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I’d just like to see one prominent Republican express outrage... Just one!

I would too. It will not happen. There may be some words, perhaps even a nice speech given in front of some cameras at the direction and behest of someone's campaign manager... but that's it. No real 'outrage' and certainly no action.

The faction of Freepers that have lost faith in the Republican party to the point of not supporting them with money or votes takes a lot of flak. We're called names, we're said to be the reason that elections are lost and we're said to be helping the other 'team'. All of that is fine, as political discussion should be passionate and FR should always be a place for conservatives of all stripes to meet and debate.

In this Nevada debacle, which is not yet over, I'd suggest that the 'teams' are clearly defined and the disillusionment of Libertarians, Constitutionalists, and other non-Republican conservatives may be better understood. There is the Statist team and the liberty-minded people, period. Far too many Republicans and 99% of Democrat politicians are in the Statist camp. Far too many voters, of both parties, are in that camp too.

The Republican senator and governor of Nevada meekly offered 'complaints' about the BLM, Harry Reid and the federal bureaucracy's armed intimidation and willingness to assault/kill Nevada citizens... and took no actions. None. It was citizens putting their freedom and possibly their lives on the line to take action. I didn't see a politician so much as put their dinner plans on hold. Did anyone do to jail over the government-corporate-banker induced economic meltdown in 2008? Did anything substantive happen in response to Waco, Fast and Furious, Benghazi? Has the GOP offered any useful resistance to the utter insanity of the Obama administration?

The Leftist/Statist machine has taken over federal bureaucracy, many state bureaucracies, academia, media, upper echelon military leadership, and our very culture itself. The Republican party, far from actively fighting this, plays the role of loyal opposition. What the party one day argued against, today it will chastise its own voters arguing for. Do you really think Obamacare will be defunded or dismantled? Not even with full control of Congress. Do you enjoy watching the GOP actively fight against its own conservative wing and denigrate its own voter base?

You are not on their 'team'. When the federal government's overreach and lust for more money, power and control someday arrives at your doorstep and proclaims you to be the problem standing in its way, there will not be a Republican politician that does anything for you. Maybe you'll get a speech. If real actions of protest, defiance or even rebellion are needed to protect your property, family and life - it will be citizens, if anyone, who'll come to your aid. I believe we have reached the point in this country where voting is not going to fix what's broken. I do not wish for or advocate violence, but being a cheerleader for one faction of an ever-expanding and ever-indebted federal government doesn't seem to be working.

Too many are directly or indirectly involved...besides Reid is so deeply connected with bad people that could harm them they simply aren't going to say anything until he gives the green flag they can...and that includes Obama.

Makes you wonder who really "runs' Washington...They haven't called Reid "Clean-face"' by the Mob' for nothing. The crud's got connections everywhere....too many and too willing to "save his hide" from this.

CUFF HIM!