Sword and Sextant

I have always been completely in favor of dissenting opinions in this country.  Verily, it is my mission to find these people and show them how futile and self-destructive some of their values are, despite the fact that it is very rare that any actually has the stones to entertain the possibility that they may not be politically perfect.

Anyhow, what I cannot stand is liars.  People who shamelessly cavort around as a particular political stripe while secretly, or even openly spouting careless anecdotes revealing what kind of twisted sheep writhes beneath the wool facade (I’m descriptive!).  

Today we are faced with three fools guilty of this intellectual crime:  Olympia Snowe, Arlen Specter, and Susan Collins.  They are all supposedly Republican Senators, and yet they have proven time and time again to be quite capricious when faced with tough issues.  The name for such people has historically been RINOs, for Republicans In Name Only.  This term will no longer suffice, however, because these three have distanced themselves even from the Maverick ™ himself.

There should be reprisals for this kind of betrayal, as no GOP senator should EVER look at this stimulus bill (quite the misnomer these days) and think of voting for it.  To do so is to remove your political soul, or never have it to start with.  Light on tax cuts, no way of paying for anything in it, huge non-combat deficit spending, and a huge move toward socialized medicine secreted away in the back pages.  Wait, they’re sneaking things into this bill?  How strangely bareknuckled for the most transformational politican of our times.

Collins, Specter, and Snowe should be expelled from the party at all costs.  Its no longer about votes or the balance of power, its about the political soul of a party.  You can’t have people categorically at odds with your platform and carry a healthy message.  Thankfully, these are the only three fools to stumble down this road, so most GOPers will have clean hands when our country becomes a worse place to live in over the next 5 years and beyond.  I’m still impressed on the balance with the remaining GOP senators, who have shown Obama he’s going to have to take responsibility for his actions for the first time in his political life.  Now more Ayers- or Wright-style passes for bad judgment in the Oval Office.  

On a semi-related note, I have read a bit of Saul Alinsky recently, and I was astounded and impressed to read of his derision for those who lack the spine for decisionmaking, instead choosing to have the government make decisions for them.  He also chides those who don’t believe that the individual should be able to rise to his potential, rather than the potential someone else ascribes to him.  Very conservative ideas coming from Mr. Alinsky, indeed, regardless of how you choose to identify them.  I’m eager to finish his tome, Rules for Radicals.

This of course runs diametrically opposed to the idea of nationalization of banks, auto-makers, socialized medicine, and executive wage caps (less of an argument here).  How far into insanity has the Pelosi/Reid/Obama Left sunk when this is the twisted child of equality and freedom?  This stimulus is nothing more than a FDR-style power shift that attempts to throw liberals the reins to the country for 50 more years.  Its not to help people, its not to create jobs (the % of actual job creating funds in the bill proves that).  Its a vote-buy and a socialist agenda at the core, and we’re helpless to defend the nation.

Passage of this bill sets the bar at a new watermark for government pork, although that term doesn’t mean anything anymore.  Last night, when Obama myopically stated that the stimulus had no pork in it, there was a collective gasp by most informed bystanders, including both sides of the issue.  I had a different shock to my system.

He’s right.  This one bill changes the meaning of pork to nothing.  Passing this bill as actual stimulus redefines frivolous spending as “stimulus”, making it acceptable and even necessary to a liberal like Obama.  Our country is probably forever damaged by this one bill.  Remember, the Guvamint NEVER gets smaller.  Even Reagan increased it, and that’s the best we’ve done so far.

In summary,  the three douches whose spines couldn’t handle the weight of gallant pride in true GOP values are less than honest, and deserve to be sent adrift on an ice floe for the damage they’ve just caused.  Also, our country is closer to famine, rationed healthcare, weakened national security, and atrocious loans against our future.  Historically speaking, every socialist country is wracked with these problems as the illuminati ruling class lives it up (remember, Dem congressmen don’t pay any taxes, as we’ve recently found out).  Thank god the future generations we’re robbing aren’t here to stop us.  Fannie Mae 2006 wouldn’t have given us the loan we’re about to take out…

…unless we were unemployed able-bodied inner city residents who promise to vote Democratic if handed a free sandwich.  Then we’d get double.