I’m OUTRAGED! Because how could anyone have seen this coming, what with the progressives’ storied history of respect for liberty and privacy, and their desire for less intrusive government. At least, when it comes to things like when you can “choose” to kill a baby (fourth trimester? Go for it!), or who and what you can fuck without having to answer to any icky Christian-fundamentalist state laws.
— When it comes to salt, sugar, transfat, gun ownership, concealed carry laws, vending machines, the ability to stand your ground and not be forced to flee, bake sales, shower head pressure, toilet pressure, washing machine water usage, gas mileage, car poundage, light bulb wattage, AC and Heat in the home and workplace, ladder placement, tarp usage, puddles, navigatable waters, rain on your property, and how you prepare for your rabbit’s escape route in the face of, say, a tornado or an outbreak of ebola, etc., however, they must of course draw the line on this whole antiquated “individual liberty” idea. For your safety. And for the children. And the elderly. And orphaned autistic children living in their cars, forced to subsist on whatever rats they can lure into their rusted out Impalas with the small chips of cheese they were able to beg off some Wall Street money changer who couldn’t finish his footlong Subway Sub.
From the Center for Individual Freedom:
Stephen T. Parente and Paul Howard, writing in USA Today, called it an open door for unprecedented “identity theft,” but few are talking about the potential for ObamaCare to morph into a tool […] to harass, extort and intimidate you, your family members and your neighbors.
[…] It’s time to tell Republican leaders in Congress: Enough of the talk, WE DEMAND REAL ACTION. It’s time to force them to finally do the ONE THING IN THEIR POWER to stop ObamaCare.
[…] They can stop it by SIMPLY REFUSING TO FUND IT, and they don’t need Harry Reid or Barack Obama to go along with them to do it.
[…] Senator Ted Cruz and 63 Republican legislators in the House and Senate are demanding that the rest of their GOP colleagues in Congress do just that […]The time to stop ObamaCare is now. Because, as Senator Ted Cruz warns us: “If we’re going to repeal it we’ve got to do so now or it will remain with us forever.”
You can send a fax blast to the GOP quislings by clicking here.
Forget the excuses and the whining and the outright attempts by the establishment branch of the GOP to discredit this initiative and pretend it would shut down the government and cost the Republicans control of the House.
Because even if it did — and it won’t, ObamaCare being wildly unpopular, and now unequally enforced — what would we really be losing? To have a Republican majority that won’t act on the will of its base is the same as having a Republican majority that is a majority that believes it can only keep its majority by caving to Democrats.
Or, to put it another way, it’s a majority looking for ways to keep its own power, not for ways to represent its constituency.
At which point, we may as well give control over to the Democrats. The last time they had that control they gave us ObamaCare, Dodd-Frank, and a bunch of nationalization initiatives. Since the GOP was swept back into power by the TEA Party, they’ve not repealed one of those laws, nor have they defunded ObamaCare.
Instead, they “bravely” held Obama to his own sequester plan. Outside of that? They’ve caved on every continuing resolution, on the fiscal cliff, on tax increases on “the rich,” and a just about everything else.
And now they are pushing amnesty right along with the Democrats.
So I guess my question goes out to the “pragmatists” and “realists”: if you really are pragmatists and realists (as opposed to we Hobbity True Believing Ideologues), wouldn’t your pragmatism dictate that the pragmatism you’ve championed has been an utter failure, and that the pragmatic thing to do, at this point, would be to embrace conservatism as an antidote to big government expansion, an entitlement culture, and more and more debt?
Pragmatically speaking?
Think about it. And if you feel your head about to pop, just remember: you have lots of readers, because you’re optimistic and don’t believe in attacking other Republicans. No matter how fucking useless they are, nor how transparently absurd are their constant rationalizations for not acting.
And that should comfort you nicely.
Hobbes put an early universal claim on the root of modern natural right theory —
*** So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content with a moderate power, but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, without the acquisition of more. And from hence it is that kings, whose power is greatest, turn their endeavours to the assuring it at home by laws, or abroad by wars: and when that is done, there succeedeth a new desire; in some, of fame from new conquest; in others, of ease and sensual pleasure; in others, of admiration, or being flattered for excellence in some art or other ability of the mind. ***
Suppose only for a moment this is so. We then want to ask ourselves (as Americans under the famous category “We, the People”), what is our power? We then want to marshal what power we retain to regain what power we have (freely, if possibly mistakenly) given away.
Ever take antidepressants, or have a family member who took them?
Say goodbye to your guns. Assuming you still had any after that nationwide of boating accidents, of course.
It’s a public health issue, you see.
And people wonder why I avoid doctors.
who and what you can fuck without having to answer to any icky Christian-fundamentalist state laws.
So far. The WSJ posits a question to its readers today that says, “Should the Catholic Church change its thinking about homosexuals?” (I paraphrase.) Several persons asked when the WSJ was going to ask this question of Muslims and Orthodox Jews instead of beating up on the Catholic Church.
A feature, not a bug. And then when our privacy is violated en masse, we can have more of those oh-so-serious hearings they love so much in Washington, and republicans can get all excited and inveigh for the cameras and then end up doing absolutely nothing, as the media ignores the whole thing — exactly what Obama knew would happen when he called in the IRS chief counsel and gave him marching orders on the Tea Party witchhunt.
All part of the plan. This guy has been playing chess against us like Bobby Fischer against Jethro.
Another “conversation”, rrpjr? If I hear someone suggest that we have to “have a conversation” one. more. time. I’m going to have to break something.
“Resistance is futile,” said the Boehner
“You will be assimilated,” added the Pelosi.
Catholics don’t blow up in your lobby, and there aren’t enough Orthodox Jews for anyone to care what they think.
I’m pretty sure the game is actually checkers. Our side insists on calling chess though, so they can feel better about losing.
I’m pretty sure Obama doesn’t know how to play chess. He plays golf as much as the guys on the PGA tour and he sucks at it, too.
I’m pretty sure Obama gets a hole in one, every time, just like the other Dear Leader in North Korea.
Also, Orthodox Jews aren’t very explosive either, in my experience.
Reid: Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. And regulated. And taxed. And run into the ground as we party away what was once your your money.
Obama only knows how to play 52-pickup because Biden taught him.
“I told you so” is suppose to make you feel better.
Obama: By my command.
Jarrett & Axlerod, together: wrong show, Imperious Leader
Obama: DOH!
Biden: that’s my line!
*** The federal government is hiring what it calls a “Behavioral Insights Team” that will look for ways to subtly influence people’s behavior, according to a document describing the program obtained by FoxNews.com. Critics warn there could be unintended consequences to such policies, while supporters say the team could make government and society more efficient.
While the program is still in its early stages, the document shows the White House is already working on such projects with almost a dozen federal departments and agencies including the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture.
“Behavioral sciences can be used to help design public policies that work better, cost less, and help people to achieve their goals,” reads the government document describing the program, which goes on to call for applicants to apply for positions on the team. ***
This is news? Nigger, please.
The problem with behavioral manipulation is, it only works well when the kitten is looking at the toy and not the hand.
There’s another problem I think, only a little more enduring it seems to me: knowing what “well” is.
That is the part that the progressives never can fathom.
WHAAAAAT!!!???
If anyone needs me, I’ll be under my fainting couch.