While we watch the S.S. Obamacare sink beneath the waves, and while we watch the White House explain why its signature legislative “achievement” is not the titanic disaster we all knew it would be, I have some advice for my fellow Republicans.
Shut up.
Quit shooting Cruz missiles at each other.
And take aim at the real enemy — the Democrats and their awful agenda for America.
We can’t blame John McCain, Lindsey Graham and the other anti-Ted Cruz senators for what they said or did during the government shutdown.
What they thought about defunding or delaying Obamacare — or what they said to the media — was irrelevant.
The only thing that really mattered was how those senators would have voted on the bills the House of Representatives sent over to the Senate.
And we can’t blame them for not successfully defunding Obamacare when Harry Reid never even gave them a chance to vote on anything.
I’m not happy with McCain, Graham and a lot of other Republican senators in Washington who often speak and act like they’ve received brain transplants from members of The New York Times editorial board.
But I’m still 100 times happier with our least-conservative Republican senator than I would be with any Democrat that’s out there.
Whatever their faults, McCain and the others saw the reality written on the wall. They knew Reid wasn’t going to bring anything up for a vote that would jeopardize Obamacare. And they knew if he did, President Obama quickly would have vetoed it.
In the Republican House, it was the same story. Majority Leader John Boehner was blasted by conservatives but he did his best.
When he tried to explain the facts of life to the Tea Partiers in his caucus, they didn’t believe him. Yet after that, Boehner still did everything the Republican suicide caucus asked him to do.
Everything Republicans have been saying about the dangers of Obamacare is right, but we can’t keep attacking our own people.
The GOP is not big enough. We’ve always been a minority party. We can’t afford to keep throwing our fellow Republicans under the bus, when we should be figuring out how to put more people on the Republican bus.
We Republicans need to wise up. We need to dismiss our circular political firing squad, get in a straight line, take aim at the real enemy and start blasting away.
We need to replace Reid, Chuck Schumer and every Democrat senator we can. Fighting among ourselves is not getting the GOP anywhere. Look at the last election.
The Tea Party sent up conservative candidates in primaries in Indiana, Nevada and Connecticut who beat Republican incumbents but then lost in the general elections. One of them was an ex-witch.
Now there’s a real long-term winning strategy for the GOP.
If it’s going to primary a Republican senator they think is insufficiently conservative, the Tea Party wing has to make sure its candidates can win in the fall elections.
Otherwise it’s just being really stupid — and we end up with a Democrat Senate and unstoppable legislative monstrosities like the Affordable Care Act.
If Republicans really want to change things for the better, if we really want to save America from the Democrats and Obamacare, we have to win back the Senate.
To do that, Republicans need to quit fighting each other, call off their civil war and start fighting the real enemy of freedom — the Democrat Party.
The political reality is simple: The 2013 Senate is run by the Democrats. Harry Reid never brings up a vote that he disagrees with. And until Republicans take control of the Senate, nothing will change.
So don’t blame Boehner or McCain — or any of the Republicans in the House or Senate — for the Obamacare fiasco. Blame Obama and the Democrats. And replace them.
“The real enemy of freedom. . . . the Democrat party.” Where was the freedom to go to work after the republicans shut down the government; where was the
freedom for women to vote in Texas, when roadblocks were put in their
way by the republicans; where was the freedom to vote in the last election with
republicans purging polls, closing down polling places; restricting early
voting, etc. Voters won’t forget this, as well as the republicans who refuse
to work on immigration reform because they say there isn’t enough time.
There is plenty of time if they would work more than 3 or four days a week.
So don’t go spouting off about how Democrats are the real enemy of
freedom when it is painfully obvious that the republican party has blocked
each and every effort for job creation, and the republicans back off anything
that the President is for. We all remember when the republicans were
chanting…..where are the jobs, and have done NOTHING for job
creation.
U. Got it wrong!! It wasn’t the republicans who shut down the government – it was Obama and the democrats who absolutely refused to meet with the republicans to work out a budget. They refused to negotiate and they refused to compromise!!! How on earth can the government work if 2/3rds refuse to work with the other 1/3? As I understand it, one house of congress passes a bill and sends it to the other house for consideration. If the two houses don’t agree a committee made up of equal members of both houses meet and work out a compromise bill. The democrats who control the senate absolutely refused to meet with the republican controlled House of Representatives. The next step is usually where the president or Vice President comes into play as an arbitrator and helps the two houses of Congress to come to a compromise bill. Reid who controls the senate refused to allow the Vice President to inter earn and Obama refused to talk with the house Republicans. He refused any attempt at negotiations or compromise.
So who really shut down the government with their NO Talk, NO NEGOTIATIONS, NO COMPROMISE philosophy ??
THE DEMOCRATS IN THE SENATE, HARRY REID, AND OBAMA.