Posted on 01/26/2015 6:16:59 AM PST by bestintxas
Conservatives saw it as raising a white flag when Republican congressional leaders pledged not to withhold funding for the Department of Homeland Security in the fight over President Obama’s deportation amnesty, stoking fears that for the next two years House Speaker John A. Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will consistently surrender.
For the Republican base, Mr. Obama’s unilateral move to grant legal status and work permits for up to 5 million illegal immigrants was an unlawful power grab that created a constitutional crisis. If Republican leaders were not willing to use Congress’ power of the purse — the most potent weapon possessed by lawmakers to restrict a president — to stop a brazen unconstitutional act, conservatives reasoned, would the GOP-controlled Congress ever go to the mat to fight Mr. Obama?
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We need in-your-face leadership to act NOW.
The spineless GOP keeps saying it will do something next year.
They have been saying that way too many years now.
yep, 2015 was a fully funded capitulation. 2016 is an election year. Into the cave of monsters, we go, with leaders too afraid to bare weapons this year and next year.
From the article
“Republican leaders and their supporters on Capitol Hill insist that they cannot win a shutdown showdown because liberal-leaning mainstream media would perpetuate the narrative that Republicans are to blame for the difficulties and inconveniences of shuttering government offices.
They said that was what happened when Republicans attempted to defund Obamacare and shut down the government for 16 days in October 2013.”
Yeah….they really lost bad in 2014 due to the shut down. We wouldn’t want that to happen again.
GOP = The White Flag Party.
They never had any intention of putting up a real fight. Why would they when Obama is doing what they want?
Obama should be a lame duck, but thanks to Bonehead and McCommie, he will probably get his entire agenda through Congress over the next two years. And then in 2016, the voters, angry at being betrayed, will blame the Republicans and vote in the Democrats, as they did in 1990 after President Bush broke his “no new taxes” pledge.
Wake me up when the dynamic duo actually take a stand on anything conservative.
It’s the UNiparty. Is the desired outcome. They are for amnesty. It doesn’t matter what the people demand.
GOPe - the “We’ll do big government better” party.
Why would any real conservative, whether a politician or voter, want to remain in the GOP? The party clearly doesn’t want either.
But the question is whether to leave the party,
or kick them out of it.
I think we need to work harder at the latter.
Been working on doing that for nearly 30 years. It ain't working. At this point, many real Patriots have realized the GOP is dead, and there is no reviving it. The sooner the rest of us figure that out and walk away from the dead, bloated corpse, the better. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Anybody still willing to vote for the GOP is a moron and needs to check their patriotism.
Yeah….they really lost bad in 2014 due to the shut down. We wouldn’t want that to happen again.
The next big action Cruz takes, you can bet they won’t blame it on him, they’re desperately trying to avoid giving him name rec.
Crap!
I did not know I was panicked.
And me without my panic shoes...
Kicking them out is not going to happen. The party’s controlling apparatus is too tied to special interests and the GOP culture and mindset are too deeply entrenched. I just don’t believe that the party can be changed in any meaningful way. The apparatchiks will destroy anyone who challenges them. Just look at how the Tea Party is treated and marginalized.
The base is suffering from a severe case of battered wife syndrome. Year after year the GOP turns on its voters and yet they come back for more of the same.
The GOP is simply not what it claims to be. Talk is cheap. Their actions do not match their rhetoric. It is a party without a soul and devoid of any convictions.
Which, in many ways, makes them far worse than the D's. At least with the D's, we know what we're up against. With the R's, it's lies lies lies, get elected, screw the voters. I'm done with them. I would live to vote for Cruz, but I won't do it so long as there is an R next to his name. The Republican party is out to destroy the Conservatives/Tea Party in America. It's time to wake up and smell the coffee.
They are not surrendering anything. They are methodically accomplishing THEIR goals which are not conservative goals. When that is understood then the nation’s situation will be better understood. There is no part of the government that is friendly to the Constitution and Liberty. None. We cannot elect people who are. We elect people who say they are and who have records attesting to that aura but all changes once in office. There is NO remedy at the ballot box. Other, hopefully peaceful, means must be found.
The recent Omnibus was the close equivalent of a previous bit of legislation in another system and another time called the Enabling Act, not in its actual words but in the provenance of its passage.
I would live to vote for Cruz
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The party will never nominate Cruz. Even in the off chance that they did, Cruz would spend more time fighting his own party than the Democrats. So what’s the point of that?
Anyone with principles has no business being in the party as working to reform it is a fool’s errand.
The GOP is a lost cause IMO. Those who still hold out hope need only look at the most recent $1.1 trillion budget passed by the congress. Its not what they say, its what they do.
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