First, vote. Even if this last time it means holding your noses. Reid must be removed. He’s suffering full-on dementia and he is handmaiden to a radical Marxist President. One exception is voting for Thad Cochran. Fuck him, and fuck all the establishment hacks who used Democrat votes and race-baiting to defeat the candidate the Republicans of Mississippi — not Mitch McConnell and Karl Rove — wanted.
The truth is — and we all know this, because the people who’ve read here for years are smart and have never been fooled by the kabuki theater that is a virtual single party ruling class in DC, nor by the media and consultant construct that is “Barack Obama, pant-creased, brilliant pragmatist and Good Man who will make government transparent and bring us all together in post-racial bliss — Mitch McConnell will be a surrender monkey who thinks he can play us. But that’s why we have Cruz and Lee and Paul — and hopefully Ernst: to act as a thorn in his side. An omnibus budget bill written in conjunction with the Dems? Go for it. And watch your glee and arrogance turn to consternation when we the people stand up against you. Similarly, any walk back on a 51-vote reconciliation (“what does it matter, Obama is going to veto any bill that guts his signature legislation, anyway?”) will be met with firm and constant resistance by we, the people, who are set to see premiums rise by 14% on average and deductibles become unmanageable to many Americans, pushing us toward the “need” for a “single payer system.” So let Obama veto what is an unpopular law at a time when it really starts to impact the millions of Americans, who increasingly despise it. Once he uses his veto, make the Dems vote not to override the veto, thus permanently tying them to the debacle. After which, the House can begin starving it of money.
President Stompyfoot and his sycophantic media won’t be able to spin their way out of the reality of the enormous burden of health care cost increases on many families — particularly those in the middle class who don’t want to go on Medicaid, as if they are incapable of taking care of themselves and their families.
And if Obama tries to move things through by executive order — eg., amnesty — all those GOP establishment-types who ran at home on an anti-amnesty platform need to be called out should they not respond in every way to block such unconstitutional behavior, including, again, using the power of the purse and insisting upon border enforcement and a physical barrier to protect Americans from outside threats. The same goes for plans by HUD to manipulate neighborhood demographics so that every municipality looks like the crayon box they superficially imagine is progressive diversity — social engineering at its most egregious — and plans by the EPA to strangle even more industry, seize even more power, and prevent the opportunity for growth, for cheap energy that drives innovation, and liberty and private property rights themselves. Should Obama try to circumvent the Treaty clause, he should be publicly excoriated and his malfeasance — including the empowering of Iran — be met with reprisals.
Look, I know the RINOs are insufferable; but we need right now to vote to keep Obama from finishing the job he is trying to finish. Useless lumps of RINO hucksters bullshitting their way through governing will at least clog up the works until we can carry forward the momentum of pointing out the abject failure of “fundamental transformation” and create the conditions for a resurgence of first principles that will overwhelm the McConnell / Rove / Politico / Democrat alliance that seeks to disabuse themselves of having to worry about representative government altogether.
It’s an emergency stop gap.
To that end, take a look at this. If it doesn’t move you to pull the trigger for some establican jaggoff, I won’t fault you. But what’s at stake is, well, everything.
2. If you have a chance and think it a valid squabble, please call Angel’s Quality Assisted Living a let them know that the decision to hold back a security deposit from an indigent woman going through chemo is the very opposite of “quality” and the very opposite of angelic. In fact, it’s disgusting, opportunistic, greedy, and immoral. The number is 443-413-0163. The proprietor is April Chambers.
When you call, if you’re so inclined, you might want to mention that all this attention is not going to be good for business in the long run. And there will be much attention drawn to this. I can promise that.
I’m going to talk to my Mom for a bit, try to “reason” with the assisted living facility, contact the FL attorney and see if he’ll take a credit card payment for retainer before discussing strategy, contact the Detective on my mother’s case in Maryland, then run out to vote.
Maybe I’ll even find time to eat.
Hope your day is less full of depressing shit than mine.
UPDATE:
I’ve spoken with April and I’m satisfied with her answers. She seems genuinely to care about my mother, and it turns out money for her monthly payments was coming up short — my brother wasn’t paying the extra $500 not covered by her social security check — and April allowed my Mom to stay at a reduced rate and even used some of her own money to provide my Mom with some personal items.
