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The Party’s Over?

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Well, it's another week that we must bring you yet another sobering meditation on the state of the Grand Old Party. Today, the Wall Street Journal's Dan Henninger stops by to discuss his recent column Obama's Greatest Triumph (it's paywalled, but the gist is that The president is "is now close to destroying his political enemies—the Republican Party, the American conservative movement and the public-policy legacy of Ronald Reagan."). Then, the Mad Dog himself, Kevin Williamson joins to discuss chaos in the family, and chaos in the state, his Twitter battles, and of course, The Donald and the corrosive effect he is having on the party and politics in general. But it's not all bad news - Could Tom Cotton be the solution to a contested convention? We sure hope so...

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The Party's Over by Nat King Cole

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  • Miffed White Male@MiffedWhiteMale
    Ricochet Audio Network (View Post):
    The president is “is now close to destroying his political enemies—the Republican Party, the American conservative movement and the public-policy legacy of Ronald Reagan.”).

    Over the last week or so I'd been trying to come up with a post about this, and then Henninger came along and stole my idea!

    I do think that one of Obama's goals since the beginning of his administration has been the destruction of the Republican party, so this may be an even greater legacy of his than Obamacare. To paraphrase Yes Minister [I think], Islamic terrorists may be the opposition, but Republicans are the enemy!

  • Rightfromthestart@Rightfromthestart

    Mr. Henninger's evident distaste for Ted Cruz's Senate tactics sounded to me a bit like WFB's description of liberals who say they're willing to listen to the other side and then are shocked to find out there is one. He was elected to go there and break up the cozy club.

    Also does Mr. Henniger's last comment that Hillary is moving toward Elizabeth Warren mean that in 25 years he hasn't noticed that Hillary's leftism pretty much pegs-the-meter? Her differences with Warren are only of the 'what the boobs will accept ' variety.

  • EJHill@EJHill

    The thing that Rob and Mr. Henninger don't understand is that people are beyond the math. They're not interested in vote counting. They're actually interested in revolution.

    The left has long abandoned democracy except where it suits them. They've set up the courts as a super legislature. We now sue our way to new "rights." Screw the governors, screw the states, screw the Congress. It's down to five people with a creative view of the Constitution.

    Doing the math, playing the game, following the rules hasn't got anybody anywhere. Even playing by their rules we lose. We had a majority on the court for the Obamacare decision and still found a way to go all FUBAR when the GOP CJ went all wobbly.

    When the left gets their SCOTUS majority and decide it's time for the Justice Department to authorize the ATF to start the confiscation process all bets are off.

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