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The Current Crisis
In Politics It Is the Economy, Stupid
The party of Sandra Fluke is out of control.
WASHINGTON — I wonder, as we begin 2013 and look forward to four more years of this insufferable poseur in the White House, where Sandra Fluke might be. Miss Fluke is the lady who made birth control a matter of national security, in particular her own personal supply of pills and God knows what else. Prior to her appearance on the national scene I always thought it was a male’s responsibility to supply condoms, as the occasion warranted. Yet Miss Fluke enlightened me. Actually she never told us what she used these items for. I suppose I am jumping to conclusions. She might be an artiste, and they may be part of her palette. There are all sorts of things birth control devices can be used for. At any rate, she brought birth control to the fore in American presidential elections, at least four decades after they had become a fixture in America. In that respect she made history.
Prior to Miss Fluke’s public campaign for birth control, those who follow national politics had believed that elections revolved around the economy. But in 2012 we had an economy in a feeble condition. After four years in the White House President Barack Obama presided over the weakest recovery from a recession on record. He had given Keynesian economics a bad name even with many Keynesians. He had enlarged the federal government to almost 25 percent of GDP from its traditional size of 18 or 19 percent. He was running deficits of a trillion dollars a year and promised them for years to come.
He won his election against a governor from Massachusetts who had turned that state’s economy around even though it had Democratic dominance of both houses. Mr. Obama’s opponent, governor Mitt Romney, presented himself as a turn-around candidate who had turned-around companies in the private sector, the 2002 winter Olympics, and Massachusetts. He vowed to turn around America. Yet he was not going to do anything about raising taxes on the hated 2 percent. Nor was he going to do anything to secure Miss Fluke’s birth control devices. Actually Miss Fluke became the poster girl for indignant women everywhere and the term “birth control” became a code word for all manner of birth control devices, including abortion. So this is serious. Mr. Romney lost the women’s vote, the black vote, the Latino vote, and the stupid student-aged vote. I say stupid student-age vote because these lunkheads are going to be paying for my Social Security and other entitlements for years to come. They will most likely never know the prosperity of today’s middle class.
Paul Ryan, the Republican chairman of the House Budget Committee, has various plans to insure Social Security and other entitlements in the future but the stupid student-age voter and probably the women that Miss Fluke speaks for will not hear of such expedients. They, along with President Obama, just enjoyed another great victory with the so-called fiscal cliff. He is bragging about it! Now they can look forward to our next economic crisis probably in a couple of months, and crises for years to come. The years ahead are going to be exciting, or will they?
Actually President Obama was elected with fewer votes this year than when he was first elected, some 4 million fewer. Enthusiasm for him will be, if precedent matters, even lower in 2014. He is going to have a dismal second term.
There is all sorts of happy talk about the problems conservatives face today. I do not believe it for a second. Conservatives control the House of Representatives and have people there wedded to policies that will by 2014 be seen as exigent by conservative voters and independents. That sounds like the same conditions that led to the route of 2010. Conservatives are stronger at the state level than they have been in 60 years. They have thirty governorships and control more state legislatures than they have in decades. The ongoing conservative groundswell is continuing. Against it the Democrats have Miss Fluke and her legions who, incidentally, do not vote in off-year elections. Soon even many of them will have figured politics out. Elections, in times such as ours, are about the economy, stupid.
About the Author
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. is the founder and editor in chief of The American Spectator. He is the author of The Death of Liberalism, published by Thomas Nelson Inc. His previous books include the New York Times bestseller Boy Clinton: the Political Biography; The Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton; The Liberal Crack-Up; The Conservative Crack-Up; Public Nuisances; The Future that Doesn’t Work: Social Democracy’s Failure in Britain; Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House; The Clinton Crack-Up; and After the Hangover: The Conservatives’ Road to Recovery.
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PacRim Jim | 1.3.13 @ 6:25AM
Republican Party, do not solicit my vote again.
Your professed principles no long match your actions.
I can no longer differentiate you from Democrats.
Aristocat| 1.3.13 @ 6:49AM
Conservatives don't really control the House, but they would if they had the courage to stand up and fight and elect a new Speaker...
TLP| 1.3.13 @ 1:56PM
Boring.
FBX1999| 1.3.13 @ 3:42PM
Welcome back!
by any chance do you teach RCIA in Western WA?
