GOP FAULT LINES DEEPEN …
South Carolina’s “Republican” House caucus – badly splintered during the debate over the Confederate flag – once again finds itself in the midst of a major power struggle.
Warring factions are “at each others’ throats,” one lawmaker told us – with fiscally liberal S.C. Speaker of the House Jay Lucas and “Republican” majority leader Bruce Bannister struggling to hold on to power.
Bannister nearly lost his job back in March after a chaotic budget process left lawmakers badly exposed over a controversial borrowing provision. Meanwhile Lucas’ mishandling of the flag debate created an open rebellion in his ranks – one his powerful enemies are looking to support.
In fact the two legislative leaders are reportedly being “stalked” by lawmakers loyal to S.C. Rep. Rick Quinn – crown prince of an influential neo-Confederate consulting empire that makes millions of dollars off state government.
Meanwhile another battle front has opened involving S.C. Rep. Kirkman Finlay – who was on the receiving end of this website’s ire earlier this week.
According to our sources, Finlay was targeted by a pair of consultants who work for the House GOP Caucus. The consultants were reportedly miffed that rival politicos loosely affiliated with Finlay were “moving in on their turf.”
Jeez …
Eagerly watching all this middle school drama? House Democrats – who effectively govern South Carolina’s all-powerful legislative branch by cutting deals with liberal “Republicans.”
“The more the GOP is divided, the more they dictate terms,” one frustrated GOP House member told us.
Are things likely to get better?
No …
With a wave of new money coming into Columbia, S.C. this year … and with filing for primary elections looming … we suspect the infighting will only intensify. In other words, what is already a petty, corrupt and dysfunctional chamber could become increasingly so in the months to come.
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A Cockroach Civil War, what a great possibility
A Dead Lucasite Cockroach on the left, A Dead Quinnite Cockroach on the right
Win, Win for the taxpayers
No, they are fighting to see who can pocket the money first. The taxpayers won’t even know when it comes or when it goes.
Why do you let cockroaches run your life?
Just curious.What legislation have the Democrats passed in the SC house?
FITS had the Confederate flag removed and ended ALL racial strife from now until the end of the world…didn’t he? (:…That’s what they promised, anyway…
Clemson became #1, didn’t they?
Ohio State will defeat #5 Iowa,#13 MSU and #14 Michigan in the next 4 weeks and will be #1.
Maybe Dabo and Haley can burn a confederate flag and steer the committee back toward Clemson?
I wonder where flip is.
Who is flip?
If Ohio beats those teams, they will go down in the polls. Clemson has already beaten the #4 and #16. They will beat #23.
lol…that sounds about like the reasoning you give when you post your false numbers and charts defending Obama and Haley. :)
I know. I should do like you. Not even bother with reasoning…
You out think yourself and get confused.Stick with the facts like me and know what you believe.
That move seems to emboldened the American hating liberal/socialists to try and get rid of free speech and encourage tenured college professors all across the country to brainwash their students into destroying their universities and communities.
The American people know what is going on. I just refuse to believe that many people in this great country don’t see what is going on.
I think they wanted to give Obama the benefit of the doubt- based on what he promised- because he played on their belief in racial harmony…
But Obama and the Democrats have violently SCREWED the American people. I hope the retribution toward them is HARSH and LONG-Lasting…
We gave the Democrats EVERYTHING they wanted, then they illegally took much more…That must be met with resistance, or the corrupt and immoral have taken our nation from us.
I’m not ready to let it go.
I want to drive one of the deportation busses to the border.:)
I don’t have any animosity for the people coming over here, unless they are criminals. But the ignorance that has been spread by the Democrats, regarding illegals, makes them a bad fit.
Get them out, and as Trump said, and then maybe give them a LEGAL do-over, if they want to become Americans. This training from the Obama Administration – to hate America- is rotten from the core, and will lead to nothing but more deterioration of our nation.
Good plan however that doesn’t fit their narrative of VOTES NOW!
Rocky and other liberals pretend to care about minorities however it is ONLY about votes.
Agreed…
The little short one? Passanger or driver?
Man, your boy Carson just keeps getting worse and worse…
Kiss his ass goodbye!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3315079/Carson-profits-friendship-felon.html
Interesting read. Thanks for sharing.
It’s just the beginning…
Bye Bye, Ben!
