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The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
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Chosen.
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I see democrats and their apparatchiks are hard at work spreading a meme of “the clear message from the American People is that both sides need to work together.” Such a silly thing to say. I suppose there’s difficulty in the psychological layer somewhere, interpreting a “clear message” that you suck and you have to get the hell off the stage.
Now can we start up some real investigations into what went on with Lois Lerner’s e-mails and the IRS’ treatment of the Tea Party groups? Just look at the pattern…
2008: Obama fever!
2010: The democrats get a shellacking because of disenchantment with Obama’s policies.
2012: ?????? Mystery force gets Obama re-elected ?????
2014: The democrats get a shellacking…again.
It looks a lot more like a natural learning process, than a back-and-forth shaking of something, like a Shake Weight or a can of spray paint. At least, it looks like that without the aberration of 2012. Putting 2012 back in, it looks more like the Shake Weight exercise — but, the electorate doesn’t move that way. It hasn’t. When has it? EVER?
Shenanigans were goin’ down. It is almost a certainty. And even if it is not the case, the priority should be to get this checked. The government taking control over the process by which it receives its “consent of the governed,” is a grave scenario indeed, probably the shortest path to tyranny and enslavement available to us.
What really got defeated last night, exactly? It wasn’t about party labels. Republicans will wear out their welcome, in two years, or four, or six. Maybe twenty. But, it’ll happen. For now, the public is clearly disenchanted with something, and it isn’t political parties whose names begin with the letter “D”. It isn’t presidents with dark skin.
I think they’re tired of seeing their so-called “leaders” completely lose their shit when someone outside the beltway happens to make a buck. I think what the public voted in, was the idea that when the economy is on the mend, we’ll know it when people, REAL people, outside the political class, start to do well. When THEY are the ones who find themselves with more options, more power, more liberty, more influence over their own lives.
The people who got thrown out live on a sort of Opposite Planet. They think an economy is doing better when it is more heavily taxed. Even though the verb “tax” means “to make onerous and rigorous demands on” and the adjective “taxing” means “onerous, wearing” and “requiring a lot of effort/energy.” They monologue away about people who trespass into our country “work[ing] hard and follow[ing] the law” — right after the trespassers got done trespassing. They think human activity is endangering the planet and therefore we need to curb that human activity to ensure our continuing survival; and the first step toward doing that is to make the government much, much bigger. They think we’re more “free” and upholding the values enshrined in the Constitution, when we busy ourselves with throwing people in jail for observing their own religious beliefs.
Last night was about voting for reality. And against Möbius strips with their silly twists and turns. It was a vote that affirmed things are what they really are.
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Are you sure that’s what “tax” means, Morgan? Have you run that by the experts at the Mount Vernon Association of Experts on the Expertise of Mount Vernon Association Experts? I think they’d give that a rating of “indubitably possible, with a side order of not not un-spuriousity.” But I’m no expert.
- Severian | 11/05/2014 @ 06:43I did, and they told me Washington suffered through a long, bitterly cold winter at Valley Forge so that we could have ObamaCare.
- mkfreeberg | 11/05/2014 @ 06:47He didn’t?
- vanderleun | 11/05/2014 @ 07:58But…but…don’t you see! That long cold (and hungry)winter at Valley Forge only PROVES global warming, Socialism, wealth redistribution, immigration, National Health, war on women, “gay” marriage, racism, voter ID, and…uh….FOX LIES!
The Second Amendment NEVER specifically mentions Nuclear Reactors, nor does the Constitution specifically address…uh….ELECTRONIC warrantless search and seizure of a persons person and their papers…..or something!
Now, on toward Obamacare (PP ACA), because (ironically?) Roe vs. Wade!
- CaptDMO | 11/05/2014 @ 08:15Well, obviously he did. After all, Washington was the guy who said “Don’t you worry your pretty little heads about anything, my dears — the government is here!”
—Stuff Washington Said, 4th ed. (revised). Expert Association of Mount Vernon Experts Press, 2002. Pages 55-6.
- Severian | 11/05/2014 @ 08:54And by the way. It seems contra intuitive (to me) that Pajama Boy would
- CaptDMO | 11/05/2014 @ 09:481. Even own a watch. (smart phones and all that)
2. Wear it while clad in pajamas.
Ok, ok, slow day here!
“Shenanigans” have been going on for a long time. For long enough the Permanent Government has gotten sloppy about it. See Sen. Ted Stevens. See the “surprise” announcement by the “Justice” department right before this election. Not much we can do about it until Republicans stay focused long enough to give their leaders the kind of numbers Obama had his first two years……
- Robert Mitchell Jr. | 11/05/2014 @ 09:51I feel fairly confident is saying that Lois Lerner and the IRS’ hamstringing of the Tea Party citizens’ groups swung the 2012 elections. That their claims are being dismissed by some bored, lazy judge as irrelevant because they “eventually were all approved” and thus “suffered no loss” is complete BS. There were consequences. And they were denied their Constitutional rights, which is per se a tangible loss.
But the Dems got what they wanted – four more years of Emperor Three Putt. Even if they toss Lerner in jail (a taxpayer can dream), it will not remedy the real harm done. There needs to be some serious reform and major penalties for these would-be kommisars if we want to see a healthy Republic again.
- nightfly | 11/05/2014 @ 12:48But the Dems got what they wanted – four more years of Emperor Three Putt
I really thought my nickname for him — “Pharaoh Threeput-Hotep” — would catch on. Alas.
- Severian | 11/05/2014 @ 14:48[…] From House of Eratosthenes, who has a great image, so click on through. […]
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