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Tone-Deaf, Tin-Eared, Clown-Car Republicans
Here’s a hoot, and some chainshot in response:
I took that screenshot myself — it’s valid.
Here’s what’s not valid. The “War on Tea Party” Congress of Boehner and McConnell did the exact same thing after the Tea Party propelled their ungrateful trousers back into power. What year does this moron think it is? Whom does he think he is speaking to? This is about as welcome as President W trying to “sweeten the deal” for conservatives to sell our citizenship for amnesty by adding some money to something we care about.
There’s going to be a hurricane in this fartstorm, and I certainly hope that business-as-usual, no-vision, platitude-outgassing idiots like this one get blown away, a-hootin’ and a-tootin’ as they go, these Cabbage-Pot Republicans.
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They do not care, nobody does. We are in the Walmart when a Black Friday riot is taking place. Everybody knows what is happening is wrong and illegal but we need to get theirs before everybody else.
Impeaching Biden is just what the tiny Republican House majority does not need to do. The same for grandiose investigation shows. What they should do is pass some sensible bills that will benefit the country. Most will die in the Senate, of course, but they would build a solid platform to appeal to the American people.
Such as?
Bills to Repeal ObamaCare? Bills to secure the border? Those were popular last time around.
Yes! Impeach Biden and air all the charges and testimony! Newsmax vieweship will go through the roof and maybe a couple M5M networks will also try to cash in on that….
In a just world, Biden should be impeached and convicted. In the world we’re in, impeachment proceedings would go nowhere without a serious Senate and be a distraction. I don’t expect anything from the Republican House, but they should work on financial issues since the House ostensibly controls the purse strings.
Defund the abuses. It’s a twofer.
Sigh. I remember writing eight and ten years ago that the Republicans held what I called a “front-end veto” on spending, and had bright ideas what they should do with it.
Now I have different ideas what they can do with it.
Yep
A bill addressing the border crisis would be good. Maybe reining in some of the drunken-sailor spending. Anything of a serious nature directed at actual problems, not headline-grabbing antics. The latter would only increase our vast oversupply of cynicism.
I am not interested in the “sensible bills” that this House might pass, knowing that the Senate and the President will save them from actually implementing them. Seen this movie before.
Obama’s trousers had a sharp crease.
I suppose just giving up on the whole American project of self-governance is an option. Not one I’d expected to appeal to conservatives, frankly.
As opposed to your (if I may paraphrase) “Give me moderation or give me death.” As Newt Gingrich used to say, “Real Change requires Real Change.”
“Real change” divorced from sensibleness is certainly not what I want. But even if you do, what can you reasonably expect from a majority in one house so thin they can’t afford anyone to so much as catch a cold? I greatly fear they’ll yield to the temptation to strut and fret their hour upon the stage. That will repel the voters we need to save us from the left.
Ok so bide our time some more.
Because That has worked so well so far?
It’s like you slept through the last twelve years.
No. I think radicalism of left, then right, is what got us here.
Cool story.
What is the radicalism of the Right?
Remember the “Burn it all down!” rhetoric? And the rejection of constitutionalism because the left had long abandoned it, so “we need to do to them what they want to do to us”?
No, I don’t remember of recognize either as being part of the political positions I have been supporting. But then, I certainly don’t class myself as radical extremist. I place the highest value on human life and individual freedom within a framework that tends to maximize both, but not one at the expense of the other. We have major forces at work, energy and environmental policy front and center, supported by Democrats, that do extreme damage to both. Other policies that are destroying human life recklessly include border control, abortion, military conflict, and drug misuse. Somebody must support these things since they are very popular.
I don’t remember the rejection of constitutionalism.
I do remember the “burn it all down” rhetoric, but that wasn’t a literal call to burn things down, to destroy everything. It was more about starting a third party or welcoming the inevitable crash so we can clear the debris and get to rebuilding. Kind of like when you’re sick you just want to vomit and get it over with instead of agonizing over it all day first.
Conservative “Burn it down!”: Votes and rhetoric, abandonment of prevailing modalities.
Progressive “Burn it down!”: Molotov cocktails, cities on flame.
I’m a radical conservative. I started getting radicalized around age 10 when I saw how Social Security was used to break people.
It served its purpose handily.
Faux-files in courage.
If you are referring to the consequences that come from the ‘silver rule’ then I am in fact in favor of it. Reluctantly, but good and hard.