Far and away the most popular song on every juke box in every watering hole in the nation’s capitol for the last four decades is The Potomac Two-Step, as performed by Little Johnny McCain and the RINOS.
Here’s how it goes:
Time to get elected, step to the right, put your hands in the air and “who you gonna call?”
Time to head back to DC, turn yourself around
Grab your favorite democrat by the hand and dough-see-dough.
Ain’t nobody cuttin’ in, it’s our party and we’ll lie if we want to.
The GOP elite have entrenched themselves firmly in the deep pockets of the big money interests who grease the wheels of corruption that propel Washington. They’ve made it painfully clear that they will give Trump no help, as he is an outsider. The normal procedure for both parties on any important legislation is to come up just short of the votes to move anything. That way they can go back to their home districts or states and proclaim they fought for it, but, darn it, the votes just weren’t there. We need more people, so we can act like we’re gonna change anything.
Only democrats do that, and it took billions in bribes to get Obamacare shoved through. Now that it is law, it’s become painfully obvious that republicans lack the will to repeal it. They think you can get rid of the mandates and the government interference while keeping the perqs, like children insured until age 26 and covering pre-existing conditions, the costliest parts of this disaster. Obama knew, like a drug dealer, give them the free stuff up front. Then, like boiling a frog, turn up the heat without it noticing until it dies.
Face it, Republicans Have No Intention of Repealing Obamacare
“if you’ve got that anger working for you, you’re gonna let it be”
What’s happening with Obamacare repeal, you ask? That is a fantastic question. But at this point, it’s quite clear that Republicans who campaigned on repealing the ACA have zero intention of doing so now that the opportunity has presented itself.
Seven Republican Senators voted against a so-called “clean repeal” bill Wednesday. Sens McCain, Murkowski, Capito, Lamar Alexander, Collins, Portman, and Heller are responsible for tanking the latest repeal effort. The bill offered no replacement but promised to delay full repeal, giving lawmakers time to figure out the rest.
The bill failed after the world fell apart Tuesday, blaming Sen. McCain for single-handedly sentencing millions to certain death because he had the audacity to vote to open up debate…for a bill he voted against less than 24-hours later
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/26/obamacare-repeal-republicans-minimum-240982
McCain, RINOs vote with Dems to keep federal funding for abortion
With the amendment what was just shot down in flames suppose to have seen ObamaCare ending in two years, this is seen as a real setback for President Trump, despite Republicans having a majority in the Senate.
Among the provisions that today’s vote might have ended would be federal funding for abortions.
But thanks to the likes of Arizona senator John McCain, unborn children will continue to literally be ripped limb from limb, courtesy of the US taxpayers.
[CtH: Apparently, my optimism about his brain tumor making him concerned about final judgment was misplaced.]
http://conservativefiringline.com/mccain-rinos-vote-dems/
Republicans repeal and replace the Tea Party
Even when Republicans control the White House and both houses of Congress, liberalism remains the default ideology of the federal government.
A Republican Senate could not muster even 50 votes for the full repeal of Obamacare’s taxes and spending. Six Republican senators who had voted for repeal in 2015, when the party was merely pretending it was possible, flipped on Wednesday rather than deliver.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/republicans-repeal-and-replace-the-tea-party/article/2629829
ObamaCare’s GOP Preservers
Congress had passed and sent to Barack Obama’s desk a similar measure in 2015, with support from every current Senate Republican except Susan Collins of Maine. This time seven voted no, including Rob Portman of Ohio and Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, who aren’t up for re-election until 2022 and 2020, respectively. If you’re going to renege on your political promises, better to do it early, we suppose.
http://nation.foxnews.com/2017/07/27/obamacares-gop-preservers
Perkins: I Was Told the GOP’s 2015 Obamacare Repeal Was Only ‘a Messaging Vote’
Perkins said the FRC is for a clean repeal of Obamacare. “That’s what we advocated for from the beginning,” he said.
“We worked back in 2015 to get that repeal through. I worked with Majority Whip Steve Scalise to help craft the language on Planned Parenthood and get that into reconciliation,” said Perkins.
Added Perkins, “It passed, went to the president, and I’ve had a couple of conversations with some senators who said, ‘Well, that was a messaging vote.’ I said, ‘Really? You didn’t communicate that to the American people.’”
http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2017/07/27/perkins-told-gops-2015-obamacare-repeal-messaging-vote/
2016 Ad: ‘John McCain Leading The Fight To STOP OBAMACARE’
That was back when he needed the votes of Arizonans to put him back in the Senate.
