Posted on 12/15/2014 4:50:59 AM PST by LeoMcNeil
Last month Republicans won a wave election picking up a dozen seats in the House and nine seats in the Senate. Last week the Republicans ignored the will of the voters and voted in favor of President Obama’s budget initiatives. The country is overwhelmingly opposed to Obamacare, so the Republicans fully funded it without making any changes. The country is overwhelmingly opposed to amnesty, in particular the country is opposed to amnesty created by the executive branch alone. Rather than refuse to fund the President’s amnesty power grab, the Republicans are funding it completely. They’re even spending a billion dollars to help Central Americans move and settle in the United States illegally. What is the point in voting Republican if they’re simply going to go along with whatever Obama demands?
John Boehner and company insist that they’re going to vote to defund executive amnesty in February. It’s one of the biggest canards coming out of Congress these days. The time to refuse funding for executive amnesty was now. By the time February rolls around, political opposition will be waning and the program will already be in place and presumably it will be operational. Boehner knows this which is why he wanted it funded now. The fact is that the GOP leadership doesn’t oppose the principles behind Obama’s executive amnesty. They may oppose Obama’s power grab but they don’t oppose amnesty, in fact they favor it. By funding executive amnesty, the leadership is funding an initiative they in principle support. The unintended consequence is that they’re ultimately confirming Obama’s power to write law on his own. They’re creating a precedent that at this point only the Courts can take away.
As we start Presidential campaign season it’s looking even worse for conservatives. Jeb Bush, Chris Christie and Mitt Romney appear to be the establishment frontrunners. The nice thing is that they don’t appear to be lining up behind one of them at this point, meaning their votes will be split just like conservative votes. The problem though is that eventually the establishment will pick one of these guys and get behind them long before Iowa votes. In the meantime, conservatives won’t line up behind any one candidate while grassroots conservatives nitpick at all of the conservative candidates accusing all of them of being heretics of some sort. Then we’ll act like we don’t know what hit us when Jeb Bush becomes the nominee and we’ll really be left scratching our heads when he loses to Elizabeth Warren in November 2016.
The country has shifted to the right, the nation opposes the policies of President Obama. For some unknown reason the last people to get this message are Republicans in positions of leadership. Even Obama knows the country has shifted to the right and in particular away from him. He’s arrogant enough to flip the country the middle finger while doing whatever he pleases, even if it’s unconstitutional. His handlers are more than willing to lie to their base about their defeat. But make no mistake, Obama knows the country has shifted. The country opposes Obamacare, it opposes amnesty and it opposes Obama’s big spending, big government policies. The Republicans apparently didn’t get the message, they’re not only funding all of Obama’s policies but they’re in the process of picking Obama-lite to be the nominee for President in 2016.
The Republicans should have drawn a line in the sand over executive amnesty. Let the Democrats shut the government down over it. The government shutdown in 2013 didn’t hurt Republicans, neither would a shutdown over illegal executive amnesty. Instead, the GOP proved once again how utterly worthless they are. Does anyone believe they have a plan for the first 100 days of the new Congress? Does anyone believe they’re going to pass any legislation on the economy or jobs? Does anyone believe they’ll make anymore than a half hearted attempt at repealing Obamacare or executive amnesty? By running in fear over a government shutdown last week, the Republicans proved once again how weak kneed and lilly livered they are. We have a $18 trillion debt, up $8 trillion since Obama took over. The Republicans, once again, refused to address it. The message they ultimately sent wasn’t a good one. The country is now left to wonder why anyone would vote for a Republican for President.
Please don't throw up this ridiculous canard of experience again.
What? Executive experience as a Governor? Not of primary importance.
The most important criteria for President should be a reverence to the United States Constitution.
Again, reverence to the United States Constitution is the most important criteria.
Cruz has repeated shown tremendous respect for our United States Constitution.
I can name a dozen Republican Governors who have no clue about limited government but have tons of Executive experience growing their governments and hence control over the citizenry.
