I think it's safe to say the GOP establishment that has run the Republican roost since 1989 is unraveling, fracturing, coming apart at the seams.
Ever since George H.W. Bush took over the White House from Ronald Reagan, the Republican Party has pretty much operated as a carnival sideshow for the Democrats' Barnum & Bailey main event.
It didn't matter much if the Republicans occupied the White House or held numerical advantage in Congress. What mattered is the establishment Republican elite weren't going to do anything they said they would do to get elected.
Whether we read their lips or not, they weren't going to hold the line on taxes.
No matter what they promised, they weren't going to cut out waste, fraud or unconstitutional spending.
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They might complain about burgeoning debt, but they weren't going to stop it.
They preached conservatism and smaller government, but they never came close to living up to their rhetoric.
They swore they were pro-life, but it never translated into meaningful legislation.
They talked about border control, but they didn't mean it.
Some of them ran posing as "tea party" candidates knowing they had no intention of rocking the boat once they got to Washington.
You know what I'm saying.
But, since the surprise decision of House Speaker John Boehner to retire, the Republican establishment has demonstrated just how and why it is not equipped or willing to offer the American people an alternative to governance by Democrats – no matter how unpopular the latter might be.
What were they thinking when they lined up behind Kevin McCarthy as Boehner's successor?
Sure, he was a more personable version of Boehner. He had a nice smile. He was next in line. It was "his turn."
Didn't the establishment Republicans see what was happening in the presidential campaign? Did they miss the polls showing Donald Trump, Dr. Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina – three "outsiders" leading a very big pack? Were they so completely out of touch with the growing grass-roots anger at them that they thought they could dodge the bullet again?
And did they really think no one outside Washington would ever find out about the dirty, little secrets McCarthy was hiding?
For years, Republican voters were wondering what Barack Obama had on Boehner. Surely, they speculated, Obama was blackmailing the speaker – and probably Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, too. What else could explain their total appeasement of the Democratic agenda – even when they achieved majorities in both houses of the most powerful branch of government?
Yet, there was McCarthy, running for the second-most powerful position in Washington, completely compromised.
The rumors around the Capitol were unavoidable. There wasn't a single member of Congress who didn't know about them. Their staffs buzzed about it. The only thing missing were incriminating photos or videos.
Yet, Republicans were very close to elevating McCarthy to the position of speaker – throwing away any chance to keep Obama in check for his final 14 months in office and scoring any gains in Congress in 2016.
None of that mattered.
The only thing that meant anything to the Republican establishment in Washington was business as usual.
Their time is passed.
They're making a mockery of their party – not to mention their country.
They're disgracing themselves. With America in decline by nearly every metric, they have no answers. Unless Boehner can be stopped, they are about to write Obama another blank check to do whatever he wants to do in his last year in office – including signing another illegal executive order to dismantle the Second Amendment, import hundreds of thousands of Sunni Muslim "refugees" whose backgrounds are otherwise unknown and change forever the character of the nation with the continuing wave of unchecked illegal immigration through the wide-open southern border.
America needs bold leadership. You can't keep doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. There's an excellent chance an anti-establishment Republican could be elected president next year because GOP voters are catching on to their own party's charade.
It will be open season on a lot of establishment Republican members of Congress in 2016 if they don't change direction fast.
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