Why the future looks so bleak for the GOP
As I mentioned yesterday, as of mid-December some 53 percent of Americans perceived the Republican Party as too extremist, a record-high number that had jumped 17 percentage points in the two years since the GOP took control of the House in the 2010 mid-terms.
Given what has happened in the three weeks since that CNN poll was released — the GOP House rejected John Boehner’s fiscal-cliff plan as too moderate, and it refused to even vote on an emergency aid package for New York and New Jersey — that number has only risen.
In fact, the party is caught in a long-term downward spiral that will prove difficult if not impossible to escape.
Look at the top issues likely to dominate the 113th Congress: immigration reform, gun control, and the debt ceiling. On each of those high-profile issues, the Republican Party finds itself trapped defending a strongly held but distinctly minority point of view.
In November exit polls, for example, 65 percent of American voters said that illegal immigrants ought to be offered an avenue to legal status. To put it mildly, that is not a position that Republicans can easily reconcile with their base. And in a recent Gallup poll, 58 percent of Americans said they backed stronger gun-control laws; just 6 percent wanted less stringent gun laws, which is the default position of many in the GOP.
The debt-ceiling optics are even worse. The GOP plan is to confront President Obama with two brutal choices: Make serious cuts in Medicare and other entitlements, or Republicans will force the country to default on its debt. Maybe it’s just me, but if you’re trying to shuck a reputation as extremist, that’s not exactly the course I would recommend. As I’ve noted before, even Republican voters oppose Medicare cuts by an overwhelming margin. Yet somehow Republican politicians have convinced themselves that this is a battle that they must fight and can win.
And of course, the group that will continue to define the Republican brand in all these fights will be the House GOP caucus, a group that is considerably more conservative and yes, extremist, than the country at large. It’s not hard to understand why.
Take Georgia’s Republican House members as an example. All eight of them voted against the fiscal-cliff solution that President Obama signed into law yesterday. And all eight are likely to toe the hard-right line on immigration, gun control and the debt ceiling. And the truth is that based on their own narrow self-interest, they’d be fools to do otherwise.
Thanks to gerrymandering, a political evil in which both parties indulge, three of the eight are in such strong GOP districts that no Democrat even bothered to run against them last November. The five who did draw Democratic opposition won re-election by an average margin of 40 percentage points. So none of the eight has anything to gain personally by becoming more moderate.
That brings us to the ultimate question: How can the Republican Party shed its reputation as extremist on the national stage when most of those who create that reputation — the members of the House GOP caucus — have every incentive as individuals to continue on their present course?
I confess I’m stumped by that one.
– Jay Bookman
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DannyX
January 3rd, 2013
12:56 pm
“Do you profess to be a Christian, DX?”
I am a Thomas Jefferson Christian.
Nero
January 3rd, 2013
12:56 pm
Call Kammie butter cause she’s on a roll!
getalife
January 3rd, 2013
12:56 pm
When you meet Peter at the gates, he will have your blog comments.
TBS
January 3rd, 2013
12:57 pm
getalife
His doubling down on Lewis shows more about him than he will ever know and certainly admit if he did know
Paul
January 3rd, 2013
12:57 pm
““against baby killing”
Are you antiwar, against poverty, hunger and for healthcare?”
I think I’m gonna frame that.
Christian Conservative
January 3rd, 2013
12:57 pm
getalife:
I just simply pointing out the fact that the dem Party stands for unfettered abortion(baby killing)….
Nero
January 3rd, 2013
12:57 pm
getalife,
As much as “our” Pres like hanging out with them back in the day.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 3rd, 2013
12:58 pm
the dem Party stands for unfettered abortion
Nope. Fail.
rightwingextreme
January 3rd, 2013
12:58 pm
indigo
January 3rd, 2013
12:46 pm
rightwingextreme – 12:28
So, deep down, our today’s Govt. is no different from the US Govt. that endorsed slavery or the Nazi Germany Govt.?
That’s known as paranoia.
Those are your words…not mine.
Again….check out the history of those countries where the people are not able to defend themselves and you’ll see what I’m talking about. On the continent of Africa today islam is marching west against the unarmed people.
We are sending aid to the people in Syria that are being killed by their government. I’d bet you some of that aid might include M-16s and other weapons.
