Posted on 09/18/2015 8:34:04 AM PDT by cotton1706
Republican congressional leaders John Boehner and Mitch McConnell have become a big, wide target on the 2016 campaign trail. Not just for Democrats, as you’d expect, but for presidential candidates of their own party who are calling out the House speaker and Senate majority leader for not doing more to advance a conservative agenda in Congress.
Sen. Ted Cruz, one of the most anti-establishment candidates in the field, has taken the lead in criticizing the GOP leaders. Even some of the more establishment-oriented candidates like New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie have heaped blame on them.
Those candidates are playing to a sentiment that is running strong in Republican activist ranks: Many conservatives are bitter with disappointment that, even after Republicans won control of both the House in 2010 and the Senate in 2014, party leaders are not fighting harder for conservative ideals.
Messrs. Boehner and McConnell have faced these attacks for years from grassroots activists. But now the complaints are coming from the political heights of the presidential campaign as well.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, speaking during the GOP presidential debate Wednesday night, complained that Congress hadn’t passed legislation to repeal the “Obamacare” health-care law, defund Planned Parenthood, or block the Iran nuclear deal.
“We won the Senate. We won the House,” Mr. Jindal said, in the debate among second-tier presidential candidates at the Ronald Reagan Library and Foundation in Simi Valley, Calif. “What was the point of winning those chambers if we’re not going to do anything with them?”
That kind of anger was expressed more personally and bluntly on a protest sign held aloft at a recent demonstration against the Iran nuclear deal: “Boehner McConnell–Repugnant Traitors.”
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They expected Jeb to be flying high on their bought momentum, and the republican leadership being praised for their showing their ability to "govern."
Too bad, oh too bad!!
There is no reason to vote Republican as long as Boehner and McConnell are still in their jobs. Those two must go. They are playing for the other team.
Has there ever been a president that has faced so little opposition as Obama? If I remember right, Bush faced greater opposition from congressional Republicans. McConnell, and Boehner should just recess both houses. They aren’t doing anything but rubber stamping Obama’s demands anyway.
Republicans were not supposed to notice that Boner and McConnell have been aligned with the RATs all along. And heck even if they did, Republicans are too classy to say anything about it, cuz that would be ruuuude.
McConnell, and Boehner should just recess both houses. They aren’t doing anything but rubber stamping Obama’s demands anyway.
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Agree. Staying in session will accomplish nothing. May as well shut down the congress until 2017.
We need to make it clear to the GOP/RNC that a lot of their representatives and senators should start packing their bags. We will not support a lame party that stabs us in the back every day. We’ve had enough and will be voting with out feet.
I ask this of someone who knows better then me...how big a part of what goes on and what positions are taken does the RNC and Reince Preibus have? It seems since he has been at the helm, the party had started governing more to the left.
While we’re at it, add Kevin McCarthy.
Yes. And as far as monetary donations, the RNC is getting big big bucks from lobbyists and small bucks from us. Whose interest do you think they’re gonna be in it for? Well Trump has exposed that. So basically the RNC is taking our small money only to vote against our interests because the big money is against our interests.
Right. Remember, the GOP only wants our money and our votes, but not our principles and our convictions.
Yes and they don’t really need our money. But they take it so we have skin in the game and will therefore get out on election day and vote for their guy.
Unless the GOP removes Boehner and McConnell (for starters) there’s no way I’ll vote for any GOP incumbents or candidates for congress. It would be pointless to do so because the Dems still run the show on Capitol Hill, thanks to the current Republican “leadership”.
I’m not sure that anyone is at the helm in the GOP. That would be too close to being accountable for something, and they don’t want anything to do with responsibility. They just want us to vote for them because they’re not Democrats. That old tactic may have worked in the past but its not going to work for them in 2016.
“Republican” leadership that threatens their members if they don’t vote with the RATS. Nah thanks.
”… for not doing more to advance a conservative agenda in Congress."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Regarding advancing the so-called conservative agenda in Congress, patriots need to bear the following in mind. One of the very few issues that the states have delegated to Congress, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to address where domestic policy is concerned is to regulate the US Mail Service (1.8.7). And I’m not sure how Congress would regulate the US Mail Service with a conservative or liberal slant.
In other words, most of Congress’s domestic social spending programs, Social Security, Obamacare as examples, are based on constitutionally nonexistent federal government powers.
The ill-conceive 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and corrupt senators and the unconstitutional taxing and spending programs that they helped to establish along with it.
The GOPe is so out of touch with reality they never saw this coming. Republicans hate the Republican Party.
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