Republican party as divided as ever

[MickZagger]

http://news.yahoo.com/republican-party-seems-divided-angry-ever-140632093--election.html

I'm not making this up folks. There's no fine print. The Repubs are spiraling out of control and its not looking good.

 

[MickZagger]

Infighting has penetrated the highest levels of the House GOP leadership. Long-standing geographic tensions have increased, pitting endangered Northeastern Republicans against their colleagues from other parts of the country. Enraged tea party leaders are threatening to knock off dozens of Republicans who supported a measure that raised taxes on the nation's highest earners.

"People are mad as hell. I'm right there with them," Amy Kremer, chairman of the Tea Party Express, said late last week, declaring that she has "no confidence" in the party her members typically support. Her remarks came after GOP lawmakers agreed to higher taxes but no broad spending cuts as part of a deal to avert the "fiscal cliff."

Gawd this is getting down right comical. Just give up politics you die hard neo con's, its not your cup.

 

[BrianFromWA]

doesn't surprise me...I'm one that doesn't like what the R's have been for since Newt.

I think the friction is that people who are fiscally conservative and are backing the Tea Party (or who can just read a budget and know that the country isn't heading down the right track) are fighting with the guys who "scrap tooth and nail" to "compromise" to keep us from "going over the fiscal cliff" and who don't accomplish much of anything.

I mean, since the military's been cut, left Iraq and drawn down from Afghanistan (with everyone seemingly home by 2014) with more cuts on the way--where did those savings go? Why isn't Boehner or Ryan or McConnell pulling out charts and graphs and news conferences and educating people?

I don't think believers in the D platform are going to like what the new-look R party ends up as.

 

[maxiep]

I'm not worried. Rhetoric won't decide who's right; math will.

 

[PapaG]

I'm not worried. Rhetoric won't decide who's right; math will.

"Low information voters" don't care about long-term math. They care about sizzle, sound bites, and band aids.

 

[jlprk]

I'm not worried. Rhetoric won't decide who's right; math will.

I agree. Rhetoric has been the Republican energizer for 30 years, but from now on, math will be a big downer.

This is why I say our choice isn't whether the country goes down the drain, it's how fast. Democrats will crash it slowly, while Republicans want an immediate hard landing a decade earlier. Because of competition from China, the new reality will be permanent, not temporary.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

http://news.yahoo.com/republican-party-seems-divided-angry-ever-140632093--election.html

I'm not making this up folks. There's no fine print. The Repubs are spiraling out of control and its not looking good.

Meh. And the dems go through the same thing. Worthless thread.

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

From that article.... It sounds more like the tea party, who typically support the R's, are upset and divided from the R's, rather than the R's all feasting on themselves. But let's not worry about a misleading title.

 

[maxiep]

From that article.... It sounds more like the tea party, who typically support the R's, are upset and divided from the R's, rather than the R's all feasting on themselves. But let's not worry about a misleading title.

There are three pillars to the Republican Party since Reagan: Social Conservatives, Limited Government and Fiscally Responsible Folks (aka Libertarians) and Strong National Security People. Generally they overlap, but the big divide is between the Social Conservatives and everyone else. The Tea Party is essentially the Libertarian Wing of the GOP and Obama's policies have brought their concerns to the forefront.