Posted on 09/26/2013 3:49:31 AM PDT by LD Jackson
I've never been someone who constantly calls for a third-party in our political system. I have long-held the opinion that a third-party would be able to get very little done, simply because the Democrats and Republicans are so entrenched in the system. I'm still not there yet, but there is something that I need to get off my chest. Why does our party insist on eating its own? Would it be so hard for the Republican establishment to admit that Senator Ted Cruz is doing something good in his attempt to alert and inform Americans about the dangers that are inherent in Obamacare?
I can understand and appreciate the knowledge that if the Democrats stick together in the Senate, there is little the Republicans can do to stop Obamacare, either by repeal or by defunding. The process laid out by Ted Cruz was never going to be an easy path and was always likely doomed to failure. Where my frustration lies is in how so many Republicans, both in and out of the House and the Senate, are questioning the Senator from Texas. They are questioning everything from his motives to his tactics and they have some very unflattering things to say about him.
Representative Peter King has called Ted Cruz a fraud.
Senator Tom Coburn has said the fight to defund Obamacare is dishonest.
Charles Krauthammer says Ted Cruz is dishonest and coming late to the anti-Obamacare fight.
John McCain and Mitch McConnell are both running off at the mouth because they can't stand the junior Senator from Texas.
I was listening to America Now with Andy Dean and he was even piling on Ted Cruz. His viewpoint was that Cruz was not building relationships in the Senate and that is why so many Republicans in that esteemed body wanted nothing to do with the fight he is waging against Obamacare. He questioned his motives, saying he was doing it more with 2016 in mind than anything else.
I wanted to write about something else, anything else this morning. I am sick of the rhetoric and the budget fights and the misleading claims from both sides of the political aisle. As much as I am a political junkie, I am tired of watching the same song and dance, the same fight, with no new results. Until the Republicans start sticking together and stop eating their own because someone new didn't follow protocol in our esteemed legislative bodies, the results will always be the same.
I have always held a high amount of respect for Senator Tom Coburn. I have used his work against wasteful spending in our government as the background information for more than a few posts. I believe he has integrity and is honest in his dealings with his constituents. Having said that, would it have been to difficult for him to stand with Ted Cruz in his fight against Obamacare? Would it have been to hard for him to announce his support for what Cruz is trying to do, instead of calling the effort dishonest?
Many of the complaints against Ted Cruz comes from the people who do not like his style. He can be combative and anyone's feelings are fair game. If Cruz doesn't like you, or doesn't agree with you, you'll not have to wonder about how he feels. He is going to tell you right to your face. He has said, more than once, that he didn't come to the Senate to get along to go along. He came to represent the interests of his state and his constituents. That seems to be a foreign idea to far too many of his Republican colleagues.
Soon after his marathon speech on the floor of the Senate ended, Ted Cruz granted an interview to Rush Limbaugh. I want to use a quote from that interview that speaks volumes. Thanks to The Lonely Conservative for the quote.
CRUZ: I will tell you the single biggest surprise in arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here. I mean, we don’t even talk about how to win a fight. There’s no discussion. We talk about, “Hey, let’s get a show vote so we can go tell our constituents we’re doing something.” But I promise you, Rush, if you had to sit through one Senate lunch, you’d be in therapy for a month.In her post, The Lonely Conservative asks a simple question. She wants to know what the GOP establishment is so afraid of. I would echo that same question. The Republican leadership has tried to get along with the liberals in Congress and the White House. For their troubles, they have been forced into political positions that are untenable and have seen all manner of accusations aimed in their direction. Isn't it time they realized they are fighting the same battle, using the same tactics, and expecting different results?
Trying to eat Ted Cruz for lunch because they don't agree with his tactics is going to get them nowhere fast. I would humbly suggest the Republican Party needs to come to terms with who the enemy in this fight really is. Until they shake themselves like Sampson and understand that, we have no hope of winning the war against the progression of liberalism that is taking over our country. If refuse to do so, they may give rise to a third-party, simply out of the frustration so many of us feel with the Republican leadership.
Note to the Republican Party. Your members want you to fight the liberals, not each other. Keep that in mind.
Andy dean can KMA.
> “It doesn’t matter what the truth is to the media. They will make sure the responsibility is laid heavily on the shoulders of the Republicans. I don’t agree with that, not in the least, but it is a reality.”
This is not reality, this is defeatist.
Fact 1: Liberal media viewership and readership is waning year over year.
Fact 2: Conservative media is growing robustly.
Fact 3: Conservatives form a plurality of voters and a majority if the 6,000,000+ strong blue collar Perot bloc are included.
Of course the New York-DC liberal media will grind it into you that resistance is futile and apparently with you they have succeeded.
