Posted on 02/02/2019 2:11:57 AM PST by Theoria
What the GOP did was erase my support of it.
FWIW, I don’t think wants to take over the GOP.
I think Trump wants to supplant it.
Paul Ryan betrayed conservatives twice before breakfast and then all day thereafter every day he was in the House of Representatives. He despised President Trump and his entire agenda was to injure our president. He didn’t fool anybody. The Congressional Republicans don’t fool us either. We will hold them accountable in primaries.
Congress needs to be moved to its home districts where they can meet electronically.
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If ‘they’ want to make Politics a job, we should pay them accordingly.
Pick a number, say 5 mill. that goes directly to the Congressman/Senator/etc.
They get 1 paid R/T to DC per year to meet.
Take a base like Bolling or Anacostia and put up comfortable dorms for them to live in for the week or two that they will be in Session. And a place to stay if they have LEGITIMATE business in DC.
Provide Security for the Building they work in while in DC.
Support ONE office per district, (you can bet that a district will be a district NOT a line drawn for 200 miles connecting two ‘neighborhoods’.
The Pol becomes an employer and his staff and aides pay come out of his 5 mil...he can hire his wife, mother etc etc etc their salary and taxes etc come out of HIS 5 mil.
What this may get us is some law changes as to how WE get to travel, pay taxes, own a company etc etc like that Fine Liberal from years ago -George McGovern tried to open a business and was heard asking ‘What hell have we imposed on the ordinary citizen?’ (or something like that)
It is WRONG when ANY organization that is receiving money from the government then turns around and doles out millions of dollars to politicians to ensure the ‘free money’ is coming in their direction.
These same Senators that P&M about the NRA and Private businesses backing candidates sit back and take money from Abortion Mills, AARP, NPR etc that are receiving taxpayer money and then spending it against some of us.
At least with NRA ‘we’ can quit or join at will if we like/don’t like there stand on an issue.
We don’t have that choice with Planned Parenthood etc etc
If these ‘Perfumed Princes’ and ‘Power Mongers’ have to live among the unwashed citizenry and ‘feel’ their everyday pain ‘WE’ might get some long time relief.
It is a crying shame that the day a citizen gets elected to Congress for his two year term, he/she basically have to start raising money and campaigning for the next election.
It was NOT the intention for the ‘Public Servants’ to be spending ALL their life as a Politician,
it isn’t/wasn’t designed to be a JOB in the ‘Biblical Sense’ of the word Job or as Joe Biden said...that THREE letter word: JOBS. or to a triple amputee ‘Stand up and be recognized’ etc etc... THESE dolts leave their homes and come to DC to represent US - I think a lot of them are just foisted upon us as the citizenry of their own state doesn’t want to have to put up with them...
I used to return their mailers with a blast of criticism. And I’ve also done what you suggest. Problem is, the only ones to see it or hear it are poor low level drones and volunteers; probably an overworked and underpaid female. The fat cats who need to hear it, never do.
Long before 1/20/17, and for weeks afterwards, I posted here that Trump had six months to denounce the GOP and prepare a slate for November 2018.
Many Congressional Republicans are very supportive of the Chamber of Commerce. They have a desire for illegal aliens to use for cheap labor. These workers are paid such low wages that they then must have their basic needs subsidized by American taxpayers. This is wrong.
The bottom line is that Republicans have a constituent problem. I read on twitter the other day, that people are identifying as the MAGA Party. Republicans better get their shite solidly in support of a Trump.
I am still a registered Democrat. About the time I got to thinking I ought to change my registration to GOP I looked and realized that it was no longer any better than the Democrats. As a Democrat I enjoy getting mail from the likes of Pelosi (’s office) and I get to answer their surveys in ways they don’t like. I send the Party a dollar every year. That gets me invited to their cookout in the park at election time. I find that a good quarter of the people at those things think pretty much the way I do. Most of us became Democrats in our youth because it was the only way we had any voice in local and state elections down here. That has all changed now as the republicans have local primaries now too.
A NYT wishful thinking opinion piece to minimize the success of Trump policies. Time for our side to stop accepting every premise that the MSM puts forth. We post these articles then start a discussion around their points. Not a winning strategy.
Another Liberal-Left attempt to weaken Trump and divide Trump and the party.
What the grass roots of the GOP has to always remember is that “the party” is not the GOP legislators in Washington D.C., it is they the grass roots GOP voters. They will keep “the GOP” and their GOP President, Trump, together; as long as THEY don’t let outfits lije the NYSlimes divide them.
'Throughout the last Congress, Republican leaders simply declined to take up legislation that reflected the priority of the president but not their own. There were no votes on immigration restrictions or funding for a border wall, protectionist trade legislation or infrastructure.'
'The Trump budget proposals for the 2017 and 2018 fiscal years requested deep cuts in nondefense discretionary spending. Congressional Republicans quietly buried them and delivered bills both years that increased nondefense spending.'
Your missing my point, which is despite the congressional republicans, the Trump train moves on. So the MSM can post up about them neutering him to suite their purpose that he is a paper tiger but I dismiss that premise because while we all know the GOPe are useless, Trumps message still shines through. That ain’t the attitude of status quo.
Generic repub pols sicken me. They mostly are deceitful quislings and losers. The only reason they survive at all is the LIB lunatic alternative. What a pathetic predicament. MAGA! GO President Trump!!!
Republican leaders in Congress skillfully used a variety of tactics to minimize the president’s influence and maximize their own control over public policy.....
And how did that work out for them? They lost the house and many are gone.
Rats put party over country. Repubs put chamber of commerce over country.
Gee, that’s the reason Republicans lost 40 seats in the House.
>.Paul Ryan, is that you? That is the attitude of the status quo. Everything is not okay, and not even looking at such issues is folly.
‘Throughout the last Congress, Republican leaders simply declined to take up legislation that reflected the priority of the president but not their own. There were no votes on immigration restrictions or funding for a border wall, protectionist trade legislation or infrastructure.’
‘The Trump budget proposals for the 2017 and 2018 fiscal years requested deep cuts in nondefense discretionary spending. Congressional Republicans quietly buried them and delivered bills both years that increased nondefense spending.’
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Which is why no Freepers should continue to be under the delusion that the RINOs are anything but Dems in disguise, playing their part to keep Americans divided. They do their masters’ bidding, same as the Dems, because they serve the SAME masters. It’s past time that the RINO lovers realize who these people really are.
I think most GOP’ers and Conservatives are satisfied with the status quo. What this writer overlooks is that Trump May be somewhat the Constitutionalist. He follows the law. Despite his rhetoric he actually and purposely works within a Constitutional framework. He is making Congress do their constitutional duties. He also is also providing them cover.
I used to be active in the party at the local and county level. I made myself unpopular by telling those fools the brutal truth. It got to the point where they would literally run away from me at meetings and party functions.
I’ll still campaign volunteer for worthy candidates but have renounced the party as functionally brain-dead.
If you guys have to blame some one, blame the stupid assed anti American voters.
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