{"id":116,"date":"2015-04-10T08:56:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T15:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coppercommando.com\/?p=116"},"modified":"2015-04-10T08:56:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T15:56:42","slug":"the-real-ideology-of-the-responsible-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"The Real Ideology of the “Responsible Republicans”"},"content":{"rendered":"

What does it mean to \u201clook beyond ideology<\/a>\u201d?<\/p>\n

This is a common tactic of statist-Republicans. Accuse the opposition of committing the great sin of \u201cideology\u201d so you don\u2019t have to actually reveal your own government worshipping ideas on the topic. Let\u2019s look at this statement. What is an ideology? The relevant Webster\u2019s dictionary definition is, \u201cthe integrated assertions, theories and aims that constitute a sociopolitical program.”<\/p>\n

So Senator Buttrey has no \u201csociopolitical program\u201d. He has no cohesive view of government, humanity, morality\u2014his agenda as a politician is just floating in space, random and ungrounded. So how does he decide which bills to vote for? Which ones to introduce? Which ones to carry for the governor?<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the voters here are pretty middle-of-the-road, and they\u2019re interested in people who are interested in finding solutions, rather than being hard-core partisans,\u201d said Rep. Steve Fitzpatrick, R-Great Falls. \u201cI think we\u2019re just reflective of the community.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More fully dipping their hand, the statist Republicans have revealed that reelection is their ideology. In other words their ideology is to stay in political power, not to defend the Constitution or the Republic. Power is their purpose, meagre and petty as it is.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not from an area that gets the big growth or gets the big (economic) boom,\u201d added Buttrey. \u201cSo we are always looking for solutions. \u2026 We\u2019re from a traditionally more moderate area.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They want to do whatever it takes to stay in political power, the Republic be damned. They want to \u201cstimulate\u201d their districts\u00a0with federal dollars and programs. These all sound like \u201cprogressive\u201d ideas, so why not run in the \u201cProgressive\u201d party then? I think we\u00a0have one of those in Montana.<\/p>\n

No person\u00a0is without ideology and it is just more often than not an unstated and uninvestigated collage of principles. Senator Buttrey and his ilk are more than just what is wrong with the MTGOP; they are what is wrong with this state, our civil society, and the United States. They are more concerned with interest than\u00a0principle. They concerned with power not the Republic.<\/p>\n

We can do this better. We can have a debate about Medicaid expansion that includes our actual principles but that means being honest about what we believe in. As long as we continue to divide ourselves by our interest rather than debating the actualization of our common principles, this age of petty political fights will continue and the average Montanan will continue to be left holding the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What does it mean to \u201clook beyond ideology\u201d? This is a common tactic of statist-Republicans. Accuse the opposition of committing the great sin of \u201cideology\u201d so you don\u2019t have to actually reveal your own government worshipping ideas on the topic. Let\u2019s look at this statement. What is an ideology? The relevant Webster\u2019s dictionary definition is, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,26,31,33,34,38,43,45,46],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-buttrey","tag-ideology","tag-legislature","tag-medicaid","tag-montana","tag-mtgop","tag-politics","tag-responsible-republicans","tag-rino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}