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Republicans Have Controlled the House 20 of the Last 28 Years
Everything has gotten worse, whether it be the border, culture, economy, debt, budgets, government abuse and inefficiency, or the size of government. This is the House closest to the people. All the leftist initiatives have been funded and not a dollar has been cut from any agency. The best we have gotten is slowing the rate of growth.
The same people have been in charge forever. All of these people in the top positions of the GOP are largely still there. We don’t need McCarthy. We do not need his pals. They have failed. All the GOP had to do in any one of those 20 years was sit there and do nothing. Refuse to fund so many of the things they claim they are against. Let it disappear into the wind. It should be easy for the party of “small government” and “less spending” just to sit there and let it go away. Something they could never bring themselves to do.
Imagine if someone told you all you have to do is sit there and do nothing, and the thing you want most will happen. How hard would it be for you to just sit there? Hey, you want that supermodel to fall in love with you? Sit there and do nothing. No! I gotta raise the budget!
Those 19 Republican holdouts who want concessions just have to sit there and do nothing and refuse to agree to keep the machine going. If McCarthy is so skilled a wheeler-and-dealer, he should be able to give them what they want and come to an agreement. If he isn’t, then we don’t need him as a leader.
It is about time the machine came to a halt and we had a government that refused to go along with anything. Especially for the party that claims “the government that governs least governs best.” It is not hard to sit there and do nothing, especially when you believe in doing nothing or claim to.
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Huge, key point. Yuuuge!
I am proud the Freedom Caucus for using a slender opportunity to great effect. Imagine if the GOP fought against Democrats and other totalitarian threats as hard as they fight against conservatives!
Years ago I posted “Join or Die” in the context of the Tea Party. I explained that that’s not a threat — that’s an offer of a rescue.
EDIT: Here you go…
https://haakondahl.com/blog/?p=2317
Join Us or Be Destroyed
The Tea Party says to the GOP Join Us or Be Destroyed. That’s not a threat–we’re rescuing you again, if possible. If not, well, the Tea Party will not perish with the GOP. If we cannot save this party from itself and its mortal enemy, then we will simply take it over or die trying. We are left with no alternative. We sent an awesome weapon to Congress in the last election, and you are breaking it into pieces because you’re afraid it will do more damage to you than to the opposition. Sowing the seeds of your own destruction, you refuse to even fire it.
We intend to put you into a leading position in both houses of Congress and the White House, and we demand that the power we give you be used to to roll back formerly creeping, now bounding Marxism burning through our society. We are not dead and we are not sleeping. Ignoring us or continuing to kick the can from lame duck session to budget fight, to debt ceiling fight, to Supercommittee, and then presumably to nowhere–this is NOT acceptable.
The Republicans and Democrats have a shared history of utter dominance in Congress by Democrats. Old Democrats know how to wield power, whereas old Republicans know how to avoid responsibility. Those are the survival skills that have evolved in different conditions. We will not fight for majorities just so we can lose fights anyway.
You, the GOP’s own leadership, had once cast the party upon the ashheap of history, and having been snatched from it by the Tea Party, you now apparently pine for the fading warmth of the ashes. If the GOP has become a death cult, we have no desire to join you in that. The old leadership must go, and I do not care who replaces you.
I kinda disagree with Glen’s statement. There are times the greatest wheeler-dealer in the world can’t satisfy people who don’t want to be satisfied. There are several Republicans I’d prefer over McCarthy, but the majority want him. If the alternative is electing a Democrat Speaker with a Republican-controlled House, then those holdouts might as well switch parties . . .
I think the GOP should take no more than 60 days to find 218 votes for a new speaker of the house. After those 60 days, I want them to use the House to promote GOP policy positions and exercise Congressional oversight over the Biden administration.
They’ll compromise with the Democrats first. I’m pretty confident of that.
At this point, I’m more curious to have a real accounting, a ‘reveal’ of who stands where in the GOP.
Hey, I like Jim Jordan alot and am very sympathetic/supportive of The Freedom Caucus – why isn’t that caucus larger and why aren’t there contenders for the job from that faction?
