Posted on 06/12/2017 4:01:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
Everythings fine, smiled Captain Paul Ryan smarmily as he steered the Titanic into an iceberg. Now, let me get back to shafting our own voting base via my incomprehensible determination to cancel the tax deductions that Republicans use instead of cutting handouts to Democrat-voting freeloaders!
We are sailing toward disaster in 2018 and no one seems to want to acknowledge it. Lets look at the facts and evidence.
Data Point One: We scraped by in a couple of House special elections so far, including Punchy McSlugahacks in Montana, but that Daily Kos reader-funded-12-year old non-resident Democrat dork is going to beat the charisma-free Republican in the Georgia 6 race next week. Our enemy is motivated and smells blood.
Data Point Two: Because she is a droning non-performer, Theresa May took a 24 point advantage and turned it into a loss in Britain.
Data Point Three: Our GOP Republican legislators are droning non-performers who have a 10 point disadvantage going into 2018.
The bottom line is that despite the GOPs advantages in incumbency, money, and (to a much smaller extent than the lying liberals say) redistricting, we have a very real chance of losing the House and maybe even the Senate in 2018. The Senate would be hard to lose based simply on number of seats in play, but we should have confidence in our partys unique ability to screw-up and fail based on its unblemished track record of screwing up and failing.
Midterms traditionally go badly for the party holding the White House; it doesnt help that Paul Ryan seems to be the Speaker of a House of Representatives on a different planet. He wanders about with this obnoxious, Comey-esque sanctimony vibe that demoralizes the base and ensures that we will stay home in large numbers while the pinkos turn out en masse. Mitch McConnell is a little better; hes at least cunning and does what he can in a job that involves not just herding cats, but herding senile, narcissistic, and stupid cats.
But stuff is getting done! the GOP leadership insists, which might be true but is definitely irrelevant. It doesnt matter if stuff is getting done if your voters dont know it and support you. Now, when Paul Ryan talks directly to us on Hugh Hewitt's show or elsewhere, he actually makes sense. He explains his strategy, so we can sigh Oh, theres a reason for all this and a coherent plan. Phew. But then Ryan says something unbelievably stupid along the lines of, As Speaker, my job is to pass legislation, not to go out and sell our agenda to voters. No, thats a steaming pile of Harry Reid.
The Speaker has multiple jobs, but they all boil down to winning. The Speakers job is not simply to be some goofy legislative super wonk. He needs to lead, which means getting us onboard as well as his caucus. And that means making sure we voters know whats happening, why, and how it helps us. Yet the GOP fails to do that.
Stop failing. Start doing what we sent you to do and letting us in on the plan. Let us see you are intent on winning and youll start to rebuild the confidence your incompetence has shattered.
Heres a good idea for a first step work as hard as we do. Lets see some late-night sessions. Lets see some five day work weeks and even some working on weekends. We work weekends. I work weekends. Im writing this on a weekend. Why not you?
And lets see you cancel the August recess. Work. We keep hearing about how you dont have time to do your jobs, but then you propose to vanish in August? Hey, how about staying around that sticky, sweaty swamp of a city through August and getting your job done? Im going to be working in August. Everyone else I know is going to be working in August. You bums need to work during August too.
And no, you dont need to come home to touch base with your voters. We dont want to see you here. We want to see you back in D.C., enacting the agenda we elected you to enact instead of chillin out at your crib and attending town halls filled with paid leftist shills where you tell us that you dont have time to do what youre being paid to do.
You must get the Presidents agenda passed, but, at the same time, you must keep us in the loop. See, we dont trust you. You havent earned our trust. We know you hate the idea that we are going to hold you accountable for what you do and fail to do and you dont like it. Too bad. Because now were watching, so you better communicate with us to explain what we see and why its not surrender or failure. As the hep kidz say, were woke.
The enemy is motivated and energized, but right now, were Meh. The only way we will become un-meh is via results, and results arent merely passing legislation. Results means a tangible improvement in our lives. Because the situation out here is getting worse. Our country faces the terrifyingly real chance of falling apart if you fail during the few minutes a day when you are not busy enacting the Presidents agenda you should be reading my new novel about what might happen to our country if you keep failing.
