Posted on 10/25/2010 6:58:53 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk
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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