Boehner was on last night lambasting Obama, as was Brewer. Palin’s been at it since the election.
The Republicans are out of power. It’s that simple. Worse, most of them are so ‘centrist’ that it doesn’t even matter.
I’m not sure you understand that the Constitution IS WHAT’S AT STAKE. Eventually, if there are going to be elections in November, people are going to be asked whether the Constitution matters any more.
That’s what November is going to be. You can’t find any serious liberal who thinks what’s going on right now is according to plan. Clinton and Obama, for example, are at near open war with each other.
It’s gotten to the point where Hillary stopped talking up the Palestinians.
Things in this country have not started changing yet. Not really. We have no conception of what economic or political dislocation is, or looks like any more.
How many people are left from the depression that anyone takes seriously. Reading it in a book is a far different thing than living it.
My business partner grew up poor in Holland, and tells me that dinner was defined by the vegetable at night.
“What are we having tonight?” “Beets”
Every friday maybe there would be a cooked meatball or something.
This country has no idea what that looks like yet.
But, now there is no federal budget. There’s no extension to unemployment benefits. The budget is deemed passed.
Any impeachment you’d propose would take a vote. We’d lose - that simple.
No, what it is going to take is a politician being assassinated for the illusion of invincibility and insulation to shatter. I’m not proposing it be done, but nobody up there is going to take things seriously until a couple of them go back to their districts in boxes.
The UN is talking now about dumping the dollar. When the first politician dies, they will get very serious about it.
DC is its own world. Most of them, when they go home, they hang with their people, and its more of the same. That goes for both sides of the aisle.
What I absolutely agree with is that the Republicans have slipped into ‘learned helplessness’ mode, and that’s got to stop.
You will start to know when things are getting to the sticking point when middle class people stop using their computer to communicate, and start meeting in person instead. They’ll meet in homes and make their plans. They’ll wait until their reps come home, and they’ll take them out.
At that point, they’ll all just move in to DC for the duration, and their families will fly out to be with them. It’ll be true of both parties. Some will resign.
There are guys on Wall Street with bug out bags for the day it all happens. Every day now you are hearing about spot drops of 40% in one issue of a stock or another. System has been breached, and somebody is probing the NYSE. Nobody has a public explanation for it. Do you have any faith at all in a market like that?
Something bigger is going to fail. Why do you think the USG is asking for an internet kill switch? The internet, and forums like FreeRepublic are the news now.
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