Those days are gone. Yesterday, he joined Democrats in sinking the Republican bill to repeal Obamacare. The measure was a clean repeal with a 2 year window to replace the ACA.
So here’s the ad McCain ran just prior to the election in AZ in 2016. He slams his Dem opponent for supporting Obamacare
Mika: Too Late to Repeal Obamacare, “Whether You Were for it or Not”
As Ronald Reagan said, “a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth.”
Levin: GOP ‘Lied Their Way Into Office,’ Perpetrated ‘Greatest Hoax in Modern Politics’
“Here comes rationing, long waiting periods, and massive red-tape,” said Mark Levin in all caps on. “The Republicans lied their way into office in what is the greatest hoax in modern politics.”
Levin’s comments came after seven Republican senators joined Democrats in voting no on a “clean repeal” of Obamacare promoted by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. on Wednesday.
THIS IS HOW DEMOCRATS RUN IN RED STATES:
Pinkerton: Democrats’ ‘Better Deal’ Makes a Play for Trump’s Populist Base
On the op-ed page of The New York Times, the Democratic Senate Minority Leader, Charles Schumer, laid out three key points:
First, we’re going to increase people’s pay. Second, we’re going to reduce their everyday expenses. And third, we’re going to provide workers with the tools they need for the 21st-century economy.
If anyone doubts that elections have consequences, here are some consequences—for the Democrats. President Trump may be facing frustration in advancing his Republican agenda, but he has clearly succeeded in changing the Democrats’ agenda.
Just last year, Democrats were campaigning on such ideological exotica as co-ed school bathrooms, “implicit bias training” for the police, and unquestioning support for radical groups like Black Lives Matter.
Then, something happened: The Democrats lost. Indeed, as everyone knows, after the 2016 election, the Democrats were at their lowest ebb in nearly a century.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/25/pinkerton-democrats-better-deal-makes-play-trumps-populist-base/
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Still pushing Unicorn Economics, I see. You can’t increase the minimum wage and decrease people’s expenses. Not in the long run. Not even really in the short run since the increase in the minimum wage leads immediately to lay offs.
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Grandstanding Maxine Waters Interrupts Treasury Secretary Mnuchin’s Answer 12 Times (VIDEO)
California Democrat Maxine Waters continued her war of words against the Trump administration during what was supposed to be a routine testimony to Congress by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
SHE SAYS IF KAMALA HARRIS CAN DO IT,SHE CAN DO IT MORE BETTER
Mad Maxine interrupted one of Mnuchin’s answers concerning President Trump’s finances not once, not twice — but 12 times.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/07/grandstanding-maxine-waters-interrupts-treasury-secretary-mnuchins-answer-12-times-video/
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Sarah Sanders: Media Refuses To Cover That Russia Conspiracy Theory Died Today
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Republican Sen. Steve Daines to make Democrats vote on single payer
The Montana Republican doesn’t support single-payer healthcare. But in a bit of political gamesmanship often seen in Congress, Daines wants to force vulnerable Democratic senators running for re-election in red states in 2018 to take a position on the liberal healthcare policy, which is gaining currency on the Left.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/republican-sen-steve-daines-to-make-democrats-vote-on-single-payer/article/2629775
IT WAS WORTH A SHOT
Democrats reject GOP’s effort to bait them into voting for single-payer health insurance
Senate Republicans tried to troll their Democratic colleagues into revealing an intra-party rift and casting potentially politically damaging votes for single-payer health insurance on Thursday.
Democrats didn’t take the bait.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/27/politics/health-care-single-payer-senate-vote/
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Mika’s got some odd idea about American history. Off the top of my head I can think of two big laws that got repealed after years of being enforced … prohibition and the military draft.
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My favorite rendition of the Potomac Two Step was in “Clear and Present Danger” when the president tries to bribe Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford), calling it by that name. Ryan says, “I don’t dance.”
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On Wednesday evening, Scaramucci told Hannity that he has discovered the identities of senior members of the White House communications team who have been asking junior members to leak.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/07/scaramucci-ive-discovered-leakers-theyre-asking-junior-people-leak/
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