The Republican House Wreckers Trying to Veto Democracy

[thereisnospoon]

In case you missed it, a strong and militant group of Republican members of Congress have pushed out their caucus leaders, paralyzed the House of Representatives, and can't seem to find anyone who is as right-wing as they are to be the next Speaker.

These guys -- and they are almost all guys; among 36 documented members, onlyone is a woman -- call themselves the Freedom Caucus. And with the exception ofone Latino from Idaho, the members of this invitation-only group are all white.

The ideology of the Freedom Caucus is far to the right and they want procedural commitments from any new Speaker that would allow them to effectively prevent any compromises with Democrats, and allow them to shut down the government when their extreme demands are not met.

An analysis in The Washington Post summarized the goals of the Freedom Caucus: to attain "explicit commitments from the next speaker to fully repeal Obamacare in a filibuster-proof bill, to make increases in the debt limit conditional on entitlement reform, to impeach the IRS commissioner, to forswear stop gap spending bills, and to defund Planned Parenthood, the president's immigration orders, and implementation of the Iran deal."

Moderate Republican Charlie Dent (Pa.) has been a leading critic of the Freedom Caucus because he still believes in bi-partisan governance.

"Whoever's going to be the next speaker should not appease this group of rejectionists, who have no interest in governing. They can simply not get to yes," said Dent.

"I don't think that any of our leaders should make accommodations to those who are going to make unreasonable demands."

I would also call them the "veto caucus." Their ultra-conservatism can't even win in the Republican-controlled House and Senate, much less in a general election, so they're trying to obstruct and delay anything they don't want to happen in the country. This means a minority of Republican House members can essentially veto democracy on a host of issues and prevent forward movement on things they don't like. And among the things they most dislike are the changing racial demographics of the new America we are becoming.

In the 36 districts represented by members of the Freedom Caucus, the population ranges from 61 percent white at the lowest, to 93 percent white at the highest. On average, across the 36 districts, the population is roughly 82 percent white. This is no coincidence: their districts have been deliberately gerrymandered to be heavily majority white districts and they vote -- or veto -- accordingly.

Here is the most tragic example of the veto caucus' power. The increasingly diverse immigration reform movement in America won over a majority of the country, a majority of Republicans, a majority of evangelicals, even a majority of white evangelicals. And it helped win a bi-partisan bill to reform our broken immigration system in the Senate. But a powerful, white, right-wing minority in Congress blocked immigration reform, leaving millions of people of color imprisoned and imperiled in a cruel system, prevented from ever becoming citizens.

So in addition to the rejectionist, veto caucus, I will also call these guys the "white-washed caucus." As white-washed elected officials from white-washed districts, they want to keep America white, or white-controlled, for as long as they possibly can. That means doing more racially motivated gerrymandering in congressional districts; engaging in the suppression of minority voters; blocking immigration reform; cutting virtually every program that benefits poor families and children of color; and undermining any progress toward racial and criminal justice.

"Basically, the party abandoned traditional conservatism for right-wing radicalism," says conservative columnist David Brooks, who refers to the group as the "Republican Incompetence Caucus."

Hearkening back to traditional definitions, Brooks explains that "conservatism stands for intellectual humility, a belief in steady, incremental change, a preference for reform rather than revolution, a respect for hierarchy, precedence, balance and order, and a tone of voice that is prudent, measured, and responsible."

The Republican House Wreckers Trying To Veto Democracy

Yes, sadly for America, the Republican Party has abandoned traditional conservatism for right-wing radicalism. It's pitiful to watch - and even more pitiful that America has to suffer during such dysfunction.

whomever writes this crap is ignoring the groundswell of opposition to the old guard RINO's who are more like democrats...
I predicted this many years ago after many GOP house and Senate members as well as the RNC abandoned their conservative principles for the sake of keeping their jobs.
They are now being pushed aside.
The RNC has no clout. 2 election cycles ago the idea of even ONE non establishment candidate for POTUS being anywhere near the lead in polling data would have been met with belly laughter..Now there are TWO....And the preferred RNC candidate( Jeb Bush) has NO SHOT at winning the nomination.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Just bumping a thread where I predicted Ben Carson had zero chance of finishing in the top 3 for the GOP nomination and faced a lot of opposition from RWNJ's. Anyone want to continue that opposition now after the 3rd debate?

