“Truth suffers from too much analysis.” -Frank Herbert
The last few days, we have been subjected, understandably, to various analayses and post-mortems of this mid-term election, as authors and shills have struggled to determine what it means, or to tell you what they hope you will believe it means. The President himself, focusing on his favorite subject, himself, has determined that the proper response is to keep giving it America, good and hard. I admit, its one way to make history, but given both his youth, and his easily bruised ego, I don’t think he’ll be remembered the way he would like.
Instead, I’d just like to make a few observations.
In the wake of the 2008 election, pundits and editorial boards across the country were proclaiming that “We’re all socialists now” and that conservatism, and with it, its sometimes companion, the Republican Party, were dead to a majority of the nation, and were doomed to be forever in the minority, if not a footnote in some history books.
While I do think that there are such things as mandates expressed in elections, I also believe that politicians often misread them, or claim them when they were never given. I think the current administration is a perfect example of the last. Fifty-two percent does not a mandate make. Yet they persisted, and when met with the ire of constituents, furious at being told that a program that has continually been rejected was going to be foisted on them for their own good, the Democrats patted the American people on the head as if they were errant children being corrected by wise and benevolent elders…except for the ones who clearly had forgotten how this works, and decided to tell us how stupid we were for failing to see their brilliance, which leads us to the first lesson:
NEVER INSULT YOUR EMPLOYERS.
In forcing the health care takeover through, in contravention to all promises made, and without regard to a very clearly manifested will against it, and acting as if they had done us a solid, Democrats, safe in the belief that their positions were merely sinecures with an illusory vote every few years insulted a majority of Americans who could not have expressed their feelings any clearer. When they started to lose their cool when we didn’t go away, they doubled down by telling us that we’re stupid, and that government can do whatever it wants, without a thought to the fact that the electorate is the house, and the house never loses. If our employees were not going to listen to us, opting instead to spend billions we didn’t have, on things government should not be doing, then we would get new employees, which brings us to lesson two:
ASSUMING YOU KNOW BETTER THAN YOUR EMPLOYERS IS NOT A SMART STRATEGY.
As the groundswell reaction to the Political Class, and its deeply rooted arrogance grew, so did the dismissive tone of our employees. Many career politicians viewed the Tea Party movement as amateurish, and joined the snickering putdowns propounded by their talking heads, without giving a thought to the inevitability that for every “teabagger”, there is a “teabaggee”. After the choking that many of them must have felt both in the election, and on Tuesday night, I’m guessing that all but the most imperviously stupid among them will never be so glib about such things again.
The third lesson hasn’t actually been learned yet, but the new officeholders would be foolish to forget it:
DANCE WITH THE ONE WHAT BRUNG YA.
Now that the American People have been roused to paying attention, they have a message for the Republicans that rode in to office Tuesday on the crest of their ire and disgust:
You too, can be replaced.
Taxes, Stupidity, and Death 
You got it BIC – good analysis. To give an idea of just how sweeping this victory was, the 2010 election gave Republicans almost 50% more wins in state races than 1994.
This wasn’t a just win – this was an annihilation, the cumulative results masked by Republicans not winning the Senate. And though I would have dearly loved to see Harry Reid and Babs Boxer bite the bullet, in a perverse way, even that outcome in the Senate likely favors the Republicans.
Obama can not use the convenient excuse of hostile government like Bill Clinton with shenanigans like shuting down government.
But as I said earlier this week, this isn’t a second chance for Republicans. It’s the last chance. If they compromise, they deserve to lose in 2012.
shutting down…gad
Have missed partying here.
Anybody miss me?
Missed you guys, just sayin’…
We learned that back stabbing RINO’s need to be purged from the party.
Hi Cathy
Members of AARP learned something too.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101104/ap_on_bi_ge/us_aarp_health_plan_2
BiW I do like your business analogies but you and, surprisingly, Tex miss something glaring.
ASSUMING YOU KNOW BETTER THAN YOUR EMPLOYERS IS NOT A SMART STRATEGY.
