Savage Beast:
I think the Republicans in Congress are scared out of their wits of Left-wing America and the Democrat politicians it has empowered.
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I think the reasons the Republicans have gone over to the Dark Side are twofold: (1) Republican politicians are afraid of the Left because they think that's where most of the power is and--among their other fears--they fear for their jobs, careers, and financial assets, and (2) Some of them have been influenced by the Left and are stupid enough to believe some or all of its assertions.
Of course these people should be kicked out of office forthwith.
TwelveOfTwenty:
And if we can get the electorate to nominate and vote for Conservatives instead of RINOs, some of this just might actually happen. Yes, of course I admit there are RINOs, but that's who their constituents are voting for.
In the mean time, our choices are to give more power to the Democrats, or take what we can get.
And the underlined is where my problem with you thesis resides: the Republican party has shown us, by its actions, that it getting power is not equivalent to us getting power. Their [in]actions are illustrated by Jesus in a parable which, IMO, also shows the proper response to them:
(Matthew 25:14-30)We gave the Republicans the House, what have they done with it?
“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away.
He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them.
And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here I have made five talents more.’
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here I have made two talents more.’
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.’
But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
OK, you’re right, let’s let the Democrats have the White House and Congress instead.
I have asked you several times now to take me off your ping list. I never asked to be on this list and I am not interested in your posts. Nothing you have to say interests me.
Please stop wasting my time with the cut and paste shotgun blast posts.
We gave the Republicans the House, what have they done with it?
Before that we gave them the Presidency [and the Congress], what did they do with it?
They dropped down in front of their friends across the aisle and wore holes in the knees of their slacks.
That's like saying, "Johnny stole $100 from me so I can't countenance him in my neighborhood; I'll let Ralph, the guy who raped my wife and killed my daughter live next door instead".
DIRT.
One of the things I learned in my brilliantly misspent yoot, is the value of DIRT. If I had to make a play run my way, the first thing I did was to make sure I had dirt on my opponents.
Oddly, it is my lack of good character in that time, that led me to the sure knowledge that the only people capable of being free to do as they should are those of impeccable character - those who are immune from DIRT.