Posted on 03/11/2022 11:37:00 AM PST by cotton1706
By releasing his agenda for America, Sen. Rick Scott makes other Republicans look bad, and they don’t like it one bit.
A funny thing happened last week: a Washington politician displayed leadership, vision, and courage — all at the same time, no less!
His name is Rick Scott, the junior U.S. senator from Florida, and the former governor of that free state. He released an 11-point, 60-page agenda explaining what he thinks are the biggest problems America faces today. Not only that, he offered common-sense policy fixes. This was particularly notable because Scott is chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which is responsible for electing more Republicans to the Senate.
Scott is a principled conservative, so it came as no surprise that Democrats attacked. But what Scott might not have anticipated was how many in his own party would pile on. First behind closed doors, and then in public, senior Senate Republicans not only disavowed Scott’s policy agenda, but criticized him for even offering it. It is the second part that’s the real problem.
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I'm not sure if they (McConnell & Scott) are playing a game or not.
But Jim DeMint is one of the good guys, so an article from him on the subject is worth reading.
The GOP wants all the good committee positions but doesn’t want to impede the communists.
We had this discussion awhile back when Scott released his plan and I thought it was a good first step, but should be improved on and slimmed down, from 60 pages to something that can be explained in 2-4 minutes and have 3-4 main bullet points.
Biden and the Democrats have so screwed up this country, the Republicans will probably take control of at least the House without doing much, but if they want a landslide of 70 seats or more they have to give voters a reason to vote for them other than we aren’t Democrats.
I agree that the GOP should issue a plan with SMART Goals, achievable goals, timelines, just like successful private businesses do.
The Republicans could have 90% of both houses and almost Allo he seats in every State house and they’d be sending out fundraising letters talking about their razor thin majorities.
It’s because the majority of so-called Republican legislators are completely comfortable with their second-tier powers that Democrats deign to give them to be the “loyal-but-not-too-vocal-opposition.” Simpering coward liar shills only in it for themselves.
90% of them have no ideas and no guts. They thought Obama wouldn’t get reelected and they could pussyfoot around too.
Bridgestone. (that’s BS for your non-Nihonophiles)
Everyone knows what the GOP says it wants to do.
1) Drill, drill, drill, pipe, pipe, pipe, tanker, tanker, tanker, make American self-sufficient again.
2) Get leftist racism out of the schools and the office.
3) Get leftist sexual perversion out of the schools and the office.
4) Make medical costs transparent and medical facilities competitive.
5) Ditch China. (Mitch doesn’t wanna ditch, but we’ll ditch him instead.)
6) Close the border. Everyone comes through the front door or not at all.
6) BFFs, in no particular order: India, Taiwan, Philippines, Japan, Canada, Mexico (minus cartels), Israel, most of Europe, democratic Africa, democratic Latin America.
7) Enemies, in no particular order: China, Russia, Iran, Turkey, Eritrea, Somalia, Algeria, undemocratic Latin America. Enemies can become friends by giving up their communism/fascism/totalitarianism.
You could add more, but that’s enough to run on and mean it were we to win.
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Republicans have gone Spend crazy - and most of the money went to damage Republicans.
They loathe the base.
They voted for Trillions of Woke Social Engineering problems to overwrite America.
What a wonderful response!!!
They want to go back to the way things were before, when they had a role to play and they knew what it was.
Things were so much easier then.
DeMint is at least one of the better guys.
The political game is played by being better than (different from) the other guy. Marginally better (different) is enough. There is no reason to be radically different, no need to offer a specific alternative. Just “I won’t do THAT (what my opponent will do)” is sufficient.
Only a few who get in office are not in love with government. It’s a fool’s errand to go in and think you can make a difference. Disappointment lies there. Could be fun, I suppose, to just be sand in the gears, but the true good guys haven’t won anything worth mentioning.
Worked for the Dems. Trump bad vote for us.
I can’t say I’d be motivated to vote for a RINO.
And sadly, probably too many voters will support the GOP Establishment.
Best reason I could come with is ‘they suck a little bit less than the democRats’.
That would be called truth in advertising at this juncture.
They don’t want to put forth an agenda because they don’t want to do the things they would have to promise to do. It would be another “contract with America” or “Tea Party” or “Repeal and Replace Obamacare” situation: they’d have to immediately repudiate themselves after they got in and then get yelled at by the people they lied to. Better to just tell the truth: that they don’t have an agenda that’s different than Bidens.
I almost added ...send campaign contributions.
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