There goes Ronald Reagan's Eleventh Commandment. HuffPo front page headline: Civil War!
Cross-chamber alliances tend to be rare on Capitol Hill, especially ones aimed at undermining the leadership of the coalition's own party. But Cruz and Lee's work with House Republicans is more evidence of the open civil war underway within the GOP.The Huffington Post
Ted Cruz Tells House Conservatives To Oppose John Boehner
Ryan Grim and Jennifer Bendrey
Democrats ordering in popcorn.
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They should just leave the GOP... do the rest of us a favor...
between this and the pope's refusal to acquiesce to the wedge issues right wingers use to dominate the Christan voting block.
we could vary well see a fracture of the GOP into 2 or 3 parties.
not a terrible thing in my opinion
miller,
The Dems already have about 30+ of the 80% of US citizens who self-identify as "Christians" locked...
This Christian cohort's #1 issue is social/economic justice... so they vote Democrat as the Dems have superior messaging on socio-economic justice...
The Dems get these people plus the 9% evo-atheists and most Jews and Muslims which total close to the other 20% so the Dems get these 20% and the 30% Christian economic justice branch and get their 51%+ in the national elections...
The US is 80% Christian (check the Census numbers and the Pew Foundation numbers...) and a huge amount of them vote strictly on Socio-economic justice...
The advent of Francis only cements this distribution or perhaps adds to it as Francis is HUGE on socio-economic justice and less on abortion and homophobia...
In this type of economy, with the GOP nominating Romney with his moron 43% speech and picking the Ayn Rand pin-up boy Paul "soup kitchen" Ryan as the bottom of the ticket the GOP has NO CHANCE...
rsp,
LIttle doubt that pope's remarks were directed in part to conservative US Catholic bishops who are promoting the GOP as the champions of anti-abortion, anti-gay, and anti-liberal. As Francis said, when such issues are emphasized, the message of Christ that love is basis of living the good life as well as of a good society gets submerged,
What has happened is that Christianity is coming to be perceived as a religion of haters instead of lovers. Will those bishops listen? Remains to be seen.
Tom,
I think the Bishops will come around on this... but that is only the Catholics...
(FD: I recoil at sectarianism...)
You still have all of the Evangelicals/Fundies/Born-agains over in the GOP who have no chance of some sort of authority figure showing up to lead them out of the darkness on the socio-economic issues...
The only Catholics who dependably vote GOP are the anti-abortion, homophobic, soc-econ blind cohort... Francis will help the Dems cement their current lead imo...
rsp,
rsp,
Agree, Matt. But the working class Catholic vote comprises a lot of working class Reagan Democrats who vote against their economic interests owing to wedge issues like anti-abortion and anti-gay. If the Catholic bishops promote social justice in unison, there will be a significant shift in the Catholic vote, I would think.
Absolutely Tom there will be some who will just "follow the Pope" on this...
The Dems will benefit if all the GOP can do is dig in deeper...
The GOP has leadership has to see this and make a major shift towards at least "compassionate conservative" again like Bush did ...
and now allegedly Abbott did and Cameron did with some success I might add..
rsp,
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