The new Republican House Majority

The right to fire an employee is a conservative value? God, you're more confused than okie.

cicerone imposter wrote:

In my reality, I support the "real" conservative goals of less government, but what the GOP is doing to this country is playing politics mixed in with religion; a dangerous game. They talk about "right to life," but how they handle that issue is to kill everything that is also good like Planned Parenthood. They are aggressive in their actions that play well to the core extremists of the party, and they believe in fiction more than the reality of their play book. Look at all those republican governors who are trying to kill public unions, and how the GOP is now working to destroy Medicare and and Medicaid. It's as if there aren't any conservatives who survive on Medicare and Medicaid, social security, or our educational system to give bigger tax breaks to those who already own 71% of this country's wealth.

They still seem to get their party's support, and that is the big 64 thousand dollar question; why?

Fido wrote:

This is a country founded on revolution, and revolution is the true conservative value;

Yes; the right of revolution (the same as the right to FIRE an unsatisfactory employee) is among conservative values.
More than anything else: it is personal freedom.





David

I kind of wish I could go back to mispronouncing his name....

DrewDad wrote:

I kind of wish I could go back to mispronouncing his name....

Our last Vice-President pronounced his last name: "Cheeeny",
tho almost everyone called him "Vice President Chain y".

I don 't believe that he ever corrected anyone, unless asked.
I wish that he had been the President
with W as the VP.

He was a REAL conservative; the Bushes were not.
He 's a great guy.





David

He was a REAL conservative; the Bushes were not.

He was a REAL conservative; the Bushes were not.

You mean he was in favor of war, handouts to the rich,

and acting as if people were "less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel?"

I'd have to agree.

OmSigDAVID wrote:

He was a REAL conservative; the Bushes were not.

DrewDad wrote:

You mean he was in favor of war, handouts to the rich,

Well, it was good to get rid of Saddam; he was too risky.
We shoud have returned immediately thereafter tho,
like Bush against Noriega in Panama.

Its good to reduce the top tax rates
to something more in line with government services
that thay ACTUALLY receive. The Weather Bureau does not give them special favors.

NO human taxpayer shoud pay over $1,000,000 in any year.

DrewDad wrote:

and acting as if people were "less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel?"

I'd have to agree.

He did not do anything qua chariot wheels.

If his health were better, I 'd love to see him as President.





David

Poor David spends his time giving a thumbs down to everybody who challenges him.

He's a kid in adult clothing.

I was concerned that he was going to buy a nuke
from starving Russians next door and detonate it
as it approached an American port city, like mine,
but I don 't think he'll do that any more.

In spite of your fervent attempts to illustrate just what a morally reprehensible person you are, Om, I'm sure that you haven't come anywhere close to plumbing the depths of your depravity.

Poor David spends his time giving a thumbs down to everybody who challenges him. He's a kid in adult clothing.

Unruly G.O.P. Puts Boehner to a Test in Budget Vote
Mary F. Calvert for The New York Times

A House vote Thursday revealed a divide within the Republican party that presents a challenge to Speaker John A. Boehner and other leaders.
By CARL HULSE
Published: April 14, 2011

WASHINGTON — It should have been a moment of victory for Speaker John A. Boehner and fellow members of a House Republican leadership team still learning on the job as they forced through a record level of spending cuts. Instead, it felt a little like defeat.

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Though the House voted convincingly to end the spending fight that had brought the government to the brink of a shutdown, Democrats had to ride to the rescue to provide the winning margin as dozens of Republicans turned thumbs down.

Fifty-nine Republicans — nearly a quarter of the new majority — rejected the measure personally negotiated by Mr. Boehner and endorsed by his top lieutenants, Representatives Eric Cantor of Virginia, the majority leader, and Kevin McCarthy of California, the party whip. Another lawmaker said he would have opposed the measure but missed the vote. Twenty-seven of the 59 who bucked the leadership were freshmen.

The outcome amounted to a warning shot to the leadership from its right flank that conservatives are serious when they say they will not support measures that do not meet their fiscal ideals, a position that is not going to make Mr. Boehner’s life any easier as he heads into new showdowns over raising the federal debt limit and deficit reduction. It could also have long-term implications for the speaker politically if he continues to face such internal division.

“I think my leadership needs to probably sit down and have a come-to-Jesus with themselves,” said Representative Allen B. West, a freshman Republican from Florida who derided the budget cuts as a “raindrop in an ocean.”