Again, you don’t have to own a gun. that’s your right. However, my right, if I chose is to own one.
I hope nothing ever happens in this country, or to your family, where you might need one.
HDB
January 3rd, 2013
12:59 pm
Another Republican opens mouth and inserts foot…….
They just don’t get it!!!
http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/writers/jessica_vanegeren/glenn-grothman-s-anti-kwanzaa-comments-create-ruckus/article_7bcd5e04-552a-11e2-844e-0019bb2963f4.html
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 3rd, 2013
1:00 pm
Call Kammie butter cause she’s on a roll!
I prefer biscuits, sport.
Nero
January 3rd, 2013
1:00 pm
getalife scolding people about their blog comments is rich indeed!
Nero
January 3rd, 2013
1:01 pm
How sporting of you.
Paul
January 3rd, 2013
1:01 pm
robert goulet
“Paul:
“Congress had, months ago, approved the funding.”
This is the problem with government. They “approve” funding even if it is an amount that only budgetary. ”
Ummm… no, it’s not just ‘budgetary.” It’s law. It’s legal authority for affected agencies to incur obligations (spend the money). Congress has already granted the spending up to that limit. If that limit exceeds the debt limit, and Congress is unwilling to raise revenue, then the only other option is to increase the borrowing authority.
So the point is, Republicans in the House approved legislation to spend funds in excess of the debt limit. Already did it. Now they want to make it seem as if they’re in some grand effort to control spending. They’re not.
Joe Hussein Mama
January 3rd, 2013
1:01 pm
Towncrier — “That cannot happen without the consent of the majority of “the people”.
Oh, I *assure* you, you can most certainly argue for the abridgement of the rights of others without anyone else’s consent.
“It is NO different than some liberals calling for an “abridgement” of the “right” to bear arms.”
In your opinion.
“My friend, I used EXACTLY the same words you wrote to me.”
I know. Poor choice on your part, particularly because I didn’t criticize your exercise of your right to speak the way you’re criticizing others’ exercise of their right to choose.
“If they represented a “specious, irrelevant and ill-tempered retort”, then you I think are finding fault with yourself.”
No, I’m quite solidly finding fault with you.
“Shrug. I suspect that most posters here are not still having abortions.”
Present your evidence, please.
“It is their advocacy of that practice that I am mostly challenging, so I disagree with your assessment.”
Oh, really?
Yes, but would that they might do that BEFORE they got in bed with someone and not after. Let’s see how many things in life we get a “take back” with. Drunk driving causing a fatality? Nope. Cheating on your wife and getting caught? Nope. Overdosing on drugs? Nope. Jumping off a cliff? Nope. Getting an STD from a sexual partner? Nope. Eating 3 Big Macs a day for 10 years and having a heart attack? Nope. Having sex with a male without conscientiously using contraceptives and getting pregnant? Yep (all it takes is giving infanticide another name and getting the approval of liberal justices).
No advocacy in there AFAICS. Looks a lot more like criticism of abortion itself to me.
” the refusal to admit it’s wrong and the persistence in that behavior what is ultimately (I believe) unforgivable.”
“Prove me wrong from the scriptures about abortion and I will desist.”
What a ridiculously ludicrous request. You clearly admit that you’re arguing your *belief* and you demand *proof* to the contrary?
Jack ®
January 3rd, 2013
1:02 pm
Bookman’s right. The GOP needs to move to the middle: They have to insist on free medical care from cradle to grave for everyone; they have to insist on free housing, food, education and all the comforts denied to everyone due to the wealthy among us. They have to insist that business owners take advice from non-business owners because they certainly know more about running a business than do the owners. Also, they must guarantee a life-long pension for anyone that can spell their name correctly. Another thing: the GOP must stop insisting on personal responsibility; that’s what got ‘em in trouble to begin with.
RB from Gwinnett
January 3rd, 2013
1:02 pm
Keep, “RB, moving the goal posts. Have I ever said that inflation is so low it couldn’t affect food prices?”
Well if it ain’t inflation, Keep, WHAT IS IT?
Peadawg
January 3rd, 2013
1:02 pm
Kamspam!!!!!
getalife
January 3rd, 2013
1:02 pm
christian,
The left are more pro life than you.
