Jun 29 2007
Witch Hunting Democrats, Impotent Republicans
Our nation is being led by a lousy bunch of power hungry idiots. Somehow America has allowed our meddling news media to make running for office so arduous the best among us are not participating, leaving us with hypochondriacs and obsesive-compulsives. The DC swamp (and the surrounding news media) are in full summer stench. The hypochondriacs succeeded in failure. They trumpet how great it is they left a mess on immigration for others to clean up (seems the only ones unwilling to do something were the GOP in Congress, not those trying to enforce useless laws). Thanks to the GOP we will have years of violent criminals on our streets who shouldn’t be here. And in achieving this great ‘nothing’ the GOP and its more vulgar supporters insulted the ancestry and culture of the largest minority in the country. Brilliant. Pissed off violent criminals. What will the GOP think of next? And it is truly pathetic they are running around saying the Democrats made them act like idiots. Bush and Kyl are not democrats. It seems it was their fault for making the far right expose its true nature??? Well, with that debacle firmly behind us and the GOP crippled and the President powerless for the next year and a half we can all turn off the news until 2009. All we are going to here is DC blather, which is usually tolerable when something is getting accomplished. With nothing going anywhere the blather is going to be more inane than usual.
Take the Democrats obsessive-compulsive disorder when it comes to avoiding work by going on witch hunts. This Dem Congress is probably the most useless Congress in our history. Nothing is getting done. This might be a good thing to some, but it really just emphasizes rot in DC. Now Dems are trying to subpoena Bush over 8 measely firings of Attorneys. And because Bush exercised his constitutional authority Congress wants to create a constitutional showdown:
The White House invoked executive privilege yesterday in withholding subpoenaed documents on fired U.S. attorneys out of confidence that it can prevail in court and weather a political storm by blaming Congress for overreaching, administration officials said.
The details are not even worth addressing. It is the big picture from which this is just one more irritating pixel. We are paying a bunch of overrated egomaniacs to do nothing but run zero-sum games of gotcha. The immigration debacel and this Attorney issue simply demonstrates how immature and unimaginitive Pol and Press have become. We are scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of inspiritation, leadership and honor it seems. The coin of the day is the fly-by insult. Hot heads instead of hot ideas. It’s like cock-fighting versus the I-Phone. It is a total waste of time. America simply deserves better. Sadly, we don’t seem to be willing to do anything about it. The zero-sum game has people paralyzed thinking there is no way out of this quagmire.
But there is a way out and it begins by rejecting both parties and their fringes. Don’t take sides. Vote the best candidate with ideas and reject the anger candidates who hide their lack of imagination behind hot rhetoric. Don’t be Democrat or Republican. Become the demanding American consumer who wants anything but the current situation. Don’t worry, the country will not collapse. It made it through Bush and Clinton both. It is simply time to give up the parties. Fund candidates only. Starve the parties. Money talks loudly in politics. In this new electronic age the candidates can get their messages out. It is about time America sent a message to both parties. We are withholding your allowances until you grow up and fly right.
The wheels are gonna come off. Sometimes I wonder if the hotheads on both sides just want to have it out.
The problem deals with the majority of both houses.
If the Democrats have the majority, the chairman of each committee will be led by the Democrats. They will raise taxes. They will increase social programs. And so on.
Plus some of our US Supreme Judges are soon to retire…and guess who will replace them if a democrat replace Bush in the Oval Office.
I think I will stick with either straight Republican party vote to ensure majority of both houses. Even if your advice is the right one by voting for the best candidate. The consequences of voting for the best candidate are not all that good.
Plus I would like to see term limits levied on our congressmen.
Lurker,
Your line of thinking epitomizes the trap I posted about. There are conservative Democrats. In VA the Reps and Dems are raising taxes!
The Party has you brain washed to think all hell will break lose if you don’t vote the party line. And THAT is why they demand loyalty from you instead of working to do what you want.
I am not sure this is the time at all to starve the GOP. I have to admit even through all of this I am a loyal republican. I guess I am wondering if the party is the problem in all this. It seems the supposed not for profit groups that say they are conservative might be a bigger part of it.
