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Title: Kicking the Status Quo to the Curb — No More Beltway Bozos
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Big Journalism
URL Source: http://bigjournalism.com/jhudnall/2 ... ore-beltway-bozos/#more-120393
Published: Sep 16, 2010
Author: I Dunno
Post Date: 2010-09-16 15:23:14 by Big Meanie
Keywords: None
Views: 367
Comments: 38
In case anyone was wondering, or cares: I am not a Republican nor a Democrat. I don’t like either party. Never have. I am an independent. I don’t like the Democrats because they are statists. They are for big government and more taxes. They are also for mob rule. They want a democratic society, not a Republic. That is a disastrous recipe. Big government always leads to tyranny, democracy lacks the limited government structure of a Republic, which makes it harder for corruption to prevail. Democrats seem to love corruption. They wallow in it like pigs in their own dung. That’s why they seek to undermine our limited-government constitution at every point. You can go back to Tammany Hall right up to today to see their disregard for the rule of law. Rangel and Waters were merely caught. They are far from outliers. I dislike the Republicans because they don’t practice what they preach. They’re supposed to be the party of smaller government and lower taxes. But they are just like ’70s Democrats now. Aside from the Bush tax cuts, they’ve expanded government and spending to obscene levels. When the Democrats came into power they just made the Republicans look conservative by contrast. Less terrible is still terrible. The Republicans share the blame for our debt. But what I really dislike about Republicans is how elitist they are. They cherry pick their primary candidates before the people can choose. They ram their picks through. The public is given a token choice, but the party rigs the results. A great example was the primary race this week. Delaware says it all. Mike Castle was a weak RINO who, along with 23 other Republicans, voted to refer Dennis Kucinich’s motion to impeach George W. Bush to the judiciary committee in 2008. That move right there should be a clue he was a terrible pick to fight the Democrats. But the GOP put their money on him and they ran an incredibly vicious campaign against the tea party candidate, Christine O’Donnell. They ran all kinds of negative ads against her and robo-calls up to the last minute — but she clobbered Castle by eight points. They tried to rig the results but the public is wise to them now. The message from the voters is clear. No more status quo candidates. No more beltway bozos. The Republican National committee answered thusly: “We’re not going to give her any money. She can get the tea party to pay for her campaign.” NRSC Announces That It Will Not Support O'Donnell (You Tube) They just don’t get it. The anger out there is about taking the government back from the beltway creeps on either side of the aisle. Status quo candidates will get kicked to the curb. The GOP had better get a clue that voters want government spending and size cut or they will get the chop next. This is not a joke. The beltway bozos, who thought being like the Democrats was the way to win elections, are going to find out the hard way they were wrong. Already the Democrats are saying the Tea Party is moving the GOP too far to the right. Here is the Dems’ latest blather: “Today the Republican Party has shown just how far right it has moved,” DNC Chairman Tim Kaine said in a written statement. “While Americans in Delaware and across the country are eager for both parties to work together toward solutions that move America forward, Delaware’s Tea Party Republicans have nominated a self-aggrandizing and divisive candidate who seeks to tear down the progress we’ve made to recover from failed Republican economic policies that took us to the brink of economic collapse.” But privately they are quaking in fear, shivering in their booties. They know 2010 is over for them. Their only hope is to keep trying to make the tea party into a fringe movement. Their media lackies have been doing that for the last year and a half. It’s a tactic that is failing miserably. Now that the GOP is finding their chosen are getting mowed down, they may join the Dems and the press in trying to hurt the tea party. But they will do that at their peril. The public has had enough. We’re almost at the point of busting into the Bastille. The voters are sending a message to Washington that business as usual is over. For the last year and a half Democrats have been telling the voters they don’t care what they want. Now the voters are showing them the door. If the Republicans don’t wake up, they’ll be joining the Dems out in the cold. 2010 is a year of reckoning.
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#1. To: Big Meanie (#0)
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In my political life I haven't seen 8? entrenched, elite, Washington insiders kicked to the curb by younger, more conservative members of their own party. The newcomers are far from my idea of perfect, but they're better than those they are replacing. Maybe others recall such a time when incumbents were primaried out of office like this? Since 3rd parties cant win nationally, a series of these reform-type primaries/elections is the last, best political hope we have, IMO. I'm wide open a better political solution if anyone has one.
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The rub in your opinion is that while we all live, work, and interact in this "terminal cancer" *some* political group of people in power will be taxing, watching, snooping, and stealing from us. Are you OK with the Kenyan without papers, or would someone else be less virulent? I say anyone would be better. That's the reality of the system as it exists today. IMO, if I can help dump a radical black Marxist to the curb, I'll have done all I can.
