Intransigence Rewarded: Same Ole from Cantor
Today in the wake of the second day of the Wall Street blood bath, House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor (R-VA) told his troops to stand firm:
At some point this country may no longer need him or his troops. During the debt ceiling debacle I frequently wondered the same thing. How could 80 or so Tea Party Republicans out of a congress of 435 have such a stranglehold on this country? I think the answer to that question comes down to one thing, deference. The Republican leadership, including “main street Republicans” deferred to the Tea Party. They understood those new congressmen had a mandate. They understood the gravity of Tea Party support in their own upcoming primaries. They did not want to be perceived as marginalizing Tea Party ideals.
Today, those more moderate Republicans may be feeling the Tea Party marginalized themselves.
If Republicans who don’t drink the tea have given the radical fringe of their party deference then maybe they should rethink their position. They should ask themselves if ideology can ever govern. Maybe they are beginning to understand the nation needs them. Maybe they see there is more than one answer to every problem we face, and believe me, we face a few. The people have no bread, “let them cut spending.” Bridges are falling in the river, cut spending. There are 14 million people unemployed, cut spending. The orbit of the moon is changing, cut spending.
If I am right, the first manifestation of this change may be the “super committee.” If Republicans have learned anything about governing this country the most hopeful sign will be who they choose to represent them and their constituents. The fringe of their party has proven they have no interest in actually governing so they should be simply be ignored. They should not have a place at the super committee table. They should have only the votes they were given by the voters. If voters gave them 80 or so votes, let them vote 80 or so times. Don’t give these people any representation they don’t constitutionally deserve. Moderate Republicans should tell their constituents they tried doing it the Tea Party’s way and it did not work. The polls say the constituents of moderate Republican’s will understand.
12 Responses to “Intransigence Rewarded: Same Ole from Cantor”
What moderate Republicans? The reason the Republican Party went along with the Tea-baggers is that they basically agree with their goals.
Sometime in the next couple of month gas-taxes are going to come up for renewal, watch the talking heads on Radio & Fox tell us how the price of gas is to high and that the way to lower them is to either reduce the gas tax which is at a whopping 18.4 cents a gallon or just get rid of it entirely.
Watch the Tea-Baggers carry that argument on to the House Floor and watch the rest of Republican Party stand right behind them.
The Teap Party types have the power because the Bush wing of the Repubican Party were such massive incompetents. The borrow-and-spend, La Raza Repulbicans drove the country into a ditch.
Republicans voted in 2000 for smaller government and less regulation and the Bush Administration gave them huge deficits, bigger government, and a police state at the airport, an the manufacturing plant, and in the schools.
Moderates Republicans have never apologized for the failures of the Bush Administratin and never explain how they will avoid such incompetence gain. Until the Bush wing of the Repulbicans is stripped of all power and influence, the Tea Party types will be around.
A hand full of congressional districts should not be able to control the entire country. Maybe we should go to those districts en masse and start throwing bricks and burning cars instead of Washington D.C.. Why should we protest in D.C.? Why not get directly into the face of intransigence itself? Betcha they are 50/50 Democrats anyway, others there will join us.
Take it straight to the tea party traitors!
WTF are you talking about? Are you off your Meds? The base of the Republican Party is 90+% White, and their elected officials are 90+% White. As for borrowing and spending it’s been standard Republican Policy ever since the Gipper came into office in 1980.
No Republicans voted in 2000 to get rid of the horrors of the Clinton Administration, Bush ran on Compassionate Conservatism, an oxymoron if there has ever been one. When the top 5% owns damn near everything, you need a police state to make sure that the bottom 95% don’t rebel, take back what is theirs and don’t send a substantial portion of the top 5% to the guillotines.
A) There is no such thing as a moderate Republican.
B) As far as they are concerned they did just fine, they represented the economic interest of the top 5% which really couldn’t care less about you and the bottom 95%, their sole interest in life is making money and keeping it, and if to do that they must use Chinese slave labor and destroy the US, so be it.
There is no Bush wing, there is just the Republican Party, and the Tea-Baggers they are just a bunch of manipulated idiots who are voting on their resentments without the slightest thought as to how many ways their elected officials are screwing them over and making the top 5% wealthier and more powerful.
Until the Bush wing of the Repulbicans is stripped of all power and influence, the Tea Party types will be around.
Quelcrist Falconer-
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Never mind super-stuper.
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He posts from the asylum.
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“Over the next several months, there will be tremendous pressure on Congress to prove that S&P’s analysis of the inability of the political parties to bridge our differences is wrong.”
So what Cantor is telling everyone is that S&P’s assessment of GOP intransigence is 100% correct, and that Republicans have absolutely no intention of solving the problem.
If we did balance the budget Cantor would be one of the first saying that proves the government is taking too much money and we need massive tax cuts.
Brag to base about getting 98 % of what you wanted by taking a hostage.
Blame both parties for downgrade.
Spending is the problem, entitlements are the core, and reforming these obviously is what matters.
Well, Allen, at least we haven’t lately encountered one of the worst ideas from the Left, changing the House so that some or all of the seats are “at-large,” i.e., nation-wide. (They want to change the character and the composition of the Senate, too, though the latter is obviously subject to constitutional prohibition.)
DLS what do you mean to do about entitlements? I mean, we agree that those who retire get a SS Check still right, as well as medical benefits? We are never going to not do that, to go back to the days before SS when over half the population that died of old age died in poverty. We need to fund that. If that means we have to pay more we pay more. Entitlements are not a dirty word, they are the physical manifestations of our values, that we do not let our old and our sick die in misery. That is expensive, but that is our duty to ourselves. The money as it is now is barely enough to get the job done. Cutting it back is not the answer. Raising the retirement age and what we pay is the only honorable thing to do. Handling the money better is another solution. Not letting money saved for that be spent on other things is another, but that would require some law that politicians would have to see a pool of available funds and not spend it. Not sure if that can be done.
“What moderate Republicans? The reason the Republican Party went along with the Tea-baggers is that they basically agree with their goals.” – QF
True enough. Wait until the supercommitte is chosen, you WILL see more hyperpartisanship. DLS likes to mock people he doesn’t like by referring to them as “dinosaurs”, well Cantor and others saturated with the same no taxes kool-aid are in fact the real dinosaurs.