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Mark Levin: We need a new Republican party… new leaders

...and Mark Levin...
…and Mark Levin…

I’m comforted and encouraged to know that Mark Levin also shares my outrage and concern about the Orange One’s lack of spine, brain and principled compass. He’s calling it just as I have. I love that guy, can’t listen to him as much as I’d like, but he did appear on Cavuto’s show yesterday.  Below is the article from The Daily Caller (emphasis mine), with my comments interspersed.  To read an unadulterated version and watch the video click here.

He’s right on.

Conservative radio host Mark Levin attacked Republican leadership after Congress passed the farm bill and raised the debt ceiling, exclaiming, “We need a new Republican party.

Fox News host Neil Cavuto spoke with Levin about the conservatives’ tough week in Washington, after Republicans aided Democrats in passing a $1 trillion farm bill and an extension of the debt ceiling. Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner argued it was best to capitulate on these issues and focus on Obamacare, which the party views as a winning issue going into November elections.

Naturally, when the Orange One is frustrated, best go heads down, bottoms up.

Levin thinks a little differently. “I am sick and tired of defeatist Republicans going on and on, ‘You gotta count the numbers,’” he said. “Leaders affect events. Leaders change mindsets. Leaders change trajectory.”

“Whom among Republican leaders is explaining, day in and day out, the coming, the looming catastrophe?” he continued. “You need to communicate this in real, human terms to the people.”

The American people need to be told if this continues for as many more years, they’re going to use their pensions, they’re going to use their savings, their going to use their college funds, and the value of the currency is going to crash,” he later added. “This is a fact.”

Amen. Math can be brutal and cruel.

Cavuto agreed. “Yeah, but John Boehner has more or less told the tea partiers, more or less told the conservatives, more or less told the Mark Levins, ‘Look, why don’t you guys just sit on it because we are winning with this strategy, we are getting our way with this strategy.’”

“The country’s bigger than John Boehner, or Mitch McConnell for that matter, or any single man or even political group,” Levin responded. “We’re talking about, here, preserving the republic. Economies do crash. Societies do crash.

Pretending otherwise is what Democrats do. They believe in the unbelievable if it supports their statist government interventionist agenda like Global Warming. They claim to be the party of science and facts when it serves their purposes.  But when empirical evidence and logic runs contrary to their agenda, they pretend it doesn’t exist. It’s only political.  Well, math will weigh in, politics be damned.

You don’t just fight a battle three weeks before the battle’s coming,” he later said angrily, referencing the recent debt ceiling deadline. “You need to have a strategy. Example: the next debt ceiling is March 2015. Start today. Make the case. Explain it to the American people. Rather than go on Jay Leno’s show, slouch in the chair and act like an ass.

This is exactly one of my points yesterday. They just gave away the issue because they’re too dumb to do anything else. They cannot lead. Out with Boehner, he’s useless. What has he done? What victories can he claim? None, is the answer.

None.

“I’ve seen leaders, I’ve worked for leaders,” Levin ranted. “And leaders change events, leaders affect the future, they have arguments. They don’t stand their with marbles in their mouth, trash their own party and so forth.”

This applies to both Obama and Boehner. Neither have what it takes to persuade, to make cogent arguments to get their point across and persuade the other side. When Obama’s stymied, he throws a temper tantrum and declares he has powers that he does not have. But, he knows his opponent, Boehner will do what he normally does when he can’t persuade: roll over like a b!tch in heat and take it. The President knows the Orange One won’t call him on his abuse of power. He knows he’s dealing with a really dumb, unskilled opponent. So, though, he can’t slam his agenda down through the congress to create legislation, he amends laws, regulations capriciously and unconstitutionally, because he has nothing to lose. No one will do anything about it in Congress, he doesn’t fear the chump.

“Look, it’s a party right now — we need a new Republican party. We need new leaders,” he contended. “I’ve seen it with Reagan, I’ve seen it with Gingrich, say what you will. There are men, there are women out there waiting in the wings, who can lead this party and make a case.”

Yes we do. We need to rip out and replace the Republican party.

 

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