I can't say this makes me feel any better.
I notice you don't say that "we" are responsible for Arlen Specter being in the Senate. No, that was personally engineered by Rove and Bush. Many of us strongly objected at the time. I also pointed out that as time passed, Specter would be less and less accountable to anyone but himself, and that the one to suffer would be Bush. Hell, Bush not only twisted arms to get Specter re-elected, but he probably wrecked Rick Santorum's re-election prospects in the process.
There are ways to make RINOs toe the line, and they don't depend entirely on the Republican leadership in the Senate. How many bills has Bush vetoed? How often has he disciplined dissenting RINOs by taking away their pork? How often has he punished his enemies when they got out of line? No wonder he can't control the party.
The anger here is definitely righteous. Lesser men than Bush would be in a rubber room but as things are looking he may be a true Neocon with socially progressive tendencies. Bottom line this White House has done a poor job communicating with his country and his base. Gillespie did not help and Bush's pathetic Press Secretary is the more suitable mascot for this administration. Limbaugh and alt media have carried too much water already.
No, the people of Pennsylvania in both the primary and the general election voted for the guy. They are responsible.
There are ways to make RINOs toe the line, and they don't depend entirely on the Republican leadership in the Senate. How many bills has Bush vetoed? How often has he disciplined dissenting RINOs by taking away their pork? How often has he punished his enemies when they got out of line? No wonder he can't control the party.
The RINO's as a block can stop anything that they want. They have that power. It is the people who elected them that gave them that power.