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9/15/11, " The Crusade to Cave," Russ Vought, RedState.com
"I feel like a broken record, but it is just very hard to give some people the benefit of the doubt. It is one thing after another, day after day. House Republican Leaders are on a crusade to cave with the President.
Never mind that in the opinion of nearly every main stream political analyst the President is on the ropes. My inbox is flooded with news articles about his declining popularity in blue states and the aftermath of this week’s GOP special election victories. But House Republicans modus operandi is still to avoid the fight....
And now we find that tucked into the recently unveiled CR is the provision to bail out the Postal Service, which I wrote about yesterday. Who knows what else is in there.
The bailout is terrible policy, and it completely cuts the legs out from under Darrell Issa, Chairman of the Government Reform and Oversight Committee. (Whatever happened to deferring to committee chairmen?) But what is
- most troubling is what it illustrates
- about the state of Congressional Republicans.
They are fundamentally in their DNA unwilling to fight. Every day they have opportunities big and small to educate the public of needed reforms and ways to limit government, but if it distracts them from their pre-cooked, poll-tested “jobs” agenda in the least, then the default position must be to avoid it like the plague.
Conservative activists are not idiots. We can figure out that Republicans control only the House, and that some compromise is necessary. However, this is what we also know. House Republicans are not fighting because they know they don’t have it in them—they know they will cave eventually, so they might as well do it on the front end and lower the political stakes. Better that than risk a public backlash when the night terror of their dreams—the bully pulpit of the White House (such as it is, even with this President)—gets louder and louder with each hour of the increasing brinksmanship needed to win. Conservative activists don’t demand success. We do demand
- Congressmen who aren’t afraid of the night."
To my knowledge, the author of this piece isn't even a Tea Party person but one who normally sides with the establishment. ed.
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11/4/10, ""The Ruling Class of the Republican Party doesn't want conservatives having any kind of a foothold, any success, or any leadership in the party...It appears to me they're perfectly happy being in the minority
- if it means not supporting conservatives....
- 11/4/10, Rush Limbaugh, from his transcript
photo 5/2/11, Boehner with the man he idolizes, Mr. Obama, upi
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