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Conservatives denounce GOP 'Pledge' as sellout, inside job
The Daily Caller ^ | 9/25/10 | Jon Ward

Posted on 09/26/2010 9:19:11 AM PDT by GOPavenger33

House Republicans have been relatively successful this week at presenting a united front around their “Pledge to America,” but only through a strategic outreach campaign to lawmakers, media and outside groups, that has managed to keep deep dissatisfaction over several key issues largely under wraps.

Still, interviews with Republican aides reveal that many in the GOP caucus are unhappy that there was no earmark ban and no promise to pass a balanced budget amendment in the proposal, which was unveiled Thursday by House Minority Leader John Boehner. The inclusion of a health insurance provision considered to be mandate angered many conservative lawmakers.

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To: Yardstick

I agree. The sniping is ridiculous.


21 posted on 09/26/2010 9:45:33 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote
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To: MNJohnnie; GOPavenger33
You are correct. This noob is blatantly an obvious Lib troll. Made the original post 'breaking news' too.


IBTZ.

22 posted on 09/26/2010 9:46:26 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (I'm with Jim DeMint ... on the fringe baby!)
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To: GOPavenger33
It's not enough but it's a start and probably about the best they could come up with being the number of RINOs still in the party.
23 posted on 09/26/2010 9:46:26 AM PDT by tobyhill
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To: Walts Ice Pick
Do we really want them to come out before the election and promise to phase out the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid programs? Wouldn't it be better to first get elected and then explain to the public why it is necessary to dismantle the welfare state?

I strongly object to your saying that Social Security and Medicare are part of the welfare state.

I worked long and hard and contributed big bucks to both those programs. It's not my fault the politicians can't manage money worth a damn.

Midicaid, absolutely yes, that's welfare, paid for by you and me to mostly shiftless losers who've never contributed anything.

24 posted on 09/26/2010 9:46:58 AM PDT by upchuck (When excerpting please use the entire 300 words we are allowed. No more one or two sentence posts!)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Check out his source. It a Leftist propaganda outlet. You are know by the company you keep.


25 posted on 09/26/2010 9:49:11 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (The problem with Socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money. Lady Thatcher)
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To: Walts Ice Pick
Wouldn't it be better to first get elected and then explain to the public why it is necessary to dismantle the welfare state?

This next congress certainly won't have any such power.

26 posted on 09/26/2010 9:50:37 AM PDT by eclecticEel (Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/2010)
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To: MNJohnnie; Darksheare; darkwing104; Old Sarge
I smell 'ozone' in the air.

Wait ... is that a ship I see on the horizon?


27 posted on 09/26/2010 9:52:30 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (I'm with Jim DeMint ... on the fringe baby!)
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To: GOPavenger33
Whaa it is not perfect Whaa. Yet another useless whine by the Purest choir

Nothing in life but God is ever perfect.

Sure the Pledge is not perfect but nothing in life ever is.

This habitual pouting for perfection from the always bitching caucus of Feeper purists is really childish.

This document, imperfect as it is, is only 100% better then anything we have gotten out of DC since Reagan was President.

And yes, that includes the 1994 Contract.

For example, this document, as imperfect as it is, is a whole lot more specific on what the GOP plans to do to reign in spending then the Contract was.

28 posted on 09/26/2010 9:52:58 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (The problem with Socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money. Lady Thatcher)
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To: GOPavenger33

I don’t believe “conservatives” are complaining. I think the more accurate word would be “malcontents”. They bitch about everything. The Pledge with America is a good, solid move.


29 posted on 09/26/2010 9:55:18 AM PDT by upsdriver (The revolution begins on Nov. 2 to take back our country. The American people vs the ruling elite.)
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To: JSteff
But skittish rank-and-file members were reassured at a Wednesday night caucus meeting by leadership aides who distributed a National Review editorial praising the “Pledge.” The National Review editorial had been prearranged, however, by Neil Bradley, a top leadership aide* who is close to April Ponnuru, the executive director of the National Review Institute, and Kate O’Beirne, NRI’s president. O’Beirne denied the allegation, calling it “absolutely, categorically false.”

LOL

Sure it is. Everyone knows which publications on the right are mouthpieces for the GOP establishment and NR is on that list.

But the aide said that many in the Republican caucus don’t believe Boehner, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, or any other members of the leadership actually want a ban. “Once we’re in power they’ll say, ‘Let’s find a reasonable way to earmark,’ which of course the Tea Party will see as total capitulation. Most people around here don’t realize the extent to which Joe America sees earmarks as the poster child for out of control Washington spending,” the aide said. Another aide who was present in meetings to draft the document agreed: “They already have an earmark moratorium, and not to continue that is a pretty huge flag that they want to get back into the earmark business.”

Pretty much. It's exclusion plus Cantor talking openly about not banning them entirely tells me everything I nee to know about how serious they are about cleaning up their act. It's not even just about earmarks, other then that would send a very clear signal they were serious. Legislators not appropriating money for pet projects to buy votes? You only give that up permanetly if you are serious about living by the principles you are campaigning on.

The House conservatives shouldn't fret too much about the Pledge though. The only people praising it are insiders. My feeling is that all those people they fear who have been staging primaries, well, they threw it in the trash. After the election we're going to make the rules. And if they don't follow them, they are going to have the same heat plced on them as the Democrats. I hope Republicans like townhalls and thousands upon thousands of phone calls and their so called "base" educating the indepedents on their betrayals...cause I'm not covering for any of them anymore.

