The GOP is Now Officially The Party of Tea

Subject: The GOP is Now Officially The Party of Tea Sun Feb 21, 2016 4:18 am

Jonathan Cohn, of Huffington Post, wrote:: Consider something that happened late last week, although it got relatively little attention amid all the other campaign news. In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Rubio confirmed that, if elected, he would rescind President Barack Obama’s executive action protecting so-called Dreamers from deportation -- and that he would do so on his first day in office.

Dreamers are undocumented residents who were brought here as children and, in many cases, have spent nearly their entire lives in the U.S. -- going to school, working at jobs and fully integrating to American life. As HuffPost’s Elise Foley and The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent noted, the announcement was a shift. Previously, Rubio had given no timetable for when he’d rescind the executive action -- and suggested that he would probably wait, because deporting the Dreamers right away would be so “deeply disruptive.”

Whatever Rubio’s reversal says about his consistency, or lack thereof, it speaks volumes about the ideological direction of the Republican Party now that South Carolina has apparently winnowed the presidential field. Cruz, Rubio, Trump -- all three want insanely large tax cuts for the rich, all three want to take health insurance away from millions, all three oppose same-sex marriage and now all three have taken up extremely conservative positions on immigration.

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Nothing very conservative about any of this garbage.

What I don't get -- and maybe somebody can explain it to me -- is that we have two long stretches of American history where libertarianism ruled the day, and one long stretch where statism (to use the Koch's term) ruled the day.

The former ended in the Great Depression and the Great Recession.

The latter resulted in the longest sustained period of growth in our nation's history.

Why can't conservatives read history?

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So Do Outcomes Matter More than Rhetoric?

For Republicans, no.

Subject: Re: The GOP is Now Officially The Party of Tea Sun Feb 21, 2016 1:15 pm

I've seen those figures before, from a different source.

Yes, they're a shocking repudiation of the prevailing Republican narrative that Democrats grow the government and the debt. It just ain't true.

Subject: Re: The GOP is Now Officially The Party of Tea Tue Feb 23, 2016 1:11 pm

Another Great Republican Lie is that business prospers under their rule and suffers under Democratic administrations. In fact, business and the general economy always fare better under Democratic presidents. Even Forbes writes about it.

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