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‘My Sister Is Pregnant and We Don’t Know Which of My Brothers is the Father’

Posted on | September 23, 2014 | 146 Comments

The quoted sentence was spoken by a child on a school playground. Overheard by a teacher, this triggered an investigation that exposed a multigenerational horror story in rural Australia:

Police raided the Colt family home in rural south-western New South Wales in July 2012 after a teacher alerted authorities to a conversation overheard in the playground that detailed the incest. . . .
The raids found 38 adults and children living in filthy caravans and tin sheds without electricity, town water or any plumbing. They were the result of four generations from grandparents who were brother and sister. . . .
When the raid occurred Betty Colt was found sharing a marital bed with her brother Charlie and her children, same only as young as 10, were the result of sex between Ms Colt and her brother, father or another close male relative.
The five family groups comprised of sisters, Rhonda, 47, Martha, 33, and Betty Colt, 46, who slept every night with her brother, Charlie, and two of Betty’s daughters who each had children who proved to be from unions of related parents. . . .
Eight of the Colt children have parents who were either brother and sister, mother and son or father and daughter.
A further six have parents who were either aunt and nephew, uncle and niece, half siblings or grandparents and grandchild.
Interviews with the Colts revealed the family saga began back in New Zealand, in the first half of last century when June Colt was born to parents who were brother and sister.
June married Tim and in the 1970s the couple emigrated to Australia. . . .
Tim and June gave birth to four daughters and two sons.
Three of the daughters — Rhonda, 47, Betty, 46, and Martha, 33 — and at least one of the sons, Charlie, form the elder members of the family group in the NSW bush camp.
Betty had 13 children. . . .
Betty’s eldest child, Raylene, now aged 30, has a 13-year-old daughter, Kimberly. . . .
Testing identifies Kimberly’s father as either her half brother, an uncle or a grandfather.
Betty’s second oldest child, Tammy, now aged 27, has given birth to three daughters, one of whom died from a rare genetic disorder, and all of whom, she eventually admitted, were fathered by her closest brother, Derek, 25.
Betty’s younger sister, Martha Colt, 33, has five children, four of whom were fathered by her own father, Tim, or by her brother, and another who is the product of a union with a close relation.
It was the 10 youngest of Betty and Martha’s children, and Raylene’s daughter, Kimberly, 13, who ran wild in a sexual spree about the property. . . .
The children were sexually involved with each other and only one, the youngest, a five-year-old girl, had parents who weren’t related.

In case that’s not enough to give you nightmares, here’s a report detailing the squalid conditions in which this family lived.

When my brother Kirby (follow him on Twitter) called to tell me about this story, I was a bit impatient because his call interrupted my research for the “Sex Trouble” series on radical feminism.

At the time Kirby called, however, my work was somewhat stalled because of another odd story from Australia: In 2008, a 19-year-old Irish girl named Rosemary Nolan traveled to Brisbane, where she became the lesbian lover of 24-year-old Melissa Keevers. In 2009, via artificial insemination, Keevers became pregnant and gave birth to a girl named Lilly. In 2010, while being treated with a drug to stimulate ovulation, Keevers was inseminated again with sperm from the same donor and this time conceived quintuplets. In 2011, Keevers gave birth to two boys and three girls. In 2012, Nolan and Keevers split up.

Here’s what struck me about that story: It was celebrated with a worldwide publicity campaign by journalists who did not seem the least bit skeptical — or even curious — about glaring omissions of basic biographical information on Nolan and Keevers. Evidently, the Australian publication Woman’s Day had purchased exclusive rights to the story of this “miracle” — the first quintuplets ever born to a lesbian couple. The coverage by Woman’s Day (which seemed to be the only source for direct information in news accounts by other media outlets) emphasized that the odds against conceiving quintuplets without in vitro ferilization (IVF) were 60,000,000-to-1. However, the fact that Keevers was being treated with a drug to cause hyperovulation was omitted from the glowing stories about the lesbian couple’s “miracle” babies; so far as I could discover, it was only in a TV interview with Karl Stefanovic that this highly relevant detail was even mentioned.

As a journalist, the omission of this detail about Keevers being treated with an ovulation drug — a treatment that obviously was the secular cause of this alleged “miracle” — was striking, as was the apparent lack of journalistic curiosity about other details. If you are writing a human-interest feature about two lesbians, for example, wouldn’t you want to include their personal accounts of when and how they became aware of their same-sex orientation? You know, did they always feel “different” from other girls (as one sometimes hears in such narratives) or was this a surprising adult revelation, in which a woman  just happened to meet and fall in love with another woman (another standard lesbian narrative)?

