Whatever.
How many senators can claim to have literally driven elected 'Rat legislators out of their state? We need his brand of 'Rat poison!
Their outrage warms the cockles of my heart!
Posted on 05/18/2014 2:57:03 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Some righties are grumbling about this, but c’mon. No one expects a Republican governor who’s up for reelection in a blue state to lead the “throw the RINOs out!” movement. Besides, this makes strategic sense if I’m right about Walker’s niche in the 2016 field. I see him as an establishment/tea party “hybrid” candidate who’ll challenge Christie from the right (especially on social issues) and whoever emerges as the tea-party favorite from the center (especially on immigration). His war with the left over collective bargaining reform in Wisconsin is already so legendary that there’s practically nothing he could do to ruin his conservative cred before the primaries. He’ll be acceptable to tea partiers. His task now is to make sure he’s acceptable to establishmentarians too before they settle on Christie and one obvious way to do that is to discourage tea partiers from challenging Republican incumbents. He opposed the shutdown for similar reasons, I assume, saying at the time, “I support limited government. But I want the government left to work.” That might well be his 2016 campaign slogan — and Christie’s too. Christie will simply have a harder time selling it to righties than Walker will. There may well be a new debt-ceiling standoff next month over ObamaCare (or maybe not). How do you suppose Walker will come down on that one?
Is this true, though?
[G]o and help in those elections [against vulnerable Democrats] and elect new Republicans because a year from now things will be much different if Republicans hold the United States Senate.
How? Obama might have to use his veto a lot more next year, but that’s fine by him. He’s a lame duck. At best, forcing a lightning rod like O to play goalie against GOP initiatives instead of leaving it to Harry Reid will free up a few centrist Democrats like Joe Manchin to vote with Republicans on hot-button issues knowing that they have no chance of becoming law. And this assumes, of course, that Republicans build on Reid’s precedent and nuke what’s left of the filibuster so that they can pass bills through the Senate with a simple majority. I’m not sure they will. They gain nothing politically from it given the reality of O’s veto and they’ll take a predictable beating for it from lefty hacks in the media (all of whom cheered Reid for nuking the filibuster vis-a-vis executive appointments). Worse, Democrats will be primed to exploit the new rule in 2017: It’s the GOP that’ll be defending the lion’s share of vulnerable seats in the 2016 election, which is bound to have higher Democratic turnout than usual because it’s a presidential election year. It’s worth nuking the rest of the filibuster if/when Republicans once again control the Senate and the White House. Before then, why?
The only important difference in having GOP control of the Senate next year is that Republicans will be able to veto Obama’s appointments, including/especially Supreme Court appointments. They can still do that now in theory since the filibuster remains in effect for SCOTUS nominees, but if someone on the Court resigns this year, it’s a cinch that Reid will go ahead and nuke that provision too. Having 51 Republicans for the last two years of O’s term would solve that problem going forward — if they hang together and vote unanimously against a bad Obama appointment. You trust Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, John McCain, and Mark Kirk to do that, don’t you?
IF it is a RINO it is a demoRAT is sheep’s clothing. US Senator lamar alexander is just such a RINO! Promised 2 terms and out, wrote a book to that effect of only terms. YET the RINO is running for a 3rd term.
Time to term limit congress to terms and senate to 4 yrs, instead of 6, no retirement, not Platinum health care. Most draw state pensions on TOP of their congressional pay. lamar as a dean and Gov of TN has at least 2 others.
TN State Rep Joe Carr is running against him, very conservative voting records, lamar’s are moderate left of center RINO.
You’re a wackadoodle on this. I could quote the Washington Post or local WI paper or other sources. Walker made his statements on a webcast, with multiple newspapers thus able to quote him accurately—and he reiterated them when clarifying’ his points later. Doesn’t matter which particular reporter wrote the piece. You can’t offer any Walker quotes to the contrary, but I can offer quotes from multiple newspapers and multiple statesments of his.
AMEN!!!
A quick glance at your posting history shows nothing but insults and a fervid defense of the likes of Romney and Jeb. I provide multiple sources quoting Walker’s massively pro-amnesty positions and you call me a “pro stupid republican” because you don’t like me offering information you can’t rebut.
I rest my case.
You’re another one who can’t rebut my multiple sources directly quoting Walker on his pro-amnesty position, so instead all you do is say that my “claims are BS”.
If you had a leg to stand on, you’d stand on it.
Ummmmmmm...
No.
Just because someone puts an R after their name doesn’t make them a Republican!
Primary out all RINOs!
DAVE W these people are NOT worth our rant!!!! SCOTT WALKER
is a courageous effective governor he may NOT BE PERFECT but none
Of them are!!!!! He IS a strong and courageous conservative!!!!
“You trust Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, John McCain, and Mark Kirk to do that, don’t you?”
Not really. All four have shown to be susceptible to bribes and liberalism.
We need to fall for somebody with a proven track record of beating up on libtards, as opposed to talking about it or merely advocating it.
Who cares if he’s “beaten up on libtards” (which he didn’t do intentionally—he only defended himself and his position after what he thought was a noncontroversial reform created a firestorm—if he’s going to make citizens of 60 million low-skill Democrat voters?
Walker would be the last president who ever even made a claim of conservatism, however tepid.
Whatever.
How many senators can claim to have literally driven elected 'Rat legislators out of their state? We need his brand of 'Rat poison!
Their outrage warms the cockles of my heart!
But that’s not Scott Walker. He thought he was slipping in an noncontroversial reform along the lines of what Mitch Daniels did in Indiana. Walker is a moderate who accidentally stirred up the unions.
No real conservatism or courage there.
The time for party unity is after, not before, the primaries.
“Taking out fellow Republicans”. That’s exactly what the tea party attacks by Mitch, Boner, Bush, and Walker are.
Yeah bloomberg that POS.
I'm sick and tired of all these incumbents bad-mouthing their Republican primary opponents.
He wants to deny us our RINO hunting license?
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