Actually: that is just evidence of Democrat desperation…Carson is doing fine. And I think you are shitting yourself because you cannot get that image of a Carson vs Hillary debate out of your mind…
Remember if just 11% of the Black vote goes to the GOP, and it’s unwinnable for Hillary…not to mention the mess her party has our country in…
Sucks to be YOU…LMAO…
I hope you hand Ben the SC primary.
I dare you to….
To quote you: “What difference does it make?”
Obama was hoping to sneak those 5,000,000 illegals into vote before 2016.Federal court said NO MAS!!!!
Unless Roberts flips it again for him, then what – Senor.
My source tells me SCOTUS doesn’t have the 4 votes to even hear it as Obama’s gal has to recuse herself.
That the same source that told you they’d finish off Obamacare back in June?
Let’s bet Obama rushes to get it before the SCOTUS, where he thinks he has it stacked. But as a lame duck, they (some anyway) may be ready to start following the law, and defying Obama.
Hi flip. Another day, another new profile saying the same exact nonsense.
What are you contributing today but stalking me?You are officially my bitch!
How long before you start pulling down your embarrasing posts today?
Can anybody here name a real republican?
Didn’t think so…
Does he have to be alive?
Reagan wouldn’t even be considered a republican today.
Yes, alive.
Liar.Read what Reagan penned.
Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation/ By Ronald Reagan.
Gun control and immigration alone would disqualify Reagan today with you wingnuts.
Give the name of one lliving person you think is a real repub today? You can’t. That’s why the GOP is dying fast.
They are all Populists.
He allowed the 3 million immigrants to stay and that was to be it Democrats fucked him and the country.
Reagan was pro- life and against gay marriage and defeated communism-well until the Democrat Party became a the NEW communist threat in the world.
He was also pro-gun control and pro-amnesty.
Two things that would never allow him in the primaries today. You would call him a “liberal trying to destroy America!”
Too bad, so…..name one living person?
That’s why Bush 1 expanded it.
No more Bush! ha ha ha ….Trump got in to get rid of Bush and it worked….
Yup, that’s why Bill got him to run.
You have helped tremendously too.
Everybody running for President on the Republican side is pro-life,against gay marriage,for repeal of Obamacare and closing the border INCLUDING NO Amnesty.
Except liberals Bush and Kasich.
How many are for gun control? A ban on asault weapons? How about amnesty of illegal aliens?
None. Wingnuts like you wouldn’t allow it. Not to mention his brain disease….
No gun control.No ban on assault weapons and NO AMNESTY for illegal immigrants.Yes, you got it right.
As far as ‘brain disease’, Hillary had a stroke and Biden had brain surgery which explains why they can’t function in public.
Well, those are postions Reagan supported, so thanks for proving my point.
Checkmate.
Anything else I can help you with today?
Try and help yourself.You appear uninformed and stupid.
No, I educated you on common knowledge about Reagan’s postions.
You still can’t name a single real republican.
flip = now informed, by me, but still stupid.
Come play again!
You have to be mamatiger92 husband-asking the same INSANE question OVER and OVER again? :)
ANY REPUBLICAN BUT BUSH,CHRISTIE OR KASICH WILL WIN IN 2016.
You said any of them at first. Now you change your mind?
The GOP is a goner. Thanks to people like you.
Reagan was for immigration and for free trade. That’s a true Republican.
And gun control and immigrant reform w/ amnesty. No go with today’s fanatics.
Anyways, he’s dead. A living name…
Reagan would be for millions of illegals crossing this border today and filling our welfare rolls/killing our people/living in sanctuary cities with 100 million adults not working?
What a foolish socialist you have apparently become.
Free trade? You go ahead and trust YOUR lawless pResident Obama on trade.
Poor flip. He’s old as hell but never paid any attention to current events during all those years. Now he doesn’t even understand the history of the party he claims to worship. Learn from his blinding ignorance, kids!
You’ll know when the socialist are in charge. People won’t be trying to enter the country, but leaving.
LMAO.Huh? We are already a socialist country.They are coming because 50% of the country is on welfare and they want a piece of that pie.
Well sure, what are we supposed to do with lazy, white aging baby boomers who are all about entitlements.
34% of those on welfare are black even though they are only 12% of the population.Of course we can’t count the millions of illegals on welfare because they have fake social security cards.
So that means the other 66% are white aging baby boomers like yourself?
Many of those still have to work and raid their pensions to live and/or support their children.Obama fucked everybody.
