Posted on 07/13/2015 5:45:45 AM PDT by Kaslin
I believe the allies won WWII by pretty much throwing out the rulebook.
RE “...So the author is saying the only way to preserve conservatism is to abandon it ...”
No, not my take away from it anyway: I read it as “Ok, so if THIS is the way you Leftards want to play, we can do it too... and you won’t be too happy about it when it’s turned on you.”
I believe he was simly pointing out that abuse is abuse, no matter WHO is doing it, not actually advocating.
Like the old saying - left boot or right boot, they both look the same when they’re stomping on your face.
Agree. Moreover, fundamental conservative views (small govt, individual liberty, fiscal responsibility, etc.) are all contrary to these new rules.
For sure our forefathers did at Concord when they sniped at the retreating redcoats during their retreat to Boston. At the time, the British complained that the Colonists weren’t fighting fair.
Earlier, at the bridge, the colonists fought by the British rules and got shot to pieces.
You dance with the devil, the devil don’t change. The devil changes you.
Fundamental conservative views are pro-family, pro-life and pro-faith.
Some people don’t understand satire.
Two responses. First, to quote Hillary, “ At this point, what difference does it make?
Second, leftists, like all bullies, will only stop when they are given a dose of their own medicine. Country Club Republicans have never been willing to do this. So, here we are. The way to stop a schoolyard bully is for some other kid to put a fist in his face.
Fear, sarcasm, and ridicule.
They use it.
We should triple it and shove it up their Obamaholes.
This is war, folks.
And it WILL get a lot rougher.
I suspect this was written more for liberals to bite their nails and for conservatives to appreciate just what we stand for. I think the author is painting a picture for liberals of what happens if we become like them. Does anyone else get that sense?
That was my take as I posted before reading yours.
+1.
There is a reason I have my current tagline. This article is part of it.
Who is “they”, my FRiend? Unless you are a computer warrier, put it together and let’s see what you’ve got.
What part of “WE DO NOT WANT A BIG CORRUPT GOVERNMENT” do you not understand?
A free society prospers when there is not a big overseeing corrupt government cherry picking laws, picking winners and losers, etc....
While this article was dripping with sarcasm directed at the left, the truth is that conservatives *do* need to make changes, *not* in what they do, but in what the liberal Republican leadership does in support of the left.
1) Mitch McConnell and John Boehner and their ilk must be turned out of power, and hopefully out of office. The Tea Party has had great success and the local and state level, and continues to erode the liberal Republicans hold on power. Granted there have been some setbacks, as “the empire struck back”; but we still outnumber them and have greater power with our votes if we can maximize it.
2) When conservatives take the place of McConnell and Boehner, they cannot ignore (yet again) the institutional abuse inflicted them in the senate and the house by the Democrats. In the senate, the Democrats must be brutalized by the *same* power grabbing, punitive rules they inflicted on Republicans. Absolutely no need to (yet again) insist on playing fair after they have horribly cheated (yet again). They must feel *pain* for their bad behavior, and be stripped of the power that McConnell has (yet again) given *back* to them.
3) Conservatives must take *all* the chairmanships in both houses, with preference *not* to seniority, but to individual resolve to make major reforms in that area of interest. In the budget, they must slash and burn the size of the federal government, close entire agencies, fire hundreds of thousands of government bureaucrats, and use the power of the purse to force agencies to end the onerous and oppressive regulatory regime on the country.
In the judiciary committees, they must undertake a comprehensive reform of all federal courts subordinate to the SCOTUS (the only federal court created in the constitution, the rest being subordinate to congress.) This means placing “off limits” to the lower courts those numerous abuses of the judiciary. Vast numbers of petty arguments best left to the states, having no constitutional issue of merit.
This reform includes the restructuring of the courts to retire hundreds of federal judges because there are no longer courts for them to occupy; but *new* courts, needing new (conservative) judges. Other reforms include strict limits on the use of judicial precedent, that it absolutely *must* be constitutional before it can be used, even if it is a hundred years old. They also need to restore both the state and federal capital punishment laws, protecting them from federal judge tinkering and abuse, and making them swift and sure. The federal death row should be emptied through execution.
4) Other committees should be prepared to return the bulk of federal lands taken from the states, to the states. With the help of the conservative POTUS for the senate to abrogate and end numerous onerous international treaties, agreements and obligations. Importantly, the US military must be restored by again making “mission accomplishment” its goal and eliminating vast amounts of leftist social engineering. If that means booting out sexual deviants, so be it. The military is not a welfare program. And speaking of which:
5) The methodical end to Real ID, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid (turned into a bloc grant), and the return of the US Census to an “actual enumeration of citizens”. Changing the law so that if someone’s birth parents are not citizens, neither are they. Ending any and all funding to organizations that promote abortion. Making a new law to protect religious beliefs “in the marketplace”.
Turning airport security back to the states, the airports themselves, and the airlines. Reducing the Patriot Act and similar law so that it only applies to terrorists and their supporters, not ordinary citizens, even if they break ordinary laws.
6) Major reform to the 17 Intelligence Agencies and the 100+ federal police agencies. Especially consolidating them. Disarm all non-police and non-intelligence agencies.
On top of this, the conservative POTUS must direct his federal prosecutors to arrest and indict federal officials who have engaged in criminal activity while in office and under the color of authority. Lois Lerner, James Hansen at NASA GISS, a bunch of BATF&E officials, and hundreds like them should face the real prospect of federal prison.
7) After these gigantic changes to the federal government, and many, many more, before he leaves office, the POTUS must agree to downgrade and restore constitutionality to the office of the POTUS. This means prohibiting things like Presidential Signing Statements, Czars, and strict limits on executive privilege and recess appointments.
There also needs a restoration of the War Powers Act, the Posse Comitatus Act, and other laws ignored by presidents.
That is an interesting take but it is quite a bit more complex a situation. Allende was acting unlawfully when communists began seizing private property and Allende did nothing. If anything, Pinochet was patient and extremely reluctant to take any action but gave Allende plenty of time to restore order. It became clear Allende was going to let the mobs take over. Law and order had ended in Chile and Allende ruled arbitrarily.
Pinochet interceded to restore order. He arrested the lawbreakers and suspected supporters. Those who resisted were shot, no differently than any other criminal might expect if they resist arrest. Pinochet made it clear that once order had been restored, there would be elections and a return to Constitutional rule of law.
In the absence or selective enforcement of law, Pinochet restored law. It is hard to find men such integrity today. I’ll take it your tag line is a positive and I would suggest Pinochet acted lawfully and not like a leftist.
Pinochet was a hero who saved his country. Ditto for Franco in Spain (FU, Chevy!)
I’ve asked myself why don’t WE use Alinsky tactics? The only answer I could come up with... it’s.not in our genes, it’s not who we are.
We need to discover and use the tactics that resonate with us.
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