It looks more than ever that a full scale civil war is erupting in the Republican Party in Congress, with 60 Tea Party radicals in the House and 12 Senators joining together to create a new budget and financial crisis with President Obama and the Democrats, unless defunding of ObamaCare is accomplished, but facing vehement opposition from the majority of Republicans in the Senate, and leaving Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, trying to avoid the crossfire and save his own seat in next year’s midterm elections!
The Tea Party is a bunch of anarchistic lunatics, and prominent Senators, including Senators Rand Paul of Kentucky, Ted Cruz of Texas, and Marco Rubio of Florida, by allowing themselves to associate with this extremist group, are setting up. not only a political donnybrook among their own competing desires to be the GOP Presidential nominee, but insuring a conflict of massive proportions with “Establishment” Republicans, and even, fellow conservatives, who see what they are attempting to do to destroy funding of ObamaCare as suicidal, giving the Democrats a fantastic platform which could help to wipe out the Republican majority House of Representatives, and any chance of the GOP to gain six seats and control of the US Senate!
Among the Republicans who have denounced any move on defunding ObamaCare, while not agreeing with the program, are:
Tom Coburn of Oklahoma
Ron Johnson of Wisconsin
John McCain of Arizona
Roy Blunt of Missouri
Richard Burr of North Carolina
Mitch McConnell is trying to stay out of the crossfire, and so is Speaker of the House John Boehner, who is facing pressure from Michele Bachmann and other Tea Party House members.
The more rational Republicans listed above, while certainly strong conservatives, see the GOP being portrayed as reckless and being run by the inmates of an insane asylum, if they were to create a new fiscal crisis, at a time when they desperately want to have the possibility of Republican control of both houses!
Can one just imagine now what it will be like when the ambitious Tea Party Presidential seekers compete against each other, and face the Establishment types in the caucuses, primaries, and national convention three years from now?
It will be great entertainment, great political theater, and we will all be able to watch and witness the disintegration, the dissolution, the crumbling, and the destruction of a once great political party, insuring what will happen anyway, due to the Electoral College math—the election of a Democratic President and a stronger Democratic Party in the future!
The Republican Party is fighting against demographic change and the tides of history, and they are insuring their vanishing from American politics if they continue their destructive path, which seems like an ongoing tornado that cannot be stopped! They MUST stop listening to FOX News Channel and conservative talk show hosts, who have no concern about the future, other than their own financial gains and notoriety!
Adding to the republican party demise is their really stupid war on the ACA. Krugman did a great piece on it.
” As Republican politicians seem ready to go on the offensive, there’s a palpable sense of anxiety, even despair, among conservative pundits and analysts. Better-informed people on the right seem, finally, to be facing up to a horrible truth: Health care reform, President Obama’s signature policy achievement, is probably going to work”.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/26/opinion/krugman-republican-health-care-panic.html?ref=paulkrugman&_r=0
The Republicans have known all along that the ACA is going to work. Sure it needs some tweaking, things added, changed or removed. But in the ling run it’s going to be hailed as President Obama’s legacy health care bill that improved health care AND brought costs down.
And this is causing Republican’s heads to explode!!! LOL!!!!
Those Tea Partiers fighting Progressives and Establishment Republicans are calling themselves Groundswell: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/07/groundswell-rightwing-group-ginni-thomas
Thanks for this very revealing article, Jane Doe!
I humbly believe that all those votes to repeal Obamacare were stupid and senseless because from the start they were going to be shot dead in the Senate and if by a miracle a few Democrat Senators jumped ship, President Obama would never sign the repeal of Obamacare. That said, if the majority of the new Republican Representatives and Senators were sent to Congress by the people for the specific purpose of stopping Obamacare, then defunding Obamacare while funding the rest of the Government is the logical step. Thus it would be the Democrats in the Senate under Harry Reid, and President Obama who would be shutting down the government , not the Republicans. The House has the power of the purse, so it is time the opposition use it. If the so called Republicans cannot stand up to Obama on this issue of Obamacare, then when? Why are they there? What good are they if the capitulate time after time to Obama and the Democrats demands? Why would any Republican be against this defunding when polls show that Americans more than ever want Obamacare repealed? http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505267_162-57595225/cbs-news-poll-finds-more-americans-than-ever-want-obamacare-repealed/
http://realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/obama_and_democrats_health_care_plan-1130.html
And more importantly why would any Republican who calls himself a conservative be against defunding Obamacare when it is the right thing to do for the country?
So if the old moderate guard of the Republican Party will not support this measure of defunding Obamacare while funding the rest of the government, then it can only means one thing. That the Republican Party, their leaders in Washington, the so called establishment of the party, supports Obamacare, and all those votes to repeal it was just a side show.
Of course the establishment, the media and the liberals would accuse the Republicans of shutting down the government no matter what the reality is. But today, contrary to 95, there are other news outlets and the internet where the truth can be told. That if the government is shutdown, that if the debts are not paid, in light of the fact that the Republicans passed a bill funding the entire government, except Obamacare, then it would be exclusive responsibility of President Obama and the Democrats. This would be the logical move to make by the opposition, otherwise why call themselves opposition? Might as well just drop the charade and say this is a one party system.