TLP| 1.3.13 @ 4:32PM
Actually I teach Masturbation in Elementary School.
I'm just kidding.
That's what Liberals do.
spike59| 1.3.13 @ 6:33AM
Mr Tyrell, i read similar statements about 2010 and beyond...the 2010 mid-terms were but a minor hiccup for the DemokratikSocialists, and they recovered almost immediately...much like PacRimJim has turned his back on the party that turned its back on its 'professed principles', i have absolutely no faith in the 'wisdom' of an electorate that thinks the latest regurgitation by snail-trail kardashians is somehow significant, who paid more attention to 'honey boo-boo' than either convention in 2012, and who, after 4 years of ObaMao & Co, failed to wake up and do their duty to help the nation
Appleby| 1.3.13 @ 6:56AM
Since our National Anthem was changed to "Waaaaaaaah!" I have stopped listening to any of the squalling brats in government or out of them. I saw the Future in the front row of my church on New Year's Day: a helpless Murmuring Daddy being whipsawed by two boys aged 4 and 6 who relentlessly shouted -- not words, just noises -- throughout the service, even engaging the priest at one point. His children were the only ones using their voices as pile drivers and nobody said them Nay. Those two boys are the future, and their murmuring Daddy was a symbol of the future of all the adults in the room. I am so glad to be retiring and will spend my remaining years among adults, watching y'all Murmur to a world full of noisy brats, and being glad I am no longer tasked with bringing any of you to order.
Maxwell| 1.3.13 @ 8:14AM
Appleby, if I EVER pulled that trick of being loud in public, Mama would have reminded me with the flat of her hand smartly applied to the side of my face. That was just for openers. Once home it would be the riding crop followed by my fathers black belt.
Appleby| 1.3.13 @ 9:27AM
My Mama didn't have to say a word. She made eye contact, raised her index finger and gave a single shake of her head. That meant "One more word and you are a Dead Duck." I can work this trick on younger kiddies from across an airport waiting gate, but those with Murmuring Parents never make eye contact. (Mama knew a trick for that too -- grab our little faces in the left hand, squeeze our l ittle cheeks into a Duck Face, and with eye contact thus compelled, proceed.
Cat Shot| 1.3.13 @ 10:15AM
Maxwell - no guts! I did try that trick, in church no less. A half century later the look on my Dad's face still haunts me.
Maxwell| 1.3.13 @ 10:42AM
Cat, there were a few times that I did not sit down because my back side was ....a little tender. To this day I still say yes mam & yes sir. Old habits are hard to break.
Seek| 1.3.13 @ 12:26PM
At the risk of being branded "New Age," beating a child with a riding crop is child abuse. There are others ways of getting the point across.
SUBVET| 1.3.13 @ 1:21PM
Ya I remember those days when the mother superior said show me your knuckles as she grabbed the 3 ft. ruler.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.3.13 @ 1:23PM
"At the risk of being branded ..."
Please pardon me for making an observation, Seek, but it has been my experience here during the last couple of years that it doesn't seem to matter to you that you are branded any particular way.
TLP| 1.3.13 @ 2:00PM
Hey, Seek. My parents hit me with EVERYTHING, and look how I turned out.
Okay. Maybe that's a bad example.
Look how Al turned out.
Drunken Sailor| 1.3.13 @ 2:34PM
Hell seek, my mom made me fetch my own switch to be whipped with. I, being the natural born smartass, one time brought her a switch from a weeping willow. She didn't even blink, just folded it up a few times and procedded to use it like a cat of nine tails. From that day forward I took my whippings like a man and never tried that crap again.
Job| 1.3.13 @ 7:10AM
R's don't have a clue about how to cobble a coalition if they don't learn to embrace libertarian principle they will go to the dust bin where they belong.
TLP| 1.3.13 @ 2:00PM
Contest, tomorrow, at Mr. Bowman's House.
C. Vernon Crisler | 1.3.13 @ 8:53AM
RET is part of the Conservative Establishment that gave us the hollow man Mitt Romney. If he thinks a "conservative groundswell" will be able to stop the Sandra Flukes of the world, he is delusional. The American people have made their choice -- and it's Sandra Fluke. As I've said, the American people are not worthy of the Founders.
Wake up RET!