If any reporter asked those questions about Nolan and Keevers, the answers never showed up in any of the coverage I could find online. And a lot of other stuff you’d expect to find in human-interest features was missing, too. Where did they go to school? What do their friends and siblings have to say about the lesbian couple and their “miracle”? Most of all, I wondered, how could the Irish teenager Nolan afford to travel to Australia for a backpacking excursion during which she reportedly met her lesbian lover Keevers by sheer coincidence?

Answer: We don’t know. There’s a hell of a lot we don’t know about that story, including how much Woman’s Day paid for the exclusive rights to the story, and I am dumbfounded by the credulity of journalists in Australia and Ireland who did not seem the least bit curious about the missing details. The Nolan-Keevers Miracle Quintuplet story was reported in much the same way an Orlando Chamber of Commerce spokesman might “report” about Disney World.

And after the lesbian miracle moms split up in 2012 — Nolan cited stress from her job as a police trainee — when the quintuplets were 2 years old, a Cone of Silence descended on the story. For more than a year, it seems, no journalist followed up on this story that once made worldwide headlines until, in August, Keevers gave an update to a TV station:

Ms Keevers met her current partner Nicole, a full-time student studying nutrition, 18 months ago through an online dating site.
With Nicole’s seven-year-old son now living with them, Ms Keevers now has seven children living under her roof.
Nicole has “as much responsibility for my children as I do” and loves them “like her own son”, Ms Keevers said.
“She feels like a mother to them.”

All this struck me as strange, but it’s one of those dead ends you sometimes encounter: You find a story that seems vaguely suspicious, but there is no way to check it out yourself. I have no contacts in Ireland or Australia, so unless other reporters share my skepticism, the mysterious gaps in the Nolan-Keevers Miracle Quintuplet story may never be filled in.

Such was the impasse I found myself in Monday, after hours spent trying to figure it out and write it up for the “Sex Trouble” series, when Kirby called to tell me about this horrifying tale of multigeneration incest in New South Wales, Australia.

“Depravity,” Kirby said. “That’s the only word I can think of.”

Yeah. We talked about it, how it was that this Colt family (“Colt” is a pseudonym the authorities are using to protect the identities of the children involved) could have descended into such total depravity. Once people lose sight of basic moral principles — when people start acting like all that “Thou shalt not” stuff from the Bible doesn’t really mean anything — you never know how far down the slippery slope they may eventually slide. Then one day an Australian school teacher overhears a kid say a sentence like, “My sister is pregnant and we don’t know which of my brothers is the father.”

Depravity is the only word that can describe what Australian officials uncovered in the Colt family. Their decades-long descent into total depravity began, we are told, when the incest taboo was ignored by a brother and sister who married and gave birth to June Colt, who then married her own brother Tim, and somehow this depravity continued generation after generation until 2012.

Anyway, I was kind of peeved when Kirby called me Monday, because his call interrupted me while I was trying to find the answers to questions about the Australian lesbian miracle moms, questions that other journalists apparently never bothered to ask. It’s always annoying to encounter a dead-end story like that, where you can’t get the answers you want, and I was already frustrated when Kirby interrupted to tell me about the Colt family — a distraction that has nothing to do with radical feminism and lesbian motherhood.

Nothing to do with it, I tell you. There is no relevance, no analogy, no correlation between these two stories — none at all.

What are you, some kind of hater?




 

 

Category: Australia, Crime, Sex, Sex Trouble

Dilbert Panel Or U.S. Foreign Policy Summary? You Make The Call

Posted on | September 23, 2014 | 3 Comments

by Smitty

Category: Uncategorized

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.23.14

Posted on | September 23, 2014 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

TOP NEWS
130,000 Syrian Refugees Flee To Turkey

“I just want to go home.”

