What’s the best way to keep popular momentum? Why, cave, of course!
But don’t call it caving. Call it, “sorry, but that’s not what my Blackberry tells me I had scheduled just now, and I have my legacy to worry about”:
Fox just reported that in the face of fleebag Democrats on the one hand and weak Gov. Mitch Daniels on the other, Indiana Republicans have dropped the right-to-work bill that the Democrats claimed was their reason for fleeing the state. The Democrats’ response? They’re staying away and demanding to get their way on other bills.
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Once the Democrats took to the road, they showed that they can’t be negotiated with. That’s why one of the GOP majorities is going to have to nuke them. Daniels’ capitulation and the Indiana Democrats’ reaction should be a teaching moment for any Republican thinking of wavering.
Nuke ‘em. It’s the only way to be sure.
Well, now.
Who would have ever thought that rewarding bad behavior would embolden Democrats to exacerbate that behavior?
Besides just about everyone with a spine, I mean?
(thanks to narciso)
If they dropped it, they can easily pick it up again. They should do that, and vote it through today.
They won’t, though, because they are pussies.
– Does the GOP in general have any fucking clue as to what’s going on with the majority of Americans these days?
– They seem to be reading DNC handouts for their days marching orders.
– Yes, its time to get bloody.
“Besides just about everyone with children” is what you meant to say.
And let’s face it – Democrats, from the bottom up, act like children. From the way they talk to and about their adversaries, to the contempt they show for their “parents” (the taxpayers), to the way they handle themselves at protests… They’re not serious or mature enough – for the most part – to be put in charge of anything important, and any organization with a multi-billion dollar budget is by its very definition “important.”
Ah yes, a politician’s “legacy”.
Hey, goofball – leave your kids some stock options or somethin’ huh?
Legacy. Sheesh. Like anybody gives a crap about his supposed legacy…
They’ve obviously got more important bills to vote through. Namely the bill to change the name of Indiana to West Vagina.
If you are elected to a legislature, do you then represent all the folks in your district or just the ones who voted for you?
well, B Moe, since the majority voted for you…
I’d call this a teachable moment; at least for anyone who didn’t already realize that rewarding bad behavior simply reinforces it, and leads inevitably to more…
Mitch? Are you listening?
That’s alright; it’s just the Dems way to “engage” in “dialogue”…
Just keep your head down Mitch, and keep muttering about the spendings. That approach works with moderates, I hear.
Has it been noted here that “Mitch Daniels decertified all public unions, entirely rescinding their collective-bargaining rights, on his first day in office in 2005”?
The timing and the kumbaya tone of his remarks are not helpful, but the guy is way ahead on substance.
Can’t they just, well, lie? Tell the runaway children that they’re really, really sorry, and that they’ll do anything to get the little dears to come home, give ’em anything they want, because they miss them so very, very much.
Then when they show up, beat ’em senseless and lock ’em in their rooms like the rotten little animals they are.
So, it should be law that if you want to work in certain fields you should be required to join their union and pay them money to promote candidates you don’t agree with?
I don’t think so. Mitch had it right before he caved.
Yes.
Which is what I’ve criticized him for.
Can’t they just, well, lie?
Oh, they can do worse than that. If and when they return to chambers, the Speaker can order the seargeant-at-arms to lock the doors….
Before or after he beats them senseless (not that that would take much)?
Squid, they might as well try to race AJB to stupid.
Mitch is more of a George Bush Sr. type of guy. He is very good at handling large bureaucracies in a smooth and steady manner; however, he is not confrontational. Indiana is a State of moderate Democrats and Republicans that mostly get along. As far as I can tell, Daniels has never had to directly deal with the hardcore left and doesn’t seem to understand that logic and facts and reason do not work on these people.
Well then. As a strategy, the “run far, far away” one seems to be a winner then.
Voters got you down? Spring break in Cabo!
This man should be required reading.
“We never pay anyone Danegeld,
No matter how trifling the cost,
For the end of that game
Is oppression and shame,
and the Nation that plays it is lost!”
Dane-Geld, Rudyard Kipling
“A Servant When He Reigneth”, Rudyard Kipling
If you’re going to leave bits of Kipling scattered all over the place, SDN, you might as well take a look at this essay by Roger Kimball. If you haven’t seen it already that is.