Posted on 02/06/2016 3:58:13 AM PST by Rummyfan
A year ago, I wrote:
For me, the issue this US election season is the corruption. Sure, I'd like a balanced budget and less debt and repeal of Obamacare, but I'm getting used to being sold out on those issues. So I'm down to the bare minimum requirement for a politician: The corruption nauseates me, and, if it doesn't nauseate the candidates, then that explains a lot about why nothing happens on any of those other matters. It's in the air, it's in my nostrils, and I'm sick of choking on it. We have a "justice" department that prosecutes a senator who made the mistake of crossing the President (Menendez) but declines to do anything about a tax collector who treats American taxpayers differently on the basis of how they vote (Lerner). We have a revenue agency that regards itself as the paramilitary wing of the ruling party. We have replaced equality before the law with a hierarchy of privilege, so that no-name ambassadors can be fired for breaking federal record-keeping requirements by a department whose boss outsources her federal records to her own server and then mass-deletes them with no more thought than when she's parking her van in the handicapped space. We have a federal police agency in which 26 out of its 28 hair analysts gave false testimony favorable to the prosecution. We have a cabinet officer who managed to get more firepower deployed to toss her designated scapegoat videomaker into the county jail than she assigned to the US diplomatic compound in Benghazi. We have a president who rules by decree on everything from immigration to health care - and a legislature of castrati too craven to object.
I would like a candidate who promises to hose out the sewer.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
“But, whatever the truth behind these two incidents, they are (as Cruz’s former fellow British subjects would say) not cricket.”
It is a dig, but it is true.
the sewer should be plugged and gassed
so long as there are survivors, there will be no change
“That was good news for them, and they’d found it.”
Has anyone ever found a communication by CNN that actually states that Carson was dropping out?
Why don’t they present it.
Saying that Carson is going home to get a change of clothes would imply that Carson is going home to get a change of clothes so he can reengage. You don’t say you are going to go home to get a change of clothes if you expect to stay home.
Or it could imply that "to get a change of clothes" was just a lame excuse for some other reason. That change of clothes could be sent to him so quickly and easily..... probably over-nighted for less than the trip home cost him.
There is only one way to end the corruption: OUTLAW CAREER POLITICIANS. That means term limits and the only way to get term limits on Washington politicians is through an Article V. Convention of States.
Once a politicians gets elected, the prime directive becomes: GET THE MONEY TO GET RE-ELECTED. Once the money is acquired, the politician is bought and special interests supersede the common good. If a politician cannot get re-elected, that eliminates the most important source of corruption infecting our entire political system. CAREER POLITICIANS ARE KILLING US. Electing a Republican President will help, but it’s not enough. We need to reassert the Constitution. A balanced budget amendment and repeal to the 17th Amendment would help tremendously as well.
http://www.conventionofstates.com/
There is only one way to end the corruption: OUTLAW CAREER POLITICIANS.
No laws will solve the problem. The problem is the nature of man.
Correct.
The Founding Fathers merely tried to minimize inevitable human lust for power by restricting the power of the federal government to the absolute minimum. There’s no point in political bribes if political power is severely limited.
We have reached a level of systemic corruption which must be addressed. It’s easy to catch a stupid crook (see the State f New York in Albany), however, the corruption of our political system is so deep and pervasive that it is not even recognized as corruption, but rather, the “way things are done in Washington.” We must make fundamental changes to our system of government immediately or it will crumble from internal rot and purtification. Reform now.
If Cruz and his people are going to make decisions and take action based on vague CNN reports, it does not inspire confidence in his executive decisions. We could wake up some morning to find out Cruz nuked Denmark.
As for nuking Denmark, it takes a few more people in the chain of command to send out a nuke than a message.
Great point.
It isn't like they said he was going home for fresh clothes in the initial newscast.
The unfortunate part of all this is that a media announcement ends up boosting the GOPe candidate (Rubio).
We’re talking about why people vote for someone for president. Let’s step back from taking every comment that comes out on Trump or Cruz etc. personally. All the candidates are acquainted with grief. Having a relationship with God, is not the only thing that matters here.
I’m amazed at the number of people I talk to and work with every day who have not watched one debate, know anything about the candidates...zilch. YOu ask them who are you for .....They say, I like Carson or Fiorina intrigues me. I’m thinking. Carson basically dropped out along time ago, Fiorina? They might say, I like what Cruz says...
My point is people, many many people vote for the person running for reasons other than what he says, has done or what he stands for. It can be their smile, or lack of smile.
Barry Goldwater, never smiled. NO one voted for him. REagan, Kennedy even Obama...great smile. Carter...all smiles.
There’s is something about Cruz that doesn’t ring with me, and there’s no question, he hits on the issues better than anyone IMO, but he’s not ready to be our president. He’d be a great VP, better yet SCOTUS. But he reminds me a little of a TV evangelist like Jimmy Swaggert, although I could never imagine Cruz cheating on his wife, never.
We’re too far gone as a country after 8 years. Maybe 16 years. We need someone who remembers our greatest years. The years before Kennedy was killed.
I mean this. I hold nothing against the passion the Cruzers have here, but their man ain’t got it. Rubio comes across as a boy.
I’ve shut down completely any radio or tv commentary for day 5 or 6 now. It’s been really really good. I’m getting virtually everything from FR.
Rush, Levin etc. People whom I trusted and learned from, are shrill and hollow. Th networks are all twisting and creating controversy when there is none. Rush managed to cover just about every possible result in Iowa, so he could do the, “I told you so, crap.” Fact is, he’s getting tedious. He brings no insight here.
Anyway...that’s my two cent monologue for this morning. Thanks for listening.
IF there’s “something that bothers me” about a candidate;
I don’t think I’d trust them with having the position of
a SCOTUS judge if I were you. (Shoot. Trump’s “facial
expressions” (in fact, MOST people’s facial expressions)
make me sometimes wonder.
Steyn is realistic. I.e., he’s not brainwashed...
At my house Old Glory has been replaced by the Confederate Flag. From time to time I switch it back and forth with the Texas flag.
I refuse to fly the socialist flag of the people’s republic of America until we get our country back.
You know, it really does not matter if Carson voters changed their mind or not. What matters is Cruz’ dishonesty and lack of personal honor. If a terrorist goes to a public place intending to commit an act of terrorism, and gets caught before anyone is hurt is he any less of a terrorist?
Yes, it is corrupt. A candidate has the right to run an inept campaign right up to election day if he wishes, and it is his right to end his campaign at his own choosing and to endorse the candidate of his choice. Romney did this sort of thing and we were all disgusted by it; it is no less disgusting and dishonorable when another candidate does the same, just as we were all outraged when the Kenyan, a British subject, was elected, no we want to do the same for the Canadian, a British subject until a few months ago? Do we have any consistent principles at all?
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