Refugee situation exacerbates tension between Ankara and Turkish Kurds
Turkey clamps down on Syrian border after Kurdish unrest
As masses seek refuge in Turkey, peshmerga rush back to Syria
US, partners begin airstrikes in Syria

US Rejects Iran’s Offer To Cooperate Against Islamic State
Teheran wanted flexibility on its nukes in return for joining coalition

Afghan National Army Officers Disappear From Cape Cod Base
Found attempting to cross into Canada near Buffalo and now being questioned



POLITICS
NYT Blames Dead Democrat Senator For Harassment of Sen. Gillibrand

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)

NYT quotes anonymous sources as saying Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI) was the harasser


Justice Kagan Performs Gay Wedding


Rep. Issa Renews Call For Lerner To Testify After Media Interview

Fauxcahontas Hits The Fundraising Trail For Democrat Women

Louisiana Judge Rules State’s Gay Marriage Ban Unconstitutional

DOJ Bans Media From Attending Ferguson Town Hall Meetings



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Rebounds Slightly From NY Close On China Data, Syria Bombing: WTI $91.18, Brent $97.30
Housing Data Hits Wall Street; S&P Has Worst Day Since August 5
Treasury, IRS Crack Down On Tax “Inversions” By Companies Leaving US
Asia Relieved As China Flash PMI Beats Low Expectations
Draghi Pessimistic On European Growth
Soybeans Rebound From 2010 Low As Brokers Eye China Demand
Ray Ozzie Aims To Change The Way We Talk With Talko
iOS 8 Users Report Slow Wi-Fi, Battery Drain
AT&T’s New Internet Plan Comes With Free Amazon Prime
Apple Denies It’s Shutting Down Beats Music
BlackBerry Eyes $599 Price Tag For Square Passport Phone



SPORTS
Surprising MNF Twist: Bears Defense Saves The Day!

Jets QB Geno Davis: just not his night

Bears capitalize on two interceptions and other Jets blunders to win 27-19

Royals Blank Tribe 2-0, Now Within One Game of Tigers

Braves Fire GM Frank Wren


US Soccer Says Hope Solo Can Keep Playing While Domestic Abuse Charges Pending

Rookie Leads White Sox To Shutout Victory Against Tigers

Liriano Helps Bucs Shut Out Braves, 1-0

Astros Fall To Rangers, 4-3

Jays Pound M’s 14-4 With Three Homers

Nationals NLDS Tickets Sell Out In 17 Minutes



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Naomi Watts Wishes She’d Had More Kids

“I should have had more kids, started younger”

“…Now that I have kids, I don’t want to do so many daredevily things anymore.”

Film Review: “Gone Girl”

Kenan Thompson Leaving SNL After This Season


NYT Grovels Over “Angry Black Woman” Review Of Shonda Rhimes’ TV Show

Bryan Singer Set To Helm “X-Men: Apocalypse”

Big Ang Makes Huge Scene During “Mob Wives” Filming

It’s Never Been Better To Be Blake Griffin

Johnny Depp’s Fiance Amber Heard Latest Victim Of Hacked Nude Pix Scandal

Emma Watson Obviously Didn’t Read The Other McCain Before Speaking At The UN About Feminism



FOREIGNERS
Brazil Cuts 2014 Growth Projections From 1.8% To 0.9%
Canada Joins Global Push Against Islamic State
Islamic State-Aligned Jihadis Threaten To Kill Frenchman in Algeria
Thousands Of Hong Kong Students Protest For Democracy
Study: Number Of Ebola Cases Could Hit 21,000 In Six Weeks, “Rumble On For Years”
Pakistan’s New Spymaster Once Called For Rapprochement With India
Obama To Meet Iraqi PM, Egyptian President In New York
As Asia Tensions Cool, Putin Turns Up The Heat
Amnesty International Complains Chicom Companies Exporting Torture Tools
David Cameron: English Home Rule To Be At Heart Of Tories’ Election Campaign



BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: Found On Facebook
Doug Powers: Selective Disenfranchisement – Ferguson Residents Must Show ID To Enter Town Hall Meetings
Twitchy: Lefty Journalists Circle Wagons Around Politico Reporter, Attack Stephen Hayes
American Power: People’s Climate Demarche
American Thinker: Meet John Feehery, Perhaps The Worst GOP Establishment Consultant Ever
BLACKFIVE: The Passing Of A Giant
Conservatives4Palin: Remember When ESPN Was About Sports?
Don Surber: Starbucks Nation vs. Chick-Fil-A Country
Jammie Wearing Fools: Good News! White House Estimates 100 ISIS Terrorists Are Back In The US
Joe For America: Does The Military Trust Their Commander-In-Chief?
Protein Wisdom: Don’t Lock Your Car And Perpetuate Theft Culture, We Need To Tell People To Stop Stealing Cars
Shot In The Dark: It Wasn’t An Intruder…
STUMP: Public Pension Watch – How Important Is The Mortality Assumption? And Other Assumptions?
The Gateway Pundit: MN Muslims Demand Pork-Free Food From Food Shelves
The Jawa Report: Muslims Hold Huge Anti-ISIS Rally In Toronto
The Lonely Conservative: High Turnover Hinders DHS Ability To Stay On Top Of Threats
This Ain’t Hell: So Why Are We Allowing ISIS To Export Oil?
Weasel Zippers: CAIR Sends A Copy Of The Koran To Every Mayor In Montana On 9/11
Megan McArdle: Fixing Climate Change Will Never Be Free


