First IBTL?
First IBTL?
Testify, Brother Milwaukeeshaker! I'm still a registered Republican but there isn't a dimes worth of difference - empty rhetoric aside - between the corrupt and captured GOP establishment and their Democrat counterparts. Former Reagan budget director David Stockman wrote a fantastic piece calling out the pseudo-conservative Eric Cantor and his ilk on their sleaze and venality. While certain cretins on this board will automatically attack anyone who challenges their sheeplike adherence to the status quo, more and more people - especially in the GOP base - are waking up and holding their elected officials accountable, and giving grifters (and Bloomberg groupies) like Scott Morse the heave-ho.
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.co...the-war-party/
From Stockman: "Its possible to describe Rep.Eric Cantor as a serial sell-out. But that would be giving an unprincipled politician driven by an unalloyed ambition to climb the greasy pole of Washington power too much credit. In truth, Cantor never campaigned for any recognizable principle; he merely maneuvered his way to the top of the House GOP hierarchy by following in the tawdry footsteps of modern GOP bagmen like Tom DeLay and Roy Blunt."
http://www.republicreport.org/2014/dave-brat-cantor/
Another great article on how Cantor's primary defeat reflects a growing anger among the GOP rank-and-file over the perfidy of the establishment GOP, which has been all but completely captured by the mega-corporations, Wall Street crooks, and K Street lobbyists.
Like I said...you're obviously a legend in your own mind regarding what's right and wrong with the political system. Yet, with all your rhetoric and hyperbole, you still wonder why people aren't listening to you. Yeah...it's a stumper, isn't it?
In my experience the only people that believe the R's and D's are the same turn out to be liberals. As far as congresses approval rating the only times it is high is when a single party has enough control to ram it's agenda through and then one party (33%) believes they are doing good. The reason it is low is because we have conflict and gridlock and that's a good thing. It means that one party is not dominating the other party, neither party is getting everything it wants. My take is Republicans are generally there to uphold the constitution and law, Democrats seem to be there to change the constitution and skirt the law. The D's manage to always get a complete coalition to ram their issues through. R's never seem to manage any kind of a monolithic voting block to get anything through.
The R's get a bad rap because if they fart in church the media reports constantly on it, D's get a virtual pass, mention it and move on regardless of what they do. The media learned it's lesson with Jimmy Carter when they threw him under the bus with the misery index and as a side effect got Reagan elected. Now nothing the D's do will be elaborated on, it could backfire and they would loose there way on the path to socialism.
And a little name calling is good but in every other sentence is a tactic of the liberals as well, that's all they have when they don't have a logical or fact based counter point. I don't expect things to get better anytime soon, the education system has been taken over by a group that spends 16 plus years teaching our kids, "republican bad", "democrat good". I constantly talk to young people that don't even know why they believe what they believe.
We have a two party system and that is better than a three or more party system. I don't want an election where a party wins a four way race with 26% of the vote. That would mean we could have a president, a senator or a congressman, that 3/4 of the people didn't vote for or want. As flawed as our system is it is still the best one out there. So pick a party and work within the system to make it what you want it to be. Complaining about both parties won't fix anything, no party is going to be lockstep 100% with what any one person wants, ever, it's always about who's getting closer. And politics will always be about huge amounts of money, don't get caught up in the media crap about who has more and where it comes from. Me I would rather see political money come from the American Koch brothers that the Hungarian Soros, the media doesn't see that way.
So now I'm being scolded by a guy with the juvenile handle of "Buck Farack" who says fraud is OK as long as its the GOP committing it. I guess that tells me all I need to know about your ethics. Meanwhile, another dude or should I say dupe bleats that the two-party Republicrat duopoly, which has given us a $17 trillion dollar (unpayable) national debt, Obamacare, Common Core, countless infringements on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, endless bailouts for Wall Street grifters and debasement of the currency through the Fed's deranged money-printing, and oligarchs like Soros and the Koch Bros (not to mention Bloomberg) subverting our political process (for their own benefit) through their massive bribes, er, campaign contributions - according to "Big E3" that's all just swell and anybody who opposes the direction the BOTH parties are herding us in "turns out to be liberals"? Wow, we've got some really deep thinkers in the house today. No wonder we're so screwed as a country with sheep like these pulling the voting levers.
Republicans for the constitution? When have the Repubs who have regained Senate or Congressional powers back from the Dems ever then repealed all of the unconstitutional laws passed by the Dems, gun laws or otherwise? Upholding the constitution? Say John McCain R twice and click your heels. That's just the glaring Repub sellout I can think of at this time. one of the points the OP was making is that the Repubs are not angels, and if there is enough incentive (power or money) they are just as bad as a Dem. I for one am sick of my party leaning to the left, I want the right wing version that I joined in the past. The Tea Party seems to get it.
Well said, sir. The OP's point is that voters and taxpayers, regardless of party affiliation, need to hold their elected officials and party leadership accountable, period. As we did with Scott Morse. Power corrupts, as Canter, McCain, and Miss Lindsey Graham demonstrate daily through their fecklessness and contempt for traditional Republican principles. Unfortunately, our political class can count on sheep of the sort who seem to be well represented in here to mindlessly pull the R or D lever every election and parrot the party line, too ignorant or unprincipled to care that their so-called representatives, regardless of R or D labels, have been bought and paid for by K Street lobbyists who draft the bills they sign - giving us gems like Common Core and Obamacare that enrich well-connected special interests and voting blocs at the expense of taxpayers and the public interest. These same sheep then emulate their mainstream media border collies by bleating that anyone who doesn't go along with the status quo is somehow an Alex Jones conspiracy theorist or (shudder) "a Dem." Baaaaah go the good little sheep who have never had an original or independent thought in their entire life. Little do they know that they are every GOP sellouts' wet dream, since their support is automatic and mindless regardless of how badly our political elites are screwing them over or leading the country to ruin.
Do you think bi-partisan support for "immigration reform" (i.e. cheap labor for Big Business, more "entitlement" programs & votes for Democrats, despite public opposition) had anything to do with the mass influx of Central American migrant kids flooding across our southern border? I don't recall voting for this.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...-migrants.html
Um, yeah. And I guess Bobby Jindal is also carrying the water for Alex Jones or the DNC?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bailey Guns
http://news.msn.com/us/jindal-says-r...nst-washington
"I can sense right now a rebellion brewing amongst these United States," Jindal said, "where people are ready for a hostile takeover of Washington, D.C., to preserve the American Dream for our children and grandchildren."
The governor said there was a "silent war" on religious liberty being fought in the U.S. — a country that he said was built on that liberty.
"I am tired of the left. They say they're for tolerance, they say they respect diversity. The reality is this: They respect everybody unless you happen to disagree with them," he said. "The left is trying to silence us and I'm tired of it, I won't take it anymore."
Earlier this week, Jindal signed an executive order to block the use of tests tied to Common Core education standards in his state, a position favored by tea party supporters and conservatives. He said he would continue to fight against the administration's attempts to implement Common Core.
"The federal government has no role, no right and no place dictating standards in our local schools across these 50 states of the United States of America," Jindal said.
Oh, really? I said that?Quote:
Originally Posted by Cujo0920
You don't know anything about my ethics. And if lying is your MO and fabricating things I've said "tells you all you need to know" then you'll just remain clueless. I think if ethics are the topic it's clear you have none.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cujo0920
OK. That confirms it. You're just an asshole. If guys like you are right, I guess I'd rather be wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cujo0920
Oh, BTW. Bobby Jindal isn't a trash-talking moron. You are. He's intelligent and worth listening to. You aren't.