— Which, as it happens, turns out to be a promise for insanity, if we buy the colloquial definition of insanity as repeating the same action over and over and over again and expecting different results. From Extrano’s Alley, in November of 2012: Thanks to a link at The Gun Wire, I see the “New York Times” has an unsigned op-ed titled ‘Promises on Gun Control.’ I will not quote

protein wisdom:  “‘the fuck?  Did you like, miss the ‘autopsy’ report put out by the Bushies for the Bushies that counsels Republicans to embrace the Bushies — and in so doing, ditch the hateful racist misogynistic homophobic nativism (and Asian animus) that for too long has passed for conservative “principle”?   Did you miss the call to eschew the  fringe extremist constitutionalists and fetishizers of small government in order better

Compare and contrast. As it’s all the rage these days, allow me to try my hand at the new “compassionate conservative,” GOP establishment “autopsy” game:  first, I hereby re-brand John Boehner “Barack Obama Light” — though not for lack of tanning.  Second,  I hereby re-brand the GOP House leadership, which on three occasions recently caucused with Democrats against its own majority, and has scrapped the Hastert Rule (which I’ve re-branded

Wednesday, according to the AP and other sources. I’ve written on this now quite a bit, but we are nearing the progressive end game.  States with Democrat-majority legislatures are going to push through measures to deprive their citizens of Constitutional protections regardless of what their constituencies want, because the left is all about centralizing government, and the allegiance of the contemporary Democrat state legislator is to the national Party.  Obama

Oh, it’s worse than that, Mr Bozell.  Not only aren’t they what they promised, but now they’ve determined that they’re losing because they have been too conservative.  Which gives Rick Moran a nice little chubby.

All part of the “re-branding.” — Which, should they be interested, I can help them with:  just be true to yourselves and go with “Democrat”. Oh, and what this likewise signals?  Is that they’ll be telling us it’s Jeb Bush / Chris Christie in 2016.  Inevitable. Turn out the lights.  The Party’s over. (h/t JHo)  

Well, some of them are, that’s been quite thoroughly demonstrated. And not all of them are leftwing radicals, either. Some are legacy fetishizers and stuffy elites who believe more in the word of previous Justices than they do in the Constitution itself. Washington Examiner: The just published final thoughts of conservative legal giant Robert Bork, blocked from the Supreme Court in a Democratic witch hunt, reveal his deep concerns that

Well, not really. I mean, there’s still you, Rick. Granted, that would be myopic, incendiary, Visigothy — and punishing to someone who is a real thinker, not a rhetorical bomb-thrower with an axe to grind against we ridiculous, warped, dangerous True Believer TEA Party types, wallowing as we are in a stew of our own ignorance — but what the heck. It’s all-in time! Plus, I’ve always wanted to wear