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Title: Is the Republican Party Finished?
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American Thinker
URL Source: http://www.americanthinker.com/2010 ... e_republican_party_finish.html
Published: Dec 29, 2010
Author: Michael Filozof
Post Date: 2010-12-29 17:51:28 by X-15
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The lame-duck session of the 111th Congress proved one thing beyond a doubt: the Republican Party does not represent the interests of conservatives. Despite the midterm election tidal wave, in which the Republican Party gained 63 House seats (eclipsing its historic1994 success against Clinton), congressional Republicans failed to leverage their victory into political clout and collapsed like a house of cards in the lame-duck session. The last two weeks ought to have sickened conservatives. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell spectacularly failed to hold his caucus together to even delay ratification of the START treaty until the 112th Congress is seated in January. Republican leftists Olympia Snowe and Lisa Murkowski sided with Democrats to end the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, forcing the gay agenda from the streets of San Francisco right into the U.S. Marine Corps. Congressional Republicans agreed to cut FICA taxes for Social Security (which is underfunded already) and expand the Democratic Party's welfare state constituency by extending unemployment benefits -- in exchange for maintaining current tax rates for a paltry two years. The deal will add billions to the deficit. Tea Party darling Scott Brown, mocked by Obama for driving a truck in his insurgent 2009 campaign in which he stole "Ted Kennedy's seat" from the Democrats, voted for Obama's agenda on all of these issues. Give the Democratic devils their due. They are astute students of Machiavelli. They know how to exercise power. The ink was barely dry on the DADT repeal when Obama cynically announced he'd now "rethink" his (supposed) opposition to gay marriage, and Vice-President Biden announced that gay marriage was "inevitable." Despite historically low congressional approval ratings, Speaker Pelosi rammed socialized medicine and cap-and-trade legislation through the House by one-vote margins and pursued the exercise of power right up to the eleventh hour of the lame-duck session. When's the last time Republicans pursued their agenda so ruthlessly? Maybe 1919, when Republican Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge held his caucus together to defeat the Treaty of Versailles by one vote -- unmoved by the plight of Democrat Woodrow Wilson, who lay crippled in the White House after having a stroke trying to rally public opinion in favor of the treaty. The Republicans do not pursue their agenda ruthlessly because they do not have one -- at least not a conservative one that differs substantially from the Democratic agenda. The capitulation to the lame-duck Democrats is merely the latest in a decades-long series of episodes in which Republicans have actively colluded with Democrats to push the left-wing agenda of the 1960s forward. The majority opinion in Roe v. Wade was written by Republican Harry Blackmun. Republican appointee Sandra Day O'Connor voted to uphold Roe in Casey v. Planned Parenthood. Republican justice Anthony Kennedy cited the European Court of Human Rights in Lawrence v. Texas, which declared that the Constitution guarantees a right to anal sodomy. Republican President George W. Bush expanded the already-bloated Federal bureaucracy with the hideous Department of Homeland Security, the TSA, "No Child Left Behind," and the Medicare prescription drug entitlement. Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger supports gay marriage, and signed restrictive ammunition bans into law in California; former Republican Gov. George Pataki signed restrictive gun-control legislation in New York. Former Republican Gov. Mitt Romney can hardly campaign against ObamaCare after initiating mandatory health care insurance in Massachusetts. Republican Senators McCain and Graham support amnesty for illegal aliens; Graham and Snowe voted to put Sonia "A Wise Latina Can Make Better Decisions Than a White Man" Sotomayor on the Supreme Court. Republicans, who supposedly oppose affirmative action, named Colin Powell Secretary of State; Powell rewarded them by endorsing Barack Obama in 2008. The party that was founded as an anti-slavery party and appointed Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court cannot get more than ten percent of the black vote in a good year. After losing 96% of the black vote to a black Democrat in 2008, Republicans eagerly panted "Me, too!" and by named Michael Steele party chairman. What a mess. Conservatives today are in essentially the same position that the radical Left was in back in the Sixties. Then, every institution in American society -- the "Establishment" in Sixties jargon -- was socially and temperamentally conservative. The radicals found themselves with nowhere to go but the streets. Today's "Establishment" is uniformly leftist, and conservatives are as unwelcome in the halls of power today as the radical Left was 45 years ago. In order to move forward, conservatives are going to need to do what the Left did in 1968: begin in the streets, capture a political party and convert it to its agenda, and follow up in the courts when they lose elections. Even more important, conservatives are going to have to learn to exploit national crises to advance their agenda. And surely these crises are coming -- the national debt, currency valuation, inflation, Iranian nuclear weapons, illegal immigration, a day of reckoning in Afghanistan, and so on. Voters will demand alternatives to Leftist policies when these crises appear. If the Republicans do not present conservative alternatives, Conservatives will have to form a party of their own. Voters in November voted against the Democrats, not for the Republicans. Nothing in the last two weeks indicates that the Republicans are ready to give the nation any real alternative when the 112th Congress is seated. If the Republican Party fails to do more than ape the Democratic Party, it will be finished -- if it isn't already.
