Posted on 09/09/2011 11:05:58 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
RINOS?
To him ALL Republicans are energetically EVIL and ALL Democrats are MIA DUNCES.
Wow, I didn’t realize they made that much.
http://www.legistorm.com/person/Michael_S_Lofgren/7777.html
I am confused though, I don’t understand FY 2011 subtotal. Can somebody help my fool self out and explain? Thanks
This is what 28 years of “public service” will do to a human brain. The debt ceiling standoff was a heroic moment in American political life. A few still responsive members of congress found enough spine to finally say “no mas” and we came close to shutting down the debt-mill our government has become.
We live in a time when people politically similar to James Madison are called radical extremists. Franklin’s caution about “...if you can keep it” has been answered. The republic has been lost.
The idea that Republicans have a cult of personality is ridiculous. Obama, the Light Bringer, the One We’ve Been Waiting For, the One who will Turn Back the Oceans, is the cultist.
WOW. We always focus on changing candidates, but these staffers actually write the laws that get passed. They are the hidden legislators that nodoby knows about, and they never seem to lose their jobs, no matter who gets elected. This guy sounds like freakin’ Chris Mathews, and he aas a Pubbie staffer. Imagine what the Democrat staffers are like! The Pubs need to fire all these guys and replace them with people from the private sector.
I found this page, too, while trying to find out who he worked for. From this page it appears that he was a budget staffer. Probably declared that he was a “Repub” to get/hold the job.
The garbage in the posted article is right out of the liberal playbook.
There is no doubt the Repubs need to clean up their Beltway act, but the Dems are hopeless.
Illogical rants from a functionary who finally figured out he doesn’t matter in the scheme of things - in any form or fashion.
How about the headline?
Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult
I was with him here. And then he lost it:
I could see as early as last November that the Republican Party would use the debt limit vote, an otherwise routine legislative procedure that has been used 87 times since the end of World War II, in order to concoct an entirely artificial fiscal crisis.
When you are spending at 80% over your income your financial crisis is real, not imaginary, whatever you might think about the sanity of a certain group of representatives who remain appropriately recalictrant on the issue.
Of course. His brief was standard CYA - to take everything the Tea Party is exposing about the workings of the Rats, and apply it to conservatives. And for "believability," express it as someone who broke ranks.
Problem is, the only people who not only regulary read screeds like this, but believe them and then rush out and use them as talking points, are... Rats. So whover this operative is, he's only preaching to the choir.
What the Rats can't comprehend is that their fundamental approach to power is flawed. That their methods have innate limitations. And that their mastery is, in actuality, a pale imitation of the meaning of the term.
Above all, they can't comprehend that their political enemies really, actually, truly don't give a damn what they say anymore.
Here’s another *shorter* article by him, ranting on republicans
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/26/opinion/la-oe-lofgren-budget-republicans-20110626
Why didn’t the White House call it the Jobs Bill and keep pounding on that theme?
Ohhhh.....Mr. Moderate has his panties all in a wad because the GOP is moving RIGHT?
Boo freaking hoo!
Good glimpse of the mindset trying to continue to subject Flyover Country to the will of DC.
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