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Surrender in the face of victory.
There was a time when we could count on Republicans in Washington to stand for conviction and stand for their beliefs. There was a time when Republicans in Washington could be counted on to stand for America.
For a majority of Republicans in Washington, that day has long since past.
In Washington, the unthinkable is happening. What is going on?
Republicans in Washington are abandoning their traditional opposition to new taxes and are embracing the left’s call for more new taxes.
In Washington, Republicans are disavowing their previous support of Americans for Tax Reform’s pledge not to raise taxes. Republicans who should know better, like Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn, are willing to “accept tax hikes.”
This is coming from the Party of Reagan!
The label conservatives used to hang on the Democrats is that they are the party of Tax and Spend. Now the Republicans want to join them in going off of the cliff.
By accepting the Super Committee deal, John Boehner and Mitch McConnell have painted the Republicans into a corner. The Republicans could stand on principle and fight but they are not.
They would rather surrender than fight.
If the Republicans are going to be the party of tax and spend too, please tell me what is the difference between the Democrats and the Republicans?
We are going to have to act now if we are going to have a conservative party left.
First, we need to call our Republican Congressmen and Senators. We need to remind them that out of control spending got us to this point and spending is what must be cut.
Second, for any congressman that votes for a tax hike, this year we must find a primary opponent to run against them.
We cannot sit idly on the sidelines and let them shove tax hikes down our throats. The real reason behind the Obama, Pelosi, Reid axis of fiscal evil’s spending spree has not been just to spend money. It has been to force massive, “progressive” tax hikes.
For Republicans, joining the taxing madness is nothing more than political suicide. The GOP is quite capable of that as they have demonstrated on many occasions, but today is simply too crucial to allow that to happen.
The Democrats want Republicans to go along with the new taxes because they already have their attack ads ready. “Republican Congressman X voted to raise your taxes.”
This takes one of the best arguments away from the GOP. With the GOP going along with the tax hikes, the Republicans cannot run on the issue of taxes. When the Republican nominee, who hopefully will be Newt Gingrich, says we need to cut taxes to stimulate the economy and create jobs, the Obama team is going to come back with, the Republicans voted to raise taxes.
The strategy behind all of this is simple. This upcoming election is a referendum on Barack Obama. If the public is convinced there is no real difference between Obama and the Republicans, they will vote for the devil they know rather than the devil they do not know.
This trap is painfully obvious and the crown princes of surrender, John Boehner and Mitch McConnell are walking right into it.
The 2012 election is crucial. Either we roll back socialism or freedom loses. It is that simple. With victory comes the real possibility of making the liberals a permanent minority.
However, victory is impossible when your team keeps surrendering.
And it will be a terrible epitaph for America if freedom is lost just because the Republicans lacked the courage to stand and fight.
Tags: Republican, boehner, john, mcconnell, mitch, party, spend, surrender, tax
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Debrajoe Smith-Beatty on -
Boehner and Mitch are not leaders. The Republicans are being smeared because of these two weak, inept representatives of the GOP. Vote them out of office.
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Permalink Reply by Joseph Butman on -
Is the Super Committee even constitutional? How can Congress abrogate their authority when it comes to spending, a power exclusively vested in Congress? Wait a minute, I forgot, they did the same thing regarding their exclusive authority to control the money supply when they handed that power over to the Federal Reserve. Yeah, just more of the same old same old.
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Permalink Reply by Thomas Angle on
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They do it because they can get away from it.
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Permalink Reply by b mathews on
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speaking of which, how is it that the moment a state takes any anti-immigration initiative, or a brings a case against the black panthers, or anything that infringes on the rights of muslims, eric holder knows about it within minutes, but didnt know about fast & furious for 2 years?? and no one calls him on this??? he says he cant be bothered reading all his emails and his staff relates what they think is important?? then he needs to fire his staff before resigning himself. what an incompetent fool he is.