VERY often in business the employees know a lot more than then their employers and it is the employer who arrogantly ignores the advice of the employee. The trick to succeeding in business (a trick I once ignored and paid a dear price for) is to exercise your superior knowledge and skill with humility and if necessary compromise.
There are those in the government (not everyone) who do know much more about the issues that assail us than the average voter does. One reason we send people to Congress is not only to “do our bidding” but to also use their expertise to shape legislation, and to advise us (the employer) on why they are executing in the manner that they are.
The sin of the Democratic party and the administration was inadequately working with the “employer” to arrive at optimal policy decisions.
The fatal flaw of so many in the Tea Party Movement and elsewhere is an embrace of ignorance that undercuts their “corporate mandates”. One reason I would not want to be a Congressman right now is I would not want to have to work for such ignorant bosses who know as little about compromise as I do.
With that said, great post BiW. I like it when you argue from reason, example and analogy and don’t resort to “stupid pet tricks” like videos of Obama giving “the finger” to your heroes.
Your analogy is flawed Rutherford. However, I would have used a different example than BIC, so I cut you some slack. I compliment you however, as a lib, because you are one of the few libs who actually makes the attempt to at least try and understand your mistakes.
You are one step ahead realizing how incorrect the conclusion “it’s a communications problem” is. I condemn you for still trying to hint that the employers are still too stupid to understand it.
Shareholders is what I would have used as my example had I made analogy to business. Employees can not express their disapproval in the same capacity as shareholders.
However, it doesn’t change the premise and reasoning of BIC’s analysis.
You strain at a gnat and try to swallow the camel if that is what you took from BIC’s message.
Analogies are never perfect. The employer-employee one is helpful because most of us have experienced it along with the frustration of working for someone who may not have been the sharpest tool in the shed.
But BiW is totally right in using it, I think. It exemplifies the frustration that we employees have experienced AND reminds us that most of the time it is WISE to zip our lips and keep doing what we have been told to do as best we can and to stay humble and grateful for the opportunity… for now. Later, if we don’t like the arrangement, we can find another job or simply quit.
I’ve been on both sides of this kind of conflict & relationship — as the boss and the employee. It is a dynamic one that will always have differing perspectives.
I recall one young employee who had some smarts about things, but didn’t get the big picture. He approached me as though I was a dumb woman while he failed to accomplish the tasks he had responsibility for. In one case he kept trying to do my job as systems designer & manager, when his present job was to write a program/routine that accomplished a database search and retrieve and keep the response time under 4 seconds. His routine NEVER could complete in less than 20 seconds. It became embarrassing for our team. I KNEW from my own programming experience and estimation of the size of the database, etc. that he was doing something wrong. I stayed patient and encouraged him to return to his code and find his error. But he preferred to try and tell me all about other stuff. Try to imagine how frustrating it was for me to not be insulted by his arrogance and at the same time to encourage him to accomplish his goal for the good of the team!!!
I ended up having to take the assignment, which he refused to correct, away from him and give it to another systems person, who actually giggled and smiled at me and returned in less than 15 minutes with a corrected routine that had a response time of less than 1 second. I then had to confront my arrogant employee with his error, but I did it gently. I had him take instruction from the other employee on how to accomplish the task correctly. The arrogant dude ate his humble pie and came ’round, but it took a demonstration and some dressing down to accomplish a change in him.
I’ve had to fire employees also. It is not fun and definitely not pleasant, but I know how to be decent and honest in the process. I’ll fire someone again if I am ever challenged with it no matter what the arrogant employee thinks or feels about it. Objectivity or Truth! not subjectivity or Feelings, is the key.
Cathy, I’ve been on both sides of the fence also with about seven years in management. The relationship is a tricky one. The most important attribute a manager can have is to recognize the skill and talent in the employee and NOT to micro-manage (I’m not saying you did that).
To go back to BiW’s analogy, the 2010 election proves (at least to many) that we hired the wrong employees, they would not take lessons from our performance reviews (such as at the town hall meetings of last year) and they defied our mission statement without justifying their actions with proven expertise.
The most important attribute a manager can have is to recognize the skill and talent in the employee and NOT to micro-manage (I’m not saying you did that).