The security deposit provision was done in conjunction with social services in MD. So once again, it was my brother who is the villain here: my mother was dropped off, I just learned, soiled, hungry, and hadn’t seen a doctor in years. She had become so completely dependent upon Steven that she had a kind of Stockholm Syndrome — where she’d defend his treachery because she felt as though she was such a burden.
Thanks to all of you who called and coerced April into returning my phone calls. But I want to make clear that I believe her; I believe she sincere in her hurt over my mother’s condition; I believe her when she told me she tried to give my mother advice about the workings of power of attorney — only to have my brother berate her, etc. And legally, she’s not allowed to give advice. I apologized to her for all the attention she received today. She was very distressed and disturbed, but I put her mind at ease that the issue is resolved.
I wasn’t able to recover the deposit, but frankly, I’d feel like a shitheel taking it back now. April wants to go visit my mother at the hospital so I’m going to arrange that. And it looks like I have until November 24th to come up with an additional $700 for the papers and trinkets left in the storage facility my brother stopped paying for before the locker is put up for auction.
Balancing that out with all the notary moneys, the retainer, et al., is going to be tough. The timing — our moving into the new house and the expenses incurred — has left us scrambling. But we’ll figure out a way.
Thanks to all of you who’ve sent your best wishes, and to those of you who’ve contributed this month despite my prolonged absences.
Mean people suck.
(Fallen) Angel’s (Bad) Quality Assisted (You Call This) Living also has a Facebook page where reviews can be posted. I found it via Google.
They have a closed group page. Did you find another? Please send a link. Thanks.
Beethoven’s musically better version of “it matters“. Ol’ fella was an idealistic small d democrat who existentially hated tyranny. Knew a thing or two about the tunes too, he did.
You should see a button at the top that says something like “Review.” I gave them one star.
– Ok, back from the polls. Usual pissing and moaning because party affiliations were unlisted for judges in fed districts. I voted against moonbeam, and all the Props. We’re fucking broke already, but we can afford a gd bullet train to nowhere because Brown and some of his friends/relatives have a stake in it. Other than that Lala land is a hopeless case. The one thing he’s done right is going against Bumblefuck on Ebola.
In Lalaland, it’s money that matters.
Regardless of who wins today, Harry Reid will still be running the Senate come January.
Unless Republicans win big today. In that case, it will be Dick Durban running the Senate come January.
http://www.redstate.com/2014/11/04/greg-abbott-ballot-bexar-county-obama-52-2012-texas/
If this is true, I want fuckers in goddamned jail for it. We are not living in Argentina. We won’t put up with this shit.
PLEASE BE A HOAX.
I need some help. Today when I voted I had the choice between a judge with a big “R” next to her name and a lawyer who wants to be a judge with a big “D” next to his name.
I know them both. The judge better than the wanna-be.
I’m not a huge fan of the judge. I’ve been told by friends that she’s done some things that I don’t think are ethical, she pissed and moaned and shirked on a (non-political) volunteer thing I was helping run instead of saying “no” and just not showing up (like the other guy), and she doesn’t have the world’s best personality (could be because her ex-husband is a major league asshole and her kids are fuckups, but she might just be a bitch or maybe a combination). The wanna-be judge is a local good ol’ boy. Little bit entitled, little bit too political, but nice enough, never heard anything bad about him, except that he is a big D Democrat.
He has some valid points about why he is running against the Republican Lady judge. But…
I know that there is a machine backing D candidates and he’s one of them. I don’t trust that if something comes up that he would be impartial with city or county government if there was anything political in the case.
I am absolutely certain that the lady judge he’s trying to unseat is not impartial in those matters AT ALL.
I voted for the lady judge, even though I feel that the other guy would do a better job, day to day. And I feel sick.
Someone give me dispensation?
San Antonio has apparently become Chicago South. Paint the Alamo pink.
You are absolved, LMC.
Doesn’t appear to be a hoax, but it didn’t show up when I voted early in Plano TX (near Dallas) last week.
Jeff, please make sure you lock the liquor cabinet tonight. Otherwise, once the election results start coming in, you just know a certain Dasypus will be into the Jack Daniels, ready to drown his sorrows or prepare for a night of dancing on the ashes of Harry Reid’s career, depending on results.
