The Civil War of the Smug and Over-Confident "National" Party...

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

We know the Republicans are the "regional" party which has been consigned to the trash bin of history, deeply divided by the reasonable Statist, Progressive Republicans and the bitter mouth-breathing gun-toting Bible-clinging Palin wing of the party, so they will never, ever again win a meaningful election, so let's establish that this thread is about which branch of the Democrat Party will rule us for generations to come.

Other than demagoguery, what Democrats are most accomplished at is fratricide (think back to the '60s and '70s). In the wake of Scott Brown's hosing of Martha Coakley, the Democrats are about to have a good old-fashioned civil war. Pity for them; bully for America.

The Democrats are dividing roughly along these lines: left ideologues against pols, the latter being those congressional Democrats who like their jobs and don't intend to wrap themselves in the European Union flag and jump off a craggy cliff into the Potomac.

It's Pelosi and Frank and their ilk versus Heath Shuler and his ilk. But given Tuesday night's win for Scott Brown in deep blue Massachusetts, it may be more than self-styled Democratic moderates who choose to defect. A few liberals may join in, too.

President Obama is showing every sign of being a cliff-jumper. Word out of the White House is that he plans to go on a populist offensive. In other words, he aims to demagogue anyone and anything in an attempt to divert voters' attention from his utterly woeful, ideologically blind performance to date. And did I mention that under the cover of a hate, resentment, and envy campaign, Mr. Obama and his chief congressional lieutenants, the envenomed Nancy Pelosi and the passive-aggressive Harry Reid, will still scheme to foist statism on America?

While the President's bravado may warm the hearts of Huffington Post and Daily Kos denizens, and while he may win plaudits from the Davids (Broder, Gergen, and Brooks) and the New York Times (among other liberal mouthpieces) for his supposed shrewdness, plenty of work-a-day congressional Democrats aren't going to enlist in a lemmings' march into the sea.

Self-preservation is a powerful instinct. The Coakley upending is the fork in the road for Democrats who are more enamored of themselves than stinky left-wing orthodoxy. The marker at the road's fork points right, toward the middle ground. It's where these Democrats know they must go if they are to stand a prayer of retaining their seats in November.

J. Robert Smith
American Thinker

Disclaimer: I know that last bit is a bunch of shit, it's quite clear that the Party has been in the center all along, so I probably shouldn't have even bothered to post this, END OF DISCUSSION!

But just in case, you might be inclined to think about the upcoming days and weeks, let's continue a bit...

This Democratic civil war means that the president's health care reform legislation is as dead as the Articles of Confederation. Cap-and-tax proposals based on specious climate change arguments and economy-killing provisions are already floundering, and they will go the way of the dinosaur if the president, Pelosi, and Reid push them harder. Immigration reform is a sticky-wicket. Attempting to liberalize immigration laws at a time when the economy is hurting and unemployment hovers around ten percent isn't the swiftest move.

Watch to see what higher-profile Democratic senators like Evan Bayh and Blanche Lincoln do. Throw Jim Webb in the mix as well. Unlike the wretched Ben Nelson or the oily Mary Landrieu, who have so conspicuously sold their souls to Mr. Obama and the left, the aforementioned senators have a limited opportunity to act to rehabilitate themselves by jumping off the Obama train to nowhere. If these senators are as self-serving as I suspect them to be, that's three votes that Mr. Obama and Majority Leader Reid can't count on. And more names can be added to the list.

If the Democrats' civil war plays out as expected, the result will be legislative torpor, magnificent wheels-squealing, and grinding-to-a-halt gridlock for 2010. Much to the relief of taxpayers and Main Street Americans, the 111th Congress will do no more damage...because it can't.

Civil wars typically don't have pretty endings. This one won't, either. A bad economy made worse by a "waste no crisis" president and his henchmen and a War on Terror that's devolving into an ACLU parody combined with a fracturing and fighting Democratic Party is the stuff of electoral bloodbaths, perhaps eclipsing the Democrats' 1994 carnage.

Of course, I realize this is nothing but rwingnut daydreaming because Obama is a powerful uniter and visionary leader who will need just a speech or two, maybe the Wright sermon and his sheeple will stay the course with him...

*fingers-crossed*

 

[rosco rathbone]

I elected the guy to jump over the damn cliff and we've seen precious little of that so far (public option/Wall Street running the economy with impunity, etc).

Jump, baby! Jump!

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Claire McCaskell is making noises like her name can be added to the list.





Remember, she ran as a gun-toting Bible-reading "happy" Democrat to prove she was one of us...

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

I elected the guy to jump over the damn cliff and we've seen precious little of that so far (public option/Wall Street running the economy with impunity, etc).

