John Cornyn and the Eunuch Anacephalic ‘Leadership’ of the Republican Party

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Drew M. at Ace of Spades says John Cornyn is “starting to go wobbly,” which involves the wholly unwarranted assumption that Cornyn was ever steady to begin with.

It was Cornyn who, by giving the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s endorsement to Charlie Crist — 15 months before the Florida GOP primary — sparked the Not One Red Cent rebellion.

Over and over, we have seen recently that Republican “leadership” in Washington is a joke, their cowardice exceeded only by their incompetence. Pete Sessions and the National Republican Congressional Committee squandered hundreds of thousands of dollars on the Dede Scozzafava campaign, and the NRCC’s candidate-recruitment efforts consist mainly of trying to find “self-funders” — e.g., Ben Quayle types with lots of Daddy’s money to throw around — rather than identifying real leaders with solid values, like Vernon Parker. 

The recent foibles of the Republican National Committee are too numerous to mention, but the bondage-nightclub fund-raiser is the tip of a very large iceberg of RNC staff blunders. The RNC also backed Scozzafava and there was that moronic Powerpoint presentation. Now Michelle Malkin calls our attention to the latest outrage:

Mr. Steele agreed to meet with the immigration groups after they staged a brief but noisy sit-in at the R.N.C. offices on March 22.
Several advocates emerged from the closed-door session to say Mr. Steele had pledged to help find at least one more Republican sponsor for a bill being crafted by Senator Lindsey O. Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, and Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, a Democrat.
The advocates “walked away with a commitment from Steele to work with Sen. Lindsey Graham and the party’s leadership to enlist another Republican senator’s support for comprehensive and bipartisan immigration reform,” the leaders of the Fair Immigration Reform Movement said in a statement. The movement is a coalition of groups that support a path to legal status for illegal immigrants.

This kind of sellout — the GOP elite betraying the party’s conservative grassroots — occurs routinely. While I was in Arizona, I heard rumors that if John McCain’s big money isn’t enough to buy re-election, the NRSC will spend money to help McCain destroy J.D. Hayworth. It’s typical of the kind of clueless Republican “leadership” that spent $320,000 to help Arlen Specter defeat Pat Toomey in 2004 — and was prepared to do the same this year, until Specter decided he was a Democrat:

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, [wrote an April 2009 letter] to fellow Republicans asking them to support Specter.

And Cornyn certainly wasn’t alone:

In a sign of party support, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell’s Bluegrass PAC contributed $10,000 to Specter [in March 2009].

“Does the GOP have enough balls?” Neither balls, nor brains.

(Cross-posted at the Hot Air Greenroom.)

Day By Day And The Righteous Allusion

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by Smitty

Day By Day makes a great historical allusion that merits mention. As a part of the Battle of the Bulge, the Siege of Bastogne had the fascists pinning down the 101st Airborne for a week. “When confronted with a written request from German General Luttwitz for surrender of Bastogne, [Brigadier General McAuliffe] replied ‘NUTS!'”

According to an article in the Daily Mail the reply was not “Nuts” but a four letter expletive that was changed for propaganda purposes for domestic consumption. But that was not the case, according to Vincent Vicari, McAuliffe’s personal aide who was there at the time. As quoted by Richard Pyle of the Associated Press December 12, 2004, Vicari said, “General Mac was the only general I ever knew who did not use profane language. ‘Nuts’ was part of his normal vocabulary.”

So, both the allusion to fascism and the

So Much for That ‘Rising Risk’

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Eugene Robinson’s fear — or should I say, hope? — of a “serious threat of domestic terrorism . . . from the far right” turns out to be far-fetched:

There’s a lot of anger out there. But the alleged plot by Midwestern militants and violent outbursts by scattered individuals don’t signal any coming wave of extremist violence, federal investigators say. . . .
Militia extremist statements “primarily have served as an expression of anger after a particular event,” according to an FBI intelligence bulletin obtained by The Associated Press. “The FBI assesses the likelihood of violent conflict from the remaining group members or other militia extremists as low.”

Professor William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection:

Of course, reality will not change anything for those intellectually dishonest columnists and bloggers who wake up every morning hoping that there will have been an act of violence they can pin on the “right wing.”

