Republicans: Clean your own house
The rotten American Conservative Union/David Keene pay-for-play scandal underscores a point I’ve made over and over and over again:
The GOP can’t attack the Democrat culture of corruption (my new book comes out July 27) until it cleans its own house first.
The John Ensign mess keeps getting worse.
Stubborn, selfish, prevaricating Mark Sanford keeps embarrassing himself and conservatism.
And there’s another sex scandal on C Street.
Grass-roots conservatives are livid and lashing out.
We’ve got major battles on the Hill and fundamental principles to defend.
Show the corrupted, Beltway-infected, power-drunk Republicans the door.
And get back to work.
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That C street house sounds like a good place to house GITMO prisoners.
Vote the incumbents out, impose term limits.
The only solution.
Another reason to center your thinking on conservatism and not on Republicanism. We need believers who walk the walk, not pandering opportunists who will say anything to get elected. That’s what the Democratic Party is for.
If the GOP doesn’t get its act together soon, they are heading for a surprisingly bad 2010 election year. Step one: dump the party leadership!!!! What does it take to get fired anyway?!?
term limits haven’t done much here in California.
Jesus Christ tells it better than I ever could.
Term limits and a flat tax!
Oh that’s right – it doesn’t matter what the majority of American’s want. It’s what Congress, Senate and least of all the prez wants that matters.
Its not about Repulicrats, or Democans…
Its the current Washington culture and structure that needs to change.
When we have GOVERNMENT agencys paying lobbyists?
When Congress folks come to Washington poor, and walk away millionaires.
When they do not even have to abide by the laws they force onto us…
When greed is the norm, and hypocracy is the rule of the day…
Calling for a momentary cleanup of the Repubs is not the answer…
Its more like you have a sewer line broken, spewing crap into your store… and you are calling for a “clean up on aisle 5″…
and make ‘em part timers with no retirement benefits and the same health care they insist we must have. 3 months is enough time in DC to do the nation’s business, and they have to be subject to every bit of legislation and programs they want to shove down our throats.
They can spend the rest of their year actually at home, rubbing elbows with and making themselves available to their constiutuants.
One can dream, anyway.
The Devil!
But look at the wonders of Honduras!
Looks like Edwin Edwards assessed things accurately:
– Edwin Edwards
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/edwin_edwards.html
I’ve never joined a Party since being a conservative. All parties have potential for corruption and an overwhelming desire for total power.
Yup. Not as long as the pols play musical chairs with offices, and the public keeps electing the same platform albeit with new faces.
I’ve always wanted a “none of the candidates” choice for a vote. A choice between 2 scummy candidates is really no choice at all. Both political parties are being run and controlled by people too stupid to get real jobs which is why we’re bankrupt – ethically, morally and economically!
vote against all judges for retention if you can , and vote against your sitting elected incumbent. change. but if you want to say, “oh my congressman is fine, it’s all those other boneheads that are the problem” then status quo is maintained and edwin edwards rules the day.
I love it. A sex house for “conservative family values Christian” politicians.
We had a “Christian family values” sheriff here in Orange County, CA. The man is now serving a substantial term in jail. There was so much outside of marriage sex going on in the sheriff’s backroom office and among his top staffers that it is a wonder any police work got done at all.
The “family values Christian” is far too often a cynical way these self centered guys fund raise and pull in voters.
My radical solutions:
1. Repeal the 17th Amendment (means Senators go back to being selected by their State legislatures)
2. Members of the House are selected by lot from the voting rolls, pick N names and check them in order until one is found that meets the criteria i.e., they’re alive and:
Both of these, of course, require amending the Constitution, but so does Term Limits.
Also consider limiting the time anyone can serve in the civilian, non-appointed positions in the Federal government (i.e., Term Limits for the bureaucracy). And I don’t mean by position, I mean a max limit for total service, period.
You like so many others have good solutions and want reasonable change but how do we get there! What do we have to do?
As bad as the Dems are, I also think there’s some truly alien thinking going on at the top of the Republican party these days. The stuff Michelle describes above are some clear symptoms.
