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2017-11-12 Home Front: Politix

Is There Nothing Republicans Can't Screw Up?

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-11-12 03:49|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 I wonder, have any American ever said "let us try parliamentary system with proportional representation, and separation between the positions of titular head of state and chief executive"?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-11-12 06:58|| 2017-11-12 06:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Jeebus, I'm beginning to think the Pubs like circular firing squads and they can't stand success. They'd screw up a one-person funeral.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-11-12 08:27|| 2017-11-12 08:27|| Front Page Top

#3 The fact is the Republicans *never* intended to repeal Obamacare. It was all theatre and, I'll say it, lies by the Pub leadership.

The same for ~~immigration~~ border violation control, the Wall, Tax breaks, etc...

It was all theater - and rather bad theater at that.

Posted by CrazyFool 2017-11-12 09:43|| 2017-11-12 09:43|| Front Page Top

#4 These are the Wrong Republicans(TM).

There is nothing magical about putting an (R) next to your name. It does not give you character or the courage of your convictions. In fact, these days it is largely interchangeable with a (D).

The trick is to find the Right People and give them (R)s, not just slavishly vote for any simpering sitzpinkler just because he has an (R), or because he's less of a sitzpinkler than the other guy. That's just no longer good enough.

Posted by Iblis 2017-11-12 11:35|| 2017-11-12 11:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Right now, we have no political party worth electing. Playing one deviant off the other is not working for US.

We probably need to purge and start from the very beginning.

Posted by newc 2017-11-12 12:16|| 2017-11-12 12:16|| Front Page Top

#6 My 2-cents: Conservative voters voted Republican as the lesser of two evils. The results of that are that both houses of Congress are infected not by RINO's, but CINO's.

As the GP is now more attuned to the body politic, this disparity is revealing itself. And what of the Conservative base?:

We'll see if it has any life or, akin to The Tea Party, burns out.

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2017-11-12 12:33|| 2017-11-12 12:33|| Front Page Top

#7 The political parties in America have devolved into proto-communists (progressive is their pseudonym) and clueless, spineless leaders of a ragtag band of conservative, squabbling amateurs who will never see the levers of power again after the next wave of democrat legislative victories. Not delivering on anything in the pre-election list of major promises, and fighting the one man, Trump, who despite being a coarse, thin-skinned child at times, is actually delivering what he can in judicial and regulatory relief. IN the history of the late Republic, this will be se as an epic blown opportunity to rescue the American dream from socialism and insolvency. What clowns!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2017-11-12 12:54|| 2017-11-12 12:54|| Front Page Top

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