Posted on 09/27/2015 9:21:03 AM PDT by cotton1706
Movement Conservatives just claimed the head of House Speaker John Boehner. His political death was the price of preventing a catastrophic government shutdown after Movement Conservatives in Congress tied the very survival of the United States government to their determination to defund Planned Parenthood. Movement Conservatives are gunning for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell next. We should be very afraid. Boehner and McConnell are not wild-eyed lefties. They are on the very far right of the American political spectrum: fervently pro-business, antiabortion, opposed to social welfare legislation. But they are old-school politicians who still have faith in the idea of American democracy.
Movement Conservatives do not. They want to blow up the government and remake America according to their own radical ideology.
Since the 1950s, Movement Conservatives have set out to destroy the form of federal government that came out of the New Deal. After the Great Crash and the ensuing Depression, most Americans believed that the government must regulate business and protect labor in order to create a stable, prosperous society. But businessmen hated the very same New Deal regulations most Americans liked. The captains of industry believed that government meddling in their affairs would disrupt economic laws. This would cripple their enterprises and, in turn, cripple the American economy. But the New Deal consensus was enormously popular, and actually made for a stable economy in which most Americans enjoyed security. Business interests could not fight this consensus on the merits, or they would continue to lose.
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
They like to intimidate moderate republicans, and moderate republicans love to cave.
But conservatives, REAL CONSERVATIVES, actually fight them, and they're not used to that... and most times, don't know how to respond. They cry racism, etc. But that's not working anymore.
I propose a new nickname for Mitch McConnell:
“You’re Next”
What we need is a restart of HUAC. THEN they can be afraid.
Heather the Drama Queen. She’ll probably get an Oscar this year.
Senator Mitch, better get that resume ready!
I only wish that constitutionalists ruled the GOP. Then Salon would REALLY be all wee weed up. They just want their fascist tyrants in charge.
The earlier article from the Atlantic reminded me to clean the toilet.
An article from Salon reminds me to check the sewer :)
they dont pretend anymore. Called the Bible a mythical book last week.
It’s radical to be against the death of innocents.
It’s radical to advocate limits on government.
It’s radical to espouse spending no more than you take in.
It’s radical to support a strong military.
It’s radical to believe in controlled and vetted immigration.
It’s radical to believe people are better equipped to make life choices than the government.
It’s radical to expect our government employees and representatives be held to the same standards of law and accountability as the general population.
Clearly, the definition of radical has changed.
Makes you wonder whose side Boehner was on.
I suppose from the author's perspective, that might be a true statement. Just like I can't tell the difference between Vladamir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and her.
Libs are effective because they can lie and state those lies as facts. Add to that an American people who severely lack critical thinking skills and you get the far left running the country. One thing that puzzles me though is that libs are always mad even though they get anything and everything that they want. If not immediately then in a year or two they get it. If conservatives won have as much as libs do I’d be on cloud nine.
Boy these guys really project their actions and beliefs on others. They are really blind to their own actions.
...”very survival of the United States government. ..”
“..catastrophic government shutdown”...
A catastrophe, young lady, is oh, say, an f5 tornado or a 10 ft tsunami. 9/11was a catastrophe. See the idea here?
The government shutting down is not catastrophic. Most of it doesn’t shut down anyway. It’s a joke. Like your thinking.
That does support the contention that if you're in the middle of the road, you'll soon be road kill.
And Salon says we're insane? Mygosh, they're as mean to us as McCain is. I say.....since "sane" is destroying the US, GO FOR IT !!! I want their idea of insane running the show!
Extremist authoritarians - like ordering everyone to contract with an insurance company or else?
Democrats are swine. Authoritarian lying swine.
Oh yeah. The scum needs to be eradicated from politics.
Let's try to figure out who "they" really are:
First possibility: Republicans create a budget, they pass it. They say: this budget will fund the whole government, everything stays open, and we all go about our normal business, the only real change is that we won't find Planned Parenthood.
Second possibility: President Obama whips out his big Veto pen and kills that budget. He shuts down the government. Everything comes to a screeching halt -- because killing babies is THAT important to President Obama.
They want to blow up the government and remake America according to their own radical ideology.
It's easy to see who's really doing this.
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