Will the GOP Compromise After the Election? Well, Why Should They?
You can tell the Democrats are in trouble in November because the “Will a GOP Majority Compromise” stories are starting to dribble out. Here’s one from The Hill that puts Mike Pence on record as saying not just “No” but “Never in life” and another one from Politics Daily in which Mitch McConnell says “Well, maybe, possibly, if the President comes around to our way of thinking”.
They both amount to the same thing — the MSM desperately wants to cast Republicans as the bad guys should they take over the House, Senate, or both. Of course, those sort of hand-wringing stories weren’t at all rife over the last few years, as a Democratic majority in both houses used every dirty trick in the book to bull-rush their totalitarian agendas past the Republican minority.
But these stories miss the real question, which isn’t if the GOP will compromise but why they should. Every recent poll shows that the voting public hate the progressive agenda the Democrats have foisted on us. They want Hope and Change undone and the new solutions of an ascendant GOP, which are really nothing more than the time-tested principles of conservatism, put in their place. And why shouldn’t they get the chance? We gave Democrats exactly what they wanted — unstoppable Congressional majorities — and they screwed it up so badly that they couldn’t even sell their own members on their agenda without trickery. It seems only fair that we treat a massive wave election as a mandate for the new Republican majority to put its plans in place. If we don’t like them, we’ll have our chances in 2012 and 2014 to get rid of them. That’s how democracy works.
UPDATE: Smitty expands nicely on my post and provides a quote from General Mattis that everyone in the GOP should consider a message from the folks who will vote them into office on November 2.
Other Posts of Interest:
- Another Grass Roots GOP Group Says, “Shape Up or Ship Out!”
- It’s Time for John McCain to Put Up or Shut Up on Earmarks
- RNC Loser Pooh-Poohs Michael Steele
Category: Oh, THAT liberal media., The Republican Minority
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