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Category: Live at Five

Another Community Organizer? We Need That Like Additional Cranial Ventilation

Posted on | September 22, 2014 | 20 Comments

by Smitty

The Washington Free Beacon continues to demonstrate what a properly functioning media could resemble:

“The more I’ve seen of places like Yale Law School and the people who haunt them, the more convinced I am that we have the serious business and joy of much work ahead—if the commitment to a free and open society is ever going to mean more than eloquence and frustration,” wrote Clinton.

According to the letter, Clinton and Alinsky had kept in touch since she entered Yale. The 62-year-old radical had reached out to give her advice on campus activism.

and

“The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power,” wrote Alinsky in his 1971 book. “Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.”

So maybe Her Majesty can be seen as merely connecting the dots between Niccolo and Saul.

At this point, it looks like #OccupyResoluteDesk is going to honor the 22nd Amendment more than he has the Affordable Care Act. If these United States are so unrelentingly stupid as to elect Her Majesty, the last trappings of the Constitution could truly be in danger.

Oh, and what dreck is this?

via Instapundit

Category: Hillary Clinton

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.22.14

Posted on | September 22, 2014 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
California Burning: King Fire Spreads As Seven Blazes Burn Across State

US Forest Service crews clean up along a road in El Dorado County last Thursday

More than 7800 firefighters in action; King Fire only 10% contained
Thirty-two structures destroyed by California wildfires
Record amount of fire retardant used to fight blazes




NASA’s Maven Probe Arrives In Mars Orbit
Looking for answer to how Mars’ atmosphere leaked away

Afghan Presidential Rivals Sign Pact For Unity Government
Ashraf Ghani to become president, Abdullah Abudullah to nominate CEO with powers similar to the prime minister



POLITICS
UN Ambassador Power Touts Support From 40 Countries For Anti-ISIS Fight

But won’t (can’t?) say who they are or what they’re committing

Bipartisan dubiousness in the House



Lawmakers Criticize Secret Service Over White House Security



Close Races Could Mean Senate Control Will Be Decided In Runoffs

Rick Perry Cites Joan Rivers In Defense Of Texas Abortion Law

Dem Rep Michaud Under Fire For Trashy Video Making Sexual Reference To GOP Senator Susan Collins

Gov. Jerry Brown Signs Several Clean-Air Vehicle Bills

Bob Dole To Stump For Pat Roberts In Kansas

Kansas Dem Governor Candidate Tries To Explain Getting Caught In Strip Club Raid



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Continues Slide Before China Data: WTI $91.33, Brent $97.92
Alibaba’s Banks Boost IPO To $25 Million
Asian Shares Slip On Jitters Over China Growth
Siemens To Acquire Houston’s Dresser-Rand In Multibillion Deal
US Gasoline Prices Lowest Since February
Indiana Toll Road Operators To Submit Restructuring Plan
Oculus Brings The Virtual Closer To Reality
Microsoft Delays XBox One Launch In China
Nobody’s Neutral In Net Neutrality Debate
New Android L OS To Encrypt Data By Default



SPORTS
Cards Clinch Playoff Spot, Lose 7-2 To Reds

Lance Lynn coughs up three runs in six innings

Cards back into playoffs thanks to Pirates blanking Brewers earlier in the day

Broncos Retool, Lose To Seahawks Again Anyway

Mets Crush Braves 10-2 For The Sweep

Joey Logano Pulls Away To Win Sylvania 300, Advance In Chase

A’s Take Rubber Game From Phillies With Sayonara Homer In 10th

Red Sox Edge O’s 3-2

Royals Top Tigers 5-2, Stay Close In AL Central

Astros Crush M’s 8-3

Kluber K’s 14 As Tribe Whips Twins 7-2

Ravens Rally In 4th Quarter, Edge Browns 23-21

Steelers Run All Over Panthers, 37-19

Pack’s Offense Sputters In Loss To Lions

Makeshift Offensive Line Comes Through For Eagles; Redskins Fall 37-34

Bengals Rip Titans 33-7

Patriots Hang On For 16-9 Win Over Raiders

Strasburg Leads Nats Over Fish 2-1



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Polly Bergen Dies, 84

Her career began with Cape Fear, also included The Sopranos, Desperate Housewives