Al Adab| 1.3.13 @ 10:33AM
Fluke was simply one of many who helped define the election to be about entitlements. Too many have been convinced (in error but nonetheless convinced) that their well being depends upon the benevolence of the social-welfare state. They do not trust those who wish to rein it in or to better manage it any longer; instead they simply wish for, and now demand, more government pottage even at the cost of their birthright.
C. Vernon Crisler | 1.3.13 @ 12:23PM
Right, Fluke is a symbol of the entitlement mentality. I see no conservative groundswell that can turn this tide back. If it's there, it must be deep under the surface where no one can see it.
Plim| 1.3.13 @ 9:05AM
I think you meant "rout" and not "route" of 2010?
I think for the good of America & the world, Obama should not have won in 2012. The dilemma now is whether America's culture war is truly over and there's nothing else to be done except for each to man the lifeboats while the progressives and their mass media useful idiots run the ship of state aground or whether like a phoenix, a new breed of rugged individuals will rise up from the ashes of the late great US of A.
Al Adab| 1.3.13 @ 10:37AM
It will be a measure of the character of each of us whether we go softly into the night or take arms against a sea of troubles in the hope of ending them. Like the original Cato and Cicero (whose namesakes post here) we can continue to oppose Ceasar at the cost of our lives (fortunes and sacred honor) or simply accomodate ourselves to the new world of social welfare and centralization The Left has created. " Choose you this day whom you will serve..."
Hardcard| 1.3.13 @ 9:19AM
E. Bob it's the socialists and you the genius that told us liberalism is dead. Wake the F up. We need honesty in government, and less congeniality and ass kissing in DC, how manny cocktail parties and BS sessions do you attend? You should take the beam out of your eye. Your advice and counsel is wrong. BBT
TLP| 1.3.13 @ 2:09PM
Yeah. What Hardcard said.
BBMe.
Frank Drackman| 1.3.13 @ 9:24AM
OK, everybody huddle up, bring it it, listen up.
Ummm Tyrone, Martavious, Ja-mall, Running Backs, Recievers, Secondary, D-Line, I think there's some Malt Liquor in the Locker room, why don't y'all check on that.
OK, who we got here, QB, Offensive Line, Kickers, thats a start.
I've figured out how the Repubiclans can win in 2016.
First, we have to shoot every Repubiclan who won in 2012. And everyone who voted for a DemoKKKRat in 2012.
I'm KIDDING.
Its the ones who were elected in the 80's and 90's who are the real problem anyway...
Frank
Pecos Pete| 1.3.13 @ 9:28AM
Mr. Tyrrell: Congress just dug the hole deeper over the weekend with their passage of the "fiscal cliff" solution. ObamaCare is coming down the fiscal highway like an out of control and over loaded semi-truck. The national debt cap is hanging over our heads like a guillotine. King O is planning for immigration reform and gun control laws and regulations. The EPA, EEOC, IRS and the entire complex of federal alphabet agencies will continue issuing their asinine business collapsing regulations.
The future not only looks bleak, it looks like a disaster is upon us. The states, even if they were fully governed by conservative principles, can't stop the depredations of the federal government.
The USA died on November 6, 2012. You can't paint a pretty picture about the future in view of King O's reelection.
BBT!
Al Adab| 1.3.13 @ 10:38AM
Pete, I never asked, upper river or lower?
Pecos Pete| 1.3.13 @ 12:34PM
Al: Upper, very upper. Only 10 miles south of the source spring.
Al Adab| 1.3.13 @ 1:17PM
AHHH thanks. A bit cold this time of year.
Pecos Pete| 1.3.13 @ 2:44PM
-15 this morning at 6 AM. About a foot of snow at 8,600 feet. We are still in a drought. We need 4 or 5 feet of snow at 8,000 and 10 feet up at 10,000. Otherwise it is going to be a tough fire season.
TLP| 1.3.13 @ 2:13PM
What about you're Horse?
Is that a Boy Horse, or a Girl one?
And does He/She have access to Free Birth Control?
Contest, tomorrow, at Mr. Bowman's House.
Pecos Pete| 1.3.13 @ 2:47PM
Mares and geldings. FBC not required.
TLP| 1.3.13 @ 4:35PM
Okay.
Do they have their own Lipstick?
Pecos Pete| 1.3.13 @ 7:16PM
Like you, they are too pretty for lipstick.
