Take This Pledge And Shove It

The Feral Cortex ^ | 6/27/2002 | Kip Lange

[mc5cents]

Well, keep working at it because I am a good audience and know when something is funny and you have it. Good luck and btw keep posting here and put me on your ping list!
Tom

[dennisw]

Not too shabby!!!

[headsonpikes]

Hey, your stuff was funny, too...;^)

[gunner03]

I've read a lot of crap here on FR, but this is one of the best telling of what's happening to the Republicans. It should be required reading for All our congress critters. My hat's off to you sir, rarely does an article make me laugh, or make me think. You sir have got it ! Semper Fi

[dtel]

You seem to be a gutless coward who spews how superior your intellect is and runs away, while not making one salient point.
Put up or shut up mister.
Or change your screen name, you are embarassing the real Texans on this forum.

[Texasforever]

Put up or shut up mister.

What the hell are you blabbering about? Sober up and get back to me.

[usconservative]

You have a better chance of seeing Trent Lott don his cheerleading skirt, sweater, and pom-poms again than you do of seeing ANYTHING happen in the Senate while Trent "Limp-Wristed" Lott is the Minority leader.

I swear, if the Republican's re-take the Senate this November, and Lott's put in the Majority Leaders seat, I'm gonna go nuts.

The spineless limp-wristed bastard negotiated something so stupid as a "power sharing" agreement with the demoncRATS when the Senate was 50/50 with Cheney as the tie-breaker, then lost ALL power when Jeffords jumped ship. Did anyone realistically think the demoncRATS would "share power" with the Republicans? Of course not.

But spineless limp-wristed Trent Lott made a deal with the devil and got burned. Goes to show how utterly stupid and contemptable the Republican "leadership" is, especially in the Senate.

'Nuff said.

[Don Myers]

Texasforever is a Bush stooge. To him, it doesn't matter if he can refute your argument or not. A Texan is in office, and his knee-jerk reaction is not a reasoned response.

[Texasforever]

Texasforever is a Bush stooge. To him, it doesn't matter if he can refute your argument or not. A Texan is in office, and his knee-jerk reaction is not a reasoned response.

Don you appear to be having a bad case of verbal diarrhea tonight.

[Don Myers]

Actually, no, my opinion is based on past posts with you about Bush, and reading your posts directed toward other posters on this subject.

[dtel]

I don't know about Bush, but texasforever is definitely proving to be a first class Stooge.

[Texasforever]

Actually, no, my opinion is based on past posts with you about Bush, and reading your posts directed toward other posters on this subject.

I just call an idiot an idiot when I read one.

[Texasforever]

I don't know about Bush, but texasforever is definitely proving to be a first class Stooge.

Yeah I am Curly Joe.

[redrock]

"Yeah I am Curly Joe."

IF you are saying that you're bald...fat...and act weird...I'll agree.

redrock---Nyuck....Nyuck....Nyuck!!!

[Texasforever]

IF you are saying that you're bald...fat...and act weird...I'll agree.

Why I oughta........

[ladyinred]

I very much enjoyed your take on this! I don't remember you, must have been gone a long time from here? But if this is an example of your normal posts, welcome back!

Well, welcome back anyway!

[raysol]

How long will We the People continue to roll over & play dead in the face of this unrelenting federal abuse of power & judicial reprobates especially those of the Judeo-Christian faith?If ever civil disbedience as well as impeachment is called for this is it & Congress should
pass Ron Pauls bill to restrict these courts from having
jurisdiction in such cases as the Constitution provides for.
Dont tread on me.Take back America now.

[Kip Lange]

I don't think it's "We the People" that are rolling over and playing dead; again, I would point to Republican leadership in the House and Senate, and I would call it "rolling over and Covering Our Asses". I am unfamiliar with Pauls' bill (you have a link to it somwhere you could post?), but I think the court ruling which struck down the Fed. Death Penalty illustrates even more the need to get *conservative judges appointed* and to pass legislation which will hopefully, as you said, restrict these courts from dabbling in matters in which they really have no business, and stop having to have the Supreme Court intervene (and we already have to start worrying about filling a vacancy *there*).

The Republicans keep violating a basic rule of Politics 101: Don't let the other side set the agenda. For example, instead of constantly going on the retreat and defending ourselves on the Social Security issues (when we all know arguments against the Reps' positions on it are at best specious), go on the attack on political correctness. Obviously, I'm oversimplifying, and there are God only knows how many "deals" with "friends across the aisle" to preserve pork & whatnot, but after witnessing the horrendous campaign strategies of some of the Republicans during recent elections, we will lose seats if we do not set the agenda and let Republicans run on Republican issues -- tax cuts, defense, school vouchers, and...the relentless attacks from the liberals on American society & culture.

In other words, We the People are generally ticked off, Republican or otherwise, about a number of liberal shennanigans, and it is the job of the Republican leadership to get out there, explain the issues to We the People, set the agenda, and attack where the Democrats are weak, instead of trying to defend ourselves on, say, environmental issues, which, although we're right (and right) about, we're never going to win -- the liberals will always "out-environmental" us (because most people on the right have the unfortunate flaw of happening to live in the real world), for instance. Education is at best waffly issue; we can run on school vouchers but the Democrats will always be willing to out-spend us on education (not that spending more solves any problems, in fact in creates MORE problems, but making that argument to the general public is difficult).

Anyway, my main point is that on the grassroots level, we're fine -- it's up top, with the leadership, that we're lacking spine.

[EternalVigilance]

I sure don't want to puff you up or anything...but that is some of the best writing I've seen come from a FReeper keyboard.

::Heating up a redhot needle just in case::

Are you related to Ann Coulter? ;-)

Regards,
EV

[Kip Lange]

Don't worry, I can't get that inflated yet...I'm a laid-off dotcommer. So my bubble already burst, so to speak. :p But thank you for the compliment...I've always vowed never to give up on my writing, even if it makes me no money and is rather mentally taxing (at least for me).

But, by all means, if I puff up, jab that needle right in me. :p

No relation to Ann Coulter; I am, however, the son of a now-retired political consultant (anybody remember Phil Crane?), which is why this stuff courses through my veins. On the other hand, if Ann Coulter is taking any applications for "conservative love slave", please let me know.

Then again, she might not like the fact that I've been playing "The Eminem Show" nonstop for about two weeks now (said he, leaving himself WIDE open for flames...)

--KL