"Well, heh heh, looks like this one's gonna need a deeper hole..."
Posted on 09/19/2010 3:33:27 AM PDT by radioone
I have seen a lot of people writing about Lisa Murkowski’s decision to wage a spoiler write-in campaign, to try to prevent a Tea Party-backed GOP candidate from winning the general election.
Most of the writers look at it, incorrectly, in terms of Sen. Murkowski’s personal psychology. For example, they say she feels miffed about losing a seat that is supposed to be hers by right of inheritance. This motive may exist, but it is trivial.
In Illinois, there has long been an expression which describes the relationship between the two political parties: The Combine. Chicago Tribune writer John Kass seems to have originated this expression. See, for example, this article: In Combine, cash is king, corruption is bipartisan. Kass quoted former Illinois Senator Peter Fitzgerald: “In the final analysis, The Combine’s allegiance is not to a party, but to their pocketbooks. They’re about making money off the taxpayers,” Fitzgerald said. Kass went on: “He should know. He fought The Combine and lost, and the empty suits running the Republican Party encourage their friendly scribes to blame the social conservatives for the disaster of the state GOP.”
Sound familiar?
America, welcome to Illinois.
The way it works is this. The Democrat party is the senior member of the Combine. The GOP is the junior member of the Combine. The game is exactly the same, and whoever is up, or whoever is down, based on the random behavior of those rubes, the voters, does not matter. The game is always exactly the same, and the people who are in on the game, from either party, have a shared stake in defending the game.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagoboyz.net ...
THe combine...now in Alaska? Deleware? Florida?
Thanks for posting this.
Someone’s been visiting City 17...
This is an excellent piece- and I’ve read all the comments as well.
One poster put it aptly:
“We don’t have 2 parties – we have ONE party (The Government Party) with 2 branches (”The Stupid Party” or Republitards – and “The Evil Party” (Commu-crats).”
I’m not in AK, but I’d like to hear the answer to that.
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