When Hope Is the Hardest Thing

Posted on | March 22, 2010 | 68 Comments

When you really get your butt kicked, the way we got our butt kicked last night, the post-defeat depression is very real. Having spent the past week blogging almost non-stop about this ObamaCare cramdown, I’m as bummed out as anybody.

And yet good came out of it, because truth was revealed. I hope no conservative henceforth labors under the delusion that there is any such a thing as a “conservative Democrat” in Congress.

Bart Stupak covered himself in shame, a shame shared by all those who told us that “pro-life Democrats” could be useful allies. Stupak and the Blue Dogs (all of them, even those given permission by Pelosi to vote “no” last night) provide the fig leaf of moderation that enables this radical regime.

I encourage everyone to contribute to That Dog Won’t Hunt, a political action committee dedicated to the eradication of the Blue Dogs.

What comes next? We fight. Obi’s Sister is fighting mad. Before that fight begins, however, allow me to express hearty agreement with Philip Klein of the American Spectator:

The question conservatives should be asking though, is how did we get in this position in the first place? How come, over the course of two elections, Democrats were able to take back the White House and amass substantial majorities in both chambers of Congress, allowing them to enact this sweeping legislation with no Republican votes – and huge defections in their own party? How could a generally right-of-center nation be taken over by liberals from Chicago and San Francisco?
The answer, of course, is that none of this would have been possible without George W. Bush — or more broadly speaking, Bush era Republicanism. While they were in power, Republicans squandered an opportunity to push free market health care solutions. When they did use their power to pass major legislation, it was for policies like the big government Medicare prescription drug plan, which was (until today) the largest expansion of entitlements since the Great Society. They took earmarks and doled out farm and energy subsidies. They earned a reputation for fiscal recklessness and corruption and incompetent governance. President Obama ultimately forced through the health care bill in spite of the political consequences to his party because he’s ultimately a true believing liberal. But it was only because of the failures of Bush-era Republicanism that an ideological liberal with little experience was able to capture the presidency on the abstract notion of change.
Today will be largely remembered as the biggest legislative victory for liberals since Medicare in 1965. But it should also be remembered as the day that Bush cemented his legacy as one of the most destructive presidents for advocates of limited government.

Which is to say that what happened Sunday night was not the birth of a new era of liberalism. Rather, it was the death of a kind of “conservatism” that was never really conservative at all. It was the “conservatism” of No Child Left Behind and ethanol subsidies, of unprincipled compromise and cynical self-dealing, of “shamnesty” and kowtowing to CAIR.

If the Republican Party can offer America nothing better than that in the future, the GOP will go the way of the Whigs, passing unlamented into political oblivion.

Now, however, is not the time to dwell too much on that. There’s going to be some long overdue payback in this year’s GOP primaries — J.D. Hayworth is gaining ground in Arizona — but the much bigger target is Tuesday, Nov. 2. We can look forward to that fight with hope. We need fighters for this fight, and Allen West is ready to fight:

Sunday’s vote by the House of Representatives was a travesty of policy, politics and process.
The liberal troika of Obama, Reid, and Pelosi has once again conspired to trample the will of Americans and strong armed Congress to pass healthcare legislation the public simply does not want.
From all across America citizens flooded Congress with the message that a government takeover of healthcare, complete with an exploding bureaucracy and massive tax increases, is not the reform needed to solve our healthcare problems.
Congressman Ron Klein was complicit in the tangled tactics used to move an unpopular bill past the public and toward the President’s desk.
Klein did not hold a single town hall meeting where the general public was invited to ask questions or present their views. Klein hid behind controlled environments such as telephone conference calls and tightly controlled meetings. He refused my offer to debate him on this topic at a place and time of his choosing.
Klein has ignored the public’s will with his vote Sunday. On November 2nd Klein will pay the price for his arrogant approach to representing Florida’s 22nd District when the people flood the ballot box with their frustration for Mr. Klein.
My pledge to the people of the 22nd District is simple-once elected I will do everything in my power to repeal the repugnant portions of this monstrous piece of legislation.

Go West!

