Look closely.
Posted on 03/04/2016 8:03:54 AM PST by RoosterRedux
LOL Someone has to clean it up.
“A Rino’s Rino.”
“Kudlow is proud about being part of the GOP establishment.”
Republican in name only = Republican establishment
Does that make sense?
This seems to reduce to
Not Republican = Republican
There is something wrong with this reasoning. I’m not sure that it is any better than the liberal:
Climate change = Global warming
OK, so why not
Climate change = Global cooling
Therefore
Global cooling = Global warming
cooling = warming
As a former business owner, now retired, IMHO, every American citizen should have to run a business, be responsible for generating enough revenue to keep the employees paid and the doors open, and put up with all kinds of silly crap from the Feds. Would give them a whole nother way of looking at things :)
Exactly.
Does it include the progressive income tax plan? No thanks.
Gov. Greg Abbott or Sen. Jeff Sessions as Vice President
Department of State, (return INS.) Newt Gingrich
Department of Justice, Rep. Steve King
Department of Treasury, (includes former Homeland Security - Customs) Carl Icahn (Offered and Accepted)
Department of War, (change the name back.) Include former VA function Gen. James Mattis
Department of Interior, (includes the legitimate functions only of former Dept. of Transportation, Dept. of Homeland Security - Border Patrol, and Energy Departments) Gov. Sarah Palin
Department of Labor and Commerce, Herman Cain
This proposed model has the President directly managing seven subordinates which is optimal.
Department of Education William J. Bennett in a Temporary position
as it will be ELIMINATED as proposed by The Donald, 9/23/15 at a Columbia, SC Town Hall with Sen. Tim Scott.
Department of Homeland Security ELIMINATE
Department of Energy ELIMINATE
Department of Health and Human Services ELIMINATE
Department of Housing and Urban Development ELIMINATE
Department of Veterans Affairs ELIMINATE
Department of Agriculture ELIMINATE
Department of Transportation ELIMINATE
On Fox news Sunday, 10/18/15 Trump said he would cut funding for EPA and Dept. of Ed.
In non-cabinet level jobs
Gen. Peter Pace as National Security Adviser
LTC Ralph Peters as Director of National Intelligence (NDI)
Sheriff Clarke should be FBI Director
Michelle Bachman as IRS Commissioner under Secretary Carl Icahn in Treasury
Admiral James A. Ace Lyons as Undersecretary of War Navy Branch.
LTC Allen West as Undersecretary of War Army Branch.
Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney as Undersecretary of War Air Force Branch.
Ted Nugent as Undersecretary of Interior
Lynnette Diamond
Hardaway and Rochelle Silk
Richardson would be great as President Trumps Co-Press Secretaries.
Marsha Blackburn, Speaker of the House
.
“This seems to reduce to
Not Republican = Republican”
Not to seem harsh, but you are just discovering this?
The irony of referring to the GOP establishment as RINOs, “Republicans In Name Only”, is pretty well known around here. But it’s what we do.
Republican in name only meant not really a Republican. So, not really a Republican refers to the entire Republican establishment?
Prove it or shut up.
Walmart - Favors cheap Chinese goods over US made goods even when the difference in price is a few pennies per item. Walmart became a multibillion dollar corporation favoring made in USA products, so it wasn't necessary for profits, it was pure treason. It also coincided with the replacement of Sam Walton by financialization business school types.
Apple - Offshored almost all production in the 1990s under former Pepsi CEO John Sculley, a complete idiot who knew nothing about computers. But he did cut costs - and quality. Of course Jobs was no better when he came back, adopted and alienated from America he felt no loyalty to his country.
Disney - In addition to replacing US tech workers with H1Bs they've offshored their non-Pixar animation to Asia with a noticable drop in quality. All the movie studios are the same, offshoring most production to Canada and Australia, with the cheaper productions going to Eastern Europe.
I could come up with hundreds of other examples, but you know how to use a search engine. Knock yourself out.
Senator Mitch McConnell (Republican) of Kentucky has a lifetime rating of 90. Perhaps he typifies the Republican establishment. That score may not be as high as one would like, but it is a far cry from 44. There are, as one would suspect, many members of the Republican establishment.
RINO = GOPe. That is Absurd.
“So, not really a Republican refers to the entire Republican establishment?”
Pretty much. It’s grassroots conservatives claiming the name Republican and denying it to the hated GOP establishment and their lackeys.
RINO serves as a pejorative.
“RINO = GOPe. That is Absurd. “
It would be, I suppose, if you got to control the definition.
But you don’t, and in current usage RINO is a term that grassroots Republicans use against the entrenched establishment.
RINO and GOPe are pejoratives. Apparently they are on a par with pooh pooh head, just another pejorative.
It is one thing for “Republicans” to fault Republicans IN NAME ONLY, because RINOs don’t vote or act like Republicans. They are phony Republicans.
But arguing that the Republican establishment (whatever that is vaguely imagined to be) is not Republican doesn’t seem to make much sense.
This is sounding more and more like “I’m the only Republican.” Or “Trump is the only Republican.” Or “whatever Trump says - raise taxes, lower taxes, whatever, that’s the meaning of Republican.”
“RINO is a term that grassroots Republicans use against the entrenched establishment.”
SOME grassroots Republicans, I suppose. It would make more sense if they said poo poo head.
American English slang is full of ironic terms, and RINO happens to be one of them.
Like it or not, it is what it is.
How do you prove fact?
Look closely.
Rubio's got dibs on that one.
Back past checkers for you, all the way to 4-square tic tac toe...you go second.
How do you prove fact?
Trial by single combat?
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