What is an RWNJ?

A right wing nut job. Look in the mirror. It'll help you understand.

Ah, then I should not take you seriously.

Done. A while back.

 

[thereisnospoon]

In case you missed it, a strong and militant group of Republican members of Congress have pushed out their caucus leaders, paralyzed the House of Representatives, and can't seem to find anyone who is as right-wing as they are to be the next Speaker.

These guys -- and they are almost all guys; among 36 documented members, onlyone is a woman -- call themselves the Freedom Caucus. And with the exception ofone Latino from Idaho, the members of this invitation-only group are all white.

The ideology of the Freedom Caucus is far to the right and they want procedural commitments from any new Speaker that would allow them to effectively prevent any compromises with Democrats, and allow them to shut down the government when their extreme demands are not met.

An analysis in The Washington Post summarized the goals of the Freedom Caucus: to attain "explicit commitments from the next speaker to fully repeal Obamacare in a filibuster-proof bill, to make increases in the debt limit conditional on entitlement reform, to impeach the IRS commissioner, to forswear stop gap spending bills, and to defund Planned Parenthood, the president's immigration orders, and implementation of the Iran deal."

Moderate Republican Charlie Dent (Pa.) has been a leading critic of the Freedom Caucus because he still believes in bi-partisan governance.

"Whoever's going to be the next speaker should not appease this group of rejectionists, who have no interest in governing. They can simply not get to yes," said Dent.

"I don't think that any of our leaders should make accommodations to those who are going to make unreasonable demands."

I would also call them the "veto caucus." Their ultra-conservatism can't even win in the Republican-controlled House and Senate, much less in a general election, so they're trying to obstruct and delay anything they don't want to happen in the country. This means a minority of Republican House members can essentially veto democracy on a host of issues and prevent forward movement on things they don't like. And among the things they most dislike are the changing racial demographics of the new America we are becoming.

In the 36 districts represented by members of the Freedom Caucus, the population ranges from 61 percent white at the lowest, to 93 percent white at the highest. On average, across the 36 districts, the population is roughly 82 percent white. This is no coincidence: their districts have been deliberately gerrymandered to be heavily majority white districts and they vote -- or veto -- accordingly.

Here is the most tragic example of the veto caucus' power. The increasingly diverse immigration reform movement in America won over a majority of the country, a majority of Republicans, a majority of evangelicals, even a majority of white evangelicals. And it helped win a bi-partisan bill to reform our broken immigration system in the Senate. But a powerful, white, right-wing minority in Congress blocked immigration reform, leaving millions of people of color imprisoned and imperiled in a cruel system, prevented from ever becoming citizens.

So in addition to the rejectionist, veto caucus, I will also call these guys the "white-washed caucus." As white-washed elected officials from white-washed districts, they want to keep America white, or white-controlled, for as long as they possibly can. That means doing more racially motivated gerrymandering in congressional districts; engaging in the suppression of minority voters; blocking immigration reform; cutting virtually every program that benefits poor families and children of color; and undermining any progress toward racial and criminal justice.

"Basically, the party abandoned traditional conservatism for right-wing radicalism," says conservative columnist David Brooks, who refers to the group as the "Republican Incompetence Caucus."

Hearkening back to traditional definitions, Brooks explains that "conservatism stands for intellectual humility, a belief in steady, incremental change, a preference for reform rather than revolution, a respect for hierarchy, precedence, balance and order, and a tone of voice that is prudent, measured, and responsible."

The Republican House Wreckers Trying To Veto Democracy

Yes, sadly for America, the Republican Party has abandoned traditional conservatism for right-wing radicalism. It's pitiful to watch - and even more pitiful that America has to suffer during such dysfunction.

This entire piece is RACIST.....And YOU are a race baiting douche bag....You should be smarting from people rejecting your racially charged garbage.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Just bumping a thread where I predicted Ben Carson had zero chance of finishing in the top 3 for the GOP nomination and faced a lot of opposition from RWNJ's. Anyone want to continue that opposition now after the 3rd debate?