A household name since her 20s


Gabrielle Union Calling FBI Over Latest Celeb Nude Pix Leaks


Colin Farrell Confirms “True Detective” Role


Jessica Simpson: The Access Hollywood Interview


Eric “The Actor” Lynch Dead At 39

Little People, Big Wedding!

Jennifer Lawrence Joins Chris Martin Backstage After Coldplay Concert In Las Vegas

Trista Sutter Surprises Husband Ryan With Camping Trip

Honey Boo Boo Looks Sad On The Set As Her Parents Split

Keyshia Cole Arrested After Assaulting Woman In Boyfriend’s Condo

Jimmy Fallon Surprised By Shirtless Seth Rogen, James Franco On Tonight Show For His 40th Birthday

Barbara Walters’ Live Appearance On “The View” Nixed By ABC

Court Battle Reignites Over Richard Avedon Book

Jeff Goldblum Debuts His Jazz “Orchestra” At Cafe Carlyle



FOREIGNERS
Syrian Refugee Flood Into Turkey Hits 100k
Yemen Government Signs Peace Agreement With Shiite Rebels
Survey Says Scottish Referendum Damaged Economy
Australia Targets Jihadis Returning From Middle East With Anti-Terror Law
Explosions In Sinkiang Kill Two, Injure Many
Thousands March In Moscow Antiwar Rally
SecState Kerry Meets Iranian Foreign Minister In NYC
Blair: Boots On The Ground Needed To Defeat Islamic State
Fijian Coup Leader’s Party Confirmed As Election Winner With Clear Majority
Erdogan Claims No Ransom Paid To Islamic State For Release Of Turks
Sarkozy Makes Tax Pledge In Comeback Campaign



BLOGS & STUFF
Zilla of the Resistance: Democrat Congressman Beto O’Rourke, Meet The Streisand Effect
Valley of the Shadow: Future Goals and Dreams
Michelle Malkin: Letting In The Wrong Refugees
Twitchy: Who Else Hijacked Today’s Climate Change March? PETA, 9/11 Truthers, Code Pink, Free Gaza
American Power: “Red Band Society” Ads Pulled From LA Buses After Complaints Of Racism, Sexism
American Thinker: The Science Is Settled – Fracking Is Safe
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Blind Spot
Conservatives4Palin: Colin Powell Has No Regrets For Endorsing Obama
Don Surber: Commies And Billionaires March Against Climate Change
Jammie Wearing Fools: Al Jazeera Sues Al Gore
Joe For America: Religion Of Peace SuperCut Video
JustOneMinute: The Science Was Settled, But…Reforestation Raises Global Warming?
Protein Wisdom: Christina Hoff Summers – Are Video Games Sexist?
Shot In The Dark: Keith Ellison And That Famous DFL Civility
STUMP: Public Pensions And Alternative Assets – Dallas Shows How It Can End
The Gateway Pundit: Australian Muslims Rally Against Police Crackdown On Terrorists
The Jawa Report: Join ISIS Now And Double Your Virgins In Paradise!
The Lonely Conservative: Obama Takes More Executive Actions On Climate Change
This Ain’t Hell: About That Upcoming African Feelgood Exercise
Weasel Zippers: Pint-Sized Democrat Blames Detroit’s Bankruptcy On White People
Megan McArdle: Obamacare Enrollees Are Paying Premiums. We Think.


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Category: Live at Five

Rule 5 Sunday: Levitation

Posted on | September 21, 2014 | 7 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Sleep cycle completely hosed, so no clever intro or cute intro pics this week. Don’t click links in public, and if you do don’t come whining to me.

Randy’s Roundtable leads off with Ellie Gonsalves, followed by Goodstuff talking like a pirate, Blackmailers Don’t Shoot stiffing us on the Kaley Cuoco nude pics, and Ninety Miles from Tyranny with Hot Pick of the Late Night, God Bless America!, and Girls with Guns.

