A common theme of the right wing crazies, Rep McClintock, is a willingness, indeed a desire, to engage the left.
Wait till the next election and then we’ll really do something .... isn’t going to work anymore.
Planned Parenthood defunding is the perfect issue. Let the President shut down the government over it. Let the media blame Republicans. And then, let the weeks pass.
As time tinges the debate, it will be the President who must answer for shutting down the government over an ideological fight. A half billion dollar dispute in a hundreds of billion funding bill where one side holds core beliefs vs. holding the gov’t hostage? Mr. President, you can end this tomorrow. Sign the bill.
Now, don’t get me wrong. This strategy won’t work for the GOP, just like it didn’t work in 2013. It won’t work because the establishment has no fight in them; they will cave. That’s the problem.
The solution then isn’t to give up the fight.
The solution is to bring down the establishment.
This is the defining moment for the Grand Ole Party. They can make the political calculation that they must now yield to their voters, or they can continue to obey their money class masters and die as a party.
This is the Whig moment for the GOP.
If Boehner pushes through his agenda in the next month with full democrat sponsorship, the party dies here.
McClintock is a solid conservative fighter and has done more for California liberty than anybody there.
Good post!
That's exactly why he needs to be sent packing, NOW! Before he can do irreparable harm!
If we had 59 votes in the Senate, 300 in the House and a GOP President, the GOP would find a way to back down. If we had 75 votes in the Senate, we would still be told that we didn’t have enough to actually pass anything...
The real problem is that most of them do not WANT to oppose big government. They LOVE it!