“If Republicans offer these types of ‘alternatives’ to voters — where both parties favor expanding government dependency — why should their base support them?”
The degree to which constitutionalists must engage in a kind of intellectual gymnastics in order to support nearly any politician these days goes to show just how far removed we’ve become from a representative republic in any real sense.
Well, that, and the success of Chris Christie as a Republican.
Old school socialism ok.
First we audit the Fed.
To explain modern politics to the average disengaged American is now officially impossible.
Pretty much the only government plan that’s going well.
Reminds me of the “Legalize Immigration!” sign I saw recently.
William! I was wondering where you’d been. All is well?
Ha, yeah, Leigh. Never left, just the past few weeks hasn’t really lent itself to my brand of off color commentary.
But figured today I’d make the effort despite of it all.
JHoward and I are perhaps of the same coin. When things get so Orwellian he starts commenting again, I find myself going silent.
– Old school Socialism: That’s from back when no one had any money and there was very little the government had to give away and buy votes, so it was safe.
levin’s next book
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– FDR did what he could with the WPA, but that was a dim immitation of what Bumblefuck has done.
Ted Cruz: Eric Holder needs to resign for the DOJ’s “willingness to disregard the law”
– Captain obvious rides again.
– Ok Bumblefuck. Your move.
Colorado Democrats Accuse State Sheriffs of Siding With Criminals
Once I might have said there are no Republicans in New Jersey, just Democrats who pretend to be Republicans. Unfortunately, that’s not the case any longer. Christie seems to be an actual Republican. Which says more about Republicans than it does about Governor Super-size Me.
NR, would those be the Colorado Democrats who threatened to withhold the pay raise of any sheriff who dared speak ill of their gun-grabbing legislation? And now they’re equating law-abiding gun owners as “criminals.” Genius. Let the recalls begin!
BBH, I’m pretty sure Assad is lying about having Russian missiles or missile components. The Israelis have already signaled that they aren’t going to stand by for that kind of noise.
Attkisson: US Officials Told Libyans to Use ‘John Doe’ on Ambassador Stevens’ Death Certificate
– 5 will get you 10 Bumblefuck will fall for it.
So, the NRSC came looking for money today. They’re not getting any. But this here PAC just might.
Well, he is an idiot so that’s a given.
I wonder if Brewer is going to end up being a Schwarzenegger in a skirt. Breif defiance of the liberal agenda with bold words and bravadero, followed by meek submission and a total capitulation to the progg agenda.
It kinda seems to be a DC pattern bleeding over to governors.
Texas better pick Perry’s replacement carefully.
Gigue, gettin’ jiggity wid it
i gave $25 to senate cons today. i await my “abolish the irs” sticker
Bill Haslam, governor of Tennessee is also making noises about expanding Medicaid like a good little Obamacare enabler.
The scary thing is that the poll numbers in favor seem to be rising.
silly asshole update
This, I think, is a fair reflection of Cruz’s overall work in the Senate to date, with the exception of his support for Rand Paul’s silly filibuster.
I can’t find a link to where/when he said it, but I know the late unlamented Arlen Spectre crowed that the Republican Party was now a moderate party. It’s a sad thing to realize that he was right.
– What the hell is “moderate” about favoring big government?
– Looks like you nailed it Leigh. link.
– Of course just the threat will freeze Bumblefucks options, whereas Israel has no choice but to respond in any way it can.
– Russia will probably play brinkmanship right up until they have no choice, but they are not anxious to repeat the mistakes of arming uncontrollable forces that could just as easily end up being used against them.
They only want to tax the rich, not put them up against a wall and gun them down as “enemies of the people.”
That’s the very definition of moderation!
Kind of like how moderate muslims don’t feel the need to kill the kafir who won’t pay the Jizya, but are content to let the extremists do it for them.
– Apparently, unlike Bumblefuck and his nutso advisors, the Russians noticed the results of our arming the Taliban in that war. You know, the enemy of my enemy will be my enema next time.
You know, the enemy of my enemy will be my enema next time.
BBH: I can’t tell whether that was a typo or intentional.
Ernst Schreiber says May 30, 2013 at 9:56 pm
I can’t find a link to where/when he said it, but I know the late unlamented Arlen Spectre crowed that the Republican Party was now a moderate party. It’s a sad thing to realize that he was right.
So he left it to be a Democrat again.
Whatever anyone claims, no one likes a “moderate”.
Holding the nose while voting GOP is hardly gymnastics. More like how one deals with something nasty, like working in a cesspool or sewer.
That said, the “I want access to the money pile TOOOOo” wing of the GOP that desires simply to be part of the Patrician Ruling Class by Attending the Rights Schools has ever been the enemy of Constitutionalists and conservatives. Blue bloods are blue bloods and they think they have the Right to Rule over, rather than govern, the nation. They are the GOPs Progressive Technocrats and are hardly any better than the Dem-Progs.
There should be a ban on national elected office or Civil Service from the Ivies for about 40 years. There is nothing inherently better about the quality of their graduates and in many cases, based on empirical evidence, they are far worse than average. Their chief probem is one of entitled expectation based on their Certificate of Attendance from the Ivy League.
bbh, you’ve properly labeled the GOP it seems… )
I can’t tell whether that was a typo or intentional.
– The most satisfying of puns is when they sneak up on you and smack you in the gob.
Thank you, William.
Unfortunately I seem to have run afoul of certain Republican sensibilities. Since they define conservativism and what shall be discussed and how, I’ll be having much less to say starting about now.
– Or even better: The most satisfying of puns is when they sneak up on you and smack you in the gop.
– Ok, I’ll stop now.
– “….Bend over and spread….. you will experience a fullness for only a moment during insertion…..”
– Committee votes 23 – 17, stricktly along party lines, to hold Holder in contempt of Congress.
Oh, hell. Since when are we worried about anyone’s sensibilities?
There’s a reason that book title didn’t assume that “sense” and “sensibility” were one and the same.