Posted on 12/25/2011 3:38:03 PM PST by neverdem
Well, what a relief.
Just in time for the holidays, Congress showed us it can work in a spirit of bipartisan cooperation to pass a two-month extension of a popular tax cut. On its own! With perhaps a small amount of prodding.
The payroll tax cut bill zipped through Congress on Friday...
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No, I think the moral here is pretty clear. We have talked for nearly three years about how the Tea Party is terrorizing the Republican establishment, until the old country-club, deal-making model was verging on extinction. But it now appears that if the new populist right does something that actually endangers the well-being of the old, entitled right, the establishment will rise up and slap those little whippersnappers down faster than you can say Mitch McConnell.
That goes for the presidential nomination, too. The minute it began to look as if Newt Gingrich might actually win, Mitt Romney was flooded with money and endorsements. One Friends of Romney Super PAC has purchased about $2.8 million in Iowa TV ads. Everywhere you look in Iowa, there’s an evil, demented Newt on the screen. You would think he’d been cast as the new head zombie in “The Walking Dead.”
Gingrich, in response, could only whine. His campaign’s highlight of the week may have been the announcement that it was creating a “Pets With Newt” Web site to highlight the candidate’s love of animals.
“Pets With Newt” may be an attempt to remind Iowans that Mitt Romney once drove to Canada with the family Irish setter strapped to the roof of the car. This is clearly a weak point in the Mitt armor, which came up this week in a Wall Street Journal interview with the candidate. “Uh — love my dog. That’s all I got for you,” Romney responded...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Two montth increments made no sense for plenty of reasons, but Gail Collins thinks it's cool to get smarmy about the GOP ruling class.
The Tea Party movement must take over the GOP! We're broke!
I’m not sure which is the more detestable harridan: Gail Collins or NYT-Obama.
This isn’t about economics, or politics. It’s about saving the jive turkey’s face as he enters a tough re-election race.
The old grey lady, tis a pity she’s a whore.
Collins asserts that "The old country club deal-making model..." is what the Democrats count upon to create bi-partisan majorities in favor of socialism.
And to annoint easily-defeatable candidates like Mitt Romney....
She exposes that liberals actually rely upon the Republican establishment to further their agenda.
As barf inducing as that is (highly) she is absolutely, 100% correct about what the GOP elite think of us. Which is why I will never, ever vote for their candidate.
If liberals like Collins just keep running their mouths, they'll eventually make the Tea Party's case for us.
I hope Sarah read that piece and will club it over the left-field wall where it belongs.
Vote for the Socialist of your choice. R or D!!!
Collins asserts that "The old country club deal-making model..." is what the Democrats count upon to create bi-partisan majorities in favor of socialism.
And to annoint easily-defeatable candidates like Mitt Romney....
She exposes that liberals actually rely upon the Republican establishment to further their agenda.
A very astute observation! Do you our ruling class could wake up before the economy collapses?
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
The game is rigged.Third parties are useless as well. Only as artifacts to allow the extremes to vent off. We need to take the country back and it’s at the local level where you start. We need to purge the current leadership of both main parties. The system has been rigged as a two party system and the progressives infiltrated every single institution in our society. we to simply take them back. Every one holding any position in every institution including the military as of today is suspect. Through caution to the wind and fire them all.
Eugene Debs ran as a third party in 1912, getting only 7% of the voted. His entire program was enacted into law. It just took 80 years.
Perhaps we could set out a program that would in 80 years be enacted, and correct the ills of Eugene Debs’ program.
Eugene Debs ran as a third party in 1912, getting only 7% of the voted. His entire program was enacted into law. It just took 80 years.
Perhaps we could set out a program that would in 80 years be enacted, and correct the ills of Eugene Debs’ program.
>>is what the Democrats count upon to create
>>bi-partisan majorities in favor of socialism.
Aka the misdirecting exercise in Dialectic sheeple herding/fleecing that keeps pigs like Penny (Hyatt) Pritzker in the farmhouse and feasting on milk, apples, and ACORNs.
Follow the....
http://www.campaignmoney.com/finance.asp?type=in&cycle=08&criteria=pritzker&fname=penny
Billionaire business mogul Penny Pritzker is a member of one of America’s richest families and was the Finance Chair for the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. It was Pritzker that led the prolific, and illegal, fundraising that helped power Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. She was the chair of Chicago-based Superior Bank’s board for five years. Pritzker was into subprime lending before it became all the rage starting in around 2000. Prtizker's chairmanship was to concentrate on sub prime lending, principally on home mortgages, but for a while in subprime auto lending, too, after the Pritzkers' bank acquired its wholesale mortgage organization division, Alliance Funding, in December 1992. Superior Bank went belly up in 2001 with over $1 billion in insured and uninsured deposits; 1,406 depositors lost much of their life savings. This collapse came amid harsh criticism of how Superior’s owners promoted sub-prime home mortgages. |
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Great analysis Okie01 and you’re spot on. The cabal between the CCGOP and the Left is harming the country and must be broken.
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