Something one of the Boehner-boosters said on Twitter today really resonated with me: the Constitutionalists are the real RINOs today, if you think about it.
Now, sure, this particular pom-pom waver was going for some online wag cred, and throwing up a middle finger at those of us who dared stand up to a party leadership that has refused to use regular order, passed legislation its constituency opposed, and when necessary caucused with the Democrats to do so. It was a jab at those of us silly enough to believe that if, as a candidate, you promise to run on repealing ObamaCare, or refusing to vote for Boehner as Speaker, you owe it to your constituency to keep that promise. As a House representative you have one job: represent. Doesn’t mean you need to vote every way your constituency demands at all times; but it should at least mean that you follow through on what you told the voters who voted for you you’d do.
None of which holds true any more for the national GOP.
In truth, the TEAM R “pragmatist” who lobbed his bon mot is absolutely right — though for all the wrong reasons. We are, as he says, the true RINOs, but we haven’t left the Party of Lincoln; it left us. Too, there’s no more reason for any constitutionalist to throw in with national Republicans than there is for him/her to throw in with national Democrats. Constitutionalists are reviled as too disruptive of the status quo, too committed to principle rather than the “realist’s” commitment to head-counts and positioning, ruining the inside baseball game with all their rube talk of representative government and other such hopelessly naive wishcasts. Plus, what governing academy did any of they attend (and don’t even give my that Mike Lee, Ted Cruz shit. They’re just in this for the Big Anti-Establishment Bucks!)? Because if just anybody can do this governing thing — or is allowed to impact the outcome of carefully orchestrated political party machinations meant to present the veneer of adversarial government — then we hardly need insider experts and pundits to read the DC tea leaves for us, or walk us through the minutia of Beltway posturing (which, on the GOP establishment side, always takes the form of “playing the long game,” though in fact they’re playing “run out the clock” without having a lead). And that’s just, well, yucky. And “populist.” Smacks of the hillbilly, it does!
— All of which is just a run-up to the takeaway of this post: I have too much pride and conviction to be a RINO. And yet, that’s where my position as a constitutionalist and classical liberal has left me.
So rather than be a hypocrite, or a fringe embarrassment, I will just say this: sayonara, national GOP. You don’t need me anyway, so you’ll take it as no real unkindness if I say I’m just not into you anymore. Now get dressed and take off. Your money’s on the dresser.
Dis-enrolling as a Republican this week. May have to start my own partay.
“Hey! There isn’t any money on this dresser! . . . Oooooh.”
Living as I do in a state that doesn’t record party registration, anyone here who isn’t a dues-paying party member is an -INO.
It’s kind of like saying I’m boycotting MSNBC — I already never watch it.
Glenn Beck has us covered…
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B6swpBsCcAALxdG.png
Is this what you were going for?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to2KasivROc
Here’s Glenn hammering Stewart, as every politician should be hammered EVERY DAMN DAY.
http://www.glennbeck.com/2015/01/06/beck-confronts-gop-congressman-youre-losing-your-soul/
I’ve been an official Republican since the day after my eighteenth birthday and one in spirit since the age of seven [yeah, I was that geek kid in the back of the room with the Nixon/Agnew bumper sticker on my loose-leaf notebook] and I still haven’t unregistered.
Start some truly serious
thirdsecond party talk and I’ll gladly do it, but no one has yet. I’m not good at doing original planning and leading, but I can be a pretty damn good agitator.Trey Gowdy and Mia Love voted for the satsuma. Shit. Oh well. I tossed the party back in 2012 so this is phantom limb pain anyhoo.
-Mr. Gowdy did not vote.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2015/roll002.xml
He better have a damn good reason.
-As for Mia Love: count her among the Loyalists.
Turns out, Trey would have voted with the Loyalist scum:
http://gowdy.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=398180
Fuck you, Trey Gowdy, and your friggin’ hair, too.
“Conservative” Republicans cross-dressed as Musette and took a waltzing walk through the cafe.
Tammy Bruce Tweeted something revealing today: “Also, the last thing I want is @mialove to sacrifice herself in the name of theatre when Boehner’s reelection was more than likely”
“And because @MiaLove will do no one least of all her constituents, any good by throwing herself into a volcano.”