So yes, the other 66% are retiring baby boomers who planned poorly and didn’t skill up? Sad, they only had an entire life to do that.
Public and private sector unions fucked employees. Lied to em.Told em you could work 20 years,retire at 40 and get a check and insurance for the rest of your life.
The Democrats screwed the workers.In Ohio now public sector workers have to work 35 years and be 65 to retire with benefits.
Is that what happened to you Flip? The UAW screw ya? When did that party end, like 1992? What, they couldn’t figure out to skill up over the last 24 years? Now that’s a long learning curve.
No car plant for me Rocko! Used my brain. :)
Yeah, unions screwed people. Unions are a major reason you look to the 50’s as the Golden Years of American prosperity.
Unions got greedy….just like our federal government….
Don’t make excuses for you inability to make it.
Typical socialist moocher. Blame other people and collect a gov’t check.
Sir, I still work and don’t collect a damn thing from the government.
No, you don’t work and, Yes, you do get checks from the government.
It’s common knowledge, flip. You even admitted it in the past, dummy.
False however if it makes you feel better to lie about others,go for it.I am praying for you.
I feel like Ben Carson. :)
And blog comments.
You should leave the house sometime. Millions of people are pouring into democratic socialist europe. There aren’t millions of democratic socialist europeans trying to gate crash our borders.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/senate-report-u.s.-has-10-million-more-immigrants-european-union/article/2572756
The United States has 10,000,000 more foreign born people than all of the European Union. This doesn’t include birthright citizens which is restricted in parts of the EU and does not exist at all in the rest of the EU.
Actually, he’d give them amnesty. And you know it.
Sure Rocky.Bye Bye illegals.
If you say so.
Here come da federal judge…order in da court…5,000,000 illegals out of luck!
Well you better get started Senor. You got’s 11.5 million to go, and an addtional 4.5 million US citizen children. Sucks to be you.
NONE will EVER become citizens in our lifetime.Sucks to be a Democrat.
Listen – hear it? It’s another high five at the DNC.
Ted Cruz cleared that up during the debate exposing Bush and Kasich as liberal traitors on immigration.
Thank God neither one has a chance for the nomination.
Which one of those clowns do you support?
Who going to beat the Democrats?
Any one of em.Obama destroyed the Democrat Party for two generations as there will now be NO path to citizenship for illegals.
So you support another Bush?
Got it.
Bush is finished.Obama played the lawless dictator on immigration and Trump along with the federal court have stuck that issue up his Muslim loving ass.
Psssssss.
flip is unaware of how many NEW Hispanic-American voters have entered the rolls since 2012! Don’t tell him, he’ll have another stroke!
They must not live in Minnesota.EVERY Republican is defeating Hillary in that state.
Only state Mondale won in 1984. LMAO!!!
The primaries haven’t even happened yet, so how can anyone be beating Hillary…or vice versa. Get a clue, dipshit.
That’s cute. Of course the RCP average for Minnesota has Hillary beating them all, as does Tuesday’s Monday’s McClatchy / Marist poll with Hillary beating all GOP challengers by 5-15% points nationally. You guys really suck.
That Marist poll had Communist Sanders beating Republicans by 15 points.LMAO It must have been an ISIS poll.
That #$$#@ SANDERS IS getting lots of money and people at his rallies. He has us conservative SHITTING In our $%#@& pants and pissing all over ourselves, The hispanics hate us, the blacks hate us, women hate us, and gays hate us. And now they come out with that study that says the Republican electorate is dying off. We maybe &&^%* extinct soon.
Wow T.If you could add some gay sex to that post – it would be a real scissors move.
They must be voting from the grave. They seem to win most of the elections.
Don’t forget the youth. The youth hate republicans too.
Only until they can be debriefed and are jobless for a few years. Then they figure out liberalism is a lie and come home.
It’s funny how you know nothing about Reagan.
He’s supposed to be your God, dummy.
So fucking clueless!
I posted a book that Reagan wrote above. Read it.
I pretend to know a lot about a lot of things. True, I don’t really now much about anything. But I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express in Myrtle Beach.
Good for you.Hit the new Murphy’s Law on the south strand. Marty has a couple of em.
Bimini’s has great seafood.
Reagan threatened to impose tariffs on Japanese cars coming into the US, unless Japanese Auto makers (i.e. Toyota and Nissan) built plants here. Guess what. They did.
And today, the republican frontrunner gets his Trump brand products made in China and Mexico. Giving jobs to those countries. See, Reagan is nothing like the people you support today.
