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A Beautiful New Bike For Christmas?. . . GOP Should Be Ashamed Of The Gift And Throw It Away

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By DEXTER DUGGAN

Little Dominic was so impatient for his Christmas present that his parents celebrated the holiday just after the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
For months he begged, pleaded, and said his nightly prayers so loudly for a bicycle that a few times the police were called by a neighbor over Dominic disturbing the peace.
Lo and behold, the morning of November 5, 2014, the biggest, shiniest, fastest bicycle ever seen was there beneath the apple tree (it being too early in the season to find a Christmas tree to buy).
Dominic dashed into the living room and saw the sight. His face fell and he crumpled into a trembling heap.
“Oh, I might fall and skin my knee when I ride it! Or lose control and ride into a ditch,” Dominic wailed. “Or catch my pant leg in the roller chain. Or get hit by a car!
“And my friend Donkey Dave wants a bike, too. If he doesn’t get one, he’ll hate me and probably steal my bike or beat me up,” Dominic sobbed. “What did I ever do to deserve this?”
His father, known around the neighborhood as Joe the Voter, had about had enough.
Joe the Voter muttered to his wife, Sarah, “It was bad enough in 2010 when Dommy was really little and he pulled this same kind of tantrum after I scrimped and saved to give him exactly what he wanted. I don’t think I’m gonna keep delivering when he throws it back in my face!”
The resemblance between Dominic and the National Republican Party is purely intentional. As in 2010, the voters delivered for Republicans again. In 2014 the gift was even bigger, with Dominic, er, Republicans winning control of both houses of Congress. Plus control of both the governorships and the legislatures in states from north to south and almost coast to coast.
This is said to represent a dangerous crisis for Republicans, not Democrats.
It was a wave election. And immediately liberal pundits and consultants started telling Dommy, er, Republicans what a dangerous gift they had. Don’t brag about it. Don’t even play with it. Probably best to hide it under the bed and forget about it.
Looks like they don’t want Dommy to have any pride of ownership.
And if his friend Donkey Dave, who didn’t get a bike at all, claims to have the biggest, best bike in all the United States, tell Dave he’s right, and he should be president of the United States. Or already is. Can’t dare afford to make big-time loser Donkey Dave mad!
Donkey Dave, er, Barack Obama had just been spanked up one side and down the other by the voters and sent to his White House bedroom without breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
Joe the Voter understandably was outraged that Obama told one stinking lie after another, each one carefully calculated to hurt Joe deeply. Joe was punishing Barack back.
How contrite was Barack? Why, he stuck out his tongue and told Joe that five million new voters are being imported into his neighborhood to pummel his kind of GOP voter into shreds, like a well-bashed piñata.
As a post-election editorial in the conservative Washington Times actually said, Obama’s “message seems to be, ‘OK, you won. Now it’s time for you to surrender’.”
When voters make plain they expect Republicans to put a strong end to Obama’s imperious lawbreaking, Obama’s pals shake their fingers in the GOP’s face and say, “You better not!”
After spending all the campaign year telling Republicans how bad and unpopular all GOP policies are, Obama’s pals are as shameless as their arrogant hero.
Not a word of apology to the Republicans for having given the GOP bad advice. Just a new round of hectoring about what Republicans should do now. And not a word of rebuke to Obama for continuing to lie and law-break.
Republicans probably sense that Joe’s getting impatient for them to do their job, thoroughly and impressively. Don’t take any more bad counsel from guys who actually want what’s best for Donkey Dave, and what’s worst for the GOP.
Put Obama off balance. Put his pals on the defensive. Left-wing media and liberal pundits would be shocked, but it’d give them something to chew over if a careful leak came out that Republicans were planning to ask the Secret Service to arrest Obama and hold him for criminal trial.
After all, Obama would face no less if he were a corporate bigwig who blatantly lied and connived to steal from and hurt literally hundreds of millions of consumers, as he did with nationalized medical care.
Then another leak about preparing a formal investigation of Obama for betraying black voters and punishing them economically with his crony capitalist policies. Then another leak about scheduling hearings on Obama morally corrupting the nation with his pro-abortion and pro-homosexual agenda.
How the media would howl. How the people would cheer. Obama already has the media vote. Here’s how the GOP could cement ties with the people’s vote. Obama won’t be able to keep firing off his attacks on the nation if he is solidly put on the defensive.

A Clear Mandate

Finally, The Wanderer asked two real-life Arizona political activists for their thoughts about Republicans being advised to keep their heads down and go slow.
Constantin Querard, a conservative GOP campaign strategist, said:
“To be certain, the Beltway media don’t care for Republicans, but since they have to live and work with whoever the majority party is, they are willing to work with Republicans, as well as their preferred Democrats. What they have no tolerance for are conservatives. So conservatives are best served largely ignoring their advice because, ‘It’s a trap!’”
“The American people are ready to passionately support a party that leads in a conservative direction with real clarity as to what it is doing and why,” Querard said. “If the increasingly conservative Republican majorities can overcome the reluctance of their assorted leadership and provide that clarity, they will be rewarded with electoral success for years to come.”
Rob Haney, immediate past chairman of Phoenix’s Maricopa County Republican Party, said: “I call them déjà vu Republicans. How many times have we witnessed this before? Republicans seem to be torn between winning and retreating. They win by campaigning against liberal policies but, instead of fulfilling their promises, they retreat.
“The Republicans received a clear mandate to eliminate Obama’s policies through their overwhelming victories in November. But they have chosen to wimp out and look for reasons not to keep their word,” Haney said. “Why do elected Republicans repeatedly follow the counsel of the [mainstream media], Democrat leaders and Republican elites?
“Do they believe the liberal Washington Post, Democrat Sen. [Charles] Schumer, and establishment Republican Karl Rove have the best interests of Platform Republicans at heart? Or is it that they were telling us what they knew we needed to hear to elect them, but never intended to implement what they promised because they are deceivers?
“I believe the latter alternative to be the truth,” Haney said. “They have learned their campaign tactics from a long list of deceiving Republican predecessors: Senators [Mitch] McConnell, [John] McCain, [Jeff] Flake, [Lindsey] Graham, [Marco] Rubio, Representatives [John] Boehner, [Paul] Ryan, and [Eric] Cantor, for starters. Once again the leadership of the Republican Party has snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
“Can you recall Democrat Sen. [Harry] Reid or Democrat Rep. [Nancy] Pelosi hesitating for one second in implementing their liberal agendas after their election victories? Weak congressional Republicans elect weak leadership,” Haney said. “Lawsuits and censures are not going to stop Obama. Strong, courageous Republican leadership will.”

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