It’s unfortunate but the current situation in which we Republicans now find ourselves, regarding November’s election, can be blamed directly on those in our leadership positions. And it is those same individuals who, very clearly, have no business being in those positions. As I’m sure many are well aware, the general consensus is that the Republicans will almost certainly lose the House and could quite possibly lose the Senate as well. And it has much to do with the fact that our ‘leaders’ chose to support a $1.3 Trillion omnibus bill, which was not just the most reckless spending bill in history, it was an abject surrender on every single political and policy pledge made to those who put them in office. They have now botched every opportunity presented to them that would have resulted in November’s election being a runaway for them.
And it's been this way practically from the very
beginning. First, they asked for control
of the House and its appropriations authority to right the fiscal ship, and as
importantly, to end Obamacare. In 2010, they got it — and immediately stated
they could do nothing without the Senate. In 2014, they were awarded that, too — and
just as quickly declared they could do nothing without the White House. So, in 2016 they were handed that, and with it
complete control of the legislative process, and with no more excuses available
what exactly have they done? They surrendered without a fight to where any
real advances that have come, have been driven by the White House. Congress has done nothing. But I still maintain that our ONLY viable
option come this November has us essentially saving the Republicans from
themselves.
Here's the difference, as I see it, between the two
parties. For the past eight years, the
GOP has been the party that begins each conversation with, “This is why we
can't do it.” The Democrats begin theirs with, “This is how we'll get it
done.” That needs to be seen very clearly
for what it is, a failure of ‘leadership.’
Who we must have in those positions of leadership are those who are
capable of creating smart political strategies and are able to craft much
needed legislative victories. And the
part we have to play, as voters, is to keep the Republicans in control long
enough, and to make all concerned well aware that while we remain willing to
back the Republicans for now, there must be an endgame in sight. There must be the advancing of an agenda the
purpose of which is to prevent any further slippage to the left.
Our Republican members of Congress need to get busy and
they can start by showing a willingness to wrap themselves around the president
in order to save him from impeachment. This
means publicly embracing him as their leader. More to the point, it means supporting
everything he puts on the table from here through November, and doing so with
great enthusiasm. They must get to work
on reversing the disastrous $1.3 Trillion omnibus and to finally kill Obamacare
once and for all, because nothing less will do.
Republicans must stop the funding of an organization that proudly
massacres more than 300,000 babies annually with $450,000,000 dollars taken
from American taxpayers. They must fund
border security and deliver real personal tax cuts to the American people. These are the reasons people voted for
Republicans.
Here is the bottom line. On September 30th, five
weeks before the election, there will be the need for a new spending bill to
keep the government running. Everything that
have mentioned is able to be accomplished in that one piece of legislation. No more excuses. No more punts. No more stalling. Now what those of us who have tolerated much from
this bunch of the last 10 years could say is: “We gave you complete control,
and you not only accomplished nothing, you broke your word on virtually
everything. Good-bye.” And while we
would be correct in doing so, what would be accomplished other than perhaps
making ourselves ‘feel’ better? Is that really
what’s best for the long term?
Personally, I don’t think so.
Because to do so would be nothing less than a complete surrender on our
part.
We who love this country had a real chance for positive
change and sadly the party leadership, to be perfectly blunt, let us down. Sadly with RINOs Ryan and McConnell leading
the charge too many on our side were willing to follow them instead of doing
what they were elected to do. So now
what we, the conservative voters, need to do, what we must do, is focus. Focus our anger, our frustration and our
disappointment on an effort to remove every single RINO that we can, and
replace them not with some radical leftwing Democrat but with, yes, another
Republican. If we’re foolish enough to
think that handing control of Congress back to the Democrats is the best way to
force upon the Republicans some level of retribution then all we have done is
to doom not only our country, but our children and grandchildren as well.
For those who say this far and no farther I would only ask that if we do decide to allow the much talked about “blue wave” to simply run its course, what happens then? Because if that happens it could be an entire generation, if ever, before we may ever have another chance to regain some of what we will most assuredly lose. The left already has near complete control of the news media including, I would argue, Fox News. It controls our schools and therefore access to the minds of our young. As things stand right now at least we have our foot in the door and if we were to focus on electing more would be allies of this president isn’t that at least worth the effort? Look, we know who the RINOs are, let us be determined in our efforts to get rid of as many of them as we possibly can. That’s what should be our mission.
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