A shift he and his team are evidently content to see rolled back temporarily if that means gaining centralized Party control over delegates and convention rules, and perhaps once and for all turning those pain in the ass grass roots activists into nothing more than plucky little symbols of an engaged conservative electorate without the concomitant torture of having to listen to all their stupid appeals to constitutionalism, federalism, and hoary classical liberalism.
We have elections to win. And the teatards knuckle-dragging insistence on purity is, frankly, unhelpful.
Besides, what are they going to do in the end? Vote for Obama…?
(Inevitable) checkmate!
Don’t tempt me.
The floor fight over the rules is hardly a spirited stand for any particular ideology. Mostly its a quibbling fight because these are the sort of people who will get into a mountainous clash over Tomah-to v Tomay-to. You know – politicians.
That’s their idea of fun. For a lot of the delegates, at least.
I thought that it was the Occupy people who wished to “Recreate ’68”.
The “Commission on Party Structure and Delegate Selection of the Democratic Party” aka “McGovern Commission”, it’s not just for Democrats this time
If you say so. I happen to think it’s important — and so do the Romney people, who have begun removing delegates from the rules committee and replacing them with their own.
That’s not the way it’s supposed to work, I don’t think.
“Please share with us, Mr. Speaker, in a broad sense your ideas on how to make the American people have a more favorable view of Congress.”
Boehner replied that while “on any given day some of them are out there doing things they probably shouldn’t be doing,” 99 percent of his colleagues “are decent, honest people trying to do the right thing for the country…
But I’m proud of all my colleagues on both sides of the aisle for the service they do for their constituents and the service they do for our country,” he said.
AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
*gasps for deep breath*
AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
You know, for a few weeks there, I actually thought that Republicans had seen the light and realized that their usual politics would not work any longer.
Then I decided to quit drinking.
It’s clear to me that the GOP establishment is more interested in weeding out it’s own grassroot support than it is defeating Obama. So it’s a bit of poetic justice that this, the most vitally critically super dooper cannot risk losing important election in our lifetimes or any other lifetime is now about defeating Mitt Romney.
Because the future of the country depends on it.
Do we know where former Dems, Indies, minorities, and youth are going if not left?
To the Republicans?
No. They’re going grassroots. Myth busted.
Related–pragmatism in action!
http://revealingpolitics.com/blog/video/reince-priebus-on-akin-he-can-be-tied-were-not-gonna-send-him-a-penny/
I don’t care about the gender gap. I’m fighting a war on women remember?
But Dale, this is the most important election ever, and surely the GOP establishment wouldn’t intentionally tank a race so they can blame the fringe extremists for ruining our chances to take back the Senate, and therefore make the claim that they be allowed to pick our candidates for us, if we wish to have any chance of winning, because only they (and Hugh Hewitt, natch) can determine who is and who is not a serious candidate.
Also, wouldn’t it be a shame if we didn’t win the Senate and had to simply trim around the edges of ObamaCare to make it more manageable? Imagine! The GOP would then have to fundraising on eventually repealing ObamaCare, all while enjoying all that new revenue to spread around. For efficiency’s sake!
But, I know. Shut up. This was all about a horrific desire to see raped women forced to carry their tormentor’s spawn, and that is UNACCEPTABLE!
Also, wouldn’t it be a shame if we didn’t win the Senate and had to simply trim around the edges of ObamaCare to make it more manageable?
It brings a tear to John Boehner’s eye.
Indeed, Jeff. The Senate is so essential, so crucial that Priebus has no choice but to concede the McCaskill race.
It’s double secret probation pragmatism.
They’ll now have no choice but to go the Mike Leavitt mend-it-don’t-end-it route. It’s for the children.
It brings a tear to John Boehner’s eye.
What doesn’t?
The Senate is so essential, so crucial that Priebus has no choice but to concede the McCaskill race.
I’m beginning to think that maybe – just hear me out – maybe the Republicans in high office and the Romney camp might never have been quite fully committed to that whole repeal thing, and that they will be ready with a perfect excuse to abandon the fight. Maybe, just maybe they don’t mind if government remains in a position to micromanage our lives.
Just a hunch.
They’re not just playing thirteen-dimensional chess, they’re playing it while looking in a mirror upside down!
The Senate… they had to lose it in order to win it!
Yeah, I was just thinking the same thing. Insane.
He personally frames it as “he can be tied”. He didn’t lazily accept the question from someone. He offers it.
Gonna putchoo’all in CHAAAIIINNZ!
What were you drinking, paint thinner?
” It brings a tear to John Boehner’s eye.”
Dick joke is awesome! +1!
“The Senate… they had to lose it in order to win it!”
No they had to lose it the right way to save the credibility of the party!
What were you drinking, paint thinner?
I’m not sure, but it did a great job of deglazing an old Holley carburetor.
Update:
* The list of words never to shout in a crowded theater keeps growing:
– Akin
– Legitimate
– Abortion
– Caucas
– Ron Paul
– Delegates
– Chocolate dinosaurs
– Man. I said I hoped for a floorfight, but jesus Ryan, next time write a memo. (or just elect your own delegates and rig the vote.)
We shall mock them on the right. We shall mock them on the left. We shall mock them in our bedrooms! We shall mock them as they mount us! W shall mock them in our political bungholes as they choose our fates and shush us! We shall mock them the next evening when they don’t call! We shall mock them as we fade and diminish! We shall mock them from the piers in the harbor of the grey havens! We shall mock them from the sides of the enchanted boats as they bear us away to the farthest shore, out of history and middle earth…
– So then, as am ‘Idependent voter, you lnow, that most elusive demographoc of this election year on which the very future of the Repulics survival hinges, wjat am I to take away from this chaotic situation?
