Posted on 01/21/2013 6:48:16 PM PST by TurboZamboni
Barack Obama’s top political aide used an Inauguration Day interview to sketch out a provocative political strategy intended to split the Republican Party in time to impact the 2014 midterm elections.
“The barrier to progress here in many respects, whether it is deficits, measures to help economy, immigration, gun safety legislation … is [that] there are factions here in Congress, Republicans in Congress, who are out of the mainstream,” White House advisor David Plouffe said on CNN’s “State of the Union with Candy Crowley.”
“We need more Republicans in Congress to think like Republicans in the country who are seeking compromise, seeking balance,” he claimed.
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A ‘first’ rule in politics is to stay out of the way when your opponents are fighting among themselves.
It’s promising news that Obama is so desperate he’ll break it!
I think the RINOs are mostly more amenable to compromising with conservatives this term. The Leadership didn’t even overtly support the hurricane Sandy pork. That was a good start to the session.
I agree - I often wonder what a strategy on FR might be to split conservatives. One method would be to plant two (or more) groups of conservatives into a forum and then start a fake disagreement between the planted groups and then build followings until you have RINOs and extremists going back and forth.
Bingo - disenfranchise followers and by reducing the conservative footprint at the polls - more dems get elected.
Some of the harsh words on FR leads me to believe that this has been in full swing for some time - how many times have you heard that people are staying home and not voting.
Even after the Bush tax cuts became permanent there was very little (or no) cheering on FR.
That was the genius of the “contract with America”. Pick a limited number of issues we all agree on and hit those hard. Put everything else aside.
And expect people who brand themselves “Republican” to work for them.
There is NOTHING to cheer about. It's the Spending Stupid.
It's not the tax rates that matter. It's the other 80,000 pages of tax code that is doing the damage. And the size of the tax code increase every year that GWB was President.
As usual the GOPe is ready to support 0bama’s plan.
Just like the fiscal cliff setup was a man-made disaster when it was originally passed.
Too much compromise by the GOPe.
And the benefits disproportionately went to lower end. Everything about them guaranteed we’d get the minimum economic bang for the tax cut buck.
I think the reason for this is that the GOP does not actually oppose the rats agenda.
I do not believe they are who they pretend to be, I do believe they are willing players in the shell game in which under every shell lies a tyrant.
I fear there may well be very few constitutional conservatives left in this country.
The GOP is kinda like GM.
The product is flawed but maybe we can destroy the competition and make the people buy it anyway.
all according to plan, btw...
We don’t have a Political Party to go to. What we have is basically a ‘racket’ and a near money laundering scheme in the main offices of the Republican Party. Any money donated to the party is mainly to stuff the pockets of corrupt consultant companies and advisers in the tune of millions and millions of dollars, so they don’t care if ‘we’ win or lose an election because they got paid.
No, they won’t be let go the next time around because of their failures and mediocrity for other consultant groups because the very people tied to them work in the main offices of the RNC and even some of those people in the hierarchy of the GOP work for BOTH the RNC and these consultant groups at the SAME TIME that are getting $16 million, $45 million, $7 million...etc
Thats what Erick Erickson was alluding to a few months ago with groups like FLS Connect having a grip on the RNC while people like the Chief of Staff of the GOP works on behave of FLS
Thats what Pat Caddell was alluding to about Karl Rove milking the system as a fraud and how Dick Morris and others suddenly are conservatives because they see $$ signs in getting people to click to their links and donating to little campaign organization to help support conservatives take back congress.
Everyone gets to keep their jobs while the nation goes down the drain. They care only about making money now while the going is good and could care less once the pot is empty one day down the road. They aren’t thinking about the future
Wake up conservatives.
“There is NOTHING to cheer about. It’s the Spending Stupid.”
See - you are making my point.
Of course spending is important but economic growth is equally important to get people back to work.
We can’t disagree (without name calling) on one of the most basic of conservative tenants of lowering taxes.
(so do you work for David Plouffe?)
My suggestion is that tea partiers make plans to get out to state conventions and change the RNC committeemen. It takes relatively few people to change that part of the party policy making structure.
Only something like 1500 total votes were cast in Michigan last spring and a few hundred was enough to throw the chief RINO representing Michigan off the committee and replace him with a conservative.
It is always later. Never ‘now’. Now never arrives, and will never arrive.
The republican party has been doing that to itself for years. Now obammy wants credit for that too?
“Too much compromise by the GOPe.”
Progress is progress - if we want more or faster progress we can vote for more Republicans, if we don’t like the ones we vote for we kick them out next time.
But to throw up your hands and not vote and then complain about the ones who are left trying to the job makes no sense.
“What? That’s nonsense! The very people that could deal with the backstabbing Republicans later are destroyed by these very same backstabbing Republicans before they get a chance!!!”
So you want to throw all the bums out?
real practical... you got a plan?
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