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The GOP has a new Speaker, but he's stuck with the same doomed strategy

OldRegular

Well-Known Member
Even if House Republicans get a new speaker this week in Paul Ryan, they're not going to get what they really need: a new strategy.

The core problem that afflicted John Boehner during his tenure in office remains in place — a band of hard-line conservatives routinely insists that the GOP use routine-but-critical pieces of must-pass legislation (debt ceiling bills, government funding bills, etc.) as "leverage" to secure ideological concessions from the White House. The plan fundamentally doesn't make sense and can't work, which most Republicans know but aren't willing to say. It's a recipe for disaster, and it hasn't changed one bit. And in some ways things may be worse than ever under Ryan who isn't really a practitioner of the kind of crass transactional politics that Boehner used to make it work.

http://www.vox.com/2015/10/26/9612570/house-gop-strategy
The difference between a conservative and a uber leftist is routinely pictured in CTB"s posts. Conservatives love America and its Constitution. Uberleftists like CTB hate us AND THE U.S.!
 

OldRegular

Well-Known Member
The GOP needs more far right conservatives to balance out the far left extremists that dominate the democrat party.
And I once told my rebellous teen aged Son that everyome has a boss, even the president.

{Obama knows that rejection of hs dictatoral actions would lead to a race war. He doesn't care. In fact he would like nothing better. It is just that the people in this country who still have a thinker left realize that in about 15 months he will be forever gone to live the life of a rich plantation black like the Tawana Brawley guy! Used to be fat and now all you see is a big head! Sharpton, Sharpton that is the name!}
 
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