Tis good to be having fun again.
ArmyAviator| 1.3.13 @ 10:59AM
The nation died long before Nov 6, 2012. That was merely the "coup de grace." What's needed NOW is for our conservative state governors and legislators to begin interstate discussions of SECESSION from the current union and the formation of new, NATION-STATES, where the first rule of law would be NO LIBERAL SOCIALISM. New nations, where FREEDOM and FREE ENTERPRISE and self-interests are the fabric of society. New nations, where the PEOPLE are more important than insects, or some goatherd, in Afghanistan or other forsaken dump of human waste.
Al Adab| 1.3.13 @ 11:34AM
AA:
Read American Nations by Colin Woodard for a glimpse of the future alignments of North America. Interesting exercise.
C. Vernon Crisler | 1.3.13 @ 12:27PM
Hah, secessionists think the States would not revert to, ahem, statism at the first opportunity. The progressive disease permeates all of society, at both the federal and the State level.
Al Adab| 1.3.13 @ 1:19PM
As an interesting exercise, consider what the federal government response might be should, for example, California chose to become a peoples' republic or Texas perhaps a free market, free trade area.
Santiago| 1.3.13 @ 12:26PM
So do what I did and get out while the getting's good. Go the the Economic Freedom Index map from the Heritage Foundation and pick a country (there are 9 currently ranked as more economically free than the US).
ncatty| 1.3.13 @ 9:39AM
We must cultivate our garden.
fmm| 1.3.13 @ 9:40AM
How in the hell can you equate the GOP to conservatives!? This is the problem with ostriches like you. You have a potentially powerful magazine here to effect change and all you can do is make lame statements instead of trying to teach what it means to be a conservative. How about some of the Right Stuff instead of Rot Gut?
Peter McGrath| 1.3.13 @ 9:45AM
Obama and the Dems will suffer the traditional second term mid-term setback and lose a lot of clout in Congress, perhaps even losing control of the Senate. Given the state of our moribund economy, hobbled as it is by the doddering leviathan of Big Government, it appears inevitable that there will be restraints placed on the growth of the Federal Government, if not actual cuts to current levels of spending. Commensurate with this restraint, the private economy will start to show signs of life, thus further reducing annual deficits and improving the availability of capital for private sector expansion. Obama - who's led a charmed life - will be hailed as our national savior and, unlike Clinton, no scandal will be allowed to occur which could conceivably taint his legacy.
fmm| 1.3.13 @ 10:31AM
So you ascribe to the theory that those behind Obama know how far to push the economy toward failure before bringing in their knight on a white horse to save the day? It won't be Obama as he is too far gone to evolve, but it could be their candidate in 2016. The theory is that this power base will put forth a candidate who will "recognize the error of their ways" and, instead of just giving lip service and going about business as usual, will actually make concessions to the conservative philosophies of freedom and private enterprise. In this way, conservatives will be mollified and begin to think all is right with the world, even as the controlling interests cement their position.
Bob K| 1.3.13 @ 9:46AM
Get the hell out of the Gomorrah on the Beltway and back to the heartland in Bloomington, Tyrrell; and see how the rest of the country lives!
Try another perspective!
"For where your treasure is there shall your heart be also." Matthew 6:21. And your heart and that of too damn many so called conservatives (not to say other politicians!) is in Washington DC because that is where their treasure is also!
Al Adab| 1.3.13 @ 10:29AM
Not a bad observation Bob.
TLP| 1.3.13 @ 2:14PM
A great observation.
Von Mises Jr| 1.3.13 @ 10:18AM
Look at that picture. Anyone whom believes Fluke needs birth control unless it is a tandem offer including lots of whisky is even more stupid that we thought.
But on a serious note, Boehner and McConnell have just pulled an Arlen Specter or Charlie Crist. They just don't have the decency to admit their defection.
