Poldark wrote:House Gop Leaders: We Can Pass Gun Control, Immigration, Without Republican Support
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After undergoing that unpleasant shock, House leadership hasn’t responded by listening to the concerns of the more conservative members of its caucus. Instead, House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said on Sunday that he would be open to ramming through bills without the support of a majority of his own Republican caucus. Not just on small bills. On issues like immigration and gun control, McCarthy said, he’d be open to taking rogue Republicans across the aisle to work with Democrats.
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That said, the GOP is in crisis. I was a loyal republican from mid-1993 until November 7, 2012. Not any longer.......and I am far FAR from the only person who has made this move. I have abandoned the GOP, and I have an application on my desk for membership in the Texas Libertarian Party. I'm not even certain that I'll join because I am so fed up with political parties. There is a fine line between good governance and routinely ignoring your constituency. Unlike when you are a rank & file Representative in the House, when you are in
leadership, your constituency goes beyond those partisans who elected you in your home state—a principle which Obama ignores daily—and extends to all representatives from your own party. So when Boehner mimics Obama, we don't get good governance. The GOP has a majority in the House for a
reason, and proper governance dictates that its more conservative nature should offset—not empower—the fascist tendencies of the administration and the do-nothing (unless it empowers Obama) tendencies of the Senate. When GOP leadership threatens to empower the out of control Senate and administration, then it is no longer practicing good governance, it is treating its position of power as a hereditary entitlement, and its arrogance is begging for a populist curtailment.........a curtailment which is itself yet
another threat to the national body politic.
The only way I can keep my blood pressure stable and not stay angry all the time is to stop caring what happens to the GOP.....or to the nation, for that matter. I only care about my family, my immediate community, and my state. Whatever happens nationally, the GOP brought it on themselves by aiding and abetting the looters in the democrat party. It is my opinion that the party's future fortunes are at nearly exactly the same place that the Whig party found itself in the early 1850s, and that unless the GOP reforms itself over the next 2 years, it will be finished as a major party........just like what happened to the Whigs. The truly bitter pill is that all of these things are playing exactly into Obama's hands, whose recently stated purpose is to neuter the GOP as a political force in this country. Since there really is no other major party alternative outside of the democrat party of fascist entitlement, wealth redistribution, racial division, government subsidized abortion, and suppression of the Constitution which can be motivated, marshaled, and mobilized in two short years, the loss of the GOP as a political force means the loss of the nation as a bastion of freedom. THAT tasty morsel, if it happens, will lie squarely on the shoulders of GOP leadership quislings who live to lick the boots of the "loyal" opposition. They're all looters.
But I am past caring too deeply about it. I will continue to vote, and I will support whomever I believe to be the best candidate in any given campaign, but it will be as a libertarian-minded independent, and no longer as a member of the Republican Party. They have lost the right to my loyalty. I gave what was for me significant amounts of campaign donations in the last election. They get no more of my money either. I'm
so done with the GOP. What's really sad.......they've lost my son too. He's voted in two elections at his age, and he already recognizes that the GOP is not the party of the future nor the party of individual liberty, and he told me the other day that he was done with them too. And he reached that conclusion on his own, without any input from me. If even a relative political neophyte like my 23 year old son can see it, it speaks volumes that experienced political operators like Boehner cannot.
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
― G. Michael Hopf, "Those Who Remain"
#TINVOWOOT