Aquagirl
January 3rd, 2013
1:02 pm
Uh Oh
GOP Chair says he’s okay with gay marriage? I’m sure the gay will be breakin’ out and flying all over tomorrow as lifelong heterosexuals flip the switch because of this.
Oh, the humanity!
Thulsa Doom
January 3rd, 2013
1:03 pm
So the only party trying to do something about spending and our massive debt is the “extremist” party? Good grief. Its truly an upside down world in liberal fantasyland.
emo
January 3rd, 2013
1:04 pm
I’m afraid the republicans will have to save themselves. They’ll need to run serious, moderate candidates in primaries agains the wingnuts that so embarrass us daily.
I’m not sanguine about that happening (for the republican intellectuals out there, that means I’m not optimistic about it).
Nero
January 3rd, 2013
1:04 pm
“I prefer biscuits, sport.”
There’s your sign…
TBS
January 3rd, 2013
1:04 pm
getalife
And as you noticed, still not a word from Jm about the 5 Republicans who did not vote.
8 members of Congress did not vote for some reason or another and 5 were Republican.
Jm decides to pick the one whose wife died to do his typical whine.
He might be a character, but he surely doesn’t seem to have a good one
Christian Conservative
January 3rd, 2013
1:04 pm
DannyX:
CC, what exactly is traditional marriage? Marriage between one man and one woman!
Conservative churches that spout the “traditional marriage” bs are filled with members who divorce, commit adultery and remarry in direct violation of the law Jesus set. And they are sinners and will be punished id GOD so judges. I am not one of those people you refer to. So I’m certainly entitled to speak what I think is right for a normal moral society….
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 3rd, 2013
1:05 pm
Jewel thieves burrow into wrong store, hit KFC instead…
Maybe they were really after the 11 herbs and spices recipe
Oh, and:
drudgey spam.
Paul
January 3rd, 2013
1:05 pm
‘Christian’ Conservative
“I just simply pointing out the fact that the dem Party stands for //unfettered// abortion(baby killing)….
Isn’t there some Biblical injunction from someone about bearing false witness?
JamVet
January 3rd, 2013
1:06 pm
Right wing fanaticism is a disease. But like most pathogens it will run it’s course and die off.
Zero is back?
Cool, more con meltdowns for the blogging buck.
cc, strong defense? Good lord, what ever happened to intelligent discourse?
Christian Conservative
January 3rd, 2013
1:06 pm
Keep Up the Good Fight!:
Prove me wrong. Abortion is part of the dem platform under the guise of pro-choice…
getalife
January 3rd, 2013
1:06 pm
Today starts our President’s agenda for his second term.
Jobs, immigration and guns.
Forward.
DannyX
January 3rd, 2013
1:08 pm
“And they are sinners and will be punished id GOD so judges.”
What are your sins Christian Conservative?
Joe Hussein Mama
January 3rd, 2013
1:08 pm
C. Conservative — “Conservative churches that spout the “traditional marriage” bs are filled with members who divorce, commit adultery and remarry in direct violation of the law Jesus set. And they are sinners and will be punished id GOD so judges. I am not one of those people you refer to. So I’m certainly entitled to speak what I think is right for a normal moral society….”
Fair enough.
I’d like to ask you a question, and I’m really not trying to play ‘gotcha’ here.
Let’s assume, for the sake of argument, that a couple is a member of a religion that *permits* divorce. If that couple divorces, do you have any issue with that? How about a couple that was not married in any church, but was married instead by a judge or justice of the peace? Any problem with them getting a divorce?
Regnad Kcin
January 3rd, 2013
1:08 pm
” Danny, The civil war was started by the Confederates firing on the Union on 4/12/1861
And yes Lincoln was a Republican, your point being?
============
Lincoln started the war.
The defender starts the war, by choosing to refuse to submit to the attacker. The war cannot begin until that choice is made. Lincoln made that choice.
Nero
January 3rd, 2013
1:08 pm
Don’t your have a cab to drive JellyVet? Time is money dude!
getalife
January 3rd, 2013
1:08 pm
TBS,
jm should man up, admit, he was wrong and apologize.
Now.
