Senate cloture vote tells us one thing: the GOP as a national party is dead

Protein Wisdom ^ | April 11, 2013 | Jeff Goldstein

[2ndDivisionVet]

As some Newtown families, props being used by the very gun grabbers who have set up the kinds of gun-free shooting galleries in which their children were slain, held hands and prayed for more than 60 votes (having been flown in at taxpayer expense to lobby our representatives to take away our natural rights), it occurred to me that, with 16 Republicans voting that a debate on amending an unalienable right is perfectly in keeping with the Constitution, the Republican party then and there died. Went t*ts up. Ceased to be.

If John McCain and Lindsay Graham and Lamar Alexander are in your party — and carry much weight in that party — you are in the wrong party.

Those pictures of the Newtown parents are why we have an amendment process in the first place. It makes demagoguery difficult. It puts time and space between a ginned up mob and extensive deliberation, something that we no longer engage in — with at least one bill to be voted on not yet released to the public in legislative language.

So. I proposed this half-seriously back in 2008-9, but it’s now time to reintroduce it in earnest: the time has come for a third party. Now, that third party may lose, at least initially, but at least those who join it can point, laugh, and say I told you so. If we’re going to lose anyway — and at this point, a vote for either national party is a losing proposition — we may as well do so with our integrity intact.

Plus, those who join? We’ll know are, for the most part, our natural political allies.....

[heshtesh]

Agree!!

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

You have just insulted squirts of dog sh t.

[Jim Noble]

Sulla, Cromwell, or Pinochet.

If they keep it up, they will get Suharto - and we have lots more rivers than Indonesia.

[ducttape45]

Aren’t there laws against that kind of thing now?

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Probably.

[ClarenceThomasfan]

You can go ahead and support a President Hillary, Bloomber or Biden by throwing away your vote, but I CARE enough about this country to try to stop the decline and I will be voting Republican in 2016.