GOP Leaders Shouldn't Forget That They Won Because Obama Sucks, Not Because They're Great

Townhall.com ^ | November 8, 2014 | John Hawkins

[Kaslin]

For the American people, voting in the 2014 election was like choosing whether they'd rather get Democrat Ebola or the Republican flu. Just because they chose the flu doesn't mean that Republicans should start assuming that people love them.

They don't.

Hell, I'm a conservative and even I don't love the Republican Party.

Our leadership teams in the House and Senate are comprised of inarticulate country club Republicans who are to politics what the Waffle House is to fine dining. Many of the Capitol Hill staffers and consultants are out-of-touch lickspittles who hold flyover country conservatives in contempt because they’ve errantly concluded that being in the proximity of members of Congress somehow raises their IQ 40 points. The National Republican Senatorial Committee? Everyone in that organization should be fired and run out of politics. Afterwards, the GOP should burn the building to the ground and salt the earth so nothing will ever grow there again.

That doesn’t mean everyone is doing a bad job. Most people thought Republicans would lose governorships, but we added them instead. Thank you, Republican Governors Association. Also, Reince Priebus and the RNC bent over backwards to improve the GOP’s election data, to increase turnout, and to build bridges to the base. That paid off big time. We also can’t forget conservative Republicans like Ted Cruz, Jeff Sessions, Mike Lee, Tim Scott and Trey Gowdy who have stood tall, fired conservatives up and gave the base a reason to vote when our “leaders” were letting us down. That’s not a small matter because if the whole Republican Party was made up of mediocrities like Lindsey Graham, Thad Cochran and Peter King, it wouldn’t have mattered whether we voted or not because the country would be going to hell on a shutter no matter what we did.

Unfortunately, we’re now getting to a very dangerous time for a political party run by puffed up incompetents, a time when we are expected to actually do things because we run the House and the Senate. When Boehner, McConnell and the rest of “Team Country Club” were in the shadows and the American people were focusing on how Obama made them want to gouge their eyes out with a stick, it was easy for us to make gains. Now, we’re going to have a team of people who couldn’t sell hamburgers to Chris Christie who are making our case to the American people.

Of course, it SHOULDN’T BE all that hard for the GOP to set itself up for victory in 2016. After all, people love a winner, don’t they? Can’t the Party pretty easily improve its reputation as “obstructionists” just by passing a few popular bills? Couldn’t the GOP leadership easily improve its relationship with the conservative base just by refusing to attack it anymore? Isn’t Obama still President?

What’s so difficult about keeping campaign promises? What’s so tough about living up to what the Party says it’s going to do?

For example, if we intend to repeal Obamacare, the last thing we should do is start trying to change the law to make it more viable. Not only would “fixing” some of the more onerous parts of the law make it much less likely that it will be repealed, it gives Republicans partial ownership of an albatross around the neck of the Democrat Party. Right now, the Democrats own every problem with an incredibly unpopular law. Why would we want to change that, especially when we’re in sight of our goal of holding the House, the Senate and electing a Republican President in 2016 so we can tear the law out root and branch before we replace it with something else? The only changes we should agree to make with Obamacare are ones that make the law less viable. For example, we should move to end the Obamacare bailouts for insurance companies. It’s outrageous that these insurance companies are getting huge payouts from the same taxpayers who are being forced to buy policies they don’t want. Additionally, isn’t it time to end the Obamacare subsidy for members of Congress and their staffs? Why should the American people suffer under the law while members of Congress and their staffs are getting a special break?

Along similar lines, it’s worth noting that almost every Democrat who lost supported the immigration bill that passed the Senate last year while almost every Republican who won opposed it. In many of the campaigns, it wasn’t in the background either; there were people casting votes on the issue. So are Republicans in leadership going to live up to the promises that were made to the American people on the campaign trail or are they going to make sleazy backroom deals with corrupt billionaires who want to make a few more bucks by screwing Americans out of jobs to help foreigners?

The GOP has talked a lot about holding Barack Obama accountable. Now that we have the House AND the Senate, are we going to do it? Is the IRS going to pay the price for going after Tea Party groups? Will the EPA be reined in? Is the GOP going to be a rubber stamp for Obama’s radical judges and appointees? When Obama acts like a dictator by issuing new laws by executive order, is the GOP going to stand by meekly and do nothing about it? We understand the difficulty of impeaching Obama even though he deserves it, but there are a host of actions that smart, courageous leaders with charisma could take short of that. Maybe it will help Boehner and McConnell if they ask themselves what they would do if they were smart, courageous or had any charisma.

As a party, we’re actually in a fantastic position because we can now force Democrats to take tough votes on popular legislation that we can pass and send to Barack Obama. Then if it gets over the filibuster hump, he either has to sign on the dotted line or he has to veto it, which would give our 2016 candidate an issue to run on. So let’s pass the Keystone Pipeline and cut some taxes and regulations to improve job creation. What about a mandatory 21 day quarantine on people coming to America from nations that are rife with Ebola? How about some new sanctions on Iran? Could we pass the Hire more Heroes Act to give businesses incentives to bring veterans on board? How about expanding drilling to help decrease gasoline prices? What about ending government subsidies for abortion and while we’re at it, cutting subsidies for big business at the same time? Last but not least, if Republicans in the House and Senate don’t vote to significantly cut deficit spending, then we DESERVE to lose the Senate in 2016.

