Mr. Lee
1. There is absolutely NOTHING that we agree upon with democrats. If the Democrats agree to do anything with Conservatives you can bet it's bad for America.
2. We don't want a FIX for government. We want LESS GOVERNMENT. The fix for broken government is to get rid of it.
3. We don't need or have any desire to reach out to Democrats to find common ground. We want to absolutely FORCE our agenda of limited Government, personal liberty and adherence to the Constitution upon them without any hesitation or apologies whatsoever.
“1. There is absolutely NOTHING that we agree upon with democrats.”
There are any number of “70-30” issues that are likely to garner support from Democrats in Congress. By one count, there are easily seven or more Democrat senators willing to vote against Obama, and for the Keystone XL pipeline. That means - no filibuster. There are any number of provisions of Obamacare for which some numbers of Democrats would be willing to vote.
If all Republicans do for the next two years is send up 54-46 all-Republican-no-Democrat-passed bills to Obama, he will paint us to be partisan obstructionists. And since we can count on the media to go along with that narrative, keeping the Congress AND gaining the presidency becomes a very iffy proposition.
If, on the other hand, we send bunches of bills that have attracted modest levels of Democrat votes, it become much, much harder to suggest that it is the Republicans, and not Obama, who are/is the partisan obstructionist.
“2. We don't want a FIX for government. We want LESS GOVERNMENT. The fix for broken government is to get rid of it.”
In some cases, yes. You'll note that Sen. Lee suggests getting rid of the Ex-Im Bank.
In other cases, maybe not so much. Do you have a problem with trying to fix defense procurement so that we spend our hundreds of billions of dollars and get more bang for our defense buck?
“3. We don't need or have any desire to reach out to Democrats to find common ground.”
There is this thing called the veto. If we just send up Republican-only passed legislation, the public will see us as at least as partisan and obstructionist as it sees the Dems and Obama. See No. 1.
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Interesting post. What do you think about what Lee says about Ryan?