Spineless Invertebrates

by **ohio county** Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:31 pm

Where did we find the cringing, consensus-building, spineless wonders who form the minority in the U.S. Senate?

On the one hand we have Finance Committee kittens Lindsay Graham and Orrin Hatch excusing Secretary Geithner's malfeasance. Calling Geithner "very competent" and "the right guy" they are making excuses for his failure to pay his taxes. If I ever have a tax problem I want these two clowns on my jury. http://townhall.com/Columnists/MichelleMalkin/2009/01/16/a_government_of_the_goofs,_by_the_goofs,_for_the_goofs?page=1

And how about hard-hitting, take-no-prisoners Johnny Isaakson, R-bubble bath, who grilled Hillary Clinton with: "A strong military is a great foundation for good diplomacy. And then if you add the development, which I think is "soft power" or "smart power," you have a great trilogy. Do you agree with that?" "Senator Isakson, I couldn't say it any better," she stammered.

I know. I know. We have to be bipartisan. Hell, as Governor of the N.Y. Fed, Geithner has already been running the federal bail-out. Bipartisanship is one thing. These people are mirror images of one another.

by SamCogar Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:45 pm

That grilling of Hillary almost made me sick.

They lauded praises upon her more than anything else.

by Cato Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:50 pm

ohio county wrote: These people are mirror images of one another.

Told you so!!!!

This is me laughing at all the idiots who are actually stupid enough to think there is a difference!!!!

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by **ohio county** Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:54 pm

She could have convinced them to take a ride with her to Fort Marcy Park for a picnic if she wanted.

by **ohio county** Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:56 pm

Yes, you did tell me so. You can have the satisfaction because you did.

by **Stephanie** Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:59 pm

Cato,

It wasn't always that way. Why can't you understand some of us in the GOP want to reclaim our party?

Third parties simply are not viable. Those in power want to remain in power and so they have stacked the deck. I just don't see a third party as being a solution. I honestly believed they are doomed to failure.

There is the possibility of revolution. I don't see the American people, as complacent and docile as we have become, actually revolting againts the oligarchy. I suppose it's possible, just not too darn likely and our government has so many weapons of such great variety at her disposal. In addition to the weapons of war, they control so many segments of our society and have infiltrated so many aspects of our lives.

I see a real possibility of reclaiming the GOP. Especially now, it is so weak and disorganized and there are so many vacancies in executive committees across not just WV, but the nation. In many areas people like you and me can just walk right in.

by ziggy Fri Jan 16, 2009 2:02 pm

Third parties simply are not viable.

They would be if people would vote for them.

by **Stephanie** Fri Jan 16, 2009 2:09 pm

Too few do. Voters don't cast ballots for third party candidates in numbers significant enough to rock the two party system.

by ziggy Fri Jan 16, 2009 2:15 pm

People seem to buy into the two-party system message to "vote for us to save yourselves from us".

It's kind of like the battering victim who returns to the batterer for solace and reassurance.

by SamCogar Fri Jan 16, 2009 2:16 pm

Glad you told him, ...... Ziggy didn't know that.

by **Stephanie** Fri Jan 16, 2009 2:40 pm

ziggy wrote:People seem to buy into the two-party system message to "vote for us to save yourselves from us".

It's kind of like the battering victim who returns to the batterer for solace and reassurance.

No, it's not the same thing. I voted for candidates other than Republicans. I'm not suggesting voting for more of the same kind of people running for office in the GOP. I'm saying those of us who are part of the "old right", those of us who joined the GOP for what it was, rather than what it has become, have a golden opportunity to walk in and reclaim our party. If successful, this would give voters a real option with a party that already has ballot access and a lengthy history of winning campaigns.

It may not be the choice you like, but it would offer a choice to voters like me.

by Aaron Fri Jan 16, 2009 2:54 pm

And it works for people like me Stephanie, the democrat turned independent because I couldn't see myself as a Republican for what my father might think.

But when it came right down to it, it wasn't that I changed so much as it was the democrats sprint to the left that changed. I'm still have pretty much the same beliefs I had 20 years ago.

As Ronald Reagan said, I'm not leaving the democrats, they left me.

Aaron add's, "Good riddance."

by Cato Fri Jan 16, 2009 3:24 pm

Stephanie wrote:Cato,

It wasn't always that way. Why can't you understand some of us in the GOP want to reclaim our party?

Third parties simply are not viable. Those in power want to remain in power and so they have stacked the deck. I just don't see a third party as being a solution. I honestly believed they are doomed to failure.

There is the possibility of revolution. I don't see the American people, as complacent and docile as we have become, actually revolting againts the oligarchy. I suppose it's possible, just not too darn likely and our government has so many weapons of such great variety at her disposal. In addition to the weapons of war, they control so many segments of our society and have infiltrated so many aspects of our lives.