I could see this thing blowing up or realigning the GOP. I could see them finally coming out, revealing the decades-long farce and banishing the ‘Conservatives’. Then it’s Third Party time. Maybe not a bad thing, a more honest thing, but the Uniparty will continue to control things. It’s pretty clear to me that we’re a minority. They’ve strung us along for decades. It may be time to rip the bandaid off and work in a honest framework.
I’d still like to see GOP rule changes where factions or caucuses could run and identify themselves in the primaries. Run as a Freedom Caucus GOP member. Run as a GOP Moderate member. Run as a GOP ‘National Security’ or Libertarian member. Let’s see who voters wish to see control the party.
This is a sideshow to doing what needs to be done: Bomb The Eccles Building.
https://mises.org/wire/were-living-age-capital-consumption
Start at 59:30. You might as well go with McCarthy because everything moves left no matter what.
https://omny.fm/shows/know-your-risk-radio-with-zach-abraham-chief-inves/demetri-kofinas-2
And that’s the difference between desperation and despair. Why post?
Unless you overhaul the Fed and the financial system, which for practical political reasons, it’s probably too late, you might as well accept that you are simply substituting socialism with populism. That is the only win here.
. . . which are?
Hee hee.
Rather, the holdouts would be the GOP remnant.
That is a great interview. Assuming what Gaetz says is accurate, McCarthy is a reptile.
And unsurprisingly:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11599143/AOC-suggests-coalition-government-House-McCarthy-speaker-battle.html
replacing socialism is worthwhile. “populism” is just you throwing shade.
I’m telling people to quit being idealistic. If you need me to elaborate, ask questions.
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This Sophia account is typical of the kook libertarians who think that they discovered sunlight. Few people are not aware of how monetizing the debt (that’s what it’s called) works — we all took History at some point, and I’ll wager that NOBODY actually involved with formulating said policies doesn’t know exactly what it is.
She (haha, “she”) is not wrong, but the kook-bait secret-knowledge schtick is tiresome. Somebody told “her” and now “she” is an expert.
This whole thing reeks of bait.
People need to get it out of their heads that we are going to fix things in some idealistic sense.
Take political power. Moving things right in some way is all you can hope for.
PS- you need the Senate as well & it helps if the President is on board…
If they did, President Trump would not have been necessary, and would not have happened.
1. We HAD the Senate, the House, the White House and (arguably) the Supreme Court, so I am sick to God-damned death of hearing this mewling garbage. Beam it out your lateral array, Geordie.
2. I guess we’ll just kick rocks and eat worms until somehow, magically, all of that just happens, huh?
Nope. These guys are doing the right thing.
So you are okay with Republicans that would look out for us then losing their committee positions?
Sorry but that is one major reason I want no part of a McCarthy speaker of the house deal.
I’m pretty tired of this issue already, but Liz Peek at Fox News put out the most clarifying explanation about why this is happening. She makes this point that I think we all agree with:
That would be me.
Peek goes on to list the demands of those voting against McCarthy, and those demands are not unreasonable. In fact, McCarthy is unreasonable not to agree.
McCarthy opponents cause House chaos but raise valuable objections – Republican Party needs a reboot
This is the best information I have seen.
You could make that a post in its own right, just the way it is. Good stuff.
If you listen to red eye radio about 20 minutes in they give a very good explanation of why the right is never going to control spending, and how these guys don’t have any plan about what they are doing stopping the speaker election. Same thing with Ben Shapiro. I don’t see how you can argue with any of it.
The only thing you can do these days is grab any political power and force anything right that you can.
This isn’t my bag really, but I think the problem is *more* the phenomenon of RINOs that aren’t conscious about limiting their damage in various ways. Sometimes you have to have a RINO otherwise you’re going to get a Democrat, but people like John McCain and Lisa Murkowski are just unnecessary damage. Why in the hell didn’t speaker Ryan help Trump focus to get rid of the ACA? They should have waited a year if they couldn’t get it done. Same thing with the wall. Being thoughtless and inarticulate about social issues. etc.
Remind yourself to vote.
Trivial — now McCarthy starts pleading for his life. Or he dies.