Nero
January 3rd, 2013
1:09 pm
…second term…jobs…AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 3rd, 2013
1:10 pm
CC, see the 2012 platform. Dems fully support Roe v Wade. Are you familiar with that SC decision that does NOT allow unfettered abortion at any time and in fact gives the state the right to regulate at certain times.
But hey now prove that you were right. Here’s the platform: http://assets.dstatic.org/dnc-platform/2012-National-Platform.pdf
Christian Conservative
January 3rd, 2013
1:10 pm
Lets think about jay’s tripe for a moment. If the GOP is so extreme why is it that they control more state gubmints than at any time in our nations history. Take Georgia for instance. Our state is run efficient because it has to be. Sooner or later bankrupt high taxed blue states like CA and NY will wise up and want GOP leadership nationally.
JamVet
January 3rd, 2013
1:10 pm
Speaking of intelligent discourse, Jack you are awesome!
Anyone who writes screeds like yours without implying any irony whatsoever, is a godsend to the anti-GOP movement in this country.
Thank you.
getalife
January 3rd, 2013
1:11 pm
nero,
Watch how many cons vote against Sandy money today..
Christie will.
Joe Hussein Mama
January 3rd, 2013
1:12 pm
C. Conservative — “Our state is run efficient because it has to be.”
LOLWUT?
getalife
January 3rd, 2013
1:12 pm
jm,
Waiting…….
AmericaShrugged
January 3rd, 2013
1:13 pm
Thje usual Bookman slant makes is sound like Georgia would be right thinking (actually left thinking) and Democratic if it weren’t for those darn gerrymandered districts. Well, 1) the districts got gerrymandered because Georgians elected a majority of Republicans to the state legislature, and 2) total votes for US representative in Georgia were 59% Republican, a massive mandate for what the people of this state want. Responsible leadership, enforcement of federal immigration laws, etc.
Bookman just admit you’re a stranger in a strange land, pack your carpetbags, and go back to PA where you belong!!!
Christian Conservative
January 3rd, 2013
1:13 pm
Keep Up the Good Fight!:
And Roe V Wade is pro-death. There’s no arguing that Oblama is for baby killing. Here’s proof…
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/292204/obama-s-infanticide-votes-patrick-brennan#
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 3rd, 2013
1:13 pm
Our state is run efficient because it has to be.
Georgia? The one in the United States?
:LOl: 
Jm
January 3rd, 2013
1:14 pm
Tbs
People schedule funerals around extenuating circumstances all the time
Like the ability of certain people to attend
Nero
January 3rd, 2013
1:14 pm
What makes you think I care about Sandy? Lol!
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 3rd, 2013
1:15 pm
CC, your constant failure and inability to prove your point without moving your goalposts should be a sign to you.
Jm
January 3rd, 2013
1:15 pm
Tbs
And you may argue it shouldn’t be thus
But it is
getalife
January 3rd, 2013
1:15 pm
jm,
You are known as the con that attacked Lewis for attending his wife’s funeral.
Nero
January 3rd, 2013
1:16 pm
Christie can just raise some more taxes. New Jersey’s used to it.
Jm
January 3rd, 2013
1:16 pm
Fetalife
No
Curious Observer
January 3rd, 2013
1:16 pm
How do you expect me to keep the government in check w/o a functioning main gun and ammo?
Curious, it’s pretty obvious to me you’ve never seen a full Marine regiment, hardly a third of a Marine division, on the march. If you had, you’d understand how silly it sounds to talk about keeping government in check with a gun and ammo. You and your little AR-15 would have a shorter life expectancy than a tse-tse fly.
JamVet
January 3rd, 2013
1:17 pm
Should I use the nookyalur option on Zero? LOL!
Speaking of preposterous, Georgia is run efficiently???
Lynnie gal (the slut, prostitute and FemiNazi!) is right, it has gotten to the point where the anti-GOP movement doesn’t have to do a damn thing anymore except to just keep giving these fanatical sociopaths more rope!
Given the results of November 6, they seem to be very efficient at using it…
Matti
January 3rd, 2013
1:17 pm
“Take Georgia for instance. Our state is run efficient because it has to be.”
D’OH! Cutting education year after year is no way to run a state. Can we re-fund our English departments, please?
Doggone/GA
January 3rd, 2013
1:17 pm
“Any problem with them getting a divorce?”