I recently received a survey with Sessions as a signatory that was nothing more than a propaganda sheet, with no questions on it of a valuable sort like “On a scale of 1-5, with 1 being unimportant and 5 being very important, how do you rate the following issues?”. Instead, it was full of propaganda questions, the answers to which Session and the others responsible should already know, seeing as they’re sending these things out to Republicans. . .questions like “Would you prefer Pelosi or Boehner as speaker?” Puhleez.
The whole survey was obviously just an afterthought, something to stuff in the envelope along with yet another request for money.
Until they get this rash of scandals and misbehavior under control, no amount of money I might contribute would help them win in upcoming elections.
What’s lamest about the Stupid Party is that they can’t even do corruption properly. They are so penny ante and incompetent they think they’re Capone if they steal the take-a-penny-leave-a-penny pennies from the tray at the cash register of 7-Eleven and don’t notice a cop is behind them in line.
The Dems know how to do the grift properly. They have prostitution operations running out of their homes; they get sweetheart mortgage deals and “Irish cottages”; they funnel public funds to family members and cronies; heck, they even drown women and nothing touches them.
OTOH, the pitiful schmoes in the Stupid Party can’t even cheat on their spouses with any amount of competence. Ensign and Sanford are the Keystone Kops of philandering and manage to make what a Dem could play as chutzpah come off as weird and a little crazy.
The Stupid Party blew it in 2006, really blew it in ‘08, and even though the public is starting to wake up and get scared of the fascism the Dems are ramming down upon them at light speed, it is more likely than not the Stupids will bumble around, try and curry favor with Colin Powell and allow their foibles to be writ large by the Treason Media into another crushing defeat in 2010. Imagine what Dear Leader could do with 65 Senators and 300+ Reps.
I attest here, in front of God and everyone, that I will never give another cent to the Republican Party.
The Party died under BVSH I.
BVSH II headed the New Democrat Party, which lost to the Green party led by OBAMAEUS ABSVRDVS I, DVX OBSCVRITAS
There in lies the rub.
In order to repeal the crappy amendments to the Constitution that has allowed “Public Servants” to get rich, you’d need 3/4ths of the States to approve it.
There was a time when people in government only got a stipend to cover their expenses (travel, lodging, etc.) while doing the “people’s” work. Serving in Gov’t was a sacrifice, a burden on the person called. It was not an honor.
Rambler, yes, “None of the Above”.
There is no perfect voting system, indeed there can’t be (the criteria are conflicting, they can’t all be meet simultaneously), but I favor approval voting.
Ted Kennedy caused the death of, at least one person and still serves. How many other legislators have gotten away with murder, rape, and any number of other crimes.
There was time when Football Teams had more members with criminal records, now the Government has them beat!
I wonder whose leg…
Misscheryl:
Short of a civil war or revolution, we have to make these issues State level campaign issues (and Federal level too), only when we can point the “loaded gun” of a Constitutional Convention at Congress can we get any institutional change.
Oh yeah, I want to make impoundment an explicit executive power.
Lots of luck to you Hangfire on helping the conservative cause by supporting by default, the democrats. Yeah, that will teach those evil dead republicans who betrayed you with “BVSH 1″ and all.
I hope it works out for you. Because it will certainly work out for the democrats.
(And I SO got my hopes up that the disaffected Hillary supporters were going to sabotage the democrats last election. But alas – it was not to be.)
“Dis house has sho’ gone crazy!”
- Dudley Dickerson (A PLUMBING WE WILL GO, 1940)
BTW, all, The 40th anniversary of Chappaquiddick is this Sunday – the day before the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing…not that I think folks at this blog really needed reminding!
Where are all the GOOD people? It should now be a duty for all good people to get involved in government, because all of these weasles are corrupting our system. I am calling on all good, decent and principled people to get active and start holding these people accountable. Run for office to make things better, not for selfish reasons, and show these politicians how it’s done.
May be a paraphrase:
“I’d like a drink of water.”
“Turn on anything…you’ll get it!”
Not to forget:
“Hey, Moe!
No wonder the watta don’t woik!
The pipes are all fulla why-izz!”
Who can save CPAC 2010?
Hmmmm…….somebody who is available, and can bring down the house, didn’t go last year, everybody wants to see there…..Hmmmmm
I know who!
