News flash: Winning elective office is a pre-requisite to accomplishing things.
Wisconsin is a good example. In five years, Governor Walker and the GOP legislature have disempowered public Unions, lowered taxes, built a surplus, enacted Voter ID, disbanded the corrupt Government Accountability Board, defunded Planned Parenthood, enabled "Right to Work" and other conservative reforms. And, Donald Trump came into the state and trashed those accomplishments.
On the national scale there is this dirty little secret: the GOP Congress has no power to stop a lawless Executive and a Senate with 45 Democrats who would block any reform. That's just the fact. Folks who are angry at the GOP are simply misdirecting anger more legitimately aimed at Barack Obama, Reid, Pelosi and Democrat congress members.
I've stopped listening to, or caring about, the grievances of people too intellectually lazy to understand or acknowledge who is their ally and who is their enemy in this political war.
At the local and state level there are varying degrees of success.
Once you get to the national level, ugh. Here in Ohio, my choice for Senator is Rob Portman, or Ted Strickland.
I'm sick and tired of the apologists. It seems to me that the House controls the purse strings. Any time some kind of pre-emptive action is discussed, the apologists say, it's a bad plan, can't be done, would cost politically. So, any attempts at reigning in Obama are explained away as being too risky, too difficult, impossible.
But, the Republicans said, give us the House and Senate and we'll reign in the Obama administration? So, what happened, did they not understand the task when they were promising to do it? Now they say, with only the House and Senate, we don't have enough power, we need the White House too!
And that's how you get a Trump.
So, Trump is peeing all over the party, and the GOP's response is, they don't have enough power, and don't blame us, you people picked us! By the way, could you vote for us again, it's really important this time.
