Gloves Off: GOP Establishment Goes After Tea Party
Posted on 09/08/2014 8:07:59 AM PDT by cotton1706
As Congress returns for a blink-and-you'll-miss-it session before the November elections, Republican leaders don't want any trouble.
They just want to make sure the government doesn't shut down at the end of the month, temporarily reauthorize a little-known federal lending agency, and get the heck out of town.
As usual, conservatives are not on board.
Two of the most vocal advocacy advocacy groups on the right, Club for Growth and Heritage Action, welcomed House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) back to Washington on Monday with a letter warning him not to attach an extension of the Export-Import Bank to legislation funding the government through mid-December.
The 80-year-old bank, which helps U.S. businesses reach markets overseas, has become a flash point in the battle between establishment Republicans and the Tea Party. The bank is key to big companies like Boeing and a top priority of the Chamber of Commerce, but conservatives say it's a prime example of crony capitalism.
Congressional Republicans are plainly divided on the export bank, known inside the Beltway as "Ex-Im," but with the election near, party leaders want to save the debate for another day.
The issue is a tricky one for McCarthy, who just took over as majority leader for the defeated Eric Cantor in late July. In running to replace Cantor, McCarthy came out in opposition to the bank, but now lawmakers expect that he'll attach a amendment reauthorizing Ex-Im to the stopgap spending bill that leaders want to rush through the House this week.
In their letter, the conservative groups acknowledge that the Average Joe voter doesn't really care about the export bank.
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in case you haven’t noticed, GOP leaders are not in the habit of giving a damn what conservatives want...
Conservatives have to get past denial and admit that the GOP is nothing more than one wing of The Party of Government.
“in case you haven’t noticed, GOP leaders are not in the habit of giving a damn what conservatives want...”
Oh, I’ve noticed. I’ve seen our job as like Big X in The Great Escape: make life as difficult for them as possible, foil their insidious plans and force them to show their true colors.
The GOP-e views conservatives as their embarrassing, country-rube family from back home. The republican members of congress who live in DC, root for the Redskins and the Nationals and don’t know the name of their home state university’s starting quarterback are the problem with the Republican party today. I expect such behavior from democrats in DC since, for them, DC is their mecca and natural, philosophical home. To be expected to tolerate it from republicans is an insult.
If the GOPe does pull a fast one, 2016 will be a disaster for them.
Not to worry, when the GOP takes the Senate they are going to be very aggressive fighting Obama and the Democrats. That’s what the last RNC caller asking for a donation assured me before I hung up.
So nice of them to call you up to give you a good laugh.
Does that picture represent the innards of a Moslem’s heart?
An informative post, cotton.
The R’s have many versons of the Mississippi treatment against the base.
This version has basically the same components of Mississippi, just a different venue for the same goings on against conservative interests; sidling up with the Democrats, conservatives getting pressurized by the globalist R’s in leadership, and gobs of Chamber of Commerce/Wall Street money paying for that pressure.
The point is the R’s need to lose and not be propped up by desperate, fear filled rubes who actually perpetuate collapse with their idiotic vote for them in run off and general elections.
The GOP is an extension of the DNC. The GOP doesn’t want to do the tough work of confronting the left and advocating for conservative principals. What it wants to do is go along with the left and support progressive policies. It is not a friend of conservatism.
> “The issue is a tricky one for McCarthy, who just took over as majority leader for the defeated Eric Cantor in late July. ***In running to replace Cantor, McCarthy came out in opposition*** to the bank, but ***now lawmakers expect that he’ll attach a amendment reauthorizing Ex-Im*** to the stopgap spending bill that leaders want to rush through the House this week.”
Why yes of course! Who would of thunk it?
Dont warn them. Just expect it.
How do we put a stop to the "say anything to win" tactic, when there are no consequences to reneging later and people keep saying that conservatives must get over this all the time?
-PJ
But, but Harry Reid might control the senate! Boo!
The GOPE doesn’t give a hoot in hell about conservatives except for their money, loyalty, votes and silence, otherwise it is shut up you are embarrassing us in front of our Democrat guests here in Babylon on the Potomac.
Sadly the only reason the GOPE wants control is to get their chance at the $$$ feeding trough for a while.
I eagerly await the charge of the GOPE Light Brigade to save this thread and tell us what purist and crazies we are if we don’t vote for the Party, they will SAVE US, no really this time, no really, for really, really, real, honest.
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