Posted on 10/06/2015 3:55:16 PM PDT by robowombat
The author is either too stupid to understand, or is on Rove’s payroll.
Piss off, Pete.
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Well, which came first the chicken or the egg? Yeah, we are angry at the lunacy and power grabbing of the left.
As for both anger and hate, no one does it better than a leftist.
It’s not that they can’t understand, it’s that they choose not to. Their world-view is dependent on certain beliefs that don’t hold up to scrutiny.
Just saying it ain’t easy. Hard to rein in someone who won’t take accountability and that nobody dares to impeach.
Can’t take pot shot, run, call it a mission accomplished.
Whattbunchacrap.
How can anyone write a synopsis of Trump’s campaign success and not talk about the wall?
I think he is a bushie. No bother to read past where he says he can “correct” us.
An utterly blind response by someone whose head is far up the butt of the GOP-E. And I write that as someone who does NOT like Trump!
The idea that the GOP would be talking about immigration without Trump forcing the issue is stupid. It was mentioned in whispers before Trump. Only the response of the public to what Trump said has forced squishes in the GOP-E to pretend to care...
At this point even a pot shot would be something at least.
I think that is the main point guys like the author miss. Even if what we suggest may not accomplish much, we want our reps to at least try. Show us that they are on our side, instead of letting us wonder if they are just incompetent, cowards, or whether they actually sympathize with the enemy.
You NEVER seem the dems act like this. Even if they are in the minority and efforts seem doomed to failure, they fight tooth and nail. They never give an inch, or make anything easy for us, and often they are able to foil majorities or elicit all sorts of compromises just because of their stubbornness. That’s how an opposition party is supposed to operate!
The guy thinks we’re all just silly to be upset.
Guess what. He ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
Wehner:
Mr. Wehner served in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administrations prior to becoming deputy director of speech writing for President George W. Bush in 2001. In 2002, he was asked to head the Office of Strategic Initiatives, where he generated policy ideas, reached out to public intellectuals, published op-eds and essays, and provided counsel on a range of domestic and international issues. Prior to joining the Bush Administration, Wehner was executive director for policy for Empower America, a conservative public-policy organization. Mr. Wehner also served as a special assistant to the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy and, before that, as a speech writer for then-Secretary of Education Bill Bennett.
Kinda like this...
The following account of how the GOPe is corrupt and leadership needs to be flushed down the toilet is given by Ted Cruz. This is why the Republican establishment is in DEEP trouble, and needs to be flushed.
That Tuesday lunch began with our leadership saying, “We’re asking every Republican senator here, to affirmatively consent to lower the threshold for Harry Reid to take up the debt ceiling, from 60 votes to 50 votes. And we were told, everyone of you should agree for two reasons.
Number one, if we do this, it will happen, and hallelujah, hallelujah, that’s what we want. We want trillions more in debt with no spending reforms, because we’re scared of this issue. We don’t want to have a political fight on this.
But number two, if we do this, the Democrats will have the votes to do it on their own, which means all of us Republicans can vote no. And we can go home and tell our constituents, we opposed the thing we just consented to allow happen.
Now, I was sitting there — to be honest, I hadn’t gone to lunch intending to pick a fight, but as I listened to that, I was astonished and I raised my hand, and I said, “There’s no universe in which I can consent to doing that. I spent two years campaigning across Texas, telling Texas, if you elect me, I’ll fight with every breath in my body to stop the out of control spending and debt that are bankrupting our kids and grandkids.”
If were to do that, I think it would be both dishonest and unfaithful to the men and women who elected me.
And then when someone like Trump comes around and shows himself willing to fight in that manner for 70% of what conservatives want, they go non e bello, we want purity.
It’s a bunch of mocking.
Well I really do believe that in Donald Trump, God has raised someone up to mock the mockers.
And if that gives intimidated conservatives space in which to find their cojones, much good will have been done.
No need to read further.
In politics perception is reality.
Even if all the authors points are true (a premise I do not accept) many Americans feel they have been betrayed.
What is interesting is that someone feels they have to address this issue.
Excellent essay. Peter Wehner is brilliant.
The problem is that Wehner has accurate knowledge that gets filtered away from citizens by the media. Two examples.
“In recent years net migration from Mexico has fallen to zero.” Good news. I wish I read that in the LA Times this Sunday.
“Obama’s initiatives have been repeatedly checked, including on gun control, as an angry Obama said on Friday.” Good news. Again, I wish I heard that on KNX 1070 “all news radio.”
Both Wehner and Michael Medved understand the US Constitution.
They feel confused about Trump’s new popularity because they don’t realize how the media deletes the good news.
“He who cannot hate is not a man.”
Because it’s of no advantage to them.
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