1 Robert Redford, as inspiration for the Republican Party?

Somehow, I think not.

2 Just cut the budget already, you mooks!

3 Hell yes Americans would vote for someone who had the balls to do this. Unfortunately, said balls seem to be in short supply. 

4 People DO want Christienomics ... run Christie clones .. RUN

5
Americans...are ideologically conservative but operationally liberal.

In other words: functional retards.

6
You know what the problem is?

We have a fundamental disconnect in our American culture: People don't realize it is THEY who are paying for all these free government goodies.

7 "... said balls seem to be in short supply..."

Clonefan, somehow it seems (other than Christie, I mean) that Republican women have cornered the market on that commodity.  At some point, we're going to need a new metaphor.

8 one of you morons works for JetBlue?
http://tinyurl.com/2urcm7m

9 yeah, I suppose we can expect people like McConnell and McCain to be ready to call for compromise with the Dem minority. You know, for the children and the old people.

10

The movie's last line is Redford asking, "What do I do now?"

I seem to recall this exact quote being thrown around Axelrod HQ on November 5, 2008.

11
hahaha, I just remembered another Classic Hit by Obama.

Remember when Obama put on his fiscal conservative suit and said he'd go through the entire budget, department by department, line by line, and identify all the waste?

He also said he had identified $500B in waste in Medicare. Funny how we don't hear anymore about that.

12 Close down and starve the Dept.s of Education, Energy, slash the federal work force by 35%, starve ObamaCare, repeal the Financial regulations, etc., etc.

13 10

The movie's last line is Redford asking, "What do I do now?"

I seem to recall this exact quote being thrown around Axelrod HQ on November 5, 2008.

Then Soros stood up and said:  "Everything I say".

14
Remember this farce?

Obama said he'd cut the budget deficit in HALF by the end of his first term. (Which is pretty easy to do when you jack up the budget by trillions in the first place.) But Obama still won't do it.

15
People don't realize it is THEY who are paying for all these free government goodies.

Close to 50% are paying nothing. THEY vote for YOU to pay.

16 The American Public gets that a.  we're out of money and b.  it's the public's freaking money that the government ran out of.  Yeah, I think cutting spending wouldn't exactly be unpopular.

17 >12 Close down and starve the Dept.s of Education, Energy, slash the federal work force by 35%, starve ObamaCare, repeal the Financial regulations, etc., etc.


Don't forget kill the hippies.

18 I propose that the GOP adopt a radical new approach to policy formation: Telling the truth.

19
One last question and then I'll stop with the questions.

Why is it that commenters on a friggin blog come up with more political ammo to use against Obama & the Democrats in 10 minutes than the entire GOP has in the last 21 months?

20

Republicans are too afraid of going outside their comfort zone which is being self-flagellating losers.

Reminds me of the old Frasier episode when he is visited by all his past wives/girlfriends. He finally comes to an epiphany and shouts, "You mean I've been alone because I'm afraid of being alone?"

That's the Republicans. They are afraid of being right because they might be wrong.

21 Why is it that commenters on a friggin blog come up with more political ammo to use against Obama & the Democrats in 10 minutes than the entire GOP has in the last 21 months?

See re:  balls having discussion supra.

22

_{Dance with the girl that brung ya.}

Even if she's a Tea-Baggin', Racist, Homo-Phobe?

 

23 Why is it that commenters on a friggin blog come up with more political ammo to use against Obama & the Democrats in 10 minutes than the entire GOP has in the last 21 months?

We care more.  It's not like most of us can move to a European villa if this all comes apart.

24
Can you imagine us in the White House daily presser for just one day?

We'd have Gibbs running out of the room in tears pissing his pants.

25
Democrats are corrupt, left-wing, and stupid.
Republicans are just plain stupid:

Republican to do list:  (Note: These are things you can work on, over time.  We realize that Obama has the veto pen.  Set it up so that a Republican can win the white house in 2012... and then really go after it.  Don't let us down, idiots)

1)  Grow a backbone
2)  Cut taxes - all of them.
2a)  Make sure the Bush Tax Cuts stay on the books and beat the crap out of all democrats who want to raise them.
3)  Stop the reckless spending and bailouts.
4)  Stand up to the corrupt business killing Unions.
5)  Repeal Obamacare - one tax-payer funded chunk at a time
6)  De-fund Obamacare - one tax-payer funded chunk at a time
7)  Repeal all of the democrat government take-overs and horrid strangulating regulations that devastate our economy
  Come up with a realistic plan to trim the Obama-debt bomb.
9)  Explain to the folks why it must be done.  Yes - it will be painful, but don't let the corrutpocrats bullshit the argument.  (See #1)
10)  Rinse and repeat.

