Posted on 12/17/2014 5:29:53 AM PST by cotton1706
Well that didn’t take long. The election is over and the House Republicans have deposed John Boehner (R-OH) as Speaker.
Meet Speaker Barack Obama.
"The Republicans responded to Speaker Obama’s requests. Violating quickly, briskly and exactly every last word of their campaign promises to defund Obamacare and to fight amnesty. The fix was in.”
Speaker Obama and his loyal number two, Joe Biden, spent last week rounding up the votes to get their Republican colleagues in the House to fund Obamacare and amnesty plus all manner of spending programs. The Republicans responded to Speaker Obama’s requests. Violating quickly, briskly and exactly every last word of their campaign promises to defund Obamacare and to fight amnesty. The fix was in.
And in an amazing feat over in the Senate, Speaker Obama has won an agreement that has him running Senate Republicans as well. After all that huffing and puffing about the executive order on amnesty, a number of Senate Republicans quickly signed up to help the Speaker get his funding for both Obamacare and amnesty.
As noted by my colleague Gaston Mooney yesterday, nine GOP Senators quite specifically made it a point to vote to support Speaker Obama’s so-called “CROmnibus” bill, which funded the Speaker’s amnesty order. This was moments after voting on a point of order made by Texas Senator Ted Cruz that said the amnesty was un-constitutional. Those nine senators, as Mooney pointed out, were Senators Roberts (R-KS), Thune (R-SD), Burr (R-NC), Fischer (R-NE), Boozman (R-AR), Isakson (R-GA), Johanns (R-NE), Blunt (R-MO) and Hoeven (N-ND).
The Obama lieutenants were out in full force in the Senate over the weekend. There was Pennsylvania’s Arlen Toomey – oops, sorry – that would be Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) doing everything he could to rustle up votes for the Speaker’s amnesty
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Nailed it.
The GOP is NOT finished unless the Conservatives leave the GOP. House and Senate Conservatives could form their own caucus and the Republican Party would then begin to slide out the door, I think.
The TP now must become a 3rd party....and it will be called the “American Party.”
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You have succinctly stated what must be done to save the Republic.
Apology accepted.
Now, how do we go about fixing this?
You're smarter than I am. You tell me.
There was already an “American Party” back in the 19th century, it was also known as the Know-Nothings.
Whoops. Then what will the new name be then ?
How ‘bout the Cruz Party ? After all, they named parties after Jefferson and Jackson (and Adams and Clay).
Cruz Party is fine by me. Cruz Freedom Party may even be better.
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