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To: Berlin_Freeper

These people are stupid, but dangerous.

Republicans should get their act together and support the president and fight back against these evil idiots.


7 posted on 07/16/2019 10:08:04 PM PDT by Innovative
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To: Innovative
The New Deal, Dean Acheson wrote approvingly in a book called A Democrat Looks At His Party, “conceived of the federal government as the whole people organized to do what had to be done.” A year later, Mr. (Arthur) Larson wrote A Republican Looks At His Party, and made much the same claim in his book for modern Republicans. The “underlying philosophy” of the New Republicanism, said Mr. Larson, is that “if a job has to be done to meet the needs of the people, and no one else can do it, then it is the proper function of the federal government.”

Here we have, by prominent spokesmen of both political parties, an unqualified repudiation of the principle of limited government. There is no reference by either of them to the Constitution, or any attempt to define the legitimate functions of government. The government can do whatever needs to be done; note, too, the implicit but necessary assumption that it is the government itself that determines what needs to be done. We must not, I think, underrate the importance of these statements. They reflect the view of a majority of the leaders of one of our parties, and of a strong minority among the leaders of the other, and they propound the first principle of totalitarianism: that the State is competent to do all things and is limited in what it actually does only by the will of those who control the State. …

The Conscience of a Conservative (1960), Chapter 2, page 15
If you’re expecting Republicans of such caliber to support the POTUS over their Uniparty brethren, don’t hold your breath.
25 posted on 07/16/2019 10:43:29 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Innovative
"Republicans should get their act together ..."

Right! When it snows in July in South Texas is when that will happen. This is the party that has made snatching defeat from the jaws of victory a science.

They spent so many years being the "loyal opposition" they don't know how to do any thing else.

It is really sad but they make the Keystone Cops look efficient.

30 posted on 07/17/2019 12:06:42 AM PDT by ImpBill (Republicrats/Demicans ... A pox on both their houses!)
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