Corrupt Establishment GOP is Crony Capitalism's Bought and Paid for Political Arm

[Irving]

I'm sorry, but I believe your post, the first answer to the OP is what started us down the road of name calling, then others joined in when they smelled blood in the water.

Cujo's response to Jim, in the first thread Cujo started this last week was what has set the tone for the way the entire board reacts to him.

[Cujo0920]

Thomas Jefferson warned against the corrupting influence of the "monied interests" on politics. The GOP has been no less immune than the DNC, although the rot is far more deep and systemic among the Dems and their voter base, and the GOP base is showing an increased disaffection with crony capitalism and beltway insiders controlling our political discourse and policies. Which is a positive development.

I have no "plans" or ability to change the GOP to my liking. The only thing I can do as an individual is to support individual candidates (like Dave Brat) who seem to be guided by conservative principles, and withhold my support to bodies like the National Republican Senatorial Committee that keep asking for money but then funnel it to candidates like Cantor or McCain who represent the worst of what our political class has become. I refused to vote for McCain or Romney in the last two elections, as I'm not going to keep holding my nose and voting for the "lesser of two evils." Let America experience the wonders of Hope & Change - it might wise up the Obama Zombies and open people's eyes. But as a nation, I'm afraid we are going to have to reap the consequences of decades of cumulative fiscal and personal profligacy and irresponsibility, and a money-driven political process, before We the People get fired up enough to demand real change and true accountability (and stop passing each generation's unsolved problems onto future generations).

[Cujo0920]

Cujo's response to Jim, in the first thread Cujo started this last week was what has set the tone for the way the entire board reacts to him.

OK, so this thread has been viewed 457 times at last count, and a grand total of four or five posters have felt the need to pile on with derogatory comments. So are these the self-appointed representatives of "the entire board"?

For the crime of pointing out that big-money donors and lobbyists with shady agendas have exerted a corrupting influence on the GOP leadership, I've been called a flag-burner, a HuffPost plant, a "progressive," a Dem, etc. If I swatted a few flies in response, that shouldn't surprise anyone.

That said, this is getting a little too fratricidal for my tastes. I'll dial it back and hope my "fans" will do the same.

[Great-Kazoo]

That said, this is getting a little too fratricidal for my tastes. I'll dial it back and hope my "fans" will do the same.

Bummer, hoping you were taking your murse and going home. Don't confuse the times viewed with responses posted. Most folks honed their patience with nynco, and few other left of center members. You'll learn one of 3 ways,

1 - stop posting and using progressive trash, buzz words

2 - see 1

3- take your ball & bat, leaving on your own

4 - sent to the time out corner

5 - given the boot

my money is on 4, then possibly 5. i don't see your tolerance and diversity winning over fans. Well maybe 1 or 2.

FWIW: until more folks have him on the ignore list, i'll keep seeing the same tired shit. HINT.

[centrarchidae]

The feeling is mutual. Now go back to being a tool.

Yes, Bailey. This thread is for cujo and Milwaukeeshaker to harrumph each other. Stop crapping in their private time.

So are these the self-appointed representatives of the entire board?

The world is run by the folks who show up.

I imagine that there's a lesson in that about the underlying topic of the thread...

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[Cujo0920]

"It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes...

No free government can stand without virtue in the people and a lofty spirit of patriotism, and if the sordid feelings of mere selfishness shall usurp the place which ought to be filled by public spirit, the legislation of Congress will soon be converted into a scramble for personal and sectional advantages...

It is one of the serious evils of our present system of banking that it enables one class of society--and that by no means a numerous one--by its control over the currency, to act injuriously upon the interests of all the others and to exercise more than its just proportion of influence in political affairs."

Andrew Jackson

[Cujo0920]

http://www.testosteronepit.com/home/...ion-at-gm.html

More crony capitalism (at Gubmint Motors) in action as taxpayers keep a bloated, inefficient, non-competitive company from failing ("O" needs those UAW votes).

[milwaukeeshaker]

Really? How eloquent.

Yes, Bailey. This thread is for cujo and Milwaukeeshaker to harrumph each other. Stop crapping in their private time.



The world is run by the folks who show up.

I imagine that there's a lesson in that about the underlying topic of the thread...

Sent from my spark-gap transmitter.

[Ronin13]

I'll chime in: first, to those who say both parties are the same explain debate and deadlock in congress. It can't be that just those few "tea party" kids are ruining the fun for the dems and "dem lite." Second, the term "dem lite" is stupid, it implies that the person using the term is either too ignorant to recognize a difference in party ideology or too lazy. Third, Cujo, you seem to be extremely offended by Bailey's avatar of "Buck Farack", anyone right of center (or even center) would find it, at the very least, humorous. If I bad mouth Hillary will you declare jihad on me? Finally, I find it a bit hypocritical to declare you avoid ad hominem attacks just a sentence prior to you doing the same. Oh and the sheep-like reference is just silly, that would be implying that we don't have original thought, which clearly since no one here is spouting CNN talking points is just patently false, plenty of original ideas, even Milwaukee and Cujo have, just they sound awful Liberal to me, even if they're not mainstream liberal ideas.

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[Big E3]

I think one reason this whole conversation is suspicious is it just seems to me that this matter would be better served over on one of the liberal sites. The continuing to beat on republicans here seems counterproductive. It appears that your assignment was to go to a site with a bunch of gun totting red necks and if you can't change there minds you don't stand a chance with the real lunatics at a liberal site. And your instructor should have given you some names of politicians that are local to this area. The names I constantly hear from you are Eric Cantor, John McCain, David Brat, Scott Morse (or did you mean John Morse), most of us here can't vote for any of these guys anyway.

I would have thought "Milwakeeshaker" would have at least mentioned Scott Walker as a champion of the cause. Or as your name implies you came from Wisconsin where you tried and fail to "shake" things up and get rid of the good Governor. And "Cujo" really a rabid crazy attacking dog, enough said.

When you fell off the turnip truck, did it run over your head? Are you saying anger over how the Democrats AND Republicans shafted my kids and their generation by sticking them with Wall Street's gambling debts, and foisting abominations like Common Core and Obamacare on schoolkids and taxpayers are somehow "out of the liberal playbook"? Are you seriously that deluded and delusional? Good G*d, man, you sound like a prime candidate for a court-ordered sterilization.

As far as that head injury I received in the accident with the truck hauling turnips, you don't know anything about it you weren't there, pure speculation on your part. And as far as court ordered castration, I won that case. I'm surprised that you would advocate that a government could have right cut your balls off, that speaks volumes about your stance of government intrusion.