Rutherford, I’m glad you put that last parenthetical in there. I didn’t micromanage. I set expectations — which were totally achievable and allowed the employee to pursue them. Problem was, he was more enamored by his own self than focused on the goal and good of the team. I could have written that code to dress him down even more and to prove to him I’m not a dumb woman. I chose not to. Honestly I had no need to show him up. Instead, I gave the work to another employee. Keep in mind Mr. Stuck-on-himself refused to work on it further. He claimed it was the best he could do.
I agree that management people need to know the skill level of employees AND to delegate and encourage them in those directions. But I have to disagree with it being ‘most important.’
The work environment does not exist to be a mutual admiration society. Work is about completing tasks that conform to requirements so that revenue can be realized and everybody’s needs are met. Employees are paid for doing a job that gets results and clients pay for the service or product because results meet their needs at the price they are willing to pay. It’s about doing work to feed our families and hopefully create some wealth and have some fun on the side.
It’s about Economics! Systems Management! Marketing! Human Resources Management! All that stuff and more wrapped into one is a beautiful thing that works itself out for everybody WHEN it is permitted to work without invasive government intervention that seizes all the natural incentive and balance between buyer and seller of product and service.
Before returning to university to earn a Theology degree, I majored in Business & Information Management, graduated Summa Cum Laude, and worked various businesses — very large and small — for about 15 years. Most of those who reported to me wanted to work for me because I got the reputation for expecting a lot, keeping the work environment fun and energy filled, supporting my team members when dealing with clients and higher management, not putting up with bad attitudes, and getting to and telling the truth as much as humanly possible.
Oh just to stretch the business analogy one step further. Many employers heavily delegate to their employees. The US government is a truly fine example of the employer (the American people, the electorate) delegating the business of governing to the elected. When a good manager delegates, he does not micro-manage. Delegation implies trust. When trust is ill-founded, the results show it, and the employer fires the employees he has delegated to. That’s how government is supposed to work,
One reason why I’m not doing too much hand wringing this week is that the process worked. For all your moaning and groaning the past two years, the system has done a self-correction (one might argue an over-correction). That is the beauty of America.
You do have one thing right – the employees (politicians) have for years severely violated the trust given them by the employers (voters). I also suspect that the “moaning and groaning” played some part in lighting a fire under the electorate which resulted in the “self-correction”.
“and don’t resort to “stupid pet tricks” like videos of Obama giving “the finger” to your heroes.”
Hillary isnt our hero jackass.
Elric, you are a lunatic who posts from WeaselZippers. You are, to borrow one of Tex’s favorite phrases, the kind of “useful idiot” that Rachel Maddow inoculates us against. In fact, if she serves no other purpose at all, it is enough that she sheds light on that dark paranoid interior of your mind.
Case in point the “Obama is taking half the Navy to India with him” foolishness that you and your WZ addicts would have us believe.
It annoys me that I waste minutes of my life that I can never get back even addressing you, but I suppose I do it for a higher cause. I do it in the hope that at least one rational person will not be persuaded by your warped, malicious and often pathetic world view.
Excellent post, BIC.
You sure nailed it: the voters have quite clearly expressed severe dissatisfaction with the Political Class (and its elitist masters) and its “deeply rooted arrogance”.
I agree with Tex – this is a last chance for the Republican Party to pay attention to the slightly-right conservative nature of the majority of Americans. Should they continue to ignore the signs, their resurgence will be short-lived.
For all your moaning and groaning the past two years, the system has done a self-correction (one might argue an over-correction). That is the beauty of America.
The fatal flaw of so many in the Tea Party Movement and elsewhere is an embrace of ignorance that undercuts their “corporate mandates”.
Hi Rutherford. Hope you and family are doing well and getting through…
I just want to jump onto the ‘moaning and groaning’ and ‘fatal flaw’ parts of you commentary. I figure you chose these words to paint what conservatives and Tea Party people here as mostly emotional goof-ups, when many of us see it much differently. No matter. We won some but not all of our battles, and I’m good with that for now.
