Some in GOP grow tired of right wing

[sabra]

Source: Politico

Some veteran Republican House members are pushing back against conservative deficit hawks who are pushing for endlessly deep spending cuts, saying the right wing of the party is creating unnecessary divisions for the GOP majority.

While the 54 Republicans who voted against the most recent stopgap spending bill didn’t derail the legislation, some GOP lawmakers are becoming increasingly wary of a faction that rejects substantial spending cuts because they want deeper ones or the inclusion of divisive social policy riders.

Many of the critics are close to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), who struggles more each day to keep his majority unified as a three-month spending showdown threatens to spill into April. The House passed $6 billion of spending cuts Tuesday, to bring the total cut to $10 billion.

“Yep, it is surprising,” Idaho Rep. Mike Simpson said of the difficulty convincing hard-liners that the leadership is cutting large amounts of spending. “I mean, this is three weeks; we’re cutting $6 billion. You know? It is surprising. This is the only time in my life where I can cut $6 billion in a three-week period and be called a liberal.”

Ohio Rep. Steve LaTourette, an appropriator close to Boehner, said Republicans are seeing a “constant tension” between “the Democratic Party that talks about cuts but doesn’t want to cut anything, and then you have my side, that wants to cut anything that moves.




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[Scuba]

1. Read: Holy crap, so you see what's going on in Wisconsin? n/t

[4dsc]

2. The ignorant could care less.

The ignorant wing of the GOP could care less what's happening in this country.

[WhiteTara]

3. may they have sleepless nights and stomach acid.

may they squirm and twist as they "relax". may Boner never make another hole in one. may their children scorn them and become Democrats.

[LaurenG]

7. You are too kind - except for the kids becoming democrats!

:rofl: that will hurt them. :P

[stockholmer]

4. "then you have my side, that wants to cut anything that moves"-so the war budget is up for debate?

:sarcasm:

[Bandit]

5. Waking up with fleas are we?

:shrug: I don't believe there is any real sanity left in the Republican Party so this is just background noise..

[Andy823]

6. Well...

The right wing created the "teabagger" monster, and now they have to find a way to live with that "monster" while the monster is eating them alive! It won't be easy, and it will be one hell of a fight, but all I cans say is it couldn't happen to a better bunch if idiots than the republican party! :evilgrin:

[subterranean]

8. The right wing? Is there any other wing in the Republican party?

I thought it just had two wings now: The far right and the extreme far right.

[PaddyBlueEyes]

10. Nah..You still have a few of the old school

Eisenhower Republicans left. My grandfather is one, he is 83. His type of Republican is a different creature than these fools. He believed in the Civil Rights movement, and more so after he witnessed the treatment of his black shipmates during WW2. He believed in fiscal restraint and not spending more than you make, but he also lived in an America that was different. When he was younger and into his middle ages, a kid from the street with a high school education, could get a job, support a family and move up in socioeconomic status if you worked hard and played by the rules. He initally supported the Vietnam War, and continued to support it, because the radical left freaked him out and turned him off. Eventually, he came to realize that war for what it was. Those kind of Republicans were compassionate, friendly and real Christians. Not the pseudo christian evangelical flame throwers we have now. They believed in community and really did, and still do, love their neighbors. I wish they were the majority faction on the other side.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. The GOP teabaggers purged most of them

and the few who are left were or are being forced to take a hard shift to the lunatic right (see McLame, Hatch, etc).

[eringer]

9. Yeah, The Old School Republicans Long to Go Back to what Works so Well for Them

gay bashing and killing abortion doctors.

[no_hypocrisy]

11. Bob Dole must be thinking, "Miss me yet?"

[PaddyBlueEyes]

12. I didnt vote for him

but Dole was an honest and decent man.

[no_hypocrisy]

13. He was honest and decent, and truly bipartison.

He was ready to compromise and make a deal.

[gratuitous]

15. Are they tired enough, though?

Eric Cantor came out yesterday to blame the Democrats for holding things up on the continuing resolution (the CR wouldn't have passed if it wasn't for Democrats unwilling to stop everything just for the sake of partisan politics). The media let him get away with this, but I hope the Democrats don't. Maybe they should have a little symbolic "screw you" vote for Eric on the next CR, and let it go down with "bipartisan" opposition. Just to let him know that there may be larger principles at stake than simply "winning."