Comments on: Was the tax increase a major Republican loss?

By: Danny Lemieux

Danny Lemieux — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:18:08 +0000

Hammer, I propose “The Giant Suck”.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:51:01 +0000

Electing Democrats have had negative consequences for inner city blacks and whites for a long time now. That hasn’t stopped them from maintaining that Leftist power base in the inner fiefdom cities, however.

2008′s election in DC resulted in 93% votes for Obama. In some of the inner city ghettoes controlled by black thugs and Democrat politicians, the number reaches 99%. Let me just remind you that Saddam was never able to get 100% votes, only 99%. One wonders why if counter insurgency is such a valued thing for Iraq, Americans don’t consider it for the inner cities.

It is no longer about who wins elections any more, if ever it was.

By: Charles Martel

Charles Martel — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:22:02 +0000

Does this mean we rename DC “Hooterville?”

By: Spartacus

Spartacus — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:35:16 +0000

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately Capitol-dome did decree… ?

Nope. Not going there. Bad idea. Not gonna do it. Wouldn’t be prudent. Too weird for a Thursday.

By: Danny Lemieux

Danny Lemieux — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:03:40 +0000

…with an artificially inflated bubble.

By: Caped Crusader

Caped Crusader — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:11:14 +0000

Danny, and one that has been “enhanced” at that!

By: Danny Lemieux

Danny Lemieux — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:02:54 +0000

Someone recently made the very astute observation that the dome of the Capitol resembles one big teat.

By: Spartacus

Spartacus — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:55:38 +0000

I read somewhere in the last few days that the Speaker of the House does not necessarily have to be a Member. How about Allen West? We need someone who is willing to reach across the aisle… with a bayonet, and a huge grin on his face.

The DC Beltway is like the rim of a toilet: many fine people jump into the swirling, toxic mix with the best of intentions, but are ultimately sucked under and begin to resemble that in which they are constantly immersed. It takes a very strong sense of purpose external to both oneself and The Beltway to keep one’s head above the surface and keep one’s bearings. Unfortunately, the lot who frequently are most persuaded to stand for election are those seeking self-actualization through the affirmation of society, and these are precisely the wrong sort to hold their own in that putrid bowl. We need people who seek victory instead of compromise, and aren’t afraid of being hated.

It has been said that a Movement becomes an Organization becomes an Institution becomes a Museum. So, since the GOP is now closed for cleaning on Mondays and offering discount tours of new exhibitions for seniors on Thursdays, what do we do? There are still many fine pieces in the collection. But we’re at the point that if conservatives are not in a position to win the GOP primary in a given race, it would be best to go third-party against the squishiest of the RINOs and if not win the final race, then at least take out the trash and help purify the party.

By: Earl

Earl — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 04:09:50 +0000

jj: Not much to argue with there….except that I think there are members of the GOP who could lead a revolution if they were elevated to leadership. Hannity interviewed a couple of the guys Boehner threw off their committees last month, and they’ve got the right ideas…..Gohmert of Texas was one, and I can’t spell the other, but it’s something like Foolscamp.

I’ll have to admit I’m floored that Ryan voted for the bill to avoid the Cliff…what was he thinking? Brain addled the thin air at the top of the Party? Sheesh…it’s exactly what he’s been preaching against for YEARS!

By: jj

jj — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 02:40:21 +0000

Hard to disagree, Wolf, but expecting thought, logic, and quick footwork from John Boehner is about like expecting your dachshund to get good on the violin.

Time for the republican party to go, they have long outlived their usefulness. They deserve to be catastrophically defeated. In fact they deserve to be run out of town and into the sea, for all the good they’ve done that last twenty years. The only difference between them and the democrats these last decades has been that they seem to want to take us to hell a little slower than the dems do – but the destination’s just the same. We don’t need that, and I for one no longer recognize it as a useful concept.

We need a revolution. That means revolutionaries, not the republicans, who seem not to have more than the vaguest idea who the hell they’re supposed to be. That’s not helpful. So kick them out, and start again. (Which is, by the way, how the party got started, when Lincoln and his pals [old Honest Abe was a nut-cutting professional politician, no matter what Spielberg thinks] croaked the moribund whigs, and replaced them with a new formation.) And here we are, with the moribund republicans, sclerotic thinking, no ideas, zilch to offer. Time to move on.