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...
The guy thinks we’re all just silly to be upset.
Guess what. He ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
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.
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.”
As for the situation with illegal immigration, in recent years net migration from Mexico has fallen to zero, and perhaps less.
What a pant load.
Another establishment supporter fearful of undoing entrenched elites who have contributed nothing towards resolving our national problems. Although I agree with some of his points, on the whole I still support Trump because he is the best Anti-Establishment candidate.
And I hate Boehner, McCain and their entitled cronies as much as I do the Democrats.
In simple fact, Congress absolutely can defund 0bamacare by a majority vote. And there is a Republican majority, and that's one reason why there is a Republican majority. And they didn't deliver. We had a "55 attempts to stop 0bamacare" institutional Kabuki-dance that fooled no one in the electorate. And we're angry that they tried to fool us. That was the political establishment grandly declaiming to the Little People that they simply didn't know how the system works, and the conclusion we drew - correctly, in my estimation - is that "the system" is not working as designed due to corruption. And the people corrupting it are the people who are patting us on the head and telling us that everything's OK.
There is quite a bit more to Republican anger than that. We're angry about the silence, about the supine submission to the kulturkampf being waged in the media and the Executive department - the armed services turned into a smirking cauldron of political correctness with nary a word of protest on the part of our elected representatives, the organs of the IRS and the EPA being turned into ideological war machines, the steady and inexorable increase in federal control over education, transportation, and economics. All of this could have been at least protested by establishment Republicans and the crystal-clear perception is that with a very few signal exceptions, they were not.
The real difficulty is that establishment Republicans and establishment Democrats are now simply the Establishment, and so anger directed thereto no longer differentiates between the parties since the parties do not appear to differentiate between one another. This is not a phenomenon restricted to the last two, or five, or even twenty years. It reached a flashpoint when the establishment, including the news and entertainment media, decided to inflict a New Normal and enforce it through the power of the state. Elected representatives of both parties have been far too silent, far too obedient, far too unrepresentative in the face of this not to excite a level of outrage and far too arrogant or unperceptive to sense it now that it's happening. It should not be a surprise to the author and it isn't going to be assuaged by a glib dismissal.
Same old straw man arguments totally ignoring the stupid Corker Bill which empowered Obama, totally ignoring the attempted betrayals ala the Chamber of Commerce on amnesty. Also we all damn well know that without Trump they would be trying to sell us a pig in a poke on immigration like Rubio tried to do with his buddy Chuck Schumer and of course Jeb is still trying to sell the same pig just with promises to secure the border that we know damn well he has no intention to keep. Also many want to expand h1b1s and work visas. I mean what don’t these guys understand? They want to know why there is a “cold anger” its because they won’t do a damn thing even rhetorically to stand up to lawless Obama or his lawless Supreme court. They could censor him, they could actually send him bills to veto, they could censor members of the high court when they rule like they did on ssm and obamacare.
I’m not so concerned about shutting down the Government but the truth is we need to stop preemptively surrendering and stop playing by rules that the Democrats ignore to get their agenda put into law. The GOP needs to be as damn ruthless and willing to use brute power to undo the illegitimate laws that Obama and the Democrats broke the law to force through such as the totally illegal reconciliation process. We need leadership that will go to war to stop the left or else we will not stop them. We will simply tinker around the edges while they break all the rules to get their way.
Bullcrap. They were elected on the promise to defund Obamacare and his illegal EO amnesty. Then the first thing they did, before even the new members were sworn in was to pass a CR funding everything, so as to prevent any defunding effort. Obama gets 100% of everything he wants in the budget, because he threatens to shut down government and blame them. And the GOP is so cowardly and inept that they refuse to even consider fighting and telling the Amereican people that it's Obama who is shutting down government over some tiny fraction he won't get. They have internalized the enemy's propaganda and just accept it. Moreover they really don't care, as long as they keep their jobs. That's why we hate them.
If PETER WEHNER was a serious person, his column would be directed at the elites. He would be warning them that the “masses” have been pushed too far.
In other words, don’t believe your lying eyes.
Yes, the public was so angry with the Pubbies that they completely wiped out the Dems all the way down to dog catcher in 2014. This guy is delusional.
Faux conservative posers are so clearly transparent.
Your verbal junk doesn’t work anymore. Next.
The GOP-e can go to hell.I had it with them in 2014 when they surrendered again to Obama on the health care bill.They can do whatever they like since I’m now an independent.
Lets see hoe they’re going to escape from this mess they created.Making McCarthy Speaker will just make it worse.
Just another establishment puke spouting off. In this case, he notes it proudly.
You just can’t fix stupid.
This is just another blah, blah, blah apologist piece for the GOP establishment.