No Retreat, No Surrender, No Compromise: The New GOP?
Something rare and wonderful in politics has happened. It has very little to do with the GOP takeover of the House of Representatives, although that is certainly a side benefit. What is truly remarkable is the massive amount of new blood that has been transfused into the Republican Party as a result of their victory in this election. It makes for a delicious feeling of uncertainty and unpredictability. Anything is going to be possible over the next two years, including a GOP implosion, a Democratic Party explosion, or a presidential meltdown.
About a third of the GOP caucus that is sworn in on January 3, 2011, will never have served in Congress previously. If they organize and stay together, they could affect everything from the battle to repeal health care reform to who becomes speaker of the House. Almost all of them are as conservative as any group of first-termers who have ever been elected. The question being asked by both tea party folk and the GOP establishment is: how wedded to “principle” are the newcomers?
Similar questions were being asked by Democrats in 1974 when the Watergate class of liberal congressmen upended the Democratic establishment and forever after skewed the party to the far left. There were 72 new congressmen in that class (the Democrats gained 49 seats) and they quickly organized themselves into a powerful caucus that changed the committee and seniority system, thus altering the way the Congress did business. Their example may be followed by this new group of freshly minted conservative House members who come to Washington as a result of the GOP tidal wave.
Not all of them have bubbled up from the tea party movement, but most are in sync with its goals: fiscal responsibility and a return to some semblance of prudent government. But what does that mean? We are in a nightmarish economy with slow growth, continuing job losses, and the specter of inflation in the background due to the irresponsible policies of the Federal Reserve. We are also faced with depressing budget deficits and a truly frightening national debt.
Is there no role for government at all in fixing this mess? If there is, the Republicans are not going to be able to accomplish much on their own. They will need to work with the Democrats and the president in order to get something done about the economy and the budget. Spending and tax cuts will have to be negotiated to have any chance of being signed by the president and put into effect. Otherwise, the GOP will simply be posturing, and nothing at all will be accomplished.
But the Republicans have already indicated that there will be no compromise with the Democrats, and the newcomers are completely in tune with that promise. In fact, if a move is made by establishment Republicans to work with the opposition, there is the probability that the tea party caucus will possess the solidarity to shoot down any attempt to reach a bipartisan deal on the budget and taxes with the Democrats. This will deny President Obama and his party any semblance of “victory,” but it will also prevent the GOP from achieving anything they can take back home with them to show their constituents how much they care about their suffering in this miserable economy.
Some may believe this is not important. If so, they are out of touch with the vast majority of the American people. And ignoring voters while doing exactly the opposite of what they desire sounds suspiciously like the very same strategy employed by the Democrats recently. The results for the GOP in 2012 are likely to mirror what happened to the Democrats in 2010.
When it comes to compromising with the opposition or “sticking with principles,” it’s no contest. A Bloomberg poll had it 80-16 for compromise, while a CBS/New York Times poll showed 69-22 in favor of working with the opposition to get something done. With numbers like that, it would seem that the GOP is willing to commit political suicide with their “no compromise” stand, playing right into the hands of President Obama. The president will no doubt make what are reasonable sounding accommodations with the Republicans, knowing full well he can do so safely since they will be rejected and the GOP will get the lion’s share of the blame if nothing gets accomplished.
How many Americans are able to connect the dots between the sub-prime mortgage crisis and the expected launch of QE2? How many of them are willing to take the time to bring others up to speed?
Either the US finds a way to deal with toxic assets, or it will have fewer options to ride out of the mess. There is no third way.
“80-16 for compromise”
Anyone who compromises on the principles that got them elected is not worth the paper it too to vote for them.
To do so would be to betray those who lifted them to office.
“the American people reject the idea of “conducting major investigations of the Obama administration” by a 52-42 majority in the Pew poll”…
Ummmm….maybe we’ll let Obama go for now. But let’s pursue Holder,Pelosi, Reid, Rangle, Waters, Boxer, Frank’s corruption unto the ends of the earth. Lets hound them until they scream…”no Mas”. Especially the racist garbage pail…Holder. If these clowns and dirt bags are allowed to walk away from their obvious illegal and corrupt actions….then they should all be given Monica Lewiniski awards.