So stop wasting time and effort cavorting with the Democrats about their fake Trump/Russia obsession. Those crusty senators with their We must uncover the truth about these questions nonsense need to stop. We all know the truth. Its all a liberal lie.
Cut our taxes, like the GOP promised.
Rebuild our military, like the GOP promised.
Fix infrastructure (wisely), like the GOP promised.
Build a wall, like the GOP promised.
Kill Obamacare, like the GOP promised.
Oh, and how about recruiting some decent GOP candidates? Karen Handel seems like a nice lady, but she's lousy at politics so she never should have gotten in the race. Her upcoming loss is going to motivate our enemies, and we can't have that. We dont have the luxury of letting nice people who are crummy candidates be our nominees. We need winners, not losers.
Put that nomination down! Nominations are for closers.
The Democrats are out there recruiting military vets theres one jerky liberal everyone finds annoying in every big unit, and thats who they pick. Theyll preen and pose and get elected and then salute General Pelosi and vote as ordered on every item of Democrat soldier-shafting liberal hackery. Thats the threat are you ready for it? You need to spend some time and effort on candidate selection and grooming; you need to make sure that in every district our money is on a winner. Are you doing that? Who is doing that? Why do none of us know about how you are doing that?
What we have here is a failure to communicate, which leads to a failure to win.
And we need to stop jamming our own voters in the name of some arbitrary, D.C. think tank g-generated conception of good policy. Good policy is what wins. How about not imposing anything upon us that hurts the GOP base? You see, you're there to represent Republicans. Some goofs and wusscons have the idea that you're there to represent all voters, but that's nonsense.
You are there to represent the people who voted for you, not the liberal whiners and welfare cheats who didn't and who hate you and us. So we're not going to close off deductions that help Republicans and we're not going to increase taxes on Republicans and we're not gonna do other things that hurt Republicans. We're going to hurt Democrats.
That's called politics. Try it. Its amazingly effective.
If you do, we win. If the economy is cranking in November 2018 and health insurance premiums are under control and they will be if you keep your promises then youre fine. Otherwise, youre gone. People here like in Britain will vote against you just because you are the status quo if they feel the status quo stinks. So stop the stinking.
Start by announcing that you are staying in session through your (undeserved) August vacation, then deliver on your promises. Nothing else matters. Stop procrastinating. Stop chasing Putin squirrels like suckers. Choose to win.
The iceberg is right ahead dont slam into it.
Tax reform?!? Healthcare?!? Forget that man, there is a coup d’etat underway. The democrats, MSM, Deep State and judiciary are criminalizing not only Trump but all his supporters and the GOP itself.
Getting its act together means calling the Dems what they are, namely subversive, and fighting them with every means legal and illegal at the GOP’s disposal. This is scary stuff going on right now. We have a deep state surveiling it’s opposition and using that information for God knows what.
How the heck does anyone get anything done in Congress when the Russia meme has hijacked the ship.
Your wife sounds like an ideal candidate for a religious health-sharing ministry that costs a fraction of a traditional insurance plan and is exempt from ObamaCare.
The GOP has no credibility to attack Democrats right now. The GOP controls both houses of Congress and doesn’t need a single Democrat to pass whatever they want to pass.
Build the wall, repeal Obamacare, simplify tax codes and cut taxes.
“This guy comes in throwing high heat several times a week. Pretty smart.”
He’s a neverTrumper, how smart is that? His instincts blow. Why people follow, read etc is beyond me.
All neverTrumper’s careers and reputations should be finished.
Uh, I don't know if you're keeping up on current events, but the GOP is on the other team here...
Younger candidates with more energy, fresh ideas, and no grudges to be repaid above all else.
Primary the bitter clingers in Congress.
Oh, and how about recruiting some decent GOP candidates? Karen Handel seems like a nice lady, but she's lousy at politics so she never should have gotten in the race. Her upcoming loss is going to motivate our enemies, and we can't have that. We dont have the luxury of letting nice people who are crummy candidates be our nominees. We need winners, not losers...The Democrats are out there recruiting military vets theres one jerky liberal everyone finds annoying in every big unit, and thats who they pick. Theyll preen and pose and get elected and then salute General Pelosi and vote as ordered on every item of Democrat soldier-shafting liberal hackery. Thats the threat are you ready for it? You need to spend some time and effort on candidate selection and grooming; you need to make sure that in every district our money is on a winner. Are you doing that? Who is doing that? Why do none of us know about how you are doing that?
