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  1. In other words, to make a difference, the people of the Right need to rise up collectively, play the activist game for keeps, compete for real, and seize the zeitgeist.

  2. Eric:

    Instead, there is a strong tendency to want to withdraw from the fray. The activist left has a great deal more patience, at least that’s what I’ve observed.

  3. Boehner has become the biggest obstacle to combating dear leader’s over reach. I do not understand why the house leadership did not go for a short term funding bill to allow the gop senate to seated. Rush is correct, the gop establishment does not want to reduce the DC monster, they just want to have the remote control in their hands.

  4. Re That’s it with GOP:
    ignoring the fact that that [not voting] would be essentially committing political suicide for conservatives and insuring the triumph of the left.
    and
    vote for the Republican in the general (it will most likely be better than the Democratic, especially in areas such as the appointment of federal judges, an extremely important issue).

    How, precisely, does not voting GOP ensure the triumph of the Left any more than voting for it? We have now a fifty-year track record, a fifty-year trend line, a fifty-year descent down almost innumerable slippery slopes. On the occasions when the GOP had managed the majority in Congress or occupied the White House, not only had they not reversed the decline and fall, they hadn’t even slowed it — they hadn’t even made good faith attempts to do so. G W Bush and his GOP cronies, had outspent all previous presidents and held the record until BHO.

    As for patience, it is an indulgence a drowning man with a life preserver may avail himself of; it’s hardly of any use to the man flailing away in the deep, slapping water. Reverse the trend first, then beg me be patient.

  5. I have a hard time figuring out whether there is a strategy behind this. One thing that’s clear is the need for Republicans to get on the same track–no more ignoring the people and no more attention getters. Different ideas and priorities should be discussed, of course, but in a way that makes voters think they are responsible. The real way to make change is to get more good people in Congress. That seems to have happened this year, and I hope the Reps have learned how to recruit and promote more of the same next time.

    I am personally feeling a little overloaded with Ferguson, campus rape, and all the other headline grabbers. If others have similar feelings, a measured, thoughtful approach may be the way to go, especially if there is an observable change in trajectory. Some Dems from more conservative blue states (eg, Joe Manchin) may even cooperate.

  6. George Pal,
    It’s all in whether our newer reps have learned anything from the last 50 years. The left has jumped the shark on so many issues, more voters may support new people with different ideas.

  7. I am just a rube from flyover country, so I find nothing positive in cromnibus. What was wrong about a short term CR and then with a gop lead senate tightening the screws on the agenda of dear leader? I will wait for the first few months of the new congress to pass final judgment, but if I do not see a willingness to thwart dear leader’s lawlessness I will find little reason to vote in the future. The gop establishment should start thinking about where they will be without the conservative base.

  8. Moderates Collaborators from both parties” fixed it for you neo, no charge;-)

    And here’s the evidence for collaboration:

    Boehner pulled a Pelosi, House members had 52 hours to read and digest a 1600 page bill.

    Then Boehner one-upped Pelosi; the very first provision, “Sec. 4 Explanatory Statement” (P 4.) states that the appropriations committee chairman will have authority to write in changes to any of the appropriations bills after the bill is passed.

    Executive Amnesty Is Fully Funded:
    “Health and Human Services: $948 million for HHS’s Unaccompanied Alien Children program, $80 million more than fiscal year 2014, specifically to accommodate the “more than 57,000 children” apprehended in 2014. According to the Democrats, “It will also support legal services for children”. Children declared ‘refugees’ can legally demand that their parents be allowed into the US as well.

    Grants access to Social Security benefits for 4.5 million amnestied illegals.

    Department of State: $932 million. Includes a $262 million provision to assist Central American countries in improving their border security. (gag)

    Full Funding for Obamacare, forget about repeal despite “100% of Newly Elected GOP Senators Campaigned on Repealing Obamacare”

    Millions More Muslim Refugees: Syrian Refugees $3.06 billion has been provided, $1.01 billion above the President’s request for Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons.

    Aid to Syrian Rebels; Half a Billion to ‘Nice’ Terrorists

    “Next year, you will see thousands [of Syrians] entering the US. We are committed to a large program on a par with other large [refugee resettlement] programs in the past… Our commitment is to do thousands a year over many years,” he said. There are over 1 million Syrian refugees in Turkey who have fled Syria’s civil war. “Our resettlement program from Turkey is one of our largest in the world, and it will continue to grow,” he added. Refugees from Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran will also benefit.” Simon Henshaw, deputy assistant secretary of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration

    EPA gets to keep on imposing “greenhouse gas” regulations that are strangling coal, while provisions reining in EPA were stripped from the bill.

    Provisions supporting gun rights were removed.

    $5.4 billion for Ebola efforts in Africa — more than provided to fight ISIS.

    Page 1,153, which reauthorizes a federal agency whose job is to subsidize American-owned foreign businesses and the banks that finance them. The Overseas Private Investment Corporation extends taxpayer-backed loans and guarantees to U.S. companies when they set up shop overseas.