The polls say some suspicious stuff. This reminds me of the ridiculous argument the Libs put out there for Socialism. The folks do not like it as a whole, but they like every individual part. Yeah, everyone likes a free lunch… unless they are the ones paying for others’ free lunches.
They want the cuts, except the cut which will hurt them personally. They know they are necessary, but they want someone else to pay.
Already, I hear the challenge from the Left, “How do you promise to cut spending and borrowing, when allowing the tax cuts for the rich will “cost” $700 billion?”
It is just dishonest. Leaving the tax cuts as they now are will not cost a cent. Things will remain the same. The Leftists are counting government money they do not have yet, but are expecting to get and feel entitled to.
Everyone kind of gets that raising taxes now is a bad idea, because it will hamper the economy even more. However, what is letting tax cuts for the rich expire but raising taxes? Even if you quibble over the semantics, the taxes for the rich go up, and the result is the same. It will hurt the economy, however you split the hair.
Furthermore, that $700 billion is phony too, because the economy is not a static thing. If you take $700B out of it, it changes things, so you will not actually see $700 B.
It would just get spent, anyway. If they are not willing to make this argument forcefully, without compromise, then they will never have the cojones to balance the budget, anyway. And the spending will continue.
This election was a demand to have the tough decisions be made. Will the Dems make political hay out of it? Yes, the bastards. If you do not get the job done, they will make hay, too. The only option you have, is to fully embrace it. Make the cuts. Embrace the role, a la Gov. Christie. Be bold. Communicate. He is doing what America wants done. “Full speed ahead and damn the torpedoes!” Make it quick. Rip off the bandage.
And the Iraq war didn’t cost anything because it wasn’t in the budget. And smoking won’t kill you, it’s the sulfur off the matches. And it’s all Obama’s fault. Sorry, Repubs and conservatives, the honeymoon’s over.
“And it’s all Obama’s fault”
Born Senseless, did you lend Mr. President the Kick Me sign that was riveted to your ass? And now the Modern Liberal Big Message is that the Republicans have to come up with answers, but the Modern Liberal Wanters absolutely want their cake and consumption too..
The implication being that the Mr. President has failed. Isn’t that blasphemy? Does that warrant banishment from the Modern Liberal Cesspool? No, he needs you more than ever. You’ll take the kicks and smile wanly.
Didn’t Mr. President and hanger oners just come through a glorious period of enlightened rulership? What happened?
Where the hell is Mrs. President?
Nice. Mr. President’s flushed care package finally reached the lower rungs of Cesspooldom. Was the Tingler DVD included? And several hits of LSD-25 to hold you closer. Scream all you want, the Tingler just used you and burned you big time.
After all, it is all about Mr. President. You’re so lame that you’ll gladly absorb those autographed lawn chocolates Bo keeps sending you down the sewer pipe, and any kicks to the sign, all for protecting an illusion.
“…the honeymoon’s over.” No kidding. Scream! Scream!
“And it’s all Obama’s fault”
Whatever.
Your sensi, you never tire of making a fool of yourself. The Dems lose the House, your racist hero The O is humiliated, and you brightly say,”the party’s over” for others. Does this come from an illness that causes the victim to have a reverse cognitive process, perceptions askew, neurons a jumble, the victim walking into walls, and a steady stream of uncontrollable, incoherent, insensible blather, spitting all over one’s bib?
Do you in brief moments realize that you are incapable of saying anything of significance or interest?
You’re so weak & dull you’re on the verge of being boring.
p s, your 6:49 am post bespeaks plain idiocy, even the godforaken vivo does a bit better.
Good afternoon, Sensei!
You lost the bet on the number of Congressional seats the GOP would pick up.
See this comment to arrange to pay off on your bet.
Ahh, I love the smell of conservative victory in the afternoon. Especially when it’s mixed with the aroma of lefty frustration.
I predicted 25-35 in the House and 6 in the Senate. Seems I’m right on half and you’re wrong on half. we’re eve, Ain’t it just like a conservative to try and cook the books. Why don’t you try working for a living?
“…also prevent the GOP from achieving anything they can take back home with them to show their constituents how much they care about their suffering in this miserable economy.’
That’s where the Repubs would go wrong.
The ‘poor baby’ con is how we got into this jam in the first place. Government is not balm to all wounds, the answer to all problems, and the sooner Republican get their heads around that idea, the sooner things will get better in a meaningful way.