ALso , are we not sending the wrong message if we starve the party that actually was probally providing a ton of good internal polling on the immigration issue to the party members(if even ignored no doubt) and various other folks. Is not starving the GOP, also putting in jeopardy the so called GOP moderates(whatever that is anymore) in 08. We have a Maine Senator,a Washington Senator, andnow a South Carolina Senator that are well not liked by the certain segements of the base.
Lastly there is the Court. We are very very very close to getting a real long lasting majority on the Court. As a Pro lifer I can’t throw that away. Imagine if President Kerry had appointed the replacements to O’Conner and the Chief Justice. We would have gone in a blink of a eye froma Conservative Court to a long lasting Liberal majority. If we can by the grace of God get a Republican in the white House in 08 chances are we replace Justice Stevens. That would give some breathing room in case some of our conservatives die or have to retire during a more liberal democrat administration. The sad fact is that the GOP will be on the defense during the this election cycle as to the Senate.
AJ,
My problem comes down to the GWOT. The Dems are captive to their DailyKos/HuffPo wing, which wants us to go back to the days of treating it like a law-enforcement issue. It doesn’t work, and it creates a risk of damage to our ability to gather intelligence.
Jim Webb seemed more interested in tying President Bush’s hands on Iran and retreating from Iraq than addressing this issue responsibly. The only good Dem on the GWOT is Lieberman – and the Dems primaried him.
AJ, I admit, I’m rapidly running out of airspeed, altitude, and ideas. But the Dems strike me as a solution that is NO BETTER than the GOP.
And my problem is that I don’t want George Soros to have one bit of power, which is the machine the democrats have tied their wagon to and who comes into the Oval Office and White House if the democrats win.
However, I agree with your overall point. I still am a Bush Conservative…It will be interesting to see how many of us there are…
Yes, George Soros is waiting in the wings, the Dims are bowing and scraping to him now. The leader of the Soros for pres Dims is John Edwards, that’s why he is at 10% in the polls and going lower.
You fellas should have watched the Dims in their news conference, you would’ve been proud of Turban Durbin, DiFi , Real Estate Harry, all those truly outstanding people that you are genuflecting to, even pornographer Webb and of course the manslaughtering DWI driver,Teddy. Yep that’s the outstanding group some of you are advocating. Voting for the best man regardless of party is a good way to have a do nothing government forever. Slick willie did nothing on immigration for 8 years (well he tried to get the Dream Act for them, but didn’t) and Pres Bush has done nothing for 6.5 except endorsing an Amnesty for all plan. When and if the public are happy with what’s proposed, maybe they’ll get enough pressure on their representatives to do the right thing. I know it worked Thurs.
Amnesty first, is not a plan. The Senate heard that loud and clear.
Okay, I’ve got my name calling shield on, fire away
Harold,
If they are open to listening and the liberals can be diluted then they become an alternative. The point I was making is you don\’t need to give money to the parties. Just pick the candidate you like best and support them as much as possible. Right now the parties have the money and control the candidates.
The whole thing needs to get flipped on its head.
But there is a way out and it begins by rejecting both parties and their fringes. Don’t take sides. Vote the best candidate with ideas and reject the anger candidates who hide their lack of imagination behind hot rhetoric. Don’t be Democrat or Republican. Become the demanding American consumer who wants anything but the current situation. Don’t worry, the country will not collapse. It made it through Bush and Clinton both. It is simply time to give up the parties. Fund candidates only. Starve the parties.
As much as I disagree with you on the immigration bill, I think you’ve hit the nail on the head here.
My Congresscritter is a Democrat who is relatively sane on defense issues (misguided on Iraq, though). There’s no way in hell she’s losing her seat (California’s infamous gerrymandering at work–the districts are split by party line, and if you’re of the right party and you make it through the primary, you’re guaranteed victory in the general election).
I may actually donate to her.
Fine , fund your candidates of choice that is the way it should be, but look at the financial contribution data bases and you will see that personal contributions are lost in the round off error almost.
527’s , Pacs and generalized party funding makes individuals hardly effective.
I saw an article a couple of weeks ago that this will be the first Billion dollar presidential election cycle and that is just for the presidential candidates, not the full election slate.
Just how much in all reality do you think you counter that kind of money?
Wow Jake70,
That was a pointless comment. You mean the government the people elected?