I remember when Reagan wanted to shut down the Department of Education the Democrats said no and fought tooth and nail. When Reagan wanted to cut spending and sent a budget, the Democrats said no and they didn’t care whether they were in the minority or not. The Democrats are a true locked step organization. They never ever retreat. They only time the started faltering was with the 95 shutdown when many moderate Democrats starting having seconds thought about Clinton vetoing the budget because it had a provision to balance the budget in 7 yrs. That was probably the only time the Republicans held strong.
For over a 100 yrs the liberals insisted and insisted on more and more government involvement in healthcare. They never quit.Yet these Republicans are ready to quit the moment the Democrats say Boo! The Republican Party , at least the ones who run it, in my mind reminds me of those old decrepit men, who don’t know quite well what day it is, they ramble on lost and dazed with cobwebs in their skulls, but have enough momentary “clarity” to scare and yell at their grandchildren, the younger ones in the family (the Cruz, the Paul’s, the Lee’s),but in reality they are scared. And the moment the Democrats say Boo, the coward away. That’s the Republican Party. I wonder sometimes how different things might have been if McCain for example would have been as aggressive as he is with conservative , with Obama during the 2008 campaign.
Finally what I find sometime very interesting and astonishing is the fact that some liberals simply cannot believe that other people do not like, accept nor want any part of Obamacare. Some liberals just cannot believe it, so they rationalize it saying that it must be because these people are either stupid or racist, but never that they would have a valid rational reason for opposing Obamacare.
Lulz! It is You Know Who In Disguise!
Thanks to Obamacare, my aunt has been able to get out of that doughnut hole with her medical bills.
Also thanks to Obamacare, my cousin is no longer denied insurance due to a pre-exsisting condition.
They are just two examples of the many millions of Americans that Obamacare has helped and that’s why I, a political activist in my hometown, am committed to fighting tooth-and-nail against those who want to repeal it.
I salute you, Rustbelt Democrat, for fighting against those who have no concern about the health of millions of our citizens, as history will judge them poorly in the future, as to what were they thinking? But the same situation existed for Social Security and Medicare and minimum wage, and other great progressive reforms, which even now, the right wing is trying to destroy!
I consider them a bunch of Scrooges.
I agree with you, Princess Leia! Such lack of concern for others is mind boggling, particularly in those who claim to be “religious”, but are the exact opposite of what that really means, the desire to help others and be considerate of others, and to condemn materialism and greed and selfishness!
Definitely the appropriate name for them, Leia! 🙂
We are proud to call Steny Hoyer ours here in Md!
WASHINGTON, DC – House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) spoke on the House Floor this afternoon in opposition to H.R. 2610, the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2014. Below are his remarks and a link to the video:
http://www.democraticwhip.gov/content/hoyer-republican-cuts-community-development-block-grants-are-egregious-0
Yes, Maggie, Steny Hoyer is one of the few most outstanding members of Congress, no question about that!
We progressives must all work to make sure ObamaCare gets successfully implemented and then morphs into a Medicare-for-all system over time.
Gleefull celebrations all around as once powerful cities like Detroit crumble to rust at the hands of leftest social engineering, you so called progressives are fools. Celebrate as progressive states like New York and Maryland decimate our constitutional rights. Powerful world leaders snicker at the bumbling dear leader Obama, you are such fools.
To combat Davy No Nothing’s loony rant:
Detroit’s economic woes are caused by “free-trade” agreements, the fact that Detroit is a one-industry city, and massive corporate welfare giveaways, not by public employees whose average pensions are $19,000 per year.
http://www.salon.com/2013/07/23/dont_buy_the_right_wing_myth_about_detroit/
Those were left wing engineered woes, enjoy the results and keep living in denial.
Leftist never see that what have done is wrong, its just that they believe they have not been allowed to do enough of it, LOL, well in Detroit you did and other socially engineered train wrecks are not far behind.
Lulz. Davy No Nothing is the one in denial here!
@Jane Doe
Thanks to posters like Davy No Nothing, I know that this is the place where I can come when I need a good laugh! 🙂
I am sure the victims of the leftist tinkering do not share your macabre joy at other peoples needless misery, but hey I expect no less from your types.
Lulz. Leftist tinkering. Lulz. Rolling on the floor laughing!
@Davy No Nothing
Democrats are generally a centrist party.
http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-a-democrat.htm
Exactly right Jane Doe!
The Republican party is supposed to be generally centrist as well. The problem is that the far right has taken over the party and they are stubbornly ideological and don’t want to compromise. Compromise is the backbone of our government. Without compromise, you have a stalemate.
Well said Rustbelt! 🙂
Compromise and negotiation has been the hallmark of our political system! The saying is that “Politics is the art of compromise!”, which apparently the Republican Party has completely forsaken, to the detriment of those Republicans who continue to believe in the need for compromise to get things done!