Keep organizing-2012 is a year away.
“…This will deny President Obama and his party any semblance of “victory,” but it will also prevent the GOP from achieving anything they can take back home with them to show their constituents how much they care about their suffering in this miserable economy.”
This is ridiculous. Steadfastly opposing the Precedent and the leftists IS showing the constituents how much the GOP cares for them. We cannot advance our agenda at this point. We can only stop the hemorrhaging until the next election cycle where, please G-d, we gain even more seats and the White House itself in order to completely reverse course and move back towards sanity.
The public is now fully engaged and knows exactly what the Democrat/Progressive agenda is – the “fundamental transformation” of America as we know it into a failed Euro-Socialist enterprise. We reject this. The election last night was indeed a tsunami because of this. We say “not one inch further, not one penny more.” We will hold those we elected not just to be the party of “no” but the party of “HELL NO!”
Rick, Rick, Rick: your inherent liberalism is showing. We don’t have to go hat in hand to Barry Dunham; he has to come to us. His puppeteers have the choice of the budget passed by Congres or…no budget — no funding for Obamacare, QE2, Porkulus: the Sequel! — at all.
The only thing the American people can do is scare the politicians into change. If the Republicans don’t keep their promise of lower taxes, repeal or defunding Obamacare, smaller government, and no more bailouts, they now know that what happened to the Democrats could easily happen to them, again.
So the American people are keeping watch and the Republicans now know it.
I see nothing but minefields in every direction for the new Speaker. To promote job growth, it isn’t as easy as simply lowering taxes; one must also have products or services that consumers will buy. Today, virtually all of the products are made in China or Asia, not the US, and the consuming public is not in the mood to splurge as before, prefering to reduce debt and save for a rainy day. Another aspect is that perhaps as many as four million manufacturing jobs have been lost forever, never to return.
Services, for a large part, depend on sales and after sale service or product maintenance, which is under several kinds of positive and negative pressures, such as the introduction of new products along with withdrawal of support for obselete or obselescent products, and the current trend to make do for another year or two with one’s current set of products. We see this in diverse fields such as the auto industry, the aircraft industry, electronics, computers, software and others. If that is what’s left for our workers to aspire to, they are rapidly reaching a ceiling in their prospects for growth of income, and hence, their ability to consume at a relatively high rate.
Then, too, we have reached a high level of “throwaway parts” repair along with significant built-in sensors and diagnostics that simplify the identification of the part to be replaced, or the whole unit to be cast out. The parts themselves, of course, are manufactured overseas. Has anyone had the experience of a TV technician saying that it would be cheaper, or almost cheaper, to buy a new TV than to repair the old one? Thus, less expertise is needed to effect a repair or replacement decision, with a parallel decrease in wages for such jobs, and the real profits go to the overseas company.
If, as I have read, we need to generate five million new, well-paying jobs a year just to accomodate the rising generation, can anyone tell me just where such a set of jobs is coming from? If we need the economy (the GDP) to grow at an eight percent rate or better in order to pay the bills, and reduce the debt, it starts with more jobs, right now!
#1 is right…the best thing a lot of these GOP superstars can do now is educate the public, layman-style, in how the government has done very bad but very esoteric things to our economy.
Completely agree. An educated public is one that we don’t have to “compromise” with, because they’ll be on our side. Education brought by the transparency of the Web is what gave us last night’s victory. It will continue.
This is why I’m happy about Brown and Boxer. California clearly still has the IQ of a stone, showing we need a few more years of disaster for instructional purposes.
Rick, compromise? don’t do the heavy lifting? don’t do what is really needed? The American people aren’t ready?
Your counsel is that of Neville Chamberlain or just being a little pregnant.
We have been given a reprieve but are still on life support. the time for action is now!
Cut budget to 20078 levels.
Freeze on Federal salaries for three years.
Cut taxes of every sort.freeze increase on entitlements
Make every American on disability be re-approved every 24 months! (There are enough able bodied Americans on disability to man four new combat divisions!)
You get the drift. Money from businesses, home prices and investment will never take place with half measures. The people with money will never invest until the patient takes strong medicine. They won’t be fooled and your half baked measures are those of a weak kneed despot.
This election puts Republicans RIGHT ON THE SPOT: if they don’t perform, they will be kicked out in 2012 and Obama will take over again (if he runs for President). Sweet!
