It Is Not the Same GOP
by Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA)After Republicans suffered consecutive bruising defeats in 2006 and 2008, boastful Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee officials warned that Republicans faced a difficult decision: Go along with the sweeping agenda of the new administration, or suffer the disastrous consequences of taking on an enormously popular president in the 2010 elections.
Perhaps the GOP of 2005 would have taken the bait and swallowed the administration’s bad medicine. After all, Republicans during that period were guilty of spending too much and growing government too much, both of which would become hallmarks of the February 2009 stimulus plan and the loaded agenda that would follow. That GOP became a bloated, go-along to get-along body that forgot how to lead. We blew it, and we were rightfully fired by our bosses – the American people.
But the GOP in the House today is different. Very different. Led by a new generation of young and energetic leaders, we are committed to restoring the public’s trust in our ability to lead as responsible adults.
Let’s take a look at the last 16 months.
In the face of one-party Democratic rule, House Republicans learned fairly quickly that an election won on ‘change’ would result in a far more intrusive and expensive government. At the time, many political pundits joined the chorus of Democrats who warned that House Republicans faced political suicide if they didn’t support the President’s signature inaugural initiative – his stimulus plan. Yet we decided to fight. And we fought hard. The reason we were able to credibly oppose such a popular President was because we presented a much more responsible approach that would have created twice the jobs at half the cost of the eventual stimulus law that has failed to deliver as promised. A 178-seat minority isn’t going to win many legislative battles in the House. But it did prove sufficient to offer a clear contrast and provide the first glimpse of a Republican Party that had returned to its fiscally conservative roots.
From that moment, a revitalized House GOP dedicated itself to developing alternative solutions grounded in the fiscally responsible, small-government principles proven to work for our economy. On the stimulus, instead of pouring hundreds of billions down the rat holes of un-stimulative government programs, we proposed to give private-sector job creators an incentive to hire by exempting small businesses from 20 percent of their tax liability. On health care, instead of the budget-busting government takeover known as Obamacare, we provided solutions such as medical liability reform and purchasing health care across state lines which would lower costs while enabling families and patients to keep the care they have if they liked it. To create real jobs, we offered a “no cost Jobs plan” that would cut unemployment by approving lingering free-trade agreements and halting the deluge of ‘Obama tax increases.’ And on the budget, not only did we challenge President Obama to freeze spending at last year’s levels, but we offered cuts that would save taxpayers more than $375 billion.
We even challenged President Obama in a letter to help us force a vote in the House on the modest budget savings he proposed but which have been ignored by the Democrat majority. As has become routine, we have yet to receive a response.
Washington is always talking about the unlimited ways to increase spending. How about instead we start spending a lot more time talking about ways to cut expenditures and save money. That’s one reason why this Republican Conference adopted an earmark moratorium so we can finally start to fix a process that’s been broken for years. Could you imagine the Republican party of five years ago taking that step?
The point is that in each of these circumstances, we have stood up against an administration and a Pelosi-led Congress hell-bent on reorienting the role of government in America. While we may not have the numbers, our fight and conviction remains strong.
We understand that if our government is going to continue to spend and insert itself into the private economy the way that the Obama Administration and the Pelosi/Reid Congress has, then the America we know and love is in trouble. We will face steeper taxation, slower growth, higher unemployment and less economic opportunity for everyone. That may be a sacrifice Democrats are willing to stomach on their way to creating a European-style social welfare state. But for us it’s an unacceptable and radical departure from the American way.
America is a nation at a crossroads, and it is up to each of us to determine what kind of country we want to be. We must not leave our children a country more in debt and worse off than we found it, and I believe it is one of the biggest moral obligations of our time to act now to put a stop to what is happening in Washington. That means listening to the American people. It means spending less and saving more. It means pushing common-sense solutions that serve the national interest, not the special interests. And it means ensuring that our children have the same opportunity to achieve that we were given.
I am under no illusions – both parties have helped to create a debt that everyone knows is dangerously high. But only one of them is going to keep going down that path and taking our country with it. The other has learned its lesson and has reformed itself.
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I hope the GOP has indeed learned its lesson! The stuff going on now is beyond belief…and the people are finally waking up! Time to get serious and clean "house"! Hope Cantor and Ryan hold steady and keep fighting these wackos until we can make them disappear!
