Comments on: “If they continue to receive bad advice, Republicans could actually lose the House”

By: Tyrone Slothrop

Tyrone Slothrop — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:49:49 +0000

“If they continue to receive bad advice, Republicans could actually lose the House”

In a pig’s eye.

By: ddrintn

ddrintn — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:14:08 +0000

If the tea party and liberty movements rejoin, and stay joined, the Democrats and RINO’s are totally effed in ’14 and ’16.

FloatingRock on January 17, 2013 at 4:51 PM

Won’t happen. I’m becoming more and more convinced that the only way is to blow up the GOP and replace it with a conservative party.

By: Socratease

Socratease — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:14:07 +0000

Politicians get bad advice all the time, that’s not the problem. But when Republican congressmen can’t articulate publicly why continuous trillion-dollar deficits with no budgets is a bad combination, or why raising taxes will not solve the budget problem, or why we can’t keep borrowing forever, it doesn’t matter what kind of advise they’re getting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywy1ZkgirZ4

By: p0s3r

p0s3r — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:54:50 +0000

Lose-lose situation for us.

By: FloatingRock

FloatingRock — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:51:19 +0000

If the tea party and liberty movements rejoin, and stay joined, the Democrats and RINO’s are totally effed in ’14 and ’16.

By: Norwegian

Norwegian — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:30:48 +0000

With Boehner as Speaker, does it even matter? The GOP House is just rubberstamping and legitimizing Obama’s agenda anyway.

By: Doughboy

Doughboy — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:23:14 +0000

They’re not doing themselves any favors right now. The whole point of putting the GOP back in control of the House was to block the Obama agenda. Now granted, they did manage to stop the legislative stuff dead in its tracks, but Obama and Reid have figured how to do an end run around Congress and they’re relying on the Republicans’ fear of bad publicity in order to get away with it.

I can understand if the House GOP isn’t keen to defund the EPA in order to stop their out-of-control regulation of the energy sector. You have to pick your battles. But there is absolutely no excuse to keep raising the debt ceiling and passing CRs without at least getting some significant spending cuts in return. If they can’t even accomplish that, it’s worth asking what the hell we have them there for.

Look at it this way. The House Republicans in the last 2 years of Obama’s first term really didn’t accomplish a damn thing in terms of reducing spending. They didn’t do anything to slow or reverse the implementation of Obamacare. They did nothing to get projects like the Keystone pipeline passed. Instead they were essentially a rubber stamp for Obama’s agenda, albeit on a smaller scale than in his first 2 years in office. And to make matters worse, they provided a foil for him in the 2012 election. It’s arguable that Romney’s chances at the Presidency would’ve been greatly improved had the Dems run the whole show and had no one to blame for their shortcomings(aside from Bush).

By: mojo

mojo — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:22:18 +0000

And the difference between “losing” the House, and having John Boehner giving the store away would be, what, exactly?

By: Kensington

Kensington — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:20:37 +0000

Don’t you just kind of expect the Donks to retake the House? Things are going to suck, the Dems will be running around demonizing Republicans, the Republicans won’t have an effective defense, and the dummy voters will toss them out.

Then, anything awful that happens during the last two years of Obama’s second (but probably not last) term will be blamed on stuff the Republicans did before they were tossed out of office.

Also Bush.

We’re boned.

By: brewcrew67

brewcrew67 — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:14:51 +0000

Ho! Ho! Ho! – Libs will just keep buying votes.