Posted on 01/09/2013 4:46:09 AM PST by Kaslin
The current state of the GOP brings to mind the surviving Marines in Aliens, with no shortage of demoralized hacks lamenting their inability to resist by channeling Private Hudson: “Maybe you haven't been keeping up on current events but we just got our a**** kicked, pal!”
So what? So we took a hit on the Fiscal Cliff. Stand up, brush off and get back into the fight. This is no time for self-pity, no time for weakness. Every combat leader knows that when you take a hit, you regroup, reorganize, and prepare to counterattack. The defense is but a temporary, transitory period that serves just one single purpose – to prepare your forces to resume the offensive.
We don’t need wimpy handwringers trying to excuse Republican fecklessness by repeating stupid clichés like “Elections have consequences.” Maybe I missed something, but everyone in this new Congress won the last election – and the House kept its majority. If President 50.6% has a mandate, so does every single GOP member. And that mandate wasn’t to tuck-up into the fetal position and sob.
Here’s another consequence that the election had – now that the tax cuts have expired, Obama can’t do anything unless we say “Yes.” From here on in, if he wins it’s because we let him win. So don’t.
This guy has a glass jaw. He had tax increases by default on everyone, yet he had to walk away with a $450,000 ceiling instead of the $250,000 definition of “millionaire” he’d been selling to the low-information types who make up his base. Oh, and this week these same slack-jaws opened up their pay envelopes and found out that The One failed to get the payroll tax cut extended. Moreover, the AMT is fixed and the estate tax is improved somewhat. The GOP may have lost, but contrary to the cheerleading by the government-controlled mainstream media, so did progressive President Pyrrhus.
Obama has the initiative today, but hand this guy a couple defeats and he’ll go right back to ground hoping 2014 will bring him a liberal majority again.
The GOP needs to clearly understand its objective, because right now they are acting as if this is politics as usual, just with a particularly liberal president. Wrong. Obama is a dedicated progressive ideologue who wants to permanently change this country for the worse and he intends to clear his path to doing so by ruthlessly destroying all opposition. That means you, GOPers.
He isn’t playing a game; he’s fighting a war, and it better dawn on the GOP that Obama doesn’t want to just shift the needle a bit. He wants us defeated, disarmed and docile so he can turn us into the progressive, extra-Constitutional Utopia his faculty-lounge buddies have been fantasizing about for the last century.
Obama and his minions are serious about defeating us, so we need to be serious about defeating them. Let’s banish cheesy talk about “Working together for the good of the country.” The only thing that is good for this country right now is defeating Obama’s leftist agenda, fully, completely and in detail. You can’t work with him, you can’t compromise with him, you can’t convince him. He’s a progressive Terminator and the Constitution is Sarah Connor.
You have to beat him, and that means counterattacking to seize the initiative by getting on the scoreboard with some wins and restoring our team’s morale.
Obama’s getting cocky – this guy always believes his own hype and his prissy press cheerleaders aren’t doing him any favors telling him he’s mastered the opposition. Unless we let him, he’s mastered nothing. In his overconfidence he’s over-extending himself, and that means opportunities.
It looks like he’s going to nominate Chuck Hagel for SecDef. Even Chuck Schumer is having trouble swallowing that. Republicans, time to get out the long knives and get to work – and make sure you let the world know that besides Hagel’s terrible policies you’re doing it on behalf of the Jews and gays he detests. Filibuster him if you need to – if Harry Reid wants to eliminate the filibuster he can do it on behalf of an anti-Semitic homophobe who thinks we’re too mean to Hamas.
Obama loses even if he “wins,” squandering capital and forcing his Democrat pals into terrible votes they’ll be hearing about at re-election time. And GOP senators, we don’t need to hear about deference toward one of your own. Hagel sold out the GOP when he supported Obama. Nor do we need to hear any sanctimonious crap about deference to the president in nominations – if you still think this is business as usual, you’re either a fool or in a coma.
Obama is now talking about taxing the successful even more by eliminating deductions. Hand him another big goose egg. He got his tax increases – you need to be out of the revenue increase business. How about the House pass a payroll tax cut, paid for by slashing corporate welfare to Obama’s Hollywood buddies and his green energy scam cronies?
Spending cuts? Obama doesn’t get a say. Sequestration is going to happen unless the GOP agrees to change it. That’s a $1.2 trillion cut. Let it happen, and let Secretary Hagel deal with the defense cuts. Obama loses again unless you save him.
