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kentuck

(111,110 posts)
Fri Nov 7, 2014, 11:06 AM Nov 2014

Why Republicans will fail...?

It's a simple precept.

Republicans will fail because their interest is not in governing but in power.

Democrats are generally the Party of government. Republicans have little interest in government. They want power so they can hold on to the status quo and gain more wealth by exercising their power.

Their is an old saying: "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

With the quest for power comes back-stabbing, rumor-mongering, character assassination, and worse. This is what the present Republican Party is all about. They have no interest in governing.

For example, Republicans do not want immigration reform because they fear immigrants will have the votes to take away their power. That is why they have no interest in immigration reform. This is the present battleground for the two Parties.

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Why Republicans will fail...? (Original Post) kentuck Nov 2014 OP
Failure like this looks a lot like their definition of success. Orsino Nov 2014 #1
True but... kentuck Nov 2014 #2
They may not realize that they are gradually putting themselves out of work. Orsino Nov 2014 #3
The Republicans were so successful under GWB that McCain lost to Not-Bush. DetlefK Nov 2014 #4
Spot on LondonReign2 Nov 2014 #5
Yours is spot on malaise Nov 2014 #18
Yep LadyHawkAZ Nov 2014 #10
I think Boehner will probably be the first...? kentuck Nov 2014 #11
I'd like to rework this WhiteTara Nov 2014 #6
Of course! kentuck Nov 2014 #7
Thanks! WhiteTara Nov 2014 #8
Great! kentuck Nov 2014 #9
Republicans are not failing, though? BlindTiresias Nov 2014 #12
It's a temporary victory. kentuck Nov 2014 #13
Temporary victory? What? BlindTiresias Nov 2014 #19
What have they accomplished thus far? kentuck Nov 2014 #20
What have they accomplished? BlindTiresias Nov 2014 #21
LOL, no no no no NM_Birder Nov 2014 #14
The Rs will fail, Dems will win in 2016 bigwillq Nov 2014 #15
While we think they are failing malaise Nov 2014 #16
^^THIS^^ LondonReign2 Nov 2014 #17

kentuck

(111,110 posts)
2. True but...
Fri Nov 7, 2014, 11:26 AM
Nov 2014

The challenge is from within. How do they share the power? I doubt that they can. First to feel the sting will probably be John Boehner.

Orsino

(37,428 posts)
3. They may not realize that they are gradually putting themselves out of work.
Fri Nov 7, 2014, 11:31 AM
Nov 2014

Neutering Congress and the electoral process on a daily basis means that one day the aristos won't need them anymore. When the sham of elections is eventually discarded, few of them will be able to buy their way into that ruling class.

LondonReign2

(5,213 posts)
5. Spot on
Fri Nov 7, 2014, 11:35 AM
Nov 2014

They won't fail by their standards. As usual, they attempt to run the economy into the ground for the vast majority of people while raking in the bucks for the .01% and permanently altering the power structure in their favor.

Once they are done destroying it in this cycle they'll hand it over to the Democrats, who will once again have squirmed rightward, to fix.

Rinse and repeat.

LadyHawkAZ

(6,199 posts)
10. Yep
Fri Nov 7, 2014, 02:53 PM
Nov 2014

They're a Borg. Individual power is secondary to the power of the group, because group power brings individual power with it.

WhiteTara

(29,728 posts)
6. I'd like to rework this
Fri Nov 7, 2014, 11:49 AM
Nov 2014

and put it in our local paper. Would that be alright? This is important because people don't see this.

BlindTiresias

(1,563 posts)
12. Republicans are not failing, though?
Fri Nov 7, 2014, 02:59 PM
Nov 2014

By all measures they have taken over the entire American political life, to the point where lots of dems buy into their ideology. Seems like a complete and total victory to me.

kentuck

(111,110 posts)
13. It's a temporary victory.
Fri Nov 7, 2014, 03:12 PM
Nov 2014

Louis Gohmert may run against Boehner?

There will be a lot of individual power plays. Ted Cruz wants to be Leader if he cannot be President.

Rand Paul, Tea Party darling, will split his Party right down the middle.

Many Tea Partiers will press their Party to kill Obamacare. As we speak, they have sent it to the Supremes to decide its constitutionality. They want to try and get it out of the way early.

And you will always have McCain and Graham making demands on the leadership.

But immigration is the issue that will drive them mad. There will be outright revolt if Obama signs an executive order.

BlindTiresias

(1,563 posts)
19. Temporary victory? What?
Fri Nov 7, 2014, 04:27 PM
Nov 2014

It has been a full blown winning streak for 30 years, at least. The right wing has such ascendancy that most Democrats use the same economic theories and conclusions, so I don't know what you are talking about.

 

NM_Birder

(1,591 posts)
14. LOL, no no no no
Fri Nov 7, 2014, 03:40 PM
Nov 2014

you missed the super X-D strategy.

See, all the Republicans were voted into office, to show how much support there was for Democratic Leadership. By not voting, Democrats were making a silent protest that the administration was not going far enough, ergo the targeting of Democratic incumbent senators being voted out, was a show of support for President Obama.

I know this sounds crazy, but I've actually heard this as a reason for the wave the Democrats suffered.

the unspoken problem lying in wait, are all the gov races and state legislators that went republican. The republican controlled Congress is bad enough, but wait till the effects of the "red wave" at the state level is finally acknowledged.

 

bigwillq

(72,790 posts)
15. The Rs will fail, Dems will win in 2016
Fri Nov 7, 2014, 03:41 PM
Nov 2014

USA gets sick of Dems, Rs win in 2018, USA gets sick of Rs, Ds win in 2020..... on and on we go.


malaise

(269,212 posts)
16. While we think they are failing
Fri Nov 7, 2014, 03:45 PM
Nov 2014

they are looting pension funds, destroying unions, enriching themselves and their cronies and destroying all that I thought mattered to American people.

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