Sipsey Street Irregulars: Harry Reid Triumphant.

Monday, November 26, 2012

Harry Reid Triumphant.

GOP warns of shutdown over filibuster. Right. They don't have the collective spine to sustain it. McConnell will cave at the first negative New York Times editorial.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: It has nothing to do with a "lack of spine" among McConnell and the repubs. It is Treasonous complicity! The repubs and dems are fully onboard each other's agenda,toward a "New World Order,One World Government" marxist/islamist slave state. Every single time the dems needed a repub vote,be it Obamacare,Dodd/Frank,The Food Modernization and Safety Act among others,to move a piece of leftie agenda out of committee they've gotten it. That's not a coincidence. Any protests by McConnell,Boehner against a piece of dem legislation is pure theatre. They are all Lefties.; November 26, 2012 at 7:48 PM
Michael Gilson said...: He always rolls over on OUR rights, because he doesn't care about them, but this is a case of HIS power which he most definitely does care about. He might actually stick. Of course even if he does I expect him to do it very poorly.; November 26, 2012 at 11:18 PM
David Forward said...: There's not much difference between big government statists that claim to be "progressive" (as in progressing toward communism) and big government statist "conservatives" (as in conserve our power to rule). Both are collective ideologies who believe that us poor benighted mundanes can't take care of ourselves and must be corralled and guided in accordance with their respective philosopher kings.

The only thing they are really fighting over is which group gets to be holding the controlling reigns as we gallop into oblivion...

dol/lal; November 27, 2012 at 2:13 PM
William Flatt said...: Anon@5:48, Michael & Trinity are right on all counts, especially Anon@5:48!! What is needed is a clean sweep to get rid of the whole lot!; November 27, 2012 at 5:43 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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