KEEP SAVING THE SHIP MR. CANTOR!
To the Editor:
Submarines have always fascinated me. Their role in the last century cannot be overstated. From the simple man powered submarines of the civil war to the USS Nautilus’s journey under the North Pole to the modern submarines that form a critical part of the US nuclear deterrent. As over engineered as these ships are, when a torpedo hits, decisions have to be made to save the ship. Sometimes those decisions have to be made under extreme stress, and the result of the orders leads to the death of fellow crew mates. As one space fills with water, pulling the ship inexorably to the bottom, a sailor in the dry space must close the hatch to save the ship.
The United States is analogous to a submarine wounded by enemy action. Instead of an enemy firing a torpedo, we, via all of our poor political leadership have fired one upon ourselves. The political classes collective record, how ever well intentioned, has lead us here, through massive spending, borrowing, and making promises to citizens that cannot be met. Character at a point of pressure is the most important asset a leader, officer, or soldier possesses. Why? Because sometimes it is necessary to close the hatch to save the ship. The question to my mind is which party possesses the capacity to do that now.
While the collusion of both parties are to blame for our sinking ship. It is the Republican party that is desperately trying to close the hatch and save the ship. The Republican party is standing against three pieces of legislation that will forever resign this nation to a continual decline and eventual ruin. The first is commonly understood to be “health care,” this legislation will forever alter a citizens relationship to their government. If it passes medical attention will become a right that must be met by force of law. As the saying goes, if you want to make something expensive, make it free. The failure of this solution to meeting the medical needs of people is deeply felt by those who lost loved ones because the English or the Canadian governments denied vital care. Liberal Democrats have another scheme to launch on the American people this one is called “Cap and Trade” – essentially this nightmare would allow the federal government to tax a citizen when they drive, breath or turn on the light switch. Kirsten Gillibrand has personally advocated for it in the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, I assume Senator Gillibrand expects that by creating the next Wall Street scam will lead to voluminous campaign contributions on the back of the American taxpayer. Finally, there is “Card Check,” this gem would eliminate the secret ballot from the process by which a business goes from being a non-union to a union shop. Thus, the Union leadership would be in a position to put massive pressure on those who voted “no.” Republicans have stood, and are standing against all of this – in fact on the “Cap and Trade” front Republicans have earned bipartisan opposition to it.
All the while the water is rushing into our ship and the choice must be made in nine months; will the citizens of this great nation choose to stand with the leadership of the liberal democratic party, that is trying to keep the hatch open, so we all go down, or will the American people choose to stand with the Republican party, that is trying to close the hatch? I have confidence that the American people are ready to not only support the Republican party, but help close the hatch and save the ship. America is ready to sacrifice all but our liberty and our economic freedom – this has, and will always be true, and has happened in the past, it is “We The People” leading the charge. Right now the only organized political party that has the capacity to close the hatch is the Republican party.
If Rep. Cantor ever starts sounding like Newt Gingrich, I'll know all is lost.
This is a tremendous challenge for our party and for our country. We are a big tent, but we must have common standards and a backbone. What I see, I like, just make sure not to pull the rug out from under us again.
It's not a new GOP until we get better leaders. True, Boehner and McConnell have been successful in keeping everyone on the same page, but they're too wishy-washy. And they've been in DC for too long. I want fresh faces who can get the message out above all the noise that is in the media today. Where is the GOP with calling for the CBC to admit the truth? Why has the GOP not pressured the Dems to have corrupt, law breaking politicians resign? Rangel, Schumer, Frank, Dodd should've been gone long ago. Instead, they're chairing committees.
When the GOP finally grows a pair, they can give me a call. Until that happens, not a penny from me.
The difference between the Republican party of 2005 and the Republican party of today is that your party was in the White House then, but is not now. In 2005 you rubber-stamped everything the President did. Now you oppose everything the President does. There is no principle involved whatsoever.
Right now you are opposing every effort at financial reform. Why? Because the President is not of your party.
I hope it is not the same GOP!
What we need is 8 years of a president like Ronald Reagan with a congress like the Newt Gingrich Contract with America. That would start to set things right and make a good start.
