The leadership of Congress from both parties is not going to disturb the status quo.. McConnel and Boehner are as guilty as Obama when looking at the sorry state of our Government’s debt and deficit spending, They have been around too long and will not lead a serious effort to constrain the growth of the federal government.
They have little if any more respect for the Consritution than the Obama Democrats.
The most telling facts of all when judging them come from what they do not do,
What is obvious is that serious opposition leads to “caveing in” and rhetoric about how we did all we could when in fact they abandon opposition efforts to defeat the “Radical Agenda” and expose the many lies and misrepresentations of this President and his many appointed administration officials formal and worse informal beyond congressional approval. Nothing will change untill we “the people” elect more “CONSERVATIVE” Representatives and Senators that will change the leadership and commitment of Congress to the “Oath of Office” to ” Protect and Defend the Constitution”.
A Congress doing so would have initiated “IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS” ALREADY!!.
2014 ELECTIONS CAN’T COME SOON ENOUGH AND HOPEFULLY WE DO NOT SEE THINGS GET TOO MUCH WORSE BY THEN.

What is the most scary word for most politicians? CHANGE. Why? Because they know how to deal with the status quo to keep themselves in power, and that is the real bottom line for most of them. They love their jobs and status more than they love their country or constituents. What we need to turn around this great nation is change, deep and long lasting change. That is not likely to happen on our terms with both Boehner and McConnell offering “leadership” in the Congress.

Of course McConnell is no longer going to fight it; he nor anyone in Congress will be affected by Obamacare. They’re exempt. And, heaven forbid, he wouldn’t want to insult Harry Reid.
So why should he break a sweat doing anything for the American people or to save America as a country? I’ve had it with these so-called ‘public servants’ who go to Congress to serve no one but themselves.

Maybe it’s time we request our senators (Ted Cruz? Rand Paul?) to submit a bill stating that Congress can not submit nor approve any bill they exempt themselves from.

Perhaps an amendment to the Constitution so they can’t wiggle out of the law.. I know, it’s drastic, but something has to be done. I’m tired of people getting elected to Congress and then forgetting who put them there.

Boehner, Cantor, McCarthy, McConnell & Graham must be primaried in 2014. There is no hope until these 5 are replaced.

I second that. How do we get their attention on that? I think they need to sbmit this bill over and over again and make it public that it was laughed at by the Democrats and establishment Repubs.

A flanking maneuver may be our best strategy here. While we could give the next President a legislature that is willing to kill Obamacare, even after the 2014 roll-out, this party is unlikely to allow the nomination of a President who will finish the job. The system is set up specifically to shepherd status quo candidates through the primaries and on to the general. And the status quo is, and always has been, “don’t rock the boat – much”. The Republican platform on Obamacare has shifted from eliminate to manage and reap.

To get the job done I believe we may need to go outside the party apparatus in the presidential primaries to nominate a reliably committed fiscal conservative. This is not a call to go third party (I think just heard somebody power up the blam stick). It is a call to work within the party to take Congress and outside the party to take the White House.

I’m short on time here and can’t develop this idea in comments anyway. And this may be the last comment I get to make today.

I’m well aware of the tower of power that is the two party system, but if the will of the people in 2016 is that Obamacare has to go, then we need to find somebody who can beat that system and campaign on genuine promises to eliminate PPACA root and branch (and don’t doubt that “repeal and replace” will be the big campaign cliche of 2016). I believe such a candidate can win the general, but the party will fight to prevent that candidate from emerging.

This will require from the Republican base something we revile and abhor. It will require activism. And some serious grass roots organizing. And some measure of disloyalty taken in earnest to save the party from itself. Oh, and a candidate willing to risk being cast out forever by the powers that be. That’s all.

And why does spell check keep telling me I’m misspelling Obamacare? What’s up with that?

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While we could give the next president a legislature that is willing to kill Obamacare, even after the 2014 roll-out, this party is unlikely to allow the nomination of a President who will finish the job.

They’re already pushing Jeb Bush – hard.

It shouldn’t even be news anymore when Republicans show themselves to be on the opposite side of conservatives.
The sad part is how Fox/Drudge/NatReview etc. will manipulate some conservatives into nominating another moderate (moderate is being kind) in 2016 as they did in 2008 and 2012.

When Rand Paul or Marco Rubio or Scott Walker rise up to take the lead in the primaries in 2016, Fox and Co. will come at them with the same force they did against Gingrich in ’12 to prevent him from being the nominee and ensuring that Romney would be the nominee.
Looking at how effective the fake conservative news outlets were in their messaging to destroy one Republican nominee and build up another in 2012, it makes you wonder why they cannot be equally effective in successfully pushing a conservative message to the whole country. Are they are only eloquent, dedicated and disciplined in message, and convincing when trying to tear down one of their own?