    They say a picture is worth a thousand words, well here you go… it says all you need to know.

  9. “…that would be essentially committing political suicide…”
    There comes a time when the voters don’t care anymore. They’ve had it with being sold out.

  10. Geoffrey Britain Says:
    December 12th, 2014 at 6:29 pm

    And here’s the evidence for collaboration:

    Boehner pulled a Pelosi, House members had 52 hours to read and digest a 1600 page bill.

    Then Boehner one-upped Pelosi; the very first provision, “Sec. 4 Explanatory Statement” (P 4.) states that the appropriations committee chairman will have authority to write in changes to any of the appropriations bills after the bill is passed.

    It is clear that we no longer have a representative Republic. We have a permanent oligarchy that answers to no law.

    The Federal government is a criminal enterprise and is therefore illegitimate. Try fixing that by voting.

  11. Incidentally, if I were a member of Congress and Boehner tried to twist my arm into voting for that monstrosity, I would reply, “I will not vote for any bill I have not read, and I have no intention of reading a 1600 page bill.”

  12. This argument that voting for the Republican establishment is better than the Democrats has become too stale and silly to argue about.
    Prior to this election, and prior to the last, and the one before that, I stated exactly what Rush and Drew have said, again, that Boner and McConnell simply want the controls in their hands. And they prove it every chance they get. They do not idealogy with conservatives; their loyalty is to goverment and to themselves and their donors.
    Getting reminded that these clowns will block the appointment of liberal judges as a consolation for being useless, destructive politicians is wearing thin.

    I don’t see evidence of them doing this either. We have not seen Republicans fight for conservative appointees; instead we see them chime in with the media to criticize any judge or appointee who is outspokenly conservative. What we get if we are lucky, is moderate or slightly left of center judge who cannot be counted on to defend any conservative principle if it’s unpopular or sensationalized by the media. Establishment Republicans will not stick their little necks out to defend any appointee who jeopardizes their chances at holding the bag of tax payer cash for a term or two.
    2016 is going to be a blood bath for them, and they deserve it. But Boner and McConnell and McCain will live to blow off the voters another day.
    I’ve already written my congressman and wished him good luck. I will save the gas and stay home – it’s not like he cares anyway.

  13. The USCIS folks may self fund through fees, but they do not self appropriate, meaning they cannot spend those fees willy nilly, only in accordance with the funds appropriated in the budget. The cowards and traitors feeding us poop know this, but the lie serves them very well with the uninformed.

    I hate the Republicans. Hate hate hate them. Liars, mostly.

  14. The cynic in me says that the GOP leadership sees that Soetoro initiatives only increase the vote for the GOP.

    Bringing in ANY Syrians means brining in ISIS moles. Duh!

    The GOP does not want to be race-baited into ANY ‘anti-Brown’ legislation. This is why the GOP flipped totally the other way.

    Beyond that, Boner is of the SILENT GENERATION.

    Much of this is actually coming from the heart. Reid, Pelosi and Boner ALL figure that they are PERSONALLY reversing the ravages of the the Great Depression — in their time.

    For everyone younger, their emotive responses make absolutely NO SENSE.

    You are looking straight at people who make the BIG decisions based upon FEELINGS.

    ESFJ

    http://www.16personalities.com/esfj-personality

    “ESFJs are altruists, and they take seriously their responsibility to help and to do the right thing. Unlike their Diplomat (NF) relatives however, people with the ESFJ personality type will base their moral compass on established traditions and laws, upholding authority and rules, rather than drawing their morality from philosophy or mysticism. It’s important for ESFJs to remember though, that people come from many backgrounds and perspectives, and what may seem right to them isn’t always an absolute truth.”

    This personality type HUGELY covers the MSM waterfront — and many, many, politicians… especially those that rise to the top of an old boys/ old gals network — the House of Representatives.

  15. Pelosi is an extreme example of ESFJ impulses.

    Going back through the House Speakership… you’ll find this type popping up time, and time, again.

    Newt was an extreme outlier. (ExTJ)

    THIS is why logical analysis falls so flat with the Speakership — ALL of them.

    Newt was ejected for Thinking too much, not Feeling too much.

  16. The dead elephant party leadership should not be surprised to find their faces on a deck playing cards in the future.

  17. It isn’t suicide to vote against Republicans. That shows a lack of imagination. For example, Ace suggested picking 10 or 12 GOP congressmen and tanking them in 2016. First primary them. If that does not work, then vote for the dem. Imagine voting out the GOP leadership. That will not cause the House to change hands. That will change things.

  18. You are better off spending your time how to grab dollars that the government is handing out. There is no difference between the Rs and the Ds on the largess that is being handed out, just the rules for getting that largess. Just figure out how to grab some instead of going to the polls to vote for Rs who are the same as Ds.

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