Posted on 09/15/2015 9:06:04 AM PDT by smoothsailing
Washington DC still does not get it.
Eric Cantor was thrown out of office by Tea Party voters after ignoring his constituents for years. Even that jolt failed to wake a comfortably drowsy Republican leadership team into representing the people’s will. In fact, the first rule they told newly seated Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) in DC was to not buck the system.
As a member of the House Freedom Caucus, Dave Brat has unapologetically failed to heed their advice. Brat fights against their failures, and says leadership’s unresponsiveness to issues close to voters’ hearts and minds is the reason Trump is resonating. The Daily Signal reported:
Over Brat’s first year in Congress—Cantor stepped down in August, allowing a special election to coincide with the 2014 November midterms—not much has changed.
Congress, just as in 2014, has a fast approaching deadline to fund the federal government and is likely to pass a short-term bill that funds the government at current
Conservatives have outlined their priorities for this year’s bill—defund Planned Parenthood, keep the Export-Import Bank closed, and repeal Obamacare—but just like last year, they fear that House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, will shun his Republican colleagues and pass a bill with assistance from House Democrats.
And though Republicans have control of both the House and the Senate, conservatives still feel as if Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., is at the helm of the upper chamber.
“We’re in the same position as last year,” Brat said. “The American people see this degree of budget—what?—chaos year after year after year, and when we own both chambers and are responsible for an orderly process, I think everyone should be getting the memo when you see [Donald] Trump at 30 percent and Bernie [Sanders] at 30 percent, that the American people are catching on, and they do not like the D.C. process.”
DC has not changed in 25 years. The politicians promise us the world, then fall in line with what their rich donors want. Trump was the rich donor until now. He knows these politicians inside out.
The rubes are trying to crash the country club party is what the elites are thinking.
Now here is someone who almost gets it.
It did change.
It got much worse.
BOEHNER HAS TO GO NEXT
WHO IS GOING TO PRIMARY HIM???
That’s my Congressman. Glad to have played a small part in booting out the weasel Erci Cantor.
More districts need to Cantorize their weasels
I’m looking at you OH-8!
Great graphic! 8^)
Um, let’s see .... 2015 minus 2006 is, oh yeah, NINE YEARS.
What happened in 2006???
President BUSH signed The Military Commissions Act, which declares EVERY American citizen as a ‘suspect’, in any act that can be determined, as against the government - as the sitting President determines it.
That is not freedom.
That’s relevant to this thread, how?
dear smooth,
re:
“That’s relevant to this thread, how?”
A responder mentioned that D.C. has not chaned in many years.
I pointed out that D.C. has been copulating John Q. and Jane Q. Public, longer than just the immaculated reign of the mulatto queer-in-charge, in support of that responder’s claim.
May God send us 300 more Dave Brats.
What HAS changed is that they don’t try to hide the existence of Uniparty anymore. It’s like when the media USED to deny being in the Democrat’s pocket - the masks are off all the way around.
you’ve got freepmail, hope it’s helpful. :)
Perhaps it is relevant because it gave approval to allowing the powers that be to list and then suppress individuals and groups that may undermine the status quo.
Lets say you or I want to primary one of the elites? Then you or I might end up the target of repression, investigation, computer hacking, financial problems that are generated by myriad forces of faceless government goons who can legally and behind the scenes undermine and destroy lives.
it is the opposite of term limits... more like term guarantees... for the established elites... I guess this particular act has been in place for the last nine years.
That is why someone might consider that act to be relevant... though I don’t actually believe that is the primary cause of political entrenchment we see today... I think it would be more a symptom of the elite’s overall approach to us, the little people, who make them very nervous.
I speculate that this may be what the poster was implying.
dear smooth,
read it when it was first published.
as for terrorists, it costs $200.00 for an older Smith and wesson Model 10 revolver, and $20.00 for a box of 50 wadcutter cartridges. No jail, no trial, just boom.Saves the u.S. taxpayer a lot of money, and clears out the jails real fast.
You know, Smith, I like a man with a plan.
Shoot Safe, Shoot Well
Not much, anyway.
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