The Small Arms treaty, supported by our President (who swore to uphold the Constitution and is a Good Man, etc., so we’re shocked, shocked! blah blah blah), garnered 46 Senate votes — an emblem of just how close the New Left takeover of both the Democrat Party and the institutions of influence, from academia to Hollywood to public education to the news media, has driven us to accept, even tentatively, the concept of a governmental apparatus that, when the domestic left needs support for an agenda it can’t pass legislatively here at home or have the courts impose on us, gives them yet another point of appeal: an international bureaucracy, unbothered by elections and unencumbered by nationalism or a particular country’s history, that will act to overrule our own rulings and legislative efforts, or at the very least, frustrate them, as this Treaty was designed to do.
A few years back, and even today, observations like I’ve made here tend to be met with sneers or suggestions, either implicit or explicit, that the people making them are fringe lunatics, conspiracy theorists, and as a political voice aligned in some sense with the GOP, unhelpfully Visigothic or Hobbity.
We heard the same cries when we noted Obama was a dangerous, socialist ideologue who was being promoted by New Left forces, not the post-racial, post-partisan savior of color whose familiarity with academic cant and nice pant crease were going to heal the political divide, heal racial animus, and keep the seas from rising.
And we’ll hear it here, too: you’re hyperbolizing, wingnut! The measure didn’t pass! Stop being so dramatic! You sound like an uneducated cracker.
Still, the more you look the more you’ll see. This kind of deference to legal internationalism is everywhere. It’s called transnational progressivism: a world bureaucratic government that, like Obama promised to do at home, will rid the world of quaint and mildly racist notions and xenophobic notions, in this case, the idea of national sovereignty.
— And while doling out such forward thinking, universalist Utopian social justice, just coincidentally looks to reshape balance of international power through wealth redistribution schemes like climate change and gun ownership.
All for our own good. And really, only people who support slavery, dirty air and water, and the slaughter of school children could possibly protest such things.
Which is why they are practically subhuman, and need not really be taken seriously; all their complaints are rationalizations for their real motivation: hate. And evil. And greed.
And that’s unacceptable. We will never be a world of equal people until international bureaucrats seize the power to demand and then police conformity.
For freedom. Of course.
Here’s a list of the US Senators who voted to surrender our sovereignty. I haven’t vetted this — it was sent me — but it seems right:
Baldwin (D-WI);Baucus (D-MT);Bennet (D-CO);Blumenthal (D-CT);Boxer (D-CA);Brown (D-OH);Cantwell (D-WA) Cardin (D-MD);Carper (D-DE);Casey (D-PA);Coons (D-DE);Cowan (D-MA);Durbin (D-IL);Feinstein (D-CA);Franken (D-MN);Gillibrand (D-NY);Harkin (D-IA);Hirono (D-HI);Johnson (D-SD);Kaine (D-VA);King (I-ME);Klobuchar (D-MN);Landrieu (D-LA);Leahy (D-VT);Levin (D-MI);McCaskill (D-MO);Menendez (D-NJ);Merk (D-OR);Mikulski (D-MD);Murphy (D-CT);Murray (D-WA);Nelson (D-FL);Reed (D-RI);Reid (D-NV);Rockefeller (D-WV);Sanders (I-VT);Schatz (D-HI);Schumer (D-NY);Shaheen (D-NH);Stabenow (D-MI);Udall (D-CO);Udall (D-NM);Warner (D-VA);Warren (D-MA);Whitehouse (D-RI);Wyden (D-OR)
Gee. It’s almost as if, were you to look closely, a kind of theme emerges here…
(h/t Guido)
I’m almost speechless McCain and Graham aren’t among them. Must have been having their diapers changed.
A theme, he suggests? Oh look! Democrats everywhere! Democrats (and the 2 allegedly “Independent” Socialists) who think they will have the Blue Helmets doing their bidding when the time comes…
great Napolitano is resigning but, she is coming to California. ugh.
I must confess, I wonder how many them actually realize what they voted for? That is, how many are truly evil? As opposed to those who are just idiots voting that way because somebody told them to. The answer doesn’t relieve them of responsibility, you understand, but I continue to hold the naive hope that there are still a few within the Demos who can be reached and made to understand they are selling us down the river.
And, yes, I’m naive.
I weep for the people of the world who are systematically disarmed and then slaughtered by there own governments al with the blessing of the UN.
Now, now, now.
No need to get hysterical.
What you mean “our,” Visihobbit? They’re not your Senators — you don’t have a bill of sale for them; I do.
/Satan
I’m sick of people whose thinking goes no deeper than, “Um, guns are bad? M’kay?”
Napolitano is resigning but, she is coming to California. ugh
To become President of the University of California, no less.
That’s some high comedy right there, that is.
I’ll be looking forward to watching the rationalization process on this one. She doesn’t even have a PhD (a JD doesn’t count, sorry).
