Posted on 04/26/2015 7:16:06 AM PDT by Mariner
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is by most accounts an awkward, charmless politician who is motivated by little more than a ruthless desire to accrue power and win his next election. He has no set ideological principles (he was once a labor-friendly, pro-choice moderate, for example) and despite having been in Congress for some three decades, no legislation of real significance bears his name. To all appearances, he is exactly the kind of nakedly ambitious cipher that our society rewards but that we the people claim to hate. I would, generally speaking, rather write about someone else.
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
Now, all I can say is: If the shoe fits, wear it.
The GOP and ALL denizens of Washington DC are corrupt and not worth the powder and shot to blow them to hell.
Unfortunately, we’;ll have to spend money on fair trials, and security for the hangings.
Elias Isquith....sounds like a character from Dickens.
That's laughable ignorance right there, I don't care who you are.
LOL... Have you taken a look at Sharpton, Hillary and all the rest of the democrat crooks and liars?
He and Boehner are epitomizing what our Founders never wanted: Professional politicians, polluted by DC, unanswerable to the elected.
FTA: “Not a single one of these initiatives, you’ll notice, could be fairly described as progressive. They’re not necessarily conservative, either. What binds them together, instead, is that their strongest supporters are all very wealthy — and most of them are corporate. That’s usually the case with bills that survive today’s Congressional gauntlet; they ignore the people altogether, and are sometimes even against the public interest. Without fail, though, they’re supported by the kind of lobbyists and organizations with so much money (and so few principles) that they’re happy to donate to whomever holds power at the moment. Et voilà! bipartisanship.”
Now there’s a somewhat ‘fair and balanced’ statement, surprisingly from Salon. But it goes on to whine about the failure to achieve “PROGRESS” in their twisted view of THE CONSTITUTION. We are a “REPUBLIC” not a “democracy”!!
Some truth in the article. Yes, the turtle is a crony capitalist whore who will use any and all means to advance the agenda of his cronies. No, Ted Cruz has nothing to do with it.
Drop the kneejerk antagonism to conservatism and it would be a pretty good article.
Forget for a moment ideology. The only difference between democrats and republicans is when republicans steal, they siphon off funds from corporate profits. Democrats steal directly from the treasury.
Republicans believe the more people that work, the more money is made and their stealing isn’t a big issue because everyone gets theirs. Democrats leave a wake of destruction in their path without regard for anyone.
Because THEY are, does that mean the GOP is not?
Hardly.
Call a spade a spade. It's psychologically and morally healthy.
It's freedom.
Dingy is worse and arguably runs Ditch Mitch.
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Our Forefathers well understood how to deal with government malefactors too willing to advance the cause of tyranny.
The first conflict of the American Revolution might be said to be the result of the Stamp Act of 1765. In August of 1765, Andrew Oliver, the stamp agent in Boston was hung in effigy from the Liberty Tree and forced to resign his commission.
"What a greater Joy did ever New England see
Than a Stampman hanging on a Tree".
Lt. Gov Thomas Hutchinson and the sheriff attempted to break up the crowd around midnight only to be driven off by a hail of stones and harsh commentary.
A couple of weeks later a crowd gathered and lit a bonfire on King St in Boston. They then moved on to the house of William Story, a Crown agent in the admiralty court. The crowd swarmed the house, destroying Story's papers and his furnishings as well as Court records held there.
The crowd then moved on to the home of Boston's Controller of Customs, Benjamin Hallowell. They tore down his fence, broke out his windows, stormed the house and stripped it of contents.
The next target of the night was Hutchinson's home. The Lt. Gov. had gotten warning and sent his family to safety. But his eldest daughter had returned and declared she would stay unless Hutchinson also departed. Hutchinson retreated with her to a neighbor's house. The crowd did its work again and left only a shell and a partial roof to greet the dawn.
Thus our ancestors met overreaching government. It was not the last battle but merely a beginning. There followed the Declaratory Act and the Townsend Acts and the Tea Act. Martial law and direct resistance pushed back and forth until "The Shot Heard 'Round the World" and then it was game on.
Still, I refuse to click to that site. Every visit drops my IQ 30 points and requires 30 hours of listening to Mark Levin to regain it.
I was thinking along the lines of the French Revolution. The technology to control the aristocracy was developed back then.
GOP wins big then the Fake Leadership destroys it
The pols have gotten slicker in the last 250 yrs.
What is there to directly attack? I don’t think gathering outside the white house of even individuals houses is going to be very effective.
Without the direct threat of destruction, they can safely ignore us like children throwing tantrums. We’ll get tired of it soon enough.
Vote ‘em out? We DID...and we get mealy mouthed dissembling and passage of the very laws they were sent to defeat.
I am disgusted.
Our forefathers had direct and tangible targets to attack and demonize. You could point them out in the street and they were few.
The enemies of freedom are well dispersed and either hidden or well protected.
{shrug} Don’t know whats next.
white house “or”...not “of”
PFL
Helluva choice we have these days.
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