Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer
Moving there, one step at a time.
So, what you’re saying is you’re giving up, Congressman. You’re not willing to stand up for what you believe.
We told you it would be like this. You still supported him in your cynical desire to “win”.
Every Dictator demands LOYALTY above all else.
Trump has made it abundantly clear via his Cabinet Picks that the ONLY THING he values in “subordinates” is Abject Loyalty. Nothing else matters.
Interesting conversation between Gail Collins and Bret Stephens about the internal split in the two parties. Stephens, the Republican, thinks if the GOP goes with the Trump gang, which is certainly more popular, then they are doomed. He says that years ago, when it was the Dems, Truman-Johnson versus Thurmond (can’t remember the other Southerner), the former won, that is, the people with more moral clarity. In today’s case, both factions suck, but the moderates that belong to the establishment - the GOP’s only hope, in other words - are losing.
But Dent was just fine with the litmus tests that came before - Norquist’s tax “oath”, unquestioning devotion to the NRA, and the rock solid opposition to women’s reproductive rights, among others.
Glad to see Dent finally found something he considers a bridge too far but it’s too little, too late. Good riddance.
You have to know which gater’s ass to kiss in the swamp.
What he’s trying to say is that he wants to spend more time with his family while plagiarizing Profiles in Courage.
Or, “Are you sufficiently indifferent to democratic norms? Sufficiently indifferent to the American experiment of self-government? Are you adapting to authoritarianism as the new governing model??” One and the same.
There must be a great movie title that sums up what is going to happen to the GOP in 2018:
2018: The Terminator
2018: Final Destination
2018: The Dead Zone
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Yep, this is what strikes me too. Dent is a vicious little grifter who is happy to inflict pain on the less-powerful, but this is too much for him. This is like promoting an interrogation method that’s too violent for John Yoo.
(And also a sign of how far right the national discourse has shifted. The story is that LBJ knew he’d lost the vietnam war when he lost Walter Cronkite – who was as centrist as a human could be. This is more like losing Curtis LeMay.)
Dent sees what a lot of others have been seeing. The GOP can’t govern. At all. The election of PP papered over a crisis, perhaps actually exposed it, long in the making. They would’ve been far better off just losing last year and opposing Clinton. I can’t remember who said it, but last year I remember a former Reaganite saying they thought whomever won would be a one termer. I think that’s probably true for a number of reasons. But I think Clinton being a one termer wouldn’t have been catastrophic for the Democrats in the way that PP is for Republicans.
Just fill in the blank. That’s the only thing Republicans know how to do.
Anything accomplished this year outside of Executive Order?
When was the name “The Do-Nothing Congress” originally penned?
He’s a Republican. By nature, he has the courage but lacks the convictions.
(Democrats, meanwhile, have the convictions but lack the courage.)
I don’t see much courage in the GOP these days.
Apparently the oath that they take is disposable?
The rats are going over the side.
Senator Strom Thurmond.(R-SC) from 1956-2003.
Elected to the Senate in 1956 as a Democrat. In 1964 he switched to the Republican Party (Due to the Civil Rights Act)
He ran as the Presidential Candidate of the “Dixecrat” party in 1948 and carried 4 states (Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina) with 2.4% of the national vote.
The States’ Rights Democratic Party (usually called the Dixiecrats) was a short-lived segregationist political party in the United States. It originated in 1948 as a breakaway faction of the Democratic Party determined to protect states’ rights to legislate racial segregation from what its members regarded as an oppressive federal government. Supporters assumed control of the state Democratic parties in part or in full in several Southern states. The Party opposed racial integration and wanted to retain Jim Crow laws and white supremacy in the face of possible federal intervention. Its members were referred to as “Dixiecrats”, a portmanteau of “Dixie”, referring to the Southern United States, and “Democrat”.
How could we Nazi this coming?