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[What can be done with only one house, is block hair-brained and evil legislation and appropriations. And investigate.]

Democrats haven’t pushed anything through since the GOP House majority was won. Chip is basically a deceitful drama queen who would suit the role better if he wore a dress and lisped.

[What people on the border can do is shoot the G-d damned Coyotes as they shepherd people across the Rio Grande. But after a time or two they’ll be laying for them, so that’s got to be hit and run and not entirely adequate, and there may be casualties. Chip, I think, with his references to the Rangers and the Alamo, was hinting at just that, though he da’sn’t say so explicitly.]

All I can say is - maybe Chip should lead by example. This scenario is basically a one-way ticket to a Supermax prison. Frankly, anyone thinking of going this route would be better off launching an actual insurrection. The insurrection would have higher odds of getting things turned around and the risk to life and limb wouldn’t be too different.

What some people can’t get their heads around is the fact that this is a country where people decide things through elected representatives decided more or less (thanks to some influence from crooked votes) at the ballot box. Fact is - things haven’t gotten quite bad enough for voters to completely turf the Dems. But that day will come - sooner than anyone thinks.

This scenario is basically a one-way ticket to a Supermax prison.

Not if it’s done right. Read Revolt in the Holy Land by Menachem Begin, Anarchist’s Cookbook, and other literature about underground action. If Chip did that kind of work himself (doubtful at his age or mine [I can talk about it, and they can’t extradite me from Israel]), nobody who didn’t need to know should ever find out who did what and when. Just that it was done.