Boo-hoo.
What’s a Demorat to do today?
Cry is his gluten-free beer?
The true question on the table is this: now what will the Republicans actually do with their power? I only ask: actually use it.
BZ
Figure 154: RINO in its natural setting.
From PJMedia.com:
by David Steinberg
Sources tell PJ Media that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s long-time top consultant, Ray Allen, has “angrily” stated to multiple individuals that he intends to bankrupt the Republican Party of Virginia (RPV), to install his own people throughout all levels of RPV’s State Central Committee, and to rebuild the RPV with money from Eric Cantor’s donors.
Ray Allen is considered the “brain trust” of Eric Cantor’s Young Guns, which has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and has hired staff with the intention of retaking control of the RPV at all levels. (Eric Cantor and Ray Allen lost control of the RPV in 2012, when Tea Party/conservative candidates won seats at all levels of the party, taking majority control from Cantor allies.) In this effort to reclaim the majority, Ray Allen has helped orchestrate the parliamentary procedure of “slating” at several RPV conventions this season.
This is, of course, all about the terribly-embarrassing defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor by an unworthy economics professor named David Brat. Who may or may not have had “affiliations” to the TEA Party, whatever that is and whatever that means.
Wherein the defeat was thought to be by, perhaps, a few hundred votes. Oh no. The defeat was by ELEVEN MILLION votes.
That said, there are new plots afoot.
These bombshell allegations — implying that Eric Cantor’s reelection effort intends to dismantle the Republican Party of Virginia and to employ it as a vehicle for the expansion of Cantor’s power and influence — could not arrive at a more precarious moment for the Cantor campaign for two reasons:
1. Cantor just suffered a game-changing defeat at the Seventh District Republican Convention. On May 10, Linwood Cobb — a powerful Cantor advocate and ally — lost the chairmanship of the Seventh District to vocal Cantor critic Fred Gruber.
Additionally, Cantor’s speech at the convention received boos and heckling when he attempted to denigrate Dave Brat. Cantor, receiving this treatment in his own district, appeared visibly unnerved and needed to interrupt his speech to address the hecklers.
2. Cantor’s own recent comments put him in a difficult position for defending against these new allegations about Allen. Recall, Cantor just asked “kissing congressman” Vance McAllister (R-LA) to resign over his infidelity, which will perhaps be considered a much lesser offense by Cantor’s constituents than these allegations regarding the behavior of Cantor’s campaign.
And that’s all you need to know. The Old and Staid GOP giving, once again, the “finger” to Conservatives by way of arcane machinations and ancient runes.
BZ
First, please watch the video:
Now, some questions: is this the action of a true leader — not just of the GOP, but in general? And is it the action of a mature and competent politician in fortification of the party he claims to support?
Wait. I know those answers.
BZ
I wrote about Jeb Bush here, in re his ludicrous “act of love.”
So now: Jeb Bush is back at it again.
From Breitbart.com:
Speaking at what is known as the “Davos in the Desert” event in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Monday evening, Bush said the United States needed “robust guest worker programs” and an expansion of H1-B visas for the high-tech industry,” even though the notion that there is a shortage of American high-tech workers has been called a myth. He also called for a “tough but fair path to legalized status” for all of the country’s illegal immigrants and an end to immigration quotas for countries.
Bush said that it was not an “American value to have 12-13 million people living in the shadows” and spoke about the need to protect borders and sanction companies that may hire illegal immigrants.
He asserted that the “rags to riches rate” in the country is only four percent and that the American Dream is being replaced with “stickiness at both ends,” as those born either wealthy or poor are likely to remain so while the middle class feels the squeeze.
Jeb Bush is just another RINO whose goal is to acquire votes any way he can.
His goal, most recently, is to ingratiate himself into the Mexican community and, more pointedly, into the illegal community. He is out for votes and out to reduce the importance of federal rules — just perfectly in keeping with the Obama Administration.
And I am done with that as I am likewise done with Jeb Bush.
Just as we don’t need another Clinton fucking up our country, we don’t need another Bush fucking up our country. I have had more than enough.
There is in fact a definite limit to “tolerance.”
I am done with Republicans embracing the discard of our federal laws. If the laws are so onerous and so oppressive, then change the laws.
Until then, the laws that are in place are the rule of the land. Until they are not. And until they are kicked aside by politicians and lawmakers who purposely choose which laws they shall enforce and which laws they shall ignore.
Goose and gander.
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
If you, ladies and gentlemen of DC, can purposely select which laws to enforce and which laws to purposely ignore, then I submit: I should be able to do the same thing.
What if people chose to not send checks into DC via taxes?
What if the Electorate decided to act as DC does?
BZ
Just offered via an immediate press conference regarding SB 1062.
What about Colorado? What about cultural changes? What about Massachusetts? People of this nature are not content with equality. They demand an oversteering. An overswamping. Protected classes. Legal bills. Marriage re-defined. Norming the unusual towards the usual. Pulling the Overton Window.
BZ