Category: Congress, Election, Health Care

Comments

68 Responses to “When Hope Is the Hardest Thing”

K
March 22nd, 2010 @ 10:01 am

I read a lot of talk about repealing the bill or “fixing” it or voting in a Republican majority.

I can believe that the bluedogs will be gone in 2010, and gains will be made in the senate. But it won’t make any difference as long as the culture and the colleges continue to be hostage by the left – and I still haven’t heard anyone address that issue besides Andrew Breitbart.

Republicans should be working to change the copyright laws back to what they were in the 70s – which will give them leverage over the MSM, particularly the movie industry. There should be an ongoing lawsuit battle against the universities, where you get your “education” without ever seriously considering freedom as a serious social alternative. And finally, there has to be a general consciousness raising about the fact that taxes are, in fact, a form of theft. A moral imperative against theft that must be balanced with the moral necessity of providing for the poor and down on their luck.
K
March 22nd, 2010 @ 5:01 am

I read a lot of talk about repealing the bill or “fixing” it or voting in a Republican majority.

I can believe that the bluedogs will be gone in 2010, and gains will be made in the senate. But it won’t make any difference as long as the culture and the colleges continue to be hostage by the left – and I still haven’t heard anyone address that issue besides Andrew Breitbart.

Republicans should be working to change the copyright laws back to what they were in the 70s – which will give them leverage over the MSM, particularly the movie industry. There should be an ongoing lawsuit battle against the universities, where you get your “education” without ever seriously considering freedom as a serious social alternative. And finally, there has to be a general consciousness raising about the fact that taxes are, in fact, a form of theft. A moral imperative against theft that must be balanced with the moral necessity of providing for the poor and down on their luck.
datechguy
March 22nd, 2010 @ 10:42 am

I think the blame Bush Meme is as opportunistic as David Frum’s nonsense.

http://datechguy.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/we-did-this-to-ourselves-collectively/

As I say in the link I blame those conservatives who decided that John McCain wasn’t conservative enough for them in 2008 and those “moderate” republicans who decided that they were “afraid” of Sarah Palin.

But most of all collectively it is the American people’s willingness to elect Barack Obama when they should have known better. We as a people did this to ourselves.

As I’ve said for a while I’d rather be in the position today to have a steep uphill fight to repeal this bill with Iraq won, than this bill never seeing the light of day and dealing with the consequences of a lost war.

Sorry Stacy when you say: “Don’t blame me I voted to Bob Barr.” Today we CAN blame you and all others who preferred an Obama victory to John McCain.
datechguy
March 22nd, 2010 @ 5:42 am

I think the blame Bush Meme is as opportunistic as David Frum’s nonsense.

http://datechguy.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/we-did-this-to-ourselves-collectively/

As I say in the link I blame those conservatives who decided that John McCain wasn’t conservative enough for them in 2008 and those “moderate” republicans who decided that they were “afraid” of Sarah Palin.

But most of all collectively it is the American people’s willingness to elect Barack Obama when they should have known better. We as a people did this to ourselves.

As I’ve said for a while I’d rather be in the position today to have a steep uphill fight to repeal this bill with Iraq won, than this bill never seeing the light of day and dealing with the consequences of a lost war.

Sorry Stacy when you say: “Don’t blame me I voted to Bob Barr.” Today we CAN blame you and all others who preferred an Obama victory to John McCain.
craig henry
March 22nd, 2010 @ 10:47 am

Interesting bunch of comments on the Spectator article. Plenty of people still drinking the GWB Kool-aid.
craig henry
March 22nd, 2010 @ 5:47 am

Interesting bunch of comments on the Spectator article. Plenty of people still drinking the GWB Kool-aid.
datechguy
March 22nd, 2010 @ 10:49 am

Don’t worry Stacy, everyone has the right to be wrong sometimes, and you are still welcome to crash anytime. We Catholics are very forgiving folks. (:c)
datechguy
March 22nd, 2010 @ 5:49 am

Don’t worry Stacy, everyone has the right to be wrong sometimes, and you are still welcome to crash anytime. We Catholics are very forgiving folks. (:c)
Guest
March 22nd, 2010 @ 11:50 am

Nine years ago I joined Protest Warriors-fighting the left and doing it right- to protest against the ‘anti-war’ International Socialist, Party, United for Peace and Justice, Answer, World Workers Party, and all the other yahoo Utopianists who used War as a means to divide and conquer a Nation.

