There you have it. We already have the ability to stop the amputations, and instead, the House is just playing along and passing the scalpel.
Contributions HAVE been made, how do you think we got the House back? And with that, what have we gained?
All it would take is for all those elected to stand up. Yet once again they haven’t.
Why are you even here? I keep hearing how we haven't/can't/won't but no sense that you really want to win anything. Reality may suck, but it takes a sustained determination and effort to make progress against the machine that's been allowed to run free for so long. If you ain't willing to suit up, why even show up?
We're all discouraged and disgusted, but unless we are willing to whittle away over the long haul, we might as well just wave the white flag now. There's a few key folks that survived our attempt (Boehner and McConnel) and we need to keep up the pressure to get them replaced. Numbers are good but having such folks in "leadership" positions is killing us.
Let's hope that Cruz is elected and that we don't lose any ground in the House/Senate. He's not too shy to use the bully pulpit to take away the curtain that they hide behind. The trouble is, even a Cruz in the WH will have an uphill battle and will need our continuing support. There is no quick fix - it will take a sustained effort over a few decades to have a chance to put thing right. We need to be able to suck up the crap that keeps getting on our shoes and not concede a single thing that we can do to create some stumbling blocks for the Left.
"Compromise" suck the big one but we cannot afford to throw hissy fits and give them a loaf when we might be able to only let them have a few crumbs.
All or nothing sounds great when we think we have a chance at the "all", but it is a losing strategy when we have 60+ years of lassitude to overcome. The silent majority needs to coalesce and start making some noise - it was decades of disgust without tangible action that allowed us to fall this far.