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  • Posted by $ Mimi 11 years, 10 months ago
    "He acknowledged that the chamber won’t be able “to get rid of” the health-care law, and instead pledged to pursue efforts such as repealing or altering the measure’s mandate for businesses to provide insurance.”

    Then, he will lose. Republicans just don’t get that it’s this lukewarm response that caused them to lose the election last time around while the Tea Party continued to gain steam. If they would just get behind a complete repeal approach the Tea Party would go the way of the Wigs.

    ETA: Perry shouldn’t run. He’s a distraction.
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    • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 11 years, 10 months ago
      You mean the Whigs of the Jacksonian and Antebellum era, 1832-1860. Like the English parliamentarians of the previous century, they were against a strong executive. That was not enough to hold the party together against slavery, sectionalism, and capitalism. The Whigs were for import tariffs as being "pro-business."

      You also must have meant that the GOP will go the way of the Whigs with the Tea Party being like the ascendent Republicans of 1856 and 1860 but just jammed your words together.

      However, I do not see that as much as a run to the Libertarian Party which has a 40-year history of modest success, especially at the local level. The LP does often pick conservative Republicans as nominees for President.

      Obamacare is also "pro business" in that it delivered everyone's healthcare insurance to a handful of compliant cronies. Of course, the Democratic Party also supported government grants and subsidies to pet businesses. Facts and statistics support an easy claim that the Democrats are the party of the rich and powerful, while the GOP's real base is among the true working class.
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  • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 11 years, 10 months ago
    "Pro-business" they claim. We have this here in Texas. Sen. John Cornyn is up for re-election. Gov. Perry is considering a run for the presidency. He is another "pro-business" Republican who pushes public funding of favored enterprises.

    Gulchers put up links from "conservative" news sources. That's fine, but my MAC address shows me ads for Sen. Cornyn with his NRA affiliation and "voted best conservative" and stuff like that. However Freedom Works reports this:
    Top 10 Bad Votes by Senator John Cornyn (R-TX)

    1. Cornyn Voted to Let Harry Reid Fund ObamaCare
    2. Cornyn Voted for the Wall Street Bailout (T.A.R.P.)
    3. Cornyn Voted for Medicare Part D
    4. Cornyn Voted to Increase the Federal Minimum Wage
    5. Cornyn Voted for the Fiscal Cliff Tax Hike
    6. Cornyn Voted against Fiscally Conservative Budgets
    7. Cornyn Supported Intrusive Internet Regulations (PIPA)
    8. Cornyn Voted to Allow Warrantless Data Collection on American Citizens
    9. Cornyn Has Voted to Raise the Debt Ceiling Eight Times
    10. Cornyn Voted to Reauthorize the Patriot Act
    Full story here:
    http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/jwithro...

    For me it was Number 7. It was "PIPA: Protect Internet Privacy Act." In the House the bill was called "SOPA: Stop Online Privacy Act." The Orwellian bill titles cover their exactly opposite intention. If someone illegally copies something and posts it on the Internet, and if the government cannot find that person, they can prosecute the website owner. We discussed this briefly among the Austin Tech Republicans but the online chat was quickly sidetracked, as happens.

    How did your local Republicans stand on government and the Internet?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_US_...
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  • Posted by Abaco 11 years, 10 months ago
    "Donohue said the organization will support candidates who favor trade, energy development and immigration reform." - Yeah? Where's the "pro-business" in that? These people think we're all idiots.
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  • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 11 years, 10 months ago
    "Moral Foundations of Capitalism" professor Dave Brat will challenge House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. National Review Online here:
    http://nationalreview.com/article/367690...

    "Brat’s background should make him especially appealing to conservative organizations. He chairs the department of economics and business at Randolph-Macon College and heads its BB&T Moral Foundations of Capitalism program. The funding for the program came from John Allison, the former CEO of BB&T (a financial-services company) who now heads the Cato Institute. The two share an affinity for Ayn Rand: Allison is a major supporter of the Ayn Rand Institute, and Brat co-authored a paper titled “An Analysis of the Moral Foundations in Ayn Rand.” Brat says that while he isn’t a Randian, he has been influenced by Atlas Shrugged and appreciates Rand’s case for human freedom and free markets."
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