Posted on 08/13/2013 8:02:18 AM PDT by xzins
Last week I wrote a column about the reality that House Republicans are ready to cave on so-called comprehensive immigration reform. There was a final paragraph in that column my editor decided not to use. Ironically, what was omitted by my editor was not lost on scores of astute letter writers who commented on the piece. I would like them to know that I have the same feelings as they do regarding what House Republicans are contemplating. Here is the paragraph that was omitted:
“Hence, a prediction. If Republicans abet the passage of comprehensive immigration reform—piecemeal or otherwise—a third political party will emerge from the ashes. That third party will be the Republicans, who will be relegated to the back of the political bus by Democrats, and whatever party manages to address the concerns of millions of ordinary Americans who have been marginalized by the ruling elites in both parties. For those millions of Americans, a federal government run by one-and-a-half parties attuned to the progressive agenda is rapidly approaching the end of its shelf life.”
The latest outrage in that regard, the taxpayer subsidization of Congressional staff members and other Washington insiders for the cost of Obamacare, is ruling class elitism writ large. The even lamer excuse for it, that the nation’s capitol would suffer a “brain drain” if these insiders were forced to underwrite the total cost of their own healthcare, is laughable. Many of these so-called brains are the same committee staffers responsible for pulling the elements of the healthcare bill together in the first place, just as they are responsible for creating many of the other gargantuan—and unread—bills passed by their equally irresponsible Congressional employers.
If this is the best Washington, D.C. has to offer, by all means, let the brain drain begin.
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No, we need a second party. The Democrats and Republican establishment are one party.
Maybe I am overly optimistic, but I believe it is exactly this, that Sarah Palin is currently waiting on.
If the GOP sells out America in this regard, I believe we will see a new party. Overnight.
Hopefully one, which believes in making things in America once again.
If the GOP sells out America in this regard, I believe we will see a new party. Overnight.
I don't believe that. I'm sure of it.
In before the lib wing screaming how we have to keep electing libs with R’s behind their names cuz they have R’s behind their names...
/johnny
Well said.
Today’s political environment:
When the choice is between two despotic lizards,
you have to vote for a despotic lizard or else the
“wrong” despotic lizard will get into power.
That is a fact.
I keep forgetting voting for abortionillegalimmigrationobamacarehomosexualmilitarygutting Republicans is a conservative value.
If they approve the continuing resolution with the obamacare money included. Expect amnesty for illegals next.
I posted my thoughts earlier under the title: “What else could the next American Revolution be; a Third Party?”
Ok, NOW are you ready for a Third Party, a party with some fight... come out from among them and be holy, says the Creator to His people... DC is a hell hole filled with power hungry, slathering dogs, who’s purpose is to sow discord “among the brethren” (read pre-Obama Americans) so as to ingratiate themselves and impoverish us.
DC is a corrupting influence and no man is immune... even some conservatives who’ve been lifted by the wings of the tea party are caving. If you’re calling yourself a Republican but are disgusted by their lack of will to fight and even capitulate, then become this Third Party Movement... doesn’t mean you can’t vote for a Cruz for prez, but what it does mean; it will consolidate real political power for conservatism. As it is, conservatism’s power is watered down and made ineffectual when deposited in the GOP. Just call it, The Conservative Party; youth fortified, more diverse, but wholly conservative, and upholding the Judeo-Christian beliefs as sacrosanct... our motto “freedom from tyranny”; arguing that tyranny comes from those in power and governments. Our goal is to limit the powers of Federal, State and Local governments, and restoring individual self determinism, property rights and reforming taxation, as a starting point.
Among our FIRST acts will be to limit the number of terms a member of congress can stay in DC. No man has the capacity to resist the corrupting influence of the seat of power in human government. SECOND will be the deconstructing of Federal Bureaucracies. THIRD will be to eliminate the IRS, ridding ourselves of the tyrant’s hunting dogs.
What else could the next American Revolution be?... Hey Mark Levin, love ya brother, but if you want real change, ya gotta lead the next American Revolution, if you won’t, someone else surely will!
Dem and dem lite
read the 2nd paragraph....it seems to be saying the same thing as you
Exactly. We’re under a one party system. The gop and ‘rat wings of the uniparty differ somewhat in their rhetoric for mass consumption, but differ not at all in their governance.
I think the days of maintaining freedom with poltical parties have come and one.
bttt
I would of course support a second political party led by Sarah Palin, but I do wonder if it would be too little, too late.
Everyone talks a good game about third parties when an election isn't near. Then, when Election Day is close, everyone abandons the idea of third parties and spends endless bandwidth about how we must must MUST vote for someone like Romney - no matter how many bad things we said and identified about him in the past.
I predict the same cycle for 2014 and 2016 (and beyond).
The only one that was anywhere close to being successful in recent history was Ross Perot's in 1992, and it gave us Bill Clinton.
Best to work within the top two that we already have.
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