Politics: As the presidential debate approaches, the Republican establishment is at a loss to figure out Donald Trump's runaway popularity. That's easy: The GOP base is fed up with its mealy-mouthed, impotent leaders.
Republican voters see their party's recently crowned congressional kingpins, as well as the career pols running for the White House, as all talk and no action, while Trump comes across as someone who'd actually get things done.
The real estate magnate is tapping into frustration mainly over GOP Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's and House Speaker John Boehner's failure to deliver on promises made during the 2014 campaign.
McConnell and Boehner have the power of the purse, yet they've punted on promises to defund executive amnesty for illegal immigrants, the Affordable Care Act, the Dodd-Frank Act, HUD's plan to remap the suburbs and, most recently, Planned Parenthood.
Repealing ObamaCare was the cornerstone of their message to the GOP faithful in 2014. In October alone, they ran more than 35,000 TV ads promising to scrap it. They also flooded the airways with 10,000 commercials vowing to block Obama's unconstitutional order suspending enforcement of immigration laws.
On these messages, Republicans were swept back into power. The day after their victory, McConnell and Boehner wrote a national column pledging to make good on their many pledges. But once seated, they agreed with Democrats to fully fund ObamaCare. They also failed to pass a Homeland Security bill blocking Obamamnesty.Read the rest of the story HERE.
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