Posted on 06/25/2015 10:12:12 AM PDT by Night Hides Not
Those who have read Atlas Shrugged will undoubtedly recall Hank Rearden's meeting with the Looters, where they sought his approval of the Steel Unification Plan. During the meeting, he focused on three tumblers that opened the door to understanding the Looters for what they were, i.e. pure evil.
Today's ruling on Obamacare should be the third tumbler for those who have been deluding themselves that we are no longer a republic but an oligarchy ruled by the UniParty. As Scalia said, "words no longer have meaning." If all that matters is context and structure, the words you use are worthless.
The first two tumblers for me (as if I needed any) were the reelection of Thad Cochrane, and the reelection of Boehner as Speaker. These three events prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the GOP wing of the UniParty is not about governance, but garnering more power, influence, and money for themselves, their voters be damned!
Boehner, McConnell, Preibus, Bush, et. al. are the modern day Looters. Wesley Mouch and his friends would be proud. Floyd Ferris? Hell, that's easy...he's the ghostwriter for Chief Justice Roberts.
As John Galt would say, "do you hear me, Kenny Marchant? Do you hear me, Pete Sessions? Do you hear me, John Cornyn?" We shall be heard!
2016 will be a year of reckoning for the UniParty.
“2016 will be a year of reckoning for the UniParty.”
A lot of things could happen between now and then. I’m thinking more and more Obama will find a way, an excuse and a reason not to leave office............sound paranoid? I hope that I am.
The supreme court is infected with postmodernism. Postmodernists believe that by means of the process of deconstruction, readers of a text can ferret out its hidden or multiple meanings (polysemy). In this way, a reader’s subjective interpretation of a the text becomes more important than the text itself.Also significant is the subjectivity of the reader in determining what the author intended. Also the reader is allowed to invent new meanings. The text is freed from the tyranny of the author’s single intended meaning.
I wish some conservatives would start running as DEMOCRAT in heavily conservative areas.
If you have an INCUMBENT GOPe, he will not lose to a conservative because of all the GOPe money.
If a true conservative runs as a democrat, he might become the party’s candidate. He/she could then run hard right of the republican incumbent and possibly win.
It’s really one of the few ways I could see a conservative getting elected vs incumbent GOPe.
Neither party would like being shaken up that way which is good for us.
That won’t happen, because it would be counterproductive to the goals of the oligarchs. Obama is replacable, since pretty much any politician, R or D, that they put in there will do their bidding. So why alert the masses that something is amiss by letting Obama try to stay in office?
Your idea could work in one-party districts. Plenty of districts in Texas that are dominated by Republicans, but they’ve been in DC too long and are tied too closely to Boehner.
Agree that it has to be one-party districts. Lots of districts like it in Alabama. The candidate wouldn’t have to be loyal to either party. That’s the type of people we need in DC.
It would shake things up and they so badly need shaken up. A conservative democrat has a pretty good chance in a lot of places.
I am way now past party loyalty.
Oh, ... and I’ll add .....
Just imagine in a general election where the CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRAT candidate is running right of the GOPe. They would pick up plenty of democrats and independents to go along with the conservative voters.
This candidate will have to financial backing to win because the republicans would fight this sort of shake up.
Two words come to mind: Cloward Piven. The TEA Party could create enough havoc in a Presidential election year. I will not vote for someone not committed to the complete repeal of Obamacare, and Cruz is the only one committed to repeal.
Remember how calm Obama and his minions were during the 2012 campaign? The fix was already in. It still is.
Sadly, I agree. We can’t solve our problems at the ballot box.
Whenever “Atlas Shrugged” is quoted, I always remember how that book ended. (Of course, going Galt in a hidden valley protected by some sort of vanishing shield is not possible).
We can still starve the beast somehow; and it must be starved.
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