Posted on 12/10/2014 8:17:55 AM PST by quesney
Barely one month ago, the party sailed to victory in one of the biggest rout election waves of the past century. They ran the board and took control of the U.S. Senate. They grew to historic levels in the U.S. House. The Democratic Party was left in tatters in state, local and governor races across the country.
But today, just a few weeks later, before GOPers even take hold of their new reins of power, the party is crying poverty. They are stricken with paralysis. House Speaker John A. Boehner, known for his weeping, begs powerlessness.
“Frankly, we have limited options and limited abilities to deal with it directly,” Mr. Boehner said last week when asked about President Obama’s unconstitutional executive action to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens presently living illegally in the U.S.
“Limited options?” “Limited abilities?” We have an unbridled madman in the White House right now taking a machete to the U.S. Constitution and the leader of the opposition party that was just thrust to power in a historic rejection of the president and his cleptocratic policies is now talking about “limited” options and abilities?
Funny, I don’t recall a single Republican running in a single race this year on a campaign that Republicans in Congress have only “limited” options and abilities to stop Mr. Obama. No, in fact, every single one of them ran their entire campaigns on the singular promise that we have to vote for Republicans so they could stop Mr. Obama. And Americans voted.
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Wow, just wow. The amount of caterwauling on this thread is epic.
The Republicans have not taken their seats yet. All of the TEA party candidates who won are not there yet. Not until January.
Can we at least wait till we do not have Harry Reid stonewalling everything before we claim the Republicans have failed.
“But today, just a few weeks later, before GOPers even take hold of their new reins of power, the party is crying poverty.”
It’s
N O T
about money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am surprised that so many commenters seem unaware that those newly elected Republicans will not take their seats in Congress until NEXT year!
That’s right! NEXT year!
Since FReepers aren’t stupid....
...I have to believe those angry folks are just trollish losers spewed out by DU to try to stir up trouble among the winners.
Can’t get no . . . Satisfaction
The kid who points out that the emperor has no clothes is not obliged to present his plan for running the empire.
Stupid RINOs....
Now that would be a plan. Boehner finding that he was no longer able to go to work and screw us over would be a fantastic Christmas present.
SUCKERS
He has a duty now. For the future. Veritable Monsterman that one. I just wish he’d Clockout.
From now on my votes will no ,longer go to ANY GOP candidate, local, State or federal. I will not vote Democrat and I will not vote eGOP. It will be third party or nothing. The eGOP has not earned my vote; they have insulted it and taken it for granted for the last time.
Seems to me there are a group of apologists for the Eunuchs running the house jumping from thread to thread trying to blow smoke up our backsides.
In case you didn’t know, Appropriations Start in the H.O.R. which Republicans Control NOW.
And we got beat by Black Panthers for this. GOPe is despicable.
The RINOs are fundamentally attracted to being failures on demand. They have the House and the Senate, they have the power of the purse and if they would just do what the Constitution instructs in Article 1, it is self explanatory. Especially section 7. They control all the revenue because it originates in the house.
How many times must we do this dance before everyone realizes that there is only one party ? The brain dead and corrupt oligarchy. The party warfare is just entertainment for the masses.
“Frankly, we have limited options and limited abilities to deal with it directly,” Mr. Boehner said last week when asked about President Obama’s unconstitutional executive action to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens presently living illegally in the U.S. “
“We are only one third the government” oh wait, “We now need a Republican president” oh wait, “It’s simply not the right time to act on this issue” oh wait, “Let’s get this issue off the table” oh wait, “We simply cannot afford a government shutdown”
The house IS doing exactly what it wants to. That is the problem.
My favorite movie is “Shooter” mostly because of what happens to Ned Beatty’s character at the end.
Voting republican for years and years has gotten us to where we are today. It started in 1988. I won’t do it again. Being used and abused for 26 years is enough. This battered spouse is headed for the battered women’s shelter. Hopefully they’ll take men.
The bottom line is every one of these people are being blackmailed. The sad thing is we’ve elected people who are susceptible to blackmail so that makes it our fault. We have to remember that to get to that level in politics they probably had to do some things along the way that they’re not proud of. And that’s who we’re left to vote for.
That is a flat-out, excuse making lie.
The republican House, by itself, this session, could put a stop to Obamacare and to Amnesty and all the other liberal agenda.
They don't want to, and you are providing them cover.
/johnny
They won’t step on the first black president’s legacy, count on it.
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