Saul Akinsky: Pick a target-President George W Bush. Freeze it.

The Socialists implemented their power two months after the largest, unprovoked attack on American soil; they’ve been going strong ever since.

FOR those who have forgotten, that attack was on 9/11/2001.

SO for those who say one election implemented Socialism doesn’t yet understand the vicious nature of the Utopian enemy.

I’d also like too add; the problem with Ron Paul’s ‘anti-war position’, his political movement of anarchistic activists were foolish tools for those implement their Socialistic intent.

The moral to the story; if you want your Liberty returned to you, STOP BEING A MORONIC IDIOT SUCKING ON HOLLYWOOD JON STEWART’S COMEDY CANAL, THAT SH*T MAKES PEOPLE STUPID ZOMBIE DRONES.
Guest
March 22nd, 2010 @ 6:50 am

Nine years ago I joined Protest Warriors-fighting the left and doing it right- to protest against the ‘anti-war’ International Socialist, Party, United for Peace and Justice, Answer, World Workers Party, and all the other yahoo Utopianists who used War as a means to divide and conquer a Nation.

Saul Akinsky: Pick a target-President George W Bush. Freeze it.

The Socialists implemented their power two months after the largest, unprovoked attack on American soil; they’ve been going strong ever since.

FOR those who have forgotten, that attack was on 9/11/2001.

SO for those who say one election implemented Socialism doesn’t yet understand the vicious nature of the Utopian enemy.

I’d also like too add; the problem with Ron Paul’s ‘anti-war position’, his political movement of anarchistic activists were foolish tools for those implement their Socialistic intent.

The moral to the story; if you want your Liberty returned to you, STOP BEING A MORONIC IDIOT SUCKING ON HOLLYWOOD JON STEWART’S COMEDY CANAL, THAT SH*T MAKES PEOPLE STUPID ZOMBIE DRONES.
Dave C
March 22nd, 2010 @ 12:24 pm

Tech Guy..

Because John McCain was sooooo much better than Obama?

He voted for the bail outs. As did Obama
He wanted amnesty.. As did Obama
No to drilling in ANWR.. As did Obama
Wanted Cap and Trade.. Ad did Obama
Wanted federal government to buy up foreclosed homes..
As did.. Obama..

McCain would be heading down the same path as Obama.. only the speeds of decent would be different.
Dave C
March 22nd, 2010 @ 12:24 pm

Tech Guy..

Because John McCain was sooooo much better than Obama?

He voted for the bail outs. As did Obama
He wanted amnesty.. As did Obama
No to drilling in ANWR.. As did Obama
Wanted Cap and Trade.. Ad did Obama
Wanted federal government to buy up foreclosed homes..
As did.. Obama..

McCain would be heading down the same path as Obama.. only the speeds of decent would be different.
Dave C
March 22nd, 2010 @ 7:24 am

Tech Guy..

Because John McCain was sooooo much better than Obama?

He voted for the bail outs. As did Obama
He wanted amnesty.. As did Obama
No to drilling in ANWR.. As did Obama
Wanted Cap and Trade.. Ad did Obama
Wanted federal government to buy up foreclosed homes..
As did.. Obama..

McCain would be heading down the same path as Obama.. only the speeds of decent would be different.
Guest
March 22nd, 2010 @ 12:38 pm

How many of you were protesting the Left when the ‘anti-war’ BS was bamboozling a Nation into believing the Democrat Hollywood Party’s manufactured lies and distortions?

If you were not out there protesting the ‘anti-war’ bamboozlers then don’t be a dip-sh*t blaming politicians.

When your Wallets were stuffed fat-happy during the BushCO years it was so simple to blame BushCo on everything BUT yourselves.
Guest
March 22nd, 2010 @ 7:38 am

How many of you were protesting the Left when the ‘anti-war’ BS was bamboozling a Nation into believing the Democrat Hollywood Party’s manufactured lies and distortions?

If you were not out there protesting the ‘anti-war’ bamboozlers then don’t be a dip-sh*t blaming politicians.