Jump, baby! Jump!

*chuckle*



*-* that far from an lol.

 

[JohnnySavage]

If these bloggers and new-media journalists had to pay for news print, most of this blathering on about bullshit would never see the light of day. But, its a brave new world with gigabytes to fill and where words are cheap.

Everyone with a keyboard and connection is an expert on the topic of the day - and if there is no topic of the day, by gawd we'll frame one! These guys need to take a fishing trip.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

If these bloggers and new-media journalists had to pay for news print, most of this blathering on about bullshit would never see the light of day. But, its a brave new world with gigabytes to fill and where words are cheap.

Everyone with a keyboard and connection is an expert on the topic of the day - and if there is no topic of the day, by gawd we'll frame one! These guys need to take a fishing trip.

So you prefer an Oligarchy of thought?

 

[unregistered]

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

The forensic reporting from the dying print media was very true.

Coakley sucked.

Obama wanted to help, but she waited to long.

This election was nothing more than an aberration indicative of nothing other than local issues, like baseball...

That's the explanation we SHOULD be satisfied with if it weren't for the nattering negativity of net nabobs.

*nods*




*nods enthusiastically!*

 

[JohnnySavage]

So you prefer an Oligarchy of thought?

No, I'm just rolling my eyes that people actually get paid to sit behind a computer and type out every thought that pops into their heads.



*Disclaimer - this is a non-partisan attack. They could be blogging about tiddly-winks and my angst would be the same.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Maybe people just liked Brown better.


*No charge for that expert analysis. It's a teaser to get you hooked. My blog will be up soon.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

No, I'm just rolling my eyes that people actually get paid to sit behind a computer and type out every thought that pops into their heads.

*Disclaimer - this is a non-partisan attack. They could be blogging about tiddly-winks and my angst would be the same.

So, true thought, that which you pay attention to, is that which is purchased and paid for by the dying print media?

That's a shrinking school of "thought."

Are people only allowed to blog if they attend journalism school?

 

[JohnnySavage]

So, true thought, that which you pay attention to, is that which is purchased and paid for by the dying print media?

That's a shrinking school of "thought."

Are people only allowed to blog if they attend journalism school?

What qualifications do the bloggers at American Thinker have? Do you read them seeking information, or do you read them because they support the opinions you already have?

If they blog about war, have they slept in the trench?
If they blog about the economy, have they ever signed the front of a pay check?
If they blog about politics, have they ever run for office?

Anybody can be "published" in these modern wild-west days of mass information. Why should I give a hoot what some putz at American Thinker has to say?

Opinions are like assholes, you know.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

What qualifications do the bloggers at American Thinker have? Do you read them seeking information, or do you read them because they support the opinions you already have?

If they blog about war, have they slept in the trench?
If they blog about the economy, have they ever signed the front of a pay check?
If they blog about politics, have they ever run for office?

Anybody can be "published" in these modern wild-west days of mass information. Why should I give a hoot what some putz at American Thinker has to say?

Opinions are like assholes, you know.

The same fucking things can be said of the print media that gets "paid" to offer us opinion thinly veiled as "news."

I think you should pay just a little bit of attention in order to prove your ability to see in shades of grey...

I mean, you, are, intelligent, and, NUANCED aren't you???

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm??????????????

PS - Trenches here, wrote paychecks, ran for Union Steward and Homes Association Board...



If I post something, it is because it reflects what I already think, not because it is the leading edge of my thought...

Verstehen Sie?

Or do you know no-think!

 

[hogjack]

If they blog about war, have they slept in the trench?
If they blog about the economy, have they ever signed the front of a pay check?
If they blog about politics, have they ever run for office?

Many bloggers - and posters on Lit - have their library cards and, with that, internet access.

The resumes are a bit thin after that.

 

[JohnnySavage]

The same fucking things can be said of the print media that gets "paid" to offer us opinion thinly veiled as "news."

I think you should pay just a little bit of attention in order to prove your ability to see in shades of grey...

I mean, you, are, intelligent, and, NUANCED aren't you???

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm??????????????

PS - Trenches here, wrote paychecks, ran for Union Steward and Homes Association Board...



If I post something, it is because it reflects what I already think, not because it is the leading edge of my thought...

Verstehen Sie?

Or do you know no-think!

I'm surly today and spending the morning pondering bullshit.

Who is J. Robert Smith? I've been searching and searching and can't find a bio on him. When he says, "Word out of the Whitehouse..." Who gave him that word? When? Why? Substantiate what you say man!

Being surly, let me say that I think you are being manipulated. Think outside the box and critically. Question people, their ideas and their motives.

And let me know who J. Robert Smith is and where he got the word out of the Whitehouse from.