. They're gonna collapse in 2010 and 2012, and we need to try and begin working to take advantage of the chaos, both in the GOP and Democrat parties. The Democrat base is not gonna fund these guys if they can't bring them Marxist medicine, or at least a Trojan Horse that they'd find acceptable. This was probably the best shot these guys had at Marxist medicine, and I think they've blown it. Doesn't mean they can't cause a lot of destruction with some "compromise", but I think we'll avoid a
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As I've been recently educated, I'm aware that we should not let this crisis go to waste.
Posted by: leoncaruthers at December 17, 2009 01:47 PM (PH0UW)
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yeah, and fuck anybody in the GOP "leadership" who thinks that putting forth and pushing for moderates in this climate is the way to go. Fucke them olden schoole.
Posted by: eddiebear at December 17, 2009 02:30 PM (wnU1W)
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The "Tea Party" is polling better than each party and I'm not sure I'm ready to hand the keys right back to the GOP as it has been. Now is a time, with such sentiments popular to shatter and rebuild a better, galvanized GOP that includes the Queers and other more libertarian leaning individuals. You could get to a damn-near permanent majority with a coalition like that.
We'd lose some of the Hard Core Uber Social Cons but as long as we stood strong on abortion, immigration, and made the party platform on gay marriage "Government shall make no law regarding..." I think we'd hang onto enough to stay in business.
Certainly, the demographics of the Tea Party movement include far more than angry, rich, straight, white men and its time the party's image changed along with that. Make Cheney the guy that leads the charge. He's got standing in the Old Iron segment of the GOP and could frame the discussion in a way that wouldn't threaten anyone's long-held, stupid beliefs*
* - If you think that A) All gay people are evil and sinful inherently anymore than everyone else AND B)The government should DO SOMETHING about it, I'm calling your beliefs stupid. Sorry.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 17, 2009 02:34 PM (GC5S2)
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I would suggest that most Americans are somewhere on the libertarian scale, we don't like or trust our gov't.
Too bad the ones who like and trust gov't are Minitru and the rest of our political, social, moral and intellectual betters.
Posted by: Veeshir at December 17, 2009 02:43 PM (zXUuJ)
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Posted by: MikeD at December 17, 2009 02:43 PM (FkL60)
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"I would suggest that most Americans are somewhere on the libertarian scale, we don't like or trust our gov't."
They're libertarians until you can buy them off with shiny objects, anyway. It's a tragic consequence employers withholding taxes - people don't feel the pain so they never run that cost benefit analysis of what they're paying vs. the value they get back.
Thank God for Democrat overreach and their obsessive need to control the minutiae of your everyday life.
Posted by: TheUnrepentantGeek at December 17, 2009 02:57 PM (g1cNf)
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Withholding income taxes was Milton Friedman's worst idea. My solution, which would almost instantly cause a revolution in this country, would be to abolish withholdings. Have the vast majority of individuals do what private contractors do, pay taxes in quarterly estimated installments. Once people are writing out multi-thousand dollar checks to the government every four months, I suspect people will be much more interested in how the government is spending
their money.
Posted by: Jeff M at December 17, 2009 03:52 PM (8P3+x)
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Yeah, imagine getting all your money in your paycheck.
I've always thought that was a great idea.
If only we could get one batch of idealistic pols in there all at once, a huge turnover.
As it stands, people who've been in office for decades are absolutely positive they're better and smarter than we are, in spite of all evidence to the contrary. They think we're too stupid to be trusted knowing too much about how gov't works, if the hoi polloi see how much of their money they're giving to the gov't, they will just get all agitated.
Less money is less for them to buy votes.
If we had a big batch who could push forward a bunch of libertarianish stuff in one session, it would be beautiful.
The more gum in the gov't works the better as far as I'm concerned.
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