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Biden Might Actually Be Right This Time

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When I read the Biden prediction that the Democrats would take back the House in 2012, my first thought was…wistful agreement.  I never really thought I would say this about a Biden statement.  Then again, even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while.

What might have been but for Boehner and McConnell…

Yes, the Democrats might be able to retake the House in 2012, but it won’t be for anything they did.  It will be after two years of demoralizing capitulations and betrayals by the Republican leadership.  They made no real attempt to corral the spending we sent them to stop, keep their promises, or even be civil, and it’s going to sting come 2012.

Granted, the time between now and November is an eternity in politics, but I’ve seen nothing yet from Boehner or McConnell which would inspire anyone to try and keep them in charge.  Unless they change that, we may all get to see the impossible on November 6th.  It will be the day Joe Biden is right about something.

News link credit:  Michelle Malkin’s blog.

Two Republican Establishment Examples Before You Vote In The Florida Primary

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Gingrich is getting pounded again as the Republican establishment tries to stop him.   The attacks are coming in hard now, and while Gingrich is none to conservative himself, but he has far more of it in his background than Romney and a better track record from his time in the House.  So in case you’ve possibly opened your mind to listening, here are two reminders of exactly who the Republican establishment is and why you should think carefully before taking their word on anything.

  1. The Senate just killed the motion of disapproval for Obama’s $1.2 trillion dollar debt ceiling increase.  Some Republican staffer commented about how red-state Democrats would suffer for it, which is completely beyond all comprehension.  All any Democrat has to do to deflect blame is remind everyone that this debt ceiling agreement was bipartisan, and possibly create an ad with McCain calling all the Tea Party types who didn’t agree with the approach that just handed the Democrats a win yet again Hobbits.  None of this would have been possible without the aggressive assistance of Boehner and McConnell, which won’t be lost on much of anyone.
  2. The House is passing legislation in a shady way.  This is either because the Establishment wants to short-circuit their own conservative caucus to maintain the status quo or they’re too terrified of Obama and Reid to resist the status quo.  They broke a few more promises too, and you can read the details at RedState.

This is the Republican establishment at work.  They’re the same establishment that wants Romney.  The same people that made the House the Other Democrat in spending after Gingrich left.  The same lot that led us to 2006 and 2008.  Why would the candidate they back be any different from them?

News link credits:  RedState, The Hill

Republican Failure Control

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Erick Erickson at RedState put up a post today regarding a message he and other conservative activist drafted and sent to Congress.  In short, it states that anyone who backs the McConnell plan to give the President near-unilateral authority to raise the debt ceiling doesn’t get their support.

McConnell is a RINO disaster and a failure of leadership.  Republican failure control has been long overdue, and a serious shortcoming for some time.  To that end, Erick’s approach takes advantage of a huge and immutable fact in Republican politics:  the conservative activists the RINOs so despise do all the heavy lifting.  Heavy lifting that can be selectively withheld now that we can organize without the party.

No, we don’t provide the bulk of the money, but the manpower, energy, and votes?  They can’t get along without us, and this can be put to use in getting rid of Republican failures like McConnell.  We can’t remove him until 2014, but we can isolate him from his allies with threats of not supporting officeholders that do back him.

As to the purpose?  Likely this will provoke more of the “perfect candidate” straw man nonsense, but the bottom line is simple.  The Republicans can’t be a real opposition party and reverse decades of liberal damage so long as the McConnells retain significant control within it.  We can fight the Democrats once the Republicans are actually ready, willing, and able to do so, hence this over attacking Obama.  For now.

Just In Case You Were Under The Mistaken Impression That You Can Work With RINOs

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Hey, we had some good news.  Obama got petulant on Eric Cantor because The One is feeling the strain.  The House is holding strong to the point in not selling out on the debt ceiling.  If they continue to hold strong, Obama may fold like Dayton in Minnesota and the Republicans can start us back on the path to fiscal solvency.

All of this could be, unless some RINO idiot like McConnell gives the Democrats an out such as granting the President authority to raise the debt ceiling without Congress.  A plan that the Democrats then take and reincarnate to regain the initiative.  You know, like this one.

So now the Democrats may be in a position to turn their debt ceiling shellacking around because McConnell did what RINOs do best:  lose when things are finally going their way.  Here’s Obama’s escape from this mess, courtesy of the craven establishment trash.  Good thing we never stop using the plan we did in 2010.

It’s very simple.  The Republican National Committees (RNC, NRSC, and NRCC) are partial to establishment sorts like McConnell, so don’t donate to them.  Don’t support their recommendations.  Don’t believe known RINOs when they tell you they’re conservative contrary to their records.  If you want conservatives to get your money and effort, donate directly to their campaigns and leave anything establishment/RINO related out of it.  We need more Tea Party sorts and fewer McConnells if we want to turn the country around.  As McConnell just demonstrated, the establishment will never be a part of that.  Time to get rid of them as fast as we’re able.

News links to reports at Hot Air and commentary by Michelle Malkin.