Saturday, October 10, 2015
Saturday Politics : Democrats Exaggerate GOP Problem
It's Saturday politics, and the glee coming from Democrat politicians and the mainstream media would make you think the death of the Republican Party is imminent. Their favorite description of what's going on in the GOP House caucus is "chaos." ~~~~~ Not really. It's about the House Republican majority seeking a new candidate for Speaker. Just before the vote for Speaker Thursday, GOP Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy told his colleagues he didn't have enough support on the House floor to be elected on GOP votes alone -- so he bowed out of the race in order to avoid owing favors to Nancy Pelosi if he had needed Democrat votes to win. Speaker John Boehner, who announced recently he plans to resign from Congress October 30, told the caucus Friday that he'll stay on as Speaker until the conference unites around a successor. House members went home Friday for a scheduled week recess, and now they'll be spending time explaining this week's events to their constituents. A majority leans toward Representative Paul Ryan, who prefers to stay in his position as Ways and Means Committee chairman to finish his work on tax reform and a full revision of the tax code. But with lots of coaxing, including a call from Mitt Romney, Ryan is considering running for the leadership job because he is acceptable to all the groups in the GOP caucus. ~~~~~ Representative Darrell Issa of California said yesterday he may enter the race, but Issa agreed all eyes are on Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential running mate. "Ryan should make a definitive decision "soon," GOP sources told the Washington Post. Representative Jason Chaffetz of Utah, who was already a candidate, said he will withdraw from the race if Ryan decides to run. Also in the race is Representative Daniel Webster of Florida, who is backed by the House Freedom Caucus, the influential group of 50 GOP conservatives. ~~~~~ Dear readers, the imminent death of the GOP has been greatly exaggerated. Republicans will agree on a Speaker, and the caucus will rally around him to get busy on the debt ceiling and the rest of the conservative legislative agenda they were elected to carry out - an agenda that often made Speaker Boehner uncomfortable. Instead of clucking like hens over the GOP situation, the Democrats would do better to worry about their own seemingly insurmountable problems : a nonfunctional President who is out-of-step with the great majority of Americans, and two lamentable presidential candidates - Hillary Clinton whose polls are collapsing as she faces possible criminal indictment and Bernie Sanders who is so far to the left that he calls himself a socialist. Worse, the only Democratic solution is to trot out 73-year-old VP Joe Biden, who has already failed twice as a wanabee President and whose most notable attributes are slightly off-color gaffs and ogling women. Now, tell me, which party is in chaos?
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The House Freedom Caucus (made up of some 40-50 very conservative House members), the Republican Study Committee (comprising some 170 very conservative Representatives), and the Tea Party (formidable size) are not necessarily more conservative than other Republicans in the House, The Liberty Caucus (with about 36 conservative members) but they see their role as a sort of conscience to leadership, forcing them to stay true to their beliefs in the face of opposition from President Obama.
ReplyDeleteThey're in Washington to make big changes to how the federal government operates. That is the platform they got elected on and they plan to remain committed to it and the voters who elected them.
All these groups are singularly or collectively capable of playing “hardball” in an effort to fulfill their campaign promises and start the overhauling of the dysfunctional federal government.
If you think the cause of these honorable conservative officials is so repugnant , you need to read the actual power plays within the Founding Fathers during the creation of this nation, the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution.
Democrats, Progressive Socialists, Communists (a useable term again with Putin’s latest moves) exaggerate everything. It’s part of their play book to downturn, disrupt, divide, and instill disorder into the fabric of the everyday citizen’s life.
ReplyDeleteWe should not be surprised at all. The United States is still the “SHINNING CITY ON THE HILL” as the great Ronald Reagan liked to say – and we are. We are a glaring example that socialism doesn’t work and democracy does when the governed roll up their sleeves and makes the system work.
The GOP problems are the problems of organization and politics. They are not the problems of lying, cheating, money chasers, and assumption of power for self-gain as what is the blood of the Democratic Party today.
What is happening in the GOP caucus right now is representative democracy at work. It will harm no one, and it certainly will not abolish parts or all of the Constitution.
And why do the democrat’s care so much about what is happening to the GOP? Are they afraid that the GOP emerges from this debate over who will be the new Speaker stronger and more united in the quest to derail the progressive agenda?
The GOP has an envious position of if they play their cards right in controlling both Houses of Congress and the White House in 2017. But all 3 bodies have to be on the same page and ready for one fight after another on every issue. That means strong, unyielding leadership.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the real battle in 2016 starts when the House of Representatives’ decide on the next Speaker. To choose someone of the status quo like a John Boehner (who was not up to the task of controlling his own caucus and standing toe to toe with the White House power moves) would really open the Presidential battle open to anyone and everyone on both sides. Every day it appears more likely that Clinton may slip through the Hangman’s Noose that waits her over her email scandal, Benghazi, and the Clinton Foundation, all of which carry some “felony” implications along with them.
The most important characteristic of the new Speaker of the House is a loyalty to the promises that were made to give us (GOP) the majority in the House. And not traveling any further down the ‘slippery slope’ of compromise with the dishonesty of the democrats in the House and the same demonstrated by the Senate Democratic caucus, along with the lying White House.
Since (or If) the real prize is the occupancy of the White House in 2017, then there is one and only one GOP candidate that has the most to win as to who is elected House Speaker in the next few weeks, and that is Senator Ted Cruz.
ReplyDeleteTed Cruz has an immeasurable amount of respect, influence, and is sought out for his counsel by House members.
He doesn’t intrude in House business at all. When asked he gives factual opinion to those asking.
If the combined majority of members of the House Freedom Caucus, The Liberty Caucus, the Republican Study Committee, and the Tea Party which are combined with many duplicate membership in two or more organizations remain united to the promises made that got them elected to the House in the first place – then Ted Cruz takes a giant step towards being the GOP candidate with possibly Dr. Carson or Carly Fiorina as VP choice.
“When a man is up to his short tail in alligators, he has difficulty reminding himself that his initial objective was to drain the swamp.”
ReplyDeleteWell the democrats seems to up to their short tails in one candidate that should be spending her time at staying out of jail on a variety of possible felony charges. An aging ,self-called socialists senator, and a VP that has tried twice before for the nomination to run for president.
And yet these 3 and the rest of the hierarchy of the democratic party has time to worry about and tell the GOP how to handle what they see as a problem so serious that a bad decision could mean the end of the GOP.
Firstly, don’t you think that the Dems would welcome the demise of the GOP? And secondly, worry about the alligators in your own pond.
If the methodology of the republicans picking a new Speaker seems like "chaos" to the democratic it's simply be as the rank and file of the Democratic Party never has a voice in the selection process. The back room bosses make the democratic choice and the rank a stile House members rubber stamp their leaders decision.
ReplyDeleteThat is democracy inside the Democratic Party and that is how they envision democracy for everyone everyday.