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1/14/14,
"The “Republican Main Street Partnership” is Democrat Funded," Erick Erickson, RedState
"Steve LaTourette, a former congressman and friend of John Boehner,
runs the “Republican Main Street Partnership”. Note the word
“Republican.” [Ed. note: The group said it was removing the icky word 'Republican' from its name].
As the left-wing Talking Points Memo reported a month ago,
LaTourette and his Main Street Partnership have created an affiliated
SuperPAC called “Defending Main Street PAC.” Along with the Chamber of
Commerce and Republican Leaders, the Main Street Partnership wants to
take out troublesome conservatives.
Defending Main Street PAC plans to raise $8 million in
this election cycle; by contrast the Senate Conservatives Fund handled
$12 million in 2012 and expects to raise even more this time around.
Note, first, that LaTourette spoke with a left-wing site to reveal
his plans. Note second that Defending Main Street PAC has had to release
its year end campaign finance numbers.
According to its fundraising report, Defending Main Street PAC
received its money from a Democrat donor, a group of unions, and an
Indian tribe.
More specifically,
- Bonderman, David gave $30,000.00 – the Los Angeles Times referred to
him as “David Bonderman, a significant contributor to Democrats, “
- Laborers’ Political League Education Fund gave $100,000.00
- The Chickasaw Nation gave $50,000.00
- International Union of Operating Engineers [EPEC] gave $250,000.00
- Laborers’ International Union Of North America (LIUNA) PAC gave $150,000.00
- MEBA PAF gave $15,000.00 (Marine Engineers Beneficial Association)
- Working for Working Americans-Federal gave $250,000.00 (Building Trades / carpenters PAC)
In other words, the “Republican” Main Street Partnership’s affiliated PAC intends to use George Soros connections and Democrat back groups’ money to defeat conservatives.
More troubling, the Republican Main Street Partnership has a lot of
ties to Republican leaders. Again, folks, it is us versus them. You
pick."
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Among comments at RedState: "I mean really,
how effing dumb does a person have to be not to see that the Democrats
have actually infiltrated what used to the Republican Party?"...
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ROFLMAO! Ok, folks when are YOU going to accept that there is no difference
between the Republican Establishment and the Democrats? I mean really,
how effing dumb does a person have to be not to see that the Democrats
have actually infiltrated what used to the Republican Party? Has Mitch
McConnell done ANYTHING to thwart the power or will or agenda of Harry
Reid? Has John Boehner done anything but acquiesce to the
Reid/Pelosi/Obama agenda that hasn't been Kabuki theater?
Obama has been ceded dictatorial powers, the Justice Department is
operating in full blown lawlessness, the NSA is doing nothing to fight
terrorism and in fact is far more scary than Muslim suicide bombers (I
mean really, what are your chances of being blown up or on a hijacked
plane compared to the absolute fact that all your email and phone calls
are being monitored along with where you walk and where you drive?) and
yet the so called Republicans are doing what? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!"
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1/8/13, “Moderate Republican group to remove ‘Republican’ from name, welcome Democrats,” Yahoo News, Chris Moody
“The Republican Main Street Partnership, a Washington-based group that has promoted moderate GOP lawmakers and policies, will remove the word “Republican” from its title and welcome center-right Democrats in 2013, Yahoo News has learned.
The organization’s board of directors voted Tuesday morning to scrap party identification from its title and be known simply as “The Main Street Partnership.” The group’s new president, former Ohio Republican Rep. Steven LaTourette, told Yahoo News that he plans to begin conversations with Blue Dog Democrats and centrist groups in the coming months.
“The goal is to try and fill the void that is the middle,” LaTourette, who resigned from Congress this year, said.
“The American political system is like a doughnut: You’ve got sides,
but you don’t have anything in the middle, and it would be my goal to
work with Republicans and Democrats who want to find the path forward to
getting things done and compromise.”
In a statement released Tuesday afternoon, LaTourette added: “While
we have changed our name, we have not changed our values or our mission.
We will continue to be a right of center organization and continue to represent
the governing wing of the Republican Party.”
