About a year or two ago, our friend “Jules” laid this one on us: “I don’t mind Conservatism, it’s Republicans that I can’t stand”.
It took us a while to figure that one out and far from being contradictory in nature, it made all the sense in the world upon further review. In that sentence lies the “problem” with the Republican Party and why it is they are on the electoral outs of late.
People like “Jules”, a good ol’-fashion big government lib, don’t really mind the concepts of fiscal restraint, a commitment to free markets and individual liberty… she just can’t stand a bunch of hypocrites.
This is why Democrats can largely get away with passing a $780 billion “stimulus” package that has maybe 5-10% to do with actual stimulus (and we're being generous - dare we say post-partisan) and a $400+ billion midnight snack while proposing $3+ trillion budget for the coming fiscal year and not suffer any apparent electoral damage, especially when it was Republicans who got the spending ball rolling in the first place. Democrats never have claimed any moral high ground on fiscal discipline so it’s not like they can be accused of violating any of their core principles.
To hell with Specter, Snowe and Collins… we know their type and fully expect their sort of behavior. The rest of the G.O.P. feck… er, faithful on the Hill are going to have to work double-duty to make up for them and to recapture the Republican brand. We’ve seen glimmers of hope but not nearly enough.
Oh, Zo agrees with us and pays up his share of the AIG bonuses, here.
H/T: Instapundit
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Unraveling the mystery at the "Circle R" Ranch
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Conservatives have done to fiscal responsiblility the same they have done with moral outrage. "Let's text the congressional page" or "knock on the bathroom stall", all the while "trying to save the sanctity of marriage".
I know, don't throw the baby out with the bath water, but still...
I didn't believe it until it happened, but Bdaddy told me when I was very young, "the republicans will abuse their power if they ever get the majority, they're not that much different."
We are now the world's largest banana republic. We have no elected champions of liberty.
Stuggling with the minutia of the apocolypse, 'Dawg
I was kinda hoping that Barney Frank would merely content himself to texting a Congressional page or knocking on a bathroom stall but, alas, I fear we are not so fortunate.
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