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One Last Chance for the GOP

By: GISAP (Diary)  |  June 29th, 2012 at 02:07 PM  | 

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Last night, DrewM at Ace of Spades posted a final warning to RINO squish Republicans that deserves a wider audience. There’s a modicum of profanity in Drew’s version. Nevertheless, it should be used as a template for a letter-writing campaign to the members of Congress and candidates for office who dare to run as members of the Republican Party. I share Drew’s thought and feelings on the matter as do, I suspect, most of the main page posters here at Redstate. I invite everyone to copy and paste this into an email and send it to as many Republican politicians as you can. They get one last chance. Then we’re done with them:

Dear GOP,

This is your last chance. If you blow this, I’m out and you need to be destroyed.

What is it? Repeal ObamaCare on Day 1. Don’t worry about replace, don’t worry about anything else. We will do everything we have to drag your sorry asses over the line this fall, including electing Mitt [expletive deleted] Romney.

In return this is what you will do:

Instead of adjourning for pictures and tea and cake to celebrate getting your pathetic asses elected to 2 or 6 years on the government teet, you will immediately pass a one line bill that says, “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (and whatever statute number has to be included) is hereby repealed.”

That’s it. Nothing more, nothing less.

Since Congress meets before Inauguration Day, Obama will still be President. Simply hold the legislation at the desk so the 10 day pocket veto clock doesn’t start. If other parliamentary BS is needed, just do it.

Then as soon as Mitt takes the oath of office, before his speech no one will care or remember, walk the bill up to him at the podium to sign.

If this does not happen, the GOP must be destroyed and a new party built to replace it. We’ve tried the carrot approach (votes, money, volunteers) to change your behavior. Now it’s time to show you the stick.

No more, “oh the other guys are worse” scare tactics. That might be true but it doesn’t mean you are any good.

This is your one job, do it or join the Whig Party in the dustbin of history.

I removed the colorful gerund I’ve never seen posted at Redstate but I’m editing this on my iPhone so if I missed any, you all have my sincerest apologies.

Update: I can’t seem to fix the problem with the missing link to Drew’s post. Here is the URL: http://ace.mu.nu/archives/330556.php

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  • garfieldjl

    This needs to be repealed on day one.

    • krish

      McConnell is already openly said he is not going to oppose the Obamacare…after the backlash. kind of backtracked! You know where he stands?

      John Boehner & his cohorts in the house passed the transportation bill passed by senate! Another major debt busting program by Dems…..

      If not for passing of Obamacare, GOP would have lost the house too! I do not think the GOP will come through…the current bunch is only slightly better than dems!

      Only the Tea Party members of the House stood firm….most GOP leadership voted for the bill……we still think they will come through next year!

      If things do not change quickly or if we do not get rid of current GOP leadership, I think it is time for Tea Party people to unite & start a party!

      • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

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        • krish

          with supporters like you, the chances changing the direction of GOP is pretty bleak!!

          • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

            This is non-negotiable. Read the site rules.

          • mikeymike143

            and trust me, i dont like the RINO’s either, but thats we have primaries for. and the tea party is taking over the republican party, one seat at a time

          • civil truth

            And moderators get to decide who remains in the RedState community and who is shown the door.

          • Dave_A

            1) It has to be done by reconciliation, just like passage did – there will not be enough Republican and blue-dog votes to break a fillibuster.

            2) It has to be done by the NEW Congress – not the one currently seated – and in that NEW Congress, the Senate has to be composed of at least 50 Republicans, plus (Insert Mitt’s VP here) for the tiebreaker.

            3) The Democrats will do anything and everything they can to block passage. I would not be suprised if they leave and go to Canada or Mexico to block a quorum (like they did in Texas and Wisconsin).

            The repeal bill can be introduced on Day 1 of the new Congress – but it will be a FIGHT to move it through unless we steamroll the Dems 2008 style in November

            For this reason, it is critically important that every Republican running for Senate gets our full support – no matter if they’re a ‘Squish’ or not… Once the primaries are over, we need as many as we can get…

          • Dave_A

            Because the Constitution sets a quorum at a simple majority…

            So unless we’re 50/50 in the Senate, they can’t play the runaway game…

          • acat

            1) The Dems have far more senators up this year than the GOP does.

            2) Obama is snarfing up campaign money that’d normally go to other candidates.

            3) A *lot* of those Dems won, back in 2006, by running anti-Bush campaigns in purple States… Casey Jr. in PA comes to mind.

            We have a tremendous opportunity to elect Republicans .. and more importantly, in many cases we can elect Conservatives. Mourdock in Indiana, for instance.

            Join the $51 bucks for 51 seats … ?

            Mew

          • tnfriendofcoal101368

            The Canadians are pissed at them for blocking the Keystone XL pipeline but they can seek shelter with the Mexican Drug Cartels who are grateful to the Dems for running guns for them.

          • Dave_A

            Because if they do run, and there are at least 51 Republicans seated, then the GOP can just vote without them…

            Unlike many state legislatures, a Federal quorum is 50%+1.

          • acat

            Whether krish chooses to accept the advice or to burn the account …

            Mew

  • GISAP

    My link to AoSHQ and the title text were not published. I’ll have to try to fix it later when I’m at a computer. PIMF as we used to say. Sorry.

  • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

    Send it to your state GOP chairman, to your local GOP chairman, to your state rep to the RNC. They’re the ones watching the money. Let them know they’re about to be cut off not just with votes, but the $.

    Then send it to your reps at the state level and your governor if he’s GOP.

    In addition to this letter, I’m sending copies of Madison Project’s Hall of Shame to all AL reps along with a letter signed by several of my tea party and GOP friends. 4 of our 5 reps are in the Hall of Shame. I’m going to send a copy to Mo Brooks thanking him for not making the list which was no small feat considering he had no fellow legislators to back him up.

  • GISAP

    It was not my intention to abuse site rules by appearing to advocate abandoning the Republican Party for a new party. I will give them one more chance, including voting for pro-choice mega-squish Nan Hayworth in NY-18. One. Last. Time. If she and the rest of her ilk fail to repeal ObamaTax then I will choose not to vote again unless there is a committed TEA Party candidate on the ballot. It no longer matters if this means the seat goes to a Democrat. WE ARE ALREADY SCREWED. If we can only slow it down by electing squishes, let’s rip off the bandage and get to catastrophic collapse as fast as possible so we can rebuild.

    • krish

      Was making a supporting point to yours….Clearly mentioned that if we do not change direction or change the GOP leadership, it is doomsday for the country!

      I am sure that the RS posters want to save the country as badly as I do & may be, they have more confidence in GOP than some of us do! Our first duty is to save the country from becoming a Greece or Italy….not to a party!

      If GOP wins the WH & Senate & retain the House , how many of you are willing to bet that things will change drastically? I hope & pray that GOP does the right thing when they come to power for the sake of the country! But with the current leadership, I am not so sure?

  • clearasday

    I would dearly love to see Mitt Romney take a page from the Obama playbook and, if elected, set up his own “President Elect Podium” complete with seal and open his “Office of the President Elect” a few days after the election. Ah yes, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery…

    • sulmak

      It’s nauseating regardless of the president elect’s philosophy.

      • gravelyvoicejim

        On March 8, 2011 a bill was brought up by John Boehner for a vote in the House of Representatives. This was one of the early bills brought to a vote by the new Republican House Speaker. The bill, if eventually passed into law, would have expanded Obama Care. Red State reported it, the mainstream media, including FOX News, did not.

        http://www.redstate.com/russvought/2011/03/09/house-leadership-let-obamacare-expansion-pass/

        This day in 2011 was the day our republic died. The significance of this bill was that it exposed a willingness on the part of John Boehner and the House establishment REPUBLICANS to actually vote to EXPAND the very program they were elected by the American people a mere 4 months earlier to “repeal, replace, or defund”.

        Two essential questions need to be asked regarding this vote:

        1) Why in the world did John Boehner even bring this bill to a vote? (Was this a payback for a previous political deal?)

        2) How did our respective Republican representatives vote?

        95 establishment REPUBLICANS supported this bill as it eventually passed in the House. Sadly for those of us in Missouri, the Congressional Record shows that with the exception of Billy Long the entire Missouri Republican delegation voted FOR the bill. Among those casting a “yea” vote from Missouri was now establishment Senate candidate Todd Akin.

        http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll164.xml

        This vote was a canary in a coal mine. It should have served as an early indication to the American people that the Republican House we had just ushered in to power in 2010 had neither the political will nor the courage to stand on principle and fight to do whatever it took to stop Obama Care in its tracks. This lack of political will was later demonstrated throughout 2011 when this same Republican House cut deals with the Democrats to pass a series of CRs which raised the debt while funding the government through FY12. These 2011 CR deals funded early Obama Care programs, Planned Parenthood, the EPA, and a list of agencies and departments as long as Todd Akin’s arm that all Republicans will be campaigning against between now and November 6. Pledges and promises from any Republican who voted for the Obama Care expansion bill or any of the ensuing CRs (For the record – the CR votes implicate Missouri?s Billy Long as well) should be taken with a grain of salt in light of their voting record in 2011. House establishment Republicans extended a funding life-line to Obama Care throughout 2011 to get us to the point to relying on the opinion of a single Supreme Court Justice. So here we are, getting what we deserve because we allowed it to happen.

        Contrary to the opinion of some, John Roberts did not kill our republic with his ruling on June 28 2012. It had been dead for over a year at that point, at least since March 8 2011 if not before then. We just didn’t realize it. We had put our faith in the newly elected Republican House of Representatives then went back to sleep. Although I do not agree in any way with Roberts?s ruling, we got what we deserved for putting all our faith in the Republican establishment in November of 2010 then going back to bed. METALLICA, Enter Sandman, are we awake yet?

  • sulmak

    nt.

  • runner12

    I wholeheartedly endorse the sentiment behind it ( I understand some of it is hyperbole to make a good point ). On day one, Romney must issue a waiver to all of the states for ObamaCare. Within 10 days after that, Congress must repeal the bill. The one line suggested at Ace of Spades will suffice. Then replace it with a free-market solution to health care.

    If these things to not occur, the GOP goes the way of the Whigs.