“It won’t be defeated. No point in wasting time on such efforts....”
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DEFEATISM is not a becoming attribute in a conservative. We need to fight, and not concede, EVERY battle.
This CR will prevent the next Congress from using the power of the purse to control Obama: 1) Except for immigration, the budget will be in stone until the end of 2014 and 2) the power of the purse will not be used by the Republicans in 2015 due to fears of upsetting the 2016 elections. Bingo! We will lose the power of the purse for the next 2 years if this CR passes.
That’s the problem here.
This ‘battle’ isn’t in our hands. This is a ‘lame duck’ session, and they don’t give a DAMN about what we think about this. The whole thing is being handled by the political class. No point in wasting any energy on it. This is Boner’s and Reid’s show....
It’s not defeatism. It’s recognition that we’re fighting the wrong battle. It’s the same as the Americans’ vain remonstration to parliament. Yes, here’s where we are. “In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation.” Let this be my answer to you:
“We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne. In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us!”