You are probably right. Short of mass civil unrest or worse, it is going to take something other than the normal political process. I don't think that conservatives can take back the GOP from the liberals and we are likely to end up with another Romney type vs. Elizabeth Warren and then a Warren Presidency. One avenue that could shake up everything would be for Cruz and other prominent conservatives in both the Senate and the House to stage a mass defection to form a new party and run new party candidates in 2016.
It is entirely possible that 2016 will be a repeat of 2012. What was interesting about 2012 is that conservatives attacked every single conservative candidate because they were wrong or inconsistent on one or two issues over the course of their careers. The end result was that we ended up with an unlikable candidate in Mitt Romney who signed into law the Massachusetts version of Obamacare, was historically pro-abortion until he decided to run for President, was a supporter of homosexual special rights, wasn’t a Christian and never favored conservative economic policies. How was this better than the mild heretic that Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum or whoever else was?
Equally interesting in 2012 is how much the rank and file didn’t like Romney. Each of the conservative candidates skyrocketed in the polls to pull even with Romney before being eaten alive by other conservative candidates and their minions. I think it could happen again. We can only hope the progressives make the error of allowing Romney, Bush and Christie to run at the same time.
anointed, pushed on us, and admits that he stole the nomination.
(Don't you remember the retroactive rule-changes in the primaries, the "bus incident" at the RNC, or the teleprompter incident?)
Why Cruz over Rand Paul, Scott Walker or some other conservative?>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Because Cruz is courageous and true , and very much like Winston Churchill.He once stood all alone.Establishmentarian GOP ridiculed him. They are not ridiculing him now. None of the others have any of that.And the country needs a steadfast man who loves his country deeply, far blacker days are to come.None of the others will be able to hack it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3237678/posts
Ted Cruz Was Right, Again
The American Thinker ^ | December 16, 2014 | Matthew Vadum
Posted on 16/12/2014 05:56:31 by Cincinatus’ Wife
The usual suspects are attacking Ted Cruz for doing his job.
Republicans and a chorus of conservative commentators are dumping on the sole conservative Republican senator from Texas because–the horror!–he dared to force his Senate colleagues to publicly take sides on President Obama’s shameful extralegal unilateral immigration amnesty.
Apologists for Republican cowardice claim to be upset with Cruz because, as they claim, his parliamentary maneuvers to stymie the amnesty somehow allowed some objectionable Obama nominees to move forward in the confirmation process.
Of course, they’re lying. All Obama nominees are objectionable–remember, our president is a red diaper baby–yet the Senate eventually caves to Obama on more or less all of them............Who really cares if a few bureaucrats who will be approved anyway by the incoming Republican Senate in the new year get to work a few weeks or months early?
What really infuriates namby-pamby Republican senators is that Cruz forced them to take a public stand on the president’s unilateral amnesty. They know that the Republican Party base is mad as hell over the amnesty, and they don’t feel the need to answer to mere hoi polloi. Bought off by the crony capitalist lobby, they support amnesty but don’t want to face the electoral consequences for their betrayal of the American people. Just as Democrats don’t want to get rid of poverty, Republicans in leadership don’t want to stop the amnesty(or get rid of Obamacare, for that matter). They need villains against which to rail.
Just about nobody in the conservative punditry seems to be getting the story right. They are regurgitating an easily digested talking point generated by Democrats and the Senate’s RINO establishment. If it hadn’t been for Cruz,a slew of Obama nominees would still be sucking their thumbs in a state of constitutional limbo,they’d have us believe.
And as usual,they’re wrong about Cruz....
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/12/ted_cruz_was_right_again.html
If there is one single man who can be credited with the destruction of the British Empire, it may very well be Winston Churchill. Yes, his leadership during WWII was magnificent. However, everything he did leading up to the war was a complete and total disaster for his country. I’m not sure we should want a Winston Churchill for America.
As for Ted Cruz his problem is experience. He’s only been in the Senate since 2013. By the time 2016 rolls around he’ll have just as much experience as Obama did. I think the nation is going to be unwilling to accept a nominee with so little experience in the future. You can thank Obama for that.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3237678/posts
Ted Cruz Was Right, Again
The American Thinker ^ | December 16, 2014 | Matthew Vadum
Posted on 16/12/2014 05:56:31 by Cincinatus’ Wife
The usual suspects are attacking Ted Cruz for doing his job.