* Democrats: “We have a Socialist that’s a proven failure in every aspect of the word, but we know for a fact we hate everyone who isn’t us….and “drive up abortion!”.
* Republicans: “We don’t have a candidate, but we know somehow what we want is right for everyone….amd “No baby murders R Us!”
– So now what? Whats a proud Outlaw to do?
I think it’s time to amend that open letter of Jeff’s, the one that went someting like, Dear Republican Party, I. Will. Not. Vote. for Mitt. Romney.
I will not vote for Mitt Romney.
I will not vote for any Republican while Mitt Romney is the head of the party.
Because Mitt Romney’s Republicans don’t want my support.
I’d be able to put up with this more if we at least had more people like Jeff on the radio and less effete elites.
Do not try to rob the bank in Northfield, Minnesota.
They don’t want all independent voters. Just their votes. And they figure ours are already in in the bag.
Thus we AREN’T independent. They think that we are nailed to the floor by our fear of more Obama.
Why own us when they assume that they can rent us for far less? They are playing chicken with what they hope are chickens and assuming that the chickens won’t come home to roost so they can keep fucking that chicken.
I could probably work in a reference to Chick-fil-a too if I felt like it.
Reform and replace. Etch-a-sketch. New convention rules for next time.
Tommy:” What just happened here?” Davey: ” We got hosed, Tommy. We got hosed.”
bbh, half of the fight to muzzle the grassroot’s activists is because of abortion.
The other half is
illegalimmigration reform.Do not try to rob the bank in Northfield, Minnesota.
– Sage advice McGehee, and about as timely if you’re dillinger as say, the Republican platform, thats running about 50 years behind the electorate.
And half of it is smaller government. Not reallocations of government to better use, but actual smaller government.
We has seen the enemy and he is us.
*
The bank’s already been robbed. That’s what public debt is. Stealing waning fiat is no fun.
Two banks in Coffeyville, Kansas at the same time, is also a bad idea.
I was moving away from my write-in candidate stance a bit. Now, I’m back on track.
A vote for republicans is a vote to boil the frog the right way.
The actual boiling of the frog no matter, how unpopular with the public, is a foregone conclusion and not up for discussion because we can’t all get together and decide which part of the frog not to boil. Thus we have to trust our betters with that kind of burden.
And yes I know that experimentally a live, healthy, functional frog WILL hope out of water that becomes too warm even if it does so gradually but this is a proverbial/hypothetical species of frog, specially bred to prove a point, that has an unusually configured nervous system and happens to be composed of conventional wisdom instead of real matter. Real frogs are not analogous to discussions of the harmfulness of gradual incrementalism and so had to be replaced with a more reliable substitute mechanism.
Coffeyville, Kansas was a bad idea! It’s like Pasadena’s understudy for being a huge zit on the neck of the universe!
Well, that’s what I heard!
” I was moving away from my write-in candidate stance a bit. Now, I’m back on track.”
Yeah. So was I. Good job GOP.
Palaeo, that might be why one of my great-great grandfather’s brothers settled there briefly, after the Civil War. By all accounts he was a real sumbitch, which is how I know he was part of my family.
– And if Romney doesn’t pull the nomination, then what?
– The system is so fucking rigged, its even rigged agaimst itself.
– Fuck it. I’m just going to write in Rudy and say the hell with it.
Homo sapiens is being replaced by Homo Sumbitchus . And pods. Thus setting up the next dialectic.
The pods ain’t like us, so no homo for them.
They’re more in the ant family. Formicidae Pod-people-us Collectivae.
– Its alnost as if the ghost of Bob Dole returned from the grave to fuck everything up.
In ’58 we won a dinner, motel room and free tickets to the Coffeyville Rodeo, just for passing through town in a weird car I think (’57 Volvo 444). Good steak and fun rodeo too. Bob Culp was the headliner, twirling pistols and the like.
Bob Dole is still alive. Bless his heart. Bless my heart too…apparently.
– Damn, I thought he had already died several times.
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Nah. He’s still available to sell dick meds.
sdferr isn’t that the time your dad got stopped by the cop who wanted to check out the car?
I’ve never been to Kansas even though I live close by to it and know many people from there.
Yesm, the same.
We must be experiencing a giant psychic convergence. We’re currently in Bob Dole’s home town, Russell, KS, on our way to do a job in Coffeyville. But hopefully we’ll make a clean get-away by Christmas….
Russell is also Arlen Specter’s home town. We’re not drinking the water….
“- Damn, I thought he had already died several times.”
No, you’re probably thinking of Jack Palance.
They’s a beautiful big black steamengine locomotive down by the Walter Johnson park at the eastern edge of town Swen. Maybe get guinspen a pic?
I was in Coffeyville a few weeks ago. There’s a little breakfast joint just off the main drag called Shirley’s Cafe. The coffee was nasty. Don’t waste your time.
They say there’s no joy in Mudville.
There’s a kind of joy in B’more these days, but that joy doesn’t preclude a failure to fill the seats in Camden Yards. I chalk those empties up to a harsh economic situation though, or else an abundance of other empties of the Natty Boh sort scattered on the local living room floors. Well, that and Bill Hagy has been dead for years now.
Thanks for thinking.
Her story.
Back when she was hot.
She was steamin’.