The only problem with your stance is that you expect the Republicans to follow the rules (the Constitution), when the other side has expressly shown nothing but contempt for the rules. It’s a recipe to lose.
Now is the time for the Republicans to do everything in their power to educate the public on what’s happening, do everything in their power to stop it, starting with removing Pelosi from her Chair, and then impeaching her (this is MORE than enough grounds to do just that), and start impeachment proceedings one Obama and anyone else involved. To do less is to betray those who they claim to represent.
It’s going to take more than just November. Relying on the elections is not enough. If the same Republicans remain in power, of the party and the newly elected...it’s all been wasted effort. All of it. The only reason the elections would be suspended is because the Republicans allowed it!
The Republicans walking out now would be a start. And welcome, in the face of the endless silence from them. They NEED us to re-elect them, yet they do nothing to EARN that.
We are angry. Why are they not angry? Why are they hiding? Why should we vote for them in November, and expect them to fix a single thing, when none of them, with the possible exception of Issa, will put their necks out and risk anything?
Now is the time for action, not waiting. November may be too late. If anything, they should have started talking impeachment during the healthcare fiasco. Even if they can’t win, they need to bring this stuff up, keep it in the headlines, and pound the Democrats daily about this stuff, instead of relying on talk show hosts to do their heavy lifting for them.
I can’t even recall an interview, sound bite, or interview where a Republican was a tenth as upset about any of this as Mark Levin gets. That’s scary to me. Where’s the anger from the Republican party? When’s the last time you saw the head of the party?
Half of my anger is at the Dems, the other half is firmly on the spineless, weak, cowardly Republicans who refuse to work FOR us.
Like I said, they ALL need to be fired, if they won’t act. Wait until November? No. Too much can happen between then and now.
Boehner was on last night lambasting Obama, as was Brewer. Palin’s been at it since the election.
The Republicans are out of power. It’s that simple. Worse, most of them are so ‘centrist’ that it doesn’t even matter.
I’m not sure you understand that the Constitution IS WHAT’S AT STAKE. Eventually, if there are going to be elections in November, people are going to be asked whether the Constitution matters any more.
That’s what November is going to be. You can’t find any serious liberal who thinks what’s going on right now is according to plan. Clinton and Obama, for example, are at near open war with each other.
It’s gotten to the point where Hillary stopped talking up the Palestinians.
Things in this country have not started changing yet. Not really. We have no conception of what economic or political dislocation is, or looks like any more.
How many people are left from the depression that anyone takes seriously. Reading it in a book is a far different thing than living it.
My business partner grew up poor in Holland, and tells me that dinner was defined by the vegetable at night.
“What are we having tonight?” “Beets”
Every friday maybe there would be a cooked meatball or something.
This country has no idea what that looks like yet.
But, now there is no federal budget. There’s no extension to unemployment benefits. The budget is deemed passed.
Any impeachment you’d propose would take a vote. We’d lose - that simple.
No, what it is going to take is a politician being assassinated for the illusion of invincibility and insulation to shatter. I’m not proposing it be done, but nobody up there is going to take things seriously until a couple of them go back to their districts in boxes.
The UN is talking now about dumping the dollar. When the first politician dies, they will get very serious about it.
DC is its own world. Most of them, when they go home, they hang with their people, and its more of the same. That goes for both sides of the aisle.
What I absolutely agree with is that the Republicans have slipped into ‘learned helplessness’ mode, and that’s got to stop.
You will start to know when things are getting to the sticking point when middle class people stop using their computer to communicate, and start meeting in person instead. They’ll meet in homes and make their plans. They’ll wait until their reps come home, and they’ll take them out.
At that point, they’ll all just move in to DC for the duration, and their families will fly out to be with them. It’ll be true of both parties. Some will resign.
There are guys on Wall Street with bug out bags for the day it all happens. Every day now you are hearing about spot drops of 40% in one issue of a stock or another. System has been breached, and somebody is probing the NYSE. Nobody has a public explanation for it. Do you have any faith at all in a market like that?
Something bigger is going to fail. Why do you think the USG is asking for an internet kill switch? The internet, and forums like FreeRepublic are the news now.
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