easyt65
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I posted in a thread last night the opinion that the reason Republicans ' Lose' and Democrats 'Win' when the GOP controls the House and Senate is because there is no difference between the Washington Establishment GOP and liberal Democrats - they want the same thing. The evidence to support this, that they are betraying the voters who just elected Trump to go to Washington to do so many things is everywhere.
An Anti-Establishment / Career politician movement helped sweep 'traditional' Status-Quo, Washington Establishment GOP candidates aside and send Trump to Washington. His opponents hated him, tried to destroy him...and ever now are working to undermine and sabotage his promises and agendas.
Proof that Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, and the core Washington Establishment GOP want the same things as Democrats and are just playing Conservatives for fools?
OBAMACARE REPEAL AND REPLACE:
Republicans swore up and down years ago to their constituents who wanted the ACA gone they would repeal and replace, defund, and get rid of the ACA. In 'SHOW VOTES', where the votes never really mattered, they voted approx. 100 times to defund Obamacare. Every time the vote mattered, however - when they could actually defund it, THEY FULLY FUNDED IT.
Trump was sent to Washington on the promise to repeal and replace the ACA. Ryan and the GOP who hated and tried to destroy Trump during the campaign, F*ED him. There was already a bill that had been agreed upon by the majority of the GOP, but Ryan did not choose to use that bill and instead led the effort to write another and ram it through - even taking a page from Nancy Pelosi by telling his colleagues to vote for the bill without having read the last-minute additions. The Freedom Caucus appropriately rejected it, telling Ryan, 'That's not how WE do business'. Many will take this as incompetence on Trump's part, but he is not running Congress .This was not incompetence on Ryan's part, either, or the Freedom Caucus' fault. Ryan and the GOP had YEARS to have a plan in hand waiting for the day when they had the House, Senate, and WH to get a bill passed. They did not. they failed...and not by accident.
Trump was never a 'real' Republican, never accepted as one. he threatened the Status Quo, threatened how it has 'always been done', threatened big controlling govt, and everything Democrats openly ... and GOP quietly ... support. They have sabotaged everything the voters elected Trump to do / get done.
Repeal / Replace the ACA - Ryan oversaw that goal's destruction.
Tax reform - 'Not this year'. Ryan has sabotaged that promise / goal.
Secure the borders and build a wall - Ryan has overseen the delay and inevitable destruction of that promise / goal.
Defund Planned Parenthood - trump has done his part through EO, but Ryan and the Washington Establishment, anti-Voter/Trump GOP are busy killing that promise / goal, too:
Will GOP Fund Planned Parenthood But Not Border Wall?
"The House passed Pence's 2011 amendment, including it in the first funding bill approved by the then-new House Republican majority. But then-House Speaker John Boehner subsequently cut a spending deal with the Democrats in the Senate and the White House that did not include Pence's amendment to defund Planned Parenthood."
in 2011, when the GOP controlled the House, Now-VP Pence pushed a bill to defund Planned parenthood Abortions, as the people demanded...and Washington Establishment RINO Boehner betrayed Conservatives and funded Planned parenthood, stripping Pence's amendment from the bill. WHY? Because Washington Establishment GOP want the same thing Democrats do.
It is 2017, and Trump was just elected President on a platform that included a majority-supported promise to cut funding for abortions / Planned parenthood...and Ryan - Boehner's 'Sith Apprentice' - is on the verge of committing the same betrayal his 'master' committed in 2011!
'Now, Congress faces an April 28 deadline to pass a new government funding bill. There is currently no talk that it will include language to prohibit funding of Planned Parenthood.'
With a deadline of 28 April, Ryan and the Washington Establishment GOP have the opportunity to F* Over - betray - both Conservatives who elected trump and President trump, who was elected partly based on his promises to listen to the American people and keep these promises. Ryan does not just have the opportunity to kill ONE Trump Promise which the majority of Americans sent him to Washington to keep - he has the chance to kill TWO: The Border Wall and Planned Parenthood.
If Ryan and the GOP, who own the majority in the House and Senate pass funding for Planned parenthood while not funding the wall it will be evidence that the Washington Establishment GOP, who has never accepted Trump as 'one of them' but sees him as a threat, is no different than the Liberal Democrats and are intentionally sabotaging Trump's Presidency.
As pointed out - ACA Repeal and Replace, Tax Reform, Defunding Planned Parenthood, Building the Wall - Trump hit the ground running, and the GOP - Ryan, McConnell, etc... - have put the brakes on, are not on board, and are doing what they can, it seems, to ensure Trump's agenda is not successful.
There is no difference between the 2 parties, and to be honest, the GOP would rather be in the MINORITY, IMO, because it allows them to let the Democrats what they all / both want to do while claiming they are powerless to stop it. They continue to keep their jobs, keep enriching themselves. Holding the majority makes it difficult to keep facilitating the liberal agenda because claiming the minority is stopping you makes them look incompetent...like their recent effort to 'repeal and replace' the ACA. Based on their actions the last several years and this latest pathetic ACA replacement 'theater', though, I would bet my house that the GOP never intended to repeal and replace it and have been lying to their members and Americans this whole time.