When your Wallets were stuffed fat-happy during the BushCO years it was so simple to blame BushCo on everything BUT yourselves.
Guest
March 22nd, 2010 @ 12:42 pm

Saturday morning, before catching a plane to the rally in DC, I caught the Fox and Friends morning show.

Some Libertarian radio guy was on-typical slovenly fat dude with greasy hair, pasty skin and a flaccid porn-induced pot pick was saying how big spenidng is the Repulbicnas fault and that IF UNEMPLYMENT WERE DOWN TO 8% THEN AMERICANS WOULD BE SO ANGRY.
Guest
March 22nd, 2010 @ 7:42 am

Saturday morning, before catching a plane to the rally in DC, I caught the Fox and Friends morning show.

Some Libertarian radio guy was on-typical slovenly fat dude with greasy hair, pasty skin and a flaccid porn-induced pot pick was saying how big spenidng is the Repulbicnas fault and that IF UNEMPLYMENT WERE DOWN TO 8% THEN AMERICANS WOULD BE SO ANGRY.
Two very valid points about what happened last night | Political Byline
March 22nd, 2010 @ 7:45 am

[…] Robert Stacy McCain: Which is to say that what happened Sunday night was not the birth of a new era of liberalism. […]
Guest
March 22nd, 2010 @ 12:48 pm

IF UNEMPLOYMENT WERE DOWN TO 8% THEN AMERICANS WOULD NOT BE SO ANGRY.

In other words, the Libertarian guy was saying ‘as long as our Wallets are stuffed fat-happy then slumbering into soft tyranny is not problem’

The problem with Libertarians ‘Politics of Walletism’ is there is no cause worth fighting defending.
Guest
March 22nd, 2010 @ 7:48 am

IF UNEMPLOYMENT WERE DOWN TO 8% THEN AMERICANS WOULD NOT BE SO ANGRY.

In other words, the Libertarian guy was saying ‘as long as our Wallets are stuffed fat-happy then slumbering into soft tyranny is not problem’

The problem with Libertarians ‘Politics of Walletism’ is there is no cause worth fighting defending.
Third Coast
March 22nd, 2010 @ 1:18 pm

Who knew, it’s all GW’s fault. Gag me with a spoon. The purity patrol strikes again. You guys are so far around the bend you’ve found common cause with the lefty nutbags. Simple solutions for simple minds.
Third Coast
March 22nd, 2010 @ 8:18 am

Who knew, it’s all GW’s fault. Gag me with a spoon. The purity patrol strikes again. You guys are so far around the bend you’ve found common cause with the lefty nutbags. Simple solutions for simple minds.
Huey
March 22nd, 2010 @ 1:32 pm

Sheesh.

The reason we lost in 2006 and 2008 isn’t that we were “Democrat lite” it’s because of Bush’s abject failure to sell why we were in Iraq. Had he used his office to tell us why we were there, selling the expenditure of treasure and blood, it would have staunched the bleed off of his popularity and the popularity of the Iraq war.

Allowing the left to entirely control the narrative — even in the few venues where Bush could be fairly heard — allowed Bush’s negatives to be ALL that was heard, invigorizing the left and demoralizing the right.
Huey
March 22nd, 2010 @ 8:32 am

Sheesh.

The reason we lost in 2006 and 2008 isn’t that we were “Democrat lite” it’s because of Bush’s abject failure to sell why we were in Iraq. Had he used his office to tell us why we were there, selling the expenditure of treasure and blood, it would have staunched the bleed off of his popularity and the popularity of the Iraq war.

Allowing the left to entirely control the narrative — even in the few venues where Bush could be fairly heard — allowed Bush’s negatives to be ALL that was heard, invigorizing the left and demoralizing the right.
AngelaTC
March 22nd, 2010 @ 1:34 pm

Why do you think the Bush era Republicans are repenting their evil ways? They still run the party, they’re still choosing our candidates. Rick Perry’s election was as every bit the disappointment this healthcare vote was.

