Watching C-Span, and listening to these men and women chortle and joke and handshake and back pat — all as they consign us to an era of diminished liberty and lower standards of health care that they’ve exempted themselves from — is enough to make me sick.
I despise this broken government. I despise that the citizens and the states have no effective representation. I despise those voters who are so self-interested that they will sell their freedom for handouts and promises.
It is becoming ever more clear that we are now on the road to a single payer system, with exemptions for our rulers and their cronies. This is an attempt to return us to the “proper” breakdown of wealth, where there is really no middle class, just the aristocracy and the economic units they control and are subsidized by.
If we have any steel left in our spine as a people, this will not end well.
Though the GOP will tell us about — and rationalize to itself — its nuanced longterm strategy, which, despite their obfuscatory rhetoric, is nothing more than a consistent evincing of cowardice, self-interest, and disdain for the American people.
And their GOP cheerleaders on Fox and in the “conservative” press will cheer them right on. Because they, too, realize that the money is in having things to run against; not in fixing things, or listening to the rubes who get all riled up over their silly little freedoms.
Cruz to House Conservatives: Oppose Boehner
Reid on “reasonable Republicans” vs the radical anarchists that have “control of the rudder” of the Republican Party. The perfect mirroverse projection view of reality.
I intend to. By voting for the Democrat in the next general election.
We’ve often talked about the marked similarity between these trying times and the similarities to the time just prior to the awakening in Poland which spurred the Solidarity Movement.
EnoughIndeed, in Poland then, just like in the U.S. now, the media was selling one central planning script yet a divergent reality existed in the street – amid the people.
It took the people of Poland to actually walk into the street and recognize they had been fooled. They thought for years their individual desires for freedom and smaller government put them in the minority. Individually they each believed their government was operating with the consent of the governed. However, they were wrong.
Once the ordinary citizen made the decision to take to the street they recognized their views and perspectives were actually held in the majority. The media was merely selling a guise on behalf of the centralized governing body.
If you looked at U.S. headlines today you would think the Tea Party was dead. It’s not, quite the contrary it is actually consistent.
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Did I hear the vote as 54-44? Does that mean a Republican actually voted FOR pulling the defunding measure? Or am I mishearing?
Never mind. I thought we had 47 Senate Republicans, not 46.
I despise those voters who are so self-interested that they will sell
theirmy children’s freedom for handouts and promises.“Despise” is too tame a word.
See that’s the thing about Cruz. He doesn’t give a shit. He made promises to the state of Texas when he was running his campaign and he has kept his promises to do all he can to knock this train wreck off the tracks. He is inspiring.
Senator Tom Harkin says our partisanship is at near Civil War levels.
What did he or any Democrat expect? Just lay-down acceptance of far-Left fundamental transformation, delivered by a man who’s entire life is devoted to bringing about a stealth Marxist coup?
Damn, Khrushchev would love this guy.
Oh. I’ll plead ‘wrong thread’..
It’s been a long, grueling day.
We’ll, serr8ted, it ain’t exactly the wrong thread. The thread runs throughout all these posts. It’s a clash of civilizations. Within our own polity.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: you can’t have a clash of civilizations unless both sides have a civilization.
It’s a clash between the remnants of Western Civilization against the Forces Of Evil.
Damn well put, Jeff.
It’s a clash between those who’ve worked hard for and deserve their ‘wealth’ (a loaded term, not necessarily heaps of gold or worthless paper, but whatever are the tangible results of one’s work, whatever makes one happy) vs. those who haven’t, won’t, or can’t achieve on their own, but think they deserve a share of others’ tangible successes despite their own inability to achieve any. And Barky is their savior, their champion; sent to either deliver the wealth or bring it all down.
For the EQUALITY of OUTCOMES!
It’s a clash between the civilized and the unhousebroken.