Posted on 10/25/2010 6:58:53 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk
The "Right Wing" blogosphere, including me and you, is beside itself with joy over what appears to be a Republican remake of the house after next week's elections."Tsunami, Baby! Hurrah! Hurrah!"
By the cold light of dawn on November 4th it will perhaps occur to Tea-Partiers and RINOs alike, that given their essential powerlessness to "roll back," the Obama Agenda, they may have unwittingly set up the Democrats for more of same in 2012.
IOW, the brave shock troops of the Tea Party will be a sort of sacrificial "Light Brigade," that reaches the enemy's guns, but cannot take the position. Accommodating wimps like McConnell, Boehner, Steele, Snow, Collins, Graham, McCain et al. are hardly the stuff of insurgent leadership. Restore the constitution? Nah. Just beefing up their poker hand at the compromise tables.
Pat Buchanan (of all people) gets it.
........Hence, the Tea Party faces almost certain disappointment, if not disillusionment.
Why? Because many in the Republican establishment also do not believe austerity is the way to go in a recession. Second, while most Republicans may favor deep cuts, they know that if they vote to cut Social Security, Medicare and unemployment insurance, but do not get those cuts, they will get the pain but not the benefit and be held accountable, just as Democrats were held accountable for cap-and-trade, which they voted for but did not get through the Senate.
Republicans will come out of this election with a tricky hand to play.
Arriving in DC with No Program...No Plan... No Leader... No Clue by any available evidence, ... and very little real power, it seems unlikely that the GOP will be able to roll back anything. Roll Over, maybe.
What that means is that the only way to correct the situation is to depend upon the “Blue Dogs” to do the “Right Thing.”
The House alone can defund Obamacare, and prevent any legislation at all from passing Congress if they need to. They’re going to have to be ready, though, to take the gloves off and be constantly savaged in the press, if they want to play hardball.
LLS
We know that it is a start, not a finish.
OK. How many election cycles do we have?
We know that it is a start, not a finish.
Who exactly, among the incoming Republicans has specifically promised that they will start, and how?
Oh, hardly "all." Perhaps just a lot? IMHO, if the GOP doesn't deliver tangible results in 2011 and 2011, we can't expect the fervor to continue through 2012.
LLS
"Doomed," in our case is a 150-year process. Let's just call it "entropy." I would like to see Pence as Speaker. I detest Boehner. Issa? Strikes me as Maquis apres la guerre. Talks tough.
Recommend? A Constitutional Convention to address the issue of state sovereignty and federal limits. Repeal of the 17th Amendment. 1 (one) Governor keeping Obama off his state's ballot in 2012, announcing the move before the Democratic primaries or the convention. A 10% reduction in federal employees. Closing down DOE, EPA, The Federal budget at the 2005 level. Exiling tattooed teenagers to the Aleutians. You know, the usual.
Ofcourse, if the GOP begins to compromise, it will be finished as a political Party.
I like it... I agree... have to start somewhere or we are doomed. I hate bone-head... issa is a wimp but Rush made him pledge... and Pence would be a great speaker. ALL of the old guard in the House need to sit the leadership out. We need new blood and Pence is a great start. Bring back Tom Delay as “The Hammer”. That would make the dim’s heads explode.
LLS
In exchange for numerically fewer, but safely gerrymandered seats, the GOP gave up governing, let the Democrats take over the machinery of government on every level, and went into the special interest business.
Cool. Everybody got rich, (especially Democrats) the country went to hell, and now we're broke. We're going to do well in the next election, but the GOP, IMHO, hasn't the capacity as it is now constituted, to actually continue on through 2012 to fix the country.
This is just as big a crisis as saving the Union and freeing the slaves, the issues that inspired the founding of the Republican party in the first place, replacing the Federalist Whigs. Like the first Republicans, we can take back the country and restore the Constitution, but first real Republicans have to take back the party ... or bury it and start a new one that works, fast!
Sound reasoning and I agree.
LLS
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