26 Prepare to be disappointed.  Even if the Republicans take both houses, the same batch of wobblies that have run the party into the ground will still have the committee chairs because of their seniority in the old boys network.

Lindsey Graham at Judiciary, anyone?

27

1. Take House

2. ??????????

3. Rape House Pages!

28 @ Rollin, #24: "We'd have Gibbs try running out of the room in tears pissing his pants."

He'd have to remember that lateral motion gives him the best chance at avoiding fire.  I don't think this crowd would take kindly to a flight attempt.

29 We care more.  It's not like most of us can move to a European villa if this all comes apart.

Posted by: Methos

Speak for vous-même, buddy.....

30 Go for the jugular...rip the damn gubmint tree out by its roots/ruts...or sumpin' like that

31
Yeah, even if we're lucky enough to win the House, we'll have a pretty thin majority.

And if the Republicans govern like pussies, the Democrats will win it right back in 2012.

If they win they need to be extremely aggressive and partisan. Any weakness at all and they're toast in 2012. In other words...

32 When's the revolution start? And what's everyone wearing?

33 19
One last question and then I'll stop with the questions.

Why is it that commenters on a friggin blog come up with more political ammo to use against Obama & the Democrats in 10 minutes than the entire GOP has in the last 21 months?

Posted by: rollin' on the fat bishes at August 09, 2010 06:59 PM (2O5Hd)

< Stop all the flattering, you had us at Ammo.

34
If the Republicans were smart, which they're not, they'd be in the Gulf states pretending to give a shit about the economy and praising Gov Jindal for his heroic efforts.

35 Aqua Buddha will save us!

36 When's the revolution start? And what's everyone wearing?

White sheets!

37 33  I'm Irish, so I'll be wearing a kevlar tie in shalayalee green. And I'm sure Erin'll go brah less.  

38 When's the revolution start? And what's everyone wearing?


Black helicopters!

39 Vote for Ace's friend in the previous thread!!

40 33 When's the revolution start? And what's everyone wearing?

Posted by: Dr Spank at August 09, 2010 07:09 PM (jbVm4)

Just a 400-meter track as a  cock-ring. It's a bit tight, however..

41 And what's everyone wearing?

Stompy boots, duh. 

42 November will bring not so much an election as an intervention.

Except Barry won't be surrounded by family and close friends, since they're every bit as crazy as he is.  He'll be surrounded by the American people.

43
O/T

Goldberg stumps for fag bar in Manhattan next to mosque.

44

Seems like we have to try, whether it's ready or not.

That's the real answer. A caller into Rove's (Rush's) show today asked the same question and Rove basically gave Ace's answer.

If we win, go balls out and do the right thing and if Obama vetoes everything, hammer him to death about it. There's not much left to do, really.

 

45 41 Seet & Sour Mash ohhla.  I'm popping more than a nitroglycerin.

46  Close down and starve the Dept.s of Education, Energy, EPA, slash the federal work force and budget by 35% 50%, starve ObamaCare, repeal the Financial regulations, etc., etc.

Posted by: MCPO Airdale at August 09, 2010 06:55 PM (G5qLy)

And as Karl Rove said today when he filled in for Rush, Republicans better offer legislation to cut the budget.  Most likely, Obama will veto them.  But if they don't show they at least tried and build a record of trying, they're going to get kicked out.

47

If and when the GOP takes control of the House, they take control of all taxation and appropriation bills.  They then are in a great position to pass bills that advance a conservative agenda by proposing pro-growth tax policy and cutting appropriations for wasteful or harmful programs.

That puts the Democrats in the Senate up for re-election in 2012 (and even 2014) in a hard place if they need to demonstrate that they are fiscally responsible, and it forces President Obama to start vetoing bills that may be popular with the electorate.

48 Goldberg stumps for fag bar in Manhattan next to mosque.

Posted by: Fish at August 09, 2010 07:14 PM (v1gw3)

That's hysterical!  And he says he's serious.  I hope he is.

