https://cached-assets.patriotpost.us/images/2016-01-04-6957cc33_large.jpg" width="454" height="227" />by Robin Smith: The Republican Party once entertained the notion of changing its name due to internal strife following the failed years led by Rockefeller Republicans — Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford — who embraced socially liberal policies and financially progressive views in the role of government. At that time, outgoing Republican National Committee Chairman Mary Louise Smith suggested to her successor, former Congressman and Senator of Tennessee Bill Brock, that a rebranding of sorts was needed as he began his successful four years of service as chairman.
Brock’s response to the idea of changing the political party’s name or image was simple: “We don’t need to change our name; we just need to live up to it.”
We’re seeing days not too dissimilar — a president who’s a Washington outsider, laughed at by the swamp dwellers and obstructed by the 2017-version of Rockefeller Republicans. And the Grand Old Party is dealing with its beliefs and its principles, or should we say the lack of either. The question, then, is: “What exactly do you stand for, Republicans?”
Let’s look at the answer to that question through the words and actions of Republicans painted on the canvass of events since 2008. From the 2008 elections through 2010, Democrats had control of the White House, the House and the Senate. During that time there was no effort of “comprehensive reform” of illegal immigration. There was no effort to make global trade fair for the American worker. There was no effort toward energy independence as fuel soared to some of its highest prices while U.S. consumers were beholden to the gas kingdoms of the Middle East. The only agenda item was to take more than one-fifth of the U.S. economy (health care) and place it under government control, while heavily regulating another fifth (the financial sector).
Then, in the 2010 election cycle, the GOP cry was to win majorities in the House and Senate so they could repeal liar-nObamaCare, block Barack liar-nObama’s tax-and-spend frenzy, slow the growth of the exploding the welfare rolls, and oppose liar-nObama’s open-border, non-enforcement approach to immigration.
American voters delivered. The Republicans gained the House majority in 2010, which it’s maintained during four Congresses.
What did Republicans stand for in 2012 and 2014? The same things, but with the rallying cry being, “We need the Senate and the White House.” The stanza had changed but the chorus was the same.
Mitt Romney failed to close the deal in 2012, and Democrats rode liar-nObama’s coattails to hang on to the Senate. But in 2014, voters delivered the Senate to the GOP, saying, “Let’s see you stand up to that imperial president and tell him to cut spending.” Well, our debt grew from Oct. 17, 2013 at $17 trillion to $18 trillion on Dec. 15, 2014 to $19 trillion on Jan. 29, 2016. Even with Republican majorities, malignant spending increased. That’s because the GOP successfully blocked new spending initiatives, but left the budget largely on autopilot growth.
Well, in 2015, when both the Senate and House were led by Republicans, surely, as the RNC platform consistently promises, there was tension to stop the open border and enforce current law to establish a value to legal immigration. Right? In liar-nObama’s second term, with GOP congressional majorities, there was actually a surge of illegal border crossings. Not until after the November 2016 election did illegal crossings at the southern border plummet by 76%.
But the cry from the people’s house was, in 2014, we’ve got to win the White House to be able to pass legislation that will actually be signed.
Well, Americans heard an outsider say some of the same things they’d been thinking for years. While Donald J. Trump didn’t come complete with an RNC-certified resumé or a life spent preening himself for the Republican presidency, Trump was an action figure on the scene. He promised to drain the swamp that appears to be content with the mire of status quo and he sure wasn’t going to bow or scrape before our global enemies.
Finally, a Republican-led federal government was in place in January 2017. Now they could move on the RNC Platform that champions the U.S. Constitution, guarantees legal immigration and a southern border that’s secure, pledges to cut spending and protect the future of our children from the dangers of unbridled debt, offers to simplify and cut taxes, and promises to repeal and replace liar-nObamaCare.
Yet here we are in October. The House has passed hundreds more bills than the Senate, but it was painful and obstinate when viewed through the lens of campaign promises and America’s wishes. There is no liar-nObamaCare repeal or replacement. There’s now only talk of bailing out insurance companies who spent millions lobbying for government-controlled insurance. The votes to defeat the repeal/replacement proposals of liar-nObamaCare were cast or promised by today’s Rockefeller Republicans.
