Posted on 07/12/2015 7:24:53 AM PDT by cotton1706
Every week sparks a new fire for GOP leaders, and the right flank is feeling emboldened to challenge Speaker John Boehner.
House Republicans have entered a new season of sniping.
GOP leadership has spent weeks twisting arms to get dozens of lawmakers — even some subcommittee chairs — to pony up to the campaign arm, a basic annual obligation of party loyalty.
The party is warring over funding for disease research, bickering over an education bill and deeply divided on the possible renewal of the Export-Import Bank, an object of scorn among the far right. On Wednesday evening, House Republican leaders had to work the floor feverishly to pass the education measure, clearing it with no margin for error.
The bipartisan Kumbaya that swept Washington after Congress cleared a trade package last month has completely dissipated. And Republicans are clashing in private — and, at times, openly — over their entire agenda.
The broad disagreement on so many fronts lately is striking.
Congress is almost certain, again, to fail to come to a timely agreement on a long-term highway bill. Republican leaders had to abruptly pull the emergency brake on a sweeping reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration, amid a tiff about privatizing air traffic controllers.
As if all that wasn’t enough, a showdown over government funding is fast approaching. The GOP-controlled Senate and House are at loggerheads, and if they can’t broker a deal with Democrats, the government will shut down at the end of September. A deadline to raise the debt ceiling looms late this year or possibly in early 2016.
House GOP leaders face a collection of conservatives once again feeling emboldened by their ability to stifle the leadership’s agenda without retribution. The latest, most glaring example: Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), who lost but then regained his chairmanship in the course of a few days, was greeted by raucous applause from constituents in his district for taking on the Washington establishment.
Well, yes, of course Politico
And Socialist Sexist Sanders is gaining on Clinton Corruption
Where’s that story?
I want to see that backstabbing, duplicitous, bunch of traitors completely annihilated at the level where they have any influence of say so about our lives as real Americans. The only thing they think about is their power, their perks, their ease on the DC party circuit and how the liberal media discusses them. They have absolutely no connection with normal Americans. NONE.
Time for a third party to replace both the demodummies and the rinos. We need a complete overhaul in Washington and the time is NOW~
Good.
It would be extremely useful if a group of talented conservative writers would expose the propaganda and deliberate distortions promulgated by Politico and other left-wing organs. For example, the sentence I reference would be appropriately translated as follows:
and deeply divided on the possible renewal of the Export-Import Bank, an object of scorn among people who oppose corporate welfare based upon political loyalty.
That could be expounded upon, but I think you get the idea that use of "far right" is purely propaganda and intentionally misleading.
What about it? Anyone willing to help the effort?
You ain’t seen nuthin
These cretans were given the chance to change things by the voting public and they ran right to obamas side and spat in our faces. Add Trump to the mix and they all will have to go to the shed for a beating. Now this is entertainment!
Highway bill?
Don’t they know that all of our highways were re-paved with a trillion shovel-ready dollars?
Keep your eye on the Repubes who walk away from the fight with other Repubes and the ones who comment and criticize (Trump for instance). The ones who are critical of other Repubes are the Dems of the group...weed them out now and get down to the true actual conservatives of the group!
The out-of-touch cabal at the Clinton-created Politico doesn’t realize that their worst problem is not the wheezing old Republican Party. They should be praying for its survival because they own that decaying carcass. They ought to be terrified at what will take its place.
Bills that benefit who?
Bills that only benefit Big Business.
But Politico is not worried about Democrat infighting?
Oh, please. They're sitting in a back room determining who can best get away with siding with Boehner on each issue. Until it's our side that's winning..."just barely" or whatever, Boehner and his paymasters still control the game. Because that's what us little folks are to them. A game to be played.
The question is -Will Bush go third party and hurt the Republican party. It is now clear that he has no other choice. I don’t think bush is in it seriously. I think he is only in it for Karl Rove and the old white house haunts like John Sanunu Remember he pushed the big tax increase after Bush said “No new. taxes, read my lips” . But the train has left the station on the liberals. We are closing the border. We are going to bring jobs back and make great trade deals and these dinosaurs can go fish in the 3rd party pool.
We are coming...
It does not even matter what they are fighting over now, they caved on the trade bill. They could have taken a stand.
This is the ONLY thing the GOP is worried about....they are NOT worried about the economy, the health care of Americans, the jobs of Americans. They are worried how will the lobbyists support their ‘rich and famous’ lives....
This is why Donald Trump is such a threat to them, he's telling the truth, and in their face, and they can't live the way you and I are made to live....
It's almost like the press whores themselves to the opposition research boys in the Democrat War Rooms...
Wonder why that is? /s
Third party? I’m waiting for a second party. So far, neither “side” has taken a meaningful stand against the dictator.
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