49 The fact is that the populace is still in a VOTING mood.

They haven't started shooting anyone yet.

But all bets are off if the next election doesn't get some elected representatives acting responsibly.

50 "Goldberg stumps for fag bar in Manhattan next to mosque. " How about a barbecue place on the other side, featuring "Genuine Mohammedan Pulled Pork."

51 I'm voting for murder, sweet, delicious murder.

52 kill the epa - yes we can

53 45
O/T

Goldberg stumps for fag bar in Manhattan next to mosque.

Posted by: Fish at August 09, 2010 07:14 PM (v1gw3)

Praise Allah...

Farraj, get me my camel and the lotion!

54
A good place to start which will establish a lot of good will would be to slash the pay and french benefits of Congress.

^{I'm dreaming, aren't I?}

55
How about a barbecue place on the other side, featuring "Genuine Mohammedan Pulled Pork."

Posted by: Bugler at August 09, 2010 07:18 PM (VXBR1)

It's at the bottom:

Update: So many great minds out there. Numerous readers say they wanted to open a strip club across the street. Others: A pork store (like Satriales in the Sopranos). I for one donÂ’t see why you have to pick just one. A strip club/gay bar with many pork dishes on the menu (and elsewhere) might work just fine. Bonus: They could give away puppies!

56 Update: So many great minds out there. Numerous readers say they wanted to open a strip club across the street. Others: A pork store (like Satriales in the Sopranos). I for one donÂ’t see why you have to pick just one. A strip club/gay bar with many pork dishes on the menu (and elsewhere) might work just fine. Bonus: They could give away puppies!

Posted by: Tami at August 09, 2010 07:19 PM (VuLos)

Why not license the name and design from the movie Porky's and call it that?

57 Goldberg stumps for fag bar in Manhattan next to mosque.

Posted by: Fish at August 09, 2010 07:14 PM (v1gw3)

+ 10 -- Gutfeld says he's serial and is already working on this!

58 yes we can

defund Democrat's monster bills

launch numerous investigations

give power to states to go through "bankruptcy" so they can renegotiate all those unfunded liabilities imposed on them by government unions

investigate, prosecute, confiscate, incarcerate ...

59 33 When's the revolution start?

We have a revolution every 24 hrs, .  (Not sure who I stole that off of).

And what's everyone wearing?

One day, the Morpheus Armor will be mine!

60 "Okay, Let's Say We Take The House. Then What?"

Then the cannolis. Leave the Progressive caucus carcass.

61 And it's not even risky. Chris Christie is a god to activist voter types.

62 #58

Go for broke. Buy a tanker-truck full of pig guts and blood, and spray it all over the construction site as they pour the concrete.

Fuck them, I watched the towers come down.

63 Populist priority numero uno for Republicans ought to be to remove the exemption of Senators and Representatives from the Obamacare bill.  That would get an approval rating of high eighties/low nineties.

64 and that means risky things. Things that could easily get them punted out of office by a public that does in fact tell itself it's for smaller government.


Except for Meg Whitman. Meg's dancing that fine line between LA Telemundo Internacional and bullshitting conservative voters in Redding.

65
And what's everyone wearing?

Moronettes can wear cheerleader outfits, without panties of course.

Not you Dum Dum.

66 Yes, in the movie Redford and his crew spilled into an empty hotel room.  He asked the question, what do I do now?  And then they all moved on, leaving the room as empty as it had been before they passed through.

67 Goldberg stumps for fag bar in Manhattan next to mosque.
Posted by: Fish at August 09, 2010 07:14 PM (v1gw3)

Fish, Ace has a new thread up on this.

68 My plan, if anyone was asking

1.  Take the house
2.  Change Appropriations bills to be for specific agencies only and appropriate quarterly. You can't be financially responsible without a finer level of control.
3.  Abort Obamacare; defund even talking about it.
4.  Incorporate useful parts of Energy, Labor, HUD, & Education Departments into Commerce via Appropriations; no fund the rest.
5.  Investigate everything, put every Communist in front of a panel for weeks on end.  It may be wasteful, but guys like Cass, Holdern, and Jennings are doing damage every day we cant see.  Put their asses in a chair, every day, all day.
6.  Order GAO investigations to strictly enforce the Anti-Deficiency Act; slam any Fed caught work beyond the scope or against the letter of their authorized tasks -- CBP here's looking at you
7.  End payroll withholding; or defund the IRS mechanisms to collect it.  Let people get their whole paychecks, and make them write a big check to Uncle Sam every October 31st (then Vote in early November).