The Main Street Partnership will also expand its super PAC, Defending
Main Street, to aid center-right members of both parties, LaTourette
said, adding, “It’s not going to be focused so much on party as it is on
protecting people from the right and left extremes if they choose to do the right things.” In Congress, LaTourette was known
to vote against party leadership: He opposed a measure that would strip
federal funding of National Public Radio in 2011, and he was one of just
two Republicans who did not support censuring Attorney General Eric
Holder.
Current members of the Main Street organization include
Republican Rep. Dave Camp of Michigan, chairman of the powerful House
Ways and Means Committee, Republican Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan,
chairman of the House Energy and Commerce
Committee; and Republican Rep. Cathy McMorris-Rodgers of Washington,
who was named chairman of the House Republican Conference in November.”
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12/15/14, “Breaking The UniParty,” Angelo M. Codevilla, libertylawsite.org
“The Republican Party’s leaders have functioned as junior members of America’s single ruling party, the UniParty. Acting as the proverbial cockboat in the wake of the Democrats’ man-of-war,
they have made Democratic priorities their own when the White House and
the Congress were in the hands of Republicans as well as in those of
Democrats, and when control has been mixed. The UniParty, the party of government, the party of Ins, continues to consist of the same people. The Outs are always the same people too: American conservatives. They don’t have a party.
Whatever differences exist within the Uniparty, between Republican John
Boehner and Democrat Nancy Pelosi, between Republican Mitch McConnell
and Democrat Harry Reid, get worked out behind closed doors. Those
differences are narrow.”…
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In 2007 Peggy Noonan wrote that George Bush destroyed the GOP, had total disdain for conservatives:
6/1/2007, “Too Bad,” Peggy Noonan, Wall St. Journal, “President Bush has torn the conservative coalition asunder.”
not only for one political party but for the American future....
But on immigration it has changed from “Too bad” to “You’re bad.” "...
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and to "establish universal medical care." These
government-business-academic experts, i.e. this ruling class, presented
their plans as demands because, they shouted,
"the debate is over,"
and opponents are not qualified to oppose. Regardless of these
demands' merits, such claims to authority are based strictly on the
proponents' credentials. My point, however, is that these credentials
are based largely on the government endowing these proponents with
positions and money. As President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned in his
farewell address, such expertise is a circular function of government
power.
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The event for which the decade is most likely to be
remembered, namely the "great recession," was a similar phenomenon. When
the financial bubble in mortgage-backed securities burst in 2008, the
leaders of both parties, and pundits from the New York Times to the Wall Street Journal,
assured Congress authoritatively that appropriating some $800 billion
for the Treasury to buy up "toxic assets" would fix the problem. Three
out of four Americans dissented, in part because of widespread
recognition that the U.S. government's increase in expenditures from
$1.86 trillion in 2001 to $2.9 trillion in 2008, due in part to the war,
was unsustainable. Yet Congress bowed to "expert" opinion. But the
markets tanked, the fix did not work, and the economic collapse gathered
momentum. The subsequent Democratic administration increased spending
even more radically, to $3.7 trillion, roughly doubling federal expenses
in a decade, and pushed the national debt over $14 trillion—almost
equal to America's GDP. By 2011, 40 cents out of every federal dollar
spent had to be borrowed. .
As a prescription for salvation, the very same spectrum of experts that
had certified the efficacy of bailing out big banks emphasized to
Congress that the country needed to borrow more money and pay more
taxes. Three fourths of Americans wanted neither to borrow more nor to
pay more. The experts labeled them "irresponsible" and even
"terrorists."
The markets tanked again, and the great recession got a
second wind. The 2010 census reported that in 2009 the
inflation-adjusted median family income was $49,445, down from $51,161
in 2001. Although the official unemployment rate at this writing is only
9.1%, a truer measure of America's condition is that only 45.4% of
Americans of working age are employed full time—a true definition of
depression.....
The CIA announced in 2010 that the president and his advisers had
concluded that one Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen in Yemen, was so
involved in terrorism that American forces would hunt him down and kill
him. Of what capital crime was he accused? By whom? Who convicted and
sentenced him? The experts. On the basis of what evidence? Sorry, can't
say. Classified. Wartime necessity, you know."...
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Comment: The Bush family remains the worst thing to happen to this country since World War II.
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