Maybe the residue from these guys is what is floating off Alaska?
I would think so, but it’s algae.
The lab says it’s just algae, no X-Files alien goo-creature.
I agree, it’s the only real hope.
Major problem, it ain’t gonna happen.
*It starts with the RNC leadership and why I call him Michael Steele Wool(steel wool:soft,squishy,pliable, brittle); He has to call out the rat bastard GOP members or he has no cred, and he has to have the guts to primary out the dead wood; Start with Chris Simcox over McCain in Arizona.
*Viva La Palin!
Global Warming induced, correct?
What would it take to demand that every single congresscritter publish their income tax filings, including later corrections & amendments? That alone would be a very telling experience. If you go in a pauper and come out a billionaire it’s ‘Lucy, yu got a lot of ’splainin’ to do.’
And in the mail today…a request from the RNC to ‘renew my membership’.
I’m sending their card back to them with a note that says “Not one thin dime. I will send money directly to the candidates of MY choice. The RNC can no longer be trusted.”
Let’s see how many solicitations that are returned like that will get their attention.
#40…already done…no clue why I keep getting them…I’m a registered “independent” and have been for years…told them until they get to a fiscally conservative platform and work for We The People not themselves or their handlers or special interests, I will remain as I am and vote for a candidate who will support what is best for the nation not the elites or big $$$…
The “good people” survived the Depression, fought in World War II, came home and raised a bunch of spoiled brats. The brats didn’t want to work, so they became teachers, union members and government beaurocrats. The brats forsook the God of their parents to worship the planet and so they could live any way they wanted and consume as much as they wanted without consequences. The brats procreated and taught their spoiled offspring that in America they had a “right” to everything they wanted without working for it. After all, it was the evil “rich people” and “corporations” fault and they deserved to pay.
The “good people” died in their nursing homes grieving for the country that they saved only to see their children destroy.
Good grief. We’ve been electing frat boys.
Are there any adults out there? Sarah?!
The solution to the corruption problems with the Democrats and Republicans has nothing to do with either. There’s only one way to stop this:
STOP VOTING FOR REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS.
Why do I feel like I’m bacging my head against the wall here?
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
In front of the cameras and on talk shows repubs, conservatives and their surrogates/pundits should play the same way the dems do.
On pay for play – play down the repub/conservative’s involvement and use that airtime to listing democrats who are being investigated for same.
Sex scandals – play down our side and bring up all the democrats that have dallied in the past.
And so on. The democrat pundits, pols and surrogates do that relentlessly – it’s like talking to a brick wall getting them to condemn one their own because they always shift the topic to the error made by a republican or conservative.
All the while, the leadership of the republican party/conservatives need to stealthily coerce the embarrassments to leave office.
I see nothing wrong with this strategy as long as behind the scenes our stooges are being shown the door – quickly.
Hey RWR, You only have two links to your blog. Have you considered making four links to your blog every time you make a comment? Cause that would be twice as much betterer.
Thomas
http://mynameisthomaspleasereadmyblog.com/
Lusting for power, money and sex is a sin. A sin not only against the church but our country as well.
Romeo says it clearly above as to what is wrong. The entire area “inside the beltway” is an open, festering cesspool. The scum we have elected to serve in President Washington’s city make ancient Babylon look like a holy city in comparison.
The Republican Party is as badly infected with corruption, debauchery, and lecherous behavior as the miserable democraps are.
Michelle is right, throw them all out, vote for decent people who wish to serve the people not themselves.
In my humble opinion, Gov. Sarah Palin seems to fit the bill. Our country needs her now more than ever.
A year ago, I would have agreed with you heartily.
I have been betrayed by the Republican Party for the last time. I fully expect the Democrats to oversteer with a hard-left rudder. But the Republicans can row in reverse to counter their helm. The party of Reagan is dead.
I am not conceding defeat; just looking for the next conservative party to rise from the ashes.
So, you’re saying that the party needs to completely fail and be swept away before we can build a better one in its place?
That actually sounds like a good idea. Perhaps there’s a lesson there for the folks that insisted we bail out financial institutions and car companies that were failing badly.
