Harry Reid and Barack Obama want a government shutdown.

Senate GOP leadership must work diligently — and Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT) must play along — to repair the chasm between Senate and House Republicans. A divided Republican Party plays into every negative characterization made of the GOP by Democrats and their media stooges, and bodes ill for Republicans’ 2014 electoral ambitions.

The only way this will happen is if Senate Republicans stand by conservative policy and principle. The Senate GOP cannot now become the caucus of Susan Collins (ME) and John McCain (AZ). Trying to drag the House toward “moderate” positions, such as agreeing to Democratic taxes and spending now in return for vague promises of reform later, is a recipe for political and economic disaster. Similarly, the Tea Party wing of the House GOP should make very public showings of support for Speaker Boehner, including occasionally voting as he asks — just because he asks.

Like a shark smelling blood in the water, the more weakness President Obama senses in the GOP, the more aggressively he will try not only to implement more liberal laws and policies, but to destroy the Republican Party as a functioning opposition. House Republicans, even those who feel safe for re-election, should take a major interest in stabilizing their chamber, which would help support efforts toward winning a Republican majority in the United States Senate.

When it comes to future aggressiveness, Obama has already tipped his hand, saying that he would push for immigration reform (which for this president means true amnesty) immediately following the reopening of the government. His overreach in both policy and rhetoric, while utterly within character, will give the GOP an opening to take back a position of representing the majority of Americans. Republicans must remember, however, that Obama’s move is not rooted in principles of how immigration policy should benefit the United States; his goal is to maximize Hispanic antipathy toward Republicans with a view toward the 2014 elections. With this administration, it is all politics and pain, all the time. Keeping this in mind will change the GOP approach to every important policy debate.
Ross Kaminsky, American Spectator
 
The key is to stand fast on the principles that got them elected.

Most of them have chucked principles for the cocktail circuit and the title "Maverick."


They never call any Democrats that.


Just traitor... ;)


(house nigger, cornbread brother, off the reservation, sell-out, token..., )
 
The press loves the Maverick...


... until he runs.


SNAFU!

They love them some Mitch now too, for the moment.
 
I can't believe anyone would want to seek out the likes of McCain for an opinion on anything. His brain is FUBAR.

Yet you ran him for President with a half-governor as V.P.

Who's worse? Him or those who thought he should be President? :cool:
 
You really feel relevant in these threads where everyone has you on ignore?



lol

I've told you before Cap'n. I don't give a shit if you or the rest of your little band of morons reads what I post. Your ears and mind have been closed to anything you don't already believe for years now.

I'm just here to point out your lies and idiocy. :D
 
I've told you before Cap'n. I don't give a shit if you or the rest of your little band of morons reads what I post. Your ears and mind have been closed to anything you don't already believe for years now.

I'm just here to point out your lies and idiocy. :D

He and vette go far beyond confirmation bias.

They are now reduced to accusing democrats of their own tactics.

The republicans took a real beating with this failed attempt to end the ACA through tyranny in the house.

Funny how no one is happy now that veterans can go back to monuments, isn't it?
 
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