Reagan had to deal with a democratic congress. Gingrich had a democratic Clinton president.
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I think there are some good Republicans–but too many of them (just like the Democrats) have been tainted by the power and money in Washington.
On a side note: Humorous cartoon on what students found in a Harvard dumpster athttp://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/category/obama/
The American people haven't finished the job yet , We still need to remove the R.I.N.O's and the Liberals…
Donate your money to individual candidates and PAC's and NOT the R.N.C….The R.N.C. has proven to be untrustworthy with the peoples money and have spent lavishly on unnecessary things ..
(too numerous to list )
I have to disagree/when you can "show me" something good this president has accomplished, I will listen!
Thanks for your thoughts Mr. Cantor. John Boehner has been around since we first flipped the congress in ’94, and was a big part of Newt’s “Contract with America.” When they came up against Bill Clinton and his triangleization strategy and faced a government shutdown, the Republicans gave way to Clinton, and Republicans were given the blame. This was a mistake, they should have stood their ground, the American people would have had your backs. The press would have talked ugly about you…who cares By the time you were kicked out of the leadership in 2006, you were bludgeoned lap dogs and growth of government was the excepted norm. If we give you the power again, you’d better keep your nerve, and serve your constituency, or the next change your not gonna like!
I'll be the first to cheer when a party says "NO" to something that should be resisted, but we also need to be told early and often about the GOP's alternatives! Big Government readers know you've got 'em, but many elements of the old media would rather we didn't.
Keep up the good fight!
Although I backed Michael Steele as the RNC chair, I'm not so sure anymore that he was a good choice. I remember him saying in a Fox News interview (when he was running) that "if you want to act like a liberal, then leave the GOP and join the Democrats". Since being elected, I've seen Michael act like a liberal more than once or twice…..his most infamous liberal-acting was the congressional race in upstate NY where he backed old DeDe (who later backed the Democrat) for the seat. Now all of the discretionary spending in the RNC (much of it his) is questionable. Eric….if the GOP is going to clean house and get rid of the RINOs, perhaps they need to take another look at Steele.
How many times have we heard the GOP claim to have "seen the light"?
So long as the GOP is controlled by agents for Israel like you, the GOP will be wrong for America.
I'm sure it has nothing to do with public outrage.
Bravo to you, Rep. Cantor!
After Obama was elected Socialist-in-Chief, I fully expected the Republicans to pull their usual stunt and start compromising to give Obama 50% of what he wants now while knowing full well he'd come back for the other 50% later. But to my astonishment, that did not happen!
So I'm prepared to give the party the benefit of the doubt — I've never seen the Republicans stand on principle before, but will be overjoyed to support you if you continue to do so now.
It is crucial to get Obamacare repealed. Even if Obama vetoes the repeal, that will only serve to prove his intent to ram his agenda down our throats whether we like it or not — which will surely doom him in 2012.
The most crucial thing for Republicans in 2012 is to not permit Mit Romney or anyone similar to get anywhere near the Republican nomination — it will be death for the party to nominate any "conventional" Republican who has backed big government statism in the past.
So hang tough representative Cantor! Don’t let your fellow Republicans compromise their way to another defeat.
I can't add anything to what these good people have already said except, we need to
know there is a difference between the Dems and R's….In too many cases, you can't
tell if the politician is R or D unless the initial is behind their name…….
There is no principle involved whatsoever.
Dream on, Voice of Unreason. The American people are marching in protest in the streets like never before. And that's because there is definitely a principle involved: our right to run our own lives VERSUS the Obama adminstration's desire to stamp out our liberty to do so.
The Republicans have noticed and are paying attention. Obama and the Democrats and their useful idiot supporters are in complete denial and desperate to pretend that it doesn't mean what it means.
You will find out in November.
amen, I noticed how much weight Newt has lost when he was on Hannity last week. That
can only mean one thing, he's running, again. Reminds me of the energizer bunny, geez
someone tackle him and take out his batteries.
Nice, Joe.
Sir,
Do not think that because Democrats have offered up something that Republicans are saying "no" to, means that Republicans get to offer of alternatives.
