- Granite Grok

Showing the political cowardice and duplicity of DC Republicans when votes are easy but have all kinds of issues when the votes become very telling, very visible, and actually are compared to Principle by voters – and be very sure,  the Base is watching with microscopes.  Of course, these self-same pols are hating every micro-second for being in the spotlight.  Ah, accountability – what a wonder concept!  Here’s a smidge from a post at The Corner  that brings this into great hi-def (emphasis mine):

The change has left some of today’s defunders bitterly resentful of their colleagues and former allies. In private conversations, they complain that their fellow Republicans were with them when voting for defunding was easy but have run away when everything is on the line….

This is the Washington political class in sharp relief. The Republican establishment resists President Obama and his agenda only when it knows that resistance is futile, token and sure to be inconsequential – when it’s good for a campaign commercial about how hard the GOP is working to undo Obamacare, not when it’s about actually working hard to undo Obamacare. For most Senate Republicans, the vote on an anti-Obamacare amendment in the context of authorizing national defense programs that Republicans knew they were never going to block was a pose – just like the forty-odd votes to repeal Obamacare that had no chance of becoming law.

By contrast, the current defunding effort is a put-your-money-where-your-mouth-is moment: Risk a government shutdown over Obamacare funding under circumstances where Republicans could be blamed, but where (a) Obamacare is very unpopular and its downside consequences are just beginning to kick in; (b) the defunding strategy includes a commitment to fund the rest of government so it can be demonstrated that Obama would really be the one shutting down the government over Obamacare; and (c) Obama himself has already unilaterally and unconstitutionally defunded aspects of Obamacare, including repugnant accommodations for big corporations, Obama insiders, and members of Congress – such that, if the government shuts down, Republicans can compellingly argue that they are only insisting that the American people get the same relief from this awful law that Obama cronies, the ruling class, and the politically-connected get.

Yes, those of you that were for defunding Obama and now against it are looking like Republican versions of John “Lurch” Kerry – betcha you made fun of him, privately or publicly, when he got tagged with that “voted for it” deal.  Y’all just couldn’t learn from his mistake, yeah?  That changing your answer just because it is politically inexpediently to stay pat (or as I have been saying lately: showing Consistency to the voters, being true to what you’ve said in the past).  Moral – ’tis better to act on Principle and easier too.  It’s like always telling the truth – you never have worry about which lie you told which person.

You all have said what we believe – that Obamacare is the final nail in this glorious American Experiment in which citizens were considered to be more important than Government.  Now ACT and VOTE like it!  You promised that stopping Obamacare was THE most important thing that Republicans could do – and now you Establishment (or becoming Establishment) Republicans have more excuses than Avogadro’s Number.  I’m just watching that Trust evaporate.

Consistency AND Trust = Votes

not (Consistency AND Trust) = no (Votes)

Don’t do it?  We all will find a similar Avogadro’s Number of reasons to vote for others – capische?  After all, if this takes effect, and the debt goes up, we won’t be needing you any more.

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