Super Dave wrote:
Yes, that's it.. Americans are all bigots except Democrats. Obama got elected twice because Americans were too stupid to know he was black. That's it...
Maybe you didn't notice the e******n last week. Obama's opposition isn't the congress, it's the American people.
He said his policies were on the b****t. (Do you think he was lying?)
His policies lost the e******n in a overwhelming wave.
A few months ago, Obama said he didn't have the constitutional authority to do what he's about to do. (Do you think he was lying?) He can be an honorable man and a liberal. But he can't be honorable while crapping on the constitution.
Lately, it seems the left prefers a good liar that gets away with his lies to an honorable man.
Obamacare was based on lies. His immigration policy is based on lies. Same for domestic and foreign policies.
Sucks to be satisfied, much less happy about supporting people that lie to you can think you're stupid.
Yes, that's it.. Americans are all bigots except D... (
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**Read below about what will be your problem more than the President**
With Fear of Being Sidelined, Tea Party Sees the Republican Rise as New Threat
By JEREMY W. PETERSNOV. 8, 2014
WASHINGTON As most Republicans were taking a victory lap the morning after the e******ns, a group of conservatives huddled anxiously in a conference room not far from Capitol Hill and agreed that now is the time for confrontation, not compromise and conciliation.
Despite Republicans ascension to Senate control and an expanded House majority, many conservatives from the partys activist wing fear that congressional leaders are already being too timid with President Obama.
They do not want to hear that government shutdowns are off the table or that repealing the Affordable Care Act is impossible two things Republican leaders have said in recent days.
If the new Republican leadership in the Senate is only talking about what they cant do, thats going to be very demoralizing, said Thomas J. Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, a conservative advocacy group that convenes a regular gathering called Groundswell. Any sense of triumph at its meeting last week was fleeting.
I think the members of the leadership need to decide what theyre willing to shut down the government over, Mr. Fitton said.
Establishment Republicans, who had vowed to thwart the Tea Party, succeeded in electing new lawmakers who are, for the most part, less rebellious. And when the new Congress convenes in January, the Republican leaders who will take the reins will be mainly in the mold of conservatives who have tried to keep the Tea Party in check.
But they have not crushed the movements spirit.
As Republicans on Capitol Hill t***sition from being the opposition party to being one that has to show it can govern, a powerful tension is emerging: how to move forward with an agenda that challenges the president without self-destructing.
Some conservatives believe that the threat of another shutdown is their strongest leverage to demand concessions on the health care law and to stop the president from carrying out immigration reform through executive order. Yet their leadership has dismissed the idea as a suicide mission that could squander the recent gains.
Were not going to pass the entire conservative agenda tomorrow. We can certainly lay it out, Mr. Johnson added. Lets start with the things we can pass. Doesnt that make more sense?
But in a stark reminder of the difficulties Republican leaders will face from within their own ranks, other lawmakers popular with the Tea Party base are saying the fight is on.
As v**es were still being counted on e******n night Tuesday, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas said Republicans could still work through Congress to dismantle the Affordable Care Act even though the president is guaranteed to veto anything Congress passes that undermines it. After winning a historic majority, it is incumbent on us to honor promises and do everything humanly possible to stop Obamacare, Mr. Cruz said in an interview.
Some Republican senators rejected that outright. There are intelligent things to do, and there are some not-so-intelligent things to do, said Senator Orrin G. Hatch of Utah. And one of the first things we should do is find some areas of common ground with our Democrat friends.
Tea Party conservatives, many of whom argue that the government shutdown last year was a sound strategy, said they were baffled by remarks after the e******n by Mr. McConnell that the Senate under his control would prioritize policies that Republicans knew Democrats would also support.
Many also fumed when Mr. McConnell stated the obvious: Republicans do not have the v**es to repeal the Affordable Care Act because they cannot override a p**********l veto on their own. (It takes 67 v**es to do so; they have 52 seats now, with the possibility of picking up two more.) The next day, he and Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal insisting that, indeed, repeal remained a goal.
Any perception that Mr. McConnell is not sufficiently committed to repealing the health care law, despite his running hard against it in his own re-e******n campaign, would renew the same fissures among Republicans that preceded the government shutdown.
That would cause a civil war inside the Republican Party, said Richard Viguerie, a longtime conservative activist, referring to anything the partys base saw as a halfhearted attempt at repeal. Theres almost zero trust between the base and the Republican leaders.
No one did more to demoralize Tea Party candidates and conservative agitators than Mr. McConnell, who vowed to crush every Republican primary challenger. (He did; none defeated an incumbent senator.) He also blacklisted Republicans who worked with groups supporting insurgents.
Privately, McConnell aides say they are less concerned these days about the impact of senators like Mr. Cruz, whom they describe as an army of one. Mr. McConnell believes his standing with conservative v**ers is solid. And he has the v**es to prove it. He won his own primary over a Tea Party conservative, 60 percent to 35 percent. An NBC News/Marist College poll showed him beating his main primary opponent 53 percent to 33 percent among Tea Party v**ers.
He and his allies dismiss their Tea Party opponents as for-profit conservatives because of the fund-raising they do in the name of purifying the Republican brand.
The for-profit wing of the Republican Party will always have a voice, but after this last e******n, they dont have much credibility, said Scott Reed, the U.S. Chamber of Commerces senior political strategist. Im not sure many folks will listen to it much longer. Governing still matters, and the good news is, everybody who was elected is into governing.
Most of the Republicans just elected to the Senate appear to be team players. Cory Gardner of Colorado, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia and Steve Daines of Montana are all low-key members of Congress. Thom Tillis of North Carolina is the speaker of the State House and a favorite of the party establishment.
Still, Tea Party conservatives are a formidable v****g bloc. Mr. McConnell will have to negotiate an especially cautious balance between their demands and those of the senators in his conference who are contemplating running for president in 2016, and so need the support of the partys base. With no one is this more fraught than Mr. McConnells fellow Kentuckian, Senator Rand Paul. Mr. Paul and his advisers say that they recognize Tea Party supporters helped deliver the Senate for the Republicans, and that the party ignores them at its peril.
They showed up, said Doug Stafford, a senior adviser to Mr. Paul. You cant look at the turnout models, the polling pre-e******n and the results, and not think that conservatives showed up for this. They did.
Jonathan Martin contributed reporting.