What is an RWNJ?

A right wing nut job. Look in the mirror. It'll help you understand.

Ah, then I should not take you seriously.

Done. A while back.

That's fine. Just remember my Ben Carson prediction. When you RWNJ's were pretending to be enthusiastic about him, I called you out that your party would NEVER vote for him.

 

[rdean]

Republicans want to replace Obamacare with "let him die". Will that really work?

 

[rdean]

You mean like government and all social programs?

Most of the Government, yes. All social programing included. Thise things do not fit within the limits of the US Constitution as currently written.

What would you keep?

 

[thereisnospoon]

In case you missed it, a strong and militant group of Republican members of Congress have pushed out their caucus leaders, paralyzed the House of Representatives, and can't seem to find anyone who is as right-wing as they are to be the next Speaker.

These guys -- and they are almost all guys; among 36 documented members, onlyone is a woman -- call themselves the Freedom Caucus. And with the exception ofone Latino from Idaho, the members of this invitation-only group are all white.

The ideology of the Freedom Caucus is far to the right and they want procedural commitments from any new Speaker that would allow them to effectively prevent any compromises with Democrats, and allow them to shut down the government when their extreme demands are not met.

An analysis in The Washington Post summarized the goals of the Freedom Caucus: to attain "explicit commitments from the next speaker to fully repeal Obamacare in a filibuster-proof bill, to make increases in the debt limit conditional on entitlement reform, to impeach the IRS commissioner, to forswear stop gap spending bills, and to defund Planned Parenthood, the president's immigration orders, and implementation of the Iran deal."

Moderate Republican Charlie Dent (Pa.) has been a leading critic of the Freedom Caucus because he still believes in bi-partisan governance.

"Whoever's going to be the next speaker should not appease this group of rejectionists, who have no interest in governing. They can simply not get to yes," said Dent.

"I don't think that any of our leaders should make accommodations to those who are going to make unreasonable demands."

I would also call them the "veto caucus." Their ultra-conservatism can't even win in the Republican-controlled House and Senate, much less in a general election, so they're trying to obstruct and delay anything they don't want to happen in the country. This means a minority of Republican House members can essentially veto democracy on a host of issues and prevent forward movement on things they don't like. And among the things they most dislike are the changing racial demographics of the new America we are becoming.

In the 36 districts represented by members of the Freedom Caucus, the population ranges from 61 percent white at the lowest, to 93 percent white at the highest. On average, across the 36 districts, the population is roughly 82 percent white. This is no coincidence: their districts have been deliberately gerrymandered to be heavily majority white districts and they vote -- or veto -- accordingly.

Here is the most tragic example of the veto caucus' power. The increasingly diverse immigration reform movement in America won over a majority of the country, a majority of Republicans, a majority of evangelicals, even a majority of white evangelicals. And it helped win a bi-partisan bill to reform our broken immigration system in the Senate. But a powerful, white, right-wing minority in Congress blocked immigration reform, leaving millions of people of color imprisoned and imperiled in a cruel system, prevented from ever becoming citizens.

So in addition to the rejectionist, veto caucus, I will also call these guys the "white-washed caucus." As white-washed elected officials from white-washed districts, they want to keep America white, or white-controlled, for as long as they possibly can. That means doing more racially motivated gerrymandering in congressional districts; engaging in the suppression of minority voters; blocking immigration reform; cutting virtually every program that benefits poor families and children of color; and undermining any progress toward racial and criminal justice.

"Basically, the party abandoned traditional conservatism for right-wing radicalism," says conservative columnist David Brooks, who refers to the group as the "Republican Incompetence Caucus."

Hearkening back to traditional definitions, Brooks explains that "conservatism stands for intellectual humility, a belief in steady, incremental change, a preference for reform rather than revolution, a respect for hierarchy, precedence, balance and order, and a tone of voice that is prudent, measured, and responsible."

The Republican House Wreckers Trying To Veto Democracy

Yes, sadly for America, the Republican Party has abandoned traditional conservatism for right-wing radicalism. It's pitiful to watch - and even more pitiful that America has to suffer during such dysfunction.