I live in the Northeast, LMC, and have to make those kind of choices a lot – never gets any easier – so I sympathize.
I do know that I’ll be voting for the crazed third party Socialist for Governor because the Repube wants to ban ‘assault rifles’ and is pro-Baby Murder.
will be met with firm and constant resistance by we, the people
I’d pay to see that.
The GOP wants amnesty as badly as the Dems do. They’re not terribly interested in actually repealing Obamacare or any provision aside from the medical devices tax.
The GOP will not resist Obama’s executive orders. They will make lame excuses about how there’s nothing they can do about IWonPhonePen, and how they can’t shutdown the government nor attempt to impeach nor do thing one to stop the Juggernaut because elections have consequences.
What are we going to do to them? Primary them with someone they can crush with their machinery? Stage a rally on the Mall? Make viral protest videos? Melt the switchboards? Yell into a microphone at a town hall? Fill up online petitions?
Oooh, scary scary!
We cannot hold their feet to the fire because they do not fear us. They are fully ensconced in a fantasy land where they indulge their vanity, shake down orgs and corps for donations before passing bills, purchase committee seats and chairmanships, and engage in insider trading that is legal for them but not us.
Enacting genuinely conservative measures is not in their best interest; ergo, it won’t happen. They don’t want the Senate so that they can Stop Obama. Please. They want the Senate because it gives them more leverage to shake down their donors. More ribbons on the chest. More PRESTIGE.
That’s it. They couldn’t give a rip about stopping Obama or enacting good legislation or anything like unto it.
And even if they wanted to Stop Obama, he’ll just do what he damn well pleases with the full-throated support of Our Betters in the media-industrial complex, the entire Democrat party, and even a few GOP stiffs.
And when it goes wrong, the Dems will blame the GOP and the GOP will blame the Tea Party.
What have you observed that leads you to any other conclusion?
You’ve summarized my disappointments perfectly. I still predict that amnesty will be fast-tracked if the GOP wins the Senate. Their contributors have been leaning on them to produce it for years now and it’s only the vagaries of the election cycle that have worked to prevent them from passing it. Remember how hard they fought to pass it back when Dubya was in charge? Winning the Senate will finally convince them that their time to flip off the nativist flyover rubes has come.
As for repealing Obamacare? They’re dying for their chance to rewrite it to give tax breaks and subsidies and handouts to THEIR cronies and corporatists. They’ll make sure that Obamacare NEVER gets repealed because by this time next year EVERY lobbyist in D.C. will have a finger in that particular pie.
And as for resisting Obama’s executive orders? Those jokers didn’t even follow through on that ridiculous lawsuit stunt from a couple of months back:
http://hotair.com/archives/2014/10/27/oh-by-the-way-the-house-gop-still-hasnt-filed-that-lawsuit-challenging-obamas-executive-overreach-yet/
I rarely vote yes on any California proposition. Some are OK at times but, generally I think they need to go beyond a simple majority in order to be passed, at least the ones that amend the constitution or are going to cost the tax payers a lot. If they do pass by 2/3 or 3/4 majority, the damn Attorney General better defend them or appoint someone who will.
I voted “no” on all the judges for the heck of it.
READ THIS ESSAY.
And if you happen to be lucky, read it while simultaneously watching the Matt Damon movie vehicle Elysium out of the corner of your eye.
For in that happy accidental event, you’ll encounter the connection between political left-liberal compassion and the political left-liberal fantasy of human self-sacrifice (y’know, the kind the Aztecs were wont to perform, cutting the heart out of a living human being in order to save their peoples), where the political left-liberal (Matt Damon stands here) pretends or fantasizes himself as the victim of the great sacrifice, all the while actually using you as his sacrificial victim in fact.
Bingo.
Circumvent them. Use the states. Use nullification. Send people down to the border and let the National Guard start shooting at Americans to protect potential terrorists or carriers of infectious diseases from crossing our borders. Engage in civil disobedience. Etc.
Reagan had the same battles to fight before he broke through. When ObamaCare hits fully, you could see another Reagan Revolution. Or maybe just the latter.
update on that innocent “glitch” in Bexar County Texas.
You’ll recall I noted that Boehner’s suit was bogus, more theater, etc.
