Posted on 10/19/2010 12:14:04 AM PDT by RC Clayton
Republicans on the campaign trail are bashing the president and his agenda and some are vowing to shut down Washington if they don't get their way. Behind the scenes, key party members are talking a different game.
A number of House Republicans, including some who are likely to be in the leadership, are pushing a post-election strategy aimed at securing concrete legislation, with the goal of showing they can translate general principles into specific action.
Among the ideas is to bring a series of bills to the floor, as often as once a week, designed to cut spending in some way. Longer term, GOP leaders say they recognize they may have to compromise with Democrats in tackling broader problems.
If they recapture the House, Republicans say they are wary of following the example of the class of 1994, which shut down the government in a standoff with President Bill Clinton. Top Republicans contend that passing legislation, or at least making a good faith effort to do so, will earn them more credibility with voters than refusing to waver from purist principles.
"It's pretty clear the American people expect us to use the existing gridlock to create compromise and advance their agenda," said Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.). "They want us to come together [with the administration] after we agree to disagree." GOP leaders stressed that this depends on the willingness of President Barack Obama to compromise as well. And some say if the post-election atmosphere is especially toxic, such compromises may be difficult.
The approach stands in contrast to the Senate, where Republican nominees including Kentucky's Rand Paul and Nevada's Sharron Angle more clearly represent the anti-establishment instincts of the tea-party movement...
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Republicans.
Memo to PUBs who are in a compromising mood:
We, the people are fed up with the Communist government being imposed on us. END IT OR WE WILL END YOU.
We, the people are giving you one chance, and one chance only, to restore the Constitution. END IT OR WE WILL END YOU.
We, the people have made our voices known. You heard; but did you listen? You don’t really want to p*ss us off, do you? END IT OR WE WILL END YOU.
We, the people don’t want compromise; we want our freedom. END IT OR WE WILL END YOU.
You have been warned. We can turn on you in a New York minute if you fail.
A few weeks ago, other FReepers and I had to endure some annoying poster telling us we were being duped by Meet the Press because of something Boehner said on the show. Boehner talked about “compromise” but this slef-satisfied poster was telling US that WE were the ones who didn’t get it.
The next day, Republicans all over were shouting “NO COMPROMISE,” and Boehner had to “reframe” his comments, because other FReepers and I were indeed correct.
I don’t think Boehner’s a bad guy. I just think he’s another D.C. pol who isn’t even aware that he’s behaving like a battered wife.
In my lifetime—today I turn 45—I’ve NEVER seen a genuinely conservative Republican Congressional majority. Again—NEVER. They talked the talk while Reagan was president, sometimes, but even then they had this tone about them, that they envied Reagan’s ability to deal with those little “citizens,” but they weren’t really with him to the core. By that I mean I always had the sense that they would jump ship on Reagan if the polls went a certain way.
I am not a far-right Republican. I’m a conservative, but I acknowledge that in the end this indeed means compromises will end up being made. That’s merely acknowledging reality.
That doesn’t mean compromise is something I would ever think about if it came, for example, to defending this country, individual rights, or abortion. (Why would I compromise on ending the killing of the unborn? So Chris Matthews will love me for five minutes?)
So compromise should be seen as an alternative to total defeat, not something that’s our starting posture. When I read things like Issa’s comments, I see someone who, like John McCain before him, wants to be loved by the media more than the things I find important.
So when people tell me, “No, you have to look at what he’s saying...” I just shut down. Because I’ve been down this path over and over again.
For nearly two years now I have been skeptical of Sarah Palin’s ability to be president. Recently someone whose opinion I deeply respect surprised me by casually revealing he liked Palin. He made me see her from a different angle, so to speak, and when I looked around I realized how very different she is from people like Issa. She isn’t ashamed to have my positions—why can’t the rest of this ridiculous party admit they ARE ashamed, and get the hell out and join the democrats, if that’s what they really believe?
Sorry, Mr. Issa, if your opening play amounts to “I won’t win if you’ll let me break even,” you’re not on my side.
If what is being predicted in the Coming election comes to pass, it is not compromise the people want you stupid freakin Morons,they want to STOP the Marxist Takeover of Our country.You Stupid Bastards better get that message or your Power will be shortlived.
We DONT compromise with Communists,if that is your attitude Jerimiah Wright the Second in the White Hut is going to eat your Lunch
Better to rant against Issa than actually read the statement.
By now we ought to know that Fox is not to be trusted either. Their headline is designed to mislead.
You can NOT compromise with communists.
You can NOT compromise with communists.
They try this and they will find themselves challenged by a huge third party.
Neither established party will gain because both will have lost any favor.
Just try it suckers.
The GOP handles Obama by presenting bills to Obama that support the will of the people. PRESENT THEM to him even if they know he will veto them.
Do it over and over and make him show his hand.
Don’t give us this compromise BS.
Maybe everyone only donating to conservatives will wake-up these RINO losers. Maybe. Not one penny to the Republican party organizations.
Yeah, I like those ideas!!! How about adding a big, across-the-board tax cut to the next increase in the minimum wage?
Dittos. Congress, all of Congress, had best remember
the people are awake. No More, Never Again, will I
be fooled by those who refuse to uphold their oaths.
Here is one person more who is with you, Darkwolf377.
I’m in complete agreement with everything you have said. We’ve compromised this path to hell; I don’t want to cede another inch - I want to regain lost territory.
There is no room for compromise if America is to get out of the current economic hole it’s in.
Can you say slash and burn budget children?
I knew you could...
“key party members are talking a different game”
Ah, the Republicrats. They’re nothing if not consistent.
The Dims take power and conduct a Marxist scorched earth policy.
When the Republicrats take power, they compliantly place their necks on the chopping block.
With friends like the Republicrats, who needs enemies?
We are all asking the winners to CHANGE the status quo of spend spend spend.
If they do NOT, because of COMPROMISE, the GOP "leadership" will be gone forever and there will be a strong rise of a third party.
I don't think the pols today truly understand the precarious situation that exists. Career pols have a "ho-hum" attitude right now and that will end...whether they believe it or not.
This isn't just about the tea party. This is about people being FED UP and unless they are placated and listened to, the folks on this thread are right...we'll throw the next crew out as well...
I don’t want to compromise with them. I want to utterly defeat them. If that means foiling EVERYTHING they want to do and passing NOTHING until we get rid of Obama in 2012 then so be it. These equivocating appeasers still have not, are no capable of, learned a damn thing. No matter how you bend over backwards for a liberal, he’ll still find some way to shove it up your keester. I say club them like baby seals sunning themselves on the ice [legislatively speaking, of course]
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