Moderate Republican = RAT lite.
There will be a ton of white gloves at that meeting.
Just heard on CNBC that Jeb Hensarling won’t run for Cantor’s spot. Sucks if McCarthy gets it..
The brain deficiency in people like this LeTourette guy is really unimaginable. The essentially want to block anyone who is not a rubber stamp for the left. What’s the point of having 2 parties if they share the same positions? It’s nuts.
” - - - - Republican voters are not happy with the GOP’s establishment position on amnesty for illegal immigrants and other hot-button issues fracturing the party. - - - “
The above quote, from another (today) FR thread article by author Adrianna Cohen describes the disconnection between the GOP-E leadership and that of the Republican voter.
To her credit, she did not rely on the usual defensive Liberal smokescreen tactic of using Liberal Media Polls based on OPINIONS to magically transform her case into a beyond question “Scientific” Case.
What Ms. Cohen and much of the rest of the Right and Left Stream Media are mis-reporting is that there is a “fracture” in the Republican Party.
The basic assumption of these journalists is that a political party must be monolithic, united, and speak “with one voice.”
Anything deviation of opinion in the party is viewed as a danger that must be quickly healed before it becomes, (gasp!), a fracture.
The current Democrat Party is a perfect end example of what today’s Journalists view as normal political party behavior.
The reality is that The GOP-E Leadership has chosen to arrogantly ISOLATE itself from its voters.
The triple Presidential losses of Dole, McCain and Romney has curiously served to strengthen the GOP-E Leadership’s resolve to isolate themselves even more from their former and present Republican voters.
While the GOP-E Leadership has been busy appeasing, caving-in and otherwise “marching to the drum beat” of Obama, Reid, Holder and Pelosi, they have marched themselves into ever-increasing isolation.
After 4 + years of handing Obama a blank check, ignoring all illegal bypasses of Congress and caving-in to whatever Obama, Reid, Holder and Pelosi demand, the GOP-E Leadership has effectively isolated itself in the eyes of the average Republican Voter.
The greater good of the Ruling Class Uniparty in its efforts to loot our hard-earned money for their own enrichment.
You @#$%$#@ers had better hope you never get lined up in front of a ditch, because that's where your "work" is going to get you after we're all hungry and broke.
The anti-Tea Party Republican Mainstreet Partnership PAC event in Florida reportedly attracted about two dozen Republican lawmakers, including high-ranking Reps. Eric Cantor, R-Va. and Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.
Speaker John Boehner was "in talks" to attend but will not, the Daily Caller reported....but Boehner attended an anti-Tea Party group function held at the Ritz Carlton in DC.
That describes the tea party to a (no pun intended) T. Big government, high taxes, and a continued flood of illegal alien welfare leeches are contrary to the common good.
I’m writing my congressman telling him NOT to vote for McCarthy. I heard Steve King mentioned. Anyone else?
“Republican Mainstreet Partnership PAC”
Republican K Street Partnership PAC. Better.
The attendee’s list will be a roster of those who want to play both sides toward the middle. They aren’t in this over ideology, folks, they’re in it for profit.
“To make Washington work again, we need more – not fewer – elected officials who are willing to put partisan politics aside to work for the greater good,”
LOL- Dems never compromise.
So this means they’re looking for more folks who are willing to compromise.
Right now, absolute deadlock is the best thing that can happen in the Fed government.
Sadly, the Tea Party has to fight both the Dems AND the GOP.
Its a toss up as to which one is the biggest threat.
My letter and Eric Erickson’s article.
Please do NOT vote for McCarthy. Steve King or anyone who is not in bed with the chambers of commerce..... McCarthy is worse than Cantor. Don’t think the 2016 election is in the bag. If the rinos continue to attack conservatives and push policies that are hurting our country, we will not win in 2016. I know a lot of people who refused to vote for romney and will stay home if the Republican Party continues to move left.
McCarthy is squishy on a host of issues, bad on immigration, and not a friend of conservatives. House Republicans looked on the biggest electoral surprise of the year and are giving it the middle finger.
Kevin McCarthy was even one of the participants at the liberal “Mainstreet Partnership” retreat in Amelia Island. That group not only tries to obstruct the general Republican agenda, but also tries to actively defeat conservatives — including incumbent, elected Republicans. McCarthy collaborated with them.
Do you care more about Wall Street dollars than Main Street voters?
For perspective — Eric Cantor’s Heritage Action score is a full eleven points higher than Kevin McCarthy’s.
The American Conservative Union, which measures Republican-ness of members, gives Eric Cantor an 84% rating and Kevin McCarthy a 72% rating for 2013.
Kevin McCarthy voted for the bloated Hurricane Sandy relief package that even New Jersey Democrats said was riddled with corruption and more than needed. He opposed reforms to the flood insurance program that would save taxpayers’ money. He has also oppose both Republican Study Committee budget proposals and a widely hailed government reform measure that conservatives broadly supported.
Kevin McCarthy voted for the massive food stamp and farm bill opposed by conservatives. In fact, a majority of Republicans rejected it, but McCarthy aligned himself with Democrats to try to get it passed. He has refused to reform the federal sugar program using free market principles. He has refused to limit crop insurance subsidies. He has refused to cut $1.5 billion from the Department of Energy’s bloated budget.
McCarthy voted for the FARM Act, which made no meaningful reforms to farm policy. He has repeatedly voted to raise the debt ceiling. He voted for the Ryan-Murray tax increase plan. He voted to hand Barack Obama a blank check to raise the debt ceiling.
He is just another in a long line of big spenders who thinks the Democrats in charge of government are the problem, not government itself.
Eric Erickson
Rush's advice,"If you want to be a winner, hang out with winners, listen to them for their advice. Don't listen to losers who tell you how to win, they don't know how or they wouldn't be losers."
FYI to the GOP: None of the GOP elected officials have any businesses attending a group headed by a loser!
That term says all we need to know about these elitist, back-stabbing snobs, bought and paid for by the Chamber of Commerce. They'll tell any lie they need to in order to win over the constitutional conservative vote. Then, they get to DC and they think they know what's best for us.
It's gotten to the point at which I despise the RINO elite more than I despise the liberal wackos who are honest about their schemes.
Another ping to show the incestuous Uniparty!
Judge Smails- Honorary Guest Speaker.
Sucks to be Cantor...LOL!!!