Here’s a couple of other questions: if 2 people are already married, and fall in love with each other…and each gets divorced from their spouse of a few years…and marries each other and are still married decades later when they each die.
Which are the marriages “sanctioned” by God? The first, unhappy, marriages. Or the second one for each that lasted until “death do us part”?
Jm
January 3rd, 2013
1:17 pm
Fetalife
Give it a rest
getalife
January 3rd, 2013
1:17 pm
“What makes you think I care about Sandy? Lol!”
You proved Jay’s point.
Congrats radical extremist.
getalife
January 3rd, 2013
1:18 pm
jm,
You are done here.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 3rd, 2013
1:18 pm
Bookman just admit you’re a stranger in a strange land, pack your carpetbags, and go back to PA where you belong!!!
I believe Jay to be spot on in his analysis.
I was born on Peachtree St., sport.
Are you gonna tell me to go back where I belong?
TBS
January 3rd, 2013
1:18 pm
Jm
Lewis wife passed away. End of story.
Your bitterness and pettiness is showing more than you know.
That man was married for over 40 yrs and you want to cry about him not voting.
Again, where is your balling and whining about the 5 republicans who didn’t vote?
alex
January 3rd, 2013
1:18 pm
Jay, you’re stumped because you do not step out of your narrow viewpoints supported by the same syncophant crowd as last year, same old BS extremeist stuff….boring, time to move to a different paper or change to some other group of issues, your political opinion pieces are repetitve , predictable and boring, please AJC shift your people around for fresh ideas and thoughts, the syncophants are ruling the opinion “leaders”… “uterus’–if only your mother had thought ahead….
RB from Gwinnett
January 3rd, 2013
1:19 pm
BTW, this BS about inflation being low is BS. Check your grocery bills. I konw the official calculations exclude food and gasoline, but aren’t those the things that really matter to most of us?
Get your fat little selves another cookie and pretend inflation is low for another while children!
Matti
January 3rd, 2013
1:20 pm
getalife,
You can’t force an apology from someone who’s not sorry he’s a hateful little *bleep*.
Hollywould
January 3rd, 2013
1:20 pm
If I am not mistaken Lewis’s wife’s funeral is next monday.
TBS
January 3rd, 2013
1:20 pm
getalife
Jm is who he is. I would hope those kind of statements and character were something not taught to him by his parents, but who knows.
His character and compassion are both shining bright through his crocodile tears
Towncrier
January 3rd, 2013
1:21 pm
“Just checking, not looking for an argument, but do you support abortion if the mother would die without one? Or in case of rape? Or incest?”
In the first case, a woman must choose between her life and the life of her child. In the latter two cases, a woman has not “chosen” to engage in an act that may lead to pregnancy. I suppose the government cannot force such women to have faith that “God works all things to the good for those that love Him”, so I would not oppose such a limitation. If a woman engages in sex with a man she is not married to and gets pregnant, why should she avoid the consequences of her actions by killing the fetus? If she is married, then if she really does not want to have a child, she can almost certainly prevent pregnancy with cheap contraceptive methods (there is only maximally 14 days out of the month she is fertile and condoms, abstinence, or withdrawal method can be used during those times). I am sorry people cannot have sex any time they want with whoever they want without any consequences. I didn’t design the world. But I do know one thing: contrary to what a number of popular sitcoms would “teach” you, sex is NOT what the world revolves around. It won’t save you if you have cancer, it won’t prevent your loved one from getting hurt, it won’t solve your fiscal problems, it won’t guarantee a good relationship, it doesn’t guarantee friendship, it doesn’t guarantee you will be loved and so on. It is only a short lived pleasurable experience.
I think it is all about line drawing – what values you or I are willing to see the government enforce. Unless each of us holds the same values, we are likely going to argue the lines should be drawn in different places. For instance, do you have a problem with polygamy and, if so, why and would you like to see it continue to be prohibited? How about the use of now illicit drugs? How about prostitution? How about gambling? How about pornography? How about using profanity in front of children? How about so-called “hate speech”? And so on, down the line.
