I agree.
To carry your discussion further, here are my two cents:
What is lacking in today’s body politic is a philosophy that can be advanced BECAUSE of the veiled threats of doom by the opposition.
For example, the manipulating, fear-mongering, threat of doom and gloom promoted by the supporters of Government harm to our Republic that a certain Republican action would “shutdown the Government” SHOULD be a clarion call for Republicans to shut down the Government to right the wrong that the Government is doing.
To not shut down the Government is to support continuation of the wrong that the Government is doing.
Whatever wrong is being protected by the supporters of Governmental wrong, SHOULD BE our signal that we should focus on undoing what they are trying to protect.
What is required to right the wrong is known to all warriors: THE COURAGE OF ONE’S CONVICTIONS.
These are times of whimpering, timid, compromise-away-one’s-values in the false hope of achieving the equivalent of a 1960’s group hippie hug.
These are times when we wait silently for a warrior to swoop in on a white horse and make everything nicey-nice again.
These are times when people who vote choose politicians that promise pie-in-the-sky to them get put in charge of increasing the debt burden on our Grandchildren’s descendants.
These are the times when the obvious solution to these problems can be seen by “The Man in the Glass.”
BTW, look up the above quoted poem for suggestions to improve one’s response-ability.
I remember the shutdown of 1995 and 1996 it wasnt pretty, which is why they wont do it again.
If you want to know how to further a ideological agenda in law and budgets into law then talk radio is the LAST place to go for ideas or analysis.
You know who has done it successfully ? Pelosi
In 2007 she took over the house but the Senate was pretty much split 50-50, and the GOP still had the WH. So pretty much like GOP she had control of just the House.
But By 2010 she had a bigger house majority, Dems had the WH and 60 in Senate.
Then she got Obama-care to Obama’s desk and its law.
Pelosi had a plan. Pelosi wanted to win. Pelosi wanted results. And she got much of her agenda passed into law. Her Dem members love and respect her for it.
I can give you a hint what she didnt do to get there 2007 to 2008) ... take advice from DU.
The Man in the Glass
by Dale Wimbrow, (c) 1934
1895-1954
When you get what you want in your struggle for self,
And the world makes you King for a day,
Just go to the mirror and look at yourself,
And see what that man has to say.
For it isn’t your Father, or Mother, or Wife,
Whose judgment upon you must pass.
The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life
Is the man staring back from the glass.
You may be like Jack Horner and “chisel” a plum,
And think you’re a wonderful guy,
But the man in the glass says you’re only a bum
If you can’t look him straight in the eye.
He’s the fellow to please, never mind all the rest,
For he’s with you clear up to the end,
And you’ve passed your most dangerous, difficult test
If the man in the glass is your friend.
You may get what you want down the pathway of years,
And get pats on the back as you pass,
But your final reward will be heartaches and tears
If you’ve cheated the guy in the glass.
“These are the times when the obvious solution to these problems can be seen by “The Man in the Glass.”
The obvious solution is obtaining a political divorce. But my “man in the glass” also knows that pursuing such is likely to end in the deaths of a lot of innocents.
Hyperbole? Not really. The Powers That Be are considering getting into a war so dear leader can save face. If we’re honest with ourselves, we would consider what they’d be capable of if something really endangered their hegemony.
My “man in the glass” isn’t a psychopath, so the obvious solution isn’t an option.