With only a very small majority, the Republicans in the House & Senate need more victories next year since Dems totally obstruct, no votes!
Posted on 07/18/2017 7:50:59 AM PDT by Cheerio
Just six months ago, it looked like the Republican Party was about to go on a legislative blitzkrieg, shredding law after law passed by the Obama administration. ObamaCare would be vaporized and replaced with a nickel rattling inside an empty Mountain Dew can. Dodd-Frank was sure to be tossed aside for a transparent giveaway to Wall Street. And Republicans would pass their regressive tax reform, their perplexing border-adjustment tax, and so much more. The GOP hadn't held total power in American politics since 2006, and the party had become much more conservative in the interim. And instead of George W. Bush, a man who recognized at least some theoretical limits on free market fundamentalism, the new Congress would work with a sub-literate tabula rasa named Donald Trump, a man who could probably be persuaded to inject himself with experimental medication if an important-seeming person whispered "do it" in his ear.
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Yes, Ryan and McConnell are leading groups of losers who were happy to pass legislation with no hope of signature but now when it might be signed, won’t touch it. They lied.
I want to see the Obamacare repeal. If they don’t repeal Obamacare, then what the heck are they doing? Why are they there? Why do we need to re-elect them if they won’t repeal Obamacare??
Yea, that’s what I’m talking about. They voted to repeal Obamacare many times, when they knew Obama would veto such repeal.
Why the heck was it so easy to vote to repeal Obamacare when Obama would veto it, but so hard to vote to repeal now that there is a president who would sign such legislation???
Say-—just say-—Repeal passes. It’s going to be very, very hard for any R to not vote for a repeal. You might get Collins, but it would still pass. Even two defections still passes.
Then it goes to conference with the House. Ok, then what? House would have to abandon the “replace” stuff . . . and we are left with . . . Repeal.
How is this bad?
And while we want tax relief, I think most of us are pretty happy that Congress isn’t doing anything else.
With only a very small majority, the Republicans in the House & Senate need more victories next year since Dems totally obstruct, no votes!
Super Poor Leadership in the House and Senate
Maybe because they’re handing the 2018 elections to their buddies across the aisle.
When RINO's decide to give Trump the BORDER WALL and other things, then the government will be allowed to run again.
Besides, SHUTTING DOWN the government will save money.
Why are they there? lobbyists it looks like nothing gets done unless the approve it seems the owned congress and senate gives us socialism.
When LBJ was the Senate Majority Leader back in the 50s, he knew how to get every vote he needed...he kicked ass and the other Senators knew it.
McConnell is no LBJ.
They say that like it's a bad thing.
I would rather have a nickel rattling inside an empty Mountain Dew can than a grenade.
I think the “BIG TENT” philosophy of the Republican Party has backfired as the Republican Congress is now infused with significant numbers of Republicrats better known as “moderates”.
The enemy within.
Ryan and most of them are owned by Soros
It is going to be a turnout problem. Who could pull the lever for an "R" and actually in his heart believe that it will make a difference in how we are governed.
The best that can be said is that voting "R" could keep Democrats from control of the houses of Congress. But that doesn't mean the conservative agenda will be advanced.
No one owns Trump.
Repeat.
Soros owns Ryan, McConnell and most of these corrupt politicians.That’s why they don’t want obamacare repealed.
No one owns Trump.
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