Those 30 Republican State Governors, many with Republican Senates and Assemblies should understand that the DC Republicans have formed their own Party. That Party now joins with the Democrat Socialist in taking the land, resources, homes and savings of good Americans in Red States. The Republican Governors Association needs to declare whose side they will take, the people or the Ruling Class elites.
cicero| 1.3.13 @ 10:20AM
So you think that Obama will have a bad second term? What makes you think that? He has plundered the country, and enriched his friends to the tune of billions of dollars. They then enriched him beyond his wildest dreams. For a guy who has never held a real job before getting elected to the Senate (if that is a real job), he all at once is shopping for a multimillion dollar estate in his home town, overlooking the ocean. Not bad. The only thing he needs in his second term is to make sure he plays enough golf so that his fame doesn,t go stale. He will push for open boarders (immigration reform), and the seizure of guns from private hands. He doesn't really need either, and probably won't get them. They will make it look like he is doing something for the fools that elected him.
Bad second term? Not really. He has already done what he set out to do - enrich himself and his cronies, and set the country on the road to ruin.
Frank Drackman| 1.3.13 @ 10:27AM
I'm gonna go out on a limb here...
But I don't think Sandra Fluke needs Birth Control any more than Barbarba Mikulski.
And she's not a bad lookin gal, handsome woman actually, and on a cold stormy night, I could play a little "Watch the Alabama Black Snake go in the Hole" with her.
And then I'd do Sandra Fluke too....
Frank
Pelleas| 1.3.13 @ 10:50AM
DRECK-man..
YOU ARE A FUCKING REPULSIVE SHIT-SMEARED P-I-G.. .. AND it's HIGHLY DOUBTFUL that ANYONE would WILLINGLY agree to have any sort of intimate relations with you--unless they were blind/dumb/deaf...or ALIVE....
Frank Drackman| 1.3.13 @ 10:55AM
what is this "Willingly" of which you speak...
and that Deaf Dumb and Blind Chick,
Sure plays mean with my balls.............
and when you type in all caps like that, it's like your shouting, sort of a turn on actually,
I mean as long as you're a Chick, and I mean a legitimate, non-PED aided, XX.
Or even an XXX, which are usually sterile BTW.
Frank
Seek| 1.3.13 @ 12:29PM
She's really not bad-looking at all. If she were a conservative, a lot of people here would equating her with the essence of womanhood. It's too bad she's on the Left.
spike59| 1.4.13 @ 5:44AM
"She's really not bad-looking at all. If she were a conservative, a lot of people here would equating her with the essence of womanhood. It's too bad she's on the Left."
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you might want to check and see if ObaMaoScare has vision coverage...i suppose, on the ProgLib scale, she could be termed a 'handsome woman'...but that scale contains Hillary and Pelosi
TLP| 1.3.13 @ 2:18PM
He's just upset that you used Fluke's name in your comment, instead of his.
Pelleas| 1.3.13 @ 3:59PM
So says the PIG (TLP) who believes that the Holocaust was Go'd solution to punish the "disobeying" Jews..and that Adolph Hitler was God's hand-picked Messenger..
TLP| 1.3.13 @ 4:38PM
Prove that he wasn't, or Shut your face.
And, read Jeremiah while you're at it, sweetheart.
Pelleas| 1.3.13 @ 4:59PM
There's a special torture chamber being set up for you, TLP, in the 9th Circle...and your time can not come too soon--you are worse then the devil, in your filthy spew -- and if that sad clown OC the "supposed" Jew comes to your drfense one more time, after this current vomit from you--he will share the cell with ya
Pelleas| 1.3.13 @ 5:01PM
that should have read OT
spike59| 1.4.13 @ 5:46AM
awwww...pelleasswipe, is widdle snoogums oogums got hers widdle bwoomers in a knot? get over yourself...
Pelleas| 1.4.13 @ 11:59AM
Spike
Soyou think it's OK to "blame " the Jews for their own MURDERS--as TLP does...??
YOU WILL join TLP/OT/ and all the rest of the swine, HERE, who believe that sickening FILTH, in HELL..
ArmyAviator| 1.3.13 @ 10:50AM
I disagree that Obama will have a dismal second term. He already has fractured the enemy (Repubs) and destroyed any unity they might have mustered. In 2014, the Liberal Socialists will sweep the congress, not because of any love for Obama and Nancy Pelosi, but because those Repub congress idiots who voted for Obama's tax increases, are going to be replaced by Liberal Socialist Democrats. I mean, why vote for Liberal Lite, when you can have the REAL DEAL. No, Obama will enjoy success after success, with or without the Repub House. Boehner has proven what a pussy he is.
