Alas! Speaker Johnson Folds Like A Cheap Suit To Democrats’ Spending Increases

“...they’re both on the same side of the aisle, even with a physical aisle between them.”

There are two separate theories though. One tells everyone what they are going to do and the other accepts it. If they didn’t accept it, which would be the real aspect of governing, then there would be hopefully in time compromise and something that pushes closer to getting the problem taken care of over time. As long as one says this is it and the other says “okay,” thern you don’t have a democratic government. You have one group in charge and one nonexistent+.

The theory of democratic govenernment is where the majority can make the decisions in the best interest by vote. That means that less than half can’t make the decisions, in theory. In the house right now of the 435 seats, 220 are republican and 213 are democrat with 2 vacant. So how can it be that the majority is not getting its way? Simple, the republicans are not doing anything and the democrats are doing it all because the republicans are letting them. It’s ain’t because of numbers, it’s one party letting another run the show. So you have two parties, just one in charge completely due to the failure of the other to do their job.

I won’t let the conservatives off by saying they support the liberals. I blast them because they don’t support the conservatives. Two different reasons to blame everyone. One for each party.

wy69

If you’ll permit me, let me bottom line this for you.

Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

— Goal #15 of the 45 communist goals for the USA

Franklin Roosevelt’s rapid conversion from Constitutionalism to the doctrine of unlimited government is an oft-told story. But I am here concerned not so much by the abandonment of states’ rights by the national Democratic Party — an event that occurred some years ago when that party was captured by the socialist ideologues in and about the labor movement — as by the unmistakable tendency of the Republican Party to adopt the same course. […] Thus, the cornerstone of the Republic, our chief bulwark against the encroachment (on) individual freedom by Big Government, is fast disappearing under the piling sands of absolutism.

The Republican Party, to be sure, gives lip service to states’ rights. We often talk about “returning to the states their rightful powers”; the Administration has even gone so far as to sponsor a federal-state conference on the problem. But deeds are what count, and I regret to say that in actual practice, the Republican Party, like the Democratic Party, summons the coercive power of the federal government whenever national leaders conclude that the states are not performing satisfactorily. …

— The Conscience of a Conservative (1960), pp. 24-25

There are no two separate theories. Nor are there two separate political parties apart from in name.

And we are a republic, not a democracy. There is a big difference, and this is how the left sees democracy:

… The thesis of the state socialist is that no line can be drawn between private and public affairs which the state may not cross at will; that omnipotence of legislation is the first postulate of all just political theory.

Applied in a democratic state, such doctrine sounds radical, but not revolutionary. It is only an acceptance of the extremest logical conclusions deducible from democratic principles long ago received as respectable.

For it is very clear that in fundamental theory, socialism and democracy are almost, if not quite, one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. …

— Woodrow Wilson, Socialism and Democracy, 1887

In other words, democracy, being the same as socialism, is a totalitarian vehicle where individual rights are not recognized. Republicanism (literally the “small r” that normally distinguishes from the US political party similarly named) is therefore the governmental theory that recognizes individual rights, limited government, states’ rights, in other words all the rights and freedoms the US Constitution recognizes in word and that the Uniparty refuses to, being for “democracy” (socialism).

From your article:

“Nor are there two separate political parties apart from in name.”

My point. But having two separate parties that are working together as one and having two separate parties where one doesn’t do anything nor is accepted or even considered as part of the governing process is not the same.

I don’t believe both parties are working together. I believe only one party is working and the other has chosen not to do it’s job and does nothing. Both are contributory to the failures of this government, but in totally opposite ways. The liberals screw things up with decisions and the conservatives do with not making any or folding on them when they do when big brother calls them on it. Neither claims the other or even recognizes they may have an idea that is worthy of consideration. So no matter who is in power at the time, the liberals normally get what they want. And in the last couple of generations, basically since Reagan, the conservatives have displayed a failure at representing their party completely so we have slipped into a crime ridden, lousy economy, wrong war supporting, fear ridden society with the only desert island being Trump. And that’s only because he was not a politician but a business man and they couldn’t get anything on him. And God knows they tried and are still at it for fear he will run this year.

So it isn’t a matter of having one party because when Trump was in there was success. Imagine if the GOP actually did their job as they do exist. A small percentage of them did during Trump and look what was accomplished despite the liberals fighting every inch of the way and rino republicans doing their best to do nothing to help.

wy69

Funny you should mention McCain. He was a liberal in conservative clothing:

Such things as:

McCain declined to sign the pledge of the group Americans for Tax Reform to not add any new taxes or increase existing taxes.

McCain was one of only two Republicans to twice vote against the permanent repeal of the Estate Tax.

He was one of two Republicans who voted against Bush’s tax cuts in 2001. On Meet the Press he said, “I voted against the tax cuts because of the disproportional amount that went to the wealthiest Americans.”

In 2016, McCain called the F-35 program a “scandal and a tragedy”, noting a change in stance towards the topic from his 2012 position, as seen when an Arizonan airbase was chosen for the aircraft he lauded it as “the greatest combat aircraft in the history of the world”

He supported the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and the existing General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) agreements. Trump says it undermined U.S. jobs and manufacturing, and in December 2019, his administration completed an updated version of the pact with Canada and Mexico, now known as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The USMCA won broad bipartisan support on Capitol Hill and entered into force on July 1, 2020.

McCain proposed that seniors with higher incomes should pay higher premiums for government-provided prescription drug benefits (Medicare Part D) as a way to reduce federal spending on health care. They aren’t getting any extra service are they? They are already paying the highest tax amounts in the country.

He flip flopped on privatizing social security

McCain voted against the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (that includes Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act) on the grounds that it would not ensure competition enough in practice, making him and Oregon Senator Bob Packwood the only Republicans to vote against the measure. (Team player?)

McCain opposed the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act, introduced by Senator Jim Webb, which provides college-tuition benefits for veterans in a manner similar to that of the original G.I. Bill for veterans of World War II.

McCain said that he favored the concept of equal pay (the abolition of wage differences based on gender). He has, however, opposed specific legislation that would have given workers more time to discover sex discrimination before bringing suit under the Equal Pay Act of 1963.

Not seeing a lot of GOP favored actions there.

Your entry of the 45 communist goals was displayed by Albert S. Herlong Jr., a ten term democratic representative from Florida and every one of them is a pro liberal action of which most has been accomplished already leading to socialist conforms.

https://www.ethanallen.org/45_communist_goals_from_58_years_ago

BTW, please assist me by not mentioning the liberal GOP people like Susan Collins currently in as she is about as loyal to the GOP as Godzilla is to Tokyo. She mirrors McLain.

wy69

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