I see a real possibility of reclaiming the GOP. Especially now, it is so weak and disorganized and there are so many vacancies in executive committees across not just WV, but the nation. In many areas people like you and me can just walk right in.

I'm not a party person. All any party is, is a large special interest group. As far as taking back the republican party goes, you can for get it. It hasn't existed for years. It has been absorbed into the democratic party, mostly by its own doing.

Truthfully, I'd love to become part of the Republican party executive committee in West Virginia. However, by their standards, I'm a radical, so my chances are very slim.

by **Stephanie** Fri Jan 16, 2009 3:29 pm

The chances are good you could be appointed to fill a vacancy in your county if one exists. What county are you in? I'll find out if there is one and get you the name and contact info of the Chair of that executive committee. The only vacancy I'm aware of on the state committee is in the 1st Senatorial District. Unfortunately, there are no vacancies here in Putnam County.

by **ohio county** Fri Jan 16, 2009 4:35 pm

(whispers):Hardy County

by **Stephanie** Fri Jan 16, 2009 6:29 pm

duh! lmao

by Cato Fri Jan 16, 2009 8:32 pm

Stephanie wrote:The chances are good you could be appointed to fill a vacancy in your county if one exists. What county are you in? I'll find out if there is one and get you the name and contact info of the Chair of that executive committee. The only vacancy I'm aware of on the state committee is in the 1st Senatorial District. Unfortunately, there are no vacancies here in Putnam County.

I'm in Hardy County. This county is democrat through and through. I was born and raised in Grant County which is suppose to be republican, in fact one of the most republican places in the US. In Hardy County, republicans just as well be democrats. They think alike, the spend alike, they have the same respect for liberty and personal responsibility, which is none. In Grant County, the best way to describe the county is to imagine a whole county full of McCains, Trent Lotts, and Dennis Hastarts.

by shermangeneral Fri Jan 16, 2009 8:40 pm

Well aren't they having a house cleaning now and kicking the moderates out in WV.

I am not sure who they want for chairman but they are trying to kick McKinney out.

by **Stephanie** Fri Jan 16, 2009 11:18 pm

Check your private messages, Cato. I sent you the contact info there.

I believe McKinney will serve out the remainder of his term. I think there will be a challenge from a guy named Mike Stuart but it will be unsuccessful. We'll know in about a month how well I prophetic I am when it comes to the WVGOP.

by Cato Mon Jan 19, 2009 11:34 am

Stephanie wrote:Check your private messages, Cato. I sent you the contact info there.

I believe McKinney will serve out the remainder of his term. I think there will be a challenge from a guy named Mike Stuart but it will be unsuccessful. We'll know in about a month how well I prophetic I am when it comes to the WVGOP.

As I said the GOP, including WV's GOP doesn't exist anymore. Theya re a branch of the democratic party.

An Aquinance of mine and I were discussing this yesterday. Do you know if McCain had been a true republican instead of the mickey Mouse democrat he really is and if he had run on republican principles, he'd be the president-elect. But instead he run a snibbling tax and spend democrat and he lost. I don't see anything any better within the republican party. All I see a huge bunch of loosers selling the same snake oil as the democrats, jsut under a different label.

It would have been refreshing to have heard a republician candidate stand up and say, the taxpayers aren't going to bail out wallstreet or the automakers. That is what chapter 11 is for. It would have been refreshing to have heard a republican candidate standup and say that the drug war and the war on terror were both destroying our liberty, thus they would end. That there are principles that go far far beyond safety. It would have been refreshing to have heard a republican candidate say that all nations are soveriegn and have the right and responsbility to determine their destiny without the interference of the US. Well anyways, I guess I can dream, because there isn't even the first republican on the horizon that has the gets to stand for republican principles. They are all just a gaggle of snibbling lefties. They make me sick.

by **Stephanie** Mon Jan 19, 2009 12:31 pm

The Republicans did have a candidate that said those things. They failed to nominate him. His name is Ron Paul.

by Cato Mon Jan 19, 2009 1:39 pm

Stephanie wrote:The Republicans did have a candidate that said those things. They failed to nominate him. His name is Ron Paul.

And I know that. However, he proves my point. Here he is saying what the entire republican party should be standing for and the power brokers in the republican party simply ignore him. In the media idiots like Sean Hannity lied about him. Neal Boortz consdiered him a "flake". As far as I'm concerned the republican party deserved to loose and they deserve to continue to loose until they come to their sences and start acting and sounding like republicans and doing republican things.

by **ohio county** Mon Jan 19, 2009 2:40 pm

Isn't this title redundant? Wouldn't an invertebrate necessarily be spineless?

If Geithner is the only man in Washington who understands TARP is he an idiot savant who plays Eine Kleine Nachtmusik on the clavinet as the Viennese School played it while channel-surfing for Judge Wapner?

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