During President Obama’s first two years in office, his party controlled the House and for a time had a supermajority in the Senate. Almost entirely on their own they enacted a nearly $1 trillion stimulus bill, Obamacare and Dodd-Frank financial regulations. Not for the first or last time, alternative suggestions from Republicans were dismissed out of hand.A bigger pile of lies and doublespeak I have not read in a long time. Never mind libeling Reagan at the end of this part of the screed.
Following that, the American people elected Republicans to the majority in the House. And Mr. Obama’s liberal platform ground to a halt. Spending actually went down. Republicans, led by Speaker Boehner, provided the check and balance voters had demanded.
But somewhere along the road, a number of voices on the right began demanding that the Republican Congress not only block Mr. Obama’s agenda but enact a reversal of his policies. They took to the airwaves and the Internet and pronounced that congressional Republicans could undo the president’s agenda—with him still in office, mind you—and enact into law a conservative vision for government, without compromise.
Strangely, according to these voices, the only reason that was not occurring had nothing to do with the fact that the president was unlikely to repeal his own laws, or that under the Constitution, absent the assent of the president or two-thirds of both houses of Congress, you cannot make law. The problem was a lack of will on the part of congressional Republican leaders.
Now we see that these same voices have turned to the threat of a government shutdown or a default on the debt as the means by which we can force President Obama to agree to their demands. I wonder what they would have said, if during the last two years of President Bush’s term, the Democratic congressional majority had tried something similar.
The tragedy here is that these voices have not been honest with our fellow conservatives. They have not been honest about what can be accomplished when your party controls Congress, but not the White House. As a result we missed chances to achieve important policies for the good of the country.
The response I often hear to these points is: “Well, Republicans at least need to fight.” On this I agree. It is imperative that we fight for what we believe in. But we should fight smartly. I have never heard of a football team that won by throwing only Hail Mary passes, yet that is what is being demanded of Republican leaders today. Victory on the field is more often a result of three yards and a cloud of dust. In politics this means incremental progress, winning hearts and minds before winning the vote—the kind of governance Ronald Reagan perfected. …
These are they guys who promised and lied to us
Shut up Eric. Next time find a speaker of the house that can’t be bought, bribed or blackmailed into going against what the people elected him to do.
Yup all the RINO scum like Boner and Cantor need to go.
Next up? Graham and McConnell and McCain. And more
Oh shut up, you loser. How much you making on K-Street these days anyway?
I am proud to have played a small role in helping Dave Brat unseat The weasel Eric Cantor.
He was about to betray us on amnesty last summer and we dispatched him, thereby stopping Rubio’s Gang bill in its tracks.
Many more Cheap Labor Express owned Congressman need to be Cantorized
Senore’ Cantor is sooo very much yesterdays news.1st Cantor. Next John Boehner, and we are coming for you next there Mitch.
Boner needs to put on an apron and get on his hands and knees to help Jim Backus clean the floor so that Conservatives don't have to step in any of his mess.
So Cantor, a fat cat K street Millionaire lobbyist now just happen to pull together this pathetic tribute to this Crook .Bonehead resignation is being was spun as Bonehead just woke up yesterday and quit ! Who believes this spin. Bonehead has the record for having more former Aides in charge of K Street lobbyist groups. K Street Fired Bonehead. Trump has them freaked out and scared that Amnesty, TPP disaster, H1 Visas ,and never ending crony capialist deals will be stopped . McCarthy is a younger ,nasty , abd devious creep who hates conservatives and K Strett thinks can get all there demands rammed thru before the 2016 election scare off the bought off Reps. Read this. It looks like Zuckerberg , the left wing SF Amnesty Pimp not only owns Rubio but a House Speaker too ! http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-gop-silicon-valley-20140908-story.html
Same ole’ bullshit......rhinos can never seem to do conservative stuff.....explain how we had the House, the Senate and the presidency under Geo. W Bush and had record spending, pushed for amnesty, and cut not one dept. budget?