Reality kicking in for Republicans

[ProSense]

Via Daily Kos

The Hill:

New Jersey’s Republican governor Chris Christie told NBC’s "Meet the Press" today: "It's put up or shut up time for our party."

Christie said Republicans had to stick by their election pledges to cut spending and downsize government: "We have to do what we said we’d do or be sent to the wilderness."

The New Jersey governor argued his state is leading the way in curtailing spending: "We’ve made real hard decisions. We’ve cut spending we would have liked to have kept, but we’re broke!

It's put up or shut up time for his party because now they are responsible for governance and can't rely on bumper stickers. And now the country gets to see what they voted for.

HuffPo:

Republican leaders and strategists are muttering that the same tea party activists who elevated Speaker-to-be John Boehner and the party to power in the House simultaneously hobbled the GOP's outside shot of running the Senate. Tea partiers largely spurned establishment candidates in the GOP primaries and helped nominate Christine O'Donnell in Delaware, Sharron Angle in Nevada and Ken Buck in Colorado.

All three lost on Tuesday.

That's what they voted for.

Reuters:

Congressional Republicans said on Sunday they plan a full-scale assault against President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul next year but acknowledged it could take until after the 2012 presidential election to repeal it.

In other words, they can't repeal it.

Teabaggers to Congressional Republicans: repeal health care or risk severe backlash

[Clio the Leo]

1. This is when the fun starts....

... they've already turned on Scott Brown

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/03/scott-brown-finds-himself_n_778269.html

.... wait until they find out their "champions" just used them.

[ProSense]

2. I see your fun and raise you one:

Free Republic owner Jim Robinson threatens to make FR a "ghost town" if Romney is nominated

[notadmblnd]

3. Oh, that should be a headline here on it's own

And I wish I could be a fly on the wall at FR when they read it here first! :rofl:

[Peacetrain]

5. Oh My... Things are not well in Mount Idy... she goes on

;)

[GoCubsGo]

11. That's enough to make me want to vote in the GOP primary in 2012

They want "Operation Chaos", I'll give them Operation Chaos.

[tavalon]

4. Here it comes

They will tear themselves apart. We will at least have that fun. No useful legislation but there is this.

[RichGirl]

6. Let's learn from them.

They seem to believe that everyone is suppose to think alike, is short, easy to understand sentences.

We democrats understand, I hope, that we are all intelligent, thinking people who share common ground, but also have our own views and opinions. We need to accept all democrats under our tents, whether they are centrist, progressive, socialist, etc. Maybe even invite some RINOs into the tent.

[GoCubsGo]

12. Maybe...

But, in the end, they'll still blame the Democrats for the gridlock. And, they'll come out smelling like a rose.

[thereismore]

7. Christie is their "star" for 2012. He is surprisingly rational. nt

[thereismore]

8. Uh oh, Christie would have liked to keep some spending. Not good, buster. Not good. nt

[ProSense]

9. GOP Rep. Bachus: ‘Sarah Palin Cost Us Control Of The Senate’

GOP Rep. Bachus: ‘Sarah Palin Cost Us Control Of The Senate’

After Republicans failed to take control of the Senate in last week’s election, losing key races in Colorado, Nevada, and elsewhere, “a bloc of prominent senators and operatives said party purists like Sarah Palin and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) had foolishly pushed nominees too conservative to win in politically competitive states.” While most party insiders were reluctant to call out DeMint or Palin by name to reporters, Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL) did not mince words. Quoted in the Shelby County Reporter yesterday, Bachus — who will likely play a key role in the new Congress as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee — laid the blame for GOP’s Senate loss squarely at the feet of momma grizzly Palin and the tea party movement:

“The Senate would be Republican today except for states (in which Palin endorsed candidates) like Christine O’Donnell in Delaware,” Bachus said. “Sarah Palin cost us control of the Senate.”

He said Tea Party candidates did well in U.S. House races, but in the U.S. Senate races, “They didn’t do well at all.”

Bachus is by no means a liberal and his comments reflect a growing rift within the conservative movement about how much ideological purity should guide the GOP’s agenda. Bachus and his colleagues will soon vote on whom to elect as the House GOP Conference chairman, a race highlights this rift and — like the GOP primaries last Spring which Bachus referenced — pits an establishment pick against a Palin-backed insurgent in Reps. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) and Michele Bachmann (R-MN).

Poor Mitch McConnell.

[emulatorloo]

10. Look for lots of showboating and symbolic votes - "Obamacare Repeal"

Symbolic votes against raising the debt ceiling. They have no idea how to create jobs other than tax cuts for the folks that donate billions to Chamber of Commerce.