But I ask you what prompted Americans to sweep statehouses and the House just a few short years ago against all of the liberal media spin?
Just like throwing hundreds of thousands of young Russian conscripts at the invincible Nazi army at Stalingrad was.
One of the finest posts I’ve ever read.
Which is why the entire cesspool needs to be flushed and rebooted. Those unctuous miscreants stopped doing 'the people's business' many decades ago.
I agree with you for the most part, and have voted for a few Libertarian candidates when they were better than all others. I’m staying Independent for now. If the TEA Party doesn’t force some serious changes in the GOP, I’ll join the LP.
They know who their enemy is. It is you and I.
Again, I agree, to a certain extent. Yes, conservatives swept a lot of governorships and state houses. Against the media, yes. At the same time, we have the most liberal President in modern history, with the poorest record of any President in modern history, yet he managed to win a second term.
I believe that win is a direct result of two things. First, the media propped him up continually. They played his “war on women” mantra until we were sick to death of it. Second, a majority of American voters bought that crap, even though it was obvious it was a flat out lie.
I am not defeatist. I intend to fight, as I applaud the fight Ted Cruz is waging. I’m just trying to acknowledge the uphill odds we are facing.
I think that's the best description of the House and Senate that I've ever read. Thank you for posting it.
I’d be happy to support a 3rd party, but a 2nd one is needed first. People need to learn to abstain when voting unless there is a candidate without a D or R appended to their name. Throw out all incumbents.
Excellent summary and I never knew Alexander did that. Second tier power is a great way to describe the GOP methods.
Cruz was supposed to sit there like a good boy and vote ‘present’ until the good ole boys decided he was ready for more power.
This thing that Cruz started is gaining momentum and it looks to me as though the GOP elites are taking notice. I saw Rove on Greta last night, and he was falling all over himself praising Cruz’s intentions (although “respectfully disagreeing” with his style).
The Republicans could have embraced the Tea Party movement. Instead, they fought with it. Now all the GOP establishment can do is whine about the Tea Party.
LDJ The caption on your opus whould read:
Socialist Media Driving GOPES (gop elite snobs) Garbage Truck
Because that’s who Cruz critics are responding to. For as smart as some of these people are, with the exception of “Andy Dean” who’s as dumb as a box of rocks. All of them are responding to assertions being made by the socialist agenda driven visual media. As they mete out their visual junk laced with socialist/commie dope to the LIV.
If your a “Republican” and criticize “conservatives” or the “tea party” and I put those in quotes and go to these sources to spout off you get promoted to a GOP leadership role. But who are those sources and how many people watch them and what is their impact ?
Don’t over react, or go to those links when their comments are posted here in FR. Be dissmissive of their remarks and the sources the’re using. Take a guy like Peter King. During elections “can this guy carry his home precinct” ? The media he’s using to carry his mess if it’s print it’s “fishwrap” smelling up the news stand”. If it’s cable “ who watches this loser on a loser network” ?
By responding that way you have more impact and are closer to the truth than an explitive disgused in alphabet soup.
Also if you post an article and it’s about some politician from a state. Go to that state board and pick out a few of the posters in that state board and ping them in your comments so you get some comments from that state concerned.
I am going to say it only one time here. The Republicans and the Democrats (and their RICH friends) are so attached to the public teat that they do not CARE what is happening to the United States. They think that they still can feed from the carcass even after it is morbidbound. Everyone in authority needs to be removed and replaced with conscience people.
Couldn’t have said it any better!
So, so right.
But SO WHAT!!!
Here's the truth: Most Americans think the media is full of crap.
So what the media does is irrelevant EXCEPT in that so many people simply cannot find the fortitude to STAND UP AND FACE DOWN the illusion it produces of what America is. The media is is made up of about 99.9 percent socialist-leaning liberals, but American society is made up of at best 30 percent socialist-leaning liberals, at least among LEGITIMATE voters, not the cheaters and multiple-voters and manufactured and ginned voters the Democrat party "brings" to the polls every election. In real on-the-ground terms, socialist-leaning liberals are a decided minority in America; their candidates win because Democrats cheat; if Democrats didn't cheat, they'd lose because we outnumber them.
But in the media, socialist-leaning liberals are a vast majority, and so that is the picture the media presents to America and the world of America. The problem isn't so much the media, as it is Americans not being able to perceive that the media FALSELY REPRESENTS reality.
Republicans know who the rel enemy is: big government. The democrats are the party of big government, but there are GOP insiders who have joined them at the trough.
You are correct. Like the old saying goes "If they're not corrupt when they get there, they will be when they leave." or something like that.
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