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It's impossible to compare 18 months of the Illegal to 8-years of Bush. I will say the Kenyan has managed to spend app. 3x more deficit money already than Bush did during his tenure. Not to mention nearly doubling the number of unemployed in the nation. Perhaps if we feed the black swine another trillion or so for some more "shovel ready jobs" things will improve? When pushed into the corner the Kenyan now says the stimulus wasn't big enough. And he's worse than Bush? No, the Dark One is the clear winner, whether it's the economy or undeclared wars (we're now bombing Pakistan in addition to Afghanistan).
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The GOP under Bush
was a group of political cross dressers (neocons - former Ds converted to Rs
for electable purposes) and sans any core values regarding smaller government.
Over the course of time, these are our targets. You tell me who among the
current 8 Rs who challenged and beat establishment candidates recently espouse
less liberty and larger government? They are the political backlash to Bush
and the Illegal Interloper, and to the entrenched Washington establishment.
Did you you catch Rove's reaction to O'Donnell's deposing of Castle in
Delaware Tuesday? Bush's Brain wasn't happy. You tell me why ridding DC of
Mike Castle, Arlen Spector, Bob Bennett, et al isn't a good thing? Now, if
your position is why wait for the inevitable collapse, please tell us who our
leaders will be should this coup occur, or are we all to just become an army
of one? While I wait for the collapse, I will gladly back off from the side of
the cliff, step by step, accepting reduced taxes and a numerically smaller
amount of black nationalists and Marxists as our politicians.
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Since Eisenhower warned the nation in 1960 about the
MIC, nobody has done anything to shrink it. Yet you expect these 8 recent
nominees to make this the cornerstone of their campaign? Given people are
jobless, homeless and under active invasion from 3rd world Inferiors, you tell
me how the "lets dismantle the MIC, NOW!" bumper sticker will inspire a
nation? In order to bite the juggler vein of the MIC we first need to open the
windows of the WH, air out the place and take the Bob Marley posters off the
walls. Not until entrenched pols of both parties are removed will that happen,
so please, don't try and pigeon hole me as an R, I said both parties. I'm
neither an R nor D and I trust you'll take me at my word. Ron Paul you say?
I hate to break this to you, but this tea party was his save for one thing.
He's a quitter. He had it all two years ago and today he's pushing for
a bill to audit Ft. Knox. The O'Donnell kid in Delaware just did us a bigger
favor than RP will with yet another absurd Bill to Nowhere. Nobody sane
suggests that an American political rebirth will be a one, two or three
election affair. Pragmatically, a movement must drive a party thereby
effecting change. After ten years of not voting, and not having voted for an R
since '88, my political odyssey brings me to Obama whose radical Marxist
politics are far, far worse than I imagined things could become. The man is an
ILLEGAL ALIEN, if that isn't reason enough to vote for gridlock, nothing else
you said is worth a tinkers damn. As your solution seems to be nothing, I'll
be helping to change out the old, the crippled and affirmed who have made DC
their home and honey pot for decades. Should this effort fail, let me know
when the shooting begins, and who among us is leading the charge.
#25. To: Jethro Tull (#24)
Jethro... We both know, the solution will come when the blood runs, then and only then.
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#8. To: Eric Stratton (#1)
File under I'll believe that when I see it.
#9. To: Jethro Tull (#8)
#10. To: Eric Stratton, 4 (#9)
There is no political solution in this system. It's corrupted pervasively, like terminal cancer. No matter who gets in there, the effort is doomed right from the get-go.
#11. To: Jethro Tull (#10)
#12. To: Eric Stratton (#11)
IMO Junior was equally horrid if not worse
#14. To: Jethro Tull, All (#12)
#21. To: Eric Stratton, 4 (#14)
Our liberties vaporized at the fastest rate ever under Junior
with the push coming from the GOP.
#23. To: Jethro Tull, All (#21)
#24. To: Eric Stratton (#23)
namely the military industrial complex/establishment
Replies to Comment # 24. Ron Paul you say? I hate to break this to you, but this tea party was his save for one thing. He's a quitter. He had it all two years ago and today he's pushing for a bill to audit Ft. Knox. The O'Donnell kid in Delaware just did us a bigger favor than RP will with yet another absurd Bill to Nowhere.
#29. To: Jethro Tull (#24)
#30. To: Jethro Tull (#24)
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