Since the Conservative wing of the GOP has little control over the Republican Party, fighting back is difficult since too many Republicans are really Democrats at heart. But not ONE Democrat is ever a Republican in their ideology. Democrats vote as a bloc with no real independent voting allowed. When ANY Democrat does not vote with the leadership the press immediately attacks them. All the leftist cable stations join in the intimidation. Joe M and the female Senator from Az found out the hard way that independent thinking is verboten and will be punished sometime down the line.
Yes, and a conservative mode of governing may be impossible in an environment that insists on, and rewards, the new, no matter how destructive. (The news industry would go out of business with stability.) That's really the larger political issue that needs to be resolved, in conjunction with the secrecy. Conservatives end up chasing yesterday's headlines (says the guy who says he's solved the true identity of Deep Throat!), and hearings and investigations and criminal referrals, even if acted upon, are seemingly always second in line in political attractiveness to promises to this or that group, whether the promises are kept or not. Conservatives were tagged with objections to Civil Rights in the 50s and 60s and only shed that when Laffer and Stockman's supply-side economics came along in the 80s. But of course that was living on credit and borrowed time and began the bankruptcy that is now beyond comprehension.
When conservatives finally decide to get dirty, but with the truth, the Dems will meet their match.
Since the Conservative wing of the GOP has little control over the Republican Party, fighting back is difficult since too many Republicans are really Democrats at heart. But not ONE Democrat is ever a Republican in their ideology. Democrats vote as a bloc with no real independent voting allowed. When ANY Democrat does not vote with the leadership the press immediately attacks them. All the leftist cable stations join in the intimidation. Joe M and the female Senator from Az found out the hard way that independent thinking is verboten and will be punished sometime down the line.
Yes, and a conservative mode of governing may be impossible in an environment that insists on, and rewards, the new, no matter how destructive. (The news industry would go out of business with stability.) That's really the larger political issue that needs to be resolved, in conjunction with the secrecy. Conservatives end up chasing yesterday's headlines (says the guy who says he's solved the true identity of Deep Throat!), and hearings and investigations and criminal referrals, even if acted upon, are seemingly always second in line in political attractiveness to promises to this or that group, whether the promises are kept or not. Conservatives were tagged with objections to Civil Rights in the 50s and 60s and only shed that when Laffer and Stockman's supply-side economics came along in the 80s. But of course that was living on credit and borrowed time and began the bankruptcy that is now beyond comprehension.
http://lib.perdana.org.my/PLF/PREVIEW/TSSJ_Preview/David%20A.%20Stockman-%20The%20Triumph%20of%20Politics-%200370307526_PRE.pdf
Hence the need to make ever more groups!