Liberals in lockstep

Wow. Just...wow.

Does anybody actually think that continuing partisan bickering is actually going to do anyone any good? Fuck conservatism and liberalism. I just want the people in office to honestly represent the people, not their campaign supporters. As soon as your platform is dictated by a party, you cease to represent the American people in favor of representing the GOP, the Democratic Party or whoever else happens to finance your campaign.

Sorry to intrude on your steaming party, but once in a while, I think its worthwhile to point out that partisan politics are a great way to keep anything from getting done. Now, carry on with steaming each other, or debating about who's steaming who, or whatever steam bath fun you may be having.

Don't bother trying to argue with me, either. I hate to argue on discussion boards, so I tend to say what I have to say, and move on.

Carry on.
 
I don't let it go because I don't take shit laying down, ever. I am what I am. I have no need of the acceptance of a herd of gutless pussies. I fully expect to be disliked, criticized, and even hated by every liberal here, and trepidation about same isn't going to prevent me from saying what I please, as many times as I please, and laugh about it until I get tired.:rolleyes::D

This put-on mask you keep showing off as a cipher for bravado would be funny if your seething frustration with what you hate and fear weren't so evident.

And the best thing is that you can't help it. Every fucking day. Play it off all you want. You say it's not taking shit laying down, it's really you desperately doing damage control on a fractured, unfocused image that used to have a modicum of respect.

"liberal, liberal, liberal..."

what a fucking joke your phobia is.
 
Wow. Just...wow.

Does anybody actually think that continuing partisan bickering is actually going to do anyone any good? Fuck conservatism and liberalism. I just want the people in office to honestly represent the people, not their campaign supporters. As soon as your platform is dictated by a party, you cease to represent the American people in favor of representing the GOP, the Democratic Party or whoever else happens to finance your campaign.

Sorry to intrude on your steaming party, but once in a while, I think its worthwhile to point out that partisan politics are a great way to keep anything from getting done. Now, carry on with steaming each other, or debating about who's steaming who, or whatever steam bath fun you may be having.

Don't bother trying to argue with me, either. I hate to argue on discussion boards, so I tend to say what I have to say, and move on.

Carry on.

To the Republican the point IS to make sure nothing gets done. That is their stated goal.

What are we to make of a man who campaigned on his support for the Second Amendment, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, has taken an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States then threatens to go around Congress with an executive order on gun control?

Can we wait until we see what exactly is in the Executive Order before panicking?
 
What are we to make of a man who campaigned on his support for the Second Amendment, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, has taken an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States then threatens to go around Congress with an executive order on gun control?
I must know the Second Amendment better than you do. There's not a word in there about bullets.
 
Wow. Just...wow.

Does anybody actually think that continuing partisan bickering is actually going to do anyone any good? Fuck conservatism and liberalism. I just want the people in office to honestly represent the people, not their campaign supporters. As soon as your platform is dictated by a party, you cease to represent the American people in favor of representing the GOP, the Democratic Party or whoever else happens to finance your campaign.

Sorry to intrude on your steaming party, but once in a while, I think its worthwhile to point out that partisan politics are a great way to keep anything from getting done. Now, carry on with steaming each other, or debating about who's steaming who, or whatever steam bath fun you may be having.

Don't bother trying to argue with me, either. I hate to argue on discussion boards, so I tend to say what I have to say, and move on.

Carry on.

Yes. The Democrats believe it is doing them a lot of good just as it did Hitler and Silvio Berlusconi to portray Communists as the great internal enemy that had to be defeated.

Oikophobia

Xenophobia is fear of the alien; oikophobia is fear of the familiar: "the disposition, in any conflict, to side with 'them' against 'us', and the felt need to denigrate the customs, culture and institutions that are identifiably 'ours.' "

The oik repudiates national loyalties and defines his goals and ideals against the nation, promoting transnational institutions over national governments, accepting and endorsing laws that are imposed on us from on high by the EU or the UN, though without troubling to consider Terence's question, and defining his political vision in terms of universal values that have been purified of all reference to the particular attachments of a real historical community.
The oik is, in his own eyes, a defender of enlightened universalism against local chauvinism. And it is the rise of the oik that has led to the growing crisis of legitimacy in the nation states of Europe. For we are seeing a massive expansion of the legislative burden on the people of Europe, and a relentless assault on the only loyalties that would enable them voluntarily to bear it. The explosive effect of this has already been felt in Holland and France. It will be felt soon everywhere, and the result may not be what the oiks expect.

Roger Scruton, British philosopher
 
I must know the Second Amendment better than you do. There's not a word in there about bullets.

