Rush's question is valid.
Is this what we get when we vote Republican?
If so, I think I'll stay home.
It is amazing to see the earnest desire of conservatives across the country being derailed by the leaders of the party they rallied around. It is amazing to see House Republicans being the greatest obstacle to conservative progress in the country.
And it is amazing to be told that conservatives have to wait. That after giving the Republicans the Senate and the House and the presidency, that there still remains some invisible obstacle to overcome.
Someday, we are told. Someday.
Well, screw someday. It's fish-or-cut-bait time. It's time for the Republicans to pay down some of their debt.
Obamacare repeal and replacement is the litmus test. Answer the call, or get the boot. Stand and deliver, or get sabotaged next election.
We've tried the carrot, now we'll try the stick.
We made a deal -- our votes for your fidelity -- and you broke it, so now maybe we'll have to break you.
Let me be specific.
I work on two pissant little radio talk shows in upstate New York. Absolutely small market, completely inconsequential. Yet, interestingly, those two little radio talk shows make me the most prominent conservative commentator in three Republican congressional districts.
Three Republican congressional districts where they're getting the wrong answer on Obamacare repeal.
John Katko says he's voting against the Republican replacement plan. Claudia Tenney and Tom Reed say they can't make up their minds.
Katko, Reed, and Tenney
Maybe I can help them.
I pledge to campaign against any one of those three Republicans who votes against the Republican Obamacare legislation. I will support any primary challenger, and if they survive a primary, I will remind every Republican general election voter of any betrayals. I will make it clear that nobody who voted against Obamacare repeal is worthy of conservative support.
If any of these three vote against the repeal, I will trash them daily in the run up to the general election.
That will suppress their conservative support at the polls.
And, as I understand the math of these three districts, that would jeopardize the re-election bid of any one of these representatives.
It's a very simple deal. Prove yourself worthy of conservative support, on this defining issue, and everything is good. But abandon the base when it matters, and I will do everything I can to get the base to return the favor.
And if, fearing I'll keep my word, any of these work out a way to get me fired, I'll get the voter lists and campaign on the ground.
It's that serious. We're that serious. This county matters that much.
And we conservatives are tired of being used by a Republican hierarchy that has no more principles than the man in the moon. We see elected Democrats act like Democrats, but elected Republicans act like jellyfish -- and we're tired of it.
We've been your friend, we've been your supporter, we've been your contributor. And it hasn't worked. Now we're going to try to be your master.
It's a big country, and we're all a bunch of nobodies, and we have to try to fight where we can.
And this is where I can.
I truly admire Reed, and have good relations with Katko, and see potential in Tenney. I like these people.
But I love my country.
And if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
And I mean to fix the problem.
So I'm going to fix these three. They are my problem. Maybe broadcasters and bloggers in other Republican districts around the country might want to fix their problems as well.
We've shown we can beat Democrats. To get done what we want done, we might need to show that we can beat Republicans as well.