Republicans and a chorus of conservative commentators are dumping on the sole conservative Republican senator from Texas because–the horror!–he dared to force his Senate colleagues to publicly take sides on President Obama’s shameful extralegal unilateral immigration amnesty.
Apologists for Republican cowardice claim to be upset with Cruz because, as they claim, his parliamentary maneuvers to stymie the amnesty somehow allowed some objectionable Obama nominees to move forward in the confirmation process.
Of course, they’re lying. All Obama nominees are objectionable–remember, our president is a red diaper baby–yet the Senate eventually caves to Obama on more or less all of them............Who really cares if a few bureaucrats who will be approved anyway by the incoming Republican Senate in the new year get to work a few weeks or months early?
What really infuriates namby-pamby Republican senators is that Cruz forced them to take a public stand on the president’s unilateral amnesty. They know that the Republican Party base is mad as hell over the amnesty, and they don’t feel the need to answer to mere hoi polloi. Bought off by the crony capitalist lobby, they support amnesty but don’t want to face the electoral consequences for their betrayal of the American people. Just as Democrats don’t want to get rid of poverty, Republicans in leadership don’t want to stop the amnesty(or get rid of Obamacare, for that matter). They need villains against which to rail.
Just about nobody in the conservative punditry seems to be getting the story right. They are regurgitating an easily digested talking point generated by Democrats and the Senate’s RINO establishment. If it hadn’t been for Cruz,a slew of Obama nominees would still be sucking their thumbs in a state of constitutional limbo,they’d have us believe.
And as usual,they’re wrong about Cruz....
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/12/ted_cruz_was_right_again.html
Winston Churchill did not destrot the Briotish Empire. He sinmply believed in freedom. The USA destroyed the British empire, and got little or no help from Churchill.
I guess you need to study a little more history. The USA is now in the hands of a leftist fascist mob. Fascism was defined historically by Churchill.
Read this:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html
Meanwhile folks like you do not know just how bad of a situation we are in. We need a fighter, not a GOP business as usual blighter.Its time to get behind somone who will actually take the liberal fascists out behind the woodshed and whip them with the Constitution.All the ingredients are there to do it, the majority of state governors are Republican. But we have pysychopomps and cockatoos as proposed GOP candidates.
Cruz is actually the only one who can get the job done for the People, whom the GOP disrespects toatally under its present leadership malaise.Out with all of them except Cruz!
Its time to clean shop and roll!
Churchill advocated for war with Germany in 1912 and 1913 and was giddy over the prospect of war in 1914. The world wars didn’t need to happen (they’re really just one war with a 20 year period of armistice) and were the folly of people like Churchill who badly wanted war and adventure.
The Brits in 1914 wanted to prevent Germany from obtaining too much economic and political power. In order to prevent Germany from obtaining said economic and political power, the British Empire was willing to destroy its people and wealth. The end result is that the British won the war with American help but lost their empire. They were still rationing in the mid 50’s. Germany, while destroyed in the second portion of the war, rose to become the leading economic and political power in Europe by the 1970’s.
Churchill advocated for both wars against Germany. I don’t see how we can pretend like those wars didn’t utterly destroy the British Empire, its power and wealth.
he world wars didn’t need to happen>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Six million dead Jews say you are wrong.Go peddle your revisionist history elsewhere.
But for the first world war, the jewish holocaust wouldn’t have happened. The Kaiser would have still ruled Germany (actually the Kaiser only ruled Prussia, Bavaria had its own King) and a nutball socialist like Adolph Hitler wouldn’t have been able to seize power.
I’m not revising history at all, I’m offering a critique of Winston Churchill’s support for war which led to the first world war.
And you likely would not have been born.
Without commenting on the merits of your assertion, I wonder what it has to do with whether Winston Churchill was wise for advocating war with Germany from 1912-1914. What does it have to do with his giddy support for the war adventure while he was in Parliament in 1914.
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