Posted on 05/19/2015 1:03:53 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Republicans are not keeping the campaign promise they made to voters in 2014 to halt President Obamas fundamental transformation of America, conservative and Tea Party leaders charged in an open letter to Congress on Monday.
On April 28, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) cited fast-track trade legislation and a bill requiring congressional review of the administrations nuclear deal with Iran as the major accomplishments of the GOP-led 114th Congress so far.
Earlier that month, Obama praised what he called some outbreaks of bipartisanship and common sense in Congress over Iran and trade. The president also said he was holding bipartisan talks with the Republican leadership on transportation infrastructure issues as well.
To the extent the majority leader and the president are making nice, Im happy. We need a lot more consensus in the federal government. Theres partisanship at every turn, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) said Monday.
But the 50 conservative leaders who signed the Citizens Mandate in January reminded McConnell and the rest of the Republican leadership that voters who gave them a landslide victory last November have much higher expectations for them, such as ending executive branch overreach and restoring the constitutional balance of power.
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NSS - No “Shirt” Sherlock.
most in the GOP leadership seem to feel “I got mine,Iam good for the long haul,F’em”
is that like same shirt different day?
Why, yes. Yes we do.
Or “does a bear ‘shirt’ in the woods”.
Go Libertarian. After 45 years as a Republican, I did. I also think that if the 30 some candidates for the Republican nominee for President rubs out a true conservative, we should encourage them to run as a Libertarian.
“The more power the federal government amasses, the more likely I am to keep my job.”
If the GOP would pick their Leaders and not just say , “Next”
They didn’t take it far enough - not only do we blame them, but as a result, most REAL CONSERVATIVES will no longer rubber stamp a candidate just because they got an R next to their name. Even further, we’re putting the GOP, and GOP Leadership, and GOP Voters on notice - Put Cruz out front, or get ready to lose in 2016. The GOP must be taught a lesson.
A most emphatic YES to this headline.
I no longer have any faith, trust, or respect for the GOP as an organization. Would never have remotely imagined I’d be in this position just a short six to eight years ago, having such disdain and disgust towards the only Party I ever voted for and ever supported since reaching voting age.
They have failed to stop amnesty. They have failed to stop fag-marriage. They have failed to stop Obamacare. They are either inept beyond words, or there is the other reality I’m MORE inclined to believe... that they are and have always been perfectly fine with all this, including this entire “transformation” of America as coined by Obama.
The GOP-e doesn’t care about losing elections; they are in the Uniparty after all. Remember all the gobbledegook to wit that they claimed that the “government shutdowns” would lose them the 2014 elections?
They probably got goodies for their corporate buddies in return for rolling over. Remember how both sides said, “the corporate faction and the Democrats were, “ working together to get things done”?
“Go Libertarian”
Now that makes sense! Open the border let all of Mexico in let the Democrats put them on welfare and see how smart libertarianism is. It is the key to its own destruction.
"This president can be a transformative leader (he has that potential in my view), but only if he embraces and fights for a transformative agenda."--Sam Webb, Chairman Communist Party USA
Obama State of the Union: He got the ball rolling:
http://cpusa.org/obama-state-of-the-union-he-got-the-ball-rolling
Yahoo search results for "Fundamentally Transforming The United States Of America":
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A Landslide Mandate For Change
A breakthrough election
Congratulations on an extraordinary history making election!
We can think back with pride to decades of hard work toward our strategic goal of a big enough, broad enough and united enough labor and all-peoples movement that could overcome the ultra-right blockage to all progress. That all peoples movement has come to life, it is dynamic and it has the potential to keep growing.
The election of Barack Obama and a strengthened Congress creates new conditions in our country. There is now the possibility to shift gears and move forward. This new day requires us to further develop our tactics in order to continue to deepen and broaden labor and peoples unity.
There are thousands of experiences that we all have had in these momentous days, some large, some small, all of which express the enormity of change in thinking and readiness for involvement that is underway and that steels us for the battles ahead.
The tears of joy we all shared as crowds gathered to watch the election results here and throughout the world dramatize the new moment we are in.
http://cpusa.org/a-landslide-mandate-for-change-report-to-the-national-committee-meeting-11-15-08/
Change is Here, Change is Coming
Sam Webb, National Chair, Communist Party, USA:
Let me begin with a simple observation: If the last 30 years were an era of reaction, then the coming decade could turn into an era of reform, even radical reform. Six months into the Obama presidency, I would say without hesitation that the landscape, atmosphere, conversation, and agenda have strikingly changed compared to the previous eight years.
In this legislative session, we can envision winning a Medicare-like public option and then going further in the years ahead.
We can visualize passing tough regulatory reforms on the financial industry, which brought the economy to ruin.
We can imagine the troops coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan while U.S. representatives participate in a regional process that brings peace and stability to the entire region.
In the current political climate, the expansion of union rights becomes a real possibility.
Much the same can be said about winning a second stimulus bill, and we sure need one, given the still-rising rate, and likely long term persistence, of unemployment.
Isnt it possible in the Obama era to create millions of green jobs in manufacturing and other sectors of the economy in tandem with an attack on global warming?
Cant we envision taking new strides in the long journey for racial and gender equality in this new era, marked at its beginning by the election of the first African American to the presidency?
And isnt the overhaul of the criminal justice and prison system a system steeped in racism no longer pie-in-the sky, but something that can be done in the foreseeable future?
All these things are within reach now!
http://cpusa.org/change-is-here-change-is-coming/
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"Barack Obama told supporters that
'change has come to America' as he
claimed victory in a historic presidential election."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/04/election.president/index.html
Obama State of the Union: He got the ball rolling:
http://cpusa.org/obama-state-of-the-union-he-got-the-ball-rolling
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