MAKE OBAMA TRAVEL PATH OF BROKEN GLASS
” In the mid-1970s, the Republican Party was in complete disarray. Watergate had taken its toll. Democrats swept into office by huge margins, where they held a super majority in the Senate and nearly 300 votes in the House. The conservative movement was decimated but within the Senate a rump group of conservative senators decided to fight back. They did not take to the microphones. They did not hold press conference. Rather, they used the rules of the institution to get Democrats and liberal Republicans to take dozens of “tough votes” on “killer” amendments to defeat a slew liberal legislation. Despite having only 39 Republicans, including RINOs like Jacob Javits (R.-N.Y.), they defeated a slew of liberal agenda items. Those roll call votes were the very issues used to defeat all those liberal senators in the 1980 Reagan landslide, including Javits, who lost in a GOP primary that year.
In other words, they made their opponents crawl over miles of glass. The lesson lost on the modern GOP.
Boehner has engaged in the series of one-on-one negotiations with the president while his members have been sitting ideally waiting for news of the coming capitulation.
A better strategy would have been to put them to work. The speaker could use his ability to schedule votes and committee hearings to being a series of bills to the floor that would drive a wedge between the president and his Democrat allies. Forcing a series of uncomfortable votes would ultimately create back pressure on the President from members of his own party.”
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Mr. Boner (Boehner), is a sellout. Another empty suit politician.
The broken glass concept, I like.
It surprises me that little interest has been generated along the Conservative Party lines, as I am a registered Conservative and would like to see candidates exclusive to the Party without secondary party affiliation, because when there is a second party listed, it means, a sellout politician, rather than a traditional American values individual.
My belief as a Conservative is: “You don’t have it – You don’t spend it.”
Personally, I carry Zero debt. It’s a hard road, and is not easy.
Boehner is a useless tool . I have no patience for him and the fact that he was re-elected speaker tells one all they need to know about the current state of the republican party. Hopeless
I was listening on the radio news, Obama again wants to raise the fiscal ceiling or all the poor federal workers will not get paychecks March 1st, 2013. Of course he pandered Social Security and “public assistance”, also.
Watch, Mr. Boner will fold up like an accordion and give in.., again.
Not that anyone thinks about cutting back spending, or lowering taxes of small businesses to get people working again, or anything whatsoever about 0.46 million defense workers getting the axe or the residual businesses that do business with those defense companies and feed the employees or fix their cars, how much they too will lose. Just think about the poor federal employees, March 1st.