Americans have become Machiavellian!
What the Reps need are new graphs, showing how much the current entitlements are going to cost in the future.
With “Freeze” (NOT cut) as the current proposal, allowing the Dems to cut where they like.
The “adult conversation” has to be about how to reduce gov’t spending, not increase taxes. Nor increase regulation.
If the Republicans have half a brain, they’ll focus their investigations on the subprime mess (including Bawney’s role) and the whole cozy relationship between the leftists in the financial services industry and the Democrats, foreclosuregate (B of A a huge Democrat donor, anyone think that the bankers or the lawyers involved in trying to foreclose aren’t Democrats? think again!).
The way to stabilize the economy is to stabilize the financial/real estate sectors. The ONLY way to do that, ultimately, is to force the losses through the system, allocated in accordance with EXISTING LAW.
That may well mean that it’s hard to figure out who owns a note or mortgage, and that (sometimes) the note holder can’t foreclose, and the mortgagor/borrower has defenses on the note. Ultimately, if the borrower took the money, someone will have a right to sue the borrower for it and get a judgment – you can ultimately get the house that way too, but it takes time and costs $$. And, bankruptcy can prevent deficiency judgments from sticking. But, if the note holder takes it in the shorts, the note holder will have recourse of some sort to the person it was purchased from, and so on back to the originator if there was fraud in the inducement. Ultimately, the borrower won’t be able to keep a house for free, but just who loses will be determined in the courts. And, that’s how it should be.
That does meant that most of the major banks will go under, but that’s probably OK – there will need to be some protection for mere depositors, but the bank shareholders, executives, and even the bank’s bondholders will lose big. The taxpayers, too, but at least we can amortize that over time. We need an equivalent of the Resolution Trust Company.
I also want a thorough investigation into the corruption of the Department of InJustice over the New Black Panther Party. I’d prefer to see Holder and his minions who directed this fraud to be frog-marched out and placed in the orange jumpsuits they so deserve.
Three piles. One is toxic assets which might be worth one cent on the dollar. That has to be quarantined from others which are worth a bit more, but are not in the most robust shape, and the Irish have borrowed the RTC concept (they call
it NAMA). Then there are the good assets which are worth about 20 cents on the dollar.
The numbers I cite are based on what the Anglo-Irish Bank is worth, for it will
be divided into a good bank and a bad bank.
It’s simple. Pass a lot of the “essential spending” bills and then, when you’ve spent all the revenue, ask folks if they want their kids, grandchildren and great-grandchildren to pay? Revenue is over 1 Trillion. If not, then are they willing to pay more in income taxes?
Point is, don’t fund Obamacare, don’t fund the Czars, don’t fund the $200 million/day trips of the Pres or the Spanish vacations. Let NPR funding be last.
And you can do it cleverly. On each “do we borrow, tax or do without”, the GOP should pay for a national poll and use it. One presumes that the polls will say “no more borrowing. no more taxing me” – thus we do without.
Here’s another idea. We just throw a rope around the sun and drag it a couple of inches closer and we won’t have to pay heating bills.
Simple, GOP needs to fight to cut taxes, repeal Zero-care and eliminate every Federal agency that can. Let the Dems continue to fight that. It is OK to let nothing happen. The long the people suffer the better for the people to start to wake up. The Democrats will go down if the GOP stays focused and frame the argument that they are sticking with the tax payeers over the leeches.
“About a third of the GOP caucus that is sworn in on January 3, 2011, will never have served in Congress previously” — you say that like it’s a bad thing. It’s not. I could do with a lot less in the way of professional politicians. I want loud, inexperienced, stupid debate that constipates everything that Obama and Harry Reid cook up. I want the rest of the country to have a say in what happens in Washington, not just the pencil-necked academics in the White House.
Let me get this out of my system and be done with it: I want Nancy Pelosi to commit political seppuku and retire in shame. I want Harry Reid to die of political constipation, accomplish nothing, and retire early after Obama loses in 2012. I want Obama to have to bear the blame for what he’s done to the economy and have to watch as Obamacare is dismantled. I want Obama to have to confront his arrogance and his incompetence looking in the mirror at three o’clock in the morning and admit he was wrong about the Paul Krugman School of Magical Economics. I want to see flop sweat, and lots of it.