EBL this week was all about the Scottish Independence, Skepchicks, the Elder Edition of the Rule 5 Lifestyle, more Scottish (non-)Independence, Eartha Kitt, Spanking, and some Rule 5 Falcon Fan Style.

A View from the Beach brings us The Girl Of Summer 2014 – Emily Ratajkowski, Cutie Rethinks Union with Frontman of World’s Worst Band, When All You Have is a Red Balloon…, Fear and Loathing on Chesapeake Bay, Iggy Azalea, Iggy Azalea, Iggy Azalea!, “My Friend”, Keeping Abreast of the News, Fight Fiercely Redskins!, and A Little Culture

At Soylent Siberia, it’s your morning coffee creamer, It’s That Time, Morning Motivationer Furlette, And Thereby Hangs A…, Tuesday Titillation Timea, New Window Dressing, Humpday Hawtness Destiny, Overnighty Extreme Cameltoe Upskirt, Falconsword Fursday, Corset Friday, Arrrgh,  T-GIF Friday Invitation,  Weekender Rachel, and Bath Night Shower Scene.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Evangeline Lilly, his vintage Babe is Susan Cabot, Sex In Advertising is covered by Guess, and of course there’s the obligatory 49er cheerleader. At Dustbury, it’s Emily Deschanel and Sophia Loren, whose 80th birthday was this week. Three Beers Later also chipped in Rule 5 Rednex: The Way I Mate.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Rule 5 roundup is midnight on Saturday, September 27.

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Category: Rule 5

Thoughts on Ideology

Posted on | September 21, 2014 | 10 Comments

Readers will pardon my long blog silence today, which is likely to continue a while as I am (of course) knee-deep into the radical feminist craziness as I prepare the next installment of the “Sex Trouble” series. (Hit the Freaking Tip Jar!) Because feminist ideologues propose theoretical conceptions that are so contrary to basic common-sense understanding of human nature, reading this stuff could easily cause a person to question their own sanity. Either we’re crazy or they’re crazy, but there is simply no way to reconcile the claims made by feminists with what most normal people believe about human life.

It is helpful, then, for me occasionally to set aside this stuff and emerge into the real world, communicate with normal people and double-check to make sure I haven’t completely lost my mind. Anyway, during a break from my research, I sent out a few thoughts on Twitter.

You don’t know what kind of craziness inspired those observations, but with any luck, by this time tomorrow I will have published another 5,000 words that will help explain it. In the meantime, remember me in your prayers and please, Hit the Freaking Tip Jar!




 

 

Category: Intellectuals

The Vichy GOP Thinks Tea Parties Should Just Shut Up & Fall In Line, Or Something

Posted on | September 21, 2014 | 64 Comments

by Smitty

One must borrow Her Majesty’s dead horse in response to the Fox News question:

Will Tea Party, GOP establishment be ‘mending fences’ to win Senate in November?

After a long, unapologetic effort to defeat Tea Party and other so-called “unelectable” candidates in GOP primaries, the Washington establishment will likely need Tea Party voters in November to help swing several tight Senate races and win control of the upper chamber.

Here I go:

What difference, at this point, does it make?

One can understand that, yes, there are still two years of #OccupyResoluteDesk to endure. But

  • ObamaCare is still a river of lies, with no hope of repeal
  • The IRS is an affront to all things American
  • Ground truth on Benghazi remains elusive
  • We have no hope of a reasonable budget
  • The Federal Reserve is still running amok
  • The immigration sellout seems a question of when, not if
  • Border and national security seem a shambles

The GOP can’t just argue: “We may suck, but we’re all you’ve got” and “SCOTUS” and expect the base just to roll over like so many moderate Congressional panhandlers waiting for the deal to be cut.

Actual conservatives are wondering things like: “Where is the leadership?” and “What is the reform course?”

The gut feeling amongst the irregular troops who should be supplying the bulk of the momentum for a wave election is that there may not be a point to it. That the real mission of the GOP is to be a shock absorber for reform. That the substantial difference between Boehner and Pelosi is that Cryin’ Johnny never equated Tea Partiers Nazis. That those who cautioned against leaving the GOP for a brand new party (and I’m still in that camp, barely) may have been just wrong. That it may be time for our version of UKIP. There are a couple of proto-Nigel Farage figures in circulation, but breaking them loose of the Vichy GOP would seem unlikely at the moment.

A repeat of 2010 should be a no-brainer, but we may first need a no-Boehner.

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