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Commentariat Is Not Constituency (Wow, what a piece! Read in its entirety!!)
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| 8/4/14
| Erick Erickson
Posted on 08/04/2014 3:17:10 AM PDT by cotton1706
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"The system is on the verge of a constitutional crisis because of this permanent class of politician turned lobbyist befriended by a commentariat who whore each other for gossip, sleep with each other for pleasure, dine with each other for frivolity, and circle the wagons against the outsiders."
Amen!!
To: cotton1706
Efficiency breeds tyranny. Whether one likes what happened in the House of Representatives or not, it is operating within the system the Founders created and they are listening to the constituency they are constitutionally chartered to listen to — voters in congressional districts...
Great read...
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posted on
08/04/2014 3:25:58 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(An Ebola break-out in a large city will turn residential sky scrappers into death traps.)
To: cotton1706
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posted on
08/04/2014 3:42:28 AM PDT
by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: All
LAUGH BREAK: Dummycrats are still smarting over the whomping they got at Obama care townhalls. Seems Dummycrats aren't interested in facing their constituents over immigration.
2014 August Recess Town Hall Map lists 139 Republicans holding town hall meetings and 47 Democrats.
Recent polls show Americans lean Repub b/c of their strong-anti-immigrants stance---FAR ABOVE all other issues.
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Mmmmmmm......I can't wait to hear Dummycrats explain
to voters why they oppose the Republican border plan.
READY SET GO, PATRIOTS every townhall forum,
every blog, Facebook page, twitter, needs to focus on this.
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posted on
08/04/2014 3:53:23 AM PDT
by
Liz
(Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
To: cotton1706
Consider, for a moment, the masturbatory gleefulness of the Circle of Jerks and their acolytes .... ROFL!! Gotta say, the rhetoric is highly entertaining in this one and the facts are spot-on. All the things lieberals hate.
Well done!
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posted on
08/04/2014 4:07:48 AM PDT
by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: Liz
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posted on
08/04/2014 4:10:29 AM PDT
by
RedMDer
(May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
To: GOPJ
Efficiency breeds tyranny.
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posted on
08/04/2014 4:19:31 AM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
To: usconservative
Consider, for a moment, the masturbatory gleefulness of the Circle of Jerks and their acolytes... Ummmmm, that reminds me....the hot buzz in DC:
Obama came out of the shower and walked into Michele's bedroom.
The First Lady was not pleased. "Get the hell outta here, " she screamed.
"But Michele," Obama pleaded, "I'm naked and afraid and I need Executive Action."
"You got a pen and a phone, so you'll have to go at it alone. My southern border is closed, " she said.
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posted on
08/04/2014 4:27:31 AM PDT
by
Liz
(Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
To: cotton1706
YES! Excellent article! MUST READ.
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posted on
08/04/2014 4:29:00 AM PDT
by
SW6906
(6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
To: cotton1706
From the article:
The bug in the system is a Washington of permanence. The Founders did not intend that to be a feature. The politicians were supposed to go home. They were not supposed to be a fixture of the swamp creating a new aristocracy. That is what they have become.
BUMP!
We need term limits. We needed term limits 20 years ago.
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posted on
08/04/2014 4:30:12 AM PDT
by
upchuck
(It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care.)
To: cotton1706
——The circle of jerks in Washington is so focused on their own needs and interests and so used to getting their way, they forget there is a more important constituency and it is actually made of up voting constituents.——
The piece reminds me of the Court of King Louis the XVI. They were the circle jerks, The pamphleteers, the commentariat of the Paris Salons.
Then over a period of say three years, they all lost their heads, literally. The revolution just eliminated them from the scene.
Such a revolution is needed today to end the stranglehold of the courtiers and return the power to the people.
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posted on
08/04/2014 4:30:28 AM PDT
by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
To: Liz
Do you know where I can find out about town halls without going to every congress persons website (where they don’t always advertise them)? I have found about meetings that were held after the fact because my Dem congress critter and Senators only want their friends attending.
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posted on
08/04/2014 4:31:22 AM PDT
by
SW6906
(6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
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posted on
08/04/2014 4:36:13 AM PDT
by
SW6906
(6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
To: cotton1706
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posted on
08/04/2014 4:36:44 AM PDT
by
gattaca
("To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven." - Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NKJ))
To: GOPJ
Yes, the House is operating about as the Framers intended. They anticipated demagogues.
What they didn’t expect nor include in their plan of 1787 was a second popularly derived institution in Congress. The equivalent of three term congressmen in the senate is the source of our woes, and no restoration of liberty is possible until the senate returns to the states.
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posted on
08/04/2014 4:39:17 AM PDT
by
Jacquerie
(Article V. If not now, when?)
To: SW6906
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posted on
08/04/2014 4:41:15 AM PDT
by
Liz
(Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
To: SW6906
And they always hold their town halls During business hours when most constituents are at work, a foreign concept to the voters they want.
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posted on
08/04/2014 4:47:55 AM PDT
by
cyclotic
(America's premier outdoor adventure association for boys-traillifeusa.com d)
To: cyclotic
Thanks!! Yes, I have been hampered by that too. Further, they tend to hold them in the far part of my district or at least an hours drive away (and during business hours).
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posted on
08/04/2014 4:50:41 AM PDT
by
SW6906
(6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
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