69 Populist priority numero uno for Republicans ought to be to remove the exemption of Senators and Representatives from the Obamacare bill.  That would get an approval rating of high eighties/low nineties.

Posted by: Wodeshed at August 09, 2010 07:24 PM (zJ7zP)

Second priority, term limits and the elimination of the Capitol Police.

70  Populist priority numero uno for Republicans ought to be to remove the exemption of Senators and Representatives from the Obamacare bill.  That would get an approval rating of high eighties/low nineties.

Posted by: Wodeshed at August 09, 2010 07:24 PM (zJ7zP)

Cut, jib, newsletter.

71

/wavy lines

January, 2011.

Boner and other top GOP leaders are discussing their first order of business. One of them stands up and says, "I propose we pass comprehensive immigration reform and that way the hispanics know it was the Republicans who did it!"

The rest of the GOP leaders jump up and shout, "Brilliant!"

/wavy lines

72 So what do we do with the Maine twins when we win back the House and Senate, will we be able to get them to tow the line?  How about Downtown Scotty Brown?  We're going to need a couple of extras just in case.

73

Incorporate useful parts of Energy, Labor, HUD, & Education Departments into Commerce via Appropriations; no fund the rest.
 

There are useful parts?

Investigate everything, put every Communist in front of a panel for weeks on end.  It may be wasteful, but guys like Cass, Holdern, and Jennings are doing damage every day we cant see.  Put their asses in a chair, every day, all day.

Doesn't this necessarily include Eric "the Douche" Holder? 

7.  End payroll withholding; or defund the IRS mechanisms to collect it.  Let people get their whole paychecks, and make them write a big check to Uncle Sam every October 31st (then Vote in early November).

Me likey.  Maybe morons who voted for O'Bozo would realize what they really pay in taxes.

Posted by: Jean at August 09, 2010 07:27 PM (CPefM)

74

49  This -- if they do this and hold firm it will help a lot; no more being taken in by the senators (which may in turn shore up that house's limp wrists)

They should all be made to listen to the Preamble, with an exhortation to Seize the Day!, every morning they are in session.  They should be reminded daily that they serve at the people's leisure -- not the other way around.  They should be reminded daily that they are expendable -- as expendable as any "Pomeranian fusilier".

75 So what do we do with the Maine twins when we win back the House and Senate, will we be able to get them to tow the line?  How about Downtown Scotty Brown?  We're going to need a couple of extras just in case.

Posted by: Jaimo at August 09, 2010 07:32 PM (Y1fpu)

Yeah, I've been wondering about the Maine sisters a lot lately -- esp. since they tacked on $70 million for Maine's Medicare shortfalls to what orginally started out as a $10 million piece of legislation.  As for Brown, I think he's going to play rope-a-dope and vote 50/50 to try and keep everyone happy.

76

Dance with the girl that brung ya.

Do I have to?

77 RushBabe - There are little enclaves within those Departments that do necessary things.  Holder is harder to get to, as he has actual power and responsibilities that are delineated by the Constitution.  The other clowns and the various National Lawyers Guild asswipes under Holder are fair game - them not working is a good kinda waste.

78 33 When's the revolution start? And what's everyone wearing?

A big smile and SPF50 sunblock (I have very fair skin).

79

49 This and perhaps shoring up adherence to the actual Constitution and support of those who would.  Do that and I would be happy, as it is a good start.

And if they don't allow themselves to be rolled by the senators either (the Maine sisters and their ilk need to have their ears boxed) -- it might shore up those who are limp wristed.

Other than that, they need to be reminded daily that they serve the people, at the people's leisure; that fortune favors the brave, and the brave seize the day; and that they are expendable -- as expendable as the most lowly "Pomeranian fusilier".  Possibly make them listen to a speech covering those tenets as well as the Preamble every single day until they get it right...followed by recitation of the Pledge and their oath.

80 How about you run on repeal and then DO THIS SHIT YOU RAN ON.

81 One problem is that no matter what they do the media will work very hard to destroy the Republicans to help Obama. Media coverage can turn a bloodless victory into a infamous defeat.

82

How about this for an overall spending plan:

We will spend less next year than this year, and we will not spend one penny more until we get into surplus.