I’m talking about a full-on uprising of people demanding that the consent of the governed be followed, or else it’s time to bring out the tar and feathers. Once the full blast of ObamaCare hits, any conservative with a strong voice will win Reagan Democrats. The problem will be that the RINOs might not turn out.
Primary the shit out of ’em.
Run up into the stands and primary their mommas*.
And vote strategically. Just like they do.
*You do that by taking over the party apparatus at the county level.
Circumvent them. Use the states. Use nullification. … Civil disobedience.
I’m up for that. But the only solution to the DC problem is to scour it clean of inhabitants and let it lie fallow for 7 years.
Maybe ISIS will detonate Cumbre Vieja for us, ridding us of most of the political class and that most vile pest, the East Coast Liberal.
They won’t. But only so long as they think not doing so is more eadvantageous than turning out.
They’re motivated by power and access to power as much as by anything. So if it behooves them to be conservative, that’s what they’ll be.
Make ’em pass the Liberty Amendments. Make that the hill the GOP is going die on.
Because we’ll be sure to kill ’em there if they won’t.
Primary the shit out of ‘em.
I don’t think that sending better peeps to D.C. is the answer. The fiends are entrenched and the machinery that sustains them is not destroyed by elections.
It all has to go: the polls, staffers, lobbyists, media outlets, lunch trucks — in the current climate, sending good peeps to D.C. results in their being stymied, corrupted, or destroyed.
The whole structure is putrid. It doesn’t matter who the tenants are if the load-bearing walls are honeycombed through by dry rot.
What do we get when we sum ***No passport-‘Israel’ for you Jerusalem-boy*** with ***No UNSC veto-protections for you Israel-boy***?
A “Palestinian” State by fiat, maybe?
Oh, and war, lots and lots of war.
You need to think of primaries as pain, Di
and politicians as flatworms.
Jeff, glad to read the update; I’ve rescinded my bad review and someone else’s review has been updated from one star to five.
Glad to know that apparently “Goldie” remains the only villain in this story.
I am relieved. Thanks.
Still fell dirty though. Not in the good way. Either.
You need to think of primaries as pain, Di
and politicians as flatworms.
In Utah, we primaried Bob Bennett and got Mike Lee. This was one of the first Tea Party victories. The Establicans didn’t see it coming.
Two years later, when Orrin Hatch was up, he made damn good and sure that the primary wasn’t even close.
Now Hatch has vowed to fight Mike Lee’s reelection in 2016 with everything he’s got. Having been in the Senate since the 1970s, he’s got so many connections and favors owed he might very well evict Mike Lee, for no other reason than he doesn’t play ball.
Ask Thad Cochrane and Mitch McConnell how badly they fear primaries.
They don’t see a tough primary race as evidence that they need to change their ways; they only see that the peasants are revolting.
Very revolting.
They’re too insulated to feel pain, too arrogant to get the message, too corrupt to be defeated by democratic measures.
We’re all Chicago now. Mayor Daley always gets his way.
Tar, feathers, rail, lizard, Spock.
>They’re too insulated to feel pain, too arrogant to get the message, too corrupt to be defeated by democratic measures.<
that's why i think that the 1st art v convention should be about term limits for house, senate and scotus(me: + most of the fed gov't) only.
That is why I also advise strategic voting. i.e. don’t just stay home, vote for the Democrat.
McConnell at least ought to care about that.
April was definitely hot under the collar this afternoon. Glad you two straightened things out.
Hell, if Lee ought to put out the word that he’ll run as an independent and keep running as an independent until he turns Utah blue.
Or I suppose he could just run for Governor and ruin Hatch’s retirement.
Aren’t the Democrats lucky that these “calibration issues” haven’t seemed to affect their candidates?
Newrouter wrote: that’s why i think that the 1st art v convention should be about term limits for house, senate and scotus(me: + most of the fed gov’t) only.
‘1st art v convention’ – we’ll only get one shot, so we’ll have to do it all in one.
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That judge lady lost without my help. Thank goodness.
I heard some stories about her stewardship last night that I really hope aren’t true.
Also the ringleaders of the effort to stop the bond issue for the repair and rebuild of the schools are all gone. The fire in the high school probably helped, but what they did was dirty. And tea-party or not, when you lie, people will find out.
Satisfactory night.
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