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Could Kevin McCarthy's Ouster Be a Tipping Point?
American Thinker ^ | 6 Oct, 2023 | Allan J. Feifer

Posted on 10/06/2023 4:35:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's ouster is a symptom of a much broader malaise.

Given Republicans' inability to save our country through legitimate means, i.e., working through the system, will this firing be enough?

I hope my readers believe in the moral application of the Rule of Law as I do. But will this ouster work, or have we come a point where the political state has exceeded that marker?

I will make the case that the America of bygone years is gone and not likely to return except through divine intervention or extra-legal actions. So what is to be done? Why we have allowed this to happen despite how much we have lost and will continue to lose if we play the same zero-sum game?

America has been on the precipice for a long time. Freedom today depends as much on how much money one has as on the God-given rights we were told we all possessed. Inflation has ripped the bandage off for most of us, who now realize how close to losing our freedoms we are. Freedom is inexorably tied to our personal and property rights. When our money is destroyed by inflation, we do not feel free.

I liken where we are today to France in 1940.

On the third of September 1939, France declared war on Germany. The mindset of French citizens was moody but strangely upbeat. The French created the Maginot Line in the 1930s due to the persistent threat of a revitalized Germany. France believed their Maginot Line was impenetrable and would deter Germany or at least slow them down enough until Britain could bolster their defense.

As a result, French leadership and its people felt secure and could indulge in non-essential activities, living as though they were any normal country.

The problem was...

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To: cymbeline
I think this excerpt describes the perspective derived from recent history:

I can't game out exactly how progressives will overreach and trigger some kind of broad pushback. Sometimes it's small things that trigger bigger changes. McCarthy's ouster with unified Democratic support might have lit a fuse.

Like a volcano that has been dormant for hundreds of years and past its next historical eruption, we are overdue for a major political pushback. No one can predict who, when, or how this pushback will commence or where it will lead. Some senior citizens, or, as my friend calls them, "Golden Angels," might think they don't have much time left and might want to act to do some good before they die. Or, it might be young people who could be the critical agents of change.

Take a few minutes to read the entire commentary ... it's not very long.

41 posted on 10/06/2023 6:52:29 AM PDT by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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To: vivenne

NP, I figured that to be the case. :>)


42 posted on 10/06/2023 6:54:29 AM PDT by patriot torch (..)
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To: MtnClimber

The RINO count hasn’t changed. What has changed is that the RINOs have been made aware that their friends “across the isle” are most definitely not their friends.

On a side note, is there a site that tracks the staffs on Capitol Hill? Because that is where the true power is.


43 posted on 10/06/2023 6:54:42 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: glennaro

From the article: “we are overdue for a major political pushback.”

I’ll buy that and think the pushback will be in the conservative direction.

The article is philosophical. For instance, it says, “One of my essential axioms is that people must experience failure to succeed ultimately”.

Mother Theresa beat him to that conclusion with “Wisdom comes from suffering.”


44 posted on 10/06/2023 7:12:35 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: cymbeline

Well done ... and excellent point. Perhaps the inexorable “swing of the pendulum” is at the very beginning of taking us in the “right” direction. Cheers!


45 posted on 10/06/2023 7:15:33 AM PDT by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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To: MtnClimber
France in 1940

I thinks it's more like spain in 1930 since we have the government turning a blind eye to left wing violence.

In spite of all the church burnings as part of the red terror, it took an assassination of an MP by the federal police to kick off the civil war.

46 posted on 10/06/2023 7:33:24 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: MtnClimber

Its going to be A combination of divine intervention and Extra constitutional means. And its just around the corner.

The constitution has been temporarily subverted by a totally corrupted congress, judiciary and bureaucracy. This is currently being shown to the public through all the current machinations going on with Trump, the Bidens, covid, the economy, the border,and general lawlessness. This is the big reveal.

Reconciliation is on the horizon.


47 posted on 10/06/2023 7:46:03 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: vivenne

my “bygone years” up and quit when I was re-assigned to beloved Dover AFB, De, from U-Tapao RTNAF, Rayong Province, Thailand.


48 posted on 10/06/2023 7:58:29 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: MtnClimber

I wouldn’t hold my breath.

McCarthy was a fool to trust Pelosi to “have his back” and think he could ignore completely parts of his party... but honestly, most likely path is that another establishment guy will be the next speaker, and while he won’t ignore those folks that voted out McCarthy, he’s not going to just let them control the house either.

Meanwhile the establishment GOP will silently work against those folks who did vote against McCarthy..

Personally, I view this whole thing as a clown show, that makes headlines but isn’t likely going to change much of anything.


49 posted on 10/06/2023 8:01:53 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: JBW1949

thanks for the compliment!
I am a “Graduate of the College of SouthEast Asia”, specializing in assuring that the daily Commie-killing BUFF EXPRESS did its job.
Class 1971-1974, campus U-Tapao RTNAF, Rayong Province, Thailand.


50 posted on 10/06/2023 8:02:23 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Terry L Smith

Been there, done that...Class of 1969-1971...Can Tho and Nha Be...


51 posted on 10/06/2023 8:22:57 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Howie66

Exactly! Keep the momentum going and don’t give them time to plan and regroup. When conservatives delay the liberals have time to change words and meanings and form a narrative with msm. If we continue to act and throw everything at their face everyday and hour they won’t be able to distort everything. We need a conservative blitz right now and McCarthy ouster should be our Lexington Concord moment! Bring Trump in as SOTH to keep up the pressure. Democrats are now being seen as extreme by normies an i.e. We will shut down govt for Ukraine funding! Biden says build the wall but I don’t think walls work, so I’m for it and against it. They are too entrenched in their ideology to make a quick pivot.


52 posted on 10/06/2023 9:48:11 AM PDT by pangaea6
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