GOP congressional leaders need to deliver on their promises

Washington Post:
As congressional Republicans see influence slipping, they’re not sure what to do about it

After winning the White House and Congress in November, the GOP thought conservatives would have control. But Republican lawmakers are struggling to exert leverage over efforts to rewrite tax laws and craft a bill to decide the fate of young undocumented immigrants.
Their failure to deliver on the repeal of Obamacare was a major mistake.  The betrayal of by the senators who voted against repeal did lasting damage to the party and its leadership.  John McCain is no hero to those who have fought so hard to get this terrible law repealed.  The same goes for the other GOP senators who saved this crap.

They finally have a President who is willing to sign the repeal and they show themselves to have been engaged in the politics of fraud all these years they have been saying they would repeal it.  What they should do about is what they said they would do when they were elected.  That is the best way to regain the trust of the President and the voters.

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  1. Unknown11:30 AM

    You seem to naively assume the GOPe scum actually make any promises they intend to keep...except for the rich and the corporations that fund their campaigns, that is.

    The fact is that the GOPe wants more immigrants even though it's bad for America and Americans. It's good for corporations. They really don't care about things like the culture war, abortion, and a host of other issues they have vocally supported for decades.

    At their core, the GOPe is simply a way for connected people to get rich by becoming the new nobility. That's why the communist/cultural-marxist left has been winning all along. The so-called right only cares about the next election cycle and staying in office. Being a minority party is just as good - not as big an office and smaller desks but just as much cash flowing in.

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