Every President since Eisenhower has been chosen by the NWO Globalists. We The People have never been given our own choice. Papa Bush was a founding member of the Trilateral Comm. Just about every person in every Presidential Administration belonged to the Trilatera/COFR/Bilderberg. Right now in Obama’s Admin there are 9 Bildebergs, 10 Council of Foreign Relations and 5 Trilaterals. Doesn’t look good does it? They will give us our next choice in 2016: Jeb Bush or Hillary Clinton both NWO Globalists. Allen West said it like it is ‘There are 80 communists in our government now. Some choice, Huh?

I was listening to Dana Loesch at CPAC on her radio show interviewing Rep Ann Wagner. Dana asked her what grade she gave Boehner for the job he is doing as speaker. Her answer was an A. It will be interesting to see her rating from Heritage Action because so far it sucks.

Interesting point and the seed of a potentially viable political strategy, namely, let the liberals screw things up so badly that the whole system collapses. Then come in and reinstitute a constitutional capitalistic system.

Not my favorite approach, but maybe the only one available.

All this shows is the real need for term limits. Either they get too tired to fight or being re-elected is more important than doing the right thing for the country. Governing is not easy and many times not popular but hard decisions need to be made and it appears our senior leaders are reluctant to take on the hard issues. I firmly believe that’s why DeMint left the Senate, he was disgusted with what was happening. Its pretty obvious to me that Obama Care is dragging down the economy and will continue to increase in cost while limiting medical care. Should be a no brainer to repeal it. All our government run programs are in the red due to mis-management and poor organization. (eg Postal Dept, SSN, Medicare, Food stamps, etc) We need to wake up and demand action of these leaders and replace them as soon as possible.

I don’t think that Erick taking a “Keith Olbermann” approach here
is the most productive. Announcing a new Republican “Worst Person in the World” every week is missing the point, and just injecting unnecessary turmoil into the discussion.

Fundamentally, I believe that Mitch McConnell, as well as Boehner, Cantor, and McCarthy, loves America as it was founded. It’s pretty clear that the other side doesn’t, and they are winning the battle to drag America into the pit of despair. You can make the argument that, when these Republican leaders had majorities, they showed a proclivity to advance Statism (they did many things wrong), but, you also have to put this in the context of them trying to support Bush (a good man, but who also did many things wrong). At this point, I think they need help in battling the Democrats, not constant scorn.

I believe that the Republican leaders are afraid to make aggressive moves based on past history. Erick favors a government shutdown, and, it’s possible that that might work in today’s context given the successes of the sequester. But, there is no guarantee that Obama won’t gain more power like Clinton did in 1995/1996 and use that to flip the House in 2014. This is, indeed, something to fear.

So, instead of creating more Republican casualties, how about we make productive proposals that attempt to achieve the same thing. I think the only realistic way to kill Obamacare, at this point, is death by a thousand cuts. Every bill generated by the Republicans should contain a razor blade that can be held up to public scrutiny, and can be used for political advantage. There are plenty of examples where Obamacare is inflicting pain on the large numbers of people, and Republicans can be seen as solving these problems for people, while the real intention is to systematically dismantle the bill. Let’s start by adding exemptions for small medical practices on digital record keeping, getting rid of the “Death Panel” (along with it’s allotted money), and removing the tax on medical devices.

In the end, if Obama gets to keep “Obamacare” as a legacy success, but, in reality, it no longer exists, is that the worst thing that could happen? I think that the worst thing that could happen is that Obama succeeds in fundamentally changing America. In order to stop that from happening, we need an intact opposition party, and we need to keep adding very smart and principled Ted Cruz like people to strengthen the bench, and, over time, we can change the leadership.

Sadly, it only applied to the programs that had already passed Congress at the time.

The media NEVER lets Democrat, liberal, progressive, communist screw -ups see the light of day.

Can someone explain how Ryan has thrown in the towel? I thought that his latest budget proposals still assumed repeal of the law.

It’s not that they’re exempt, but that they’re already provided public insurance through the government. They’re de facto unaffected by the law because they’re already covered; there’s not a provision in the law that says they can ignore it.

Did you see the “Autopsy” report issued by the RNC this morning? A GOP candidate for the 2016 election might look completely unrecognizable to the current platform.

Third parties are for tantrum throwers who don’t accomplish anything.