What to Do with Feckless Republicans?

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January 10, 2022
What to Do with Feckless Republicans?
By Steve Feinstein

It seems as if pretty much all the news these days is bad, doesn't it?  When things aren't good, the one thing the average person wants is to feel that he has some real, dependable representation in D.C., someone who empathizes and cares about his concerns.  For conservatives, this means they want trustworthy Republican representation.  Unfortunately, today's Republicans are generally feckless.  They do not fight for their constituents' concerns and principles.

Whether it's a matter of gross incompetence or willful intention, nothing the current Democratic administration is doing is improving the lives of the average American citizen.  Nothing.  Consider:

    Inflation is raging out of control.  Gasoline prices — splattered in huge lettering on the "daily scorecard" of every local gas station — are a constant reminder of how far behind everyone feels like they're falling.
    Month after month, the new jobs data disappoint, missing the so-called experts' projections by a country mile.
    The divisive seeds of racial division are being sown by the Democrats like never before, for the inexcusable reason of political leverage.
    Illegal immigration is not merely out of control.  It is being actively encouraged.
    American energy production is intentionally curtailed, while we beg our OPEC rivals for greater production to make up for our shortfall.  Try to figure that one out.
    Russia and China — our main global adversaries, both economically and militarily — are gaining on us (if not surpassing us) with nary a whimper of opposition from the Brandon administration.

And there's the Big One: the COVID pandemic.  Despite Biden's risible campaign squawking of "I'm not gonna shut down the economy; I'm gonna shut down the virus!," he's managed to do the exact opposite.  The virus is running rampant while the economy is staggering along like a drunken sailor who picked an ill advised fight with George Foreman.

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[Absalom]

All our politics/politicians are feckless and at their core, unprincipled.
Expecting otherwise is embarrassingly naive.
The GOP. from the start, was the errand boy for the pre-Civil War New England Mercantile Class.
Then post Civil War our economy transitioned from Agrarianism to Industrialism,
generating greater material prosperity/wealth which was spread more widely.
Indeed wallets are now much fatter, yet the ageless Principles/Precepts that were catalysts
for the values/virtues that founded us, have disappeared.
Gibbon referenced such an occurrence many times in his monumental "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire".
Yet have our so called leaders even heard of Edward Gibbon?????
 

[DefiantMassRINO]

Primary the S.O.B.'s.

[EdinVA]

All because Trump did mean tweets and the NT gang were offended...

[andy58-in-nh]

Once elected, most all of them become part of the Swamp, committed not to representing the interests of their constituents, but in building little empires and enriching themselves on Federal largess, and in expanding Federal power over everyone else's life.

The Federal bureaucracy - the Administrative State - is the real problem. It represents a ceding of power by Congress to the Executive branch, which simultaneously relieves Congress of the need to legislate, while assembling a mechanism for directing money to powerful sub-constituencies that kick it back to their reelection campaigns.

It is corruption on a grand scale, which will not be remedied until enough Americans get sick and tired of it running their lives.

[roamer_1]

Throw ALL the bastards out. All of em. Nothing else will do.

[libertybele]

All because Trump did mean tweets and the NT gang were offended...

I don't believe that the NT's voted for China Joe. Not for a second.  The election was stolen; more and more evidence has come forth to validate that.  What IS troubling is that the GOP as a party and the RNC is doing nothing.  So ... they deserve to lose their seats.

[EdinVA]

I don't believe that the NT's voted for China Joe. Not for a second.  The election was stolen; more and more evidence has come forth to validate that.  What IS troubling is that the GOP as a party and the RNC is doing nothing.  So ... they deserve to lose their seats.

Does not matter, if the NT's did not vote or voted anyway but for Trump, this is where we ended up.
Well, if they "deserve" to lose their seats, then that means we deserve to be socialists?

[Right_in_Virginia]

Primary the S.O.B.'s.

And then add term limits.

[Kamaji]

First, and foremost, make sure the democrats do not retain control of the House and the Senate after the 2022 midterms.

If they do, then all of the thoughts about what to do with feckless GOP'ers are pointless, because the democrats will make their majority permanent.

Once that threat is defused, then we have a little more time to think about who should be gotten rid of as feckless, and who not.

[Right_in_Virginia]

First, and foremost, make sure the democrats do not retain control of the House and the Senate after the 2022 midterms.

If they do, then all of the thoughts about what to do with feckless GOP'ers are pointless, because the democrats will make their majority permanent.

Once that threat is defused, then we have a little more time to think about who should be gotten rid of as feckless, and who not.

I think you've got to do both in 2022.  Winning is damn near meaningless if we're stuck with a majority crop of assistant democrats.

[Kamaji]

I think you've got to do both in 2022.  Winning is damn near meaningless if we're stuck with a majority crop of assistant democrats.

Maybe so, maybe not.  As long as they won't vote for the election fraud permanency bill the democrats are trying to get enacted, everything else is secondary at this point.

If that passes, the game is over, not just delayed.

[dfwgator]

Throw ALL the bastards out. All of em. Nothing else will do.

Damn Skippy!

[Absalom]

Throw ALL the bastards out. All of em. Nothing else will do.

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Roamer, it has to be a lot harsher than throwing them out. Why???
Because we do this now, while fraud & corruption worsens, as there is no fear.
If fundamental behavioral change is the objective, then punishment must create fear and trembling.
As the wise Machiavelli told us, "Tis infinitely better the Prince be feared rather than loved."



 

[roamer_1]

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Roamer, it has to be a lot harsher than throwing them out. Why???
Because we do this now, while fraud & corruption worsens, as there is no fear.
If fundamental behavioral change is the objective, then punishment must create fear and trembling.
As the wise Machiavelli told us, "Tis infinitely better the Prince be feared rather than loved."

I am not to the public point of pitchforks, tar, and feathers yet @Absalom ...
Overturning the entire Republican field WOULD strike fear into politicians, and wipe the slate clean.

But we both know that won't happen. Republicans are too afraid of Democrats to actually mind their own house... Watch and see - The hue and cry will be for butts in the seats, and thereby, a whole new crop of RINOs a'brewing... And further, the metric will turn on if they will kiss Tumpy's ring, rather than any dedication to Conservative principles... So I predict a Pyrrhic victory, doubly damned.   

And thus: SOSDD.