You’ve read me on several occasions break down the current governmental dynamic in this country just that way — party doesn’t matter much any more because the establishment ruling class on the right is in fundamental agreement with the direction of progressive government, albeit it generally favors expanding the scope and influence of governmental authority more slowly, and with more deference to the private sector — and of late, this dispiriting fact is evincing itself ever more publicly, with establishment Republicans showing themselves far more willing to attack and chide conservatives than they are progressives and the socialism promoted by big government leftists.
This is where we are: we have a presidential candidate who has taken off the table questions concerning Obama’s character and ideological training (evidently, he’s embraced Obama’s Forward! call literally and agreed up front to bracket for election consideration any of the facts of Obama’s past); we have a GOP columnist openly hoping for Scott Walker’s defeat; we have a House leader decrying as “outrageous” the “tax evasion” of a private citizen without instead blasting the confiscatory taxation schemes that prompted a successful entrepreneur to renounce his US citizenship; and we have a former GOP Secretary of State essentially delivering the re-election argument for Barack Obama on morning TV, using the media arm of the Democrat Party to shill for a Marxist President and the post-Constitutional government he’s helping to normalize.
And we’re told the GOP is our last best hope?
Probably time to rethink that, I submit.
Ah yes, General Colin B. McClellan. Born in the wrong century, he was.
Powell is a Republican like Obama is a Christian.
The Republicans are the progressives, the Democrats are fascists.
http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2012/05/20/okay-then-6/
how much “weight” does this piece of shit really think he has?
ask scooter libby
Boehner just beclowned himself (again).
Steven Hayward explains why Severin may very well pay more in taxes than Zuckerberg ever will.
we all know people who renounce living in california and new york and chicago to avoid paying rapacious taxes why the fuck would Boehner think the same wouldn’t apply to the choice to live in a little country what’s grown as greedy whorish and corrupt as our one?
Boehnerfag isn’t living in the real world.
Does anyone care what Colin Powell thinks?
Well, the left cares as much as he’s a useful idiot for them, I guess.
speaking of ruling class here’s the dirt on a trashy slut named Cheryl Hines, the sort of lowlife what America’s premiere white trash family attracts like flies
When I came to the part that this ostensible GOP “realist” proudly proclaimed himself a “Nelson Rockefeller Republican” I stopped reading.
He’s Obama’s man in the “let’s take turns and not let the hoi polloi in” Ruling Class Clubhouse.
And he lied so effortlessly about the TEA Party.
fuck him and the unicorn he rode in on
I thought maybe Conor Friersdorf had changed his name after Levin raped him and took his lunch money.
General Colin B. McClellan.
That’s not fair to George.
colin powell has no problem acting liberal white
colin powell a “liberal white” black
mock the proggslums its fun
I have to admit, it’s gruesomely fascinating watching the GOP dance to the tune set by the proggies, operating within their paradigm and accepting their assumptions.
Going to be a miserable couple of decades regardless of which Ruling Class Protege’ gets the nod this year.
Things will only change when the money runs out and the check arrives at the table. It’s no more complicated than that.
Colin Powell has always been an ass-kisser and a social climber. Husband knew him when they were both Captains and says Powell was a know-it-all douche back then.
Gee thanks, happy. I’ll never be able to watch “Curb Your Enthusiasm” again without muttering “whore” at Cheryl.
“Things will only change when the money runs out and the check arrives at the table. It’s no more complicated than that.”
Is it wrong to wish it would hurry up and arrive already so we could get on with it?
I don’t think I’ve ever seen her before my whole life but consider my enthusiasms curbed as well
She played Larry David’s wife for the first few seasons.
Wow, I always thought Colin Powell sounded like David Gergen (both the sound and meaning), now he’s actually starting to LOOK like him!
Throw in Peggy Nooner, deepen her voice, and you might have a set of triplets.
Steely Dan live plays “Time Out of Mind”
Dreamin’ of you (unreleased time out of mind) Bob Dylan
Frankly, I never understood the appeal of the Larry David character. That kind of cringe inducing comedy, the painfully unpleasant person, I’d rather watch a dentist perform tooth extractions without anesthetic than sit through an episode of that show.
yea that’ll work
WaPo says Obama’s massive primary fail is “racism”
President Ronald Reagan – Liberty State Park [Pt. 1]
It’s ensemble comedy, Burt. Absurd situations, eccentric friends, running gags. It’s pretty funny, really. Watch a whole season at a go to get the flavor of it. And, yes, Larry is an ass.
