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| kbp | Sep 12 2015, 08:56 AM Post #16 |
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EXACTLY! 
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| Baldo | Sep 12 2015, 10:37 AM Post #17 |
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Boehner is accused of being a drunk, lazy, tanning bed golfer. So I guess he does have something in common with Obama. I subscribe to the school of thought DC politics is just like Big Time Wrestling. They go out pretend to hit each other, make threatening calls, and the both agree to spend more money and grab more power to make government bigger, which they always do! It is all a big show! Then afterwards they go out together in elitist DC and get wined, dined, and in some cases enjoy the fruits of younger flesh. Laughing all the way about the game of DC politics |
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| Baldo | Sep 12 2015, 10:41 AM Post #18 |
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BTW Longstop just posted this OBAMA STAFFERS PARTY, SMOKE CUBAN CIGARS ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF BENGHAZI, 9/11 TERROR ATTACKS WASHINGTON – Top Obama administration and White House officials partied away on the night of the anniversary of 9-11 and the Benghazi terror attack. State Department senior communications adviser Marie Harf and White House national security adviser Ben Rhodes joined some friends Friday for a night of partying at the Blackfinn Saloon blocks from the White House. Harf, who runs point on promoting President Obama’s Iran nuclear deal, and Rhodes, a graduate of the New York University creative-writing program who falsely revised the administration’s talking points to pin the Benghazi attack on a spontaneous response to a Youtube video, were in good spirits. “Look! Trust But Verify,” Harf said excitedly to a guest wearing a pin with the slogan, clearly referring to Obama’s controversial Iran deal that allows the Islamic country to continue its nuclear program with some level of inspection. Harf, clad in a purple dress, walked out of the establishment but returned at approximately 10 PM, spending the next forty-five minutes holding court in the saloon’s ritzy back bar. As Robin Thicke and Pitbull videos played in the darkened party space, Harf settled in the middle of a crowd of well-heeled Washingtonionans, who drank, schmoozed, and occasionally danced without an apparent care in the world. Ben Rhodes, dressed to the nines, slipped out of the party relatively early, performing a farewell tour within his social group that involved kissing a woman on both cheeks and loudly saying “I love you.” Rhodes hurried into a cab, dropping his cigar, marked with a red tape seal, on the sidewalk as he left. That cigar, obtained by Breitbart News, was an H. Upmann Magnum 46 cigar with a seal that read “Habana Cuba.” http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/11/obama-staffers-party-smoke-cuban-cigars-on-anniversary-of-benghazi-911-terror-attacks/ That is DC! My goodness we are getting screwed |
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| Joan Foster | Sep 12 2015, 10:47 AM Post #19 |
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Perfect analogy!   
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| Duke parent 2004 | Sep 12 2015, 12:44 PM Post #20 |
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If you’re going to read just one book this year, make it By the People:. Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission, by Charles Murray of the American Enterprise Institute.. To my mind Murray has been the most penetrating and persuasive social theorist in the United States these past three decades. Here are the titles of the first five chapters of By the People:. “A Broken Constitution,” “A Lawless Legal System,” “An Extralegal State Within the State,” “A Systemically Corrupt Political System,” and “Institutional Sclerosis and Advanced Democracy.”. Murray’s overall assessment makes my own seem by comparison that of a mere milquetoast naysayer:. Our corruption is no longer reversible by conventional means. From the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Constitution starting in the late 1930s through the explosion of the Code of Federal Regulations to almost 200,000 pages today from a “mere” 23,000 in 1960, Murray lays out a compelling case for the death of federalism in any semblance that the Founders would have recognized their brainchild.. Worse yet, the damage can no longer be reversed by politics as usual--by, say, electing more conservative representatives or appointing “originalists” to the federal courts.. For example, the Supreme Court will never revert to the pre-1930s understanding of the general-welfare clause, an understanding that never encompassed legitimating what has become the leviathan entitlement state of our time. Short of welcoming a collapse that would give us an opportunity to begin anew, Murray is left with recommending “systematic civil disobedience” to the most obnoxious of the regrettably far too numerous depredations of federal bureaucrats.. I think this approach of his stands little chance of filling stadiums with like-minded partisans.. Myself, I’ll wait for the collapse while devoting what’s left of my energy to family, friends, and local matters in which my carping might actually make a difference.. Where in Absurdistan is the stoic? |
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| Joan Foster | Sep 12 2015, 02:13 PM Post #21 |
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Ahhh, DP, so good to have you posting again. "Absurdistan"...love it! I'll order the book for Mr. F. And myself. |
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| Joan Foster | Sep 15 2015, 09:12 AM Post #22 |