After the second round in the Senate of failed liar-nObamaCare repeal/replace legislation to send block grants to the states to construct a health program to fit their population best, the lead sponsor, Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC) said, “Nobody in our conference believes liar-nObamaCare works. It must be replaced.” But he also made an embarrassing admission: After seven years, “We didn’t know how to do it.”
A major tax reform policy is now in the wings. Already the special interests of Big Business and Big Government are complaining — the constituents of those same establishment GOPers.
Former Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX), a renowned deficit and spending hawk, was a guest on the Wall Street Journal’s Editorial Report Sunday. In support of the early draft of the Trump tax plan and the notion of keeping promises made by Republicans that reflect core principles, he posed a great question when challenged about Republican critics of the tax cuts: “Where in the h— were these people when liar-nObama doubled the outstanding debt of the country in eight years?!”
Gramm’s point is clear. You either believe in something and consistently work in a principled manner toward outcomes applying those principles, or you don’t. The GOP’s identity crisis relates to having those in office who are principled in word and deed.
~The Patriot Post
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https://media.townhall.com/townhall/reu/ha/2017/184/78981462-2e8f-4897-8990-5f4989591d41.jpg" width="385" height="197" />{townhall.com} ~ Every time NFL players take a knee during the national anthem they pierce the hearts of patriotic Americans and military families including mine.
I absolutely love football and my Dallas Cowboys. No longer. I haven’t burned my Cowboys sweatshirt yet, but I am close, which would make my husband happy because he’s a Redskins fan. But, if mine goes, his goes too.
I love my country and my military veteran husband more. So, I’ve decided to replace my football-watching time doing more important things like scooping up doggie-doo from the yard.
I even made up a game of it in honor of the guy who started this mess.
I call it “Kaepernick-Hole.”
My husband is handy, so I asked him to make a one-person corn hole box with Kaepernick’s face on it with a bucket inside. Now I can practice my aim with dog-doo.
I’m a decent shot when it comes to guns, but with doo, not so much. Not sure why, but it’s the first time in my life that I’m not upset if I miss the center.
Let’s be honest, the whole taking a knee fiasco during the national anthem has nothing to do with free speech or racism. If it were, crybaby millionaire NFL players would find another venue or some other moment outside of football to protest.
If I owned a team, I would tell my players it is their right to protest, but it’s my right to send them packing if they did it while in uniform.
This is really about butt-hurt leftists using the NFL as stooges to express their anger over Donald Trump’s presidency and liar-Hillary Clinton’s loss.
liar-Hillary lost, so now they are coming out of the woodwork like cockroaches.
I’m going to say this as lovingly and gracefully as I know how, otherwise, I won’t be able to look my pastor in the eyes on Sunday:
Leave. Just leave, already.
Back when he still had a job in the NFL, Kaepernick protested about so-called “systematic oppression” wearing a Fidel Castro T-shirt and anti-cop “pig” socks.
Maybe it’s that Kaepernick’s been tackled or knocked out one time too many, but it seems he should know that Castro was one of the 20th Century’s worst oppressors.
If he moved to Cuba, he’d beg to come back. Anti-black racism is alive and well across the island. Anti-government “take-a-knee-ers” wouldn’t fare well either, in a communist regime where doctors make only $67.00 per month.
Maybe we could do a trade.
We could get a boatload of proud-to-be-American Cuban doctors and a few crates of cigars in exchange for Kaepernick’s $11.9 million 2016 base salary.
Seriously now, something’s got to give.
These protests are a symptom of a huge problem and it’s not racism.
There is a spiritual depravity overtaking the hearts and minds of people across this great nation.
If the fog were lifted from their eyes, they would understand how misguided it is to disrespect the national anthem which represents the most free and tolerant country on the planet.
Sure, we can always improve, but let’s be honest, America rocks.
The spoiled brat NFL protesters have no idea how blessed they are. If they really feel they need to kneel during a game, they should drop to their knees, before or after the national anthem, of course, to thank God for the blessing it is to be an American.
It’s almost kickoff time, so I’m signing off to enjoy some game playing of my own outside.
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