There. Much better. It’s been a long time coming; now let’s start cleaning up the mess.
“About a third of the GOP caucus that is sworn in on January 3, 2011, will never have served in Congress previously” — you say that like it’s a bad thing. It’s not.
Actually the author is not saying it like it’s a bad thing. Re-read the first paragraph:
“What is truly remarkable is the massive amount of new blood that has been transfused into the Republican Party as a result of their victory in this election. It makes for a delicious feeling of uncertainty and unpredictability.”
You go Bobdog!
You speak for a lot of us!
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON’S LAMENT
Arianna Huffington laments that the big message of yesterday’s election is that “the public has lost faith in government.” That is almost correct. What they’ve lost faith in is Big Government Liberalism, now called Obamunism: the big lie that government is the answer to man’s quest for happiness and a rich, productive and meaningful life. Arianna also laments that Republicans who won big last night have no new ideas. That is true insofar as the GOP represents the old, wise, time tested ideas of the Founders: God gave man life and liberty to pursue happiness; and the purpose of government is to protect life and liberty so that man can achieve his dreams. That government is the dream maker for human beings is the lie, the big lie, the proven lie that leads to tyranny, bankruptcy, dehumanization and misery as we’ve seen throughout history and is happening today. It is belief in this lie, this utopian concept of government, that America is losing its faith and that Obama and the Dems are radically destroying.
Sooner or later Arianna will lament that when she changed from Right to Left she crossed over to the wrong side of history. Again I say:
The Age of Liberalism is over,
It’s finished with and done.
And a new and glorious chapter
In our country’s heroic history
Is about to begin.
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Amen, brother. But be warned that they will not go quietly into that good night. Even a certain dictator, trapped inside his bunker as the enemy closed in, vowed to take his people down with him for betraying his genius.
This is the beginning of a very long struggle. It’s not just the ideology, but the people who have been brainwashed by this ideology for nigh on 50 years. We have to take back the schools and the family and then the rest will follow.
That stupid uber-tart might have helped her cause more if she had bused 10,000 people to the polls instead of to that Insane Clown Posse Rally in DC just three days before the election. Those she opposes got their big gatherings out of the way a while ago so they could focus on getting out the vote. So much for “losing faith in government.”
Mr. Noran:
“Some may believe this is not important. If so, they are out of touch with the vast majority of the American people.”
Who are you to opine with any kind of authority about who is “out of touch” here?
In case you haven’t kept up with current events, the American people just handed conservatives a victory of epic proportions, or just as validly, dealt the liberals a crushing nationwide defeat.
While you have been pushing this GOP must become MORE like DemocRats hogwash here at PJM and elsewhere for the last two years.
Let me spell it out for you…it is YOU who are “out of touch”.
“And ignoring voters while doing exactly the opposite of what they desire sounds suspiciously like the very same strategy employed by the Democrats recently. The results for the GOP in 2012 are likely to mirror what happened to the Democrats in 2010.”
Since the objective reality of the election just definitively showed that your subjective reality of “what the people want” is ridiculously off the mark,(and has been for the past two years), your prognostication of a 2012 doom for conservative Republicans is laughable.
Now, let me get this straight: according to the lamestream media it was the economy that gave Congress to the GOP (not BHO); yet, the senate races in Nevada and California (two of the economically worse-off States) stayed DemocRAT ! Well, something tells me that electoral fraud might (just might…) have taken place in both of these States, since the outcome in both doesn’t jive with the propaganda narrative coming from the press. Further, the senate races in Colorado, Washington and Alaska are definitely fishy. How could possibly BHO’s senate seat in Illinois (!) and that in Pennsylvania switch, but not the other five? In short, the democRATS might have stolen the senate. Never trusted election results that come out of the ghetto or the barrio (Colo, Cal, Nev), especially these days. As for the credibility of the election outcomes in Wash and Alaska – well they’re just a joke. Have no first hand evidence for any of these suggestions, just a hunch, but to me these results don’t add up.
One more thing: I’m afraid the GOP will pull a defense-related “Cameron” on the US with proposed budget cuts.
I have to wonder how close wins for Dems in Senate races gets translated into some sort of electoral fraud. I don’t think it’s the results that aren’t adding up; it’s your hunch(es).
