Posted on 10/22/2010 5:44:57 AM PDT by ChrisBoundsTX
If this is a sign of what we can expect in Congress for the next two years, Republicans will be in a world of hurt come the next election cycle.
Although it will be a long shot for Republicans to take control of the Senate, their hand will no doubt improve after November 2nd. Depending on how Senate Democrats and President Obama take the change, greater efforts of cooperation will be required to get work done. But the type of cooperation is what voters will be watching for.
Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell said in an interview that if Obama “pivots and wants to work with us, obviously I’d be happy to talk to him.” According to Breitbart, McConnell specifically cited working with Obama to change unpopular parts of the health care law such as the 1099 provision that will drown businesses in paperwork.
I would like to remind McConnell of one thing voters have been absolutely firm on throughout this election cycle. We do not want ObamaCare! McConnell, that means do not waste your time working with Obama on making changes to it – repeal the whole darn thing!
I am not opposed to working together in order to get things done, but lets take a look at the past two years and see how much working together was done with the Democrats. Were the Republicans allowed in the meetings where backroom deals were going on? No! Were Republicans compromises given to Republicans in order to get their votes! Maybe specific RINOs like Olympia Snowe and Spector (former RINO, now retiring Democrat). Democrats have used the past two years jamming their agenda down the throats of Americans without compromising on a single issue conservatives have had.
Senator McConnell, please heed my advice. Any working together you do better be helping convince the Democrats why it is necessary to repeal ObamaCare, drastically cut spending, defund the various bailouts, securing the border, and permanently extend the Bush tax cuts. If after this soon-to-be landslide election the Republicans are about to have you decide its OK to be soft with your Democrat colleagues, when your re-eelction comes around in 2012 you will find yourself in early retirement like Robert Bennett.
The country has long ago passed a "tipping point." We have a couple of generations who have grown up learning NO history. They are no longer taught logic and they cannot reason. They do not have the past to tell them how we got here and to tell them the sorts of systems that work and those that don't. They are susceptible to utopian fantasies because they have not the data nor tools to see that it is all anti-nature BS.
In the meantime we live in an incredibly rich society the wealth of which is the engine of its own destruction. Our culture supports a huge population that does not produce anything- does not work. They are the welfare drones and mass votes or they are highly intelligent trust fund babies and academics etc who are supported without working and have all their time to dream up schemes to take the society's wealth for themselves and gain total power for their class. That is why the left produces hordes of "demonstrators" anywhere and anytime they choose and the right can seldom do that. Conservatives have to work for a living and they support with their taxes the drones and parasites who riot and demand to be given power and wealth.
It's what you don't see right now that he's doing that will rise up and bite us. Corker is a schemer and whatever he does is done with the intention of him coming out on top. He has a long history of this. He used his position as Mayor of Chattanooga to throw construction business to his cronies, much of it not being realized until after he was out of office. Watch for the same sort of stuff with him as Senator. I would bet money on it. Keep an eye on his net worth and his financial disclosures as his term continues and you will see what I mean.
Unsuccessful ultimately, but fought a good fight.
Did he? Or, was it all for the cameras? I say it was the latter. If he were truly interested in protecting the Chrysler bond holders from a totally unconstitutional and illegal act, that being the way the bond holders were brushed aside in favor of UAW thugs who had no vested interest in the company, did he really put up anything beyond token resistance? Seriously? Hundreds of millions of dollars were at stake as well as the future of the American automobile manufacturing industry, which meant tens of thousands of jobs. Given the magnitude of the situation, much like McConnell and his opposition to Obamacare, I was left with the impression that his "good fight" was tepid at best, but he did get his mug on TV quite a lot......
Purge the old fk elite and get some new blood in there to run the show . If we need a guillotine on the Capitol steps to get them out, so be it .
Get over it and grow a pair!
Watch for Obama to do more by executive order after this election.
IMHO there will be more issues like these in an attempt to close the perceived “enthusiasm gap”. Since the election will be about turnout, look for every attempt to suppress turnout and excitement of conservatives by the left AND the middle.
Several RINO’s were taken out during the primary process which is a great step. I believe that during this cycle every single D should go down in flames. Make that D a scarlet letter. Keep the tea parties going, keep the pressure on, and hammer whatever RINO’s remain AFTER the election.
Hammer every R who even thinks about moving to the left. Shutdown switchboards and flood offices with complaints continuously after the election. If that includes McConnell, so be it. Then fire another batch of RINO’s during the next primary process.
They’re not going to crush my enthusiasm.
“The election has not even happened and Republicans are already planning on how they can throw away any gains.”
I guess it’s a page out of the Rove playbook - Republicans (i.e., RINO’s) don’t play to win; they play not to lose.