Name ONE Democrat today.Someone like JFK.You can’t.They are all lawless, American hating,pervert loving, Christ denying socialists sewing racial division in our communities,
They want to get rid of the 1st and 2nd Amendments.
You see that guy asking Hillary what she thought about Failurina – point out to her he go laid off, and then she bought two jets for HP so she could fly around without mingling with – common folks.
Yeah, sure Flip.
Obama, Biden, Clinton, O’Malley, are all Christians and good Democrats.
I can name many more….not hard at all.
Still waiting for you to name one living real republican?
You forgot Duckworth, who sacrificed her legs in service of her country.
Yup!
Like I said, there are many more….not hard at all to come up with names.
flip can’t name ONE real republican. Not that he actually votes or anything…
LMAO!!!!Good Democrats Socialists although Obama is a Muslim.
That is okay.Republicans are winning in Minnesota.
Winning what? No nominees have been selected yet.
God you’re desperate.
What happens when Hillary is indicted (God I hope not)? Communist Sanders or brain injured Biden?
They are YOU, pogo. Stop hiding who and what you are.
He fired those air traffic controllers as well.
That’s a nice story. Reality – companies enter a market first by imports, and after establishing a market presence, move to begin local assembly in that market. Hence, the Japanese car manufacturers were already planning to begin assembling cars in the US. Bigger question – Hank – of what percentage are those manufactured using US made components. Did you know, for example, that only 20% of a Ford Fusion componenets are made in America? A third of a Chevy Equinox is made overseas. But hey, nice dream.
My point was in response to the statement that Reagan was for free trade. Reagan was inconsistent on that point at best and would have been considered a RINO today. At the time Americans were very fearful of the Japanese, and Reagan played into that.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not defending Reagan. Reagan’s economic policies (i.e. Trickle Down) have been a disaster for the middle class in this country. He with Lee Atwater, also made heavy use of the “southern strategy” of pitting white Americans against black Americans as a way to get votes in the South.
That is true. He did indeed pursue some protectionist policies. For a better example of that you should have used steel tarrifs. Now those were really biters.
Rocky an expert on Reagan? LMAO!!! Fidel Castro and Daniel Noriega I would believe-NOT Reagan.
Well true, I was rather young. Now you, you’re what, 72? You probably had a lot better first hand information.
My guess is we are the same age.I just appear to be more mature because I have a core set of values.a REAL world view and know who I am and what I believe.
Doubt it.
Hard to believe such a simple question is completely unanswerable by any republican FitsNews reader. GOP is toast.
Abraham Lincoln. Great man. Great Republican. Dead as hell, and the Neo-Confederate “Patriots” and “Christians” wish the hell their hero Booth had offed him much sooner.
Damn Boz.You don’t have a gun,do ya?Turn Gunsmoke off! :)
Well, it looks like everybody who had to pee has gotten up from bed.
Must have been a long staff meeting this morning? :)
I cut it short.
I don’t doubt that for a moment.
flippy will suck you off, the way he doest GT/TarNation, if you want him to. Must be into anal, though, apparently, to really get in with their sick little clique.
See Boz.You say you and Mayor Rhodes(MB) are close and yet you embarrass him by posting like a pervert.Bet Randal has already told him?
How’s that retarded son of yours, flip?
Noticed you never got my comments taken down.
Still haven’t been served any papers.
lol.
I call foul. You can call Flip retarded, you can call me retarded, but leave the kids out of it. That’s just not cool.
Thank you Rocky.I will follow your lead. No more family stuff.
We’ll see.
I think we are buddies? :)
Retarded son too?
Oh well, you guys are South Carolinians.
I haven’t gotten my papers either. Damn, I was hoping to get a good laugh too.
/// Eagerly watching all this middle school drama? House Democrats – who effectively govern South Carolina’s all-powerful legislative branch by cutting deals with liberal “Republicans.” ///
^^^^ This.
Will if one of the few who has seen this and honestly reports it. They are all in the same game.
It’s what GT and pogo/flip’s myriad IDs and a few others do their damndest to divert and distract from, with all their nonsense and “who and what you are” blatherings.
Herein lies the true corruption at the State House, and in most of the state. It extends to DC with such people as Clyburn, Graham, Rice and Sanford. Nikki Haley, too, is et up widdit.
This is why they hate Will. He exposes this shit.
