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For those not following along, a note:

Harry Reid just changed the Senate rules to block minority party amendments. No, really.

He has transformed the legislative process in order to avoid having to vote on the Jobs bill his Party’s President is demanding be voted on.

People: Look at what’s happening in the Senate. Listen to the President and his demonization of the private sector. Look at what’s happening on Wall Street, where the leftists are literally marching for Marxism — and the contemporary Democrat Party (and Ron Paul) are supporting the “movement” (largely peopled with anti-Semites, 911 Truther, hard-core leftists, and the modern labor movement, essentially a client of the Democrats.)

For years I’ve noted that the move to socialism generally stops at the corporatist/liberal fascist stage — where the small business private sector is gutted through regulation and taxation, a few large corporations “partner” with government to provide the veneer for a market system, and we are left with a powerful centralized government that holds sway, by way of lawmaking and regulatory ability, over a few large corporations who themselves have profited from death of competition.

For the Utopian leftist, the next stage is government takeover of the remaining mega-corporations, followed by socialist bliss (read Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward for the People’s blueprint.) In reality, though, the fascist dynamic is perfectly symbiotic, and need not evolve any further. Power is concentrated. The masses are dependent upon the government. And because they are dependent they will always vote in their “economic interests,” keeping the permanent political class in power. Party ceases to matter.

This is an attempted coup we’re witnessing. Grab your gear, Visigoths. The ugly is on its way.

29 Replies to “For those not following along, a note:”

  1. newrouter says:

    also

    Secret panel can put Americans on ‘kill list’ 0

    Mark Hosenball, REUTERS

    WASHINGTON – American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to officials.

    There is no public record of the operations or decisions of the panel, which is a subset of the White House’s National Security Council, several current and former officials said. Neither is there any law establishing its existence or setting out the rules by which it is supposed to operate.

    The panel was behind the decision to add Awlaki, a U.S.-born militant preacher with alleged al Qaeda connections, to the target list. He was killed by a CIA drone strike in Yemen late last month.

    The role of the president in ordering or ratifying a decision to target a citizen is fuzzy. White House spokesman Tommy Vietor declined to discuss anything about the process.

    Link

  2. sdferr says:

    Corcyra

    Words had to change their ordinary meaning and to take that which was now given them. Reckless audacity came to be considered the courage of a loyal ally; prudent hesitation, specious cowardice; moderation was held to be a cloak for unmanliness; ability to see all sides of a question inaptness to act on any. Frantic violence, became the attribute of manliness; cautious plotting, a justifiable means of self-defense.

  3. Pellegri says:

    But we’re supposed to hate corporations, right? Isn’t that what this whole #OWS business is about, hating the corporations and the government who works in lockstep with them to deny us everything that we deserve as human beings?

    Or do they no longer become hatable when the government takes them over and forces them to do stuff for us?

    I am confused.

  4. newrouter says:

    “Akaka (D-HI)
    Baucus (D-MT)
    Begich (D-AK)
    Bennet (D-CO)
    Bingaman (D-NM)
    Blumenthal (D-CT)
    Boxer (D-CA)
    Brown (D-OH)
    Brown (R-MA)
    Burr (R-NC)

    Cardin (D-MD)
    Carper (D-DE)
    Casey (D-PA)
    Chambliss (R-GA)
    Cochran (R-MS)
    Collins (R-ME)

    Conrad (D-ND)
    Coons (D-DE)
    Durbin (D-IL)
    Feinstein (D-CA)
    Franken (D-MN)
    Gillibrand (D-NY)
    Graham (R-SC)
    Hagan (D-NC)
    Harkin (D-IA)
    Hoeven (R-ND)
    Inouye (D-HI)
    Isakson (R-GA)
    Johnson (D-SD)
    Kerry (D-MA)
    Klobuchar (D-MN)
    Kohl (D-WI)
    Landrieu (D-LA)
    Lautenberg (D-NJ)
    Leahy (D-VT)
    Levin (D-MI)
    Lieberman (ID-CT)
    Manchin (D-WV)
    Menendez (D-NJ)
    Merkley (D-OR)
    Mikulski (D-MD)
    Nelson (D-FL)
    Nelson (D-NE)
    Portman (R-OH)
    Pryor (D-AR)
    Reed (D-RI)
    Reid (D-NV)
    Rockefeller (D-WV)
    Sanders (I-VT)
    Schumer (D-NY)
    Sessions (R-AL)
    Shaheen (D-NH)
    Shelby (R-AL)
    Snowe (R-ME)

    Stabenow (D-MI)
    Tester (D-MT)
    Udall (D-CO)
    Udall (D-NM)
    Warner (D-VA)
    Webb (D-VA)
    Whitehouse (D-RI)
    Wyden (D-OR)”

  5. geoffb says:

    Senate Democrats, in interviews today with National Review Online, roundly praised the “Occupy Wall Street” movement. Sen. John Kerry (D., Mass.), for example, identified himself as an ally of the cause. “I’m very, very understanding of where they’re coming from,” he said. “I think there’s a lot of frustration and a lot of anger, and I’d been sort of anticipating that before long, people were going to start demonstrating it in various ways.”

    There’s something here [irony?] that is thick enough to cut with a knife. Whatever it is even this guy (h/t Dave in SoCal) wouldn’t want to smell it.