RCV| 1.3.13 @ 11:15AM
RET: your prediction that President Obama will have a "dismal second term" will prove as accurate as your brilliant "Romney will win" and "Liberalism is dead" gems. More wishful thinking, sir.
Doctor Right| 1.3.13 @ 11:25AM
EXACTLY.
The time for predictions based on what we as Conservatives view to be common sense is gone; it's a topsy-turvy world out there, and Obama is in charge of it all. Better get used to it; here's why:
1. Government and the Democratic Party are one and the same; the exist to prop each other up, and suck the life out of the rest of us. They are a leviathan, and they're not going away anytime soon. In that sense, the Conservative movement is Ahab if we simply accept the status quo on our side of the aisle and allow them to steer the ship.
2. The stupes/slackers/non-hackers/welfare dead-beats/empty-headed O.W.L-types/abortion-loving/Union members/illegal alien/Marxist crowd/morons now outnumber us. It's not about "getting your message out" - they're too dumb or too disinterested to care. It's about changing the message to something they understand. And that message needs to primal.
3. Obama is driven by his convictions (yes, he has them). Unfortunately, his convictions are hard-left, and he rarely if ever swerves from them. To that end, we can't make "deals" with him. He's very cunning, and has done his homework. He knows EXACTLY how to toy with the GOP, and those fools take the bait every time.
Doctor Right| 1.3.13 @ 11:35AM
4. WE need to begin playing the game like the Democrats play it. For too long, we have relied on the other side ultimately being "good guys" who respect the Constitution and the rule-of-law. They don't.
The left will lie, cheat, steal, destroy, defame, libel, etc, to achieve their goals. The ends always justify the means to a leftist.
That doesn't mean we start being dishonest; it means we get creative. And it also means we grow some brass balls. We must out-Alinsky the Alinskyites. Pick a target, freeze it. frame it, personalize it, and polarize it.
To that end, WHY do you think the Left was so upset about the 47% comment? BECAUSE IT'S TRUE!!! Stop backing down!
5. The media hate us. They always have, and they always will.
So stop worrying. Speak the truth, and let it ride. You will reach more people with cold, hard reality than you will lose by back-pedaling and apologizing like a wimp.
6. NO DEALS. You were not elected to reach across the aisle with the Left; you were elected to defeat them. Their ideas are bad; when you go along with them, you reveal your lack of conviction. We are watching; remember 2010??
7. When you have the power, USE IT!!! Stop worrying about the Dems' hurt feelings. They will use every trick in the book against us, and you know it. If they shoot down a Judge, RECESS APPOINT him/her! In fact, recess appoint 50-100 over a slow holiday weekend! SCREW THEM TO THE WALL!!!
TLP| 1.3.13 @ 2:23PM
Tell us, again, RCV, how things are gonna get better under President Trillion Dollar Deficits as far as the eye can see, Tax everything that moves, as well as everything that doesn't move, ObamaCare Taxes, and thousands of more Business Killing Regulations is gonna be Good for this Country.
I'll wait.
Riff Raff| 1.3.13 @ 2:54PM
It all depends on your definition of the word "better" and your personal perspective. One thing is absolutely certain, the next four years will not be dismal for Obama. Obama is getting rich off of the taxpayers and will continue to do so. Obama is living the high life with millions of idiots who swoon at his every word and upon beholding his countenance. That Obama is demonstrably a dolt is irrelevant. That he leaves economic chaos in his wake is unimportant. That terrorists are on the rise without serious opposition from Obama will matter little. Obama is loved, admired, and gaining great wealth as his reward for being the great Pinocchio of politics, a puppet for his handlers and a liar to all of us. But it is we "lucky" ones who get to pay for it all. It is we who suffer the loss of our rights and property. In the end, Pinocchio sacrificed himself for the benefit of others. You will never see that from Obama.
RCV| 1.3.13 @ 6:59PM
This will actually be a pretty good year, TLP. Not for you of course, having just gotten your assed whipped in the election, and having had to sit in the TAS bad-boy corner for a month. We did miss you, though.
spike59| 1.4.13 @ 5:41AM
you really didn't expect RCV to have an actual answer based on anything 'factual', did you? turds like that are happy to just regurgitate whatever bumper-sticker talking points that the are handed by Kos and PuffHo
RCV| 1.4.13 @ 11:08AM
I must have missed the Kos directive on talking points on Timmie's absence.
