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What Republican Party?
« on: February 09, 2018, 08:06:18 pm »
By Brandon Morse
https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2018/02/09/what-republican-party/

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Give us the executive branch, give us the House, give us the Senate, and all the pains you experienced from the Obama era will disappear. That’s what we were told by the Republicans, and we believed them. We voted them in, and they control everything, that is, with the stark exception of themselves.

Anyone with a lick of sense applauded them for the GOP tax cuts, which were badly, badly needed. However, tax cuts are all dog and pony without spending cuts. If it meant shutting down the government for a bit to make sure we did spend less, then so be it. The Republican party is one that supposedly believes in the people, not the government. They could close it down while they hashed out a way to cut spending, no problem.

And yet they didn’t.

Republicans applauded their new two-year spending bill that raises the caps on non-defense and defense spending by $3oo billion, and according to ABC News includes $6 billion to fight the opioid crisis, $5.8 billion for child care development block grants, $4 billion for veterans medical facilities, $2 billion for medical research, $20 billion to augment existing infrastructure programs, and $4 billion for college affordability.

If you liked your Obama era spending, you can keep your Obama era spending . . .

. . . Republicans opened the door to the spending hyenas and neglected to give themselves a way to close it. We are over $20 trillion in debt and the party we hired to reign it in just allowed it balloon even further.

[Sen. Rand] Paul was right. We don’t have a conservative party.
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Re: What Republican Party?
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2018, 08:09:09 pm »
All the hand wringing, is over about 5 Senators.

If just a fraction of time spend bemoaning this, was instead spent on changing it...wow. Results instead of hot air.

Even if you don't like Trump, learning how and why he won, is a useful starting point.

Effective Persuasion. Correctly identifying the characteristics of your audience, and tailoring your message to quickly reach them.

Sound bites, for short attention span busy people.

If one truly desires conservative results, take heed. If one merely desires bickering over every item of daily minutia, by all means continue.
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Re: What Republican Party?
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2018, 09:05:53 pm »
Quote from: truth_seeker on February 09, 2018, 08:09:09 pm
All the hand wringing, is over about 5 Senators.

If just a fraction of time spend bemoaning this, was instead spent on changing it...wow. Results instead of hot air.

Even if you don't like Trump, learning how and why he won, is a useful starting point.

Effective Persuasion. Correctly identifying the characteristics of your audience, and tailoring your message to quickly reach them.

Sound bites, for short attention span busy people.

If one truly desires conservative results, take heed. If one merely desires bickering over every item of daily minutia, by all means continue.
I caught this at National Review:

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“I wonder about the endgame of people who keep us here till 1:00 and achieve nothing,” said Richard Shelby (R., Ala.).

Texas senator John Cornyn, the GOP’s second highest ranking senator, called Paul’s filibuster, “grossly irresponsible,” adding, “Why reward bad behavior?”

“He wanted attention and he got attention. That’s it,” said James Inhofe (R., Okla.) said of Paul.

These Republican senators are trying, of course, to distract from the substance of Paul’s complaints, which were not without merit. Regardless of the wisdom of his methods, the Kentucky senator was exactly right that, with this deal, the majority of the GOP has proved itself willing to forfeit the party’s supposed commitment to fiscal responsibility in order to obtain increased military spending . . .

Mr. Imhofe dismisses Mr. Paul as an attention seeker, and I dismiss those who refuse to pay attention to one of the key reasons why Donaldus Mimimus endured and the Republicans otherwise steamrolled in 2016.

Mr. Cornyn asks why one should reward "grossly irresponsible bad behaviour" and I ask why it isn't considered "grossly irresponsible bad behaviour" to spend other people's money
irresponsibly. (Of course, I also ask why it isn't grossly irresponsible bad behaviour to steal that money in the first place . . . and anyone who says the income tax is anything other
than legalised theft is talking through his or her chapeau . . .)

Mr. Shelby wonders about the endgame of people who keep them there until 1 a.m. and I wonder about the endgame of people who seek excuses for yet another piece of evidence to corroborate George F. Will's old observation that, Today's conservative has reached into his heart of hearts, prayed hard, and decided it was high time that the government cut his neighbour's benefits.
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Re: What Republican Party?
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2018, 10:47:58 pm »
@EasyAce

Listened to Rand Paul on Hannity today. Of course he's one of the good guys.
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Re: What Republican Party?
« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2018, 11:06:22 pm »
Quote from: truth_seeker on February 09, 2018, 10:47:58 pm
@EasyAce

Listened to Rand Paul on Hannity today. Of course he's one of the good guys.
@truth_seeker
Must be why they gave him the business on Crapola Hill. ;)
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What Republican Party?
« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2018, 11:20:25 pm »
What Republican Party?

Posted at 2:00 pm on February 9, 2018 by Brandon Morse

Give us the executive branch, give us the House, give us the Senate, and all the pains you experienced from the Obama era will disappear. That’s what we were told by the Republicans, and we believed them. We voted them in, and they control everything, that is, with the stark exception of themselves.

Anyone with a lick of sense applauded them for the GOP tax cuts, which were badly, badly needed. However, tax cuts are all dog and pony without spending cuts. If it meant shutting down the government for a bit to make sure we did spend less, then so be it. The Republican party is one that supposedly believes in the people, not the government. They could close it down while they hashed out a way to cut spending, no problem.

And yet they didn’t.

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https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2018/02/09/what-republican-party/
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Re: What Republican Party?
« Reply #6 on: February 09, 2018, 11:22:54 pm »
Correctamundo.  But then we already knew this. 

The second and third year of the Trump Presidency will give us a 21% increase in federal spending at a time where it needed to be cut by 30%.
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Re: What Republican Party?
« Reply #7 on: February 09, 2018, 11:22:59 pm »
   I know RedState Articles upset a few here beyond Reason but until Myst or her Mods tell me to lighten up on the inflammatory stuff (which they have never done) I will continue to give Briefers all perspectives.
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Re: What Republican Party?
« Reply #8 on: February 09, 2018, 11:39:05 pm »
@corbe most would reason that this belongs in Editorials, @EasyAce called it correctly and beat you by an hour or two.
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