Posted on 11/22/2014 10:19:10 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
President Obama will no doubt clash regularly with his newly empowered partisan adversaries in Congress. But the most important struggle in U.S. politics over the next two years will be inside the Republican Party. And the person who can play a decisive role in that battle is Jeb Bush.
Yes, Democrats have their own divides, usually described as differences between their populist and Wall Street camps. Still, there is broad agreement inside the party, even among most of its Wall Streeters, that wage stagnation and economic inequality are major problems for the country and that Democrats need to make dealing with them their central purpose.
There also is this: For now, at least, Hillary Clinton is as close to a certainty as the party's 2016 nominee as you get in this business.
The Republicans, on the other hand, are divided over what they believe, how they should govern, whom they should appeal to and what constitutes success. You can already see the turmoil over how they should deal with Obama's impending executive action on immigration.
The Rush Limbaugh-Ted Cruz Permanent Revolution Complex thinks that any Republican not willing to ponder government shutdowns and even impeachment to foil Obama's designs is an unprincipled squish....
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Communist wealth redistribution and fascist control of business and the economy. There it is, in black and white.
The Rush Limbaugh-Ted Cruz Permanent Revolution Complex …The real “Permanent Revolution Complex” really likes to project, right? Dionne just called Rush and Ted Trotskyites, of all things—and that must mean that the Obamites and his friends the GOPelites are Stalinists?
I truly would listen to Clintoon first, as much as I despise him. This Dionne is so far out on the left as to be a caricature.
I’ll vote for Michelle Bachman or Joni Ernst.
But when you give green cards to five million or more illegals while keeping the border wide open you do exactly the opposite by driving down the price of low end labor.
The role of compassionate conservatives like Bush is to cement progressive advances in place and make some little advances for the progressives. By the time the progressives take power again, the argument is settled because a Republican did the bad things instead of them. No Child Left Behind, TARP, attempted amnesty, Medicare prescription drug entitlement, and on and on.
Of course Dionne thinks Jeb would be a great choice for president while America rests up from Obama and gets ready for its next bout of insanity.
Romneycare, the EPA, the ERA (which they failed at), Wage & Price Controls, slinking out of Korea and Vietnam without a win, affirmative action, etc., etc.
Neither will be at the top of the ticket, for various and different reasons, just as Sarah Palin wasn’t even invited to the 2012 RNC.
When the reality appears to be the opposite, with the Democrats practicing aggressive “war communism”, like Wehrmacht infantry, always counterattack; and the GOP, invigorated but still standing pat, consolidating, like the Greek God Antaeus always gathering their strength, it seems afraid to be swept from their feet.
We’ll see what they do when they show up in Washington.
E.J. is a lisping fool!
You can tell who the left (and the GOPe) fears most by observing who they hate most - Rush & Ted Cruz.
I love your gif.
America isn’t ready for a President without a jawline.
We can't restrain ourselves by working within the rules of a constitutional government that doesn't even exist anymore. The enemy of everything our founding fathers meant to create in a nation now make up a very significant portion of our massive unconstitutional government. The founders would reject them, and be appalled that we let this happen, but that's where we are now regardless. At some point we have to take the gloves off and defy these tyrants instead of trying to use constitutional law against those who have disrespected and blatantly disregarded that same constitution to create the illegitimate dictatorship we have today. I don't know what we can do to be successful at this point, but I do know what won't work. There aren't any easy answers anymore, but that's no excuse not to face our reality and look for some hard ones.
E.J. is always looking out for our best interests.
I never knew E.J. Dionne had such strong altruistic inclinations towards expressing what’s best for the GOP.
I clearly remember azzclown E.J.Dionne’s response to Dubya’s election in 2000; he said he whined and moaned and cried to his little kid while getting him ready for school about what a horrible thing it was, instead of explaining the electoral process and that sometimes one’s candidate may win, other times lose. Now he wants another Bush presidency?
Don’t be fooled. It’s just the libmedia again trying to nominate the Republican they believe will be easiest to smear or defeat.
EJ is a leftwing socialist/communist - a typical journolista.
But he’s REALLY, REALLY stupid...even for a leftist.
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