As for "facts", Spike, the nonsense you guys spout daily is devoid of any factual substance. Take RiffRaff's comment as an example: "That terrorists are on the rise without any serious opposition from Obama will matter little."
That's factual? The President whose administration got Bin Laden, by boldly going into Pakistan without bothering to seek permission from the Pakistani terrorist-laden government; whose aggressive drone strikes have decimated Al Qaeda's leadership and taken out terrorists wherever they hide?
Do you ever have anything substantive to say, Spike?
Tommy Frisco| 1.3.13 @ 11:42AM
"Elections, in times such as ours, are about the economy, stupid."
Just exactly which decade are you still living in Mr. Tyrrell? Did Obama win re-election because 53% of the voters thought he would be better for restoring our economy? No, they voted to keep their freebies coming in each month.
BTW, of these 30 Repub Governors you mentioned, how many are pushing Agenda 21 besides Chris Christie?
JD| 1.3.13 @ 2:16PM
53% absolutely did believe Obama will be better for the economy. They're very wrong, but that's still what they believed.
Riff Raff| 1.3.13 @ 2:57PM
Again, this depends on your perspective. If the government keeps sending me checks and EBT cards, and I don't have to get a job, then MY economy will be wonderful! While all the saps pay for it.
TLP| 1.3.13 @ 4:41PM
Contest, tomorrow Riff Raff (I saw Rocky Horror at least 50 times. "Meatloaf again?") at Mr. Bowman's House.
Tommy Frisco| 1.3.13 @ 3:14PM
JD, I believe that most Obama voters couldn't care less about the economy. They either work for the gov't or they get a check from the gov't. They voted for their pocketbooks. They voted for the guy who would most likely keep their gravy train rolling in.
RET is still trying to figure out how Clinton got elected in 1992.
PetePatriot| 1.3.13 @ 11:52AM
I share the frustration and anger being voiced here, but I refuse to be a whiny loser. It is halftime, and a lot of you want to take your ball and go home. It is like Harry Reid declaring that the war was lost before it was over.
We have to go out there and fight harder. It is way too early to hunker down in the bunker to wait for the end.
Would we have lost the last election if stubborn conservatives hadn't stayed home? You don't take over the Republican Party or the country by staying home.
We have lost a couple of major battles recently, but we have also had some important victories. Now is not the time to quit. It is time to suck it up and fight harder.
megapotamus | 1.3.13 @ 12:13PM
Keynes and Friedman would be in agreement if available for comment: tax hikes on anyone is detrimental in conditions such as we see outside our windows. You will NOT reap the presumed revenues and you WILL harm existing economic respiration. In any case, even the current levels of spending, much less the already inked increases... much LESS the increases sought by the Democrats can be serviced even with seizure of all income of everyone. Well, live and learn. Or fail to do so.
TLP| 1.3.13 @ 2:25PM
In 4 Years, I'm afraid it will be too late.
TeaPartyNow| 1.3.13 @ 12:57PM
What is killing America is her absolute marxist culture, which the right refuses to address. Marxism is reinforced everywhere in America. We are inundated with offers of state help everywhere we turn. Our medias fill our minds with trivialities of emotion & again reinforce our worship of state. Schools form marxist drones out of living children in America. Entertainment, even business, all support the state owned society marxist indoctrinated America.
We used to have freedom in America. Now we don't know what freedom is or how to build on it.
Freedom, i.e., liberty is the act of destroying tyranny. Today the American People refuse to use it.
& if you look at the right, everyone is all milling around expecting freedom to fall out of the sky. No, it is not the economy, it is the culture. America was destroyed through a marxist indoctrinating cultural that systematically replaced liberty with tyranny.
W.F. Buckley Jr style we need 1) to admit America is thoroughly marxist & 2) understand the the massive rebuilding is a gigantically huge, enormous task that can only be done by us. Yes, the morons milling around this place.
The American People.
Liberty is far more beautiful than any of us today can imagine. It is the power & money kept in individual citizens, & therefor kept well.
It is worth what it would take to make America free again.
PolishKnight| 1.3.13 @ 1:06PM
A statistic most don't notice is that young white males voted Republican by a narrow majority. The Democrat party is no longer really the party of the young but rather primarily race and gender entitlements (and a certain segment of women at that.)
