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Revealed! Inside Look at Why GOP Won't Fight Obama
wnd.com ^ | September 4, 2015 | Garth Kant

Posted on 09/04/2015 7:38:22 AM PDT by upbeat5

WASHINGTON – Why won’t Republican leadership in Congress fight President Obama?

It’s the question that frustrates 75 percent of GOP voters and an issue that has likely helped Donald Trump skyrocket in the polls.

Now, WND has obtained a revealing look into the thought process of the congressional Republican elite during a candid email exchange with a Senate leadership aide.

It showed why GOP leadership is apparently so reluctant to effectively confront Obama on such key issues as defunding executive amnesty, Obamacare and Planned Parenthood.

The dialogue also revealed why Republican leadership employs a strategy of confronting the president with words, but has expressed a reluctance to take risks and to use perhaps the only potent tool in lawmakers’ arsenal: the power of the purse.

It was not a confrontational exchange but one of substance. The Senate aide was gracious enough to take the time to spell out GOP leadership’s position clearly and thoughtfully. WND responded with what it believed to be the views of the GOP party base.

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: fight; gop; obama; uniparty
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To: HANG THE EXPENSE

Oh, so true.


61 posted on 09/05/2015 4:32:40 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true.)
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To: upbeat5

GOPe = Whigs........buh-bye!


62 posted on 09/05/2015 6:23:20 AM PDT by paulcissa (The first requirement of Liberalism is to stand on your head and tell the world they're upside down)
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To: upbeat5

The ‘do nothings’ .

plan parenthood, baby parts, ObamaCare, queer “marriage”, the illegal invasion, the Debt....nut’n..nut’n..nut’n..


63 posted on 09/05/2015 6:50:48 AM PDT by Leep (Cut the crap!)
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To: GraceG
Pedo Files.....

...and pushing amnesty for 40+ million illegal aliens makes them "Pedro philes".

64 posted on 09/05/2015 7:20:18 AM PDT by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
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65 posted on 09/05/2015 7:37:43 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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