The Republican party has fallen for the fallacy that "something has to be done" by the DC crowd, how about this minuscule idea…
Say no, and leave it there. Stay out of our lives, our homes, and our bank accounts. We don't need alternatives, compromises, or BS from politicians that think they have to do something. I would rather pay you guys to sit on your butts and get nothing done in DC, than pay for you guys to vote, so I can pay some more.
Regards,
We need ISRAEL , Please see the bigger picture.
I do agree that the GOP hasn't seen the " Lights through the trees " (orsomethinglikethat)
Michael, great comment…I fully agree!!
The single dynamic of replacing those OLD R faces you mentioned with younger, fresher, new
ones could make the difference we need, IMO.
Sure you oppose the Dems now. That's great, but not really impressive. You're just doing what you were elected to do; support and defend the Constitution and the US from all enemies foreign and domestic (elected or otherwise). Stop supporting squishes like Lindsey Grahm and John McCain. Your word would carry more weight if you cleaned your own house first. Whatever the reason for your 'awakening', it appears to be nothing more than politically expedient to conservatives who are tired of being screwed. Look at John McCain. He's a tough conservative only during election season. Then he goes right back to being a liberal's darling maverick as soon as he wins. And there's a reason conservatives call him Lindsey Grahmnesty. There's a war going on at our southern border, American citizens are being killed, cities are being overrun, and this jerk wants to hold hands and sing campfire songs.
"GOP is controlled by agents for Israel "
Huh? That is one crazy statement, are you an anti-semite / racist?
Dear Lefty:
You had a fine complaint going there, but then you used the phrase "agents for Israel." This is a classic red flag that lets the rest of us know you're a crazy person. Nice try, though!
Most of us may be fiscally conservative but many of us are also socially liberal. You have still yet to prove to us that you have changed on those issues.
If you want to prove yourself to everyone you need to stop being reactionary. The only legislation I see being produce by the republicans are in response to something the majority is already doing. All that ends up happening is a gigantic pissing match. You need to put forth something that is uniquely different that shows that the party has changed. Introduce something new an unexpected.
Just because it's sewn on your Jammie's doesn't mean your the " Voice of Reason"…
Which Loony Toon character will you be tomorrow ?
Just as long as these "new" Republicans realize that it we the TEA PARTY that has given them new life,……….
and do not back to their typical hemming and hawing,…… as well as allowing the Democrats to,……………
define the issue,. like all these old fossils (i.e. McConnell) have done.
WE have had enough of how Democrats have been able to OUTSMART,..Republicans.
That farce yesterday at the Goldman /Sachs hearings sure made the Dems look like they have the people's interest at heart.
The rhetoric on the part of those banking idiots played right into Obama's hand.
DAMN IT ! isn't there at least one smart Republican that can see this shit coming.
Exactly correct on choosing candidates or PACs Jim Demint has a good conservative PAC here in SC
Totally agree with you on all points.
I would also like to add Mr. Cantor, and God I hope you read these suggestions and take them to heart, that the GOP HAS solutions and presents them BEFORE the Obots start trashing. Call press conferences BEFORE Barry gets to the mike.
BBBBBBBBbbbbbbbbbb SSSSSSSSSsssss Thats like trying to tell a vampire to not suck blood. Actually that fits either party, if you closed your eyes you couldn't tell one from another.
VOTE INDEPENDENT (NOT I-PARTY) ONLY, STEP OUT FROM THE CORRUPT NORM.
BS, Liberal democrats have yet to give up their ATM and retirement jobs from Fannie/Freddie – the reason everyone got screwed in the first place! When the commie democrats shut down that con game they can begin to make me believe that they give one f-ing hoot about "financial reform." And another thing – Parties, as well as people, sometimes need leadership, "We The People" are finally off our asses and leading BOTH parties! One is listening the other is not. Care to guess which is which?
Representative Cantor, although I applaud the Republicans for standing firm against Obamacare, I am concerned that despite your protestations, the Democrats have in fact pulled you left. When I look at your proposed health reform, I see where you set regulations on insurance industries to cover pre-existing conditions and you set aside funds for high risk pools and so forth. In other words, the left claimed there was a problem, and instead of slapping down the claim as ridiculous, you bought into their whining and then you proposed to solve it in pretty much the same way that Democrats do, with more regulations.
