I’m a big enough guy to admit that my support of the rep from Michigan – my admission of respect if not actually liking the guy – was naive and probably one of the stupider things I’ve ever done and said in my life.
See, when I say something like what Stupak said, I stand behind what I say. He caved. He showed he’s got no intrinsic value. His word is less than dirt.
Schlafly had some very good things to say about that sack of shit and his cohorts. She said what I felt in my bones even if I couldn’t say it like she did:
“Any formerly pro-life Democrat who casts a ‘Yes’ vote for this Senate health care bill tonight will be forever remembered as being among the deciding votes which facilitated the largest expansion of abortion services since Roe v. Wade.”
“Mr. Stupak and his Democrat followers have now clarified that you cannot be pro-life and be a Democrat. If abortion was truly their biggest issue, they wouldn’t willfully align themselves with the Party of Death.”
“This vote will expose the myth of the ‘pro-life Democrat.’ With this single vote, the Democratic Party will divide our nation into the Party of Death and the Party of Life, and future elections will never be the same.”
I posted a comment over at Enas’ (Center of the Anomaly) that I like enough to say ’screw it’ and post here.
What could go right in all of this? Well, it could get bound up in courts right quick. It also has a long fuse, at least for some of it. There aren’t a great many months the libtards have before the next election and so we can hope for a sweeping out of the trash, and getting right down to the business of reversing what damage can be reversed.
But they can do a hell of a lot of damage in the meantime.
The hidden bonus that could be waiting is for a sea-change of sorts – one in which people wake up and realize that hope-n-change kind of thinking is really damned naive and childish. I would hope that the more subtle payoff in any such sea-change is that the republicans actually become conservatives rather than bank on “brand name” and don’t see mixup as a mandate for their screwball policies.
I think it’s probably far too much to expect that even more would come out of this. The recognition that entitlement programs have always had the most fervent support from those who benefit most who also pay the least in taxes. Somehow this fact doesn’t piss anyone off.
We have entitlement programs coming due and we’re adding more. Social Security. Medicare. Medicaid. National Health Care.
Politicians can’t even begin to figure out how to roll out of the way of Social Security before that runaway truck slams into us, and they’re adding national health care? This is like using avgas as the liquid of choice to put out a house fire.
If the republicans – the self-proclaimed conservatives – in office now cannot suddenly behave as a truly fiscally responsible body, then we must get rid of them, too.
Schlafly said “This vote will expose the myth of the ‘pro-life Democrat.” And this is a fatal mis-step on the part of any scheming democrat party leader. Not for a very long time will they be able to claim that they stand in both worlds like Stupak did. Because when the time came to stand up and be counted, they chose to be placed in one camp or the other – there was no in-between here. Too bad for them.
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Lawmakers also came down to the crowd too. Anthony Weiner was watching near the House entrance. “These people are very civil when you talk to them one on one,” he said, “but when they get together it’s mob rule.”
That’s because if you force them to the point where they have to join together and protest, which they just don’t live for like any liberal alive, they’re generally pretty pissed.
And if you think they’re pissed now… you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
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That’s kind of the way I see it.
I’m just trying to figure out where the first battle will be–the revolution will be blogged.
You are right, LK…I have never protested in my life. Then came the first TEA Party last April.
And it wasn’t my last.
As to where the first battle will be…. there are no clear boundaries anymore, cbullitt. In my family, there are deep divisions. I love them dearly, but they are wrong. And I will no longer hide behind the “respect your elders” dictum. If they were stupid enough to rely on government for their retirement, so be it. But they can’t drag me and mine down with them.
cbullitt, where will the first battle be? Anywhere and everywhere.
I have a very dear friend who is reliant on the medi-care-aid system and it is hard to tell her that I think it is not right. I know it is not right.
Problem is, back before all this crap – people relied on each other, on friends, on families – now, you go hold your hand out and rely on the government. It’s just all kinds of wrong.
Used to be you had a problem you saw a doc and paid for it. “Health Insurance” was just insurance in case you got really sick or hurt badly – it wasn’t meant to be a bottomless pit that sucked out part of your paycheck before you ever even knew you had it, and it wasn’t meant to pay varying amounts for all manner of worthless testing with the amounts determined by this year’s profit margin. People were much more discriminating. And so were doctors.
It’s all bullshit.
And now our elected leaders are going to radically change our lives against our wills. See how that works, fellas.
This is an awesome post, LK….I copied/pasted it and sent it to hubby. Blogs are blocked at his work, but e-mails aren’t 😉
I know it’s evil to give in to despair, but more people care more passionately about what happens on “American Idol” than whatever it is that politicians are squabbling about in DC these days. They don’t think that it has any real impact on their day-to-day lives. If they haven’t “woken up” by now then I don’t think they ever will. It actually took Rome a long time to fall, but at the end I think it still took most Romans completely by surprise when they first saw barbarians running rampant in the streets.
Today, the people wouldn’t even care as long as “Survivor” wasn’t pre-empted.