It begins. From the NYT: “She does not have an extensive background in higher education but her father, who died in January, was the longtime dean of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and aides said she has always had an interest in education.”
Let’s make that no background in higher education.
hey, I have a JD and I am every bit as qualified as her to be the President of the UC system and I might add, I actually attended a UC school.
I would say that being an alumnus actually makes you MORE qualified.
Back on topic: I can’t even muster any additional outrage at what they did, because my outrageometer has been pegged for years now.
This isn’t going to end well.
I would say that being an alumnus actually makes you MORE qualified.
I’m not sure alumni of UC are qualified for anything but.
If the Senate had voted to ratify the small arms treaty, would it slow down the DOJ’s gunrunning to Mexican drug lords?
Just askin’.
You sound like an uneducated cracker.
And you sound like Neville Chamberlain.
UCSD alumnus cranky-d sticks his tongue out at squid.
Yeh, watch it squid, cranky-d is an accomplished ack-ademic ;)
I’m almost speechless McCain and Graham aren’t among them. Must have been having their diapers changed.
As much as I loathe Lindsey Grahamnesty and Juan McAmnesty, their pro-gun voting records *are* solid.
As much as I loathe Lindsey Grahamnesty and Juan McAmnesty, their pro-gun voting records *are* solid.
Both of the above invertebrates thought the Second Amendment was good for an up or down vote in the Senate. Colour me unimpressed with their solidity.
re: Napolitano. Are we going to pretend that this was anything but a bald-faced attempt to get more UCxx dollars out of the federal coffers? Okay, I guess we are.
Thank god we are cracking down on k-street lobbying and all that jazz.
re: Small arms treaty. I think if Reid had caucused and found 50 senators willing to vote ‘yea’ on this bit of national harakiri, he may have squelched the vote. Voting a bunch of Frenchies and Belgians the ability to take guns away from bitter clingers is a pretty good way to lose the Senate in 2014. If he is going to use the Nuclear option, he wants to have at least two years to go hog-wild with it, after all. If the bill didn’t pass, the vote didn’t happen to our Kardashian worshipping LIV overlords.
When you add those 46 votes to those of the senators from states 51-57, I think we’re in trouble.
Comments like this…
Both of the above invertebrates thought the Second Amendment was good for an up or down vote in the Senate. Colour me unimpressed with their solidity.
and then this…
re: Small arms treaty. I think if Reid had caucused and found 50 senators willing to vote ‘yea’ on this bit of national harakiri, he may have squelched the vote. Voting a bunch of Frenchies and Belgians the ability to take guns away from bitter clingers is a pretty good way to lose the Senate in 2014. If he is going to use the Nuclear option, he wants to have at least two years to go hog-wild with it, after all. If the bill didn’t pass, the vote didn’t happen to our Kardashian worshipping LIV overlords.
….make me wonder. As much as we know McCain and Graham are putzes, is there ever justification for political gamesmanship?
Namely, letting a cloture vote go through, just so you can have it on the record in the final vote that 46 Commiecrats are for “surrendering sovereignty to transnational progressivist global government”.
This assumes no Justice Roberts like stab in the back, of course.
When California break off and falls into the ocean I have this horrible fear that the ocean will push it back up and build pylons under it so it remains a surface dweller problem.
Has anybody mentioned that the Senate could have shot the abomination down 99-0 and President Executive Order would still just tell the bureaucracy to behave as if it had been ratified into law?
Dumbocrats. Not even all of them. Where’s Pryor (D-AR)? Oh wait, he would get his @$$ handed to him in 2014.
But that didn’t stop Landrieu (D-LA). Unless she is really trying to go down in flames.
….make me wonder. As much as we know McCain and Graham are putzes, is there ever justification for political gamesmanship?
Curmudgeon, my link was to the roll call for the cloture vote earlier this year on universal background checks. I offered this as evidence contra your assertion that Graham and McCain were solid gun rights supporters. Had they been solid gun rights supporters, or indeed gave a fig about the Constitution in general, they would have joined in the filibuster against bringing the Second Amendment to an up or down vote in the Senate.
Political gamesmanship? Utter contempt for the Republic, more like.
Our country. Best of hands.
re: Napolitano. Are we going to pretend that this was anything but a bald-faced attempt to get more UCxx dollars out of the federal coffers?
We have to keep propping up higher education, and what better way to do it? Plus, it’s easier to funnel money in this way, because It’s For Teh Children™
In order to keep closer to truth, we may have to begin using the uneconomic name “So-called higher education” or, more efficiently Lower education as a substitute — since there is nothing high or noble about what’s actually going on at all.
“Higher idiocation” works for me.
C’mon you people, I’m trying to get a neologism into general usage and you’re not helping me in the least. Hop to!
Would say that we are Voc-Blocking you?
The philological progression (progress? ha) of “idios” and its compounds is a peculiar (idiazontos!) one, but one worth looking into nonetheless.
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