 

 

83 I was just discussing this very thing with my husband before dinner. I'm ready to burn the whole thing down IF the Republicans don't turn this shit around. I'm. Fed. Up. I went to an event today with a candidate for Governor in my state. It was the same old, same old "I'll create jobs and lower taxes OH and the other guy is a crook" There were no specifics. Nothing but feel good sound bites. After being 2 hours late and offering me nothing but a live version of one of his numerous political commercials... I am just disgusted and pissed off and ready to light a match.

84
Jihardon as the name of a drink?

85
oops

86 You had me at Jayne Cobb.

87 I wanna try out my Jihad-damned Good Pork Rib recipe at the new place.

BBQ so good, make you wanna smack yo camel!

88 toby92, yes force a statis on everything.  Obama can veto any positive action -- but he can't put money into an appropriations account.  If he votes the appropriation bills - then he shuts down the Government.

89 toby92, yes force a statis on everything.  Obama can veto any positive action -- but he can't put money into an appropriations account.  If he votes the appropriation bills - then he shuts down the Government.

Posted by: Jean at August 09, 2010 08:02 PM (CPefM)

Stasis For Dummies, please?

90 Of course, when the government cuts, it doesn't cut bloat, it cuts the stuff that people actually need: police, fire, roads.  It's a brilliant form of retribution - "Look, you said cut, we cut.  Now you want us to put stuff back?"

91

@19: "Why is it that commenters on a friggin blog come up with more political ammo to use against Obama & the Democrats in 10 minutes than the entire GOP has in the last 21 months?"

One group wishes to be rid of him; the other, not so much.

92 They can cut anything and everything they want as far as I am concerned.

93

@25: "Republican to do list:  (Note: These are things you can work on, over time.  We realize that Obama has the veto pen.  Set it up so that a Republican can win the white house in 2012... and then really go after it.  Don't let us down, idiots)

1)  Grow a backbone
2)  Cut taxes - all of them.
2a)  Make sure the Bush Tax Cuts stay on the books and beat the crap out of all democrats who want to raise them.
3)  Stop the reckless spending and bailouts.
4)  Stand up to the corrupt business killing Unions.
5)  Repeal Obamacare - one tax-payer funded chunk at a time
6)  De-fund Obamacare - one tax-payer funded chunk at a time
7)  Repeal all of the democrat government take-overs and horrid strangulating regulations that devastate our economy
  Come up with a realistic plan to trim the Obama-debt bomb.
9)  Explain to the folks why it must be done.  Yes - it will be painful, but don't let the corrutpocrats bullshit the argument.  (See #1)
10)  Rinse and repeat."

 

11) Next Republican President - fire every single dem in any appointed position that you have authority to fire.  Every single one, as soon as you take your hand off the Bible. 

12) Revoke Kennedy's executive order allowing government employees to unionize.   To be done as soon as you've finished the last syllable of "Fired" from No. 11.

94

@26: "Prepare to be disappointed.  Even if the Republicans take both houses, the same batch of wobblies that have run the party into the ground will still have the committee chairs because of their seniority in the old boys network"

Yeah, get rid of the Main Street project clowns.  Any ostensible Republican who, when the party finally gets control of the government, immediately says: "Jeepers, guys, I think we're being too conservative; we need to become more moderate" should be kept as far as possible from any position where they could decide/influence the decision on anything important, i.e., anything beyond what to have for lunch.

95 Of course, when the government cuts, it doesn't cut bloat, it cuts the stuff that people actually need: police, fire, roads.  It's a brilliant form of retribution - "Look, you said cut, we cut.  Now you want us to put stuff back?"

Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at August 09, 2010 08:09 PM (ySNz/)

Columbus still has a class each of Police and Fire that are desperately needed and hanging out and waiting for the money so that they can go forward.

BTW, a $20M bridge in Downtown just got finished at $60M and four years late. It's a bridge to an abandoned factory and the site of a proposed casino that no one wants.

Thanks Progs!

96

@61: "We have a revolution every 24 hrs, ."

No, we have a rotation every 24 hours.  We have a revolution every 365 days.

 

97
Point out how snobby, elite, ridiculous the hypocritical the left-wing elite are in the nation:

Michelle's Costa del Sol trip
John Kerry's yacht
The Clinton wedding....


(I wonder if John Edwards can enlighten us as to what "America" the above live in?)

