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Saving the Republican Party

Post by kbot » 01-25-2021 08:08 PM

My view is that they won't listen. The GOP has turned into a cult.........

A message to retiring Republicans: You can rescue your party


Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) announced on Monday he would not run for a third term in 2022, ending a long career in government that included stints as director of the Office of Management and Budget and U.S. trade representative and parts of seven terms in the House. He joins Sen. Patrick J. Toomey (R-Pa.), who previously said he would not run for reelection. These two middle-of-the-road conservatives — not Trump lackeys, but never courageous enough to stand up to President Donald Trump like former Arizona senator Jeff Flake — are now in a unique position to rescue their party from the clutches of Trumpism and set a model for responsible bipartisanship. Here is some friendly advice for them:

Dear Senators:

Americans can understand why you have decided to end your Senate careers. The body that was historically a sober, thoughtful and mature chamber has come to resemble the House. You are surrounded by abject liars and showboaters such as Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), who perpetrated the Big Lie that the election was stolen, helped incite an insurrection and doubled down on their efforts to overturn the election even after a violent mob invaded the Capitol. Your party’s Senate leader has perfected the art of doing as little as possible, save for confirming judges, at a time when our nation requires decisive, responsible leadership. As hundreds of bills from the House gathered dust on the then-majority leader’s desk, the opportunity for meaningful legislation on everything from infrastructure to immigration evaporated.

You tried to lie low during the Trump years at the price of appearing somewhat dim. “Didn’t see the tweet!” you said. “Can’t say I heard the latest presidential outburst!” You were fully aware the president had committed impeachable acts, but you chose to go with the party in acquitting him last February, hoping the voters would absolve you of any delinquency in refusing to remove a dangerously unfit demagogue. The result was his appalling effort to undermine our election, a violent uprising and the hoodwinking of most of your fellow Republicans who now believe the Big Lie.

It would have no doubt been far better for the party, for the country and for you personally if you had voted to convict in last year’s impeachment trial. You now have the rare opportunity for a second chance. Freed from the fear of a primary challenge, you can do the right thing, namely, prevent the instigator of insurrection from ever holding office again. Equally important, you have an opportunity to talk candidly to your fellow senators and Republicans across the country. You can tell them that the lies must end. The election was not rife with fraud. In fact, fraud is so rare that the bevy of voter ID laws and other restrictions are entirely unnecessary, a thinly disguised effort to suppress the vote and keep a mostly White Republican Party from facing the judgment of an increasingly diverse country. You can leave the Senate as truth-tellers rather than go-alongers.

You also have the ability over the next two years to end the mind-numbing gridlock and knee-jerk obstructionism your party has perfected. Why not vow to support no filibusters for your remaining time in office? Why not work collaboratively on immigration reform, which is entirely in keeping with your pro-market philosophy and, as you know, will contribute to growth and innovation? You likewise can work to update the Voting Rights Act and forestall the Republican stampede to erect barriers to voting, a blight on our democracy and a shameful throwback to the Jim Crow era.

You can aid rather than hinder recovery efforts by funding expanded testing and vaccination, and supporting conservative economic measures such as expansion of the earned-income tax credit.

In short, you cannot undo the past four years, much as you might regret your reticence in standing up to an authoritarian narcissist and his enablers. You can leave the Senate on a high note, freeing your party from dependency on an anti-democratic bully and ending its reliance on voter suppression and legislative obstruction. If you choose to, you can leave a Senate record you are proud of and a legacy of achievement.
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Post by Doka » 01-26-2021 10:23 AM

Guilty until proven inocent. Back to the "Wild West" that is a great Democracy your all are excted about, speaks more to your own lack of "Character" than anything else, but many gave that up a long time ago..........well,until you get caught up in your own web. No body can accuse you of "Thinking", so you need not worry about that!
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Re: Saving the Republican Party

Post by lisa colorado » 01-26-2021 10:26 AM

I was a Republican but I'm not now, so I will be interested to see what happens with that. I'm more interested in recovering from the abuse.

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Post by Doka » 01-26-2021 12:10 PM

lisa colorado wrote: 01-26-2021 10:26 AM I was a Republican but I'm not now, so I will be interested to see what happens with that. I'm more interested in recovering from the abuse.
The Democrat Minnions have not a clue, that all the Democrat power that they applaud is simply how THEY ARE TO BE GOVEREND, as insane as they are, they applied their OWN grisley Fate and want the rest of us to acknowlege "How Smart" they are! IF Being removed from anything resembling "being a Human" they have obtained their goal.

Changing Labels,is meaning less, the Real question is "What kind" of person you have become? We all have choices. DO We Still know "Right from Wrong"
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Post by lisa colorado » 01-27-2021 02:16 PM

The Republicans and the good Democrats, still know right from wrong, but the Marxists are running it all now and I even heard a blogger on NPR laughingly say they're going to run it like they stole it. Then he corrected himself to "run it like we rented it." but it was clear what he meant. He had no concept of right or wrong. It was "screw you I got what I wanted." So, with that established, what do the good people do? Well, remember who you are, and I will remember who I am. We get to keep ourselves and the people we love. We have to pay attention to strengths and stop feeding into the narcissistic wave.

