The GOP Congressional Leadership’s real strategy: The “Play Fight”
There is a column which every conservative and Republican voter should read. In my opinion, it presents the most convincing case for one of three things to happen between now and the presidential election of 2016:
1) Rid the GOP congressional caucus of the entire current leadership team, immediately, or,
2) A serious effort to form a third political party must be undertaken and aimed at the 2016 elections, or,
3) All Republicans should sit out the 2016 elections with the exception of votes for the relative few incumbents or candidates who will credibly perform responsibly in office…and that is apparently, very few.
After you have this piece by Andrew McCarthy, if you do not believe one or more of these alternatives is (are) necessary or vital, there is a good chance that you have been anesthetized by the GOP establishment or you are ill- or un-informed as to what our so-called leaders are doing which will inevitably lead to the destruction, forever, of the United States as it is known.
Of the three alternatives cited above, #1 is the most effective and perhaps the most doable; #2 is the most improbable in term s of its likelihood of success; #3 may be the most unwise but possibly the most likely to happen.
While it ( #3) can be rather accurately characterized as “suicidally petulant and grossly counterproductive, it is also, at this time, almost demanded by events. #1, while possibly the most doable, would be possible only if an overwhelming number of conservatives bombard their congressman and senators with the demand for doing so. (My inclination? Good luck with that!)
In his column, Andrew McCarthy is by no means suggesting the #3 alternative, nor for that matter, any of the three. He is pointing out that there is a strategy developed by and being employed by the GOP’s congressional leadership led by Majority Leader McConnell and Speaker Boehner which has already proven to be incredibly destructive and in complete defiance of the wishes of the electorate which put them in their current roles, and an abject betrayal of the promises made to voters in two consecutive mid-term elections.
To anyone who has been paying even moderate attention to recent events on both the domestic and foreign affairs stages, McCarthy’s exposure of the strategy these two guys have created and executed in order to allow Obama’s complete agenda to go forward while at the same time hoping to make it appear that they have “fought it ‘tooth and nail’”, will infuriate you.
We urge you to go to the article The GOP Congressional Leadership’ most effective strategy: The “Play Fight” read McCarthy’s excellent expose’ and forward it to as many of your contacts as possible. Excerpt below:
“Since the president is currently Obama, the people who elected Republicans obviously wanted them to stop things from getting done. The resulting rage of its increasingly estranged base puts the GOP in a quandary: Republicans must avoid being seen as supporting the things they are getting done — i.e., the Obama agenda.
So some sleight-of-hand is in order, some schemes to grease the wheels for Obama while posing as staunch Obama opponents. Among the most pernicious is “Surrender . . . Then Play-Fight.” It is a legislative template for obscuring the GOP’s enabling of Obama, a ruse designed to make it appear that the president is getting his way with only minority support (i.e., his hardcore Democratic supporters), while Republicans stridently condemn what they have actually voted to allow.
Obama is delighted to play along, because he gets what he wants.
As I’ve pointed out before, they did not make up the Corker scheme on the fly. Senators Corker and Cardin used the template designed by Senator McConnell, his Democratic counterpart Harry Reid (D., Nev.), and House speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) to increase the debt ceiling. Here is how the Surrender . . . Then Play-Fight razzmatazz works — and follow closely or you’ll lose track of where Republicans are hiding the ball.
Step one: Obama wants to do something bad. The Republicans decide to let him do it, while appearing to oppose it. Why? Maybe because they secretly agree that it should be done but know it will infuriate their base (think: raising the debt ceiling). Maybe because, although Republicans know it is bad, they are less concerned about the danger to the country than about the media-Left wrath that will rain down on them if they block Obama.
Making a calculation rooted in politics rather than statesmanship, they conclude: It’s better to let the bad thing happen than be blamed for “gridlock,” “partisanship,” etc.; plus, if they can pull off the “enable Obama while ostensibly opposing Obama” trick, their empty rhetorical opposition will poll better than taking real steps to stop the president (think: Iran deal). Step two: The legislative template — Surrender . . . Then Play-Fight — is deployed.
DLH