However much of a “threat of domestic terrorism” actually exists from the “far right,” (a) it is miniscule in comparison to the incessant media chatter about the subject, and (b) it is clearly disconnected from mainstream conservative politics.

These “Hutaree” people were a bunch of clowns, malcontented losers enthralled by impractical revolutionary fantasies. Hutaree clown-in-chief David Stone was turned in by a member of the Michigan Militia, and it appears they were so clueless that they wouldn’t have been able to make a functioning bomb without the help of an undercover FBI agent.

There are, however, opportunistic propagandists who specialize in exaggerating the “far right” threat and suggesting to sympathetic reporters that we are on the teetering on the brink of a putsch inspired by Sarah Palin or Ron Paul or Rush Limbaugh. The object of such propaganda about the “far right” is to stigmatize legitimate political activism, to associate it in the public mind with criminal violence, as if every Tea Party rally included bomb-making lessons.

Such fear-mongering results from a profound misunderstanding of who American conservatives are and what they believe. American conservatism is a movement dominated by and culturally attuned to the respectable, responsible, taxpaying middle class. To employ a fancy French intellectual word, American conservatism is bourgeois. These are people with a near-religious devotion to the democratic process and who are therefore far removed from the pipebomb pipe dreams of the “Hutaree” and other such kooks.

The same media voices who relentlessly promote misleading propaganda about the “far right” (hello, Frank Rich) simultaneously ignore far more real dangers to public safety, including the growing violence along the Mexican border. There is reason to believe that Mexico is in danger of sliding into anarchy — e.g., gunmen attacking Mexican military bases and 79 U.S. citizens killed in Mexico in 2009 — and yet you have not seen the border issue addressed in columns by Frank Rich and Eugene Robinson. They are suspiciously selective in their fear-mongering, exaggerating the “far right”  danger, and ignoring everything else.

A Thought About The Bill Of Rights

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by Smitty

The First and Second Amendments were exactly that: not components of the original draft Constitution.

Does anyone seriously think that, without those bedrock protections, that this country would have met its Progressive demise much sooner, and that the Tea Parties would be as beat down as Iran’s Green Revolution?

I usually don’t enjoy the counter-factual. After all, so what? We have the Constitution we have. Yet the prescience of those long-dead Founding Fathers astounds. Too, I daresay all of our current crisis has its roots in the Progressive straying from the document. Repentance will occur over the next seven months, ye Americans.

Important Video: InstaVision With Randy Barnett

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by Smitty

Avail yourself of this breath of mental fresh air. Two serious legal heads not talking over our heads. Rather, a layman’s look at the situation from two gentlemen who really Get It. Included segments, with my informal comments, are:

  • The Constitutionality of ObamaCare: Commerce clause, not so much. As a tax, still reaching. It looks like the shut-up-and-do-as-I-say clause will have to be relied upon in this instance.
  • Enforcing Constitutional Limits
  • The Constitution Restoration Project: Brilliant with a capital YES!
  • Contradictory Congress
  • Are We Doomed? There are those who would enjoy having Americans feeling doomed and pliable. They can get stuffed.

Maloney Aids The Cause

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by Smitty (via Ace)

E. C. Maloney strikes again.

Personally, I hope that nobody is killed while saving the country from the fascist takeover. I would that every leader pass old, and full of years, and that these lousy Progressives become fully aware of how false their ideas are.

I met Maloney at CPAC a couple of years ago. You might also be familiar with his essential documentary, Indoctrinate U:

Of What Might The Current Political Situation Seem Reminiscent?

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by Smitty

Just a few links, ending in a question for general consumption:

  • Atrocious legislation like the healthcare takeover has now become a multi-stage affair.
  • The notion of amnesty for illegal aliens as a ballot-box stuffer remains a distinct threat.
  • The Judas Congress has taken to going after big business for honestly reporting the costs of ObamaCare in accordance with Sarbanes-Oxley.

Having said all that, does anyone remember Yukos Oil?

Sure, you can’t go making a direct comparison.  The devilish details differ dramatically.  Yet, there seems a correlation between decay of the political system and overt thuggery from the government.  In summary, the Russian government either (a) needed loot and/or (b) feared a potential rival, and smashed Khodorovsky in a vulgar display of power.

If you’re not gripped yet by a  determination to restore the country by supporting Tea Party candidates through every legal means available, you must be in a coma or something.