The 2014 Republican candidates promised change once they had the majority of both houses, they promised repeal of Obamacare and Obamas amnesty, then they handed Obama everything he wanted. It’s hard to change Washington when your politicians are more worried about keeping their salary and perks than they are about doing what they promised on the campaign trail.

 

The Republican Party tells conservatives what they want to hear while taking its marching orders from an infrastructure of advisers, experts and consultants who urge it to implement the same old bad ideas while lying to the public.

That is how we got here in more ways than one.

Republican politicians want to win elections without changing anything. They want to do the ‘sensible’ thing which means keeping up the status quo and not rocking the boat. The only way to do that is by lying a lot.

It’s time for the lies to end and for the truth to be heard. It’s time to end the fake votes, the fake resolutions, the theater whose weekly productions change, but whose theme is the same.

There are politicians who want to fight and politicians who want to appear to be fighting. The latter have done more damage than any enemy by draining time and energy, providing false reassurances and empty hopes. It’s time to bring the curtain down on their latest production in which a big chunk of Congress walks away hiding a smirk after having pulled off its latest scam. here….