Democrats help the Republicans choose Republican nominees.It will be huge in 2012 unless the Kenyan has very serious opposition from someone such as Mrs. Clinton. If he runs unseriously opposed then large numbers of Democrats will vote in Republican primaries for Romney. I believe that is how we got McCain last time. The Democrats knew Soetoro was their winner long before the Republicans figured it out and the later Republican primaries had a lot of Demovotes. Mc Cain surely knew it and rode along with it. Add that to the “It’s His Turn” syndrome and the Republicans are a useless party, at least for presidential elections.
Knocking off Castle and whats-her-name in Alaska is addition by subtraction even it costs the control of the Senate. I would rather have a strong conservative miniority for the next 2 years rather than a narrow 51-49 advantage with 4 or 5 RINOs bitching and moaning and holding things up.
Why?
The very structure of both the House and Senate weighs very heavily against any drastic changes in direction regardless of election results. The cause of this is the chairmanships of the various committees that actually run the nation. Leadership is based on senority so the biggest change is the (R) or (D) on the new name tags.
The problem the Republicans are going to have is reversing ten, twenty, thirty years of training. Yes training. Since the Republicans have been a minority party for years the only way they could get legislative programs accomplished was to “work with” the Democrats. This normally means s***ing up to Democrats.
After the 2000 elections the Democrats demonstrated their arrogance by effectively demanding a power sharing concept as the minority party. Since the Republican leadership were totally inexperienced in leadership they rolled over.
I hope that 2011 will NOT be a repeat of 2000; but, recent Democratic and Republican pronouncements cause me great concerns.
Precisely. Republicans also have a 50+ year history of being totally happy to be the minority party. Time and time again they have exhibited an overwhelming willingness to bend over backwards to compromise with Marxist/Socialists. Funny how when you or I point that out on this forum we're called "boo birds" or "trolls" when history is clearly and undeniably on our side. We both know it will take far more than one or two election cycles to clean up the mess these politicians have created. Color me cynical, but I have absolutely no faith that this will be turned around in any measurable way my lifetime. The obstacles are enormous and the real party hasn't even begun yet. Nothing of any significance will be done to stop the free fall until it's too late. Truth be known, it's probably too late now. We're very near 100% of GDP on our national debt now with no end in sight. If I were a twenty something and know what I know now I'd be royally pissed. Their future and the future of their children (and likely their grand children)have been stolen from them by corrupt politicians on both sides of the aisle. The situation is urgent, yet all we see and hear out of our elected politicians is the same old tired, tit for tat lines. The folks here who believe the bilge coming out of Corker, McConnell, Boehner, et al, and like to chastise are either completely ignorant of the history of the Republican Party over the past 50 years or are exceedingly gullible or both.
And, therein lies the problem with the GOP and the two-party system. People who are expecting the GOP to swoop in and save us from Obama (assuming they re-take control of the House and/or Senate next month) are going to be sadly disappointed.
In 2006 and 2008, the Dems won the Congress and the WH simply bewcause they weren't Republicans and the Republicans had screwed things up so badly, no one could differentiate them from the Dems.
In 2010, if the Republicans win, it will be solely because they aren't Democrats; NOT because they have earned the right to lead the Congress!! The Republicans haven't changed a thing since their 2006 and 2008 losses, but they will reap the reward of an angry electorate that has few options for a REAL, MEANINGFUL paradigm shift in Congress.
We voters and taxpayers are fed up with the "good ole boy, wink wink, nod, nod" system. The politicians represent themselves, NOT us!! That's why so many of us are fed up with both the leftists AND the establishment Republicans. The symptoms may change, but the disease remains the same. If we can clean house and quit recycling the same old politicians (AKA white collar thieves), we might actully get back to a Congress that does what it is supposed to - represent the will of the voters and taxpayers!!
I believe His Ladyship said it. It fits entirely into his entire pattern as minority “leader”: bend over, grab ankles, smile wanly. If he is allowed to become Majority Leader, we will be forced to endure our third straight Repub girly-man in that key position.
His colleagues need to tell him now: Either you drop the nauseating “senatorial collegiality” crappola and get out their and campaign against Harry Reid — or, the only thing you’re going to be leading are tours of the Capital subway system.
The problem is that the damage has already been done tour system. If we do not repeal all of Obama’s nonsense, we are doomed. Slowing the Leftist agenda, does not fix anything.
And that isn't going to happen until we take the White House. The next 2 years should be devoted to making sure in 2013 we have the WH and both houses of Congress.
Agree, but we need to purge RINOs or change minds until we have everyone on the same page. McConnell, McCain, Hatch, Cornyn, Corker, Grassley, Snowe, and Collins will kill us.
After the primaries I thought they would be scared straight. If they don't get their act together in January we'll just have to re-open RINO hunting season again in early 2012.
They can force the President to veto bills that Americans support, like the repeal of Obamacare. Besides, with many Dems with weak knees right now some might jump on board with a veto override shoud that happen.
Agreed. I might have to schedule some quality time searching for game.
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