Posted on 04/26/2017 8:26:57 AM PDT by Helicondelta
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel warned fellow Republicans that voters “are going to hold us accountable” if “we do not keep the campaign promises that were made,” during an interview Wednesday on “The Laura Ingraham Show.”
McDaniel predicted many Americans would be frustrated by the news a downpayment to start construction of the border wall would be dropped from a must-pass spending bill in Congress this week. Noting that building the border wall was “front and center” in Trump’s 2016 campaign, the RNC chair insisted that “our voters are going to expect us to act on it.”
“I know that our voters are going to hold us accountable in 2018 if we do not keep the campaign promises that we made,” McDaniel said. “And so, when you get to Washington, sometimes you forget what was said outside. And it’s important that we bring that back to Washington and let them hear what the voters expect of this government and this president.”
LifeZette editor-in-chief Laura Ingraham referred to reports of GOP leaders “sitting behind closed doors” and laughing at the prospect of building the wall, to which McDaniel warned those lawmakers are “going to lose the trust of our base.”
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It’s not Trump...Look at how BOTH parties are handcuffing anything he tries...he cannot do this alone...He is not a dictator...
The problem is all these “professional politicians” we keep electing that don’t don’t give a damn about you, me or the country...They only care about their cushy Washington positions....
It’s so damned obvious with this election...
Corker, Hatch, Heller and Flake all voted for Rubio’s Gang of Amnesty.
That’s where we should start in the Senate.
In the House there are so many it’s impossible to list them all.
A great deal can be done to restore border control by executive action. I gather that Trump has made a good start there. I imagine there are many regulations that need to be changed. That may happen in time; Trump needs to get his administration staffed first. The sanctuary cities issue just became much harder that anyone in TrumpWorld ever imagined. And anything requiring legislation is going to be much harder.
Over-promising is a dangerous game. Trump won the nomination by promising unrealistically quick and easy solutions. The danger right now is that Trump supporters will react to every disappointment not with sober reassessment and doubling down on the hard work that has to be done, but by blaming the people who knew what they were talking about in the first place.
The voters sent him a congress of RINOs.
But he better get everything done....or else you will put a Democrat in charge?
“Stupid party”? Please! They can’t be anymore stupid than some of the retards that make up their voters.
Maybe it is time for the peanut gallery to start being hep responsible for the people they keep electing for once.
Blame the RNC for forcing RINO's on us.
I think people need to start realizing that politicians do not work for the people anymore. They are working for global and corporation interests, pure and simple. If people can finally realize that one key concept, then the people who need to be Washington making laws would be there and the global and corporate cronies would be the ones crying, instead of “average mom and pop USA.”
Would Free Trade, no tariffs and cheap labor be the platform for your Conservative Party?
The problem is that the establishment Republicans don’t care and still have the ‘minority’ mentality. They get perks and a turn at the DC money troughs even if they are in the minority. That is also why the Dems still manage to control the issues.
The battle is as much against the GOPestablishment as against the radical Dems who have taken over that party. The Republican Party, as such, will NEVER be reformed from within. In order to do that, it would take a swamp-draining and who is going to kick the establish out?
That is what happens when only two political parties hold enough power and clout to run things. They both become corrupt and ignore the will of the voters. They find their existence is a co-operative process with each making sure the other gets some of the perks and pork.
Republicans have a history of ‘enjoying’ their status as the minority party. When they do get power, they blow it: Frist-Lot-Hastert were about as inept as leaders as McConnell-Ryan.
“Sit home and default to the Dems?” Absolutely. In fact, I’m not opposed to voting for a Democrat just to kill the Republican.
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Isn’t that - to some degree - what we did when we voted for Donald Trump?
(I state this in a good way. Not critical.)
Without Trump’s signature, or 2/3 of both houses of Congress, there is no budget.
He has as much power, in one man, as both houses.
He can compel the wall.
But it’s the Republicans in congress that don’t want to have that vote. Somehow they have convinced Trump that it’s not in his interest to force it. If that is the case, he should tell his base what he GOT in return for the wall funding.
He won’t because I fear he is becoming one of them.
Any rep up for election next year needs a Tea Party or Trump supported person to dethrone these so called RepubliCANT BassTurds!
Abso-$%^KING-Lutely since I’m no longer a Republican I’ll campaign against them because if someone is an enemy I don’t care what letter they have after his/her name.
Yes.
She’s his niece.
We’ll walk if they leave Obamacare also.
So simple even a Romney can get it.
I think I will Fedex a concrete block to Ryan. A few thousand of those would clog up the House mail room.
In all thing that are holy NO!!!!!!!!!!! Anything related to that weaselly RINO I will not trust. Who the hell voted her in? In 2017 have we not learned that these crony dynasties do not work? No Clintons.... No Bushes.... No Kennedys.... No Romenys!@!!!!#$%
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