Mainecat Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 Trump is killing the Republican Party By Joe Scarborough July 16 at 6:02 PM I did not leave the Republican Party. The Republican Party left its senses. The political movement that once stood athwart history resisting bloated government and military adventurism has been reduced to an amalgam of talk-radio resentments. President Trump’s Republicans have devolved into a party without a cause, dominated by a leader hopelessly ill-informed about the basics of conservatism, U.S. history and the Constitution. America’s first Republican president reportedly said , “Nearly all men can stand adversity. But if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” The current Republican president and the party he controls were granted monopoly power over Washington in November and already find themselves spectacularly failing Abraham Lincoln’s character exam. When I left Congress in 2001, I praised my party’s successful efforts to balance the budget for the first time in a generation and keep many of the promises that led to our takeover in 1994. I concluded my last speech on the House floor by foolishly predicting that Republicans would balance budgets and champion a restrained foreign policy for as long as they held power. I would be proved wrong immediately. As the new century began, Republicans gained control of the federal government. George W. Bush and the GOP Congress responded by turning a $155 billion surplus into a $1 trillion deficit and doubling the national debt, passing a $7 trillion unfunded entitlement program and promoting a foreign policy so utopian it would have made Woodrow Wilson blush. Voters made Nancy Pelosi speaker of the House in 2006 and Barack Obama president in 2008. After their well-deserved drubbing, Republicans swore that if voters ever entrusted them with running Washington again, they would prove themselves worthy. Trump’s party was given a second chance this year, but it has spent almost every day since then making the majority of Americans regret it. The GOP president questioned America’s constitutional system of checks and balances. Republican leaders said nothing. He echoed Stalin and Mao by calling the free press “the enemy of the people.” Republican leaders were silent. And as the commander in chief insulted allies while embracing autocratic thugs, Republicans who spent a decade supporting wars of choice remained quiet. Meanwhile, their budget-busting proposals demonstrate a fiscal recklessness very much in line with the Bush years. Last week’s Russia revelations show just how shamelessly Republican lawmakers will stand by a longtime Democrat who switched parties after the promotion of a racist theory about Barack Obama gave him standing in Lincoln’s once-proud party. Neither Lincoln, William Buckley nor Ronald Reagan would recognize this movement. It is a dying party that I can no longer defend. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham has long predicted that the Republican and Democrats’ 150-year duopoly will end. The signs seem obvious enough. When my Republican Party took control of Congress in 1994, it was the first time the GOP had won the House in a generation. The two parties have been in a state of turmoil ever since. In 2004, Republican strategist Karl Rove anticipated a majority that would last a generation; two years later, Pelosi became the most liberal House speaker in history. Obama was swept into power by a supposedly unassailable Democratic coalition. In 2010, the tea party tide rolled in. Obama’s reelction returned the momentum to the Democrats, but Republicans won a historic state-level landslide in 2014. Then last fall, Trump demolished both the Republican and Democratic establishments. Political historians will one day view Donald Trump as a historical anomaly. But the wreckage visited of this man will break the Republican Party into pieces — and lead to the election of independent thinkers no longer tethered to the tired dogmas of the polarized past. When that day mercifully arrives, the two-party duopoly that has strangled American politics for almost two centuries will finally come to an end. And Washington just may begin to work again. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-killing-the-republican-party/2017/07/16/048056dc-68c4-11e7-a1d7-9a32c91c6f40_story.html?utm_term=.592d1b02769f Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Highmark Posted July 17, 2017 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted July 17, 2017 (edited) Joe Scarbourough is the voice of what the GOP should be. He supported Clinton. He's liberal now because of 2 reasons. What his paycheck and pussy says. "It is a dying party that I can no longer defend." Looks dead to me. Edited July 17, 2017 by Highmark 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Highmark Posted July 17, 2017 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted July 17, 2017 (CNSNews.com) – Republicans added to their historic 2014 gains in the nation’s state legislatures with the addition of five state House chambers and two state Senate chambers in last week’s election, while Democratic control was reduced to levels not seen since the Civil War. Republicans are now in control of a record 67 (68 percent) of the 98 partisan state legislative chambers in the nation, more than twice the number (31) in which Democrats have a majority, according to the bipartisan National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL). “That’s more than at any other time in the history of the Republican Party,” according to NCSL. “They also hold more total seats, well over 4,100 of the 7,383, than they have since 1920.” Next year, the GOP will control bot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Skidooski Posted July 17, 2017 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted July 17, 2017 I'm hoping he kills off a good chunk of both parties!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainecat Posted July 17, 2017 Author Share Posted July 17, 2017 He is spot on. The Repub Fiscal Conservatives always add to the deficit when they cut Corporate Americas taxes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainecat Posted July 17, 2017 Author Share Posted July 17, 2017 (edited) "As the new century began, Republicans gained control of the federal government. George W. Bush and the GOP Congress responded by turning a $155 billion surplus into a $1 trillion deficit and doubling the national debt, passing a $7 trillion unfunded entitlement program and promoting a foreign policy so utopian it would have made Woodrow Wilson blush " Edited July 17, 2017 by Mainecat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racer254 Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 Geez you liberals are getting desperate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainecat Posted July 17, 2017 Author Share Posted July 17, 2017 Anyone here think Trump is helping the Republican party? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmo Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 2 minutes ago, Mainecat said: Anyone here think Trump is helping the Republican party? Don't care. Hope he blows up Washington completely and we end up with realistic choices other than R and D. