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Joe Scarborough May be a RINO Squish, but He Makes Excellent Points Here

I enjoy Joe Scarborough much more off of MSNBC. Granted I stopped watching after the network tried holding Sarah Palin as an accessory to murder in Arizona, but there was always a difference between the Joe on MSNBC Joe off. His radio show that was on WABC is actually what I tried to pattern my podcast “The Right Hook” after, and more often than not his Politico column’s have me nodding and saying “word, son!”

This week’s was a perfect example, that I think too many people on our side is going to dismiss since Scarborough is a squishy liberal RINO communist, and even worse…he’s quoting Maureen Dowd’s brother. That’s a shame because they lay out a blueprint the GOP should be listening too. The column goes more into detail, but the bullet points…

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Memo to the GOP: Learn How To Talk to My Mother

“About 98% of blog-based political analysis begins with the assumption that the average voter is similar to the blogger.” - Jim Geraghty

I think the consensus amongst the blogosphere, whether you are on the side of the Senate or the House, is that the GOP managed to screw up the payroll tax cut debate to a fair thee well. You would think this would be an easy one. We were getting a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline, weren’t raising taxes on successful people, and taking away the Democrat talking point aboot not working together.

Instead, we botched things up and managed to make President Class Warfare look like a tax cutter while we want to hike everyone’s taxes. How do I know this? Because of my mom and all the women in my office asking me, “Why are Republicans raising my taxes?”
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Paul Ryan vs. the House GOP

I’ve made it no secret that I’m a big fan of Paul Ryan. I haven’t agreed with him on some of his recent votes (and thought his excuse for voting for the 90% AIG tax was cockamamie), but he still remains the young, fresh face that’s chock full of ideas the party needs. I even printed out copies of “The Road Map for America’s Future” for my fellow Nassau County Young Republicans, and Ryan placed third in our straw poll on who we thought the future of the party was (behind first place Mitt Romney and tied for second Sarah Palin and Bobby Jindal).

That’s why last Thursday, while Paul Ryan was busy working on the GOP’s alternative budget and some are comparing him to cats like John Kasich and Newt Gingrich, I couldn’t for the life of me figure out why the House GOP Leadership felt in necessary to put out a “blueprint” of what the budget would be, that produced no numbers and no projections, and was essentially a collection of catchphrases and pictures of windmills.

Seriously, whoever’s idea that was needs to be kicked squarely in the nuts. While Ryan (and apparently Eric Cantor sided with him on this) was working on what could amount to a new “Contract for America,” John Boehner and Mike Pence rushed this blueprint out to prevent the Democrats from calling them the “Party of No,” which actually worked. They stopped saying “Party of No” and started saying “Party of No New Ideas.”
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House GOP, “Can We Get a Mulligan?”

It’s been driving me INSANE listening to people claim that “oh well, the Republican’s opposed to stimulus but didn’t present a plan of their own.” I actually yelled at Mika Bernenski this morning when she said that to Michael Steele (and her I actually like). Never mind the hearings Eric Cantor held or the twenty-five different plans and/or amendments that were unanimously reject by the Democrats, we didn’t present any alternatives. The television told me so.

Here’s the rub though…it’s our fault. You and I know we had mad alternatives, the R’s in the House and Senate knows we had mad alternatives, but the cats on the television were more concerned with winning the daily news cycle my pointing out the wasteful spending in the bill. And while that was good for firing up the base (which we desperately needed), it rapidly turned the debate against us.

That’s all going to change. As per Byron York, who knows a thing or two aboot a thing or two…
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The GOP is Bringing the Nineties Back

Few people don’t enjoy themselves a good throwback.

I still roll to old school Van Halen, Motley Crue, and Kiss. My preference has always been pinball machines to shoot ‘em up games. And while I do enjoy a lot of the Judd Apatow movies, my heart still lies with Mel Brooks and “the Cannonball Run.”

In a word, retro rocks!

Apparently the Republican Party feels the same way, and while all the cool kids are rambling on and on aboot “change,” the GOP is dusting off the old playbook and taking us back to 1994, the year of Pearl Jam, “Pulp Fiction,” and the Republican’s taking back control of the House and the Senate.

So sayeth Politico
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The House GOP has Their Mind on Your Money

A few days ago I mentioned the balance that Republicans need to strike between saying no to an agenda they feel is harmful to the future of America, and simply being the “Party of No.” My feeling is that if we’re on the side of fiscal responsibility (yes, contrary to the Bush years) we’re on the right side.

And while many in the media disagree with me and think anytime a Republican speaks out against Dear Leader they should be run out of the country, I think most Americans in the middle (which are most Americans) would like to see their government on the same budget they themselves are on.

So there are little things Republicans, particularly in the House, can do to reach out to those people. Republican Whip and conservative muse Eric Cantor held an “economic roundtable” in NYC a few days ago, which is a great idea but I’d like to see it expanded to more of a “town hall” setting across the states. Then there’s this, the House GOP as a fiscal watchdog group?

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