  6. newrouter says:

    In a stunning turn of events this evening, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., used an arcane legislative maneuver to effectively rewrite Senate rules to make it harder for the minority party to force uncomfortable votes on the majority.

    The buildup to this point started on Tuesday, when Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., tried to force a vote on President Obama’s jobs bill as well as other Republican priorities by offering them as amendments to the China currency bill. Reid blocked the move.

    Tonight, McConnell made what’s called a “motion to suspend the rules,” to allow a vote on the amendments. Such motions are almost always defeated, because they require a two-thirds majority to pass. But they’re another way for the minority party to force uncomfortable votes. Even though the minority party doesn’t get a direct vote on the amendment, how somebody votes on the motion becomes a sort of proxy for such a vote. In this case, for instance, if Democrats had voted down a motion for a vote on Obama’s jobs bill, it would have put them in an awkward spot.

    Though it’s been the standing practice of the Senate to allow such motions by the majority, tonight Reid broke with precedent and ruled McConnell’s motion out of order. The Senate parliamentarian said the move was unprecedented, and then the Democratic chair, obviously, ruled in favor of Reid. While McConnell appealed the ruling, Reid won a 51 to 48 vote rejecting the appeal.

    So, the end result is that by a simply majority vote, Reid was able to effectively rewrite Senate rules making it even harder than it already is for the minority party to force votes on any amendments. Should Republicans retake the Senate next year, it’s something that could come back to haunt Democrats in a major way.

    Link

  7. newrouter says:

    baracky got’s the pedal to the metal.

  8. motionview says:

    So do they want to be called “Occupiers” and the Obama Regime “The Occupation”? Is that us imposing Otherness on them or them demanding to be Other?

  9. […] Agree with Jeff here, sadly: People: Look at what’s happening in the Senate. Listen to the President and his demonization of the private sector. Look at what’s happening on Wall Street, where the leftists are literally marching for Marxism — and the contemporary Democrat Party (and Ron Paul) are supporting the “movement” (largely peopled with anti-Semites, 911 Truther, hard-core leftists, and the modern labor movement, essentially a client of the Democrats.) […]

  10. sdferr says:

    UPDATE II: Reid has postponed all votes until next week. Senators have adjourned for the Columbus Day weekend.

  11. Pablo says:

    (largely peopled with anti-Semites, 911 Truther, hard-core leftists, and the modern labor movement, essentially a client of the Democrats.)

    You forgot complete fucking losers.

    Grab your gear, Visigoths. The ugly is on its way.

    Yup. And Putin is giggling his ass off. Gird your loins.

  12. bh says:

    So we can repeal Obamacare on a majority vote?

    Sweet.

  13. happyfeet says:

    omg Cap’n Ed better not see this he might have an episode

  14. Jeff G. says:

    bh —

    See, you’re always being snookered. The GOP has to retake power. And that assumes we’re going to have new elections!

    Silly.

  15. bh says:

    Hopefully the Dems remember that elections are the bloodless transfer of power. As in, their best option bar none.

  16. newrouter says:


    There’s something happening here
    What it is ain’t exactly clear(oh come on it is the soros dude)
    There’s a man with a gun over there(killing al awakjihad u.s citizen by committee)
    Telling me I got to beware(of banks stuffing money in baracky’s pockets)
    I think it’s time we stop, children, what’s that sound( farting at ows)
    Everybody look what’s going down(seiu astroturf)
    There’s battle lines being drawn(you betcha)
    Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong(you effin pinheads can’t decide on effin’ sleeping bags)
    Young people speaking their minds(the mindless expressing mindlessness)
    Getting so much resistance from behind(oh leading from behind you go baracky you faggot)
    I think it’s time we stop, hey, what’s that sound(farting at ows)
    Everybody look what’s going down(occupy micky d’s bathrooms)
    What a field-day for the heat
    A thousand people in the street(does that include mbm?)
    Singing songs and carrying signs(those signs were union approved dontcha know)
    Mostly say, hooray for our side
    It’s time we stop, hey, what’s that sound
    Everybody look what’s going down
    Paranoia strikes deep(jews did it somehow)

  17. newrouter says:

    really mocking these losers is the key. show up selling “hope and change” on a piece of astroturf.

  18. newrouter says:

    set up

    By ASSOCIATED PRESS
    October 6, 2011

    President Barack Obama will meet with top Senate Democrats at the White House Thursday afternoon to discuss his jobs bill.

    The White House says Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Sens. Dick Durbin, Chuck Schumer and Patty Murray will attend the meeting, scheduled for 5:30 pm EDT.

    The meeting comes a day after Reid announced that he planned to bring Obama’s $447 billion jobs bill up for a vote next week. However, without Republican support, the bill won’t get the 60 votes it needs to advance.

    The White House has been working with Senate Democrats on a new plan to cover the costs of the bill in hopes of easing the concerns of some lawmakers in the president’s party.

    Link

  19. JD says:

    Fuck you, Hairy Reed.

  20. sdferr says:

    Sayonara Yankees.

  21. Pablo says:

    I blame the banks.

  22. sdferr says:

    Now the Owwwies have something else to cry boo-boo over. Will we see Joe Girardi down at Zuccotti Park? Not bloody likely.

  23. cranky-d says:

    Awesome job, Tigers!

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    “Grab your gear, Visigoths. The ugly is on its way.”

    Ugly as in old hippie chicks showing their titties, or ugly as in I may have to punch some progressive idiots lights out.
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