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainecat Posted July 17, 2017 Author Share Posted July 17, 2017 (edited) 1 hour ago, Edmo said: Don't care. Hope he blows up Washington completely and we end up with realistic choices other than R and D. Trump is "other than R or D" He is the result Meanwhile the country dies a slow death? Edited July 17, 2017 by Mainecat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Highmark Posted July 17, 2017 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted July 17, 2017 10 minutes ago, Mainecat said: "As the new century began, Republicans gained control of the federal government. George W. Bush and the GOP Congress responded by turning a $155 billion surplus into a $1 trillion deficit and doubling the national debt, passing a $7 trillion unfunded entitlement program and promoting a foreign policy so utopian it would have made Woodrow Wilson blush " Nobody denies a significant part of the GOP is entitlement happy. That's why they've been labeled as RINO's. What's hilarious is you coming on here acting like you are for controlled entitlement spending. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmo Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 5 minutes ago, Mainecat said: Trump is "other than R or D" He is the result Meanwhile the country dies a slow death? The country will do just fine. Stop with the doom and gloom shit just because your candidate didn't win. It's pathetic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Highmark Posted July 17, 2017 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted July 17, 2017 15 minutes ago, Mainecat said: Anyone here think Trump is helping the Republican party? Serious question why does it bother you what happens to the GOP? You are actually going to claim to be conservative? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racer254 Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 6 minutes ago, Highmark said: Nobody denies a significant part of the GOP is entitlement happy. That's why they've been labeled as RINO's. What's hilarious is you coming on here acting like you are for controlled entitlement spending. 4 minutes ago, Edmo said: The country will do just fine. Stop with the doom and gloom shit just because your candidate didn't win. It's pathetic. The reality is that no one wanted an established Republican candidate, so every time a liberal like MC posts a topic about what rino's are doing, he proves how clueless he is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtssrx Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 (edited) The reason Trump got elected is the republican party made up of Joe Scarbourough types killed the party after the Bush family took it over!!! If the republican party was a strong conservative party that followed it's core principle trump would have never won the nomination!!! Don't forget Hillary wanted Trump to win the nomination. He was the only one they thought that could beat!!! Edited July 17, 2017 by jtssrx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold War Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 15 minutes ago, Highmark said: Serious question why does it bother you what happens to the GOP? You are actually going to claim to be conservative? 15 minutes ago, racer254 said: The reality is that no one wanted an established Republican candidate, so every time a liberal like MC posts a topic about what rino's are doing, he proves how clueless he is. It makes them feel good reading this crap. Very soothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JEFF Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 Both parties need to die a quick death. They are one in the same. Anyone who says otherwise is a fool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted July 17, 2017 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted July 17, 2017 Joe Scarborough....WTF McCarthy Cat! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snoslinger Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 Just now, Biggie Smails said: Joe Scarborough....WTF McCarthy Cat! watches joe scarborough all the time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainecat Posted July 17, 2017 Author Share Posted July 17, 2017 1 hour ago, Highmark said: Serious question why does it bother you what happens to the GOP? You are actually going to claim to be conservative? The Conservative party was important to the country but to call it conservative today is laughable. It should be called the spend and fee party. Its why I am a registered independent I have voted many times for a republican over the years.....I still have hope but am doubtful the republicans can ever recover the "conservative" name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainecat Posted July 17, 2017 Author Share Posted July 17, 2017 1 hour ago, Snoslinger said: watches joe scarborough all the time Yeah he does but years of paint inhaling is his excuse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snoslinger Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 4 minutes ago, Mainecat said: Yeah he does but years of paint inhaling is his excuse i'll tune into fox "news" on occasion, just to see what BS they're peddling. w/in a few minutes I get pissed and have to change the channel. some of these clowns watch msnbc on a regular basis, and I found their claim that they want to see the lies a little hard to believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmo Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 3 minutes ago, Snoslinger said: i'll tune into fox "news" on occasion, just to see what BS they're peddling. w/in a few minutes I get pissed and have to change the channel. some of these clowns watch msnbc on a regular basis, and I found their claim that they want to see the lies a little hard to believe. Sounds like they're doing the same thing you are. But you find it hard to believe? That's odd... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainecat Posted July 17, 2017 Author Share Posted July 17, 2017 1 hour ago, Snoslinger said: i'll tune into fox "news" on occasion, just to see what BS they're peddling. w/in a few minutes I get pissed and have to change the channel. some of these clowns watch msnbc on a regular basis, and I found their claim that they want to see the lies a little hard to believe. They are still pushing Jr's "adoption" meeting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zambroski Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 24 minutes ago, Cold War said: It makes them feel good reading this crap. Very soothing. Yep. 1 hour ago, racer254 said: Geez you liberals are getting desperate. "getting"? 1 hour ago, Edmo said: Don't care. Hope he blows up Washington completely and we end up with realistic choices other than R and D. Me too. R's still don't want him there bit are afraid to "buck" him. Especially with the SE losses. Far right is fucked. and everything left of center is an inept clown show right now. If anything, all of DC is re-learning a few very important things right now about what America things of them. Still, Trump is truly winning. Just not on the liberal side. I guess he figured it's idiotic to waste time on bathroom gender issues for years. 11 minutes ago, Mainecat said: Yeah he does but years of paint inhaling is his excuse Look at you! Another site liberal idiot that has found his best place out of public and tucked away safely by himself in some sort of family supply job watching inanimate paper all day. BEST THING FOR YOU! Hell, I feel bad for the first person you encounter during the week I.bet they play an employee ass-grab game trying NOT to be the one that rings you out at your Liquor store. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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