Good.

There's a lot of stuff needs stopping.

These libs believe government exists to "fix their problems"....And if that fails, they accuse those in opposition to placing a bandage on their boo boo of being obstructionist....
Their Chosen One, says "Pass a bill I am willing to sign"......Which in effect means, "Do my bidding or I will instruct my operatives in the media to blame YOU and label YOU as obstructionist"
Its all a political game to these people.
And we on the political right have had it with this shit.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Just bumping a thread where I predicted Ben Carson had zero chance of finishing in the top 3 for the GOP nomination and faced a lot of opposition from RWNJ's. Anyone want to continue that opposition now after the 3rd debate?

What is an RWNJ?

A right wing nut job. Look in the mirror. It'll help you understand.

Ah, then I should not take you seriously.

Done. A while back.

That's fine. Just remember my Ben Carson prediction. When you RWNJ's were pretending to be enthusiastic about him, I called you out that your party would NEVER vote for him.

My only concern is that the Democrats be driven from power.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Just bumping a thread where I predicted Ben Carson had zero chance of finishing in the top 3 for the GOP nomination and faced a lot of opposition from RWNJ's. Anyone want to continue that opposition now after the 3rd debate?

What is an RWNJ?

A right wing nut job. Look in the mirror. It'll help you understand.

Ah, then I should not take you seriously.

Done. A while back.

That's fine. Just remember my Ben Carson prediction. When you RWNJ's were pretending to be enthusiastic about him, I called you out that your party would NEVER vote for him.

My only concern is that the Democrats be driven from power.

Okay.

 

[Anathema]

What would you keep?

Only items that DIRECTLY fall under thr 18 SPECIFIC items listed i. Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution.

That means a slew of Departments would be eliminated in total (Education, Energy, Interior, etc...). It would eliminate ALL Social spending, all foeign aid, and most disaster relief.

Basically, it would GUT the US Budget completely.

 

[whitehall]

The "Freedom Caucus" ain't the enemy of republicans anymore than the ultra radical "Black Caucus" is the enemy of the democrat party. Why would lefties be concerned with the internal workings of the republican party and not be concerned with the way the democrat party seems to be drifting towards socialism and anarchy? Political dirty tricks?

 

[thereisnospoon]

You mean like government and all social programs?

Most of the Government, yes. All social programing included. Thise things do not fit within the limits of the US Constitution as currently written.

What would you keep?

All of the essential functions of government.
I would also keep medicare. SNAP, and a few other social programs. There are conditions. ALL of those lists will be purged of the people gaming the system.....Only those who are truly in need will receive benefits. Our active military and veterans will be far better treated. Pay for enlisted soldiers will be increased by one third....
The following departments will be disbanded
The Dept of HUD...
The Dept of education
The FAA will become a hybrid of public private investment....The computer system that keeps the aircraft from crashing is archaic. Government red tape and mountains of silly regulations that do nothing but keep mid and upper level managers in a paycheck prevent the FAA from upgrading the technologies that could save air carriers billions of dollars. The flying public countless hours of wasted time
No more federal intervention in public education.
The dept of justice will operate under strict rules that prevent it from interfering in local and state matters. No more lawsuits naming state government's as defendants just because they do not kow tow to the Executive Branch's wishes. These lawsuits cost American taxpayers billions of wasted dollars.

 

[thereisnospoon]

In case you missed it, a strong and militant group of Republican members of Congress have pushed out their caucus leaders, paralyzed the House of Representatives, and can't seem to find anyone who is as right-wing as they are to be the next Speaker.

These guys -- and they are almost all guys; among 36 documented members, onlyone is a woman -- call themselves the Freedom Caucus. And with the exception ofone Latino from Idaho, the members of this invitation-only group are all white.

The ideology of the Freedom Caucus is far to the right and they want procedural commitments from any new Speaker that would allow them to effectively prevent any compromises with Democrats, and allow them to shut down the government when their extreme demands are not met.