The “theater” jab really chaps my hide, right there. But also there’s the admission that NOT voting for Boehner means your political career is over.
What does that say about Boehner and his ability to “rule”? It’s not because he’s the best Republican, it’s because he plays the dirtiest.
“Trey Gowdy and Mia Love voted for the satsuma.”
One thing to remember, guys, is that by the arcane rules of the House, they needed 29 votes if everyone showed up. A bunch of the Democrats decided to attend Mario Cuomo’s funeral, which pushed the number needed to 35. I suspect that when people realized that, some votes got switched.
I suspect that when people realized that, some votes got switched.
Because “when you strike at the king, you must kill him.”
See, if Gohmert had won, all of Boehner’s lackeys would storm the cameras and preach to us about cooperation and unity, but because Bohener won, everyone who voted against him will pay through the nose.
Great leadership we got, folks. I’m looking fondly back at Speaker Newt these days, and that’s sad.
Your money’s on the dresser.
You had me, word-for-word, up until that last sentence, because they are never getting another penny from me, and i intend to go on doing everything I can to f*ck them just as badly as they have been f*cking the country.
The Vote For Speaker: List Of Loyalists
The following is a list of those Republican members of the House who voted for John Boehner to continue as Speaker Of The House: Abraham Aderholt Allen Amodei Barletta Barr Barton Benishek Bilirakis Bishop (MI) Bishop (UT) Black Blackburn Bost Boustany…
>“Also, the last thing I want is @mialove to sacrifice herself in the name of
theatreprinciple ’cause the high school crowd don’t like meDicentra wrote: Great leadership we got, folks. I’m looking fondly back at Speaker Newt these days, and that’s sad.
You too, eh? Glad to know I’m not alone.
What a wretched lot we Americans are.
The revenge of the “Orange-men.”
my 2016 fun is running for
link.
i will contest this seat in 2016.
Dicentra,
Newt was on twitter last night saying he supported Boehner and credited the 2014 GOP election gains to him.
I would have to call myself a Republican to be a RINO. So, that’s not a problem.
Lately, being a real Republican is a fairly shameful thing. Better to be a RINO than part of the GOP problem.
I’m a FRBTRSAC pronounces “four butter sack”.
Former
Republican
Because
The
Republicans
Suck
And
Cringe
Reagan quote Winston Churchill: “The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we’re spirits—not animals…. There’s something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.” And failure to fulfill our duty could sentence our children to “a thousand years of darkness.”
@ mia love: you go fraud. mike lee next?
Newt was on twitter last night saying he supported Boehner
:: retch ::
and credited the 2014 GOP election gains to him.
:: HURL! ::
Meanwhile, Boehner and McConnell will tell us how truly wonderful Pelosi and Reid are, that working with both of them has been a treasure.
Saudi Arabia has managed to detonate the world economy. They saw the writing on the wall and went for short term pain in order to bankrupt high cost oil producers so they can maintain market share and income even though demand is falling off a cliff.
Meanwhile, we get saddled with mealy-mouthed milquetoasts who are more worried about MBM saying bad things about them rather than the financial tsunami that is about to wash over the entire world. We need actual leaders who will stand up to government excess and try to reign things in so we have a chance to survive the disaster that is about to overtake us.
Instead we get a troika headed by a communist president who will be flanked by the people running congress who never saw a government program that didn’t need more funding.
Yay us.
Well, at least we get to string them up from lamposts by their ankles after it goes sideways.
Always try to look on the bright side.
I for one am getting darned tired of this interminable “…and too early to shoot the bastards” phase in US politics.
The least we should have been doing, by this point, John, is tarring and feathering.
But, noooooooooo!
—Samuel Adams, writing as ‘CANDIDUS’, Boston Gazette, 09 December 1771
Those hobbity colonists. What a buncha wacko birds!
I know….
Another OUTLAW.
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I love The Call. I still have about 3 of their albums on vinyl.
This is one of my favorites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBSxmmsjxXY
Yeah, they’re overtly Christian. So is U2, and so is The Alarm.
This is a cool song of theirs, too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_VY7ujyFTE