Here in Colorado, a semblance of electoral order was restored as the Repubs picked up two of the House seats they had lost since 2004. The Dem won the governor race going away as the Repubs committed political “harikiri” by running two candidates. Appears the Senate seat will remain with the Dems and at least one house of the state legislature.
Perhaps the best sign, though, of Tea Party weakness here is in how the various conservative ballot initiatives fared. All five lost by large margins: 3 cutting taxes and limiting government; the notorious “personhood” amendment; and one repudiating the health care “reform” passed by Congress. Goes to show that Colorado is a “purple” state; a state where common sense prevails & a state where for the most part, conservative Dems and moderate Repubs thrive.
Sorry buddy, your “purple” State hypothesis doesn’t seem to hold wate. Colorado is full of sharp divisions, and potentially ripe for – I emphasize that since I only give statistical evidence – electoral fraud:
From Politico’s:
http://www.politico.com/2010/maps/#/Senate/2010/CO
take a look at these cases, where fraud COULD be possible (they contain inner city and strong minority areas:
1. Jefferson Co, (D) 104.7K (48%) and (R) 100.2K (46%)
2. Pueblo Co, (D) 26.3K (53.8%) and (R) 20.3K (41%)
3. Boulder Co, (D) 67.7K (66.9%) and (R) 29.1K (28.8)
and then take a look at a case where the likelihood of fraud is very limited:
Douglas Co, (D) 40K (35%) and (R) 69K (60%).
Now, given these (mind you, County-wide, not poll-place based) results, where exactly do you find your LaLa land “moderate GOP, conservative dem” purple hypothesis?
“Where do you find your LaLa land……purple hypothesis…….” Easy. I’ve lived here for 30 years and have been active off & on in Republican politics almost the entire time. All you’re doing is showing a map of the state and which counties went for which party. And you are making a large assumption that voter fraud could be present in inner cities or places with strong minority areas. Colorado isn’t Chicago, with its “reputation.”
The only place I heard of last night with potential voter fraud was in a suburban Denver county (Arapahoe) with small minority populations and not an inner city area. Some polling places ran out of provisional paper ballots. A judge ruled that anyone standing in line when the polls closed could still vote if they had proper ID.
If Colorado is “full of sharp divisions,” as you allege, then why did the extreme ballot initiatives go down by wide margins? The three anti-tax and anti-government initiatives were defeated by a coalition of Repubs and Dems, business and labor, and average citizens who didn’t want all government services gutted. The “personhood” amendment, which would have banned all abortions and many forms of birth control, also was resoundingly defeated.
My hypothesis is that electoral fraud was electronic and targeted the senate races; for Colorado, the striking differences in maps (I sited the senate map and here’s the house map:
http://www.politico.com/2010/maps/#/House/2010/CO
with all red, except a small geographic blue island in the middle) brings the point more sharply into focus.
But I would grant you the defeat in these “extremists” propositions point; I have no clue what happened there – since I’m no resident of Colorado. Remember though, the marijuana proposition was defeated in California, too, and hardly any would accuse Californians for being extremist conservative Republicans. It’s always difficult to gage peoples’ ideology by how they vote on propositions.
What is there to prevent those counties where the Republicans did well to come together and have a special election redrawing the borders of their state? Let the counties which support the Democrats be on their own, rather than have folks
who play by the rules pay through the nose for the arrogance of the Democrats.
Because, local governments and state governments have debt problems. Public debt isn’t only attributable to Washington.
Why compromise with evil?
Compromising with Obama is like saying, “OK, Adolf, if you can keep it down to 3 million dead Jews, we can live with that.”
President Obama and the Democrats must truly despise the American people and think we have not been paying attention for the past two years. Do they think we have forgotten what Obama and the Democrats have done? Not only do we remember, we just handed the Obama and the Democrats a beating yesterday. So here is a message to our new Republican leadership. Do not compromise!
You do not compromise with someone who wants you to sit in the back seat like a second class citizen. You do not compromise with someone who thinks political opponents are enemies and should be punished. You do not compromise with someone who likes to use pitchfork analogies against those he wants to control. You do not compromise with someone who tolerates infanticide. And you do not compromise with someone who want to control every aspect of our lives. And this last one is for any Christian out there: you do not compromise with someone who wants to persecute you for your beliefs.
http://www.bluecollarphilosophy.com/2010/11/speaker-boehner-do-not-compromise-with.html
As a Tea Party member myself I would like to express one thing that needs attention with the way the Republican Party is doing “business”. Harry Reid won back his Senate seat because he got 16% of the Latino vote which put him over the top. the Republican Party, if to make “any future gains” in Congress will need the Latino community. the Republican Party needs to bring conservative ideology to the Latino community as soon as possible. Without their support, 2012 will go back to the Democratic Party.