-PJ
GOP Inc really can’t defend its record over much of the last thirty years, let alone the last five months.
As the GOP has become the "introverted little brother" wing of the Deep State's support staff, I'm not sure their loss and eventual total destruction (as in California) is going to make any long term difference. Only the rise of powerful, liberty-minded individuals can do that - whatever political label they choose to wear. Trump and his supporters are already non-Republicans - even if they haven't officially severed ties, yet. The party has already rejected us.
If I were a young and talented man interested in a political career, I would certainly prefer to start as a Democrat, too. Why handicap yourself by wearing a damaged brand?
The timing has never been better for such. He should’ve done it back when the GOP was pushing him to sign that crappy ‘loyalty’ contract.
Runs on repealing Obamacare: Doesn’t repeal Obamacare.
What was the old quote: “In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.”? Yeah, that’s the one!
If I were a young and talented man interested in a political career, I would certainly prefer to start as a Democrat, too. Why handicap yourself by wearing a damaged brand?
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You don’t think the donk brand is damaged?
They expressly reject the male qualifier in your description and then add ‘no whites need apply’ for good measure. Young, talented, attractive females of color get top billing because ‘intersectionality’. Unfortunately for the left, most young, white male (and some female) voters see these candidates and are reminded of their HS and college teachers, which is a turnoff.
They’ve lost every Special Election this year, except for some statewide seats in one of the NE blue states.
Because they have the media, they seem much more prevalent than they are. However, the younger voters perceive the truth that the media is unfair, illiberal and lies. Every day, fewer voters under 60 watch TV, read the WSJ, WaPo, NYT. They may ‘hate’ Trump, but they are more likely to support a 3rd party. I don’t know how many are inculcated by FB, but I will bet just as many have learned to hate the bullying, the censorship and the flat-out hateful rhetoric there.
Hillary is a caricature and Sanders is for Bernin’ Down the DNC.
While I’m sure some senior R leadership will fall on their sword so they can blame losses on Trump, the current state of districting means they are likely be primaried while Trump survives and thrives.
I usually like Kurt Schlicter’s writing. No one is perfect. This article illustrates that.
The GOP is mostly just a flaccid reflection of the Democrat Party but without the guts. Both simply want to keep their money and power spigot gushing in The Swamp.
Schlicter is correct. If they want to win they have to fight and succeed - not posture and whine about it. Nobody who loves America likes that except their supercilious, preening selves.
The Democrats are out there recruiting military vets are they doing so at the VA hospitals?.
Ill NEVER vote for a Democrat, but I might just STAY HOME and NOT VOTE for a Republican
And then what?
Not that I like these guys, but we are going to need a better plan than this time-tested bout of stupidity.
And of course be re-elected.
that s the problem, and all they care about
Solution
Term Limits
Age Limit - not uncommon for Board of Directors which these people in essence are
On Obamacare or replacement
Not allowed to earn any more in any form than what the job pays....
“You must get the Presidents agenda passed”
I hope Mr. Munster heard that.
5.56mm
Then what!?
Sit on FR and complain about the Democrats?
The left isnt a joke, dude. They aren’t going to be as ineffective as the GOP and for sure wont give a toss if you don’t like them and stay home.
This is them with their act together.
As the leadrship is uniparty, they work hard to look busy and promise much, while actually doing nothing.
They do not want to change anything. They are oposed to raining the swamp because they like the swamp. They are the swamp.
It is hard for them because now they could actually make good on promises and most of their work now is generating excuses as to why they still cannot do the things they promised with both chambers and the presidency.
Which is why the uniparty has decided its time for the democrats to take over at least one chamber of the congress in 2018. Then the repubs will have a better excuse to say they are unable todo anthing as they dont control both.
This is the uniparty plan against Trump and draining the swamp. Pendulum shifts back and the uniparty repub leadership gets more plausible cover and allows the democrats to do what they overtly cannot do, ie directly go after Trump.
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