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Over at the left-wing Politico, media reporter Hadas Gold does an admirable if unconvincing job to rescue NBC News from criticism that erupted Monday after NBC turned its network universe over to the Hillary Clinton campaign for three days. On
It appears as if those conservative “wacko birds” in the U.S. House of Representatives really do have a lot of sway up in Washington, D.C.
Philip Bump, Washington Post reporter, is ready to criticize or talk down every candidate for President not named Hillary Clinton. But her, he’s ready to stick up for. He claims that “our technical ignorance” is hurting her. Sorry, I’m not technically ignorant. I’ve personally set up email servers from scratch. And Hillary Clinton was negligent in keeping her email on servers far below the appropriate | Read More »
There comes a time when a “scandal” becomes a crime and in the case of Hillary Clinton, revealing the identity of a CIA source certainly seems to fit that description, even to a non-lawyer like me. Trey Gowdy, tired of leaks from Democrats on the Select Committee on Benghazi, designed to make Hillary Clinton look sympathetic, sent a blistering letter to Elijah Cummings who has | Read More »
By Scott Wong and Peter Schroeder - 10/10/15 06:00 AM EDT
The Republican Party is having an identity crisis.
Donald Trump and other outsiders are thumping establishment candidates in the GOP presidential primary. Conservative rebels on Capitol Hill forced Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) into retirement. And this week, the rebels claimed the scalp of Boehner's top deputy, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who bowed out of the race for Speaker after they issued harsh demands of him.
“We're going through a hell of a lot of turbulence right now, and I think our party has to make a determination: Do we want to govern or do we want to protest?” said Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), a leader of the centrist GOP caucus known as the Tuesday Group.
The intraparty warfare playing out on the presidential campaign trail and on the Hill reflects deep-seated frustration. Republicans hold both chambers of Congress, yet have been unable to advance a conservative agenda with a Democrat still in the White House.
“Congress is representative of the American psyche. Right now, we're dysfunctional. America’s dysfunctional,” said Rep. Dennis Ross (R-Fla.), a backer of Jeb Bush’s presidential bid who had been running for majority whip until McCarthy’s stunning implosion.
“Trump is gaining in the polls with more negative behavior, but the American people are clinging to that because they want to see some type of leadership,” Ross added. “Unfortunately we're not seeing positive leadership.”
On Capitol Hill, much of the fight boils down to tactics. The House Freedom Caucus, a bloc of roughly 40 conservative rebels, wants to fight for sweeping change like the repeal of ObamaCare, the end of Planned Parenthood funding and the abolishment of the Export-Import Bank.
Many of Boehner’s allies in the House want to play small ball, strategically passing packages of bills that could clear the 60-vote threshold in the Senate and make it to President Obama’s desk. Many of the Freedom Caucus’s ideas couldn’t overcome a Democratic-led filibuster in the upper chamber, the allies contend.
“We all have a fairly common vision,” said Republican Study Committee Chairman Bill Flores (R-Texas), who’s mulling a bid for Speaker. “Sometimes we have disagreement on how you get there.”
But pursuing a politically unrealistic agenda is harming the GOP’s chances to take back the White House in 2016, some Republicans argue.
“We've been given a historic opportunity with a historic majority in the House and Senate,” said Rep. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.), who represents a swing district that sits on the border with Mexico. “The American people are looking for us to govern. They feel like they just gave more power to Republicans, and they are waiting to see if we are going to be good stewards of that.”
With McCarthy making an unexpected exit from the Speaker’s race, all eyes turned to popular Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), seen by many as the only one with the gravitas, experience and communication skills to bring together the fractured 247-member conference.
But several Republicans warned that the party needed to get its house in order before installing another Speaker. Boehner has vowed to stay on until a successor is elected.
"We've got to do some introspection in regards to what we want and what's realistic in terms of what a Speaker can deliver," said Rep. Richard Nugent (R-Fla.), a former sheriff who’s clashed with Boehner in the past. "Until that's resolved, rushing into just having another vote, I think, is a mistake."
Both Nugent and Ross were swept into office in the 2010 Tea Party wave that handed the GOP control of the House and elected a bumper crop of deficit-slashing rabble rousers. The party is still going through growing pains half a decade later, Ross said.
The cycle usually plays out like this: Facing a fast-approaching deadline, GOP leaders try to find a common solution with conservatives; the caucus splinters, leaders are forced to cut a deal with Democrats, and the hard right erupts.
Now, House Republicans are left wondering whether they change the way they do business — in a way that allows for disagreement, while giving every member a chance to be heard.
"With all due respect to Paul [Ryan] … we're setting the next Speaker up for failure if we don't have a consensus process in place," Ross said.
To many Freedom Caucus members, real change would look like this: ending the culture of punishment for those who don’t toe the line, barring GOP leaders from supporting primary challenges to sitting members, allowing more input about who gets committee gavels, and bringing more bills to the floor.
“If you follow the rules, take power away from the few people at the top, and give it to the members,” said Freedom Caucus Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), “you’ve got a lot better chance of accomplishing what we told the voters we were going to do.”
But GOP moderates, who feel like their voices are being drowned out by a vocal minority, are skeptical there are process fixes that can heal the party divisions.
"When you're’ dealing with 240 plus voices, how does every voice get heard on every issue to their satisfaction?" asked Rep. Pat Meehan (R-Pa.).
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/256582-gop-plunges-into-identity-...
What a dilemma....they have to choose whether to stay RINO or not??? Too Funny...
Sadly, that is what it comes down to, it should not even be a question but our country has fallen greatly in the last couple of decades.
October 10, 2015, 10:12 am
By Bradford Richardson
Hillary Clinton is dragging her feet into the first Democratic primary debate on Tuesday, dropping 10 points in less than a week, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday.
Both Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Vice President Biden, who has yet to announce whether he will run for president, gained supporters from Clinton’s loss.
Sanders’ support increased from 24 to 28 percent over the same time frame, and Biden jumped from 16 to 20 percent support.
Clinton, the prohibitive favorite to win the Democratic nomination when she announced her campaign in June, has taken ongoing criticism for the use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of State.
Clinton has apologized for her server and turned over work-related emails to the State Department, which is making them public in bunches.
Benghazi Special Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) said he will release an additional batch of Clinton emails purporting to show her foreign policy in Libya was influenced by special interests.
Democrats are again accusing the panel of politicizing the 2012 terrorist attack on the Benghazi embassy, after House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy linked the committee’s work to Clinton’s sliding poll numbers.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted Oct. 9 and includes 624 respondents. The margin of error is 4.5 percent.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/256586-poll-clinton-drops-10-po...
I wonder if this means anything at all. Hillary clearly won the debate - just read about it in the Oct. 14 issue of New York Times. This paper, the most influential among liberals. has been fully on Clinton's side for over a year. They run sweet articles about her, they say how her team already is gathering dirt againt Biden, and then complain how Obama's dirty laundry will be made public if Biden enters race. At the same, bash every Republican on regular basis. And the rest of left wing media follow their lead.
Hillary has been the puppet masters preferred puppet from the start so they will do all they can to get her into the white house....voter fraud included..... IMO
Hillary should have already been in jail so we know that her puppet masters have a lot of influence and money.
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