And guns – talk about a golden opportunity to defeat Obama while also helping set the stage for a Democrat wipe-out in 2014! Obama and his progressive pals are giddy with the idea that Newtown will let them jam through a whole slew of Second Amendment-trashing measures before everyone starts thinking again. If Obama’s actually foolish enough to proceed – and I am not sure he is – he’s setting himself up for a huge loss.
GOP, remember Napoleon’s admonition to never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Let Obama try and force the red state Democrat senators to come out against guns. Let the Democrats tear themselves up while we watch and gobble popcorn.
Heck, we should egg them on – like by trying to force a Senate vote on, say, a provision which reaffirms the right of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms for the protection of their families and communities and directs that all federal law shall be interpreted toward preserving and protecting that right. Let’s see how all those Democrats paying lip service to the Second Amendment feel about voting on that.
And if some bill finally limps out of the Senate, hopefully without a single GOP vote, Speaker Boehner should mimic Harry Reid’s fiscal cliff antics and just let it die. No debate. No discussion. No vote. Obama’s dream of disarming his opponents, paid for with the careers of several sitting Democrat senators, will die in the hopper.
It will be a thing of beauty.
Remember, this is an existential crisis for our country. Now is not the time to “govern;” it’s the time to defeat Obama and his radical left-wing agenda. No, you can’t say that out loud – simpering wimps will shudder and fret. Just do it, even as you talk about working together and compromising and hugging and all that goo-goo baloney.
Republican, quit shouting, “Game over, man! Game over!” Counterattack, seize the initiative, and start winning again. Play for keeps. Stop channeling Hudson and start channeling Ripley. It’s time to figuratively nuke the site from orbit – it’s the only way to be sure.
How about this for a historical example:
2009 to 2010 the GOP in the total minority was able to stop Cap and Trade by creating and feeding opposition to it.
Even the NE RINOs stood firm.
Obama finally got O care as he had 60 in Senate but every NE RINO fearlessly voted against it because they made it unpopular.
GOP could start by comparing the differences then to the disastrous 2011 and 2012 and work on neutralizing or mitigating them so they can actually win a few.
Another suggestion : Stop being so $#%# predictable, O knows exactly what the GOP will do in reaction to him, in fact many times he blows the dog whistle to get the response he expects and wants so he can spring his well planned trap on them, again and again.
Anybody who thinks the GOP is on our side is delusional. It is crystal clear to me after these last 4 years that we are all being played by both the red and the blue team shell game. Democrats run the agenda and GOP are the scapegoat. GOP have had plenty of opportunity to stand and fight and chose to stand down. Even our Supreme Court gets slapped around and stands down. Jim DeMint knows this and finally threw in the towel. Nobody goes to jail or gets fired in Washington anymore unless you go against the agenda of course. We are all headed for 100 percent Government and Zero percent Freedom!
Brilliant!
You have divined my meaning perfectly.
And when you have losers like this helping run the show, is it any wonder we’re in the mess we’re in?
“Moderate Republican group (Main Street Partnership) to remove ‘Republican’ from name, welcome Democrats”
I’ve enjoyed it while it lasted, but I am canceling my subscription to the “sicko” commentary.
Gopster will verify that I am here for cultural edification only. Sickofpolitics.
missed pinging you on #45
I must of added you because we were pinged together so many times, but I admit I didnt know you.
It seems we agreed on some basic facts about the latest tax bill, but yes most of your comments are not anything I have interest in either, they are not related to Rs vs Ds or what they are doing.
Yes. Women, pop culture and sports have filled the void left by ineptitude of both politicians and society.
You outta you mind.
Levin, I remember Hannity used to call him “the great one”. That about says it all.
Hannity (and Rush) helped him move from a 770WABC (NYC) talk show host to a nationally syndicated one ~ 2003 to 2004. (that one NY suprstation station reaches to multiple surrounding states and on clear days I even get it here in Maryland.)
I was originally really attracted to his radio show lecturing and the constitution, and he was made out by them (or propped up as) to be the constitutional scholar, and you will see comments to that effect posted here, or him repeated here(I tune in Rush and him occasionally so I recognize their comments reposted here.).
But as time went on I noticed he regularly contradicted himself.
A week ago or so he was claiming a real ‘conservative’ would have beat Liz Warren in MA where Scott Brown couldn't. He threw Brown under the bus to make some larger point, and Brown made alot of tough votes supporting Rs Senators and deserves better treatment than that. He is no Grahamnesty.
I dont think he believes some of the stuff he says, he is too smart for that,
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