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Re: GOP Will Eat Itself
« Reply #360 on: January 10, 2011, 05:55:34 PM »

And that's federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.

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Re: GOP Will Eat Itself
« Reply #361 on: May 25, 2011, 04:19:56 PM »

Strong Republican district elects Democrat entirely because of the incumbent's support for the Ryan plan to privatize Medicare.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: last year's Tea Party sweep (which, it also bears repeating, STILL left a vast majority of incumbents still in office) was a protest against the entrenched political establishment, not an actual endorsement of the Tea Party's batshit-fucking-crazy policies.  It's one thing to chant slogans about freedom and fighting socialism, it's quite another to actually dismantle unions and Medicare.
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Re: GOP Will Eat Itself
« Reply #362 on: May 27, 2011, 05:00:45 AM »

They're still doing it though, at least with the unions. Because no one ever got elected by courting the unions....
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Re: GOP Will Eat Itself
« Reply #363 on: June 01, 2011, 11:43:26 AM »

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Re: GOP Will Eat Itself
« Reply #364 on: June 01, 2011, 12:09:46 PM »

I could tell. The phrase "common sense" tipped me off.
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Re: GOP Will Eat Itself
« Reply #365 on: June 01, 2011, 12:24:20 PM »

I... what?
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Re: GOP Will Eat Itself
« Reply #366 on: June 01, 2011, 02:20:45 PM »

And the response:

A Progressive Vision, Pawlenty 2012

Granted, these guys are fighting over something like 5th and 6th place in the primaries, but...yeah.
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Re: GOP Will Eat Itself
« Reply #367 on: July 30, 2011, 11:59:23 PM »

Apparently the only thing the tea party hates more than Democrats, is Republicans

I really hope this whole Tea Party mess blows up as spectacularly as it seems like it could.
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Re: GOP Will Eat Itself
« Reply #368 on: July 31, 2011, 04:50:00 AM »

The writing was on the wall.
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Re: GOP Will Eat Itself
« Reply #369 on: July 31, 2011, 09:07:33 AM »

Again, they ran specifically on a platform of fucking everything up.  At least they were honest about something.
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Re: GOP Will Eat Itself
« Reply #370 on: July 31, 2011, 09:21:02 AM »

Well, and as I've noted, Boehner and the rest have been kissing their asses for decades at this point.  It's the clown strip: you say you support clowns for 25 years and then an actual clown shows up to run for office.
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Re: GOP Will Eat Itself
« Reply #371 on: July 31, 2011, 12:07:11 PM »

The real problem is that they've been selling clowns for twenty-five years too.

It's not that a clown is actually running. It's that people will vote for them.
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Re: GOP Will Eat Itself
« Reply #372 on: July 31, 2011, 05:18:13 PM »

It's cyclical.  Voters bring in neocons, they fuck up, voters bring in Democrats, they don't fix it, voters bring in Neocons...
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Re: GOP Will Eat Itself
« Reply #373 on: August 01, 2011, 09:24:57 AM »

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Re: GOP Will Eat Itself
« Reply #374 on: August 01, 2011, 10:15:49 AM »

Eh.  Frum's been sliding into the "reasonable Republican" persona ever since he left the Bush White House.  It's not that he's wrong, it's just that nobody should be surprised that he's doing it anymore.
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Re: GOP Will Eat Itself
« Reply #375 on: August 01, 2011, 10:25:39 AM »

It's really not hard to get labeled as a "reasonable Republican" these days. All you have to do is talk sense for five straight minutes. I don't even mean shit I agree with or something, just literally speaking in a way that makes sense in context for five whole minutes.
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Re: GOP Will Eat Itself
« Reply #376 on: August 01, 2011, 10:40:59 AM »

The thing is, Frum is still talking crazy. It's right there in the first few paragraphs.

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I'm a Republican. Always have been. I believe in free markets, low taxes, reasonable regulation and limited government. But as I look back at the weeks of rancor leading up to Sunday night's last-minute budget deal, I see some things I don't believe in:

Forcing the United States to the verge of default.

Shrugging off the needs and concerns of millions of unemployed.

Protecting every single loophole, giveaway and boondoggle in the tax code as a matter of fundamental conservative principle.

Massive government budget cuts in the midst of the worst recession since World War II.

He doesn't support destroying the government, just slowly dismantling it.

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Re: GOP Will Eat Itself
« Reply #377 on: August 01, 2011, 10:47:21 AM »

Yes, but I understood what the fuck he was talking about.
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Re: GOP Will Eat Itself
« Reply #378 on: August 01, 2011, 10:56:32 AM »

He doesn't support destroying the government, just slowly dismantling it.

Yeah, but at least you can say to him, "Well, although I disagree with the fundamental principals of your opinions, I respect them nonetheless".
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Re: GOP Will Eat Itself
« Reply #379 on: August 01, 2011, 11:04:39 AM »

Well, and of course the phrases "free markets, low taxes, reasonable regulation and limited government" are so damn open to interpretation as to be meaningless.

Free markets and low taxes absolutely have their place; they just aren't the solution in EVERY situation.  As for "reasonable" regulation and "limited" government, well, obviously the question is what constitutes reasonable, and what are the limits?
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