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House GOP ready to take a minority posture for the next two years

The stance is a significant shift from the party’s mantra in the immediate aftermath of the November election, when Boehner and other leaders claimed one half of a dual mandate from voters who had reelected both Obama and the House Republican majority.

It also represents a resetting of expectations for Republican lawmakers and voters alike.

Coming off what many viewed as a defeat in the fiscal cliff deal, and with Obama adopting a hardline position on fiscal matters, Republicans have diminished hopes of what they can force Democrats to accept…

“There was an element of saying, ‘Let’s be realistic about what we can accomplish, if we pass something that there’s no way in hell they’ll even talk about, what value is that?,” Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah) said of the conversation that took place most of the day Thursday between lawmakers and leadership.

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The fools all deserve to be thrown out, for dereliction of duty.

The new Organizing For Action (OFA) stands for Obama Flukes America.

They not only let him, they encourage him. They and him are national traitors.

Schadenfreude on January 19, 2013 at 1:03 PM

I know what posture they’re taking.

davidk on January 19, 2013 at 1:03 PM

Well isn’t this just dandy? Way to go r’s, you sure are doing what we sent you to dc to do aren’t you? SLUGS!
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letget on January 19, 2013 at 1:03 PM

B O H I C A

Wander on January 19, 2013 at 1:04 PM

Wow……what a shock.

topdawg on January 19, 2013 at 1:10 PM

This is why even though I vehemently disagree with them on policy, I can’t help but admire the Democrats. Even if they held only one lowly house seat that sole congressman would fight like his party controlled all three branches.

Kataklysmic on January 19, 2013 at 1:12 PM

nothing worse than cowards who have the ability to change things but instead say then don’t have it so they never have to fight.

unseen on January 19, 2013 at 1:15 PM

Those of you who wanted to Let. It. Burn., the GOP House now agrees with you.

Steve Eggleston on January 19, 2013 at 1:15 PM

we need new leaders and a new party.

unseen on January 19, 2013 at 1:16 PM

we need new leaders and a new party.

unseen on January 19, 2013 at 1:16 PM

Kataklysmic on January 19, 2013 at 1:18 PM

LOSERS

Ill be changing my affiliation to independent.

It’s obvious the GOP doesn’t represent me nor does it want to.

Skywise on January 19, 2013 at 1:19 PM

Those of you who wanted to Let. It. Burn., the GOP House now agrees with you.

Steve Eggleston on January 19, 2013 at 1:15 PM

Not exactly. They think everything is just fine.

ElectricPhase on January 19, 2013 at 1:19 PM

What a bunch of worthless pieces of sheeeeit. They’re abdicating their duty and their power of the purse…Enablers, all

Gohawgs on January 19, 2013 at 1:22 PM

Good to see you, unseen. In the good old days when I wasn’t part of HotGas, I really enjoyed your comments. Stick around, dude.

tommy71 on January 19, 2013 at 1:24 PM

Haven’t they been taking that posture for the last 4 years??

Mimzey on January 19, 2013 at 1:28 PM

This is why even though I vehemently disagree with them on policy, I can’t help but admire the Democrats. Even if they held only one lowly house seat that sole congressman would fight like his party controlled all three branches.

Kataklysmic on January 19, 2013 at 1:12 PM

Ain’t that the truth. What we have throughout the GOP is a bunch of spineless cowards.

If you believe in something, stand up for it.

davidk on January 19, 2013 at 1:29 PM

This is the part of the prison scene where someone drops the soap and they bend over to pick it up.

Geeez can these fools surrender fast enough?

lm10001 on January 19, 2013 at 1:30 PM

UGH!

gophergirl on January 19, 2013 at 1:30 PM

Can we now quit “talking” about a third party and actually do something about it? Since all the “good” names have been taken, how about the “Math Party”?

Clink on January 19, 2013 at 1:35 PM

As I have written for over a year in my diary at RedState and on my own blog, it’s time to stop looking to DC and the federal GOP for solutions and time to look at reestablishing federalism and the primacy of the states and to establish a Red State fortress, a bulwark against the Left and DC.
It should be obvious even to the lowest information voter by now that we will never be able to count on the GOP in DC to advance the conservative agenda and save this country from the Leftists who are determined to fundamentally transform us into a full blown socialist state.

Charlemagne on January 19, 2013 at 1:42 PM

My RedState diary.

Click my username to navigate to my own blog.

Federalism is the solution.

Charlemagne on January 19, 2013 at 1:44 PM

Does that mean they’ll scream racism over everything?

Flange on January 19, 2013 at 1:44 PM

For those interested in the eugenics issue, I ran across this: http://ia700402.us.archive.org/2/items/decadeofprogress00inte/decadeofprogress00inte.pdf

It was funded by the Carnegie Institute.