BTW, is the Mexican national pride any different from the Canadian, French or German national pride? You know, what you call ‘racist’?
“Just pick the candidate you like best and support them as much as possible. Right now the parties have the money and control the candidates.”
AJ the problem is that in the big picture this will not work. The amount of people that will go online and then spend countless hours figuring out what people need help and should be donated too is going to be slim. Then you have to dig through all the local media bias. The party with their internal polling they do in countless races is ina much better position to know where to put money. In the end, I have to recongnize my knowledge of the internal dynamics of a Congressional Race in Ohio is beyond me.
Also, lets be clear what will be hurt. The GOP largely supports get out the vote efforts. THe organizations that fullfill that function will be the first to be hurt. Whether it is organization that get voters from abroad to vote or hispanic get out the vote efforts. BUilding a party organization is hard and Rebuilding it is even harder
That was a pointless comment. You mean the government the people elected?
Politicians by nature are corrupt. Mexico’s just happen to be worse than most. How many dark-skinned politicians do you see in the higher-ups of the Mexican government? I know several Mexicans and they unanimously agree that bigotry has been and currently is a major issue in the government.
[blockquote]Lurker,
Your line of thinking epitomizes the trap I posted about. There are conservative Democrats. In VA the Reps and Dems are raising taxes!
The Party has you brain washed to think all hell will break lose if you don’t vote the party line. And THAT is why they demand loyalty from you instead of working to do what you want.[/quote]
I have been unhappy with the GOP in the last few years. The behavior coming from the far right GOP was a repeat of their behavior against Meirs and UAE port deal. I wasn’t happy then and just shrugged my shoulders over their behavior over this bill. Guess I’m apathetic this time.
While there are blue dog Democrats, they add to the majority for either house. Besides, I’m not happy with Webb either.
Granting the Democrats another 4 years of majority of either house and/or the WH scares me far more than the Republicans. We all need to find ways to shelter our own assets under them. They do not care about the prosperity, economy, strength, and defense of this country. NASA, CIA, FBI, DOD, DIA, will all be hurt by their anticipated budget cuts. And those budget cuts will be severe.
And seeing how the Democrats could nominate activist and liberal judges to replace the retiring US Supreme Court is also just as scary.
Imagine Walton replacing one of them. Would you be happy with that kind of a judge?
I don’t know A.J. My party loyalty has actually increased in the last two years, as I’ve observed the rise of the party pretenders doing the damage — those self-described “conservatives” who claim to speak for the party, but who in no way represent me. Problem is, those nutcases happen to own 98% of the microphones. I fault the party for not policing this destructive segment, yet I understand the decision to not draw anymore attention to the nuts, and hope they’ll eventually marginalize themselves. I’m afraid, as Harold said, the wheels are coming off and the GOP is headed for an inevitable showdown with the extremists. No matter what, that’s going to hurt the GOP in the short term. But maybe we’d best get it over with sooner rather than later… let the nuts go off and form their own Pure Nut Party and skim 10 or 12 percent. (Please, God, put Alan Keyes in charge of the finances.) Then let the rest of us rebuild a smarter, savvier party that can easily make up for the nut demographic and start accomplishing something.
Oh by the way, the Right has a couple of its own Soros’s, and I find them every bit as dangerous as Queen Noor’s Geriatric Boy Toy.
Well, much to ponder on this subject. I am open to your ideas A.J. but not persuaded at this time.
SalleyVee,
we each do things our own way. I am not a Rep and will probably never be one, especially if the fringe wing continues to have the clout to lie to us with impugnity. Now they are admitting we cannot simply enforce the laws!
They knew that was BS. But they made the claim anyway.
Yes, SallyVee, I know you are right about the equivalent in the gop but, I still think Soros is worse….could be wrong…
Ivehadit – In some ways I have a little more respect for Soros. At least he’s up front about his “messianic” delusions and his fanatical quest to remake the world in his own image. The Right Wing sugar daddies are quite a bit more stealthy, and hide among normal people and can even appear normal themselves, when required. Also, there is at least one Right Wing special interest org funded by Soros… can’t remember the name right now. I don’t think it’s done much but there were several Reps. and Senators involved, inadvertently I think. Anyway, Soros couldn’t have planned our little nativist party much better than we conducted it.