However... Romney still lost which is due to not getting out his vote. He spent time with binders full of women while the core of the party, working white men, were taken for granted and Dems bought votes via race entitlements. Everything else is fluff.
Third Army| 1.3.13 @ 1:08PM
I can't take looking at her face. Why won't Fluke's boyfriend pay for her birth control? I just don't get it.
It is the economy for me, stupid. I haven't had a raise in three years, each year my health care costs go up, my husband is either unemployed or underemployed and with the gas and other costs rising each day, I can't get ahead. And now with the feckless Congress, I will be paying more taxes. And I am the middle class. ($75,000 a year in Silicon Valley.) My congressperson, Jackie Speier, won't answer any of my emails. I've had it. I have a friend on disability who lives much better than I do. She goes to Hawaii each year, has a free phone, gets free health care and gets subsidized heating in her home.
Who Knows?| 1.3.13 @ 2:22PM
It is about the economy.
And, the economy starts and ends with the REAL life of every person, summed up in all the “leading indicators” we love to put so much attention, and worry, on.
Check out these All American facts---
The average citizen consumes:
170 pounds of white sugar a year.
400 candy bars a year.
500 donuts a year.
300 Soda pop drinks a year.
Over a lifetime, they consume:
12 cows, weighing 3,000 pounds each.
6 pigs.
3,000 chickens
3,000 sea creatures.
30,000 quarts of milk.
2,000 gallons of alcohol.
30,000 aspirin type pills.
20,000 prescribed pills.
The average America has 2 to 4 bowel movements a week, which means they are about 170,000 short, compared to someone who eats a healthy diet.
Conclusion---people are, LITERALLY, full of it!
“It” is about the economy—and, most individuals are choosing to be IT. I left off the first 2 letters, s and h.
Goldwater Girl| 1.3.13 @ 2:37PM
Who knew?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.3.13 @ 3:23PM
I suspect Da Free John will have had some insight that will be offered in response.
Who Knows?| 1.3.13 @ 3:52PM
Okay---I’ll offer this:
“The Eating Gorilla Comes In Peace—The Transcendental Principle of Life Applied to Diet and the Regenerative Discipline of True Health”, by Bubba Free John, 1979, 565 pages of wisdom, IMHO.
If you’re interested.
The second part, “The Wholly Regenerative Vegetarian Diet”, 200 pages of details, might be worth your attention.
chuck| 1.3.13 @ 8:59PM
Who cares?
spike59| 1.4.13 @ 5:37AM
...and? is there a point somewhere to your 'unverified factoid cut&paste;?'
Goldwater Girl| 1.3.13 @ 2:39PM
ok, I confess to 12 cows, 6 pigs, 3000 chickens and sea creatures. No way do I consume 30,000 quarts of milk, 20,000 prescribed pills(or un-prescribed), and I think the alcohol estimate might be a little low.
Drunken Sailor| 1.3.13 @ 2:58PM
Ihear you on the booze Goldwater.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.3.13 @ 3:24PM
Ditto on the alcohol.
chuck| 1.3.13 @ 9:07PM
I know guys that 2000 gallons is about a 2 year supply.
And damn, those cows, pigs, chickens, and sea creatures sure are tasty when you wash them down with a good stiff drink!
TLP| 1.3.13 @ 4:43PM
Contest, tomorrow, at Mr. Bowman's House.
Once a Month.
Bob Grant| 1.3.13 @ 8:00PM
How many condoms and birth control pills could this particular chick possibly burn through in a month?
The expense has got to be nominal, unless of course she's trolling for drunk guys @ 12:30 in the morn.
Seems like much ado 'bout nothin'...
spike59| 1.4.13 @ 5:47AM
"The expense has got to be nominal, unless of course she's trolling for drunk guys @ 12:30 in the morn."
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there's not that much booze
air max en france | 1.4.13 @ 1:23AM
There are all sorts of things birth control devices can be used for. At any rate, she brought birth control to the fore in American presidential elections, at least four decades after they had become a fixture in America. In that respect she made history.
mmilesll| 1.5.13 @ 4:26PM
Emmett, as we are both IU grads, it is a pity that our university doesn't share our views-surprise surprise. You are right on target with this post, the conservatives need to get a lot more aggressive on the federal level. I think Rubio has and Cruz will. Still can't believe that anybody would buy into the Fluke crap.