I could not have cared less. The Founders thought it a good idea that the central government be a part-time job, primarily because federal governance was in the hands of the blue collar crowd and they needed to get back to the personal business of earning a living.
So Weiner does his imitation of Chicken Little . . . . or was that Little Chicken . . . . and, in the end, is proven to be the rhetorical clown that he is.
Today, the New GOP is announcing intentions of voiding a shutdown while working to cut spending. What will not get reported, however, is the fact that this has been their plan all along. While the Dems have had two years doing what the people demonstrably did not want, the GOP -- thanks to the Dems -- have been positioning themselves as the Party of Responsible Leadership. They, the GOP leadership, understands that 2008 was more about their failures, as a conservative body, than the election of an angry black man with no experience and little common sense. 2008 was about the GOP and intra-party reform. Period.
Think about it: John McCain was one of the most unpopular GOP candidates of all time. True conservatives had watched this man make one serious compromise after another, all in the name of "getting along" with the Marxist Dems and avoiding the dreaded "gridlock" criticism of a liberal press. He was the great compromiser, what with his "gang of 14" and all that crap . . . . the "Maverick," not afraid to fight members of his own party; the man who ridiculed conservatives during his nomination campaign in 2004; the man who promised, if elected in 2008, to seek the advise of Al Gore and work for a "reasonable version of Cap and Trade." Those of us on the outside of conservative politics, hated the compromise we saw, beginning with the Gingrich era (Please note: while most have respect for Gingrich, the Era of Compromise began during his tenure and gained steam through 2007 and into the election cycle of 2008).
We had watched as McCain and Lindsey Graham teamed up to make the GOP the Party of 'Whatever you think best, my fellow Democrat.' Taking hard positions on conservative issues was deemed divisive and harmful to the continued viability of the GOP . . . . . . . and that strategy cost them the elections in 2006 and the embarrassing defeat in 2008. Even the Bush victory in 2004 against the communist sympathizer, John Kerry, was weak. Kerry should have been beaten by 15 points. No one liked the man and he had accomplished exactly "jack" in the Senate, serving years and years and years without a single hallmark piece of legislation . . . . kind of like what he is doing right now. Heck, his own wife dreamed of better days who her deceased husband !! Pretty bad when you get beat out by a dead guy.
Many conservatives rebelled in 2006 and 5 to 7 million stayed away from the polls in 2008. I am saying that if we had had a true conservative as a candidate, that election might have gone differently. Disagree? Well, put this in your pipe and smoke it --- the Dems spent 3/4 of a billion dollars, more than twice the amount of McCain, and beat this unpopular GOP candidate by only 7 points . . . . . with 5 to 7 million conservative voters staying away from the voting booth altogether. THAT was the context of the Obama victory. He didn't beat the GOP. The GOP beat the GOP.
In 2008, the conservative battle cry was this: "Try winning an election without us."
I believe, the new leadership of the GOP got the message.
Understand that we sent the same message to the Democrats, in 2010, kicking their butts out of "absolute" power and setting the stage for a strong 2012 election result.
Sadly, we conservatives cannot work alone; we have to depend upon the leadership of the GOP to help accomplish the "taking back of America."
I am thinking that we like what we are seeing
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