For them, losing this vote was the best thing that could happen, because now they don’t actually need to change. They don’t need to be conservative – all they have to do is not to be a Democrat.
Scotty Umphrey
March 22nd, 2010 @ 1:34 pm

Stacy,
Did you hear the POTUS new slogan:

“Hope this works”

Keep up the fight. Time to clean the house.
AngelaTC
March 22nd, 2010 @ 8:34 am

Why do you think the Bush era Republicans are repenting their evil ways? They still run the party, they’re still choosing our candidates. Rick Perry’s election was as every bit the disappointment this healthcare vote was.

For them, losing this vote was the best thing that could happen, because now they don’t actually need to change. They don’t need to be conservative – all they have to do is not to be a Democrat.
Scotty Umphrey
March 22nd, 2010 @ 8:34 am

Stacy,
Did you hear the POTUS new slogan:

“Hope this works”

Keep up the fight. Time to clean the house.
michigan
March 22nd, 2010 @ 1:37 pm

“My pledge to the people of the 22nd District is simple-once elected I will do everything in my power to repeal the repugnant portions of this monstrous piece of legislation.” PORTIONS? PORTIONS? Come on Allen! Sheesh, the whole damn thing and nothing less.
michigan
March 22nd, 2010 @ 8:37 am

“My pledge to the people of the 22nd District is simple-once elected I will do everything in my power to repeal the repugnant portions of this monstrous piece of legislation.” PORTIONS? PORTIONS? Come on Allen! Sheesh, the whole damn thing and nothing less.
Jeff Weimer
March 22nd, 2010 @ 1:54 pm

@Dave C,

You have a point, but McCain would have gotten none of it, purely because of the extreme partisanship of this Congress. They liked Medicare part D, but fought Bush all the way. They wanted to the credit for it, not the other party.
Jeff Weimer
March 22nd, 2010 @ 8:54 am

@Dave C,

You have a point, but McCain would have gotten none of it, purely because of the extreme partisanship of this Congress. They liked Medicare part D, but fought Bush all the way. They wanted to the credit for it, not the other party.
Joe
March 22nd, 2010 @ 2:24 pm

C.S. Lewis said it well: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
Joe
March 22nd, 2010 @ 9:24 am

C.S. Lewis said it well: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
Old Rebel
March 22nd, 2010 @ 2:35 pm

“Which is to say that what happened Sunday night was not the birth of a new era of liberalism. Rather, it was the death of a kind of “conservatism” that was never really conservative at all. It was the “conservatism” of No Child Left Behind and ethanol subsidies, of unprincipled compromise and cynical self-dealing, of “shamnesty” and kowtowing to CAIR.”

That’s what defeated us. Too many Americans bought the obvious fiction peddled by the “big-government” conservatives. And when the result is bigger government, they wail and cuss and wonder what happened to their traditional rights. Amazing.

The other unpleasant truth we have to confront is that the “generally right-of-center nation” Klein invokes is being reconstructed by DC’s Open Borders policy. Western ideals of liberty cannot survive in a land dominated by Third-World immigrants.
McGehee
March 22nd, 2010 @ 2:35 pm

Another thing the pro-liberty side does wrong a lot is react to bad political outcomes by forming the handy-dandy circular firing squad.

Which is always oh, so helpful.
Old Rebel
March 22nd, 2010 @ 9:35 am

“Which is to say that what happened Sunday night was not the birth of a new era of liberalism. Rather, it was the death of a kind of “conservatism” that was never really conservative at all. It was the “conservatism” of No Child Left Behind and ethanol subsidies, of unprincipled compromise and cynical self-dealing, of “shamnesty” and kowtowing to CAIR.”

That’s what defeated us. Too many Americans bought the obvious fiction peddled by the “big-government” conservatives. And when the result is bigger government, they wail and cuss and wonder what happened to their traditional rights. Amazing.

The other unpleasant truth we have to confront is that the “generally right-of-center nation” Klein invokes is being reconstructed by DC’s Open Borders policy. Western ideals of liberty cannot survive in a land dominated by Third-World immigrants.
McGehee
March 22nd, 2010 @ 9:35 am

Another thing the pro-liberty side does wrong a lot is react to bad political outcomes by forming the handy-dandy circular firing squad.