Excerpt:

The interests of the eugenicist are in improving the quality of those born and increasing the proportion of the socially adequate. So far, the only method of improving the quality of those born, apart from prevention of infection in the mother, is to improve the matings. We have heard discussed today the possible methods of securing a higher birth rate in the most effective groups of the population. Let us hope such methods will be successful. Were birth control differential it would have possibilities. The most intellectually successful strains are slow and tardy breeders. The proletariat will for a long time, as in the classic age, be the fecund class. All honor to the fecund. It will be a long time before we can improve practically on nature’s method of race improvement—a high birth rate and a high death rate.

davidk on January 19, 2013 at 1:51 PM

Eugenics is not interested in death rates any more than it is in birth
rates. It is interested only in quahty. One may even view with satisfaction
the high death rate in an institution for low grade feeble-minded,
while one regards as a national disaster the loss of a bold and successful
aviator, or even the infant child of exceptional parents.

davidk on January 19, 2013 at 1:52 PM

Finally, we may inquire: Can we by eugenical studies point the way to
produce the superman and the superstate? Progress will come slowly.
Man is a poor subject for experimental study; still worse to get to apply to
himself estabhshed principles. But I think we are justified in having faith
that the future will bring precise knowledge in human biology, and education
will estabUsh the desired mores.
The past two decades have seen the new eugenics rise from a mire of
ridicule to the sohd foundation of a recognised important social factor.
It is probable that in the next two decades it will rise still further in pubHe
esteem and become regarded as the most important influence in human
advancement. For, man is an animal, and permanent racial progress in
eugenics, must be based on the laws of biology.

davidk on January 19, 2013 at 1:55 PM

One may even view with satisfaction
the high death rate in an institution for low grade feeble-minded, while one regards as a national disaster the loss of a bold and successful aviator, or even the infant child of exceptional parents.

davidk on January 19, 2013 at 1:52 PM

May I politely ask what about this particular part is so offensive? Is it really so awful to smirk when some imbecile earns a Darwin Award and then read with despair about the death of a brilliant doctor or scientist?

By the way – this is precisely the reason Democrat politicans don’t raise a stink when a hundred 4th-generation minority children die in gang violence, but if Obama keeled over from a heart attack they’d wail to the heavens. Because the former do nothing at all for them besides be photo props, while the latter has won them the nation at large two times.

MelonCollie on January 19, 2013 at 1:57 PM

As opposed to what, the last SIX years?

MelonCollie on January 19, 2013 at 2:00 PM

It is not difficult to see that the social organism rests upon this biological
condition; both racial instincts and social mores decree that the protection
and preservation of women is precedent to that of men, manifestly
because women are racially the more precious.

davidk on January 19, 2013 at 2:02 PM

both racial instincts and social mores decree that the protection and preservation of women is precedent to that of men, manifestly because women are racially the more precious.

davidk on January 19, 2013 at 2:02 PM

A very bad misinterpretation of chivalry and its roots, IMHO.

MelonCollie on January 19, 2013 at 2:06 PM

May I politely ask what about this particular part is so offensive? Is it really so awful to smirk when some imbecile earns a Darwin Award and then read with despair about the death of a brilliant doctor or scientist?

By the way – this is precisely the reason Democrat politicans don’t raise a stink when a hundred 4th-generation minority children die in gang violence, but if Obama keeled over from a heart attack they’d wail to the heavens. Because the former do nothing at all for them besides be photo props, while the latter has won them the nation at large two times.

MelonCollie on January 19, 2013 at 1:57 PM

All people carry the image of God, however marred by sin. All are of equal value.

This understanding is reflected in our Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

To your first point, our response should be like this:

“Do I have any pleasure in the death of the wicked,” declares the Lord GOD, “rather than that he should turn from his ways and live?”

Ezekiel 18:23 NASB

And, no, I am not consistent here.

Your second point: You are exactly correct.

davidk on January 19, 2013 at 2:13 PM

A very bad misinterpretation of chivalry and its roots, IMHO.

MelonCollie on January 19, 2013 at 2:06 PM

I am not quoting approvingly. This document is from the ’20s and is revealing in that it shows the roots of such thinking as embodied in organizations such as Planned Parenthood and National Organization of Women.

Also the thinking behind Obama’s et. al. thinking about women vis a vis their claims of conservatives’ War on Women.

davidk on January 19, 2013 at 2:18 PM

On your knees in front of Barackabama is now called “minority posture”?

SouthernGent on January 19, 2013 at 2:19 PM

Correction: The document is from the ’30s.

davidk on January 19, 2013 at 2:21 PM

With such principles in mind, and with the picture of the world suffering
acutely from dysgenic reproduction, from the multiplication of the incompetent,
and the alarming increase in the power of the criminal class before
me, I can not refrain from expressing my deep conviction that, of all remedial
and restorative agencies, the well-understood and well-applied principles
of birth selection advocated by Galton, with birth control as a subsidiary
principle, stand in the very front rank of progressive civilization.

davidk on January 19, 2013 at 2:25 PM

Increase in the number of mental defectives may be prevented, or an
actual decline may be induced by segregation and sterilization; but when
negro admixture with the white begins, there is no accepted method of
preventing an increase of the condition except separation.

davidk on January 19, 2013 at 2:39 PM

Increase in the number of mental defectives may be prevented, or an
actual decline may be induced by segregation and sterilization; but when
negr0 admixture with the white begins, there is no accepted method of
preventing an increase of the condition except separation.

davidk on January 19, 2013 at 2:39 PM