They're about to blink.
It's not like I didn't tell them so.
Shutting down the government was a boneheaded move. What's so frustrating and unacceptable is they didn't accomplish anything positive in the budget negotiations; neither did they manage to get a delay in the Ocare individual sign ups.
The sixteen or so days the Fed closed down went for nothing. All we ended up with was another shot of really, really bad press, poor public relations and a wretched display of a lack of leadership in the Senate and the House. Obama's own toadies in the press kept him above the fray, of course, while the media made our guys look dumb. Any bad press the president did receive was blamed on Republicans!
It occurs to me that the embarrassment of the Obamacare system kick off would have been even more dramatically apparent if the government hadn't been closed. That monster isn't going to come up with a fix very soon. The volume alone of the data has to be a prohibitive issue when managing such an IT behemoth. We could have made many more political points from that disaster if we'd not been concentrating on closed national parks and dead soldiers payouts.
Instead, with the shut down evidently in his rear view mirror, the president is moving on with an immigration bill, which will become another huge debate before the fatiqued American people. This polarizing issue was selected for its righteousness factor, thrown out as an emergency so this regime can cram even more leftist causes down America's throat--just in case they lose power. Psychologically, it is a great chance for the president to appeal to his base and one more way to stick it to the American middle class by getting them to pay for it.
Meanwhile, instead of the Republicans' viable, competing, conservative and legitimate point of view taking hold and our getting what we really wanted, we got beat up, insulted and shamed by a media dedicated to marginalizing anyone outside the D.C. power elite. It has, after all, always been the messenger that has been the GOP's problem, and the Ted Cruz personna is no exception. He's a street fighter, whose tactics many Republicans fear because of the national electability quotient. Besides, RINOs have a rough time being called names. That's why they're RINOs.
In the end, however, the firebrand newcomers simply didn't have the votes to continue this fight, begging the question: how come there were enough votes on September 30th, before the shut down, and not today? Who fell out and why? Who's responsible for that miscalculation?
Where do we go from here? I believe we start with recognizing and coalescing around which we agree. The predominant right wing of the party is not as extreme as most people think; nor are the RINOs as ideologically left as some think. Most Republicans are thinkers who come to this party for its fiscal policies and couldn't care less about the social planks of our platform. Alternatively, the pro life folks stick with the party because there's no one else who survives and gets even close to their moral foundations. Ronald Reagan, remember, who was pro life, was a right wing Republican, yet he appealed to almost everyone.
Some Republicans like to get themselves into these legislative traps every so often, i.e., allowing Democrats to place them on the wrong side of history. They were told it was bad idea to shut down the government and they wouldn't listen. There were innumerable opportunities to bring attention to the life changing Obamacare debacle without the drop dead decision to shut down our government.
Gee, it's fun to be a Republican.
Thanks for the read.
It's not like I didn't tell them so.
Shutting down the government was a boneheaded move. What's so frustrating and unacceptable is they didn't accomplish anything positive in the budget negotiations; neither did they manage to get a delay in the Ocare individual sign ups.
The sixteen or so days the Fed closed down went for nothing. All we ended up with was another shot of really, really bad press, poor public relations and a wretched display of a lack of leadership in the Senate and the House. Obama's own toadies in the press kept him above the fray, of course, while the media made our guys look dumb. Any bad press the president did receive was blamed on Republicans!
It occurs to me that the embarrassment of the Obamacare system kick off would have been even more dramatically apparent if the government hadn't been closed. That monster isn't going to come up with a fix very soon. The volume alone of the data has to be a prohibitive issue when managing such an IT behemoth. We could have made many more political points from that disaster if we'd not been concentrating on closed national parks and dead soldiers payouts.
Instead, with the shut down evidently in his rear view mirror, the president is moving on with an immigration bill, which will become another huge debate before the fatiqued American people. This polarizing issue was selected for its righteousness factor, thrown out as an emergency so this regime can cram even more leftist causes down America's throat--just in case they lose power. Psychologically, it is a great chance for the president to appeal to his base and one more way to stick it to the American middle class by getting them to pay for it.
Meanwhile, instead of the Republicans' viable, competing, conservative and legitimate point of view taking hold and our getting what we really wanted, we got beat up, insulted and shamed by a media dedicated to marginalizing anyone outside the D.C. power elite. It has, after all, always been the messenger that has been the GOP's problem, and the Ted Cruz personna is no exception. He's a street fighter, whose tactics many Republicans fear because of the national electability quotient. Besides, RINOs have a rough time being called names. That's why they're RINOs.
In the end, however, the firebrand newcomers simply didn't have the votes to continue this fight, begging the question: how come there were enough votes on September 30th, before the shut down, and not today? Who fell out and why? Who's responsible for that miscalculation?
Where do we go from here? I believe we start with recognizing and coalescing around which we agree. The predominant right wing of the party is not as extreme as most people think; nor are the RINOs as ideologically left as some think. Most Republicans are thinkers who come to this party for its fiscal policies and couldn't care less about the social planks of our platform. Alternatively, the pro life folks stick with the party because there's no one else who survives and gets even close to their moral foundations. Ronald Reagan, remember, who was pro life, was a right wing Republican, yet he appealed to almost everyone.
Some Republicans like to get themselves into these legislative traps every so often, i.e., allowing Democrats to place them on the wrong side of history. They were told it was bad idea to shut down the government and they wouldn't listen. There were innumerable opportunities to bring attention to the life changing Obamacare debacle without the drop dead decision to shut down our government.
Gee, it's fun to be a Republican.
Thanks for the read.
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