ground wrt judicial appointments but that’s about it. Yertle the Turtle must go.
And now we have this demented bitch as SOTH again.
THE MO
<><> vote harvesters sign up people to vote absentee without their knowledge or consent,
<><> later they connive to get them to sign the ballots .... whether marked or not.
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Ruthless Democrats invade peaceful people residing in:
rest homes, hospitals, homeless shelters, tent cities, labor camps, prisons, jails, high schools, colleges, etc,
The conniving Democrat vote harvester "assists" the voter in marking the ballot.....
more likely the Democrat fills it in, and connives to get the signature. (hat tip Jim Robinson)
NOTE ballot harvesting has always been illegal and is banned in many states.
GOPee leadership is difficult to comprehend. They are gutless cowards as a starting place. From there it’s all down hill. They lie, afraid to take a stand on anything except the most trivial of non-issues. The bad hand Trump was dealt is the GOPee leadership, nothing more. He can handle the MSM and the Dems with just a little cooperation from the leadership. Trump was our last chance to save our country from the radical nut jobs on the left. I’m afraid that chance is gone now. Very sad.
Ditch and McCarthy are Feckless?
Who’da thunk it?
BINGO!
PELOSI PLEDGES HER UNDYING LOYALTY TO MEXICO--demeans American citizens
In 2016 Nancy brought a Congressional delegation to Mexico City to meet with Mexican dignitaries. Pelosi told the Mexican president and his entourage: “We come here as a bipartisan and large delegation to express our respect for the people of Mexico and the country of Mexico; to acknowledge our shared border and our shared values and to learn more about how we can work together for the bright future for not only our two countries but for our hemisphere.”
Pelosi later said the Congressional delegation had a busy time in Mexico City. “We heard a sermon on the importance of workers in Mexico, a view we share. We’ve met with members of the American Chamber of Commerce. We had a very beneficial meeting with Director General Zapata on the subject of the economy and on the subject of TPP (trade pact) especially.
"And then we had a glorious meeting, a really very thorough exchange of subjects and views – again about our shared values and our shared border – with the President [of Mexico]......with Members of the Federal Deputies – Mexican Federal Deputies – and Senators. And in the evening we had a dinner meeting with the Mexican Foreign Minister,” Pelosi said.
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PELOSI DEMEANS AMERICAN CITIZENS WHILE ON MEXICAN SOIL
PELOSI SLAMS DONALD TRUMP TO MEXICAN OFFICIALS
(BEFORE TRUMP GOT THE NOM AND GOT ELECTED BY 63 MILLION AMERICANS)
CIRCA 2016----Pelosi in Mexico telling Mexican officials Trump is speaking to an "insecure minority," who maybe lost their job and
think it was because of immigration, or trade. I think it's putting too much weight on all this. Trump only has one half of one half, 25%."
The 2016 Congressional delegation to Mexico also included Democrat Reps. Norma Torres, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Pete Aguilar and Linda Sanchez (Calif.); Beto O'Rourke and Henry Cuellar (Texas); Ruben Gallego (Ariz.); Michelle Lujan Grisham (N.M.); and Republicans Michael Fitzpatrick (Pa.) and Richard Hanna (N.Y.).
SCHADENFREUD Beto sucked-up bigtime for latino votes....but still lost his Texas race against Cruz.
“GOPee leadership is difficult to comprehend.”
They are bought off, IMHO.
Not feckless.
Uniparty.
Obviously with the high value of 37%, the GOP voters were not polled under oath.
The GOP is the greatest con going...vote for us and we will do all these things..
So we vote, for them and what the hell have they done that we want...
Tax cuts great for the economy but they did that for their donors more than for us..
The wall and immigration...they will say its the democrats ,,,but it is both GOIP donors want cheap labor..think Paul Ryan the RINO
It is become beyond obvious that the GOP is working to establish the Democrats as the permanent ruling party.
Yep.
Everywhere you look.....feckless.
Feckless feckless feckless
Best analogy I’ve heard is the GOP is the Washington Generals.
“. If you’re among the subspecies conservative intellectual or politician, you’ve accepted—perhaps not consciously, but unmistakably—your status on the roster of the Washington Generals of American politics. Your job is to show up and lose, but you are a necessary part of the show and you do get paid...…
and
“Among the many things the “Right” still doesn’t understand is that the Left has concluded that this particular show need no longer go on. They don’t think they need a foil anymore and would rather dispense with the whole bother of staging these phony contests in which each side ostensibly has a shot.”
me thinketh that establishment Republican senators thinketh their excrement don’t stinketh. (or words to that effect)
Many of the repubs are quislings, hacks, liars and obstructionists. These back-bencher soy boys (and girls) are pathetic. They have neither shame nor integrity. If they did, they would resign this minute.
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