This is not Trumps fault
Republicans sold out their party to the bat shit crazies when Clinton was President. They have only gotten worse. Trump should be the final straw in forcing Republicans to return to sanity
But all anyone has to do is read the positions of conservative posters on this board to realize it won't happen
Well to make it happen the Tea Party needs to be crushed, so sanity can come back into the party. Republican elected leaders needs to say NO to the Tea Party, the religious far right. If they don't, you're right this party will never come back. They need to take the anger & the emotion out of this party, and put the brains back in.
Which Republicans are going to stand up to their base, face losing their own re elections and be blamed for years and years of GOP losses while they reorganize? What is the GOP going to do without a substantial base?
The Republicans are between a rock and a shit sandwich. And they created he shit sandwich
They lose whatever they do
They earned it. Whether they are bedwetting wingnuts are moderate Republicans today who are just now wondering what happened to their party.
Again, remember this comes from Reich wing talk radio, and those on FOX News who have an audience--that never really reads anything except Reich wing websites that support their Reich wing ideology. So they have been spoon fed this Reich wing partisanship--and frankly think everyone thinks like them--(especially in the Republican party)--and that's where they hit the wall.
Really the Tea Party or Reich wingers only make up about 20% of the entire party, the rest of the party are moderates whom are commonly referred to as Rino's who the Reich wing has been at war with for at least the last 4 years. They also don't have a basic understanding of civics.
The Reich wing are angry because Republicans have had majorities in both houses and they expected too much, not understanding basic civics.
1. You cannot defund Obamacare and leave millions that were forced onto this program without insurance overnight. (The house could do that, but the odds of getting a Republican elected as dog catcher afterwards would be zero to none.)
2. It does no good to send up 30 house bills to repeal Obamacare with Obama sitting in the Oval office with a veto pen.
To repeal Obamacare would require a sitting Republican President with super majorities in both houses. That's how we got Obamacare that's the only way to repeal it.
3. You cannot threaten to shut down the government, been there done that, it only backfires on the Republican party.
4. It does no good to read Green Eggs and ham from the United Senate floor over Obamacare.
So what have house Republicans been doing for the last 4 years. Holding Benghazi hearings--8 of them in a political dog and pony show at taxpayer expense that also backfired on them.
And it couldn't be better stated than this:
"Herein lies a lesson for Republicans who are perpetually trying to appease the far right: It’s a fool’s errand. They went to the tea party – and now they’re taking Donald Trump to the prom. Likewise, then-House Speaker John Boehner named the Benghazi committee because activists were dissatisfied that seven previous congressional investigations had failed to uncover major scandal material. Now an eighth has produced more of the same – and the agitators are as agitated as ever."
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