An analysis in The Washington Post summarized the goals of the Freedom Caucus: to attain "explicit commitments from the next speaker to fully repeal Obamacare in a filibuster-proof bill, to make increases in the debt limit conditional on entitlement reform, to impeach the IRS commissioner, to forswear stop gap spending bills, and to defund Planned Parenthood, the president's immigration orders, and implementation of the Iran deal."

Moderate Republican Charlie Dent (Pa.) has been a leading critic of the Freedom Caucus because he still believes in bi-partisan governance.

"Whoever's going to be the next speaker should not appease this group of rejectionists, who have no interest in governing. They can simply not get to yes," said Dent.

"I don't think that any of our leaders should make accommodations to those who are going to make unreasonable demands."

I would also call them the "veto caucus." Their ultra-conservatism can't even win in the Republican-controlled House and Senate, much less in a general election, so they're trying to obstruct and delay anything they don't want to happen in the country. This means a minority of Republican House members can essentially veto democracy on a host of issues and prevent forward movement on things they don't like. And among the things they most dislike are the changing racial demographics of the new America we are becoming.

In the 36 districts represented by members of the Freedom Caucus, the population ranges from 61 percent white at the lowest, to 93 percent white at the highest. On average, across the 36 districts, the population is roughly 82 percent white. This is no coincidence: their districts have been deliberately gerrymandered to be heavily majority white districts and they vote -- or veto -- accordingly.

Here is the most tragic example of the veto caucus' power. The increasingly diverse immigration reform movement in America won over a majority of the country, a majority of Republicans, a majority of evangelicals, even a majority of white evangelicals. And it helped win a bi-partisan bill to reform our broken immigration system in the Senate. But a powerful, white, right-wing minority in Congress blocked immigration reform, leaving millions of people of color imprisoned and imperiled in a cruel system, prevented from ever becoming citizens.

So in addition to the rejectionist, veto caucus, I will also call these guys the "white-washed caucus." As white-washed elected officials from white-washed districts, they want to keep America white, or white-controlled, for as long as they possibly can. That means doing more racially motivated gerrymandering in congressional districts; engaging in the suppression of minority voters; blocking immigration reform; cutting virtually every program that benefits poor families and children of color; and undermining any progress toward racial and criminal justice.

"Basically, the party abandoned traditional conservatism for right-wing radicalism," says conservative columnist David Brooks, who refers to the group as the "Republican Incompetence Caucus."

Hearkening back to traditional definitions, Brooks explains that "conservatism stands for intellectual humility, a belief in steady, incremental change, a preference for reform rather than revolution, a respect for hierarchy, precedence, balance and order, and a tone of voice that is prudent, measured, and responsible."

The Republican House Wreckers Trying To Veto Democracy

Yes, sadly for America, the Republican Party has abandoned traditional conservatism for right-wing radicalism. It's pitiful to watch - and even more pitiful that America has to suffer during such dysfunction.

Fuck 'em. They'll be voted out soon enough.

HA...This is only the beginning. It starts here.
BTW, what you see as right wing radicalism, is merely the GOP being steered back from the middle to the right.....Labels do not matter....RINO's who may as well change parties are being pushed out.

 

[thereisnospoon]

In case you missed it, a strong and militant group of Republican members of Congress have pushed out their caucus leaders, paralyzed the House of Representatives, and can't seem to find anyone who is as right-wing as they are to be the next Speaker.

These guys -- and they are almost all guys; among 36 documented members, onlyone is a woman -- call themselves the Freedom Caucus. And with the exception ofone Latino from Idaho, the members of this invitation-only group are all white.

The ideology of the Freedom Caucus is far to the right and they want procedural commitments from any new Speaker that would allow them to effectively prevent any compromises with Democrats, and allow them to shut down the government when their extreme demands are not met.

An analysis in The Washington Post summarized the goals of the Freedom Caucus: to attain "explicit commitments from the next speaker to fully repeal Obamacare in a filibuster-proof bill, to make increases in the debt limit conditional on entitlement reform, to impeach the IRS commissioner, to forswear stop gap spending bills, and to defund Planned Parenthood, the president's immigration orders, and implementation of the Iran deal."

Moderate Republican Charlie Dent (Pa.) has been a leading critic of the Freedom Caucus because he still believes in bi-partisan governance.