It is true in all circumstances: Nothing is too big to fail, and sometimes you have to burn out the undergrowth before the forest can survive. I agree with you that we need to rebuild the party — out of the ashes of the liberal thing it has become.
One problem is that Thomas isn’t entirely wrong. While we’re contemplating what to do with the cretins on our side, the other side is marching quite strongly. Maybe they will oversteer, but in the meantime we could be in for a most bumpy ride. More so than maybe we think right now. Just something to keep in mind.
Ah yes! The nose-holders have arrived!
Why don’t you guys just file a lifetime vote for the GOP already and stop talking to us! You guys are the disease. We are the cure.
Go Sarah!!! Kick butt!!!
Why do “conservatives” feel beholden to the Republican party? Don’t “conservatives” realize that they are marginalizing themselves by going “Republican or bust”? “Conservatives” talk a big game, but when it comes to voting, all principles and ideals are sacrificed on the alter of expediency and so-called pragmatism.
I’ll put exactly as many as I see fit.
Thank you.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
The Dems always get caught up in money scandals from not paying taxes to taking bribes.
The Rhinos get caught up in sex and cheating.
Which one is worse?
I got the message in plenty of time to avoid voting for the Republicans’ imbecile of a candidate in 2008.
There are several conservative parties already out there. What I believe should happen is somehow bringing them together under one flag. Their platform would hopefully look something like this.
Definitely something to get ourselves organized towards.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
We’ve got a bumpy ride no matter what we do. The Republican Party is, for all intents and purposes, simply an extension of the Democrat Party.
Let them make their union official and let the rest of us stand up for the America our Founders intended.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
The answer is to talk and act like conservatives. Ignore both parties. Let the RINOs do the RNC’s work of attacking the Dems.
Sarah will be campaigning for conservatives of all stripes. The worst nightmare for the Dem Party and Assistant Dem Party. That is why they both devote so much energy to destroying her.
If conservatives would just ignore the parties, it would become clear that one of the parties has to knuckle to our demands since we represent the biggest voting bloc of all.
Go Sarah!!!
The Donks get caught up in sex and cheating as well. These things are mere smoke in mirrors to distract you from the real issue at hand, which is the shredding of the Constitution by both parties, and the complete and total apathy of the American people with regard to it and their constitutional responsibilites.
If the federal government weren’t so bloated and powerful beyond its legal limitations, and the people exerted their proper control over the government, NONE of these things would be issues.
After all, who would you rather have in Washington: a philanderer who religiously followed his constitutional limits, or Barack Obama?
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Sarah is probably going nowhere, and America is probably better for it.
I have a huge problem with someone who sells out to the likes of John McCain.
Sarah would be better than the current occupant of the White House, but no better than any other Republican.
That’s just not going to fill the need as it currently stands, or the need as it will probably stand on election day, 2012.
With the Republicans being as far to the left as they are, better than the Democrat just isn’t going to be good enough. Case in point: John McCain.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Seems like a really dumb day to get into a hissy fit over a few bad apple republicans.
Is it just possible politico is up to the old trick of trying to confuse republican support in order to slip in a terribly flawed government power grab of the health care system?
I know I just do not trust that site at all.
Based on (countless…sigh) examples like this and, most recently, the “performance” regarding Sotomayor,
I am giving up on the GOP.
F*CK ‘EM.
No backbone? No bucks, no votes.
“Sorry”, but silly little things like supporting the U.S. Constitution still matter to me.
A conservative, “liberty-oriented” party has my support from here out.
Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics:
*29 have been accused of spousal abuse
*7 have been arrested for fraud
*19 have been accused of writing bad checks
*117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
*3 have done time for assault
*71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
*14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
*8 have been arrested for shoplifting
*21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
*84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year Can you guess which organization this is?
GIVE UP YET?????
IT IS THE 535 MEMBERS OF THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS. The same group of Idiots that crank out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line. You gotta pass this one on!
Impressive eh?
Walter Kronkite died.
Sorry to hear he died, I hold no animosity to Uncle Walt even though he lied to me for many years.
rightisright,
If you are going to directly plagerize chain emails, you should at least give some proper attribution.
Also, you should probably check snopes. That email, even if every word was true, originated 10 years ago.
