They all work adamantly to deny conservatives ANY victory. THAT is their motivation. Whatever conservatives want, is to be denied them. Whatever conservatives are against, will be passed with relish.
My bet is that the same big money elitists are pulling the strings in both parties. Both serve the same masters.
I think some are being blackmailed but IMO the preponderance of them enjoy their lifestyle and importance to the point of tossing logic, honesty, the Country out the window. Kick the can down the road.
If it was simply blackmail why wouldn’t some of the old-timers resign and retire? They aren’t padding their retirement funds by any amount by staying in?
Heck, they could make more money as lobbyists.
They love people kissing their ring, the Washington parties, travel, lifestyle.
“Are Key Republican Leaders in D.C. Being Blackmailed?”
This so often repeated foolishness is the wishful thinking of cretins who still believe in the “Republican Party”.
Sure, any Member of Congress with any sort of power has compiled a stack of blackmailable misdeeds, sexual, intoxication-related, or bribe taking.
But it’s much more probable that, since they all come from the same social class, all go to the same schools, all are trained the same way, all marry the same women, all share the same girlfriends or boyfriends, and all are offered wealth far, far beyond their native ability to create, that they (your “key Republican leaders”) are true believers in the dominant paradigm - that the time for self-government is over, that the voters are idiots who deserve to be screwed over, and that the only security for themselves and their families is to be enthusiastic soldiers in the New World Order, even if they need (mercifully brief) periods of concealment around election time.
If by blackmailed you mean cashing in on insider trading and HUGE ‘donations’ then yes...Blackmailed.
Why do establishment politicians hate Conservatives?
No grounds for blackmail and extortion.
Well, the Legislative branch has rendered itself irrelevant by continually granting the Executive branch additional power and by an ideological Judiciary, so it doesn’t really matter what the reasoning is.
It’s just a sideshow.
Who said that elections have consequences? Soap box, ballot box,jury box - all gone. Do we have the courage to open the last box.
I am a free man. I was born free and I will die that way. My knee bends to no one except He who made me.
Deo vindice
“Are Key Republican Leaders in D.C. Being Blackmailed?”
Uh, no. They are not being blackmailed, they really are that corrupt. Mr. Root seems to forget who these people are. They are all citizens of Washington D C and by God, they are there to stay. That means doing everything in their power, legal or illegal to retain, grow and consolidate that power.
It’s bad enough when senators and congressmen are being blackmailed. But there’s enough wiggle room so that others in the large groups possibly could make good decisions/law.
Much scarier is the great probability that SCOTUS members, i.e., Roberts, are being blackmailed, especially now that they’re making law (unconstitutionally). There are too few of them.
I am convinced that skeletons in the closet are a PREREQUISITE to higher office inside the uni-party. It is possible that not every elected Republican has them but certainly every Republican in any position of leadership. That is how the uni-party stays a uni-party and the country keeps moving in the right (wrong) direction.
The Republican “leadership” of the House and Senate are undeniably opposed to true conservatives. With the aid of functionaries like Karl Rove and other establishment tools of the US Chamber of Commerce, they oppose any changes to the status quo (high taxes and big government, i.e., control of a large budget) and represent only themselves and a small, but very well funded segment of our society.
However, personal experience, logic and Ockham’s razor leads me to believe that the blackmail premise is entirely valid.
1. Talk to anyone who has been approached to, or seriously considered a run for a seat in Congress. He/she will tell you that, in order to obtain the funding necessary to win a seat, certain “compromises” and “agreements” with respect to voting are made in advance. Simplistically, “Vote however you like on gun control, but support all free trade bills.”
2. Personal experience has shown me that even the most patriotic of Americans can be corrupted by the power that DC represents. For many people, being “close to the flagpole” has its own special allure and they will do almost anything to stay there and hopefully get even closer - a near truism that applies not only to members of Congress, but to bureaucrats as well.
3. Logic tells us that all humans are flawed - some much more than others. Some tell the occasional “white lie”, while others cheat on their wives or husbands or embezzle millions. DC, with its atmosphere of influence, power and seeming invulnerability leads the flawed to push the envelope even further, thinking they can get away with anything - especially when no one (supposedly) is watching or listening.
4. Finally, the vast capability of the federal government to watch and listen to every one of us without distinguishing between members of Congress, Supreme Court justices and average citizens gives already flawed and corrupt officials at the highest levels of government untold power over those with the most to lose in the event their flaws and corruption are exposed.
Given the proliferation of what we euphemistically refer to as “opposition research”, coupled with the knowledge that most - if not all - politicians will use that research to their advantage, is there any reason whatsoever to believe that Republican leaders are NOT being blackmailed? Ockham’s razor would lead us to believe not...
It would explain a lot, wouldn’t it?
I don’t think there’s any great conspiracy going on. It’s been obvious from the start that both parties agreed at the beginning of this Administration that “The Historic First Black President” cannot be corrupt, conniving, or dumb. “The Historic First Black President” cannot be anything but brave, bold, smart, and inspiring. His wife, too, and the kids.
Obama has been untouchable because both parties think his symbolism is untouchable. What would happen if “The Historic First Black President” was an amoral crook? Why then, generations of little black children would be disappointed and disenchanted.
Looking at things that way explains almost everything that’s gone on in the last eight years.