I look at the Republican energy bill, and although there are some good things in there, all I see is that bill subsidizes a bunch of "green energy" projects. In other words, the left claimed there was a problem, and instead of slapping down the claim as ridiculous, you bought into their whining, and then you proposed to solve it in pretty much the same way that Democrats do, with more redistribution of wealth to the green industry.
Not until I see investigations and trials will I believe that the republican party has changed. If they let all the corruption that has occured in the last year go un-investigated then They will never get my vote. Independent till I see extreme change.
Nonsense. The Repubs have agreed to about 3/4 of the provisions of the finance bill, which are mostly unobjectionable and arguably necessary. The problem, of course, is that the practitioners of Standesozialismus just have to have their turds floating in the punchbowl, even though the GOP has been negotiating in good faith to reach an acceptable bipartisan compromise. The Dems' version of "bipartisanship", however, is as always "shut up and do as you're told," and are convinced that they can demagogue through dreadful provisions like proxy access by smearing the Repubs as 'tools of Wall Street' (never mind that this bill was made-to-order for Dodd's and Obama's and Geithner's chums at Goldman Sachs).
Goose-step much?
Yes, he's a Jew hater/baiter and he pulls this BS daily.
"At the time many political PUNDITS joined the chorus of Democrats who warned that House Republicans
faced political suicide……….."
See, Rep Cantor, right there in a nutshell is the Republican's problem, tell me Sir how many votes does a
political pundit have? We Conservatives had quit listening to pundits 10 years ago. It was the only way we
could survive their demonization of GWB, Don Rumsfeld, Gen Petraeus, et al.
That you still care what a 'pundit' thinks, raises serious questions in my mind of your true earnestness.
Damn the pundits to HELL, they have demonstrated their traitorous nature, over and over.
Sir, I have a new word for you, I suggest you learn to use it: CON-SER-VA-TIVE ! I'm sure you have an aide
who will be excited to look up its definition and report to you.
Republican finance reform plan , it's 20 pages and all over the internet , fire up the view master and seek it out…
I like it with one caveat, “6 months” too choose to close the hatch.
I hope to God your right Joe.
We certainly are at a cross roads.
Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law had this to say and in light of these facts I wonder if there are enough of us to make the needed change.
Number of States won by: Obama: 19 McCain: 29
Square miles of land won by: Obama: 580,000 McCain: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Obama: 127 million McCain: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Obama: 13.2 McCain: 2.1
Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country.
Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income tenements and living off various forms of government welfare…"
" forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.
If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegals and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.
"The most crucial thing for Republicans in 2012 is to not permit Mitt Romney or anyone similar to get anywhere near the Republican nomination"
Michael, I understand this thought. But I have to ask, do you have anyone in mind for the nomination? I know there are great Conservative people in and out of office right now. But we need to have someone with incredible depth and Conservative credentials, plus the ability to speak and to lead and to represent the Patriot movement in America. That's a lot to ask for, but we are going to need one hell of a candidate in order to defeat the corrupt political machine that is the obama administration and democrat party.
Cantor, I'm one of your constituents. I have been very unhappy with the republicans performance, and your performance, of late. I do see some republicans changing in the right direction, but others, I'm still convinced, are in the wrong direction. I like this post and I like what you are now saying. I will consider supporting you as long as you step up! Step up and continue fighting for the right thing! Do NOT cave in to NObama's sociaIist agenda! Speak up against him! Call him out when he calls for women, Latinos and African Americans… instead of simply 'All Americans'. Call out hte CBC for unethical racial accusations! Start living the righteous life and represent us. We don't want 'middle of the road', we want conservatism! Real, true conservatism. And it must be un-faltering.
If you maintain a conservative record and prove that you are not positioning yourself to simply be re-elected then you will get my support. As a member of the Libertarian party myself, you will get our support. As a Tea Party supporter, I'm sure you will get their support as well.