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Permalink Reply by Andrew Asnip on -
Judson, I'm sorry, but I cannot remember a time when the Republican Party stood for anything except protecting their own phoney-baloney jobs. Even when Reagan was President, the majority of Republican congress-critters were perfectly willing to increase spending and the deficit, and did exactly that! In 1994, we saw a huge increase in the number of new Republicans in congress. And some good did actually come from it. But the majority did everything they could to sabotage the Contract With America.
Form 2000 until 2006 when the Democrats took the House, Republicans consistently raised taxes, raised spending, and infringed upon our liberty. Even since then, the Republican Party has consistently fought tooth and nail against any kind of significant change.
That is why the Tea Party movement is so important to the USA. It is the only hope of actually achieving any significant positive change away from bigger, more powerful government and more intrusive regulations.
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Permalink Reply by Jerold Ross on
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i agree with you Andrew; Sometime between the signing of our Constitution and now, the politicians became phoney's who only looked our for their own asses.
This writing says it all. I would give credit to the author, but I don't know who wrote it:
Conditioned Monkeys
If you start with a cage containing five monkeys and inside the cage, hang a banana on a string from the top and then you place a set of stairs under the banana, before long a monkey will go to the stairs and climb toward the banana.
As soon as he touches the stairs, you spray all the other monkeys with cold water. After a while another monkey makes an attempt with same result … all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it by attacking him.
Now, put the cold water away.
Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and attempts to climb the stairs.
To his shock, all of the other monkeys beat the crap out of him.
After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be assaulted.
Next, remove another of the original five monkeys, replacing it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment… with enthusiasm.
Then, replace a third original monkey with a new one, followed by a fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs he is attacked. Most of the monkeys that are beating him up have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs. Neither do they know why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.
Finally, having replaced all of the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys will have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, none of the monkeys will try to climb
the stairway for the banana.Why, you ask? Because in their minds…that is the way it has always been!
This, my friends, is how Congress operates… and is why, from time to time, all of the monkeys need to be REPLACED AT THE SAME TIME.
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Permalink Reply by Daniel W. Jordan on
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Love it!!! What an accurate description of Congress!
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Permalink Reply by JOHN DELASAUX on
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That is why Pledges to a college fraternity are "hazed", sometimes with physically disasterous results.
In jest, I have sometimes suggested that we should replace Congress by having a computer randomly select people out of the phone book. In real life, we would then have a Congress which generallyreflects the views of the American people. Unfortunately, those average views were learned in our Publik Skool Sistem, and would therefore be heavily loaded toward Tax And Spend For The Publik Good.
The original Founders thought that voters should only be land owners. In today's lexicon they should "Have Skin In The Game". We have bastardized that idea with Equal Rights, and therefore everyone gets to vote. That means that 49% of the people have an automatic advantage, because they are the ones who don't pay any income tax.
Oops! That means that just a few more percent of the population creates a majority which can support the taxation of the "rich" at exorbitant rates.
What they don't realize is that they are, at the same time, destroying the incentive to invest in the very businesses which will create the jobs that all the non-taxpayers claim they want.
Hmmmmmmmm.
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Permalink Reply by Scot Sheely on -
I suggest that we organize specific state by state demonstrations with high profile media coverage in 2012.
We need to take back America before it is too late, and an election year is a perfect time to do this.
It's obvious from the Ohio votes yesterday that the unions are ramping up their efforts and pumping in millions (as in, $30 million to be exact in this case) to ensure that all ballot issues fall their way.
We in the Tea Party need to motivate our true grass-roots movement in ACTION. Words are great, but we need to back up our ideas with tangible efforts that make news headlines on a frequent basis.
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Permalink Reply by M. V. Griffin on
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That $30 million was matched by American's For Prosperity and other groups, by the way. Maybe our message didn't sell in Ohio.
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Permalink Reply by bigmac on
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Judson,
Not exactly on topic, but after tracking TPN membership numbers for the past 2 weeks, it appears that membership is increasing at an increasing rate. What does your tracking indicate?
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Permalink Reply by Judson Phillips on -
Yes!
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