"Whoever's going to be the next speaker should not appease this group of rejectionists, who have no interest in governing. They can simply not get to yes," said Dent.

"I don't think that any of our leaders should make accommodations to those who are going to make unreasonable demands."

I would also call them the "veto caucus." Their ultra-conservatism can't even win in the Republican-controlled House and Senate, much less in a general election, so they're trying to obstruct and delay anything they don't want to happen in the country. This means a minority of Republican House members can essentially veto democracy on a host of issues and prevent forward movement on things they don't like. And among the things they most dislike are the changing racial demographics of the new America we are becoming.

In the 36 districts represented by members of the Freedom Caucus, the population ranges from 61 percent white at the lowest, to 93 percent white at the highest. On average, across the 36 districts, the population is roughly 82 percent white. This is no coincidence: their districts have been deliberately gerrymandered to be heavily majority white districts and they vote -- or veto -- accordingly.

Here is the most tragic example of the veto caucus' power. The increasingly diverse immigration reform movement in America won over a majority of the country, a majority of Republicans, a majority of evangelicals, even a majority of white evangelicals. And it helped win a bi-partisan bill to reform our broken immigration system in the Senate. But a powerful, white, right-wing minority in Congress blocked immigration reform, leaving millions of people of color imprisoned and imperiled in a cruel system, prevented from ever becoming citizens.

So in addition to the rejectionist, veto caucus, I will also call these guys the "white-washed caucus." As white-washed elected officials from white-washed districts, they want to keep America white, or white-controlled, for as long as they possibly can. That means doing more racially motivated gerrymandering in congressional districts; engaging in the suppression of minority voters; blocking immigration reform; cutting virtually every program that benefits poor families and children of color; and undermining any progress toward racial and criminal justice.

"Basically, the party abandoned traditional conservatism for right-wing radicalism," says conservative columnist David Brooks, who refers to the group as the "Republican Incompetence Caucus."

Hearkening back to traditional definitions, Brooks explains that "conservatism stands for intellectual humility, a belief in steady, incremental change, a preference for reform rather than revolution, a respect for hierarchy, precedence, balance and order, and a tone of voice that is prudent, measured, and responsible."

The Republican House Wreckers Trying To Veto Democracy

Yes, sadly for America, the Republican Party has abandoned traditional conservatism for right-wing radicalism. It's pitiful to watch - and even more pitiful that America has to suffer during such dysfunction.

Good.

There's a lot of stuff needs stopping.

You mean like government and all social programs?

What we currently have is not government, but totalitarian control, and yes, any social programs not specifically targeted to American citizens should be halted immediately.

The rest we can decide based upon actual need and benefit to the nation.

Our current public policy of deferring to foreign governments and people not Americans must end.
All immigrants will agree to assimilate to the distinct American culture or they will not be admitted.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Just bumping a thread where I predicted Ben Carson had zero chance of finishing in the top 3 for the GOP nomination and faced a lot of opposition from RWNJ's. Anyone want to continue that opposition now after the 3rd debate?

What is an RWNJ?

anyone who does not pledge allegiance to the liberal agenda

 

[thereisnospoon]

In case you missed it, a strong and militant group of Republican members of Congress have pushed out their caucus leaders, paralyzed the House of Representatives, and can't seem to find anyone who is as right-wing as they are to be the next Speaker.

These guys -- and they are almost all guys; among 36 documented members, onlyone is a woman -- call themselves the Freedom Caucus. And with the exception ofone Latino from Idaho, the members of this invitation-only group are all white.

The ideology of the Freedom Caucus is far to the right and they want procedural commitments from any new Speaker that would allow them to effectively prevent any compromises with Democrats, and allow them to shut down the government when their extreme demands are not met.

An analysis in The Washington Post summarized the goals of the Freedom Caucus: to attain "explicit commitments from the next speaker to fully repeal Obamacare in a filibuster-proof bill, to make increases in the debt limit conditional on entitlement reform, to impeach the IRS commissioner, to forswear stop gap spending bills, and to defund Planned Parenthood, the president's immigration orders, and implementation of the Iran deal."

