Lazamataz's Opus: No longer a Republican (Vanity)

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[Lazamataz]

Well, they went and did it.

The Republicans look like they will wimp out, not exercise the so-called Nuclear Option, and Harry Reid will PERMIT two judges to be approved and disapprove four others. Does anyone think for a second the Democrats won't "go nuclear" in a heartbeat if the roles were reversed?

This seals the deal for me. I am a Republican no more. It seems it does not matter if I vote Republican anyways, all I get is more liberalism. I am a man without a political party. I am a conservative without a home.

Between Bushes enthusiastic embrace of illegal immigration, and our party's inability to get even moderately conservative judges approved, what's the freakin' point of voting Republican any more? What's the point of voting? I will get liberalism no matter how I vote. My main issue is guns, and it appears the Democrats have learned their lesson on that one, so it appears I will be safe on the firearms front. Everything else the Republicans stand for, they stand for in word only. They do not seem to want to act. Therefore, I do not seem to want to vote Republican any more.

This is my Opus -- not from Free Republic, but from the Republican party. Even when they have the majority, they surrender.

The Republican Party is the France of politics.

[Rightly Biased]

I'm always late to the party.

Get a better ride.

[The Great Yazoo]

this big ol' golden Buddha is carried down the aisle and placed it on the altar

Is it just me or has it struck others as odd that Buddhism consists of a bunch of really skinny living people worshiping the idol of a big fat dead guy. They could use a Big Mac and fries; Siddhattha Gotama looks to me like he hit a few drive-throughs on his path to enlightenment.

[ASA Vet]

Try thinking about baseball.

Baseball causes sleep, followed by nocturnal rejectulation.

[squarebarb]

Ditto.

Voting for a RINO is just voting for a Democrat anyway.

I am just waiting for a third party to appear. I bet it will. The only thing holding them back is they can't think of a cool name.

[WVNan]

I hope you don't mind that I sent your "France" quote to the RNC. I hope every Freeper will do the same.

[Rightly Biased]

So god it is if the Great Maha Rushi quotes Laz.

not the God but a god.

[reluctantwarrior]

Radical in ideas patient in performance, we have been undoing 70 years of liberalism. We atarted in 1994 with the contract and have made Ok progress, the baby is maturing but the bathwater does need changing.

Ten years from now if we havent progressed from where we are today then I will join you.

RW

[THEUPMAN]

If the Republican party can not deliver with the kind of power that has been handed to them, then they can not ... or will ... not deliver.

I am an official in our local GOP, I believe in supporting and working within the party. But if the work and the victories are thrown away then we will be forced to look elsewhere.

The time to act has come.

This is the message we will be taking to the state convention next month.

[Lazamataz]

Ten years from now if we havent progressed from where we are today then I will join you.

We've had five. Your patience limit is fifteen years, mine is five.

[mysterio]

Yeah, I gave up on them a few years back when spending and intrusive government ballooned faster than under the dems. I still like Free Republic, though. I still listen to a lot of the same talk shows. I just vote third party now.

[DoctorMichael]

.......my monetary donations to Pubbie Committees (Pubbie Senate Committee, Pubbie House Committee etc., etc., etc.) is ZERO. I've been donating for the last couple of years DIRECTLY to the candidiates I support, NOT general funds that can end up in the coffers of Lincoln Chafee, Olympia Snowe and Voinovitch.

[jveritas]

I write much better than you do.

What is your education anyway, you sound like a high school drop out.

[freddiedavis]

right on laz...
what have we gotten...
more debt...
more spending...
more government...
more wimps...
i'm with you laz...

[Lazamataz]

I write much better than you do.

Oh, yeah, sure you do. I love this grammar: "I know US history and US government structure hundred times more than you and all your ilks combined"

Keep studying, foreigner -- in between criticizing Americans on what it is to be a good American.

[finnman69]

Premature rejectulation?


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1391349/posts?page=1
Frist Says He's Not Interested In Deals

WASHINGTON - Reacting to a Democratic offer in the fight over filibusters, Republican leader Bill Frist said Tuesday he isn't interested in any deal that fails to ensure Senate confirmation for all of President Bush's judicial nominees.

Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid had been quietly talking with Frist about confirming at least two of Bush's blocked nominees from Michigan in exchange for withdrawing a third nominee. This would have been part of a compromise that would have the GOP back away from a showdown over changing Senate rules to prevent Democrats from using the filibuster to block Bush's nominees.

But Frist, in a rare news conference conducted on the Senate floor, said he would not accept any deal that keeps his Republican majority from confirming judicial nominees that have been approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

"Are we going to step back from that principle? The answer to that is no," Frist said.

[Rebelbase]

"I hope you don't mind that I sent your "France" quote to the RNC. I hope every Freeper will do the same."

Done.

Here is the webpage with RNC contacts for others to do the same.

http://www.gop.com/ContactUs/Default.aspx

[Iscool]

??

Sorry, the Welcome Home was supposed to go to Lazamataz...

[Conspiracy Guy]

We need to get some signs, T-shirts, and bumper stickers.

[ctdonath2]

From "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" by Douglas Adams:

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[An extraterrestrial robot and spaceship has just landed on earth. The robot steps out of the spaceship...]

"I come in peace," it said, adding after a long moment of further grinding, "take me to your Lizard."

Ford Prefect, of course, had an explanation for this, as he sat with Arthur and watched the nonstop frenetic news reports on television, none of which had anything to say other than to record that the thing had done this amount of damage which was valued at that amount of billions of pounds and had killed this totally other number of people, and then say it again, because the robot was doing nothing more than standing there, swaying very slightly, and emitting short incomprehensible error messages.

"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."

"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"

"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like to straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."

"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."

"I did," said ford. "It is."

"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"

"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."

"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"

"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."

"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"

"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"

"What?"

"I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"

"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."

Ford shrugged again.

"Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happened to them," he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it."

[reluctantwarrior]

The dems think generational politics in that they will move an agenda over time rather than conduct scorched earth campaigns or if it didn't happen today to hell with it. I f we can't match there fortitude in helping our leaders mature and use their positions wisely then we will suffer defeat at the polls because we will hand the victory to the dems because we took our ball and went home because we didn't get our pet idea done