The problem and challenge we all face is that all of us actually are ultimately motivated by our emotions — those deep seated feelings that are tied to some part of our history — and we simply become more motivated and passionate in our desires and the act on them. The energy of emotion kicks in and keeps us going. There is nothing wrong with getting in touch with our emotions.
In one of St. Paul’s letters (Ephesians) he offers an image of the ‘belt of truth’ that girds each one of us… which in our modern talk simply means that truth resides in the gut if we protect and keep it safely girded. We can, if we nurture the truth, rely on what our gut is telling us while fighting against what others and our own over-active brains might be trying to fabricate.
When I, as a member of a Tea Party, get called a racist by a black man or woman who does not know me or what I have done for most of my life to truly offer charity and encouragement to human beings — no matter what color they are, then the problem is that it is her/his emotional and cognitive response that is in error — not mine.
Who is doing such a disservice to the truth by feeding lies to emotionally charged people who may have a history of hurt and some justified anger that foster their own form of racism against me and others? I challenge you to consider how this kind of corruption of the truth not only persists, but is being fostered for ill gains for corrupt agendas.
I continue to pursue friendship and common ground with you, Rutherford, but I will not lie down when we decent hard-working conservatives are insulted or lied about, just sayin’…
Tex, I actually think my employer/employee interpretation nails it. However, I do need to give your shareholder analogy some more thought. Shareholders do get to call the shots. The Board of Directors gets to fire your ass if you don’t, in their estimation, perform. And you and I have seen many the bad business decision made to please the shareholders.
Your analogy also alludes to where is the money coming from. In your version of things, voters are ignored in favor of the wishes of George Soros. In my version of things, henceforth, voters will be ignored in favor of the wishes of the Chamber of Commerce. In both cases, we may very well be talking about the true shareholders in our government.
Only when shareholders have tendency to be apathetic and let the board decide what is best. And that is exactly what happened in both 2006 and 2008… 😉
The decision to appoint Obama to Director of the Board and the Dimocratic Congress as Executive branch was a mistake. And the “shareholders” of America realized 20 months ago they had made a huge mistake, and at the next shareholder’s meeting, they let their concerns known.
And the decision of the Board and management said, “We know what is best for you.”
Had the Director of the Board been up for vote this time, he would have been dismissed with management.
Cathy, long time no see. First a correction: a good number of white folks accuse the Tea Party of being racist …. in fact possibly more whites do than blacks. 😉
I actually on my better days do not call the TPM racist. In fact, on my better days (when I’m in a good mood) think that there are core concerns of the TPM that are right on the money. Government SHOULD have limits. Spending should be under control. The arguments stem from matters of degree.
I am troubled by what I perceive as your inability, or refusal to discern between credible TPM spokespeople and truly incredible ones! While I am annoyed with Rand Paul’s intellectual masturbation about civil rights legislation, I think he conducted himself with some dignity in the general election and showed Conway to be desperate. To the degree that I think Paul meant what he said about civil rights legislation, I think we have taken a step back with his election BUT as I said before, it probably amounted to nothing more than college dorm room philosophizing and will have no legislative impact whatsoever down the line.
Then we take a Christine O’Donnell or a Michele Bachmann or a Sharron Angle or a Carl Paladino and they get the same defense from you that a Rand Paul would get. That troubles me.
The TPM prides itself on having no leaders. But leaders come about in an almost Darwinian way. Every movement has folks who are the most vocal and get perceived as leaders (survival of the loudest?) All I ask of you is to choose your leaders wisely.
Hope all is well with you and yours as well! 🙂
Rutherford, you spout the talking points well. Compromise is a two way street. It is not compromise when you are always expected to give in your principles to match the other guy, who does not bend at all. That is tyranny.
The healthcare legislation was written behind closed doors by the majority (as was their right — they had the majority) and passed with little or no discussion. In fact, passed through suspect parlimentary procedure. Claiming after the fact, when the minority did not participate in the formation of the legislation, that the Republicans refused tocompromise is disingenuous at best. There is no possible ccompromise when the approach is “take it or leave it”.