Moderate Republican Charlie Dent (Pa.) has been a leading critic of the Freedom Caucus because he still believes in bi-partisan governance.

"Whoever's going to be the next speaker should not appease this group of rejectionists, who have no interest in governing. They can simply not get to yes," said Dent.

"I don't think that any of our leaders should make accommodations to those who are going to make unreasonable demands."

I would also call them the "veto caucus." Their ultra-conservatism can't even win in the Republican-controlled House and Senate, much less in a general election, so they're trying to obstruct and delay anything they don't want to happen in the country. This means a minority of Republican House members can essentially veto democracy on a host of issues and prevent forward movement on things they don't like. And among the things they most dislike are the changing racial demographics of the new America we are becoming.

In the 36 districts represented by members of the Freedom Caucus, the population ranges from 61 percent white at the lowest, to 93 percent white at the highest. On average, across the 36 districts, the population is roughly 82 percent white. This is no coincidence: their districts have been deliberately gerrymandered to be heavily majority white districts and they vote -- or veto -- accordingly.

Here is the most tragic example of the veto caucus' power. The increasingly diverse immigration reform movement in America won over a majority of the country, a majority of Republicans, a majority of evangelicals, even a majority of white evangelicals. And it helped win a bi-partisan bill to reform our broken immigration system in the Senate. But a powerful, white, right-wing minority in Congress blocked immigration reform, leaving millions of people of color imprisoned and imperiled in a cruel system, prevented from ever becoming citizens.

So in addition to the rejectionist, veto caucus, I will also call these guys the "white-washed caucus." As white-washed elected officials from white-washed districts, they want to keep America white, or white-controlled, for as long as they possibly can. That means doing more racially motivated gerrymandering in congressional districts; engaging in the suppression of minority voters; blocking immigration reform; cutting virtually every program that benefits poor families and children of color; and undermining any progress toward racial and criminal justice.

"Basically, the party abandoned traditional conservatism for right-wing radicalism," says conservative columnist David Brooks, who refers to the group as the "Republican Incompetence Caucus."

Hearkening back to traditional definitions, Brooks explains that "conservatism stands for intellectual humility, a belief in steady, incremental change, a preference for reform rather than revolution, a respect for hierarchy, precedence, balance and order, and a tone of voice that is prudent, measured, and responsible."

The Republican House Wreckers Trying To Veto Democracy

Yes, sadly for America, the Republican Party has abandoned traditional conservatism for right-wing radicalism. It's pitiful to watch - and even more pitiful that America has to suffer during such dysfunction.

Good.

There's a lot of stuff needs stopping.

You mean like government and all social programs?

What we currently have is not government, but totalitarian control, and yes, any social programs not specifically targeted to American citizens should be halted immediately.

The rest we can decide based upon actual need and benefit to the nation.

Gee, our black president sure brought you peckerwoods out of the woodwork. Where were you during the white Bush Administration?

Another racist comment. Karma will get you...

 

[TheOldSchool]

Just bumping a thread where I predicted Ben Carson had zero chance of finishing in the top 3 for the GOP nomination and faced a lot of opposition from RWNJ's. Anyone want to continue that opposition now after the 3rd debate?

What is an RWNJ?

anyone who does not pledge allegiance to the liberal agenda

Calm down RINO.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Unions = whites built them
Regulations for clean air and water = whites put them in place
Abolishing slavery and child labor = whites did it
Building massive high ways and train tracks. Funded by whites.
Building the giant middle class we had in the 20th century. Whites did that.
Educating a large part of our population - whites
Going to the moon = whites
Making the internet = whites
No, don't blame whites for this...Blame the super rich finally undermining all the reforms of the early 20th century after 100 fucking years. They want a huge population of piss poor peasants to use as cheap labor.

Sadly, the little white guy has been brainwashed and is now fucking himself!

Why do you insist on falling into the trap of a blatant racist? Stop it.
Do not engage. You only encourage lakota to post more racist shit...

 

[thereisnospoon]

Just bumping a thread where I predicted Ben Carson had zero chance of finishing in the top 3 for the GOP nomination and faced a lot of opposition from RWNJ's. Anyone want to continue that opposition now after the 3rd debate?