There's not a word in the 1st Amendment about art or pornography...


:rolleyes:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
 
It's obvious where the president's cheater tactics come from. They issue from his lefty culture and its formalization in Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. We could say that Rules is a primer on how to act with people you are determined to mistrust. Heck, let's expand the problem and say that the whole point of left-wing politics is to sow distrust. Don't trust the banker; he's greedy. Don't trust the grocer; he's a company store. Don't trust your employer; he's making a profit off your labor. Don't trust Wall Street; it's a casino. Don't trust the family; it's a patriarchy. Don't trust the church; the priests are hitting on little boys. Don't trust the community organizer...no, wait! The community organizer is the good guy!

The end result of all the mistrust is to cut your followers off from all relationships except their relationship to you, the community organizer. Then, of course, your followers are stuck. They have burned all their bridges, and so they must follow you, even if you lead them to national ruin like Hugo Chávez in Venezuela or the Peronists in Argentina.

Ominously, the president's tactics follow precisely the tactics of an enraged female cobra in Kipling's Jungle Books. You'll remember Nagaina telling the Brit colonial exploiters: "If you move I strike. And if you do not move I strike." Hell hath no fury like a widowed snake. She was so angry, you would think that she was upset about cuts to U.S. social programs.

Conservatives just want to get on with the sensible middle-class job of cleaning up the national balance sheet, just as Rikki-Tikki-Tavi wanted to clear the garden of cobras. But instead, it is probably best just to make life miserable for the president and the Democrats, because they still don't get it.


Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/01/president_obama_and_the_prisoners_dilemma.html#ixzz2HZQDhgpR
 
What are we to make of a man who campaigned on his support for the Second Amendment, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, has taken an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States then threatens to go around Congress with an executive order on gun control?

The power to make executive orders is given by Congress if I'm not mistaken. Acts of Congress give the president some leeway in enforcing the law, and/or it's an inherent power of the federal government to direct its own enforcement activities.

Look up the term deligated legislation. I'm not 100% sure this is the legal route being used but I suspect it is.
 
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AJ has decompensated into a full-on bot. Same pastes, same pictures every day regardless of the topic.
 
Wow. Just...wow.

Does anybody actually think that continuing partisan bickering is actually going to do anyone any good? Fuck conservatism and liberalism. I just want the people in office to honestly represent the people, not their campaign supporters. As soon as your platform is dictated by a party, you cease to represent the American people in favor of representing the GOP, the Democratic Party or whoever else happens to finance your campaign.

You have to base your policy decisions on something, Donovan, and it all comes down ultimately and inevitably to values/ideology and/or group-interests. A value-neutral technocratic approach is quite literally impossible -- if you see any policy that appears or purports to be based on that, look closer. Progressive-Era reformers used to say, "There is no Democratic or Republican way to pave a street," which is a lie -- you can't pave a street without deciding who is to be taxed to pay for it and how and which streets will be paved and which not -- all decisions based on group-interests and/or ideology.
 
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AJ has decompensated into a full-on bot. Same pastes, same pictures every day regardless of the topic.

His stated objective remains constant, though. He strives to drown out opposing views with the quantity of his posts, as numerical post superiority implies a moar valid position.
 
Sorry to intrude on your steaming party, but once in a while, I think its worthwhile to point out that partisan politics are a great way to keep anything from getting done.
Partisan Politics, also known as factionialism, is inherent in any free society. The whole design of the Federal gov't is to allow political factions to exist so those factions spend most of their energies bickering with each other as opposed to finding new ways to oppress the citizenry.

Or to misquote one journalist, "There are only two parties; the stupid one and the evil one. ...At times they stop fighting each other and pass laws that are both evil and stupid. This is called bipartisanship."

I wish I could remember the name of the journalist. I'm pretty sure someone else knows who said this and could provide both the name and an accurate quotation.
 
Partisan Politics, also known as factionialism, is inherent in any free society. The whole design of the Federal gov't is to allow political factions to exist so those factions spend most of their energies bickering with each other as opposed to finding new ways to oppress the citizenry.

Or to misquote one journalist, "There are only two parties; the stupid one and the evil one. ...At times they stop fighting each other and pass laws that are both evil and stupid. This is called bipartisanship."

I wish I could remember the name of the journalist. I'm pretty sure someone else knows who said this and could provide both the name and an accurate quotation.


The Republican Party just ran a presidential candidate who was selling an economic plan that didn't have any numbers in it. And it fucked the working class with its "broadening the base" rhetoric. That's both stupid and evil in equal quantities, right?
 
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