Failing to support the other guy’s position is not a failure to compromise.
But it does fit the narrative.
Hoosier, I think BiW’s analogy makes it easy for us to get lost as to who is who. I actually thought I gave conservatives the benefit of the doubt in saying that employees (Dem elected officials) exercised their skill with arrogance and refusal to compromise. So you’re actually smacking me for agreeing with you … or at least expressing your premise.
Whether or not I think GOPhers were the party of no in 2009/2010 is now irrelevant. The voters have spoken and it is obviously their perception that “NO” needed to be shouted loud and clear.
I learned that O’Donnel is a far left Socialist. Well I already knew that.
Cathy,
More minorities and women were elected by Republicans than the demomarxists.
hoosierboy,
Funny isnt it? Now that the GOP took the House large numbers these drones want compromise. I remember these same drones were telling the POS “president” to tell the GOP to fvck off and press ahead.
I believe in the El Rushbo philosophy: Compromise is for losers. That vote Tuesday night wasn’t about compromise. The message was loud and clear to frogmarch these bastards to the curb.
And if the Republican party so much as hiccups about removing the boot from Obama’s bony ass…well, it won’t be pretty.
Rutherford, thanks for asking. All going better than expected or deserved.
You need not be ‘troubled’ by a simple sharing of my perspective anymore than I am ‘troubled’ by yours. Deal with facts and we’ll find a place to meet in the middle for a chat. You sorta sound patronizing when you say you are troubled by something I say. Get over it and we’ll have a nicer time in dialogue. Stand your own ground and stay off mine. K?
You also need not attempt to ‘correct’ me about the racism in the black community. Your attempt at correction is not based on fact. Statistics on voting habits in blacks vs. whites is strong support for this leaning. You may be an exception. Whites, not blacks, have demonstrated their ability to vote colorblind based upon their perspectives and political views. But until the voting statistics change and more black people show their willingness to vote for decent candidates, black or white, who clearly demonstrate that they are not corrupt politicians, then the label will stick. This is not my problem or concern. I can not change racism in others until they are willing to drop their self-deception and be willing to see and listen to the truth.
Where you and I totally agree in the Venn diagram of policy is the intersection defined as “government is spending too much money right now” THAT is the essence of Tea Party! Most of the rest of what has been determined as Tea Party stuff that includes the garbage and noise of white supremacy, racism, rich white people, imperialism, evil profits — is all nonsense and noise and not the Tea Party. What gets flung at the Tea Party like that won’t stick no matter how hard the radical left tries.
There is little real evidence that the Tea Party is racist to begin with. Employing the lies to that effect is an agenda of the libs not a fact. Since the majority of the liberal media IS white, it is becoming statistically obvious that they push their agenda with little actual evidence based on fact or truth. To be honest, it appears to me that the liberal media is more racist than blacks or conservatives. There is plenty of evidence out there on video and audio that they lie and abuse to push agenda to the far left. They simply can not be trusted. They are only noise, but harmful noise.
Consider the racism involved in the liberal radicals who push abortion as a healthy alternative for the black woman and her family. Blacks represent 13% of our population, but are 36% of the aborted infants in this country. Not quite, but that means black babies are almost three times more likely to be aborted. Abortion troubles me. It says something is systemically wrong with OUR culture and community, but it troubles me even more to consider how this is effecting the black community. I really do care about this stuff.
Do you really believe that the radicalism and lies being promoted by Planned Parenthood and Obama are not targeting black women with the notion that they are liberated and owners of their own bodies? What about all the wonderful, beautiful little infants that are so unloved and unwanted by their biological mothers and fathers that they die before they even get a chance at breathing life? This depth of selfishness and evil (in all cases no matter what color we are) disgusts me and rips deep at the core of what I consider clear right vs. wrong.
Rutherford, I deeply care about this stuff. I don’t want to point fingers and blame others. I want to help IN the solutions so that we stop the insanity going on in this country. I have and will continue to participate in whatever way I can. I’m not so strongly in the ‘camp’ of a conservative view on things that I will not consider new ways to approach the challenges we ALL face, but I will not cooperate in helping build a plan or approach based on lies or radical agendas. I simply will not. Fin.