I don’t buy this for two reasons: how can anyone be sure that Reid won fair and square?
What “Latino” vote? Look at Rubio and his campaign in Florida – clear cut message: run on conservative principles, and the “latinos” will come to you, if there isn’t fraud involved as someone is already pointing out. You don’t pander to any ethnic group, they move to you if you have good ideas to sell.
Reid won in Nevada because the casinos pressured their employees and bought the election for him. That’s where a big chunk of the Latino vote came from.
“No compromise!”
Exactly! That will guarantee a Democratic resurgence when the country realizes the pack of wackoes it’s elected.
You have written the only comment I can agree with. Sane and intelligent people always compromise when the results can be beneficial for all. Our country is in a real mess. If we don’t compromise the nightmare will go on.
I believe the economy will begin to improve a little bit now, because businesses are less afraid of Republicans than they are of the now blatantly socialist Democrats. It probably won’t be much to begin with, but any visible improvement can only help the Republicans, and if they’re smart enough to stick with a smaller government, limited spending agenda, things will eventually get a lot better. If they blow it this time around, they’re dead in the water, just like the Democrats are now.
Compromise is very easy.
All spending starts in the House.
Boehner wants to re-do 2008, which wasn’t hot but less than this mess, so pass that. Let the Senate know that there is not ‘compromise’ on a budget in hard fiscal times, austerity is necessary. If the Senate doesn’t want that budget, well fine, that is Democratic obstructionism.
If Obama vetos that, then cut that budget and re-pass it as the President has obviously indicated it is too large for the American people and obviously needs to be smaller, all verbiage by him is cover for that.
You get a ‘compromise’ budget this way! It is fiscally responsible, austere, and the President gets to decide if he wants it the first time around or cut further. If you watch Pawn Stars you can ID this as the way the Old Man gets to an agreement… and it works.
KISS – Keep It Simple Stupid.
It is time we all just laughed at the inane spin of almost everyone on the left. They are beyond any hope of ever getting it and now with less than 200 members in the House for the first time in 50 years they really don’t have any real power left. Obama is at best a weak ideologue who has now begun to most resemble Richard Nixon during the latter stages of the Watergate drama. Next thing he will start talking to the portraits on the White House walls and telling them about how great it was when he was in Iowa. My God, why do we have to deal with this man for another two years. Now we all know why the staff left a month ago. This guy is not only a total incompetent he is quackers as well. I guess they didn’t want to be around when the arugala hit the fan.
Here is what I would like to see. Just my opinion….
1) Complete and total party unity.
2) That said, I expect the Republicans to clearly define themselves against the Demorats. Not a single vote should cross the isle.
3) Any increase in spending=filibuster. Same with increase in taxes. Make it known now and demand that the Demorats finally control their out of control behavior.
4) I don’t care if these don’t pass, I want on record from the Republicans, 100% of them, supported the following items on a vote;
a) Repeal of Obamacare
b) Removal of that religious nonsense known as “Evolution” from public schools.
c) SECURE THE DARN BORDER! Its not a hard concept.
d) Marriage Amendment clearly defining it as between a man and woman. It blows my mind we have to do this but I guess we have to regulate marriage just as we have to regulate to prevent hippies from getting high and murdering people for their fix.
e) Complete investigation of the crimes of this administration.
f) and pretty much since they will have to once they do start looking into Barry’s high crimes, impeachment proceedings.
Again, I don’t care if these things don’t pass, but I want it to be very clear that the GOP understands that the American people are not going to be happy with business as usual.
Steve B/Colorado – I don’t believe Colorado to be a ‘Conservative Dem/Moderate GOP’ state.
Colorado has been an overwhelmingly Liberal state LONG before pot dispensaries, illegals flooding West, North, East Denver Metro areas and ALL resort towns, public education, once touted as successful knee deep in political correctness and ‘fairness’ has run amok and put a stranglehold on the state since the early 90′s.
