For the good order and survival of the party as a grass roots entity the Republican leadership in Congress and at the Party’s headquarters in Washington D.C. should resign.
Speaker John Boehner has advanced major bills that were opposed by a majority of Republicans and passed the House primarily with Democratic votes, most recently and most egregiously the Department of Homeland Security funding bill which is devoid of any restriction on Obama’s “lawless and unconstitutional acts” (Speaker Boehner’s words). Speaker Boehner is fully aware that given the vagaries of the judicial process no court can be depended on to agree to curtail Obama’s usurpations.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s has failed miserably to show leadership using the tools available to him to help protect the Constitution of the United States and the American people from Obama’s harmful and unlawful acts. His vow last spring to “crush” the TEA Party, a key element of any hope to sustain the Republican Party as a grassroots entity, was profoundly divisive and harmful to Republican interests.
These leaders have betrayed the voters who responded to the Republican establishment’s call to elect a GOP majority in return for an all out effort to block recent and future illegal, unconstitutional actions by the Obama administration.
They have demonstrated extraordinary incompetence, or willful deception, or both in failing to develop and implement an effective strategy to insure the permanent suspension of the unconstitutional executive action providing amnesty to 5 million plus illegal immigrants. The leadership had three months to prepare for the principal commitment it made in order to secure the decisive conservative/libertarian vote, knowing precisely the nature and method of the opposition’s strategy to sustain this action. The utter failure to develop, much less mount an effective strategy indicates both gross incompetence and abject deceit.
True conservatives in both chambers must call for their leadership’s immediate resignation in the face of an overwhelming “no confidence” sentiment on the part of their electorate, or insure the Party’s abject defeat in 2016 and, likely, for many elections in the future.
Party leadership in Washington has ignored the implications of such a dearth of legislative leadership taking no effective voice to them to honor their commitments or aggressively protect the party brand by which they induced people to vote for Republicans. They have failed to take seriously the 2014 Republican Platform which states
The times call for trustworthy leadership and honest talk about the challenges we face. Our nation and our people cannot afford the status quo. We must begin anew, with profound changes in the way government operates; the way it budgets, taxes, and regulates. . . .
As we embark upon this critical mission, we are not without guidance. We possess an owner’s manual: the Constitution of the United States, the greatest political document ever written. That sacred document shows us the path forward. Trust the people. Limit government. Respect federalism. Guarantee opportunity, not outcomes. Adhere to the rule of law. Reaffirm that our rights come from God, are protected by government, and that the only just government is one that truly governs with the consent of the governed. . . .
How can current leadership pretend to be living up to this if they desire that the Republican Party be taken seriously by voters?
Republican grassroots are constantly being contacted by representatives of the Republican National Committee, the various state and local party apparatuses and their legislative entities, the Republican Senatorial Committee and the Republican Congressional Committee, still promising the same things. Why subject the paid and volunteer callers to the growing disbelief in the integrity of the Republican message because of the identification with current leadership’s hapless countenances or association with cheap labor interests like the Chamber of Commerce and other special interests operating to the detriment of grassroots Republicans?
The editors of Veritaspac.com
I have stopped giving the donation seekers an earful. It does nothing but raise my blood pressure to yell at them and it ain’t their fault. The only thing this leadership has done that even approaches testicular fortitude was inviting Bibi and holding firm on that invitation. Unfortunately, they will have drawn no lessons in leadership from that visit.
why? because they are not John Birch-enough? don’t want to overturn Voting Rights Act, start new wars, end Medicare? the GOP had a gem, Michael Steele, but …no.
Of course the GOP leadership should step down. BUT….that would require introspection and integrity……virtues which are in short supply in the GOP leadership !
Entrenched GOP ‘leaders’ are more like DEMS than conservatives .
I no longer contribute to the Repubs with time, energy or donations.
yes, the GOP as a whole has shifted towards extremism, with so many not ready 4 prime time Tea Partyettes, out to nullify civil & voting rights. West, King, Bachman, etc. are sincere but are nutcases, not worthy of their positions. plus, we have had Cantor and his blue collar devastation program, established 01-20-09 and Boehner, who on one hand says he will never compromise then compromises…and THEN sues the President.
Tea party “out to nullify civil and voting rights”
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Sooooooooo disappointed in the Republicans. Giving the power to the worst President in history. PEOPLE are so stupid. NO MORE a Republican. Done with the worms in Washington. LETS form a party with a backbone. I call them lots of names, but can’t repeat them here. They should hear me yelling at them. HOW MUCH MONEY DID THEY GET PAID TO SAY “YES Sir”? They must be in chains.
explain why Obama is “worse” than Bush II okay? 🙂 the dude who gave us 2 unfunded wars, one hoaxed; 10.6 trillion dollar debt? thanks.
Still waiting for explanation of tea party “out to nullify civil and voting rights”
We have never been in much of a shooting war that was not funded by borrowing.Freedom and threats and stopping oppression sometimes requires that. You do realize national debt under Obama programs continues to soar. Bush dug a hole but Obama owns it now. And by the way the deficit spending Bush dug including the war on terrorism were voted for by Democrats as well. The tax cuts Bush championed resulted in increased federal income. Obama has squandered the investment made in freedom. The real cost of war has to also consider the cost of not fighting it.
look it h*ll up. THe KOchs bankrolled the Voter Suppression movement and used the TP as a front group. The idea was to ADD an unnecessary ID (photo ID), which would impact those without cars, creating confusion and hardship, as in getting to a DMV to pay about 30 dollars and wait weeks for the arrival of the additional ID. idea was to target GOP-perceived DEm. voters more likely to not own a car, like the very poor and students, especially in swing states. besides adding the photo ID, things like early voting, Church buses to election centers, etc. were curtailed. ywes, the TP, funded by the Kochs-AFP, is a continuation of the Birch agenda, as Daddy KOch was a FOUNDING member of the JB Society, which wanted to go back to allowing retailers to deny access to any ethnicity they wanted, for schools to do the same. They called Eisenhower a Communist the same way they call Obama ….worse. ok, little fellerz? 🙂
Tea Party was a grassroots response to Rick Santelli’s on air reaction to 2009 stimulus bill. Fiscal issues are the foundation of the movement.
What you consider voter suppression is considered common sense voter policy by a large majority of citizens, including the Kochs.
Voter turnout among blacks in Georgia is up since ID law was enacted.
Texas included a free ID card for those without and had scant requests.
TP grassroots? my *ss!!! they are a construct of the Koch Brothers and Rupert Murdoch. Designed to bring back the JB Society, which had Daddy Koch as a co-founder.
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”
DanielPatrick Moynihan
so the TP *is* grassroots? ok, give me one *tiny* speck of evidence.
While I am not tiny, I was involved in the first tea party in my area.
Not a Koch or Murdoch or any of their organizations took part in the event.