GOP establishment must learn that failure to fight is not an
option, by Rick Manning, 1/11/16
If you are inside a burning building, you go
into overdrive rescuing what you can and getting out. If the fire is
coming down the hallway and you are in an uber-emergency situation, you
scramble to the nearest staircase without regards to anything but alerting as
many as possible and getting out. On the on the other hand, if you smell smoke,
you will poke around at a leisurely pace to see if there is any imminent
threat. You won’t rush out, you won’t even call for help until you find a fire.
That is the difference between the establishment
GOP and the base of the Republican Party.
The establishment GOP or congressional party
views things through the prism of maintaining power and risk avoidance because
all can be made well when one of their preferred Republicans win the White
House.
The GOP base that lives outside the Washington,
D.C. Beltway sees the U.S. Constitution being ripped to shreds by a President
with no regard for Congress or the courts for that matter.
They see environmental regimes being put into
place that destroy their jobs and the future of their children. They see a
wholesale assault on their values by a government that demands tolerance from
them, but rewards intolerance toward them. They see the country being flooded
by illegal aliens from south of the border, and a new floodgate of Islamic
refugees from places that don’t like us very much being welcomed with open arms
into our nation.
And they see their tax dollars being used, with
the authorization of a Republican Congress, to fund what is a national suicide
and few of their elected officials battling to stop the Obama administration.
The irony is that the establishment GOP fuels
these concerns every time they send out a fundraising letter to their former
small donor base talking about how they are going to rein in Obama, which is
juxtaposed by their failure to fight to that end.
House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is the
prime example of the “eventually we’ll do something that limits government”
crowd. In the recent omnibus spending bill, Ryan continually expressed
his own disengagement, instead looking forward to using 2016 as an almost think
tank seminar discussing tax reform and the need for Congress to reassert its
authority. Meanwhile, Congress gave the President his wish list getting
precious little in return and effectively funded Obama’s agenda for the
remainder of his term.
Ryan was and is looking to a better time in a
post-Obama 2017 ignoring the damage that is being done to the country in the
last thirteen months of his term.
Those outside the Beltway screaming at the
Republicans to fight for them are scared to death over the permanent damage
being done, knowing full well that the GOP establishment will likely accept
what Obama has wrought as the new normal, and simply seek to fix it rather than
rip Obama’s legacy out by the roots.
To them the house is fully engulfed in flames
and their family is inside, there is no time to wait and heroic measures are
needed now. In 2016, Republicans in Congress will need to demonstrate that they
share that urgency by using every power at their disposal to slow Obama’s roll.
Wait ‘til next year may be a great slogan for the Chicago Cubs, but when your
country is being deliberately destroyed by an unchecked President, it is
unacceptable.
And in this new political world being carved by
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz failure to fight is not an option.
The author is president of Americans for Limited
Government.
Comments
Failure of the federal government to protect US
citizens from foreign invasions for decades is treason. Refusing to close the
border and keep visas under control is treason. Importing Muslims is suicide
and the Congress doesn’t get it. They
are either stupid or evil and we don’t need either one setting our excessive
immigration numbers. Also, for decades,
the federal government had a war on oil.
We could have avoided lots of Middle East war expense if we had not
abandoned the oil industry in the 1980s.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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