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On immigration, there’s been an agreement between (President-elect Barack) Obama and (Arizona Republican Sen. John) McCain to move forward on that... The problem with Benedict McCain is that he's both evil and stupid. |
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Posted on 11/30/2008 4:36:39 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The late Samuel T. Francis once lamented that Americans don’t have two ideologically distinct parties. Rather we have an evil party (the “liberals”) and a stupid party (the “conservatives”). Occasionally there is a synthesis of evil and stupidity. This is otherwise known as “bipartisanship”.
To see the confluence of evil and stupidity at work, check out these remarks by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in an interview with the Detroit Free Press:
Q: With more Democrats in the Senate and the House and a Democrat in the White House, how do you see congressional efforts playing out on such issues as health care and immigration?
A: On immigration, there’s been an agreement between (President-elect Barack) Obama and (Arizona Republican Sen. John) McCain to move forward on that. … We’ll do that. We have to get this economy stuff figured out first, so I think we’ll have a shot at doing something on health care in the next Congress for sure.
Q: Will there be as much of a fight on immigration as last time?
A: We’ve got McCain and we’ve got a few others. I don’t expect much of a fight at all. Now health care is going to be difficult. That’s a very complicated issue. We debated at great length immigration. People understand the issues very well. We have not debated health care, so that’s going to take a lot more time to do
Reid practically promises that health care will go nowhere, ironic given that it was a centerpiece of the Obama campaign. But perhaps we will get mass amnesty, a real crowd pleaser supported only by cheap labor whores at the Business Roundtable, professional mulitculturalist ambulance chasers and Democrat operatives who see amnesty as a means of registering millions of new voters dependent on the state.
Conservatives are in bad shape. In the mid-1970’s the Democrats had a tighter hold on Congress but the GOP had a charismatic spokesman in Ronald Reagan and a host of issues moving in their direction, particularly the tax question which became a staple of Republican campaigns for twenty-five years.
The tax issue has lost its salience but no well-spoken and serious Republican has discussed immigration since the Buchanan campaigns of the 1990’s. If wayward members of the Stupid Party team up with the Left to pass “comprehensive immigration reform”, i.e., the legalization of lawlessness, some enterprising politician will have an issue which divides Democrats and could serve as a springboard to bigger and better things.
Marrying immigration restriction to an aggressive trade policy and America First foreign policy has the potential to create a populist backlash which if properly controlled could threaten the neocon/neolib apple cart.
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On immigration, there’s been an agreement between (President-elect Barack) Obama and (Arizona Republican Sen. John) McCain to move forward on that... The problem with Benedict McCain is that he's both evil and stupid. |
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Face it: we have a one party system. The only thing which could possibly cure it would be some sort of a voters’ bill of rights starting with runoff elections for all public offices and the two parties would never allow it.
That about sums it up. Americans don't want amnesty. That's been proven time and again in polls.
The Republicrat party is alive and well.
It wasn’t the stupid people that gave away the future with the $7.5 billion big business give away.
I absolutely agree.
“Stupid Party”
Yup. That pretty much sums up the Republican movers and shakers for the last 20 years. Where is a Goldwater when you need him?
And let's not forget the cheap labor whores at the Wall Street Journal's editorial page - ironic indeed if you consider the general far-left tilt of the Journal's reporting staff.
Need to keep a closer count. We’re up to $7 TRILLION, now.
That’s all we need is cheap Mexican labor, when half our citizens are liable to be out of jobs in the next couple of years.
Another great depression is coming down the tracks, and we need to import labor to handle it? I’m very worried about my kids and the kind of country they’ll be living in.
Best thing you can do for your kids, or grandkids, in my case, is to provide them with marketable skills and education. This means you may have to teach and train them yourselves! Grandma, Grandpa, give up some of that retirement largess for a decent education for your grandkids.
I’d rather be ‘stupid’ than ‘evil’.
“I’d rather be ‘stupid’ than ‘evil’.”
Just remember...evil depends upon stupid.
It’s one party with Envy and Fear factions. But they all do what Goldman Sachs tells them. ;)
I’d amend what you said to say that we have a one and a half party system. It’s not quite the Soviet Union, the disagreements (often enough with a wink, wink, nudge, nudge) are out in the open. Or one party with two chummy factions, howz that?!
I’ve seen the word “duopoly” used to describe it. A voters’ bill of rights should include runoff elections for all public offices so that nobody need ever fear to vote their first choice at least on a first ballot and there is such a thing as virtual runoff elections which would eliminate the hassle of second votes. There should also be a none-of-above choice on all ballots and if that guy ever wins, the other candidates should be barred for life from running for public office of any sort and the parties which sponsored them should be barred for ten years from running candidates for that particular office. The penalty for running dead wood for public office should be severe.
I absolutely agree, even if I think some of the details should differ. We’ve got a broken system of professional politicians, who even when booted out by term limits run for other offices or get appointed by their old buddioes (see Tommy Daschle, see just about every termed out Kalifornia politician.)
My idea is strict term limits for politicians and for their aides in Washington - out of the government forever once your term expires. I said recently, that I don’t want to serve on a local jury, but I’ll gladly serve one limit as a city councilman , a congresscritter or whatever. That’s how the Founding Fathers saw it.
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