If the Republican party remains focused on the core principals of fiscal responsibility and smaller government they will succeed. I have followed the pattern of Republican wins and losses my entire adult voting life. The Republicans typically gain power following a period of Democrat induced financial difficulty or fundamental change that is out of line with the wishes of the voting public. The Republicans will then squander their advantage by losing sight of what got them to the dance. In the case of Newt, they ran afoul of the Contract With America. I can only hope that if the Republicans do end the Democratic majority this fall, they realize why they were elected and stay focused on righting the wrongs.
Shut up you jew hatin NAZI!!!
AMEN! Gingrich has to go and stay gone. Kiss of death, unelectable, polarizing, and a RINO when money is on the table. His has become a Gingrisaurus.
We hold the countryside that feeds and defends the cities, we have to save them by pouring cold water on their misguided philosophy.
They will never grow them back. Having a eunuch like Michael "Tin Man" Steele pillaging the coffers, squandering the soiled image and enriching himself like a gorged hog at the trough makes a laughable disgrace of conservatism. I would be ashamed to be called a Republican, in its present model.
Oh, and how about Newt's nasal, trebly voice? And his overuse of the introductory phrase, "Quite frankly…"
I've found that when someone prefaces his remarks with "guite frankly," there is often a very un-frank turn in the material which follows.
I don't trust Newt one damned bit. (I do recognize and appreciate his past contributions, though, particularly as the point guy in 1993 and 1994.)
Hopefully Cantor will read these comments and take them to heart.
Myself, we have to elect Republicans in 2010 because that is the only alternative to what we have now which is absolutely ruinous. A GOP majority in the House maybe (and only just maybe) will slow the bleeding.
If, please God, that happens, my expectation is that the newly installed GOP will immediately: let a thousand earmarks bloom, start lining up taxpayer-funded "fact finding" junkets to trouble spots like St. Croix and Monaco, work diligently to reserve the choicest tee-times and restaurant dates. You get the picture.
I trust the GOP about as far as I can throw an anvil, but we must not delude ourselves into thinking we have any alternative. Staying home or quixotic third-party campaigns will be suicidal for the country in 2010.
Agreeing for something that your going to vote against, is not agreeing, it is posturing. Both sides do this crap. That is why we have primaries and elections. We need it straight and we need it fast, time is running out.
Spoken like a true Democrat.You swallowed the Dems propaganda.
Financial reform, my WFA!
Read up on it, Voice. It'll make you lose your voice, when you see how your heroes are coddling the very people who've financially raped us again and again.
Quite simply, the Dim-bulb-o-crats are worse than useless, while the Republicans are merely useless. That makes the Republicans a hell of a lot better, but sitll not up to the job.
Until we get a government full of public servants and statesmen instead of career politicians we will never be what we can be or were. A politician that is looking out for himself will take this country toward socialism as well, just slower. By the way the Democratic party is gone, it's now the Communist party, they just haven't changed their name yet.
Really? From a search of "cantor" and "aipac" I found all sorts of proof. http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/0...
Newt is perfectly entitled to a position of elder statesman, but I fear he will not be satisfied
with such a role. Rather he seems to be pushing himself and his wife forward, for what
reason, I ask? We know the answer.
Sounds like the Republicans are looking for a back room deal, blocking this from reaching the senate floor where it can be debated in public.
Talk about supporting fat cats on wall street and contempt for the people!
Can you name one time in which they supported Americans over Israels? Ever?
Do you know that the US guarantees Israel's oil supply even if it means shortages for Americans?
Mr Obama is not of my party, is not of my America, is doing PERMANANT damage to America, dislikes the American people, adores Muslims, hates America. OPEN TOUR EYES !!!!!!!!!!!!!
When will words like duty, honor, integrity, justice, fidelity and decency return? Who ever personafies these qualities will lead and I will follow.
Ummmm, I don't think so.
Why are our choice ALWAYS "the lesser of two evils"? Why can't we find a Ronald Reagan, who stood resolute and did the work that needed to be done? He fired all the air traffic control people who in the name of the union, didn't show up for work.
I will stop right there as an example. Can you imagine right now, a politician doing that?
Ahh Republicans– thou art NOT conservative!
This coming election we the people will make bleed equally, a Dem or a Repub if they are liberals all!
I'm afraid I don't see a GOP willing to go far enough. That's why I think out of the Tea Party will form for the first time in this country a viable 3rd Party or we will take over the GOP and ensure there is no going back to the "bad" GOP.
