Posted on 11/25/2016 5:18:00 AM PST by Kaslin
It is November, and the air reverberates with cries for unity and bipartisanship. The Republicans must have won an election. Sentiments such as "I won" and "You ran the bus into the ditch, so now sit in the back seat and be quiet" are more associated with Democratic triumphs.
Advising the new president on his treatment of Democrats, the Wall Street Journal's editors counsel "charity for all." They draw upon Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, delivered just before the end of the Civil War. Is that really applicable to Mr. Trump's dealings with his political adversaries? Lincoln spoke after the South had suffered the slaughter of its manhood, the destruction or besiegement of its cities, and utter defeat, with formal surrender a month away. Lincoln's admonition looked to a time after victory.
Winning an election is not in and of itself victory – not if the objective is to change the nation's course and to preserve its constitution. The election placed the necessary means of success in the Republicans' hands – the presidency and legislative majorities in both house of Congress – but it remains for them to use those means. Victory on D-Day was won not merely by sending an armada into the English Channel.
The South capitulated at the end of the Civil War. Have the Democrats capitulated? Do they show any signs of moderating their hatred of the president-elect or of conservatives like Senator Sessions, whose nomination to the office of attorney general they vow to derail? Do we discern any lessening in their contempt for the Constitution itself, as demands to abolish the Electoral College or even to corrupt its imminent vote abound?
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This is the exchange I had in mind:
Fletcher: Damn you, Senator. You promised me those men would be decently treated.DISCLAIMER: this is a movie quote and NOT a call to violence.Senator Lane: They were decently treated. They were decently fed and then they were decently shot. Those men are common outlaws, nothing more.
Different people “believe” different things. Belief is personal. You cannot argue “belief” because it is a “belief”. Have a great day. I do not wish to discuss your “belief” further.
Why do I get the feeling that this is what you are advocating?
When did magnanimity ever work out for Israel?
Charity for all?
Obama the fake President has brought thousands of ‘[refugees’ into this country without proper vetting & they are being supported with American Taxpayer dollars.
Meanwhile, those of us here for all of our lives & who paid taxes for many, many years are getting a .3 % Social Security increase.
That is $3 on a THOUSAND dollars.
I will get a whole $3 a month==$36 for the entire year of 2017—IF I live that long.
How is any of that fair?
Charity? Here is MY Charity towards those who have invaded here with the help & support from Obama: I will donate a couple of peanut butter & jam sandwiches for your return trip to your homelands.
“There’s a lot of hate yet in the world, and it shows up in righty society as well as in lefty.”
My dad used to say the bell curve exists everywhere.
When has this worked, ever?
I’m sick of ‘when they win - they win’ AND ‘when we win - they must also win’.
No, NOT this time.
Trump is NOT Jeb - cowering - hoping he’ll be loved and accepted by corrupt liberal elites. No, NOT this time.
Nice Catch. That’s kind of pick your general, but I agree with you.
He already has put on the appearance of doing so. No need for Obama pardons, you see. Then his appointees can simply do their jobs after he takes office, without orders from him.
No...they must be CRUSHED. No quarter. Stake meet black heart.
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