GOP moderates vow to speak louder

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

Moderate House Republicans say they’re fed up.

The next time around, they won’t stand for the ill-fated defund Obamacare strategy that ended up paralyzing the federal government for 16 days and crippling their party’s approval numbers. And unlike their fellow Republicans sitting in conservative districts, it’s moderates who will be on the front lines in the 2014 elections.

While there doesn’t appear to be an organized strategy among the handful of moderates still in the GOP-led House, they say they’ll speak with a much louder — and cohesive — voice in the next round of budget wars. The moderates want to avoid a repeat of the shutdown, but it’s unclear whether they’ll have sufficient clout to counterbalance their more conservative colleagues, who spoke with one powerful voice when it came to the shutdown.

“I can assure you that the next time around, people are going to have their eyes wide open,” said Republican Rep. Charlie Dent, who represents a moderate district in eastern Pennsylvania. “I believe there will be a lot of folks speaking up. Aggressively, in fact.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/gop-moderates-budget-wars-99281.html?hp=l11

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I'm sorry: were you saying something?

[Jackpine Radical]

1. What's a Republican moderate?

Near as I can tell, the term seems to refer to those who espouse a particular strategy in a dispute over how to package the same set of inhumane reverse-Robin-Hood goals of disenfranchising the people on the bottom while ripping off their few remaining shreds of wealth and giving them to the rich.

[cosmicone]

10. A moderate republican

is the same pig with a little more lipstick and makeup.

[nxylas]

17. "Moderate" in Republican terms means they still have some connection to reality

All it takes is a belief that the Earth is 4.5 billion years old and that President Obama was born in Hawaii. Positions that ought not to be particularly controversial, but which are considered "brave" in today's Republican party. And if you actually give disaster relief for the people who elected you a higher priority than a desire to put that uppity n****r in his place, you are positively heroic and will hit the MSM's collective G-spot every time you say or do anything (unless you scream at a teacher, in which case let's just forget the incident ever happened, OK?)

[Snake Plissken]

18. A liar

what else would you call a republican pretending to be moderate?

[AAO]

20. They'll eat your heart just the same, but have a teabagger cut it out of you.

[seveneyes]

26. Just about the same thing as a moderate Democrat

In fact, moderates on both sides slip across the thin purple line at voting time now and then. They come, they go. Some are known as Independents.

[Iliyah]

2. Uh Huh

Alrighty then!

[Xipe Totec]

3. If I don't survive, tell my wife I said "hello"

[truthisfreedom]

14. Wow, how did I miss that episode?

[beerandjesus]

4. Seems to me they spoke loudly last time....

"We defer to the baggers!"

[gopiscrap]

5. didn't know there were any left

[DJ13]

6. They'll have to find some moderates first

[davidpdx]

7. Yeah sure, that's the ticket!

[ajk2821]

8. Who knew?

Who knew that there was an Open Mike Comedy Night in the House of Representatives?

[AAO]

21. Sunday night is always comedy night. Saturday night is karaoke!

[Bandit]

9. Listen to the wind blow

[0rganism]

11. All four of them, eh?

Nice to see those guys get on the same page for something besides a lunch menu.

[lostincalifornia]

12. A republican moderate. Is someone who says they want to be more inclusive, then exclude anyone who

isn't an extreme right-winger

[Javaman]

13. Will that also include much stamping of the feet and shaking of the fists? nt

[NCagainstMcCrony]

15. again

Another story more than 12 hours old. Selective enforcement. The DU bubble.

[Rebellious Republican]

25. It happens, welcome to DU!

[Puzzledtraveller]

16. Good for them

now can our liberals speak up a little bit too? Or are they afraid to piss the establishment off?

[stillcool]

19. CYA?

They'll be getting more and more moderate the closer they get to their own elections.

[kydo]

22. speaking loud is all repubs do anyway - maybe the hand full should vote differently

they might be heard then.

[Journeyman]

23. So is Rep. Dent admitting he performed his duty in October with his eyes shut tight? . . .

“I can assure you that the next time around, people are going to have their eyes wide open,” said Republican Rep. Charlie Dent, who represents a moderate district in eastern Pennsylvania. “I believe there will be a lot of folks speaking up. Aggressively, in fact.”

What a peculiar little man -- full of brazen bluster and flush with strong resolve after the danger has passed.

[geek tragedy]

24. Like dodos and passenger pigeons vowing to fly higher next time nt

[Dopers_Greed]

27. There are still moderate republicans?

Oh well, I hope they all get primaried by Baggers who will get defeated by Dems in the general.

[Populist_Prole]

28. Day late & a dollar short n/t

[Xipe Totec]

29. two balls short. nt

[Wolf Frankula]

30. They're Going to Speak Louder

They've been silent, now they're going to whisper.

Wolf