The Right’s Circular Firing Squad:
What the hell is the thinking?
Karl Rove announces that he intends to become more involved in Republican primary contests and the tea party distributes an email of The Architect dressed in a Nazi uniform.
Marco Rubio holds a fundraiser in Manhattan and Republican Congressman Peter King blows a gasket because… Rubio had the audacity to vote against the pork-laden Hurricane Relief Bill.
Republican Eric Cantor dares to tell the Republican caucus that killing the Violence Against Women Act won’t do the Republican brand any good. And conservative radio talk man Mark Levin suggests that Cantor be ridden out of the Republican Party.
CPAC decides to make an example of Chris Christie…by letting the world know that he won’t be invited to speak at CPAC this year. Was it because 1) he was nice to Obama when New Jersey was drowning, or 2) he damned the House for refusing to vote on a Relief Bill, or 3) he dared to say something critical of an over-the-top NRA ad that went after Obama’s daughters?
The Club for Growth announces their latest initiative—called “Primary my Congressman.” Let’s knock off a few Republicans who (oh the horror) dared to let their Club for Growth scorecard drop below 75%.
My question: Can a few of the adults in the room start acting like grownups? If not, can some of the adults who are not in the room suggest that those who are in the room start acting like grownups?
I’ll give two Dillybars to the first man or woman inside the beltway, or even one of those wise talking heads on FOX, who is willing to say that expanding the herd right now is more important than culling the pasture of those who are less than pure.
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Are you suggesting that we expand the herd by abandoning morality? Adding a gaggle of sodomites, baby killers, gun grabbers and RINOS like Christie, who says he supports most of the radical policies of NY Gov. Cuomo, is the salvation of the GOP? I think not.
No. I don’t think I suggested that. Do you think I did?
Jay:
With all due respect…there is no republican, democrat, liberal, conservative anything anymore. There is only an illegal oligarch ruling class cabal of liars and thieves addicted to power. When we snap out of the bread & circus kabuki -like trance they have us in, perhaps we’ll have a shot at cleaning house & restoring a constitutional republic…if they don’t disarm us first. Let’s stopping pretending there is anything legitimate about what is happening, eh?
Best,
Chip
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One problem for the Republicans is that the extremists have a fundamentally untenable understanding of what a political party is in the US. They do not accept the notion that parties are first and foremost in the business of gaining and maintaining control of public policy making institutions, and that doing so requires ideological flexibility in both campaigns and governance. Instead, they see parties as evangelical outfits whose purpose is the political conversion of the masses. This is nothing new, nor even historically unique to the Republican Party, what is new is the alliance between such extremists and economic elites, who have the wherewithal and apparently the incentive to stake the Extremists efforts.
http://www.masspoliticsprofs.com/2013/03/01/how-to-save-the-republican-party/
agree. on both counts.
Slaves are made in such ways…
http://shutupnsing.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/is-this-what-the-99-signed-on-for/
Not to mention…
http://shutupnsing.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/reasonable-conservatism/
“flexibility” Jerold? Just how far should a free man bend? Does the desire for a balanced budget and a government operating “inside” of its constitutional jurisdiction make me your “extremist”? Talk about flexibility!! You guys are bending your minds like pretzels to legitimize the illegitimate!!
The Republican Party is, in reality, a bunch of conservative liberals disguised as conservative. Those spinless eunichs wouldn’t know what a conservative was if one busted their jaws. Boy, it is great to be out of uniform! They can’t court-martial me for insubordination.