There, fixed it.
Posted on 07/27/2011 12:58:16 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
The Democratic Party, as we have known it for the past 70 years, is now in its last days.
Yes, the House Republicans may raise the debt ceiling for a mix of spending cuts and revenue raisers. Yes, Barack Obama may win the 2012 presidential contest. Yes, bureaucrats and judges will continue to impose new and costly regulations on the economy.
But it doesn’t matter. The long-term trends are almost all bad news for the left wing of the party.
This week’s fight over raising the federal debt limit exposes a key weakness in the warfare-welfare state that has bestowed power onto the Democratic Party: Without an ever-growing share of the economy, it dies. Every vital element of the Democrats’ coalition — unions, government workers, government contractors, “entitlement” consumers — requires constant increases in payments, grants and consulting contracts. Without those payments, they don’t sign checks to re-elect Democrats.
Like it or not, Obama is not the new FDR, but the new Gorbachev: a man forced to preside over the demise of a political system he desperately wants to save.
Democrat champions in the punditocracy confidently predict that the future of the world’s oldest political party is bright. But in fact, the coalition that is the modern Democratic Party is doomed. Every pillar upholding its heavy roof is crumbling.
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Hope springs eternal!
Obama is less like FDR and Gorbachev and more like Nero.
I can only hope that this wretched wrapped refuse pile is doomed.
Then I can:
1. Take a smelly Obama on the remains.
2. Then pee on it.
3. Then throw up on it.
4. Then burn it.
5. And remove all remains...to include all their books on Marx.
May they rest in the depths of hades.
In a souring economy, expect fights over EEOC rulings regarding who gets senior preference in Affirmative Action: women, blacks, Latinos, gays, whatever. The coalition held together when the pie was growing. A shrinking pie means that each group will fight the others to retain the size of its piece.
He is exactly right. We are witnessing the implosion of the welfare state. It is unsustainable. With unfunded obligations of over $100 trillion and a bankrupt nation, the current system is unsustainable.
But it doesn’t matter. The long-term trends are almost all bad news for the left wing of the party.
This is about the dumbest statement I've read in a long time. It doesn't matter if Obama wins again? It doesn't matter if the debt ceiling is raised with no real, defined, major cuts in spending? And it doesn't matter if bureaucrats and judges impose further laws without congressional action? That's all OK because long term trends for the democrats are 'almost all' bad news? What an idjit.
I still can’t believe how the MSM hailed his election, and that he was the 2nd coming of FDR.
And I still can’t believe that he re-traced the train trip taken by Lincoln from Illinois to Washington when Lincoln was to be inaugurated. Obama bloated his carbon footprint, because he was already in Washington. But he went back to Chicago, to get on a train, to travel back to Washington to become president. He wanted to establish that symbolism with Lincoln.
AND THE MSM LAPPED IT ALL UP!!
Two quotes to ponder:
Alexis de Tocqueville: "The American Republic will endure until Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.."
Margaret Thatcher: "The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money...
Sort of sums it up rather nicely...
There, fixed it.
It’s still called “Democrat”, but it actually Fabian Socialist/Marxist/Fascist in substance.
Because there are more people like ME everyday: waking up to the lies Hussein and his ilk spew.
I remeber reading much the same thing when Carter was in the White House...that "it will be 100 years before another Democrat gets elected President".
Didn't take 100 years to get Clinton.
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Riiiight.
Haven’t I seen this before for both the Democrats and ‘Pubbies?
The Democrats have morphed, IMHO, SUCCESSFULLY in a part of the Far Left, while the Pubbies are no longer conservative but a party of the moronic, mushy middle. There is no party of the Right.
IMHO, that looks like a win for the Democrats, not their obituary.
A good observation.
Let us just be certain the Republican party doesn't help him keep the dying system on life support.
Reminds me of what some British lady once said: Tthe problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.
The Democratic Party, as we have known it for the past 70 years, is now in its last days.”
Cant come soon enough!
No. The Democratic Party is like herpesvirus. They’re here for the duration, or at least until the American Republic has ended.
They are too wealthy and too powerful. They are too well-entrenched.
This is what it would take for the Democratic Party to be eradicated:
1. The under-30 demographic needs to understand that their future is being mortgaged right now, and when they hit 50 they’ll be screwed.
2. African-Americans need to wake up and realize that the Democratic Party is making fools of them.
3. They also need to realize that the feminist agenda of abortion on demand is designed to keep their birthrate as low as possible.
4. Jews need to get their heads out of their collective asses. That’ll never happen.
5. The public sector unions need to be outlawed. That’ll never happen, either.
We are witnessing the implosion of the welfare state. It is unsustainable. With unfunded obligations of over $100 trillion and a bankrupt nation, the current system is unsustainable.
Being as they are democrats, they would just as soon
destroy the nation rather than their child the welfare
state.
After all, nations are old outmoded imperialistic
geographic creations which have no place in the modern world order./S
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