Cathy,
That was a wonderful post. I’ll assume you understand Rutherford is a from-the-crib liberal. But…
Unlike the shrieking hyenas I usually meet from the Left, Rutherford makes the attempt to understand most issues and sometimes even gives consideration. I believe him to be a good and decent man. On occasion, he even sees through the garbage foisted from and marketed by the corrupted Left and is honest enough to admit it.
Where Rutherford falls short is that he incapable of overcoming his preconceived and deeply ingrained notions. I have decided my friend is very intelligent, he’s a wonderfully talented writer – but not terribly wise.
Hopefully, truthful and well intended messages like yours will one day open Rutherford’s eyes that on life’s most important issues, he is really blowing it. I do not want him to meet fate believing like my other liberal friend Jim Dougan of Hippie Professor fame did.
And I say that with all sincerity, because I care about him.
Thanks for the comment, Tex. I’m very glad that you are Rutherford’s friend and supportive of him. Your comments also show that you know a lot more about him than I. That’s great.
I don’t know of Jim Dougan, Hippie Professor fame or what happened, but it does not sound good at all. I’m sad for anyone of us who meets a fate ill-prepared emotionally or spiritually. It sounds like maybe that is part of what may be going on. It’s okay if you don’t wish to share. I’ll not expect anyone to break any sort of confidences.
Weather sure is beautiful here. Sunny, much cooler and crisper air, but warms up during the day nicely. Have a great weekend.
Okay… Googled-up enough info to figure out Jim Dougan IS HippieProf, with whom I’ve chatted here at BiW up to a shortly before the election. Wow and Sheesh!
HippieProf and I left our unfinished conversation about God, his former conservatism and nominal Christianity which left him an unbeliever, as I recall. I suggested a book by C.S.Lewis and he said he would look into it. I promised to pick up the discussion after the election. He teased me about hoping to distract me from that ‘mission’ promoting conservative principles etc. I enjoyed his tease but resisted and then backed off considerably from reading and commenting on blogs so I simply didn’t know about all this.
Honestly, I hope he did get a chance to read more of C.S. Lewis and I hope to see him in Eternity. I really mean it.
Cathy,
He supports the “one drop rule”.
Tex,
I heard O’Connel and he sounded like he got the message. I hope so because if not, the Republican party will be the 3rd party. I will be calling his office and Boehner’s every week to hold their feet to the fire and encourage them if they are doing what the people wanted.
You know Elric. I could be wrong – but I suspect that most of the Republicans got the message.
Do it right (no pun intended) or you will be handed your head in the next election. That’s something people like Rutherford don’t understand. We know Christine O’Donnell was not a strong candidate – but we know even better Castle was a Dim lackey and a detriment to the Republican party. Delaware just removed the facade.
I think Rutherford underestimated Sharron Angle – she was a matter of circumstance and union corruption. She was a far more qualified candidate than Harry Reid, who has led his state into financial oblivion. If that’s what a majority of the Nevada populace wanted, so be it. They’ll suffer the consequences, as will California. It’s imminent.
And Sharron Angle cleaned Harry Reid’s clock in the debate I watched.
With that said, great post BiW. I like it when you argue from reason, example and analogy and don’t resort to “stupid pet tricks” like videos of Obama giving “the finger” to your heroes.
And without the video, we’d never know that it happened. It is valuable insight into his character, and I’m not about to apologize for doing my part to make sure people know about it.
I am troubled by what I perceive as your inability, or refusal to discern between credible TPM spokespeople and truly incredible ones! While I am annoyed with Rand Paul’s intellectual masturbation about civil rights legislation, I think he conducted himself with some dignity in the general election and showed Conway to be desperate. To the degree that I think Paul meant what he said about civil rights legislation, I think we have taken a step back with his election BUT as I said before, it probably amounted to nothing more than college dorm room philosophizing and will have no legislative impact whatsoever down the line.
Then we take a Christine O’Donnell or a Michele Bachmann or a Sharron Angle or a Carl Paladino and they get the same defense from you that a Rand Paul would get. That troubles me.