Somebody’s gotta do it. Might as well be him.
To be honest Boz and I don’t mean to attack you-you and others have lied and created so many fanatical conspiratorial theories and falsehoods about so many public/private officials and politicians that have never proven to be true-NOBODY believes a damn word you spew out of your ass..
YOU LIE !
this sc stuff is small potatoes, dr. ben said yesterday if he went back in time he would not kill baby hitler, when jeb was asked that same question yesterday he said he would go back in time and kill baby hitler, the single most important thing republicans need to know today, would trump kill or not kill baby hitler?
Can you talk about anything else? Old news and wrong thread.
catch me up are you for killing baby hitler or not killing baby hitler?
I am for deporting illegals and liberals.
So now you want to deport legal citizens who don’t agree with you? Why not gas them instead? It’s a lot more economical. Zieg heil, right, mein furher?
I say kill
What Would Jesus Do?
We do not have to guess. He obviously did not kill baby Hitler, prevent him from being born, or prevent him from killing 6 million Jews..
That proves one of two things. He wanted Hitler to live or he gave us “free will”.
You are the one who asked, “What would Jesus Do?” I simply pointed out we already have an answer to that question.
I’m agreeing with you. I’m just speculating on why.
Well I don’t think “free will” answers the question. While one could argue Hitler and his minions were allowed the exercise free will, the 6 million Jews were not.”
You apparently don’t understand the meaning of “Free Will”.
It is not based ones situation, but an universal innate human characteristic.
Inalienable rights doesn’t preclude that they might be violated or that you have them even when they are taken.
If someone steals my watch, it is still my watch.
When I say “Free Will” it means free moral agent. Without that, how could you accuse Hitler of doing anything wrong?
Oh, I understand free will. I just think it only answers half of the question. It explains why God would let someone be a monster; but it does not explain why God does not protect the innocent from the monsters.
That requires we either go the Deist route of believing God is more of a passive observer or the great plan route, where the deaths of the innocent are a necessary part of the great plan. That is a far more complicated discussion than free will.
I’m sure the free will thing meant a lot to the 6 million that died from one guy’s “free will”
It was the only thing they had left to hold.on to. Those that didn’t were reduced to thinking of themselves as no more than aninimals. No doubt that those who did hold on, had a more meaningful existence and if they survived – a more psychologically healthy recovery.
I think you are confusing free will and faith. I don’t think anyone in the camps thought to themselves “I have free will therefore I am.” I think some thought I have faith I will be saved. Some thought, I have faith I will go to a better place if I am not saved. Some lost faith and simply gave up. But this has nothing to do with free will.
I believe that even an atheist might believe in a soul that isn’t deterministically controlled by their physiology and the material world. Do you call that faith?
In classical Physics everything has a cause and you can predict a result. Even Einstein said: “God doesn’t play dice with the world,” but Quantum Mechanics tells us there is a randomness and that the outcome can not always be predicted. This leaves open the possibility of “Free will” because no deterministic cause can be found for some events. Just like faith is beyond science, ‘free will” is also beyond science. Scientists are right when they say Creationism is not science, but that means that science can’t debunk creation precisely because it’s not science. The same can be said about “free will”.
Try and kill the Virgin Mary with a hammer?
For anyone new to this site, TARevolution and …to be approved by FITsnews. are the same person. And Yes, are not imagining it; they frequently talk to themselves. They congratulate themselves, they pat themselves on the back, etc. etc. If you are unlucky a third incarnation will emerge, Flip. He will then carry on a conversation with both TAR and …to be approved. All three are this guy who sits in his house all day and hangs out on the computer. He collects welfare and Medicaid. In short he is most likely disabled due to mental health issues. Unfortunately disqus has no nut filter.
What do you think you are, for Chrissake, crazy or somethin’? Well you’re not! You’re not! You’re no crazier than the average asshole out walkin’ around on the streets and that’s it.
Exactly right. Busted.
+1000!!!
Yep, he sits in a dilapidated trailer in Ohio and posts all day and all night, probably uses his free government cell phone for wifi hotspot.
Nut filter? It might be that we are all the nuts that fit through the filter. Sane people can’t get in.
LOL!
SC legislators—fresh back from their payday-lending-PAID vacations—said…whoa!…we gotta “help” now—y’all get outta our way
Then they ripped down patriots’ flag with NO voters allowed to VOTE—they never saw the 2016 Tea Train until they were all…D O A !!!