Burt, that show is funny. I have to say it. At first it was uncomfortable. But then it got funny the more you watched.
I was thinking along those lines this afternoon while finishing a rather disappointing cigar. I had been reading Goldberg’s chapter on Middle Class cliches in Tyranny, and was growing increasingly irritated with Goldberg’s bad habit of being entirely too ready to extend to progressives a good-willing respect for honest differences in opinion which they would never return (absent some tactical advantage, of course). And then it occurred to me that conservative/classical liberals and progressives operate within two different moral frameworks (yeah, I know, shocking); frameworks which can be summarized as traditional or judeo-christian, i.e. treat others the way you would want to be treated on the right side, and neo-pagan or Manichean, i.e. treat others as they deserve to be treated on the
wrongleft side.Or as Jeff put it earlier today:
Republicans generally, and especially helpful pragmatic conservatives need to learn that that the esteem of progressive elites isn’t worth having, because they are the ones who are beneath our respect, not vice versa. So who rightly gives a damn what the contemptables think?
Singin’ the Blues. Bix Beiderbecke and Frankie Trumbauer 1927
No one should care what they think or what they say as all are as likely lies as truth. Care for only what they do as that will expose the thinking and the saying that are true for them.
it’s important this one last time we all work together to repudiate the obama
and then this susan cotto dorkus shan’t be coming back to narnia anymore
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oh goody! Awesome news! And informative:
well I’ll be it really is a small lil old world after all
I’m just going to have to disagree, and chalk it up to different tastes. I tried watching because everyone says how funny it is, but I just hate it. Not just that show, I couldn’t stand the last few seasons of Seinfeld either. I could probably come up with examples of comedy where, I couldn’t necessarily explain the difference, like “Always Sunny in Philadelphia.” I could watch those idiots do their thing every day. Why are they funny, and Larry David makes me want to climb a clocktower and start shooting? I really don’t know.
I’d be more sympathetic to that argument if the establishment types you’re concurring with were to actually act that way when it’s somebody other than their preferred candidate who’s on the ballot.
They’ve run out of “last times” as far as I’m concerned.
OT: hf – I am surprised you used your favorite Palin family description on another family.
Leigh, you were sure quick to jump on the band wagon.
The information at the link hf provided is nothing but innuendo and guess work. There’s no love lost here on any of the Kennedy’s however given that Mrs. Kennedy apparently obtained her husband (while pregnant) in the same manor as Ms. Hines obtained her boyfriend some might think it’s just deserts. I also doubt Mrs. Kennedy was a follower of Ms. Hines on twitter so just who supposedly showed these posts to Mrs. Kennedy in her distraught mental state? Surely not one of her family members, none of whom might have had an interest in that 4mil estate.
To the post: Jeff is quite correct, the GOP/DNC CND/POG really needs to rethink that.
you don’t parade your new whore in front of your kids until a decent interval has passed since you properly divorced their mommy and everyone involved should have known that
Didn’t Nixon say something along the lines of if the President did it, it couldn’t be against the law. Hillary took that one to heart (along with ‘I don’t remember’)
Yea – like their mommy did. Just ignore the truth, make assumptions about things you didn’t witness and get a good cry going for Mrs. Kennedy hf.
of course Mary was a nasty and whorish piece of filthy white trash Mr. Hein. She married a Kennedy! But show me where she ever flaunted her adulterous and sleazy kennedy poaching in front of anyone’s kids.
obsessively following tabloid news can ony end in a cupcake bender
Don’t mock the tabloids Ernst. Who broke the story of the blue dress and John Edward’s “love-child” while the staid media was ignoring tawdry tales of the unseemly?
I didn’t say she flaunted in front of anyone’s kids, I said she was pregnant</a before Kennedy divorced his previous wife. What goes around comes around. Somehow I doubt there was very much flaunting going on on Ms. Hines part. Tweets about talking to his son about football isn't flaunting.
I don’t care about the Kennedy’s and only mentioned the Cheryl Hines connection because she is not a particularly successful actress who happens to be in a comedy show that I like. And I’m not going to say anything bad about the late Mary Kennedy, may she rest in peace, beacuse it’s in bad taste.