TBS
January 3rd, 2013
1:21 pm
Matti
Exactly. Well said
Christian Conservative
January 3rd, 2013
1:22 pm
Joe Hussein Mama:
Let’s assume, for the sake of argument, that a couple is a member of a religion that *permits* divorce. If that couple divorces, do you have any issue with that? How about a couple that was not married in any church, but was married instead by a judge or justice of the peace? Any problem with them getting a divorce?
I’m against divorce because I personally think its to easy and wrong. If abuse is part of the equation I could understand it in that situation. But honestly if someone wants a divorce it’s their problem and they will have to answer for it. . Its legal. Homo marriage is not in some 30+ states.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 3rd, 2013
1:22 pm
…same old BS extremeist[sic] stuff….boring… [...] …your political opinion pieces are repetitve , predictable and boring…
Do you need one of us to contact the authorities because you are being held against your will and forced to read and respond to Jay’s blog?
Stevie Ray
January 3rd, 2013
1:22 pm
Towncrier
January 3rd, 2013
12:28 pm
Bible, heaven and hell…are you kidding me? The religious arrogance not founded in fact spewed by folks like you is sickening. Why is it that your metaphysical garbage is superior to any other? Christianity has done the world geometrically more bad than good. The bad is quite easily and credibly evidenced while the good is….well mystical…charities are good but the good pales in compare with a history of retarding mankind. Nothing is more selfish than missionaries who have killed more overtime by disease than improving life via some gospel…
Sorry, I respect anyones right to religious views but to insert them as a legitimate political variable is where i get all worked up…
DannyX
January 3rd, 2013
1:23 pm
“Georgia? The one in the United States?”
Couldn’t be.
Linda Schrenko is still doing time, Sonny Perdue should be. John Oxendine was a joke, Glenn Richardson was nailing a lobbyist, David Ralston took a nice family vacation on a lobbyist’s dime, AGENDA 21!!!! 2.1 million dollar no-collateral signature loans, half a billion Deal deficit ballooning port pork, half a billion deficit ballooning race to the top funds, no bid government contracts for Deal, Don Balfour and his thieving, $300 million for a unneeded stadium, Georgia Power give-a-ways, and of course Beth Merkleson!
What Georgia were you talking about, Christian Conservative?
Nero
January 3rd, 2013
1:24 pm
getalife,
I didn’t care about Katrina either.
Stevie Ray
January 3rd, 2013
1:24 pm
Christian Conservative
January 3rd, 2013
1:22 pm
Who gives a flip about what your religion has to say about modern topics? The arrogance is breathtaking…
Jm
January 3rd, 2013
1:24 pm
“That man was married for over 40 yrs and you want to cry about him not voting.”
Tbs
Blah blah blah
No crying, no criticizing
Just pointing out facts
And yes, a few repubs didn’t vote either
It’s all rather pathetic
Including you
TBS
January 3rd, 2013
1:25 pm
Hollywould
So if you wife or love one dies today, you will be at work tomorrow?
Stevie Ray
January 3rd, 2013
1:25 pm
DannyX
January 3rd, 2013
1:23 pm
So if i get this correct, you are suggesting lobbyists actually have value?
Jm
January 3rd, 2013
1:25 pm
Fetalife
I was done here a while ago
Just dropping in on the crazies
Williebkind
January 3rd, 2013
1:26 pm
“willie,
Bring it .”
I will do my part!
Christian Conservative
January 3rd, 2013
1:26 pm
Matti:
D’OH! Cutting education year after year is no way to run a state. Can we re-fund our English departments, please?
Georgia’s education system absorbs billions a year. Georgia can only spend what it takes in. We can’t simple print money and spend like drunken sailors like the federal gubmint does. The education system in some places is an utter failure and would be even if more money is spend. So cuts are needed on occasion.
TBS
January 3rd, 2013
1:26 pm
Jm
pathetic was your initial post and continued crying about lewis
Like usual you are being a richard, but that is not new for you.
Granny Godzilla
January 3rd, 2013
1:27 pm
Christian Conservative
January 3rd, 2013
1:13 pm
Keep Up the Good Fight!:
And Roe V Wade is pro-death. There’s no arguing that Oblama is for baby killing. Here’s proof…
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/292204/obama-s-infanticide-votes-patrick-brennan#
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I gotta’ challenge you on the big one fella.