I would believe Rep. Cantor if this hasn't happened before. I call out to the GOP, adopt the Tea Party lock stock and barrel and you will not only take back Congress, you won't be in danger of becoming the "bad" GOP again.
The Dim-bulb-o-crats are the true supporters of the fat cats on Wall Street, showing the ultimate contempt for the people. I hope you're sitting down, because you don't have a leg to stand on in this argument.
Read up on it. The information is readily available.
In one way I agree with you, Andrew. In another I think there is PLENTY that a new Republican Party can do for us from Washington. I would love to see the Republicans begin the work of:
1. Deconstructing the overreach of the federal government
2. Dissolving federal bureaucracies
3. Transferring regulatory authority in most areas back to the States
4. Replacing the "progressive" income tax with a Fair or Flat Tax
5. Winding down unnecessary foreign entanglements
6. Securing our borders and enforcing immigration laws
There's more, but you can see that there is plenty that we can ask the Republican Party to do for us.
Sorry…Not convinced: Rhino’s, Red Herrings, and Straw men. Oh my.
I guess there's a reason it's called the 'grand OLD party'.
All that has to happen for the Dems to claim victory is for Newt to run. The MSM will pick him as the golden boy (as they did for McCain), and then all the old news about ethics violations will be dug up. Newt is death for conservativism in November.
Everyone's a fiscal conservative when they're not in power.
I will NOT give to the RNC or the Republican Senatorial Committee, but I am giving (more than if I only gave to the RNC) to individual candidates. Michael Steele needs to go. John Cornyn (my own senator) needs to define what he really believes in before I will give him my support to promote candidates.
Now, THAT was funny as hell.
Eric,
You've made a good start, but please….stop asking for credit for doing what you should have been doing all along. Here, I'll help you: The term you're looking for is "across the board budget cuts."
That's what interests me. Anything else makes you sound like a crackhead begging for a nickel.
Thanks,
Baal
Rep Cantor – FILIBUSTER EVERYTHING UNTIL NOVEMBER!!!
NO NEW LAWS. NO AMNESTY. NO NOTHING. GIVE CHAIRMAN ZERO NADA!!!
I can see November from my house!
Good comment.
We definitely need a conservative leader, one who'll energize us all, while speaking the unvarnished truth to the corrupt (morally bankrupt) Dim-bulb-o-crats. I'm just thinking Newt's not the answer.
The GOP needs to stay the course, as it has since Obama took office. I personally think every effort by the GOP is being made to show their bell has been rung and they finally understand it is "We The People" they need to listen to. Stay fiscally conservative, offer solutions (that unfortunately this current administration has no desire to even consider), hold the fort and keep the pigs at bay until we can vote out these despicable Senators and Representatives that call themselves Democrats and Republicans that are nothing but RINO's. We will Remember in November!
I salute you, Representative Cantor! Please hold the fort until November.
The Proof is in the Puddin! Show me with actions. Wash DC words mean nothing to me anymore,
Then there's that efeminate gadfly, Lindsay Graham, Who never had any in the first place, and that two-headed snake McCain who can't wait to slither into bed with the Progressives. The list goes on and on…
Isnt that the exact same thing democrats did for the healthcare bill and other bills, just block everyone out, tons of backroom deals, and they have alot of support from fat cats on wall street.
Tell me this, if you get on republicans for doing that, you should do the same to the dems as well. If not, then your showing and proving how many of you guys on the left have a double standard.
The deal with the big tent is that we can't continue to expand it to try to convince more people to come in. It's big enough, with enough room to accommodate any who wish to enter. If we keep adding to our bedrock principles we risk trying to become all things for all people (which is a Dim strategy), and not having any principles at all, as the ones we add tend to negate or confuse our existing ones.
That becomes our job, holding their feet to the fire. We simply can’t go back too our businesses, family, or life in general. Too correct our listing ship of state will require diligence through several election cycles.
Collins, Snowe, Lindsey Graham, McCain, McConnell . . . yea, they've really changed. Even the newly elected Scott Brown is nothing but a RINO.
Yep, that's exactly what Dodd and Obama are doing. Don't you understand
that Goldman and Citicorp are lobbying enthusiastically for this thing,
because it will crush out the smaller banks?