Will attempting to implement that modest, common sense agenda take a heroic effort? Is asking the GOP leadership to stop attacking its own supporters a bridge too far? Are conservatives going overboard when we ask the Republican Party to actually live up to what it promises on the campaign trail? If so, it’s only because the GOP insists on putting human jellyfish in leadership positions and sticking with them win, lose or draw as they aimlessly float along with the tide. Hopefully, they will surprise us and live up to their highest potential, which probably consists of being plodding “C” grade leaders who don’t mess things up too badly. Whether they do or don’t, they should know that conservatives will be watching them, we’re not cutting them any slack and we recognize that Barack Obama was the MVP of this election for the GOP, not our Republican Party leadership.

[Incorrigible]

Bump

[Kaslin]

After the Republicans took the House back from the rats in 2010, they passed the budget what the rats didn't pass because their reelection was more important to them than doing the job they were hired to do. The republicans also passed the 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 budgets. On the Senate side: Here is the timeline from 2009 to 2012

Timeline

[mosesdapoet]

Hawkin’s is right on about the GOPES (GOP Elite Statists) but misses on where the focus should be directed; “It ain’t just Obama” and the so called GOPES opposition who want to run campaigns by the DP democrat (in name only) party rules. Persuing the socialist directon of government the DP sets with the slogan “we can do it better” .

While BHO is the frontman. “It’s also the people what put him there and every card carrying party member supporting it “.The venues they’re using should be confronted, challanged, and exposed by every means available every time they print a word or open their mouth.

One thing about and what you will never hear from any GOPES politician is a frontal attack on any democrat such as;

They don’t believe in God. They threw him out in 2012. BTW That’s why they lie so much.

[Alberta's Child]

Think about i: He doesn't have to run again, but they do.

These people are more interested in keeping their jobs than in standing up for any partisan principles.

[Alberta's Child]

That would be a complete disaster -- because, right or wrong, the GOP will be remembered in 2016 as the party that could have stopped it but didn't.

I can't think of anything that will do more to keep the Republican base home in 2016 than what you've proposed there.

[Alberta's Child]

More and more hospitals are closing their emergency rooms for exactly the reason you’ve laid out there. They are basically becoming outpatient facilities.

[DaveA37]

Mr. Hawkins NAILED IT!

No doubt, no question, odumbo does suck.

The real problem now confronting us is that so do the two so-called “leaders” in both the house and the senate. Both Bohner and McConnell need to be replaced, if not, nothing changes.

Call your representatives to get those changes made ASAP.

[Maudeen]

GOP Leaders Shouldn’t Forget That They Won Because Obama Sucks, Not Because They’re Great
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. . . and don’t forget, the people prayed. Give God the Glory!

[wildandcrazyrussian]

Could we pass the Hire more Heroes Act to give businesses incentives to bring veterans on board?
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I know! "Hire Our Own American Heroes [HOOAH!]"

[TomGuy]

Per some of the exit polls, it was NOT so much an anti-Obama Tuesday; it was anti-Obama policies and results.

Stuff still is not sticking to him.

The issues that influenced the way people voted:

economy #1 issue
health care #2 issue
illegal immigration #3 issue
foreign policy #4 issue

Obama was not a factor according to 45%

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Interesting breakdown at:

http://graphics.wsj.com/exit-polls-2014/

[Arthur McGowan]

I didn’t know Boner is darker than Obola.

[Arthur McGowan]

We elect a Democrat, and the people suffer. So they elect a RINO, and they suffer. So they elect a Democrat, and they suffer. So they elect a RINO, and...

[AlaskaErik]

This is the Republican Party the country needs now. Enough with the RINOs, who are part of the problem, and not the solution. This country has not been brought to its knees by the Democrats alone. They had plenty of help from the Republican Party. But now, enough is enough. Time to go back to the roots.

[SunkenCiv]

Not quite right. He's ALWAYS sucked.

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[Cowboy Bob]

That’s the old “you didn’t save me from myself, so it’s you’re responsibility” argument that is made by children in Democrats.

The Republicans can call for a complete repeal of ObamaCare. There will be a vote in the House and Senate. Names will be recorded - who voted for and who voted against. Obama will veto it.

The Republicans can then sit back and watch the SHTF. When the idiots start to cry, the Republicans can point to the Bill and say: “We tried. Vote Republican in 2016, and we will be able to make the pain go away.”

[Alberta's Child]

The Republicans can then sit back and watch the SHTF.

That's not going to happen, because while the sh!t is supposed to be hitting the fan, the Obama administration will be issuing executive orders to delay implementation of the most controversial provisions of Obamacare.

How do I know this? Because this is pretty much exactly what happened in 2013.

The Republicans will get no political traction over this if they let Obama play this game.

[EricT.]

I was referring to both houses of congress passing a budget.

You seem to only think in GOP vs. Dem terms.

I don’t. I think in D.C. politicians vs. American citizens terms.

I just want them to do their damned jobs. That would be the best starting point for them.

[Kaslin]

So?

The Republicans did their job, the rats didn't

[Politicalkiddo]

We’ll see...

[RipSawyer]

“It’s not until after they burn their finger that they fully understand.”
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