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To: livius
While there is a bit of the aimed at silencing the other person, I think it's more frustration with the current GOP leadership. Seriously, what have they done in the last six months? They posture, and preen and primp, and then they just vote for the budget resolutions anyway. 100 Billion (a joke in and of itself) in cuts becomes a 38 million cut and we're supposed to be happy with this? The GOP only controls 1/2 of 1 branch of the gubment but it is the most powerfull of them all. They have the power of the purse and they refuse to use it.
84 posted on 06/14/2011 8:12:48 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl (No one is more against progress than a progressive.)
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To: Drill Thrawl

Oh, I agree, there’s plenty to be frustrated about.

I don’t think Boehner, for example, is evil or even a total RINO, but he certainly wasn’t a good choice for the position. However, while a lot of conservatives were elected in November, the vast majority of the GOPers that were already in Congress are probably more on the RINO side than anything else. So I suppose it was inevitable that somebody like him would be the choice, and we have to think within that context about how we can get him to do a better job and how we can get more conservatives elected the next time around.

My point was that the same crude, tired old blustering about various people’s lack of male sexual equipment or some other kneejerk response on some issue doesn’t really get us anywhere, doesn’t help us to understand the issues (since many Freepers seem to post without ever looking at anything other than an inflammatory or biased headline), and doesn’t make us very effective at exerting any pressure in favor of our ideas.


101 posted on 06/15/2011 6:40:15 AM PDT by livius
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