98 Ye of so little faith, the Republicans will do just fine ...., if they gag and marginalize McCain, Graham and Maine's DitzyTwins.

99 From the original Townhall article:

Many Republicans fear they will look as clueless as Redford.
[...]
Some young House Republicans have put out a call for voters to e-mail their ideas.

And that in a nutshell is what is wrong with all too many Republicans. They don't have any real beliefs, or at least, any that they can stand up and fight for.

100

As a bible loving supporter of fully automatic shotguns, I am concerned about this dangereous rhetoric.

Because the GOP is already plotting partisan vitriol, I can no longer support the party of Reagan, who I voted for president 3 times.

If Republicans want my vote, they'll have to prove that they love children and want health care for everyone, the way Obama does.

 

 

101 They have to do something -- and that means risky things.

It's all very simple: They talked the talk, so once they gain control they need to walk the walk. Republicans talk up a good game about out-of-control spending and bloated government but when the time comes, the Democrats should be forced into making the lion's share of the compromising. No more McCain-ish reaching-across-the-aisle bullshit.

Republicans are supposed to be the opposition party to Democrats, and it's time they either prove it or get the hell out of the way.

102 27

1. Take House

2. ??????????

3. Rape House Pages!

#2 would have to be "Figure out how to pull Barney Frank off of them."

103

Republicans are supposed to be the opposition party to Democrats, and it's time they either prove it or get the hell out of the way.

And even more important - they need to become the opposition party to the MFM that the Dems depend on for perpetual smooth sailing with no accountability.  It's as easy as 1-2-3.

1. Call out the pollsters who are paid to lie for Democrats for what they are - crooks.

2. Tell the talking airheads who want to play Propaganda Minister, "Fuck You - Next Question!"

3. Tell the people the truth.

104

The GOP needs to learn from its mistakes in 1994.  Let's recount what those mistakes were.

1.  The GOP ignored what its voters actually wanted. 

No, they were not voting for the Contract With America, sorry Hannity.  They were specifically voting against Clinton's "assault weapons" ban.  It may surprise you to know that most voters had never even heard of the Contract!

So what did the GOP do?  It put the repeal of the AWB on the back burner, and when it did vote, rejected repealing it.  By doing so, the GOP eliminated the main reason for voting for it.

So why did the GOP say "fuck you" to the gun owners who had supported them?  That brings us to number...

2.  The GOP got hung up on the concept of opposing special interests, instead of following the right policies.

The Democrats managed to get ahold of some sort of quote from Newt Gingrich in which he told the NRA that he would kill any gun control legislation.  The media hyped this up as Newt "doing the bidding of the gun lobby" and made him back down; he eventually not only killed the repeal of the AWB, but got the egregiously unconstitutional ex post facto gun control Lautenberg Amendment passed.

Look, the voters if polled will tell you they hate "special interests."  This means roughly jack shit.  In practice, they hate special interests whose interests conflict with theirs, and they accept special interests whose interests match theirs.  Had Gingrich said, "You're damned right I won't pass gun control legislation," he would have maintained his base of voters.  Instead, the GOP gradually got pulled into the fool's game of trying to purify politics through byzantine and unconstitutional campaign finance laws, which poll well but nobody really cares about.

3.  The GOP passed controversial "bipartisan legislation" during a lame duck session in tandem with outgoing Democrats.

In 1994, that was the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).  Most conservative economists supported it, and so did Gingrich.  Nevertheless, it was not very popular among the populace, and was hated by the very blue-collar workers who had elected the Gingrich Congress.  Regardless of whether GATT helped or hurt the US economy--and, quite honestly, considering that we're still signing "free trade" treaties almost 20 years later, I have to wonder exactly was so urgent about this "general" one that it couldn't wait till after the new Congress took over--the fact that Newt got it passed during a lame duck session created an angry feeling of betrayal among the voters.

Sound familiar?  WE MUST NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, ALLOW ANY LEGISLATION BE PASSED IN A LAME DUCK SESSION, EVEN--NO, ESPECIALLY, IF IT IS TAGGED AS "CONSERVATIVE" LEGISLATION.

4.  The GOP allowed its "old bulls" to continue in committee assignments--men who were professional traitors for the Democrats--and they continued as traitors.

