John R. Houk
© August 31, 2017
I departed from the Republican Party after supporting a GOP
candidate for President in 2012 I did not in the first place. THEN he; i.e.
Mitt Romney, lost! Romney ran a weenie campaign refusing to point out Obama’s
horrendous record and allowing Obama to get away with lying without confronting
the situation. So I left the GOP.
Even though I stopped being a card-carrying Republican, I
ended up voting for GOP candidates in my State. A Democrat was, is and always
will be an unviable choice! This is the case especially after Obama has turned
the Democratic Party into the Communist-Dem Party.
Then came Donald Trump. I like most people was amused but
felt this is a guy that could never win, lacked Conservative credentials and I
was uncertain of any dedication he had to the Christian faith. I was Cruzing
with Ted until the math eliminated his campaign.
So, was I going to be stuck voting for The Donald? A guy I
did not want as a candidate for POTUS? So I began to listen to Donald Trump.
Unlike Romney, Trump was willing to Muslim terrorists
Radical Islamic terrorists and call Hillary Clinton a crook. The more the
Leftist Mainstream Media (MSM) harangued Trump, more I began to like him and
his populist “Make America Great Again.”
But I was still dissatisfied with the Republican Party.
Boehner as the Speaker was ineffective after the GOP took the House in 2014.
Then 2016 came. Trump won POTUS and the GOP was the majority
Party in both Houses of Congress. There was the appearance that Conservatives
finally had an authentic voice and reversing the curse of Obama’s Change
would be imminent.
I WAS WRONG!
After 8 years of saying what happen if the Republicans controlled
government with a Conservative reawakening, little happened except
Congressional resistance to Trump’s MAGA agenda.
AGAIN, the GOP had let me and many fellow Conservatives
down. President Trump was and is actually making things happen as far as
Executive action will take him. But nothing concrete to the promised MAGA will
be forthcoming as long as Republicans in the Senate and Republicans in the
House resist President Trump. These GOP resisters might as well join the
Communist-Dem Party. EVERY political inaction by the Republicans is a vote for
the status quo of the Communist-Dem Party to Socialize and disrupt Christian
faith and morals in America. In essence – the continuation of the Obama’s
Fundamental Transformation of America.
My fellow Americans. Do you want to live in a nation whence
political correctness and multiculturalism define how you – an American – must live
according to what the government tells you how to believe and worship and
speak?
Since the Republican legislators cannot get it together
enough to resist and change the Dem fundamental transformation, it might be
time to abandon the GOP and look for Trump activism in a political party
willing to act as a monolith for Conservative principles.
This is why Brent Bozell’s editorial-opinion piece on the slow death of the Republican Party
is a very important read.
JRH 8/31/17
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The Slow Death of the Republican Party
The Grand Old Party is about to commit suicide.
By Brent Bozell
August 30, 2017
August 27, 2017
All this talk about Trump this, and Trump that, masks a far
bigger political controversy. The Republican Party leadership in Washington,
D.C., has fundamentally betrayed its constituents and they are about to learn
that they’ve been double-crossed — for years.
Every Republican candidate’s stock speech sounds the same,
the thunderous roar about a government out of control, federal spending out of
control (insert charts and graphs and why, if you stack hundred dollar bills,
they will reach the edge of the universe), federal taxes out of control (insert
comparisons to socialist countries), the federal bureaucracy out of control
(insert metaphors about chains, yokes, and the like), the family shattered with
federal funding of abortion a crime against humanity (watch for it — there! The
heart-wrenching sob), and our military is emasculated.
Two more items were added to the menu, courtesy of Obama.
Obamacare Will Be Repealed! and Illegal Immigration Will Not Stand!
In 2009, the Democrats controlled everything, partly due to
the Republicans’ cowardice on Capitol Hill, and in part because of some of the
most inept candidates and campaigns America has seen in years. The Obama folks
could have played it safe but went for socialist gold, using the power of the
legislative and the executive branches (and later the judiciary, thank you
Justice Roberts) to advance their agenda.
That included federal spending on a level unmatched in human
history resulting ultimately in a $19 trillion in debt we simply cannot pay,
and with so many tens of trillions of dollars in unfunded liabilities that
“infinity” is not far behind. One seventh of the economy was confiscated by the
federal government with the passage of Obamacare. Our national borders were
declared open and discussions over our national sovereignty closed. And to top
it off, the Democrats all but declared themselves above the law.
