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Posted on 05/08/2025 8:09:51 AM PDT by george76
What’s become increasingly clear is that absent Trump and a few Republicans, the GOP lacks the willingness and ability to govern..
Throughout the 2024 election cycle, Republicans pledged that, if elected, they would use their congressional majorities to reverse the disastrous policies enacted by President Biden and Democrats. Whether it was bringing down Bidenflation or curbing the border invasion, the campaign message from the GOP was clear: Elect us and we’ll fix it.
But now that they’ve been given the reins of power, many congressional Republicans have shown little interest in actually governing in accordance with the pitch they made to voters just a few short months ago.
On Wednesday, reporting surfaced that a cabal of House Republicans is fighting efforts to end the flow of federal taxpayer funds to Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, which also offers harmful chemical and surgical castration procedures. According to NOTUS, this group of lawmakers — which reportedly included Republican Reps. Mike Lawler, Brian Fitzpatrick, and Jen Kiggans — “made it clear to House GOP leadership that they oppose adding a measure to cut federal funding to Planned Parenthood” to the House’s reconciliation package.
So, if slashing the taxpayer subsidization of entities that terminate unborn babies isn’t on the budget chopping block for Republicans, then what is?
It’s apparently not fully repealing Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act or making significant reforms and reductions to Medicaid. Congressional GOPers have come out opposing both options over the course of the party’s reconciliation negotiations.
And what about enshrining President Trump’s executive actions (abolishing the Education Department and DOGE cuts) or other conservative-backed priorities (judicial reform and major spending cuts) into the package? Where’s the sense of urgency among Republicans to do those things?
While time will tell what a final reconciliation bill will entail, the writing on the wall does not bode well for conservative voters wanting to enact generational change at the federal level. Much like their failed 2017 effort to repeal and replace Obamacare, many congressional Republicans seem more interested in protecting Democrats’ overreaching and destructive policies than defanging them.
What’s become increasingly clear is that, absent Trump and a few Republicans, the GOP lacks the willingness and ability to govern.
Unlike their Democrat counterparts, Republicans have no concrete, collective worldview. The party is a coalition of competing ideological factions that fail to agree upon a singular vision of what is viewed as American success, a reality that inevitably produces the type of intraparty policy disputes evidenced in the ongoing reconciliation negotiations.
The GOP’s biggest defenders will often concede that the party has its issues but argue that a Republican-run government is better than a Democrat one because the latter’s policies are far more dangerous and catastrophic. While that may be true, it doesn’t change the long-term consequences of Republicans’ fecklessness.
Putting a Band-Aid on a leaky pipe doesn’t fix the leaky pipe. It merely slows the leakage and neglects to fix the root of the problem.
The same is true of having a GOP-run Congress.
If electing Republicans is only about temporarily stopping the bleeding caused by Democrats without repealing their disastrous policies and replacing them with conservative-based solutions, then what is the point of having a Republican-run Congress at all? Under this logic, conservatives would essentially be voting for managed decline over immediate decline. In the end, everyone still loses.
This is in no way an advocation for Democrat control of government. It is a diagnosis of the establishment rot plaguing the Republican Party, and a call to action for conservatives to start taking self-governance seriously.
Being an American citizen doesn’t mean showing up to vote every two to four years and going home until the next election. It’s a duty that requires paying attention to and engaging with one’s representatives (at all levels of government) and involving oneself in the political process as much as possible.
This could mean participating in primaries to oust Republicans who fail to abide by their voters’ wishes, showing up at town halls or local board meetings, or contacting legislators about a certain nomination or bill and encouraging like-minded friends to do the same. It could also include pressuring Trump to make better endorsements and hold weak-kneed Republicans’ feet to the fire for sidelining conservative priorities in critical legislation (like major spending cuts in his “big, beautiful” reconciliation package).
The bottom line is that the Republican Party is only as good as the voters who comprise it are willing to make it.
Yes, the entrenched establishment is going to fight tooth and nail to stop conservatives from taking back their party. But the alternative (i.e., doing nothing) means the current cycle in which Democrats destroy the country while Republicans stand around kicking rocks will continue — and that is a pattern this country cannot afford.
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The motto the Republicans in Congress should always have had is “Taking you to Socialism a little more slowly”.
Or; recklessly spending us into massive debt, but we complain about our spending as our Dems friends brag about it.
Other than Jim Jordan, I don’t know any Republicans in Congress who I would trust to carry through on what they say. That’s a sad state of affairs and I doubt I’m the only one who feels this way.
The GOP is three parties all fighting for the same name: Trump and the MAGAs, CountryClub, and ChamberofCommerce.
Trump is caught in a bind: if he kicks out the Clubbers and Chamberers, he turns the party into the American AfD, a purality that isn’t a majority, but if he keeps them in, they will sabotage everything he wants to do, and continue that sabotage until the Dems get back in power and they can become the Assistant Democrats once again.
With few exceptions, this is the age-old story with Republicans. They seem to want to squander every opportunity. Why aren’t we seeing Johnson and Thune aggressively pushing Trump’s America-First agenda?
Ha ha.
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GOP voters are just not that interested in accountability and their politicians know it. So nothing ever changes.
He got elected and, true to form, not a peep from that pimp.
I don’t know just when it happened, but Democrat politicians are now radicalized. The gloves are off. They now play hardball. And they play to win.
Unfortunately, too many Republican politicians are still stuck in a 1950s kind of world. Compromise, then go to the country club to meet their donors for drinks.
Based on a scale of 1-10...
I would rate the current Republican congress a solid 2.
What the H*** is wrong with these spineless wimps? Did they forget to take their testosterone supplements???
You were elected to GOVERN. Do some work...don’t just collect you checks, take vacay breaks and crap around. You should have passed many of President Trump’s EO’s into law by now. What the Hell is wrong with you??? Are you all compromised???
MAGA-up or get out. Resign if you can’t stand the pressure.
i agree.
republicans are bragging about codifying the ‘gulf of America’ like that means anything.
meanwhile, they’re doing nothing to bring charges against those who took money from the cartels and china. who were profiting / participating in human (child) trafficking.
we need to voice disapproval and outline expectations NOW
“What Is The Point Of Having A GOP Congress?”
What Is The Point Of Having Congre$$?
There, fixed it
...yeah right, Jordan is about as effective as Lindseed Graham, all talk NO action. Someone has him on tape and you never see action. But he loves talking a big game on Fox...
ymmv
...YES, 9 out of 10 of them are compromised and spineless. But their portfolios look great! ymmv
The Republicans have never learned how to wield power.
Between you and me, I think that is going to be the work of future President Vance, along with the replacement over time of the Clubbers and Chamberers in Congress with MAGA. It's getting from here to there that's going to take a lot of strategy and some divine intervention.
Where has The Federalist been.
The letter after the name means jack anymore.
The only reason political parties still exist is to give voters the illusion of choice.
A pol is either loyal to our republic or to Deep State.
Congress is still Deep State’s.
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