The TPM prides itself on having no leaders. But leaders come about in an almost Darwinian way. Every movement has folks who are the most vocal and get perceived as leaders (survival of the loudest?) All I ask of you is to choose your leaders wisely.
And I’m sure that you are delighted that this is the source of a lot of heated language between those of us on the right, some of whom also forgot that the voters made their choices in the primaries, and proceeded to crap all over the candidates who didn’t meet their lofty criteria, rather than keeping their opinions to themselves, and using their much vaunted skills to help these “undesirables” to become better candidates. Would some of them still have lost? Probably, but I believe not to the same degree, and without legitimizing whatever impressions that the Left were already casting upon them.
I tend to see the genius of the TPM being that there are no leaders that can be singled out, and given that special vilification that other poplitical leaders enjoy. But that didn’t prevent the Left demonstrating the truism “When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” Without a leader to demonize, the only thing they could do is call the American People who were rightfully enraged “Stupid”, which in turn, only fed the TPM, to the point that only the Democratic candidates who lived in the bluest of blue areas could run on their records, rather than run from them. The minute it actually coalesces into a true “party”, it is finished as a movement, because the Left will have its villans to concentrate attacks on, and because those leaders will become the establishment which will try to dictate to the people who their choices will be.
It annoys me that I waste minutes of my life that I can never get back even addressing you, but I suppose I do it for a higher cause. I do it in the hope that at least one rational person will not be persuaded by your warped, malicious and often pathetic world view.
Huh. I feel the same way about Greychin. Go figure.
Do it right (no pun intended) or you will be handed your head in the next election. That’s something people like Rutherford don’t understand. We know Christine O’Donnell was not a strong candidate – but we know even better Castle was a Dim lackey and a detriment to the Republican party. Delaware just removed the facade.
I prefer to think of it as the voters chose a conservative rather than ‘Dem-Lite’, and regardless of O’Donnell’s loss, which probably was inevitable, that choice was encouraging.
Tex,
We will see. I will give them encouragement as well if they do the right thing. I dont want them to feel isolated.
As for O’Donnell, I dont think she was a weak candidate. I heard her speak. She didnt sound polish but she understood the issues and the Constitution. I thought she did well considering she fought the demomarxists, the RINO’s and the MSM all at once. Perhaps if that weasel Castle manned up and supported her, the 25 percent of the Republicans that stayed home would have voted for her.
ROTFLMAO!!! 😆 Elric, if you’re talking about Mitch McConnell you’d better get his name straight before calling his office weekly. I mean, a little respect heh? 🙄
I can sleep easy tonight knowing that Elric will be holding the government leader’s feet to the fire. And I know how much Elric’s encouragement will make their day. Here’s a clue:
Boehner staffer: “Yes sir. Yes sir. Yes sir. Thank you for calling again sir.” — hangs up phone.
Lady at adjacent desk: “That crackpot again heh?”
Boehner staffer: “Yup he calls every Friday like clockwork. Poor bastard.”
Olbermann just got suspended. Drones in a frenzy, threatening boycots. LMAO
Great post BiW!
“I’m guessing that all but the most imperviously stupid among them will never be so glib about such things again.”
Pelosi is running as Minority leader. You underestimate the hatred and distain these marxists have for the nation.
Actually, I had Alan “Dumb as a bag of hammers” Grayson in mind when I typed it, but yes, Granny Rictus fits the description, too.
BIW,
Glad she is running. Means the Dems wont moderate or listen.
Tex, your kind words are appreciated. As I’ve shared with you in more detail privately, I don’t think Jim left this world an optimistic man BUT I do believe he left this world proud of his belief system. His pessimism stemmed from seeing the nation veering in the opposite direction. Philosophically and politically, I think he died without regret.
Mayor Bloomberg on President Obama: “I Never Met in my Life Such an Arrogant Man.
http://weaselzippers.us/2010/11/05/mayor-bloomberg-on-president-obama-i-never-met-in-my-life-such-an-arrogant-man/
Well I already knew that as well.