Amazing how gullible you lot are, believing Obama's public populist
denunciations of Wall Street while (barely) in private they make mad,
passionate love to one another. Leftists HATE main Strett; they dspise
small and medium-sized business because they can't control it, and it
doesn't pony up the hundreds of millions in campaign cash their beloved
fat-cats do.
If you can't see the loving ties that bind the Dems and the fattest of the
cats, you're blinder than Helen Keller.
You're wasting your time. These people don't want to hear facts and logic. They want to hear vague comments about "freedom" and "liberty" and GOP cheerleading. Notice that not one person has responded factually to anything you have said and have simply called you names.
Cantor's article is just more empty words designed to increase campaign donations.
While I readily agree, that it is our responsibility as the electorate to hold our representatives accountable, and ensure that they are in deed representing us, I was stating that it is my sincere hope that the Republicans do not lose the plot. In other words, dance with the ones that brought them. I am encouraged by the genuine interest in politics that current have spurred in Joe Voter, and can only hope that it is not taken over by apathy once the general public deems we are out of the woods.
Newt needs to remain a pundit. His speeches are solid and his insight is interesting. But he proved while in control of Congress that he can't be totally trusted in power to hold the line. Everyone has their role in this struggle, and if you don't bubble to the top naturally, it wasn't meant to be. Eric Cantor is a congressman, Rush Limbaugh is a pundit, and Newt Gingrich is a pundit.
To Eric Cantor: Prove to me that the Republicans have changed. I know you aren't responsible for those in the Senate, but they still don't seem to get it. Lindsay Graham is selling us out on the "energy" bill. John McCain made a fool of himself at the Goldman Sachs hearings by acting as though he thought Goldman should be doing charitable work to help poor, struggling community banks in his state when it was the failure of Congress to deal with the politically-motivated market manipulation of the Democrats through Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Community Reinvestment Act which precipitated the economic meltdown in the real estate market.
There is little evidence that Republicans plan to fight off the political demagoguery which is being used as cover for the harmful financial industry "reforms". Just say NO! If any reforms are needed, take the matter up AFTER November, after voters have a chance to respond now that they perceive the lies they were fed by the Obama regime in 2008. The GOP still needs to clean out a lot of "leaders" who seem to think that it is their job to just propose different "big goveernment" ideas, rather than to stand up for limited government. Prove that you really represent us.
still to many rinos left i still want none of the above on ballot
Can we all just drop the term "big tent?" I'd like conservatives to promote principles and policies consistent with them. Let the "tent" fall where it may.
Yep, leave the tents and caves to the Taliban.
Listen to some of the stuff that comes out his mouth, he speaks RINO.
Has many ANSWERS,………. but he is totally not the ANSWER
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God Bless America
You’re not going to start a fire storm today with that logic. Buuuut……..
“…the Democrats have in fact pulled you left”
Maybe….but the nations political default setting, because of the politically uneducated populace, and the lefts monopoly in media and pop culture will (for now) revert to progressivism/socialism.
Uninformed people will pick the side they perceive is the side most people are on, period.
Hey… if Jon Stewart is a lefty and most of my friends like Jon Stewart, then we must be lefties too.
The Republicant party is apparently sailing just as rudderless and illogical.
I had to find something wrong with your post. It’s my default setting
Unfortunately, the Republican Party has become a "big government" bureaucracy with a primary focus on the perpetuation of its own power and funding as an organization. It should be the channel or social network which effectively connects a national matrix of individual voters at the grassroots precinct level to the public servants who represent their interests. Instead of listening to voters, it has become primarily an instrument for winning or losing elections while pushing a top-down agenda of the "leaders", without much real regard for voters between elections. It should be the channel for greater accountability to voters between elections, and help to preserve the limited role, limited intrusion, and limited cost of government in our lives.
I'll believe it when I see it. I hope to see it SOON!
There is no way that the average citizen who watches the alphabet channels is ever going to hear anything positive coming out of the GOP. The so called "pissing match" you talk about, is there for people like you (moderates) to have something to complain about. Nearly everyone calls themselves "fiscally conservative" as it sounds like they are concerned about government waste.
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