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#20. To: Original_Intent (#19)
Shoonra continues to tell us we don't see what we see, don't hear what we hear, and have no idea of that which we view. Just more mind control ... from either a lawyer or a shrink!!!
... You Betcha! Momma Grizzly!!
Frikkin Lib Commie.
So you doubled up, right?
A few months ago we were getting personal evening calls, I asked and then told them to remove our names from their list. Finally one evening the wife answered their call and tore someone a new rectum. The calls stopped but the snail mail continues.
Tom... I hold a very unpopular view of Paul. Namely, he served a useful purpose to the system by sidetracking any true conservative that would run a valid third party race. People call me unflattering names for such a view. However, intentional or not that is all that Paul succeeded in doing last go around. Are Americans willing for another fake race in 2012???
You Betcha, Wink!
The "teabaggers" rose up quite spontaneously to confront their representatives forcefully but peacefully over the profligacy and hypocrisy that is characteristic of Congress. If you want "brownshirts" get a load of activists on the left - try the SEIU on for size. The Spirit of '25 - 1925.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
I only wish they were brownshits, you paranoid oven dodger!!
You tell him, randge. I worked for a firm in So.Cal that provided legal representation for SEIU and the felons that ran the damned chapter. I am too familiar with their unethical protests AND their violence. Poor Shoonra tries to manipulate/brainwash all of us when, in fact, his handlers have done a damned good job of doing just that to him!!!
Who, ... Tits? Ya know for about sixty % of the voting population, this is the premire issue.
i'm giving him one more chance.
With a few exceptions, every RAT shill is OUT and about on this thread. Why do you allow this forum to be a sounding board for paid shills?
"The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally — not a 20 percent traitor" - Ronald Reagan
Egads.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
And, the yoke is on us.
Lets put it this way Flint, this thread has both an ADL plant and Obama voters on it. The fact that they are all singing from the same hymn book is indeed illuminating.
It sure as hell is "illuminating". AND ... you can always identify the oven dodgers for us! MUHAHAHAHA
Follow the trail of matzo crumbs :)
You must have been a NYC cop!!!
Too allow a fifth column to operate here is not "free speech", it's a mistake and we can't afford to make any. I hope one day they're dancing too, I suggest the Hempen Jig.
"The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally — not a 20 percent traitor" - Ronald Reagan
Yes indeed, and oy, talk about a double standard. The dopey blacks never knew the screwing they got living in the ghetto. Manhattan was the crown jewel of the city, and the outer boroughs got whatever was left over in terms of services. Yet they all dutifully voted for the Jew socialist politicians come election time, who in return laughingly called them schwartzers when they were out of ear shot.
So's you kin kick their asses! That's what this is all about, Flintlock. ; ]
Nobody pays me to post here, I have RW stuff that I do. Why should you have to worry that every time you turn out the lights the roaches will crawl out of their holes and crap in your Corn Flakes and eat you Constitution? Why not just get rid of them and sleep in peace?