Which is always oh, so helpful.
Joe
March 22nd, 2010 @ 2:47 pm

A long, long time ago…
I can still remember
How that that Cowboy used to make us smile.
But the GOP ignored ol’ Ron’s stance
And McCain never had a chance
And a “good man” took over for a while.

But the march voting made me shiver
With every new post Hamsher delivered.
Bad news on the doorstep;
I couldn’t take one more step.

I can’t remember if I cried
When I read about Stupak’s slide,
But something touched me deep inside
The day the country died…
Joe
March 22nd, 2010 @ 9:47 am

A long, long time ago…
I can still remember
How that that Cowboy used to make us smile.
But the GOP ignored ol’ Ron’s stance
And McCain never had a chance
And a “good man” took over for a while.

But the march voting made me shiver
With every new post Hamsher delivered.
Bad news on the doorstep;
I couldn’t take one more step.

I can’t remember if I cried
When I read about Stupak’s slide,
But something touched me deep inside
The day the country died…
Ro
March 22nd, 2010 @ 3:25 pm

There is no such thing as a pro-life Democrat. There is no such animal as a “principled” Democrat in D.C. at the moment. Not saying Repubs are lots better. But they are not on the fast-track to tyranny.

If this law stands, it is the effective end of our Constitutional Republic. That is not an overstatement. If our Constitution allows the federal government to tell you when, how and even IF you are “allowed” to purchase medical services and health insurance, and that the federal government can compile and use an electronic medical records system to store information of the most personal on every person in the US, there are NO checks on it.

It can tell you to buy a certain kind of car, live in a particular place, use no or little electricity, tell you what innoculations your children must have, regulate what you say, what your pastor says, what you can and can’t watch on TV, what you can and can’t listen to on the radio, what you can and can’t read on the internet, at the library, what books are for sale, what you say to people in public, what you say to your family in private. . .

There are NO limits.

I have heard there are something like 38 state attorneys general planning to challenge this on Constitutional grounds. If those fail, those 38 states make a majority who could call a ConCon and add an amendment “clarifying” the enumerated powers. Those 38 states could “change” the Constitution “back” to what it was intended to do.

If that fails, states will try to secede. That’s when it will get ugly.

Changing the guard at a monstrously powerful federal government will not help in the long run. It should NOT matter so much who is president, because the feds should NEVER have this much power.

If the states cannot rein in this behemoth, the states will try to leave it.
Ro
March 22nd, 2010 @ 10:25 am

There is no such thing as a pro-life Democrat. There is no such animal as a “principled” Democrat in D.C. at the moment. Not saying Repubs are lots better. But they are not on the fast-track to tyranny.

If this law stands, it is the effective end of our Constitutional Republic. That is not an overstatement. If our Constitution allows the federal government to tell you when, how and even IF you are “allowed” to purchase medical services and health insurance, and that the federal government can compile and use an electronic medical records system to store information of the most personal on every person in the US, there are NO checks on it.

It can tell you to buy a certain kind of car, live in a particular place, use no or little electricity, tell you what innoculations your children must have, regulate what you say, what your pastor says, what you can and can’t watch on TV, what you can and can’t listen to on the radio, what you can and can’t read on the internet, at the library, what books are for sale, what you say to people in public, what you say to your family in private. . .

There are NO limits.

I have heard there are something like 38 state attorneys general planning to challenge this on Constitutional grounds. If those fail, those 38 states make a majority who could call a ConCon and add an amendment “clarifying” the enumerated powers. Those 38 states could “change” the Constitution “back” to what it was intended to do.

If that fails, states will try to secede. That’s when it will get ugly.

Changing the guard at a monstrously powerful federal government will not help in the long run. It should NOT matter so much who is president, because the feds should NEVER have this much power.

