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Brookings: Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Mike Lee will kill GOP
Washington Examiner ^ | May 29, 2013 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 05/29/2013 10:02:43 AM PDT by Zakeet

In a broad slap at the the uncompromising stands of conservative Sens. Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Mike Lee, the liberal Brookings Institution's top political scholar charged this week that the Tea Party trio are leading the Republican Party to disaster and minority status.

Thomas Mann said that their stubborn style of politics that's been rapped even by some mainstream Republicans, notably the self-styled "maverick" Sen. John McCain, will lead to a voter revolt that will elect more Democrats to the House and Senate, the presidency, and eventually have the remaining GOP members begging to do business with Democrats.

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[T]he solution to fixing Washington has only two routes: "Either a dominant one-party, Democratic system to get something done," he said, or a "situation where the Republican Party returns to its sanity and to a position of problem solving."

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brookings; conservatism; politics; senate
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To: Zakeet

So the answer according to Brookings is, a Democrat controlled dictatorship or the Republican party selling out to a Democrat controlled dictatorship.

Got it.


21 posted on 05/29/2013 10:11:07 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: Zakeet

Pew. Brookings stinks
. Lol


22 posted on 05/29/2013 10:11:17 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Zakeet

If the Brookings Institute really believed this they would be jumping for joy and cheering them on, not warning against them. This just tells me that Brookings is worried about them.


23 posted on 05/29/2013 10:11:50 AM PDT by Castigar
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To: Zakeet
For the Brookings Institute, the only good Republican is a Lincoln Chaffee Republican.

...wait, he's doing what today?

24 posted on 05/29/2013 10:12:02 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Choose one: the yellow and black flag of the Tea Party or the white flag of the Republican Party.)
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To: Zakeet

Right, like Goldwater and Reagan “killed the GOP” while Gerald Ford, the George Bushes, Bob Dole, John McCain and Mitt Romney just breathed new life into the GOP!


25 posted on 05/29/2013 10:12:07 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: Zakeet
Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Mike Lee will kill GOP
26 posted on 05/29/2013 10:12:11 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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To: Zakeet
Noooooo!

They'll hopefully take the GOP to the conservative right, where it belongs.

27 posted on 05/29/2013 10:12:20 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Zakeet

Always good to glimpse fear in the eyes of your opponent.

SnakeDoc


28 posted on 05/29/2013 10:13:16 AM PDT by SnakeDoctor ("I've shot people I like more for less." -- Raylan Givens)
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To: demshateGod
"The GOP RINOs will listen."
29 posted on 05/29/2013 10:13:33 AM PDT by RightWingConspirator (Obamanation--the most corrupt regime since Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe)
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To: Zakeet

Alas! this is the sort of crap that Republicans listen to and wring their hands.


30 posted on 05/29/2013 10:13:41 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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To: RightWingConspirator

Yeah, didn’t many on the left cross over and vote in our primary to put that goof ball in as our nominee? I believe they did.


31 posted on 05/29/2013 10:13:52 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Zakeet
The GOP has one foot in the grave already. Cruz, Paul and Lee have the potential to give birth to something new and productive.

BTW - did anyone notice that Rubio was not included in the libtard concerns? He seems to slipping into the beltway cadre quickly and enjoying the company of McCain and Schumer.

32 posted on 05/29/2013 10:14:47 AM PDT by Baynative (Lord, keep one hand on my shoulder and the other over my mouth.)
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To: Zakeet
Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Mike Lee: Brookings scared that we'll kill (politically speaking) liberal marxists
33 posted on 05/29/2013 10:14:51 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Zakeet

Hell, I’m openly and directly asking John McCain to switch parties on twitter pretty much every day.


34 posted on 05/29/2013 10:15:32 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: txrefugee
Or the squishy RINO GOP will go the way of the Whigs...and no one will miss them.

RIP the progressive Republican party. Pat Toomey was the last straw for me.

35 posted on 05/29/2013 10:15:47 AM PDT by Stentor
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To: Zakeet
HAHA! Senators Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and Rand Paul will save the country. The republican party needs a good cleansing for it's very survival. Those dedicated followers are the only thing (glue) that's holding it together. Though.. for not much longer. I have not donated (nor my spouse) to the actual party since Palin was on the ticket. I sent money to individual candidates’ campaigns. Now, the media decides to take out the few Tea Party people, my my! Did the story include Marco.
36 posted on 05/29/2013 10:15:59 AM PDT by Christie at the beach
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To: Mrs. B.S. Roberts
Maybe it’s time for the GOP to realize...

Maybe it is time for conservatives to realize that there is no future with or in the Republican Party.

37 posted on 05/29/2013 10:16:00 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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To: Zakeet

38 posted on 05/29/2013 10:17:51 AM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: Zakeet

But! extreme libtard positions in the Left will NOT do any damage to the democraps.

They LIKE socilists and communists, don’t they?


39 posted on 05/29/2013 10:18:14 AM PDT by Mr. K (There are lies, damned lies, statistics, and democrat talking points.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

My first thought was “is that a promise?” The GOP as it currently stands could use killing (metaphorically speaking).


40 posted on 05/29/2013 10:18:27 AM PDT by JaguarXKE (1973: Reporters investigate All the President's Men. 2013: Reporters ARE all the President's men)
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