Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos: A politics thread

by **drsmooth** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 19:46:59

I"m really enjoying Clinton Rossiter's Conservatism in America - The Thankless Persuasion. It's old, and not rigorously factual in the contemporary sense, but is full of thought-nurturing passages, like this one:

The reason the American Right is not Conservative* today is that it has not been Conservative for more than a hundred years. The reason it first abandoned Conservativsm, even the characteristically American version proclaimed by John Adams, may be summed in two words: democracy and industrialism.

in an "Americanized Burkean" sense; Rossiter indicates what he refers to as the laissez-faire conservatism of his contemporaries via a lower-case 'c'

by **drsmooth** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 20:11:03

Leon Breaux, writing from Beijing, nails why, when it comes to his notions of "social intelligence" (whatever that is) being more vital than "real" intelligence, David Brooks doesn't know much of anything about anything (see comment # 27)

by **pacino** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 20:13:26

the new governor of alabama sez:

"'Now I will have to say that, if we don't have the same daddy, we're not brothers and sisters. So anybody here today who has not accepted Jesus Christ as their savior, I'm telling you, you're not my brother and you're not my sister, and I want to be your brother."

i don't want to be YOUR brother

stop imposing sharia law on me

by **drsmooth** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 20:21:40

pacino wrote:the new governor of alabama sez:
"'Now I will have to say that, if we don't have the same daddy, we're not brothers and sisters. So anybody here today who has not accepted Jesus Christ as their savior, I'm telling you, you're not my brother and you're not my sister, and I want to be your brother."

you don't have to sing like Bledsoe
you can tell the world he said so
can't you see
he's got to be
your mother's son-in-law

by **kopphanatic** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 22:17:48

pacino wrote:the new governor of alabama sez:
"'Now I will have to say that, if we don't have the same daddy, we're not brothers and sisters. So anybody here today who has not accepted Jesus Christ as their savior, I'm telling you, you're not my brother and you're not my sister, and I want to be your brother."

i don't want to be YOUR brother

stop imposing sharia law on me

Guaran-damn-teed when he says Christians, he doesn't mean Catholics. So I'm not his brother, I guess.

Religion in the hands of the wrong people is so dangerous.

by **pacino** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 18:44:25

i dislike chris christie greatly for leaving camden to die. he also nixed a very good transport proposal for no reason at all other than it really grinded his gears. i blame police unions!

by **pacino** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 19:06:06

rush limbaugh, professional asshat, did a 'ching-chong' voice on air.

by **Werthless** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 19:09:21

Why do you listen to Rush?

by **jerseyhoya** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 19:13:36

House passes repeal 245-188. Three Dems voted with the Republicans.

by **pacino** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 19:21:43

Werthless wrote:Why do you listen to Rush?

I don't. Lots of others do.

Website · by **Wolfgang622** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 19:23:09

jerseyhoya wrote:House passes repeal 245-188. Three Dems voted with the Republicans.

That was a fine waste of time.

Next!

by **jerseyhoya** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 21:23:30

pacino wrote:i dislike chris christie greatly for leaving camden to die. he also nixed a very good transport proposal for no reason at all other than it really grinded his gears. i blame police unions!

I love this post

hugetinymistake
@CoryBooker can you please run the state when your term is up???

Combined with this tweet

Booker: Police Union Didn't Try To Avoid Layoffs

And this article

by **jerseyhoya** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 21:24:51

mozartpc27 wrote:
jerseyhoya wrote:House passes repeal 245-188. Three Dems voted with the Republicans.

That was a fine waste of time.

Next!

It wasn't a waste of time; everyone is on record now.

by **pacino** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 21:27:26

jerseyhoya wrote:
pacino wrote:i dislike chris christie greatly for leaving camden to die. he also nixed a very good transport proposal for no reason at all other than it really grinded his gears. i blame police unions!

I love this post

hugetinymistake
@CoryBooker can you please run the state when your term is up???

Combined with this tweet

Booker: Police Union Didn't Try To Avoid Layoffs

And this article

he'd be a million times better. that's a lot of times. he's not a negative person.

of course, i'm in a state-destroying union so i may be biased. the concessions a democratic governor gets from unions are easier to get, and usually less destructive to the union.

by **pacino** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 21:27:49

jerseyhoya wrote:
mozartpc27 wrote:
jerseyhoya wrote:House passes repeal 245-188. Three Dems voted with the Republicans.

That was a fine waste of time.

Next!

It wasn't a waste of time; everyone is on record now.

unlike when the bill was passed?

by **pacino** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 21:29:17

lol

Asked about the tax-cut compromise at the end of last year, Reid said our system requires compromise. "I am going to go back to Washington tomorrow and meet with the President of China," Reid told reporter Jon Ralston. "[Hu] is a dictator. He can do a lot of things through the form of government they have."

Reid quickly realized he could have chosen his words more carefully, quickly adding, "Maybe I shouldn't have said dictator, but they have a different type of government than we have and that is an understatement."

by **jerseyhoya** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 21:41:39

pacino wrote:
jerseyhoya wrote:
mozartpc27 wrote:
jerseyhoya wrote:House passes repeal 245-188. Three Dems voted with the Republicans.

That was a fine waste of time.

Next!

It wasn't a waste of time; everyone is on record now.

unlike when the bill was passed?

Yes?

by **The Nightman Cometh** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 21:43:56

I, for one, welcome the Alabama governor as one of the faces of the revamped Republican party.

by **TenuredVulture** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 21:45:13

jerseyhoya wrote:House passes repeal 245-188. Three Dems voted with the Republicans.

And I voted for one of those mother fuckers.

by **kopphanatic** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 23:36:54

What an incredible waste of time.

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