"The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally — not a 20 percent traitor" - Ronald Reagan
Oops, typo
"The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally — not a 20 percent traitor" - Ronald Reagan
D.C. has long been the picture of anarchy against the Constitution. With very few exceptions, the "elect" have a virulent allegience disorder that barricades Constitutionalists from being properly represented 100% governmentally. The way to treat that farcical scourge is to declare it null and void and of no authority, then govern ourselves Constitutionally.
------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
Lets put it this way Flint, this thread has both an ADL plant and Obama voters on it. The fact that they are all singing from the same hymn book is indeed illuminating. I looked over the thread. I could only see 1. Who are you talking about please?
That is your right and perogative, ma'am. The options aren't all that great. They always own both sides of the debate, always.
"Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were (ever) our countrymen!”".
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
How well I know. Living and working in New York was an eye opener from a young kid from the west coast. I worked for and with joos and became well educated in the "culture". They not only proved to be two-faced, but were filthy, loud and ill-mannered. Oh, and I will admit to making a "generalization" ... but my assessment is not far off from all of 'em!
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." You know what vigilance means, Flintlock. It means wakefulness. You must learn to sleep with one eye open.
Agreed. Perhaps if we regard the Tea Party movement as very small step backwards (I mean that in the most positive way) we can stamp out the fire in our hair and hope (sorry) for the eventual elimination of the falseness that has posed as the conservative alternative for lo these many years. That elimination is, by the way, the same page of my hymnal from which I was singing after eight years of Bush-Cheney. Do we have a long way to go? Look no further than the "leadership" of those two a-holes McConnell and Boner.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. .... Yeats
Knee jerk allegiance to the State of Israel is going to be one hell of a mountain to climb so lace up your boots.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. .... Yeats
you do it. Considering the low traffic this site gets, and the fact the most of these losers and malcontents are working for the gov. I'd say it's not worth my time. Gotta run, the RW calls
"The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally — not a 20 percent traitor" - Ronald Reagan
Yet, they do want to govern us or for us to be governed according to their whims. That's why they are Anarchists against the Constitution and why they are not really our governors but alien interlopers from a foreign system of "make- believe".
------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
For starters it requires morality, a morality that no longer exists in Amerika en masse. I refuse to have my government and my culture, which are in a completely different dimension than theirs, blamegamed and berated by one dimensional collectivists who refuse to even aknowledge that we are here and in vast numbers except to pretend that it's somewhow our fault if the Chaotics, who are not the Posterity of our Founders, are misbehaving while claiming to be Americans with no concept whatsoever of what that means other than geography. That's a run-on sentence but I've reached the point where I consider it a senseless waste of time to read through the screeds of demoralizing collective punishers who fancy themselves "truth and justice seekers" as they try to pin all of those transgressors onto us. Then there's the super-ridiculous who expect us to wear that "hair shirt" and whip ourselves for the trespasses of others who aren't of our government and belief system, then also slam the Catholic church for anyone there ever doing such things as penitents. I'm not accusing you of any of that, just urging people to resist the temptation to view us through their "spectacles". It's the wrong prescription and part of the problem.
------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
I'm all about seeing Ron Paul come through on his promises to do a colonoscopy on the Federal Reserve. The question is: will the ZOGsters eliminate him when he starts running the dirty laundry up the flagpole??
__________________________________________________________ the article says republicans cut fica taxes. i hadn't heard that. does anyone know by how much, & when? that the author is against lowering taxes ruins his credibility to the point i almost stopped reading. he did give a good recap of bad republicans though, in a following paragraph.
"if I have all faith so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing." 1 Cor 12:31—13:13
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestThe Spirit of '76 is stirring, and there is a new scent on the stiffening wind.
#21. To: Eric Stratton (#12)
In one form or another, ...
