Posted on 09/27/2015 9:21:03 AM PDT by cotton1706
Movement Conservatives just claimed the head of House Speaker John Boehner. His political death was the price of preventing a catastrophic government shutdown after Movement Conservatives in Congress tied the very survival of the United States government to their determination to defund Planned Parenthood. Movement Conservatives are gunning for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell next. We should be very afraid. Boehner and McConnell are not wild-eyed lefties. They are on the very far right of the American political spectrum: fervently pro-business, antiabortion, opposed to social welfare legislation. But they are old-school politicians who still have faith in the idea of American democracy.
Movement Conservatives do not. They want to blow up the government and remake America according to their own radical ideology.
Since the 1950s, Movement Conservatives have set out to destroy the form of federal government that came out of the New Deal. After the Great Crash and the ensuing Depression, most Americans believed that the government must regulate business and protect labor in order to create a stable, prosperous society. But businessmen hated the very same New Deal regulations most Americans liked. The captains of industry believed that government meddling in their affairs would disrupt economic laws. This would cripple their enterprises and, in turn, cripple the American economy. But the New Deal consensus was enormously popular, and actually made for a stable economy in which most Americans enjoyed security. Business interests could not fight this consensus on the merits, or they would continue to lose.
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
What government?
It's all cronies out for themselves.
Yep. Constitutional conservatives are “extremist” while bomb making murderers are in the mainstream of the Democrat Party.
Trouble in your enemy’s tent is always great news.
Boy, you're wrong about that one, Ms.salon author.
The GOPe squishes never seem to get this. John McCain lost 20% of his lifetime ACU rating the first year he ran for the Republican nomination so he could be hailed in the press as a "plucky maverick" and "independent minded" "Republican."
His favorable press coverage evaporated the instant he ran against a Democrat. It's always this way. The invertebrates betray their party and bad-mouth its base in to be liked by genuinely evil hyprocrites who will never do anything but use them and throw them away.
Lefties always get it upside down and backwards.
Based on results at home and far abroad in every corner of the globe, the real catastrophic thing about Obama's government is that it's still open and running! Shutting it down would be considered compassionate and merciful.
It’s a man!
Those evil Conservatives are rampaging and are intent on demolishing your house of cards!
Oh, the hugh manatee!
Heather likely has several incurable venereal diseases. No real man would dare insert his manhood into any orifice she has. Besides, those liberal wenches much prefer castrated males and butchy dykes.
I find it interesting that Salon put a picture of Boehner and Cruz to visually represent who they love verse who they fear. Who do the uber-liberal demons fear the most in this election, Ted Cruz.
Hey Salon, BOO!
Cruz for President.... BWHAAA
Heather Blabbermouth Richardson has gotten ahold of some really righteous Meth. :-)
WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?????
I’m not going to salon because it makes me ill. But I can translate this portion of the article:
We socialists who want a permanent dumb underclass and a ruling party of us sophisticated elitists who can tell the dumb underclass what to do and how to think, mostly by mocking (you get to hang with us if you laugh at our jesters), are scared! Scared to death! Because the weak leaders in the wrong colored jerseys who do everything we say, and only mildly grumble while doing it, are being ousted! What if someone who wants to follow that old Constitution gets into actual power? Quickly start getting out names to call them all. Get your sarcastic voices on! This always works! Let’s get them cowering in fear of being called racists again!
Heather, you do not have a clue what is really going on and all you can do is reach for your bag of scare pejoratives. To quote my candidate, “You are such a lier and a loser.”
SALON was going under financially a few years back when Soros decided to bankroll them as they were about to expire.
Heather?
I thought the Salon staff was all male homosexuals.
“Okay....Boehner and McConnell caved on almost every issue. (guns the exception). They thought they’d get respect from the dems? SURPRISE !!! According to Salon, they’re still described as “far right”.”
The further left they move the further right they think we are.
Who might be running the Democrat Party, Heather? What’s the frequency, Heather?
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