In other words, more GOP support for crony capitalism, corporatism, vote-buying, and spending well beyond our means — and screw those Americans who aren’t part of some special interest lobbying effort.
Q: What’s the easiest way to tell a Republican establishment congressperson apart from a Democrat congressperson?
A: Shut up, Hobbit, and get your unhelpful ass in line. Because Todd Akin. Jeb Bush / Chris Christie 2016: if you didn’t like Mitt Romney, wait’ll you see OUR record for bipartisan compromise!
Bush 43 brought this crap back, after it was cut under Clinton. It’s another reason I’m ambivalent about Bush.
My attitude toward W, Cranky, is: good, decent man / bad, destructive President.
isn’t this where food stamps come from?
this is the lifeblood of our whole economy
Insty notes the GOP can still distinguish a potential vote for the Republic from a vote which helps the GOP’s interests. Knowing when to be silent and when to speak up for corporate dollars is key to keeping the Leftists voting the GOP way, evidently.
From the excerpt at sdferr’s Instapundit link:
Start? So Rubio and Cruz aren’t Latinos, who knew?
Oh — that’s right, the PARTY didn’t elect them. The PARTY wanted Charlie Crist and
ColleenDavid Dewhurst!cubans are latinos kinda like how tomatoes are fruits
everyone knows they’re fruits but they never really end up in the same basket with the other fruits
this is cause tomatoes think they special plus also geography
Cubans early got the caudillo under another name — Comrade — whereas the rest of our neighbor southern Spanish lingo dominated nations simply stuck with the old ways. There’s a difference, but more the worser in the direction of Marxism-Leninism as it turned out for the unsuspecting Cubanos.
The Latinos might share some Republican values, but they also dig on government largess. They are natural moderate Democrats.
Or, these days, moderate Republicans.
McGehee, thanks for reminding me that as disappointing as Rubio is, it could have been worse. Charlie “Where can I put my tanning bed” Crist could have won.
If someone can explain the difference between a welfare-mom with six kids by ten different fathers getting a free cellphone, and a “conservative” farmer writing off his crop-loss on a USDA program, I’ll give ’em a prize.
I’d like to compare and contrast, but all I can see is comparisons: Both expect the tax-payer to pick up the tab. Both enjoy insulation from accountability for their daily choices, practices and habits. And both depend on big-Government “solutions” to “solve” their problems.
The only differences I can make out are, one lives in or near a city and the other lives outside of one. And, one rides public transit, and the other drives a big GM product.
But, wait! My Bad!: The taxpayers own GM and the “farmer” borrowed money to buy ‘his’ truck at 0% interest on a GMAC loan, so his shiny new truck IS public transport, too.
So scratch that last one. I can only find one difference so far.
Throw me a line, someone!
The farmers actually provide a consumable good. Welfare moms are merely consumers.
Welfare moms are merely consumers.
Not exactly. For these supply another consumable good — subjects.
Don’t waste your time, Sdferr.
When it comes to peering across comfortable categories, Leigh’s statist slip begins to show.
Like so many, she’s permanently branded on Big Gov.
(“Gotta have the USDA stamp on my food or its poison!”)
This same condition traps the GOP’s top-dogs, too. When branded heffers stampede for the trough, it’s get-out-of-the way, or get smushed.
Sadly, there’s nothing for the free man to do but stay out of the frenzied herd’s way…and lower his profile to the coming tax-man. At least we can avoid paying for this bovine mess.
I don’t consider conversation with leigh a waste of time steveaz, since I believe she’s amenable to suasion — and all the less a waste in cases like this where I believe she wouldn’t disagree in the first instance.
“At least we can avoid paying for this bovine mess.”
Therein lies the crux of the problem.
Makes perfect sense once you consider that a struggling farmer might need ALL that help just to keep the farm running. While the successful farmer can easily plow some of that money back into fertilizing his true cash crop.
Statist? Hardly. As usual, sdferr is right.
This has been going on forever.
Charlie Crist can fuck himself with a fishtail gouge.
darn struggling farmers, who eats strugglingsanyways?
Slart: I think he does, whenever he gets the chance.
I’m not sure what struggling farmers eat.
But I know (firsthand) that struggling hunters eat track soup.
We’re subsidizing gang bangs now?
We’re subsidizing gang bangs now?
Now?
So far as we know, Lindsay Graham, Dick Durbin, John McCain, Chuck Schumer, Marco Rubio, Robert Menendez, Michael Bennet and Jeff Flake are all still getting paid . . . so yeah, have been for quite awhile.