"Satan / Cheney in "08" 
#22. To: Lod (#13)
I just received a RP mail pimping for more money. Frikkin Lib Commie.
"Satan / Cheney in "08"
#23. To: Cynicom (#15)
They started off asking for $400, no chicken feed for them.
"Satan / Cheney in "08"
#24. To: tom007 (#23)
So you doubled up, right?
#25. To: tom007 (#23)
So you doubled up, right?
#26. To: Cynicom (#25)
. Are Americans willing for another fake race in 2012???
"Satan / Cheney in "08"
#27. To: Shoonra (#18)
This year the Repubs cultivated the Teabaggers as their brownshirts
#28. To: Original_Intent (#17)
#29. To: tom007 (#21)
#30. To: Shoonra, oven dodgers, 4 (#18)
This year the Repubs cultivated the Teabaggers as their brownshirts to bust up town meetings and overwhelm the Dems at the polls.
#31. To: randge (#27)
If you want "brownshirts" get a load of activists on the left - try the SEIU on for size.
#32. To: Eric Stratton (#29)
Momma Grizzly!!
"Satan / Cheney in "08"
#33. To: noone222 (#9)
#34. To: Jethro Tull, Christine (#30)
#35. To: christine (#33)
i'm giving him one more chance.
#36. To: tom007 (#32)
#37. To: Cynicom (#7)
The yoke is in place.
#38. To: Flintlock, *Dopey White Folk* (#34)
#39. To: Jethro Tull (#38)
The fact that they are all singing from the same hymn book is indeed illuminating.
#40. To: Phant2000 (#39)
It sure as hell is "illuminating". AND ... you can always identify the oven dodgers for us! MUHAHAHAHA
#41. To: Jethro Tull (#40)
Follow the trail of matzo crumbs :)
#42. To: Jethro Tull (#38)
this thread has both an ADL plant and Obama voters on it.The fact that they are all singing
The fact that they are all singing
#43. To: Phant2000 (#41)
You must have been a NYC cop!!!
#44. To: Flintlock (#34)
With a few exceptions, every RAT shill is OUT and about on this thread. Why do you allow this forum to be a sounding board for paid shills?
#45. To: randge, KJethro Tull (#44)
So's you kin kick their asses!
#46. To: Jethro Tull (#45)
KJethro Tull
#47. To: Eric Stratton (#28)
Don't confuse anarchy with disorder. There's a difference.
#48. To: Jethro Tull, Flintlock, christine, Original_Intent (#38)
With a few exceptions, every RAT shill is OUT and about on this thread. Why do you allow this forum to be a sounding board for paid shills?
No Planes. Think about it. ................. Guaranteed Penetration (no it's not porn)
#49. To: christine (#33)
i'm giving him one more chance.
#50. To: GreyLmist (#47)
#51. To: GreyLmist, All (#47)
#52. To: Jethro Tull (#43)
Yet they all dutifully voted for the Jew socialist politicians come election time, who in return laughingly called them schwartzers when they were out of ear shot.
#53. To: Flintlock (#45)
Why not just get rid of them and sleep in peace?
#54. To: X-15 (#0)
In order to move forward, conservatives are going to need to do what the Left did in 1968: begin in the streets, capture a political party and convert it to its agenda, and follow up in the courts when they lose elections.
#55. To: Esso (#2)
Our entire .nation is finished - Just wait until this new batch of ultra-virulent jew-firsters take office.
#56. To: randge (#53)
You must learn to sleep with one eye open.
#57. To: Eric Stratton (#50)
consider, most people do not want to govern themselves.
#58. To: Eric Stratton (#51)
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I also dare say that many if not most people are incapable of governing themselves.
#59. To: christine, *Israeli Espionage* (#5)
Ron Paul - chairman of the Monetary Policy Subcommittee. He seems to have a lot of support. Let's see what happens.
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?"
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#60. To: Esso, x-15 (#2)
"I don't know where Bin Laden is. I truly am not that concerned about him"
George W, Bush, 3/13/02 http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html
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