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Re: Saving the Republican Party

Post by kbot » 01-29-2021 01:18 PM

There are extremists in both political parties, Just look at the US Capitol riots with armed insurrectionists storming the Capitol, lead by newly elected GOP members of Congress who are being investigated by the FBI for domestic terrorism activities. Says a lot about today's GOP..........

After four years of Trump and the GOP giving the banks, oil, coal etc everything they wanted (and even what they didn't want, as the Pentagon refused "aid"), the Marxists, as you term them, probably feel it's time for ordinary working people, and non-working people to get some help for a change.
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Post by Raggedyann » 01-30-2021 03:02 AM

Doka thinks only she should receive Gov assistance but when other people need help they of course are communists. I have an old right wing friend that thinks the same way. This old Trump lover gripes that liberals just want to live off Gov hand-outs. In the meantime, she herself is living in gov subsidized senior housing. Right wingers have an extraordinary ability to spout off irritating hypocritical opinions. You know, the "do as I say not what I do" crap. :roll: If there's such a thing as "elite needy people", these fools mentally put themselves in the this category. It would be forgivable if it wasn't so pitifully selfish and blatantly stupid.
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Post by Doka » 01-30-2021 12:56 PM

Raggedyann wrote: 01-30-2021 03:02 AM Doka thinks only she should receive Gov assistance but when other people need help they of course are communists. I have an old right wing friend that thinks the same way. This old Trump lover gripes that liberals just want to live off Gov hand-outs. In the meantime, she herself is living in gov subsidized senior housing. Right wingers have an extraordinary ability to spout off irritating hypocritical opinions. You know, the "do as I say not what I do" crap. :roll: If there's such a thing as "elite needy people", these fools mentally put themselves in the this category. It would be forgivable if it wasn't so pitifully selfish and blatantly stupid.
Spoken like a true Marxist, a true dumb Marxist at that. I and millions of others have never had it so good and yet the "Grass is Always Greener On The Other Side" It is NOT! Spoiled Americans (and Canadians?) Suffer from the most extraordinary GREED. You have swallowed the Marxist BS of "It's FOR the Working Man, FOR the People,for the Children(god help THEM!) It is Not, what it is for , is the Tyrants who rule, who will take everything you have, and plunge you into a Poverty like your kind can never imagine, then you say "Marxism" was never done right", Oh! BUT IT WAS! The Leaders and the rich got richer, the people got poorer, lost every Freedom they had thats happening Right Now! I know I can never say anything that will change your "Fairy Tail" Ideals of what is coming FOR YOU., Life is not Fairy Tail, never ever meant to be.

So you want to live like the people in China, USSR, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba. So it will be. You truely deserve it, the rest of us don't . It is your own Greed and ignorance that has already destroyed you.

You live the horrable world of "Never Enough"! And you put yourself there.
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Re: Saving the Republican Party

Post by Raggedyann » 01-30-2021 04:41 PM

Hey you closet Marxist, you're the one living off the gov tit. Practice what you preach or shut the hell up!
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Re: Saving the Republican Party

Post by Doka » 01-31-2021 04:07 PM

Raggedyann wrote: 01-30-2021 04:41 PM Hey you closet Marxist, you're the one living off the gov tit. Practice what you preach or shut the hell up!
:biglol: My You are desperate ! I have NO money, what I do have is something is something you have never experienced in your life and never will. I am blessed with G-R-A-T-I-T-U-D-E for what I do have, my needs are met. My life is what I make it and it is good, I know "Peace," and that't what like more of.
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Post by Riddick » 01-31-2021 04:52 PM

"Shut the hell up"? How wonderfully Woke! It's so personal, & yet so mob like.

This kinda in-yer-face trolling is exactly why mute features were developed
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Post by Raggedyann » 01-31-2021 05:17 PM

Like hell you know peace!

Doka, your money comes from the tax payer in the form of social security and health care. This is socialism my dear. Right after Trump was elected, you proudly announced on the FF that Trump had given you a raise. Actually, it was your fellow Americans that gave you a raise - out of their hard earned money.

I collect the Canadian version of Social Security called OAS (Old Age Security). But I do not then turn around and post hypocritical opinions that gov assistance and societal safety nets are communism and all of us are Marxists. But you take advantage of the safety net and then you look down your nose at others that do too. :roll: See how this is hypocritical now?

Before you continue to spout off right wing talking points, do educate yourself. If you can't do that then just shut up.
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A Little Extra Securty - Grady Explains Why He Deserves The Money

Post by Riddick » 01-31-2021 05:35 PM


The man has a point: Long b4 gov't gives SS out, it takes out
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Re: Saving the Republican Party

Post by Raggedyann » 01-31-2021 05:42 PM

Crap from another hypocrite.
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