An interesting story in Thursday's USA TODAY reported that many wealthy donors to the Republican Party, particularly of the Conservative wing, are about fed up with the Congressional leaders of the party, and their "inability" (or is it unwillingness?) to push President Trump's agenda through the Congress. In particular, they are dismayed by their inability to "Repeal and Replace" the "Obamacare" health insurance debacle that the Republican ticket ran against in the last election, and many candidates were supposedly "champing at the bits" to overturn. The report said that there would be careful scrutiny of their efforts to pass Trump's tax reform legislation, before the end of this year, with implied threats to get it done, "or else!!!"
Speculation was that the wealthy donors were planning to throw their money behind any conservative opponent that might challenge some of these Party leaders who are belligerently stalling the "Trump Agenda". What a refreshing idea, if you ask me! It's past time for some of these "wolves-in-sheep's-clothing", so-called "Establishment Republicans" to either get thrown out of office, or move over to the Democratic Party (where they belong) to see if their constituents will re-elect them as Democrats! We will then see if the Republicans can keep their majorities in both houses of Congress, without them, or not!
I think it's high time for the Republican Party to stop "leaning towards" conservatism, and stand for conservative values, openly, and without apology. I don't think for a moment that sending these Establishment Republicans to the Democratic Party would moderate the Democrats at all. Instead the (hopefully, former) Republicans would more vocally support the liberal causes they now quietly support by voting down opposite views. (I'm embarrassed to admit that I actually voted for John McCain, in his presidential run, thinking that he was an alternative to a Democratic candidate. Boy, was I wrong about that!!!)
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