Nice post Rick, very well stated.
Diablo: #29 Here is what I would like to see……….removal of that religious nonsense known as “evolution” from pubic schools….” Evolution is not religion. I’d rather have science taught in our schools than religious dogma, unless it’s taught in a comparative religion course. Children need to learn religion from their parents, not in public schools that are supposed to teach children from all backgrounds.
“secure the darn border. It’s not a hard concept….” And which border are you referring to? We have a 3,000 mile & largely unguarded border with Canada. And, the recent Yemen mail bomb episode highlights the vulnerability of our airports and harbors. There is also the knowledge that citizens of the 3rd world will keep trying to get here; as well as Western Europe, Australia, etc., in search of a better life. You want secure borders; start with heavy penalties on those businesses that hire undocumented immigrants. That’s the only real way to dry up illegal immigration; if they can’t get work here.
#30 paul/unalaska: “Colorado has been an overwhelmingly liberal state long before……” I suspect that residents and elected officials in Colorado Springs; to name but one example; would disagree with you. There are certainly illegals here. See my reply to Diablo as to a way to dry up illegal immigration. Have you been a resident here at any time since the early ’90s?
Those were just my opinions friend. As per securing the borders…secure them all. I do realize that our red brothers to the north represent a serious threat as well. I also didn’t realize that you witnessed the “evolution” and divergence of hominids. Do share your secret for longevity. Scientists can be wrong…my bible ain’t.
Your mentioning of pulling knowledgeable and qualified persons from other countries brings up a wonderful idea. Lets require every applicant for Citizenship to have a degree. No more riffraff. This is America…let’s have some standards. And a side benefit is the brain drain of other countries, similar to East Germany prior to the Berlin Wall. Which reminds me…Lets get that Darn WALL BUILT!
“It makes for a delicious feeling of uncertainty and unpredictability.”
And that’s exactly why we’ll be throwing bums out again in another two years. Obama is criticized for being business-unfriendly for precisely this reason. Why is the GOP so eager to embrace the same mistake? Repeal health care reform? Welcome more uncertainty!
I would suggest that readers pay abosolutely no mind to Mr. Moran and his delusional rantings. He’s lost it completley. He’s gone completely and absolutely RINO! He’s disabled the comments at his own website, because he’s unable to handle consructive criticism and feedback, now, he feels as if he’s all alone in the wilderness of “conservatism”, where his opinions, and his alone, are correct, and everyone else is some type of right wing radical. He will soon be consigned to the dust heap of history, where he deserves to be.
@DaleInAtlanta,
I still like Rick Moran…but i must add that you are right about the part where he thinks he is alone in the wilderness of conservatism.. his decision to close his comments section is truly bad and a tad defensive.
I still remember calling in on his radio show last year when he had his friend from the Moderate Voice as one of the guests along with another conservative woman – both Rick and his MV friend ridiculed the idea of Marco Rubio running for the Senate Seat – after all the GOP already had the “moderate” Charlie Crist !
The conservative woman on the show (i think it was Dr.Melissa Clouthier) and me were arguing for Rubio to run- what was there to be afraid of ? If Rubio ran and lost, it would at least give us clarity- and the so called moderates like Crist could now crow demonstrate that they alone had the correct “credentials” to win.
It is amazing now that Rubio not only beat Crist once, but twice. I dont think Rick Moran saw that coming. While i think he is saying all this in good faith i don’t think he fully comprehends the intense voter distaste to DeomcRAT policies and principles.
It is a joke to think that the RATS will compromise – if they wanted to we would have had a far less radical health care bill. Rick Moran unfortunately is the one who is out of touch here.
And if 80% of the US public wants compromise, i don’t know why they bothered to show up at the polls to elect Republicans -they could have very easily retained the Dems.
Rick needs to up his meds. The dems’ dishonest narrative, which Rick seems to adore, is that the GOP must compromise with the dems. Really? The dems passed their extreme legislation like thugs for 2 years. All GOP amendments were DOA. It was a one party House and Senate. There was no compromise from the dems and Rick knows it. The correct question is will the dems now start to compromise with the GOP. If not, then they own the gridlock. Liberals should now be considered to be a public nuisance. Rick hates conservatives so much he’ll will probably replace KO on NBC.