Posted on 11/08/2006 8:49:43 AM PST by MNJohnnie
Sorry, oceanview. I'm sure that was not my comment. But, no I don't think we have 5 SCOUTUS votes to do anything within the boundaries of the constitution
I know what you mean....
I am not sure what to make of the presser today.....
We are in a tough spot....
the WOT is too important to abandon Bush in anyway.....but gosh-- giving into the Dems is not going to go over with the base at all......
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Money managers and analysts say the Democrats' takeover of the U.S. House of Representatives, and possibly the U.S. Senate, could auger higher taxes, a hike in the minimum wage and scrutiny of tax subsidies enjoyed by some sectors that benefited from Republican control of Congress.
Democrat control of the House will lead to new leadership of key congressional committees, said George Schwartz, president of Schwartz Investment Counsel, manager of the Ave Maria Funds.
"The Dems will be targeting energy, insurance, pharmaceutical and defense, and they're going to have a lot of power, especially if they've got their friends over in the Senate with a majority," Schwartz said.
LOL!!!!!
I pray we get strong leaders in both houses, if we don't Pelosi and Reid will totally neuter what remains of the GOP.
No, but I think you're better off just letting people vent for 48 hours, because most of them don't mean it anyway, it's just a waste of energy for you. Now if a week from now they are still saying it, then you'd be right to defend them.
oh boy......
"How do the democrats keep their members from fighting within?"
Death threats......:)
LOL! How could I forget that fact? :)
"Three key House races were in Indiana."
Yep and I was very disappointed that some of those seats turned blue.
Amen. Common Sense and American Crisis come in handy now.
I agree with Rush that Bush should not capitulate to the Lib/Dems.
But, I disagree with the motives he ascribes to Bush in doing so (i.e. a Clintonesque move to boost approval ratings and leave town on a popularity high). Unlike Clinton, I don't think Bush has shown the least need to get people to like him (for Clinton, that need is pathalogical). In fact, he has taken a number of unpopular positions even within his own party.
Rather, I think Bush's motive is to give the Lib/Dems enough rope to hang themselves before 08. He is letting the useful idiots that voted in a new leadership of congress experience, to some degree and for a short time, the consequences of their decision in hopes that they will wake up in time to see just how self-destructive is the liberal aggenda.
McAwful is on Fox with Shep right now, Shep asked about impeachment and McAwful said "absolutely no impeachment". I honestly don't think they will--it would hurt their 2008 chances and I am sure the Clintoon's will have none of that. If it weren't for 2008 you know darn well they would.
Well, if you were right, then wouldn't Rush be giving the game away if the actually said that was Bush's plan?
I share those doubts, especially in regard to the Senate, but all that means is we can't lean on them for much support, if any at all. "We, The People" are going to have to shoulder this load, and fight this fight from the local level up, since it isn't getting fought from the top-down; there's no Reagan up there carrying the banner. So, we've got to act as if we're beginning from scratch and start with extreme "seismic retrofits" to the foundations of our local and State committees.
Look, being from the California blue zone, I don't entertain any illusions about what liberals want in the long run; and I don't entertain any illusions that moderating the stance of the GOP is an effective strategy for staving off the institutionalization of liberal policies. When the GOP goes to the center, the left simply runs farther left and continues applying the same leftward pressure as before; continues maligning the GOP with all the same, tired old saws as before, and the concession of moving to the left ends up gaining the GOP nothing. The GOP CANNOT move far enough to the left to appease liberals, but every time the GOP moves to the left, it damages this country by further betraying the conservative principles upon which the Constitution is founded.
Once we confess that truth, it becomes blatantly obvious that moving to the left in an effort to be conciliatory is nothing so much as it's playing RIGHT INTO their hands; it's EXACTLY the reaction they planned; they read the GOP mind and they KNEW that we would cave to the pressure and go center at election time. Then, having gone center at election time, they apply rhetorical pressure to make the GOP LIVE in that center AFTER the elections are over, AND WE DO IT because we'll be bludgeoned to death in the media for four years and go down in flames at the next election if we don't. THE WHOLE MOVE-LEFT AND HOLD strategy is a gargantuan leftist trap engineered to slowly shift the GOP and the entire, National political discourse to the left, leaving conservative principles high and dry.
THIS CANNOT CONTINUE IF WE INTEND TO PRESERVE OUR CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC.
IF that is our intent -- and I firmly believe that many here would prefer to die before allowing it all just sink into the sands of time -- then our strategy MUST CHANGE.
How?
We must no longer pretend that the politics of party are more important than the conservative principles that comprise our Constitutional foundation.
We must no longer tolerate betrayal of those principles; such betrayal must be viewed as an intolerable assault upon the very Republic itself.
We must no longer operate under the illusion that moving to the center to win an election is either A) a win for the country, or B) an acceptable compromise. If evil prevails when good men do nothing; evil is aided and abetted when purportedly good men concede to it. This practice MUST BE REGARDED WITH COMPLETE ABHORRENCE.
I do not suffer any deception that leads me to think that such an elemental transformation of the GOP political scene will be rapid, nor that it will not meet with great resistance from within GOP ranks; to the contrary, I expect MOST of the resistance to come from card-carrying GOP members. I also do not suffer from any deception that leads me to think that this kind of transformation is unnecessary. In the 30 years of my most heightened political awareness, the leftward shift of both major political parties, the public mind-frame, and the National culture, are all self-evident, pronounced and damnable. The decades-old GOP strategy of going moderate must be regarded as a FAILURE; despite the fact that some election victories have come from it, the continued leftward National political slide mocks them to scorn, and establishes -- to my mind, unarguably -- that those victories were not only mostly hollow, but were, from the perspective of our Constitutional foundations, entirely Pyrrhic.
Given all of this, the left could implement no more powerful political strategy than to convince the GOP leadership to continue utilizing the move-center strategy of political appeasement. They could concoct no scheme more supportive of their long-range goal to turn these United States into a proto-european Socialist Mecca, than to continue cultivating in the public mind the lie that "Conservatives must moderate their views to win".
FRiends, WE, THE PEOPLE face this choice, this DUTY, this RIGHTEOUS CAUSE: to unmask and vigorously oppose, to the very last drop of our lifeblood, the Foundation-destroying lie of "move center to win"; or to acquiesce and embrace the demise of the American Experiment, conceding that human nature is so beyond remedy -- even beyond the help of The Almighty -- that government of the people, by the people, for the people must perish from the Earth.
IT HAS COME TO THIS. CHOOSE WELL.
-- HKMk23
Ping to my post-election manifesto.
My son spent 9 months in Al-Anbar (Haditha & Hit mostly) 2004 - 2005. He has volunteered to go back early next year. I will be more worried now, with an insurgancey that will be energized to press the attack and drive us out.
Good point! But, I wonder if would make any difference were the "plan" known. The Lib/Dem leadership seem incapable of adjusting their own failed game plan.
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