Posted on 09/23/2014 9:10:56 AM PDT by centurion316
Senators like Collins/Kirk may lean left (however neither voted for Obamacare) but do you really think the GOP as a whole has the same foreign policy as Obama? And the same policy on abortion?
You are shooting yourself in the back by opting to have Reid control policy with Obama the next 2 years.
They aren’t coming to Kansas to convince you or me. Someone else would need to be doing that. They are coming here to convince the squishy middle who are inclined to vote for Orman. Since I am going to vote for Roberts there is no need to send someone to hold my hand.
Republicans could marginally improve the abortion situation in some places but would be too timid to actually defy the Unconstitutional courts. The judges now are mostly Obamanites and with Republicans in the majority they will double down on all facets of Death for the Masses and the Republicans will just say, well it's out of our hands now. Republicans will NOT end Obamacare and all its attendant rules and other laws with which it is built. There is too much profit for them in maintaining it and "making it fairer." The Republicans are not a separate entity. They are the subsidiary wing of the Government Party which is run by the Democrats and will continue to be run by them no matter who is the numerical majority in the House and Senate.
The Republicans could have shut down Obamacare with just control of the Senate, if they were an opposition party. They could have cut off all funding. But Republicans say they fear they will get "blamed" if they let the Democrats shut the government down. If the government were really shut down, and the House can do that, really shut it down- to only the Military receiving funds, the Left could not last out the two years until the next change of Congress. By passing all those CRs the Republicans are saying that they have no intention whatever of cutting spending or cutting regulation or anything else.
When EPA prices American industry entirely out of world markets and almost entirely out of American markets the Republicans won't even cut off funding for EPA. They will say well we just have to deal with it and pass some exemptions and some minor mitigations. It is long past time where a change in "parties" will make any difference at all other than the tribal difference of now it's Our Guys in charge of the totalizing State instead of Their Guys.
I guess you were against “nation building” in Japan and Germany too eh?
In Japan and Germany we committed the nation to the long haul and we had utterly destroyed the capacities of both before the occupation. The populations were quite demoralized and ready to do the will of the conqueror. We are still in Japan and Germany. We don’t do that any more. We go in, depose governments, re-order things and bug out and everything goes to hell. Korea and Grenada are exceptions in that we are still in Korea and Grenada was not interfered with beyond getting rid of the communists. Reagan wasn’t a “nation builder.”
When we stay it works.
Bush's plan was to allow a residual force to stay and act as a buffer against Iran and a rapid reaction force if anything went wrong in Afganistan. Obama blew that hugely and now we will suffer the consequences.
There is a vast difference in the policies of the 2 parties and those who want the Democrats to continue to control the committees in Congress will be contributing to the downfall of the country.
Unfortunately, “we” must include Democrats because the rest of us are unable to exclude them from being CIC and most Gope Republicans are not any better, Bush, for instance. He won a great victory then frittered it away trying to civilize Moslems.
We’ve taught the GOPe all the lessons they’re going to ‘learn’ this season, now let’s win back the Senate and give Cruz control of it. 70% of Americans hate zerocare, thus there are senate RATS who might cross the aisle now that they are cut free from zero.
There is only one way that Bush would have made a real difference in the ME. That is if he had colonized the oil in Iraq, not compensating the Moslems a penny, and ignored the rest of the country. The other enemy wannabes in the ME and Saudi Arabia would have taken notice and reacted accordingly for their own survival. That’s how Moslems have done for 14 centuries. But he was a Compassionate Republican, the only kind we have now that can get anywhere in Washington and who are indistinguishable in their effects from Democrats.
Bush did not fritter away anything. He was victorious in Iraq and his plan to occupy was on course to work. It's because people like you allow the baton to be passed to Reid & Co. that things degenerate.
And we would then have worse terrorism than we have now. You're not much of a strategist, are you?
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