What is an RWNJ?

anyone who does not pledge allegiance to the liberal agenda

Calm down RINO.

Smart ass come backs don't change the facts, there Petey

 

[thereisnospoon]

In case you missed it, a strong and militant group of Republican members of Congress have pushed out their caucus leaders, paralyzed the House of Representatives, and can't seem to find anyone who is as right-wing as they are to be the next Speaker.

These guys -- and they are almost all guys; among 36 documented members, onlyone is a woman -- call themselves the Freedom Caucus. And with the exception ofone Latino from Idaho, the members of this invitation-only group are all white.

The ideology of the Freedom Caucus is far to the right and they want procedural commitments from any new Speaker that would allow them to effectively prevent any compromises with Democrats, and allow them to shut down the government when their extreme demands are not met.

An analysis in The Washington Post summarized the goals of the Freedom Caucus: to attain "explicit commitments from the next speaker to fully repeal Obamacare in a filibuster-proof bill, to make increases in the debt limit conditional on entitlement reform, to impeach the IRS commissioner, to forswear stop gap spending bills, and to defund Planned Parenthood, the president's immigration orders, and implementation of the Iran deal."

Moderate Republican Charlie Dent (Pa.) has been a leading critic of the Freedom Caucus because he still believes in bi-partisan governance.

"Whoever's going to be the next speaker should not appease this group of rejectionists, who have no interest in governing. They can simply not get to yes," said Dent.

"I don't think that any of our leaders should make accommodations to those who are going to make unreasonable demands."

I would also call them the "veto caucus." Their ultra-conservatism can't even win in the Republican-controlled House and Senate, much less in a general election, so they're trying to obstruct and delay anything they don't want to happen in the country. This means a minority of Republican House members can essentially veto democracy on a host of issues and prevent forward movement on things they don't like. And among the things they most dislike are the changing racial demographics of the new America we are becoming.

In the 36 districts represented by members of the Freedom Caucus, the population ranges from 61 percent white at the lowest, to 93 percent white at the highest. On average, across the 36 districts, the population is roughly 82 percent white. This is no coincidence: their districts have been deliberately gerrymandered to be heavily majority white districts and they vote -- or veto -- accordingly.

Here is the most tragic example of the veto caucus' power. The increasingly diverse immigration reform movement in America won over a majority of the country, a majority of Republicans, a majority of evangelicals, even a majority of white evangelicals. And it helped win a bi-partisan bill to reform our broken immigration system in the Senate. But a powerful, white, right-wing minority in Congress blocked immigration reform, leaving millions of people of color imprisoned and imperiled in a cruel system, prevented from ever becoming citizens.

So in addition to the rejectionist, veto caucus, I will also call these guys the "white-washed caucus." As white-washed elected officials from white-washed districts, they want to keep America white, or white-controlled, for as long as they possibly can. That means doing more racially motivated gerrymandering in congressional districts; engaging in the suppression of minority voters; blocking immigration reform; cutting virtually every program that benefits poor families and children of color; and undermining any progress toward racial and criminal justice.

"Basically, the party abandoned traditional conservatism for right-wing radicalism," says conservative columnist David Brooks, who refers to the group as the "Republican Incompetence Caucus."

Hearkening back to traditional definitions, Brooks explains that "conservatism stands for intellectual humility, a belief in steady, incremental change, a preference for reform rather than revolution, a respect for hierarchy, precedence, balance and order, and a tone of voice that is prudent, measured, and responsible."

The Republican House Wreckers Trying To Veto Democracy

Yes, sadly for America, the Republican Party has abandoned traditional conservatism for right-wing radicalism. It's pitiful to watch - and even more pitiful that America has to suffer during such dysfunction.

Fuck 'em. They'll be voted out soon enough.

Hmmm, I've heard that somewhere before. IIRC it was just before the Republicans had a clean sweep victory in Ohio.

Oh okay. I bet Ohio goes blue for the 3rd election in a row in 2016.

The amount of your wager is?
And why would Ohio voters do this?
Why would they vote against their own interests?