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Brent Bozell: The Slow Death of the Republican Party
Breitbart ^ | August 27,2017 | Brent Bozell III

Posted on 08/27/2017 8:26:37 AM PDT by Hojczyk

And now we face the final test: the debt ceiling. Will we or won’t we stop the spending madness? Will the Republicans enact the cuts they’ve promised, or will they now be the ones to kick the can, piling evermore trillions of dollars of debt on their own grandchildren?

By every indication that’s precisely what they plan to do. The signal has come from President Trump, from Speaker Ryan, and from Majority Leader McConnell. The debt ceiling will be raised and no fiscal sanity will be restored.

There is no difference between Republicans and Democrats. Put them together. They are the swamp.

Just as Republicans have the power to enact the agenda they’ve pledged in toto, so too do they now own the federal government, in toto. It’s no longer Obamacare. It’s GOPcare. It’s no longer crazy liberal Democratic spending. It’s crazy liberal Republican spending. It’s no longer socialist Democratic Party taxation, it’s socialist Republican Party taxation. All the legislation authorizing all these programs, all the graft, all the waste, all the obscenity, all the immorality, and where Planned Parenthood is concerned, all the killing — all of it is now formally authored by the Republican Party.

Come the Congressional elections next year, and the presidential election in 2020, the Grand Old Party will once again bellow its hallowed promises. But this time it won’t work. This time there will be no straw men to blame. This time their voters will know those hallowed promises are not even hollow promises. They are lies.

These voters are tasting betrayal. They will not vote to swallow more vomit.

We are watching the GOP systematically committing suicide.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: bozell; gop; rnc; trends
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To: qaz123

Around 2010, I was offered a gov’t job in DC. I accepted. To be honest, I’d never been to DC in my life.

So I arrived. I was there for 1,273 days (yes, I counted). There’s not a single day that something of an unusual, or corrupted, or screwed-up episode did not occur. Around the clock....24 hours a day....it amazed me over the amount of screwed up episodes that occurred. Some involved government operations...some involved murders or shootings in DC....some involved nutcases....some involved the city metro-system.

My impression is that DC is dying...literally passing away as we speak. I reached some point where I just said enough, gave notice, and finally retired (leaving the area). About three months before I left....some some-time businessman who had a jewelry shop on the main drag about half-a-mile from my apartment. Mid-day....some guy walked in and shot the owner dead. No worry about getting caught or seen. It’s an attitude that exists around all of the region...they are all doing some wrong, and don’t worry if they get caught. Even the Senators.


41 posted on 08/27/2017 10:40:52 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: qaz123

No, it’s getting better, fast. We post 4-5 local expansions here on FR every day. There are cranes building everywhere. The #s are real.


42 posted on 08/27/2017 10:41:50 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: BookaT
I’m guessing you don’t know much about the railroad

So, has coal traffic increased or decreased on railroads? How much of rail volume is coal?

43 posted on 08/27/2017 10:51:52 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: chiller

Whole heartedly agree. Congress is the largest inhibitor


44 posted on 08/27/2017 10:53:22 AM PDT by Jarhead9297
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To: Hojczyk

There definitely needs to be some kind of reorganizing of both parties. Too many nuts running the jackass party who tacitly support violent street thugs, and too many milquetoasts in the GOP willing to pretend it’s not a problem. Then there’s the agenda driven media. Another problem.


45 posted on 08/27/2017 10:55:21 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: Hojczyk

The only reason I voted for Trump was Trump. The GOP had zip to do with it.

Once Trump is gone, the GOP will be history.


46 posted on 08/27/2017 10:57:45 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: qaz123
It would appear that the shareholders/stockholders mean more, than the people doing the actual work.

You are right. Just think of all of those investors, 401ks, IRAs, mutuals invested in these companies. Who isn't leveraging their retirement with the stock market anymore?

47 posted on 08/27/2017 11:02:26 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: qaz123
The railroad industry is simply going through some cyclical changes. CSX had a very good run after the late 1990s when they acquired a big piece of the Conrail system and got access to some of the most lucrative rail markets in the U.S.

I track the trucking industry pretty closely, and it seems to be doing OK overall but there's always room for improvement.

48 posted on 08/27/2017 11:06:31 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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To: qaz123
The only thing that could destroy this country is rot from the inside. And the cause of that rot can be pinpointed to 2 places: Washington, DC and Wall St.

I concur with the statement and would like to add that DC and Wall St. have strings that go beyond our shores. As another previously stated, things are not right and something has to give. Cheap labor and the bottom line rule the day. We are becoming peasants of servitude to 1% masters and indebted for generations until the house of cards collapses.

49 posted on 08/27/2017 12:04:31 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Steve_Seattle

What is the typical cost there?


50 posted on 08/27/2017 12:40:00 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: Cheerio
<>There is no difference between Republicans and Democrats.<>

I am no longer a Charlie Brown Republican.

51 posted on 08/27/2017 12:40:37 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: BookaT

How much does it pay?


52 posted on 08/27/2017 12:43:43 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: Alberta's Child

Yeah, but Bush was... Bush: the quintessential representative of the globaslist swamp.

So-called conservatives (e.g., Limbaugh) always defended Mister Isms.


53 posted on 08/27/2017 12:49:56 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: texican01

Yep!


54 posted on 08/27/2017 12:50:16 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: Hojczyk

The real enemy is the RNC: the one supposedly guarding your back but really stabbing it, not the one facing you.


55 posted on 08/27/2017 12:52:36 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: Jarhead9297

In my area (northeastern NJ) nobody has any misconceptions about the economy - it is still horrible, and we haven’t hit bottom yet (in terms of the “Greater Depression”). When people tell me the soaring stock market is a sign of strong recovery, I respond that the best way for companies to up their stock prices is to shed American workers.

At this point the performance of the stock market and that of American workers are inversely related; ObamaCare is being kept alive to transfer health care costs from employers to taxpayers, and this is helping many companies’ bottom lines (and therefor stock price).


56 posted on 08/27/2017 1:56:08 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Hugh the Scot

You are right and I was wrong.

We should have a Constitutional Amendment stating that the Federal Government has to abide by the Constitution.


57 posted on 08/27/2017 4:29:18 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Hojczyk

This is what Cultural Marxism looks like!!!


58 posted on 08/27/2017 4:40:18 PM PDT by Sons of Union Vets (Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory!)
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To: Kickass Conservative

That’s one witty rejoinder. Bravo.

It turns out that it’s up to you and I to hold our government accountable to constitutional limits. That we’ve done a poor job is no reflection on the document.


59 posted on 08/27/2017 4:50:38 PM PDT by Hugh the Scot ("The days of being a keyboard commando are over. It's time to get some bloody knuckles." -Drew68)
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To: Hugh the Scot

If we attempt to do that, the Democrat ANTIFA Commies will attack us and we’ll be blamed for inciting the Violence used against us.

We will also be arrested for defending ourselves.

Up is Down and Right is Wrong.
We are living inside an Episode of the Twilight Zone.


60 posted on 08/27/2017 5:16:10 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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