30 posted on 09/26/2010 9:58:39 AM PDT by Soul Seeker (“I was there when we had the numbers, but didn’t have the principles.”---Jim DeMint)
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To: GOPavenger33

“Conservatives denounce GOP ‘Pledge’ as sellout, inside job”

One needs to believe this!!!

I was suspicious of it and didn’t like it from the beginning.


31 posted on 09/26/2010 10:00:46 AM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: GOPavenger33; mojitojoe; little jeremiah
So, are you paid or are you a volunteer?
32 posted on 09/26/2010 10:02:26 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Moderates manipulate, extremest use violence, but the goal is the same.)
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To: GOPavenger33
Watching the purists types in the Conservative movement is sort of like watching the French nobility just before the French Revolution.

The US political Old Guard, like you, is still refusing to open their eyes and see what is going on. They still think of this as just another round in the political game. They still do not realize this is no longer a game, this is war.

The Republic is in danger.

Never in our history has this nation been governed by a group so fundamentally at odds with the values and the beliefs of the average citizen as the 0 Democrats. In every other election the two sides shared some common values that linked them all as Americans. That is not the case this time. This time it is the Americans vrs the Anti Americans. Between those who value the exceptionalism of the USA and those who wish to destroy that exceptionalism and remake it in the style of a European Democrat Socialist country.

The political old guard persists in thinking of this as just another election, just another round in the game where everyone shakes hands afterwards and gets on with business as usual. That is not at all the case.

This is not the time for the usual suspects to mindless cling to their old purists dogmas. Right now the GOP is the only viable option that can derail the 0 Democrat machine. Anyone spending all their time shooting, what is suppose to be their side in the back this election, is actively working for the 0 Democrats.

We are now engaged in a remorseless revolutionary struggle where by either the Republic is restored or it is forever lost.

This struggle is not going to end with the elections in November, this struggle will be going on for years.

In that struggle there is no middle ground. One is either on our side or against us. I know that is really hard for the Hate-the-GOP-Always 3rd partybots around here to cope with but that is the current reality in US politics

33 posted on 09/26/2010 10:03:22 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (The problem with Socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money. Lady Thatcher)
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To: GOPavenger33

IBTZ


34 posted on 09/26/2010 10:04:49 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: GOPavenger33

It disturbs me to see them not going after the federal bureaucracy hammer and tong. Federal worker number of jobs, average pay vs. private sector, COLAS, munificent benefits and job security, early retirement,pensions, % of stimulus dedicated to save government jobs at federal, state, county levels, etc., etc. Projected growth of federal employees with the mammoth bureaucracy of the health care legislation, including major expansion of IRS. Tie it together with Gerald Fords’ “A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.”


35 posted on 09/26/2010 10:05:05 AM PDT by gusopol3
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To: MNJohnnie
Good catch...32 responses on this thread and zero replies from the poster.

They're going to be out in force bigime between now and November.

36 posted on 09/26/2010 10:05:12 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Moderates manipulate, extremest use violence, but the goal is the same.)
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To: MNJohnnie

The pledge is nothing but a piece of paper. I’m glad that thrills your heart but we’ve been there and done that. Actions are the only thing I’ll trust.

As for earmarks, they certainly seem to recognize how symbolic they are to the public of corruption. It’s why they banned them for a year to run on for their election. After election when they assume they’ll have the house back they are talking about getting rid of the ban. It’s nothing but an election stunt on their part.

I should warn you if for one minute you think we’re going back to the 2000-2006 model where conservatives were intimidated into shutting up and taking “less” bad concessions all to maintain “R” party rule you are going to be rudely surprised. The caucus is going to be pushed, and they are going to be pushed hard and your own whining about the whining is going to be laughed off this board.

Otherwise they’ll go back to the usual of promising things will get better while doing little is nothing to make it so.


37 posted on 09/26/2010 10:06:00 AM PDT by Soul Seeker (“I was there when we had the numbers, but didn’t have the principles.”---Jim DeMint)
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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer); GOPavenger33

I don’t like the pledge because it’s not conservative enough and because it doesn’t include U.S. Senate candidates. They should have promised to cut all federal tax rates to the 1988 rates, or lower. That would remind voters of the great economy of the 1980’s.


38 posted on 09/26/2010 10:10:30 AM PDT by PhilCollins
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To: Las Vegas Ron
I know that is really a bitter pill for the 3rd party bots around here to swallow but that is the current political reality.<[> The ONLY viable option we have right now is the GOP. Anyone busy trying to undermine the GOP right now is actively working for the 0 Democrats.

The Republic is in danger, we have no time for these sort of anonymous back stabbing propaganda plays.

We need to keep our eyes on the ball.

Stop the 0 Democrat machine 1st. The rest we can work out after the elections

39 posted on 09/26/2010 10:12:14 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (The problem with Socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money. Lady Thatcher)
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To: Soul Seeker

Conservative need to keep there eye on the ball. The primary mission is to stop the damage the 0 Democrats are doing. Like it or not the GOP is the only viable option we have to accomplish that right now.

Anyone, like this poster, that actively works to undercut the GOP in the next 38 days is, in effect, working to help the 0 Democrats on 11-02.


40 posted on 09/26/2010 10:17:23 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (The problem with Socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money. Lady Thatcher)
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