Leigh – this only came up because the Yellow Caricature decided it was news, that you let it lower your opinion of Ms. Hines was an interesting side show. The point was that Mrs. Kennedy was no saint herself but then anything having to do with the Kennedy’s in general makes the point mute.
And don’t give me that about speaking of ill of the dead. If the dead deserve to be spoken ill of then they will be spoken ill of.
I wasn’t mocking tabloids. I was mocking obsessively following tabloids.
And the difference between the Kennedys and the human debris media carrion feeders like Maury Povich live off of is money.
Is it wrong to wish it would hurry up and arrive already so we could get on with it?
No, and yes.
No, because the sooner we address the problem the less it will hurt.
Yes, because it’s still going to cause a lot of human misery.
Mr. Hein I thought this sordid tale of these tawdry Kennedys relevant, I did. This post, you see, is about the ruling class vs. The People.
Who more better typifies our pathetic little country’s self-styled ruling elites than the perpetually trashy perpetually grieving perpetually adulterous Kennedy clan?
They set the bar in these matters I’m sure you will agree.
I grow weary of the media referring to the Kennedy Klan as “cursed”. No, they are not cursed. They are reckless, entitled, hedonistic jackasses who run roughshod through other people’s lives.
They’re trash cursed with money, you might say.
I like to think it’s karma. In spades.
Money made through their great-granddaddy being a gangster.
He was a hospitality provider. Al Capone was a gangster.
He was a criminal.
And he sure as hell acted like a gangster. Just because he wasn’t at the level of Al Capone doesn’t take away from that.
Yes, he was. Bootlegger, Nazi sympathizer, adulterer, all around son of a bitch, was Joe.
“Nazi sympathizer”
Yep. The worst ambassador to Great Britain we’ve ever had. The only modern American politician who’s undercut the UK more is the current President.
Churchill hated his guts, and FDR forced him to resign, issuing a memorable order to the Secret Service after Kennedy left the office.
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/profiles-in-treason-joseph-kennedy-tyler-kent-and-scott-mcclellan/
I think I finally internalized the realization that the left wing and the right wing are both attached to the same big, fat government turkey when, in the run-up to the 2010 elections with the TEA Parties in full bay, I read John Boehner’s Pledge to America and his promise to “put common-sense limits on the growth of government”.
Honest to god, at a time when the federal government is running up $1.5 trillion annual deficits and fiscal conservatives are screaming their heads off Boehner thought he could earn points by promising not to grow government quite as fast as the Democrats might like? And he was so proud of this Pledge that he made sure he had a copy in his hand at every photo op for weeks?
Then Boehner added insult to injury by promising to trim a piddling $100 billion from the $1.5 trillion annual deficit, then bargained that down to $38 billion. $38 billion that included so much smoke and mirrors that the CBO concluded the cuts only amounted to $352 million. That’s when I came to the same conclusion as Dale Price — nothing will change until they really do run out of Other Peoples’ Money.
They’re as hopelessly addicted to spending as any crack whore is to her pipe and when the money runs out it’s not going to be pretty because you know they’re going to make us feel their pain. I predict the Washington Monument gambit writ large — they won’t cut any fat, they’ll go straight for whatever they think will hurt the worst. You can bet that Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, government pensions, and all that will be the first things to go, the fiscal equivalent of the crack whore screaming and breaking things when she doesn’t get her fix.
They’ll be pleading and crying, and twitching and moaning something awful before it’s all over and we’ll be lucky if they don’t burn the damn house down.
I didn’t do myself any favors by bungling the quote.
[…] So this pro-poisoned milk, anti-law-enforcement extremist named Rand Paul actually thought such raids were a bad idea. The Amish, what with their pacifism and their goofy hats and their lack of buckles weren’t a risk in his mind — so he tried to kill us all take away the FDA’s police powers. Today was the vote on an amendment he offered, and I’m happy to say, my brethren, that it failed. Stupendously. Of our senators, only fifteen people thought that the FDA shouldn’t have a SWAT team. 78 other senators, being infinitely wiser than us mere proles, voted down the amendment and thus kept the US milk supply safe. Thank God! Someone might have thought that the US was free or — even worse! — that the ruling class weren’t at war with the People! […]