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http://thefederalist.com/2015/09/15/republican-leaders-have-no-plan-for-planned-parenthood/#.Vfgkd8o0gOI.twitter The spending showdown looms in Washington. The Center for Medical Progress has released a tenth Planned Parenthood video, showing a top PP executive saying some clinics “generate a fair amount of income doing this” – “this” being the sale of aborted baby parts. Mitch McConnell’s fall agenda: “infrastructure funding, cybersecurity reform, a chemical safety bill”. “None of them by themselves fundamentally change the country. But they’re all important,” McConnell said.” For a membership that just came back from getting an earful from constituents about Planned Parenthood, Iran, and Donald Trump, that’s not very comforting. The disturbing part about all of this is that McConnell still seems to be operating under the assumption that the above agenda amounts to leadership. It doesn’t. Responsible leadership responds to the demands of the people by synthesizing and channeling this anti-Washington emotion into something productive. You have to give the stray voltage, in David Plouffe’s expression of the phrase, a direction to go – otherwise it eventually turns on you. But that’s not what the Senate leadership is interested in doing at all. In the absence of a viable vehicle for this rage, and with McConnell repeatedly stressing that shutdown politics must be avoided at all costs and that Planned Parenthood will be funded, the only takeaway is that the Republican Party is uninterested in even having that fight. Rather than put a CR on the floor that defunds Planned Parenthood and forcing Democratic and Republican Senators to go on television decrying it or defending it for weeks, McConnell has declared that such a strategy is DOA, and that he’s talked to all the pro-life groups and they agree. Someone tell SBA List’s Chuck Donovan: Sherpas in the pro-life grassroots are determined to take Everest this time. Planned Parenthood has indeed gone too far. The ice that has formed over their hearts is a mile thick. No global warming is happening there. And this time there are alternative trails and passes galore, in the form of community health centers that provide more and safer services for women and their families. Defunding is a fight worth having, and reaching the summit is possible, but only if we do not shrink from the challenge. The Senate plan, so far as can be detected, is “maximum shrinkage”. There was an epithet thrown at those pushing for shutdown over Obamacare that amounted to “what’s your plan?” Meaning to depict the shutdown pushers as Underpants Gnomes, seeking “Shutdown…Profit!” But now the leadership is full of people openly admitting they have no plan. What’s your plan to address the rage over Planned Parenthood? Make some noise, then allow it. What’s your plan to address the Iran deal? Make some noise, then allow it. What’s your plan to address Obama’s push to bust the BCA caps on spending? Make some noise, then allow it. They won’t even offer a fig leaf of a border security measure to address the Trumpist uprising. They honestly believe Maximum Shrinkage is an agenda that will inspire everyone to get on that GOP train for next year. Yuval Levin has better advice: f Republicans approach such a fight focused sharply on the aim of drawing attention to the extremism of abortion advocates, they might find some creative ways to start and end the argument on their terms. They could, to take one example, propose a continuing resolution that denies federal funds to Planned Parenthood, and then, when Democrats filibuster that measure, Republicans could demand to include language in a revised continuing resolution (shorn of the defunding language) that, in the style of a finding or resolution of condemnation, plainly states that a majority of the Congress believes federal funds should not flow to Planned Parenthood because the organization commits hundreds of thousands of abortions per year and has been found to be engaged in deplorable trafficking in human organs, that a minority of the Congress and President Obama threaten to shut down the government rather than withhold such funding, and that the majority has therefore agreed for this year to abide their extremism for the sake of keeping the government functioning but looks forward to a time when taxpayers are not compelled by a radical minority to support inhumanity. They might then list the names of the members who want to deny federal money to Planned Parenthood, and those who don’t. Such a measure would make it difficult for the press to ignore the facts about Planned Parenthood and the videos that precipitated the controversy. It would not be easy for the president to shut down the government just to withhold his signature from such language. And if he did, it would only draw more attention to the underlying controversy—since all the measure would do would be to put some plain facts on the record. It would really require Democrats to shut down the government just to keep the country’s eyes closed to what Planned Parenthood is, and this would be no easy feat. There is little sign that leadership is listening, unfortunately. Within the next few weeks, the likeliest result of all this is that Senate Republicans will allow the Iran deal to proceed; they will allow Planned Parenthood to be funded; and they will allow a continuing resolution that busts the defense and non-defense caps of the Budget Control Act to be busted. Congratulations, Senators: by shrinking from each of these fights, you just raised a middle finger to fiscal, social, and national security conservatives. And you just gave every outsider candidate for the 2016 nomination more fuel for their populist fires. Edited by Joan Foster, Sep 15 2015, 09:14 AM.
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