In Robert A. Heinlein's book Take Back Your Government! he discusses this problem.  Reformers typically would come to power in a city held by a "machine" as candidates of the opposite party.  Unfortunately, the candidates of that party were mostly professional traitors--Heinlein's own term--who were bribed by the machine party to help the machine keep working.  In some cases, the reformers would root out the traitors and fire them from every position possible; in such situations, the reforms were able to take hold.  More often, \however, the traitors, in conjunction with tame media outlets, would convince them to be "adult" and "responsible" and to let "experienced pols" "guide" the reformers.  Of course, they would continue to act as traitors, and usually the reformers were gone within an election or two.

Similarly, the GOP in 1994 originally planned to put young rebels in charge of committee assignments.  Instead, the GOP leadership agreed to let longtime sellouts such as Bob Dole in the Senate and Henry Hyde (a gun control supporter) continue in positions of power.

So what does this mean in 2010 terms?

First, per # 1, we must stick like glue to the issues that win the election for us, and never back down on them.  We must risk everything on repeal of Obamacare--all of it--and kill any and all attempts at amnesty for illegal immigrants.  Period.  No compromises.  If any Republican wants to bail on these issues, we should do anything to hurt and humiliate him, including finding dirt on his family.  It's that fucking important.

Second, per # 2, we need to know how to respond to the special interest charges.  Do not run from such accusations; embrace them in a way that disarms their argument.  If someone says "You're a tool of the NRA," say, "If supporting the right of Americans to defend their families makes me a tool of the NRA, I'm damned proud to be their tool!"  If someone says, "You're a tool of Big Pharma," say, "No, unlike Big Pharma, I want to repeal Obama's socialized medicine."

Third, we need to tell Lindsay Graham and Judd Gregg, NO WAY IN HELL WILL WE LET YOU PASS ANY LEGISLATION IN A LAME DUCK CONGRESS.  IF IT'S AS "CONSERVATIVE" AS YOU SAY IT IS, PASS IT IN A GOP CONGRESS.  And we need, once again, to use blackmail if necessary to get our way here.

Finally, we need to make sure that the Republicans leading the charge are down for the fight.  Those Republicans who are known as compromisers cannot be in charge of key committee assignments.  Once again, we may need to use blackmail here to prevent them from switching parties.

If we avoid these mistakes, we should be doing just fine in November 2012.

105 Okay, stay with me on this one: I don't want to take the House in 2010, and neither should you. Why? Well, we've been down this road before:

(1) Anything that the GOP does that turns the country around... Obama gets credit, just as Bill Clinton continues to get all the credit for the economy from 1995-2000.

(2) We can't get our legislation passed. Even if we had both houses of Congress, anything that we pass has to be watered-down enough to avoid an Obama veto. As Mark Steyn puts it, mix a pint of vanilla ice cream with a pint of dog shit, and the quart mixture is going to taste more like the latter than the former.

(3) The House GOP becomes Obama's foil. Anything that bad happens, Obama points to the House and says "the Republicans are gumming up the works." And the press will let him get away with it. Remember the 1995 government shutdown? Bill Clinton vetoed the GOP's budgets, but the storyline became "the Republicans shut down the government."

Bottom line: we don't need the House to gum up the works enough to prevent Obama from making things worse. We just have to get close, and we'll get a few conservative Democrats to jump aboard.

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109  That would be wise if we weren't dealing with the second coming of the Peron's. 

You elaborate most of the things I'm afraid of going into '12, but this is a catch 22: I don't think the country can withstand 2 more years of these insane statists; we also can't afford the chance of the bastards getting back into power. 

It's full court press time: pressure must be put on the government by electing a Congress that will put the brakes on this president, but simply winning the Nov. elections will not be enough; the Tea Party and every other group can't go back to sleep -- if the media, academia, and unions are let off the hook the Dems will be back, and worse than ever in '12.

107 Can't one of you politicians promise me a piece for voting for you? I'm getting F---Ked anyway you look at it.

108 5.  Investigate everything, put every Communist in front of a panel for weeks on end.  It may be wasteful, but guys like Cass, Holdern, and Jennings are doing damage every day we cant see.  Put their asses in a chair, every day, all day.
6.  Order GAO investigations to strictly enforce the Anti-Deficiency Act; slam any Fed caught work beyond the scope or against the letter of their authorized tasks -- CBP here's looking at you

Daryl Issa's coming to town! He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. He knows if you've been bad or good...

109 Lets Work for it
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