Posted on 09/16/2015 5:13:04 AM PDT by Kaslin
That and not being owned by the RNC.
Cordially,
“He doesn’t have to make deals because he can always shut down the government if they don’t cave, knowing that the media will blame the Republicans for the shutdown and the public will be fooled into thinking that is the case.”
The Republicans can easily eliminate the shutdown threat. Instead of sending one giant budget bill to the president, they can send hundreds or thousands of individual appropriations bills funding each agency or even each program. The president can then choose which to sign and which to veto. No government shutdown unless he vetoes all of them. In that case, even the most stupid voter would have to recognize it is the president shutting down the government. It is the single giant “all or nothing” spending bill, sent to the president at the last minute, that gives the president his power.
Why won’t the GOP fund the government in hundreds or thousands of individual spending bills? Perhaps they like the drama.
Seriously????
That might explain why I had photographic evidence of Dems violating election laws (not sure if it qualified as voter fraud, but they were flagrantly violating the law after being repeatedly warned not to) in 2012 and the local Repubs were pretty excited about it, but did very little about it.
All three branches of government have been corrupted completely. And the media, in a sense (propaganda branch), makes it FOUR completely corrupt branches of government.
Lucky...at least you had the one opportunity to vote “for” a president!! I’m 47 and my presidential votes have always been because the other guy was worse thus an “against” vote. I decided after the last election, no more “against” voting for me in any level election.
Alternatively, we hate the GOPe so badly that there is a clear majority for anti-establishmentarians.
Trump + Cruz + Carson > 50%.
Suck it, RINOs.
In his Presidency he has transformed the Presidency to that of Elective Dictatorship.
Psephologists of varying stripes attribute this discontent to varying causes. Conservatives blame insufficiently aggressive Republican congressional leaders. Liberals blame Hillary Clinton's closeness to plutocrats and her home email system.
No, Michael, it isn't Obama, it is virtually ALL of the politicians in DC that are responsible for the rise of Trump (and Sanders, for that matter). It is nothing more complicated than the FACT that the political class has miserably failed the people of this country. Hillary Clinton qualified for the WH? Really? What did she ACTUALLY do to earn that kind of reputation? She is nothing more than a self-serving, corrupt politician (and not a very good politician, at that - she's CLEARLY riding on her husband's coat tails, to this day). Just serving in office makes you qualified for NOTHING - and, in fact, seems to be a DIS-qualifying factor more than anything else. We don't WANT more of the same, get it?
As for the Republicans, they've become so comfortable as a minority party that they just want to be there, to be invited to the "right" cocktail parties in Georgetown. They couldn't give a rat's ass about the base of the Party that sent them there - and, in fact, look at the base as a bigger enemy than the Democrats.
Well, Michael, we have had enough of this crap - THAT is why Trump and Sanders are so popular, because they are NOT typical pols, they say what they think (damn, but that is refreshing) and they just don't care what anyone in the media says (again, DAMN, but that is refreshing).
Michael, to paraphrase a well-known statement about war: "Politics is too important to leave to the politicians."
Or perhaps it's because they are the stupid party.
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