GOP Endures Hell Week
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- Category: World News
- Published on Wednesday, 29 January 2014 06:17
- Written by Janet Walker
Republicans are licking their wounds as hell week continues to burn through their strongholds after twin scandals erupt and a bland rebuttal to an unexciting State of the Union address fails to ignite the conservative fires.
Coming on the heels of first term Congressman Trey Radel announcing his intention to resign his seat after his conviction for attempting to purchase cocaine in an undercover sting in Washington D.C, the GOP have sanctioned Arizona’s Senior Senator and former Presidential candidate John McCain for being “too liberal” and not representing the conservative party values.
Not expecting fireworks, in a mid-term State of the Union address, the President delivered what at best can be described as a recap performance of his last five years.
The highlight of hopeful measures designed to lift some of the burden to those, democrat or republican, who have invested heavily through education, in the American dream and are now saddled with astronomical student loans, and are unable to find employment, was a standout moment in the otherwise unexciting, although more compact, address.
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, delivered a similar unexciting rebuttal, aiming at ObamaCare and the most controversial and anti-party moment her statement on healthcare and while it may have been an epiphany movement for the party they finally decided it is the individual’s right to determine health care choices.
Unfortunately, that was message was short lived as the republicans passed a sweeping anti-abortion bill just hours of the delivery.
Read the upcoming Beltway Insider for full coverage on the State of the Union and the Republican response.
