Her naughty bits feel a tingle at the thought of Obama’s tanks blowing up heretic members of Congress .
What is a president in a presidential constitutional republic to do when faced with an intransigent, bull-headed faction among his people’s representatives?
Well, Boris Yeltsin, Russia’s first democratically elected president, was once faced with a similar situation exactly 20 years ago, in October 1993. The parliament, then called the Supreme Soviet, was increasingly against Yeltsin’s neoliberal economic reforms (suggested to him by young Western advisors like Jeffrey Sachs). On one hand, these reforms freed up the old Soviet command economy. On the other, they drove the country into chaos and violence, and left tens of millions impoverished, their savings nullified by skyrocketing inflation. The parliament, dominated by old Soviet conservatives (sic), was increasingly against these reforms and refused to confirm Yeltsin’s key economic advisor. Yeltsin held a national referendum, a sort of national vote of confidence, which he won, and used it as a justification for what he did next.
Almost exactly 20 years ago, he dissolved parliament. The vice president and the speaker of the parliament dissolved Yeltsin’s presidency, and holed up with their supporters in the parliament’s headquarters, now known as “the White House.”
Then Yeltsin did this to it.
That’s the level of Leftist discourse these days … hardline Soviet communists are “conservatives” who “liberal” Yeltsin had the good sense (after horrible, nasty, political dissent justifiably exasperated him out of his noted calm) to explode his opposition to bits in their own legislative building.
Remember, this scribbling of fascist-Obama porn is not by some anonymous crazy, like the typical kosskiddie, but from a senior editor at a mainstream, albeit leftwing, publication.
so if I’m understanding this metaphor and you were to extrapolate these strategies here to failmerica the smoky part would be where John Boehner and his cheesedick congresswhore friends would be sitting around trying to figure out how to use the shutdown to cram through some yummy amnesties?
I dunno. Every time I hear of the Russian parliament being dissolved, I keep getting the feeling that there’s a big vat of acid somehow involved.
Or maybe that’s just Putin…
Hearing of vats and dissolution, I’m invariably reminded of Boffer Bings, and his “. . . remorse for a heedless act entailing so dismal a commercial disaster.”
Almost exactly 20 years ago, he dissolved parliament. The vice president and the speaker of the parliament dissolved Yeltsin’s presidency, and holed up with their supporters in the parliament’s headquarters, now known as “the White House.”
Then Yeltsin did this to it.
baracky’s goons killed a single mom in dc today
she be black too
where be the trayvon crowd?
Before we knew any of this, though, at least one person on Capitol Hill had to blame the incident on the government shutdown. You can always count on Sheila Jackson Lee:
We’re not a presidential constitutional republic, whatever the hell that means. Co-equal branches of government you stupid, ugly, skanky cunt.
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@ havel potp page 158
In this kind of idealization, real socialism employs the familiar
tried and true method of socialist realism, according to which only
the typical is real, and only what corresponds to the given ideal is
typical, that is, whatever has the potential to grow towards the ideal.
There is, for example, the ideal of socialist man. In our harsh reality,
anyone who does not correspond to that ideal is atypical. Anyone
who is atypical, and yet exists, is an ‘evil’ reality and has no place in
real socialism. Anyone who is not a socialist man, therefore, can
only be a residuum of the past, an agent of imperialism, a dissident.
In any case, he or she is a foreign element. Because this foreign
element is by definition outside real socialism, however, there are
only proper socialist people in real socialism. What does it matter
that we have to invent them and that the overwhelming majority of
the nation is still foreign to real socialism? The essential thing is that
the socialist man is typical of real socialism. Another of our ideals is
that of free and creative work as one of the vital needs of socialist
man. What does it matter that we guarantee this free work by
making work compulsory, that its creative aspect, as far as most
of the nation is concerned, is manifested in seeking ways to shirk
it, that this foremost vital need is not pleasurable, but a necessary
evil to earn a livelihood? The only typical and real work is socialist
work.
And so a real socialist man necessarily becomes a schizophrenic.
As a practical politician he fights against the total pervasiveness of
indifference, bribery, passivity, absenteeism, theft on the job and
lack of principles, but as an ideologist he oozes enthusiasm over the
typical aspects of socialist work, socialist commitment, socialist
unselfishness and socialist integrity. As an ideologist, he is a socialist
man, but as a practical politician he is given special treatment in the
government hospital, and he does his shopping in special shops,
lives in a special residential district and has his children chauffeured
to school in official limousines.
– We already knew what they are, the only question is how long before they stand in peril of a hanging offense.
Considering the “parliament” involved the chemical more likely is “The Dip.”
Paul Ryan in particular he wants some amnesties
Wisconsin people shouldn’t get to have an opinion about the southern border I don’t think
it’s not like Texans get all obsessey to where they’re like hey you know what milwaukee needs more Canadians! Now! Toot sweet as Mr. buttons would say.
No Texans aren’t like that.
Show me one Texan what’s like that. You can’t. Don’t even bother trying.
Resolved: Wisconsin people are out of fucking control with their big drippy cheesedicks for hordes of illegal Mexicans.
I wonder how often Ms. Ioffe dreams of civil war. Just this once, or does she do this a lot?
However often it is, Pablo, you can bet that, never in her most fevered civil war dreams does it happen that the guns get turned against her and her ilk once they’ve outlived their usefulness.
Personally, I think Ioffe is on to a good idea here. We should encourage our Jugears-In-Chief to issue orders to shell the Capitol. If we’re gonna bring this mutha down anyway, it’s better that the first shots take out a bunch of the Congresscritters, aides, and lobbyists at the heart of the problem, rather than real people.
They’re really giving her the high hard one in the comments over there. I’m glad to see some TNR readers still have some scruples.
Going back to current events for a moment: why can’t we get a single newspaper editor to print an accurate headline about the DC “shooter” (who never had a gun at all)? I woke up this morning expecting to see something like “GOVERNMENT THUGS MURDER YOUNG WOMAN IN CAPITAL”. With a subhed like “UNARMED, MENTALLY ILL WOMAN EXECUTED IN BROAD DAYLIGHT; CHILD ABDUCTED BY STATE AGENTS; WITNESSES LOOK ON IN HORROR”.
But I suppose that’s too much to ask.
If I remember correctly Yeltsin had to worry pretty seriously about who the military would back and the military had to worry about the angry kids in the street who they’d have to fight if Yeltsin were the one they turned against.
Also Obama is not for a lighter touch less in command government as Yetlsin was.
So the point is, Julia Ioffe is a clueless dumb shit.
Dear Leader shell the Capitol Building? If only.
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Or how about a headline that reads “DRAMATIC ROLLOUT OF OBAMACARE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES”?