I won’t bother to ask you what lies exactly he told you, but you must admit he delivered two of the most iconic moments in TV news history.
Don’t forget the GOP establishment in Alaska had as much to do with running Sarah Palin out of office as the left-wing Obamabots.
The Dummycrats are wrecking the country and the GOP is failing us. The only opposition is coming from grassroots conservatives and libertarians.
Palin’s Alaska record isn’t all that great. Spending went up and government got bigger.
I’d like to think we can change, but I’ll believe it when I see it. We talk the talk now, but when election times rolls around, we’ll settle for voting for the GOP because we resort to thinking like gang members whose sole mission is to destroy the other side.
Yeah, and we forget that by voting GOP we ARE voting for the other side.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Yeah, and in case you hadn’t noticed, so did Michael Jackson.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
I’m sorry. Did I distract from you pimping your blog here?
This is just another of the unending examples why I am NOT a Republican any longer. We need a truly conservative party. http://www.constitutionparty.org
The GOP = sham = shame = socialist lite.
Wake up and face the truth.
Impose term limits. These people cannot be allowed to become entrenched in their own little fiefdoms.
… busted by chappy, lol… thanks for being the example of what MM’s thread here is all about… the absence of personal integrity and morals.
“Clean your own house”
chappie at no time in the post did i say it was dated, did i counselor, nor did i attribute any of the charges to any person or party. It was not a snopes posting or an email, if it was from snopes you can rest assured I would not have used it, their left wingers a like you.
Why don’t you lighten up once in awhile and take that lawyer hat off, your arrogant odor comes through the print. I have not read where you are the web site marshal…but you do act like liberal lawyer.
Frankly, I’d be surprised if Congress were as clean and upstanding as that chain email states.
Ted Kennedy almost certainly snuffed out his girlfriend almost 40 years ago to the date. Bob Byrd was a recruiter for the KKK in West Virginia. Jim Webb wrote pornographic novels featuring homosexual pedophile scenes before he ran for the Senate. And that is just off the top of my head.
How many kited checks and have caught with women in the reflecting pool or with money in their pockets and freezers?
THEY ALL NEED TO GO. If we are lucky we have a few election cycles to reclaim our nation from these crooks.
you two car pool it to here tonite? are you saying that list of charges is/was not true or just spouting your mouth off? Just another troll doing a trolls job I take it.
So we were just supposed to divine that your post applied to some amorphous Congress that may or may not have existed?
We were supposed to assume that your lack of citation, or heck, even a freaking blockquote, was not supposed to mean anything as to its original attribution?
Since you feel the need to pull attorneys into this I can assure you if I pulled that crap in law school (and I indeed went to a liberal one) I would have at the very least failed the class.
At the very least, did you make any effort to independently verify the claims you made? Or are you in the habit of just believing whatever spoon fed drivel happens to fit your opinion?
why don’t you just admit what you try to pass off as original thought and/or analysis is a cut and paste job?
Chappy is bucking for “Internet Czar” in the Obama administration. Surprisingly the position is yet unfilled at this date.
You ought to ignore Chappy because he is an arrogant putz but there many, many other reasons to ignore him if you look at his posts closely…
It is official.
WarEagle supports plagiarism.
Why do you love plagiarists, WarEagle?
It is official. Chappy is an arrogant, ignorant putz! Who died and appointed you God?
Have you stopped beating your sheep yet? PETA wants to know.
Chappy,
Why do you support Massachusetts Senators who leave their girlfriends to drown in a car they drove off a bridge?
Chappy,
Why do you support Marxist, racist policies and the lying prigs who seek to implement them?
Chappy,
Do you realize you make Joe Biden seem intellectual?
Chappy,
Do you realize you give ambulance chasers a bad name?
Because girlfriends infringe on my swingin’ bachelor lifestyle.
Mostly to spite you.
Oh, I see. Then you would be offended if he had offed a tranny prostitute. Or was it Kennedy himself you were stalking?
Then my work here is done. I expect you will vote for him in 2012.
This would imply they had a good name to begin with.
Well, good luck with that. Glad to know you are willing to wreck the world economy because of your irrational hatred for conservatives, or at least me.
But considering the multitude of psychoses that afflict you this is an understandable course of action on your part.