The GOP harrumphed that this would not stand, by God! If
only… if only America
would vote them into the majority.
In 2009, the Tea Party was born. The Grand Old Party was
rejuvenated. Happy days were here again.
Just one year later, the Republicans captured the House, and
with that, the power of the purse. They now had the authority to stop the
insane spending on so many obnoxious and wholly unnecessary ventures. They
could end Obamacare simply by not funding it.
Instead, under the “leadership” of John Boehner, it did
absolutely nothing. Why, if only we had the Senate! Then we could take on the
President!
So in 2014, after spending hundreds of millions of campaign
dollars running hundreds of thousands of television and radio ads pledging to
end illegal immigration while repealing Obamacare “root and branch” (author:
Mitch McConnell), they were given control of the Senate.
And within a month McConnell re-authorized both, along with
every single other thing Harry Reid and Obama wanted for yet another year.
But that’s because we can’t do what we promised until we
have the Presidency! The excuse was as predictable as summer heat in the
Sahara.
In 2016, they were given that too.
They were given everything.
In January of this year, they formally controlled both
houses of Congress and the executive branch. Every single thing they’d ever
promised was now possible.
They now had the power to enact every single spending cut
they’d ever solemnly pledged. All those wasteful programs designed to fill the
liberal sandbox — PBS, NPR, Planned Parenthood, NEH and the rest of the
alphabet soup; all the hundreds of billions of dollars in corporate welfare to
multi-billion-dollar corporations; all of the hundreds of billions of dollars directed
toward leftist social engineering — poof! All of it could come to an end with a
stroke of a pen.
They now had the power to restore fiscal tax sanity too.
Remember the flat tax? The fair tax? Slashing the highest corporate taxes in
the world? Giving you a tax break? All of it could be done with a snap of the
fingers.
Repeal Obamacare? Check. End illegal immigration? Check.
Build the wall? Check.
Crush the Deep State? Done, by God, done!
There was not a damn thing the Democrats could do to stop
them from draining the swamp.
Except the Republican leadership didn’t mean it. With the
exception of the Freedom Caucus in the House, and literally a handful in the
Senate, the rank-and-file didn’t either. Not one word of it.
The opportunity arose for the vote to repeal Obamacare, and
after huffing and puffing, and huffing and puffing some more, the dust settled
and socialized health care remains the law of the land, perhaps permanently.
The opportunity arose for tax reform, to enact the cuts
America desperately needs. It was never a matter of if, it was a matter of how
much. It is now mid-August and nothing, absolutely nothing has been
accomplished — even attempted!
And now we face the final test: the debt ceiling. Will we or
won’t we stop the spending madness? Will the Republicans enact the cuts they’ve
promised, or will they now be the ones to kick the can, piling evermore
trillions of dollars of debt on their own grandchildren?
By every indication that’s precisely what they plan to do.
The signal has come from President Trump, from Speaker Ryan, and from Majority
Leader McConnell. The debt ceiling will be raised and no fiscal sanity will be
restored.
There is no difference between Republicans and Democrats.
Put them together. They are the swamp.
Just as Republicans have the power to enact the agenda
they’ve pledged in toto, so too do they now own the federal government, in
toto. It’s no longer Obamacare. It’s GOPcare. It’s no longer crazy liberal
Democratic spending. It’s crazy liberal Republican spending. It’s no longer
socialist Democratic Party taxation, it’s socialist Republican Party taxation.
All the legislation authorizing all these programs, all the graft, all the
waste, all the obscenity, all the immorality, and where Planned Parenthood is
concerned, all the killing — all of it is now formally authored by the
Republican Party.
Come the Congressional elections next year, and the
presidential election in 2020, the Grand Old Party will once again bellow its
hallowed promises. But this time it won’t work. This time there will be no
straw men to blame. This time their voters will know those hallowed promises
are not even hollow promises. They are lies.
These voters are tasting betrayal. They will not vote to
swallow more vomit.
We are watching the GOP systematically committing suicide.
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GOP: Enact MAGA Agenda or Disappear
John R. Houk
© August 31, 2017
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The Slow Death of the Republican Party
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