If the states cannot rein in this behemoth, the states will try to leave it.
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Bob
March 22nd, 2010 @ 3:43 pm

Whenever I’m really pissed off I know I can come to The Other McCain for comfort–of the same.
And Geo. Bush didn’t do the one thing he of all people should have done. He should have secured/cleaned up the one man one vote franchise. Instead Acorn, illegal immigration and mail-in voting flourished. In Iraq there’s the purple finger, here the purple SEIU bite off your finger.
Bob
March 22nd, 2010 @ 10:43 am

Whenever I’m really pissed off I know I can come to The Other McCain for comfort–of the same.
And Geo. Bush didn’t do the one thing he of all people should have done. He should have secured/cleaned up the one man one vote franchise. Instead Acorn, illegal immigration and mail-in voting flourished. In Iraq there’s the purple finger, here the purple SEIU bite off your finger.
McGehee
March 22nd, 2010 @ 3:59 pm

Anyone who hadn’t come to terms with the fact Bush was at best a flawed example of a “conservative” the first time he felt compelled to qualify his “conservatism” as “compassionate,” deserved to be disappointed comatose long before 9/11 — let alone after.

To be rehashing it more than a year after the man has left office, whilst we are ducking political MOABs like ObamaCare and Obamnesty, seems a bit out of place. You don’t do after-battle assessments until after the battle.
Joe
March 22nd, 2010 @ 3:59 pm

We have lawyers, Kelo to healthcare we stand
FALSE PROMISES, LOTS OF DEMANDS
Courts are a battlefield

Conservatives are strong, no one can tell them they’re wrong
Searchin’ our bases for so long, both of us knowing
Courts Are A Battlefield

You’re driving me to go, you’re bribing Stupak to stay
Why do you hurt me so bad?
It would help me to know
Do I stand in your way, or is Reagan best thing you’ve had?
Believe me, believe me, I can’t tell you why
But I’m trapped by your deficits, and I’m chained to your side

We have lawyers, Kelo to healthcare we stand
FALSE PROMISES, LOTS OF DEMANDS
Courts are a battlefield
Robert’s will is strong, no one can tell Thomas he’s wrong
Searchin’ our bases for so long, both of us knowing
Courts Are A Battlefield

We’re losing control
Do you realize Chinese bankers control us deep inside?
And before this gets old, will it still feel the same?
Our country is slowly starting to die
But if we get much closer, we could lose control
And if your heart fails, Obamacare will not hold

We have lawyers, gun rights to tort reform we stand
FALSE PROMISES, LOTS OF DEMANDS
Courts are a battlefield
Scalia’s will is strong, even if Kennedy is occasionally wrong
Searchin’ our bases for so long, both of us knowing
Courts Are A Battlefield
McGehee
March 22nd, 2010 @ 10:59 am

Anyone who hadn’t come to terms with the fact Bush was at best a flawed example of a “conservative” the first time he felt compelled to qualify his “conservatism” as “compassionate,” deserved to be disappointed comatose long before 9/11 — let alone after.

To be rehashing it more than a year after the man has left office, whilst we are ducking political MOABs like ObamaCare and Obamnesty, seems a bit out of place. You don’t do after-battle assessments until after the battle.
Joe
March 22nd, 2010 @ 10:59 am

We have lawyers, Kelo to healthcare we stand
FALSE PROMISES, LOTS OF DEMANDS
Courts are a battlefield

Conservatives are strong, no one can tell them they’re wrong
Searchin’ our bases for so long, both of us knowing
Courts Are A Battlefield

You’re driving me to go, you’re bribing Stupak to stay
Why do you hurt me so bad?
It would help me to know
Do I stand in your way, or is Reagan best thing you’ve had?
Believe me, believe me, I can’t tell you why
But I’m trapped by your deficits, and I’m chained to your side

We have lawyers, Kelo to healthcare we stand
FALSE PROMISES, LOTS OF DEMANDS
Courts are a battlefield
Robert’s will is strong, no one can tell Thomas he’s wrong
Searchin’ our bases for so long, both of us knowing
Courts Are A Battlefield

We’re losing control
Do you realize Chinese bankers control us deep inside?
And before this gets old, will it still feel the same?
Our country is slowly starting to die
But if we get much closer, we could lose control
And if your heart fails, Obamacare will not hold

We have lawyers, gun rights to tort reform we stand
FALSE PROMISES, LOTS OF DEMANDS
Courts are a battlefield
Scalia’s will is strong, even if Kennedy is occasionally wrong
Searchin’ our bases for so long, both of us knowing
Courts Are A Battlefield
The Way Out « Nice Deb
March 22nd, 2010 @ 11:52 am

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