Posted on 10/07/2013 3:18:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
What if they gave a shutdown and no one cared? The only people terrified, horrified and mortified by the so-called “government shutdown” seem to be hack politicians and whiny little trolls writing in the Beltway-Manhattan pinkosphere. D.C. is scared, and that’s good. It’s about time that the regulatory Boomtown felt the same boom lowered upon it as its tyranny has lowered upon the rest of the country.
I wish I could say that the Republicans were completely united because they know that we need to turn this Titanic around before it slams into another iceberg and defeat the guy on the bow shouting “I’m the King of the World!” But, sadly, too many so-called “conservatives” are afraid they won’t get to keep enjoying the luxury cabins they think they’ve earned.
Let’s extend the metaphor – real conservatives want to replace the bloated cruise liner that is the federal government with a sleek, heavily-armed destroyer. We want the Gophers, Isaacs and Julies of the Beltway bureaucracy to leave the Unloved Boat for jobs in the private sector. And, after the last five years, we would prefer a President Stubing.
The closed-door Senate GOP piranha feeding frenzy against Ted Cruz and Mike Lee was indicative. Their sin was, of course, actually doing what they promised their constituents they would do and fighting for conservative principles. This scandalized the go-along, get-along gang in the World’s Lamest Deliberative Body – Cruz and Lee made the frauds look even more fraudulent than usual.
The Establishment is lashing out in fear, and its mainstream media lackeys are frothing at the mouth. To the extent one could ever tell apart the soul-crushingly dull, rote-writing, utterly predictable, droning liberals voices from on high like E.J. Dionne, Charles Blow, Eugene Robinson, Ezra Klein, Paul Krugman, Jonathan Chait, and Matty Yglesias, you sure can’t now. They are unanimous; the GOP is “insane,” “crazy” and generally nuts. Why, it’s almost as if there is some kind of “journalist list” though which leftist strategists distribute coordinated talking points.
Thomas Friedman alone stands out from the crowd, and that’s only because he’s too goofy to realize that his eager embrace of one-party rule is way too obvious. Didn’t anyone tell him to never, ever go full fascist?
This is all the result of fear, fear on the part of our opponents that their carefully constructed, comfortable little world if going to come tumbling down. So now we need to give them even more reason to be afraid.
The campaign to retake the federal government begins with our farm team, where we develop and grow good candidates to eventually send to D.C. and scuttle the sinking ship of the welfare state.
The conservative farm team serves three purposes. First, we can build federal candidates who have some prior experience in government and have a grasp on what they need to do – no more bored rich guys who think it might be neat to buy a Senate seat.
They also get some experience in the apparently neglected art of answering questions in a manner that doesn’t make them look like bleeping idiots. If you get asked about your stand on rape – and some leftist is absolutely going to ask you about your stand on rape – you need to be able to articulate a response that makes it clear that you are against it.
Second, a few seasons in the minors helps screen out the weirdoes, losers and perverts. It you turn out to have a background in, say, witchcraft, it’s a lot better if that revelation comes out when you’re a local water commissioner than, I dunno, when you’re running for a winnable Senate seat in Delaware.
If you’ve left a trail of bankruptcies, perhaps it’s be nice if that little challenge had come up when you were running for city council instead of for Congress.
Oh, and if you like to hang out in airport toilets foot-tap trolling for short-term relationships, it’s best that this lifestyle option be evaluated by the voters while you are serving as the local dog catcher instead of sitting in the House.
Third, and perhaps most important, it gives us a chance to see if you are really conservative. No more John McCains, no more Bob Corkers, no more Lindsay Grahams. No more fooling the voters with the old “hardcore at home, squish in D.C.” scam. We need to take the “con” out of “conservative.”
We need to put our money where our mouths are. I am. In the nearby city of Hermosa Beach, I just contributed the maximum to my friend Kit Bobko, who is running for mayor of that fine seaside burg on a pro-business, pro-liberty, pro-fiscal sanity platform. Kit’s a lawyer – nobody’s perfect – but he’s an Air Force Academy grad who can string a sentence together and who can project a common-sense conservatism in a deep blue area in a way that brings in new voters rather than drives them away. Let’s get folks like Kit in place in local offices, see if they prove themselves, and then we can send them off to Washington confident that they won’t embarrass us and that they are who they say they are.
That’s what should really terrify the D.C. mandarins, the fact that the counter-reaction to the leftist swing in Washington has inspired a bunch of people like Kit to get into politics at the local level. The Washington establishment imagines that only it matters. It’s so busy worrying about this temporary, fake shutdown that it doesn’t even realize that we conservatives are out here in the hinterlands planting the seeds of its destruction.
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Blocking off the People's Parks and Monuments ???? No one will ever forget...Obama owns it...not the Republicans.
He is truly a dictator with Senate bootlickers.
Too bad 47% of the population is still stuck on stupid.
Great commentary, especially as to developing candidates and office holders that have been well vetted.
I could not have said it any better
Unlike that arrogant pos occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave
I have two Dem senators and generally don’t write them because it doesn’t do any good ..... but they are getting emails and letters tomorrow with this list [The List: Unnecessarily Shut Down by Obama to Inflict Public Pain] incorporated (not a link to it). They will be told that IF they continue to support deliberate attempts to HURT the American people, then they should be out of office at a minimum. I think the point needs to be made to the Democraps that We The People are PAYING ATTENTION to what Obama is deliberately doing and we WILL NOT STAND FOR IT. I think I’m going to hit the phones as well. As I said, I haven’t bothered with these bozos before because they are Obamabots, but maybe if they start hearing some outrage, they’ll start worrying fearing how much Obama’s deliberate vindictiveness is going to hurt them.
I don't think it is 'stupid' so much as it is 'entitlement'. I believe we truly have half of the people in this country on one kind of government check or another, and this is what drives their lives. I don't think they really care about right, or wrong - only what comes in the mail or is deposited in your bank account on a regular basis.
Only the conservative politicians who stand for the people will get a dime from me provided Obama doesn’t take it all by devaluingthe dollar, increasing jthe price of ust about everything under the son, and taxing or regulate me to death (everything has gone up including taxes; maybe not the percentage but removal of the deductions and increased payroll taxes plus regulatory expenses)
More than "stuck" on stupid.
They just are stupid.
(And there's no helping them out of it.)
I just can’t agree more with this article...
If I find a way, I will...
Yep, we hit a nerve. Keep drillin’
The RNC has gone out of it’s way to stomp on the grassroots wing of the party. They did it formally at the convention, and at the quartlerly meetings.
By the way, has anybody seen Rince Preibus lately ?
If more state legislatures were part-time, it’d be easier to have a quality farm team. But since they are extended into full-time gigs, too often they are populated by hacks without significant talent.
Maybe you should pay a little more attention instead of letting your Reince Priebus derangement symptom destroy you
Bump
Agreed. Pure vindictiveness. Pure politics.
Add to that the disabling of those simple files that serve up HTML to farmers and others with information that they need on a day to day basis. So unnecessary. So transparent. So Obama.
Hopefully the public understand the truth and will pin the tail on this donkey of a President that we are stuck with for 3 more years.
Only the conservative politicians who stand for the people will get a dime from me provided Obama doesn’t take it all by devaluing the dollar, increasing jthe price of just about everything under the sun, and taxing or regulate me to death (everything has gone up including taxes; maybe not the percentage but removal of the deductions and increased payroll taxes plus regulatory expenses means I pay more in every way now)
> Too bad 47% of the population is still stuck on stupid.
And blind. If you can’t see the devastation Obama has done to our nation you’re beyond stupid. No need to list it here. Google it and you’ll find millions of lists.
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