Posted on 05/09/2010 4:01:45 PM PDT by pillut48
‘Non-Violent Coup,’ Part of Larger Intolerant GOP Narrative
“This is a damn outrage,” a disgusted David Brooks, the faux conservative columnist for the New York Times, declared on Sunday’s Meet the Press reacting to Republican Senator Bob Bennett’s loss Saturday at Utah’s Republican convention which chose two others to compete in a June primary for the seat. Brooks fretted he was punished for being “a good conservative who was trying to get things done” by “bravely” working with Democrats on health care and supporting TARP. “Now,” he repeated, “he's losing his career over that. And it's just a damn outrage.”
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My rule of thumb is to try really hard not to elect any politico whose name I would have recognized five years ago.
Public service....I always thought that was an odd name for what politicians do.
“These men (government officials), in point of fact, are seldom if ever moved by anything rationally describable as public spirit; there is actually no more public spirit among them than among so many burglars or street-walkers.”
~ H. L. Mencken
We elect them.
Not the other way around.
Brooks, the house conservative, dances for his dinner again.
I prefer the word ‘restoration’. We’re going about the task to restore a constitutional, limited government federation, which the DC elite has been trying to dismantle for a century.
The citizens come up with a new set of rules for those they elect to office.
Republicans vote on Tuesday, Democrats vote on Wed......:)
And if your are on welfare / any Fed teat right now.....
YOU CAN'T VOTE!!!!!!!
No Feeders, only Workers are allowed to vote on the rules of conduct.
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