An Anti-Establishment / Career politician movement helped sweep 'traditional' Status-Quo, Washington Establishment GOP candidates aside and send Trump to Washington. His opponents hated him, tried to destroy him...and ever now are working to undermine and sabotage his promises and agendas.
Proof that Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, and the core Washington Establishment GOP want the same things as Democrats and are just playing Conservatives for fools?
OBAMACARE REPEAL AND REPLACE:
Republicans swore up and down years ago to their constituents who wanted the ACA gone they would repeal and replace, defund, and get rid of the ACA. In 'SHOW VOTES', where the votes never really mattered, they voted approx. 100 times to defund Obamacare. Every time the vote mattered, however - when they could actually defund it, THEY FULLY FUNDED IT.
Trump was sent to Washington on the promise to repeal and replace the ACA. Ryan and the GOP who hated and tried to destroy Trump during the campaign, F*ED him. There was already a bill that had been agreed upon by the majority of the GOP, but Ryan did not choose to use that bill and instead led the effort to write another and ram it through - even taking a page from Nancy Pelosi by telling his colleagues to vote for the bill without having read the last-minute additions. The Freedom Caucus appropriately rejected it, telling Ryan, 'That's not how WE do business'. Many will take this as incompetence on Trump's part, but he is not running Congress .This was not incompetence on Ryan's part, either, or the Freedom Caucus' fault. Ryan and the GOP had YEARS to have a plan in hand waiting for the day when they had the House, Senate, and WH to get a bill passed. They did not. they failed...and not by accident.
Trump was never a 'real' Republican, never accepted as one. he threatened the Status Quo, threatened how it has 'always been done', threatened big controlling govt, and everything Democrats openly ... and GOP quietly ... support. They have sabotaged everything the voters elected Trump to do / get done.
Repeal / Replace the ACA - Ryan oversaw that goal's destruction.
Tax reform - 'Not this year'. Ryan has sabotaged that promise / goal.
Secure the borders and build a wall - Ryan has overseen the delay and inevitable destruction of that promise / goal.
Defund Planned Parenthood - trump has done his part through EO, but Ryan and the Washington Establishment, anti-Voter/Trump GOP are busy killing that promise / goal, too:
Will GOP Fund Planned Parenthood But Not Border Wall?
"The House passed Pence's 2011 amendment, including it in the first funding bill approved by the then-new House Republican majority. But then-House Speaker John Boehner subsequently cut a spending deal with the Democrats in the Senate and the White House that did not include Pence's amendment to defund Planned Parenthood."
in 2011, when the GOP controlled the House, Now-VP Pence pushed a bill to defund Planned parenthood Abortions, as the people demanded...and Washington Establishment RINO Boehner betrayed Conservatives and funded Planned parenthood, stripping Pence's amendment from the bill. WHY? Because Washington Establishment GOP want the same thing Democrats do.
It is 2017, and Trump was just elected President on a platform that included a majority-supported promise to cut funding for abortions / Planned parenthood...and Ryan - Boehner's 'Sith Apprentice' - is on the verge of committing the same betrayal his 'master' committed in 2011!
'Now, Congress faces an April 28 deadline to pass a new government funding bill. There is currently no talk that it will include language to prohibit funding of Planned Parenthood.'
With a deadline of 28 April, Ryan and the Washington Establishment GOP have the opportunity to F* Over - betray - both Conservatives who elected trump and President trump, who was elected partly based on his promises to listen to the American people and keep these promises. Ryan does not just have the opportunity to kill ONE Trump Promise which the majority of Americans sent him to Washington to keep - he has the chance to kill TWO: The Border Wall and Planned Parenthood.
If Ryan and the GOP, who own the majority in the House and Senate pass funding for Planned parenthood while not funding the wall it will be evidence that the Washington Establishment GOP, who has never accepted Trump as 'one of them' but sees him as a threat, is no different than the Liberal Democrats and are intentionally sabotaging Trump's Presidency.
As pointed out - ACA Repeal and Replace, Tax Reform, Defunding Planned Parenthood, Building the Wall - Trump hit the ground running, and the GOP - Ryan, McConnell, etc... - have put the brakes on, are not on board, and are doing what they can, it seems, to ensure Trump's agenda is not successful.
There is no difference between the 2 parties, and to be honest, the GOP would rather be in the MINORITY, IMO, because it allows them to let the Democrats what they all / both want to do while claiming they are powerless to stop it. They continue to keep their jobs, keep enriching themselves. Holding the majority makes it difficult to keep facilitating the liberal agenda because claiming the minority is stopping you makes them look incompetent...like their recent effort to 'repeal and replace' the ACA. Based on their actions the last several years and this latest pathetic ACA replacement 'theater', though, I would bet my house that the GOP never intended to repeal and replace it and have been lying to their members and Americans this whole time.