I don’t think you are anymore a true Christian than my dog.
Class of '98
January 3rd, 2013
1:27 pm
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, as long as there are hardworking people who are compassionate but also believe one should be able to enjoy the fruits of their own labor, there will be a strong, viable GOP.
If we are temporary losing the media war who cater to Obamabots who only care about their free “Obama phones” and other handouts, so be it.
getalife
January 3rd, 2013
1:27 pm
“I will do my part!”
This is the year Americans marginalize you extremists.
Jm
January 3rd, 2013
1:27 pm
Did ole crazy Jesse Jackson jr vote?
Shine
January 3rd, 2013
1:28 pm
I agree with the republicans on guns, not rewarding illegals, (even the children of illegals. it aint there fault but it aint my fault or the fault of my children who have to compete against them for jobs either).
i agree with the dems/president on taxing the wealthy and deadbeat corps, labor unions, ending tax breaks for oil companies, stope giving tax incentives to businesses leaving our country etc etc etc and the debt ceiling and balancing cuts with revenue increases.
i agree with neither on the massive bloated military budget. cut it in half would be a good start.
Williebkind
January 3rd, 2013
1:28 pm
“Who gives a flip about what your religion has to say about modern topics? The arrogance is breathtaking…”
You and your liberal ilk do! You have basically declared war on christains.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 3rd, 2013
1:28 pm
…free “Obama phones” and other handouts…
There’s your sign.
Stevie Ray
January 3rd, 2013
1:29 pm
RB from Gwinnett
January 3rd, 2013
1:19 pm
I’m glad you brought up the 800 lb gorilla..by my off the cuff math, the average price of an item at any grocery chains (excepting Whole Paychecks) is $3.99…A jar of Jif costs $6 bucks….I pay over a dollar per apple i consume…I paid $50 bucks for a 5lb standing rib roast that anyone who cooks knows shrinks to around 3 lbs with cooking…It is becoming less expensive to eat out every meal than prepare it yourself…
Joe Hussein Mama
January 3rd, 2013
1:30 pm
C. Conservative — “Homo marriage is not in some 30+ states.”
Just wait a bit. It’ll be legal in all 50 soon enough.
DannyX
January 3rd, 2013
1:30 pm
“Obama phones”
Proof that Republicans are running on empty.
BENGHAZI!!!!
Christian Conservative
January 3rd, 2013
1:31 pm
AmericaShrugged:
If Bookman did move back to PA he would be in a strange land there to. Republicans have complete control of that state to… LOL..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_General_Assembly
Christian Conservative
January 3rd, 2013
1:32 pm
Joe Hussein Mama:
Just wait a bit. It’ll be legal in all 50 soon enough.
Not possible…..
Stevie Ray
January 3rd, 2013
1:32 pm
Williebkind
January 3rd, 2013
1:28 pm
WOW, this is the first time I’ve ever been accused of being a Liberal on this site!
GETALIFE et al…please take note..
BTW, christians, muslims and the like bring themselves down thru destructive retarding of society, polluting the political game with metaphysics and immaginary friends, and turning off all others with the arrogance of Donald Trump..
Joe Hussein Mama
January 3rd, 2013
1:32 pm
C. Conservative — “Not possible…..”
Not only is it possible, it’s *inevitable.*
Christian Conservative
January 3rd, 2013
1:33 pm
Granny Godzilla:
Wow you must be Jesus? You know whats in my heart… You fruits are a riot…
Doggone/GA
January 3rd, 2013
1:33 pm
“Not possible…..”
Wrong. If the SCOTUS strikes down DOMA as unconstitutional…it will be legal in all 50 states
getalife
January 3rd, 2013
1:33 pm
Senator walks capital hill steps after stroke.
Welcome to the club Senator.
jm will cry about him not voting too right jm?
Aquagirl
January 3rd, 2013
1:33 pm
Did ole crazy Jesse Jackson jr vote?
There ya go…. a dig at mental illness combined with another ‘I’ve been living under a rock” statement of ignorance.
Hang around Jm, you bring the entertainment.
Joe Hussein Mama
January 3rd, 2013
1:33 pm
williebkind — “You and your liberal ilk do! You have basically declared war on christains.”
What, did somebody force you to get gay-married or something?