Firstly, this is gonna be quite amusing for right wing watchers like myself.
Secondly, this could fracture the GOP, and will certainly increase Freeper third-party carping.
Thirdly, grappling with its base will almost certainly make the GOP look somehow both ineffectual and crazy to the non-Freepers.
So I've gathered 3 posts for today that should take some of the sting out of the election for us lefties, and may sober the exuberance of you righties.
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin has the OP:
Please listen to us. Repeal the Healthcare Act as quickly as possible. Then, go full force to impeach Obama to send a message to never try the Healthcare Act or Amnesty again.MeneMeneTekelUpharsin also wants to deport all Democrats:
No, it is the principle of doing what is right by repealing the Healthcare Act which is an attempt to control the people and then impeach Obama who did the bidding of his supporters and pushed it. Then, go after the supporters and, if possible, force them to leave the country. That would be my agenda. ANYONE who supports the Godless philosophy of the Democrat Party would be forcibly deported. I am not a real believer in democratic government anymore.combat_boots is gonna call his Congressman and rant for like an hour.
Now is the time to call the Leaders’ offices and those of the winners to demand no to 0bamacare—fixing health care for real. No to Illegal aliens. No to the Iranian bomb. Destroy ISIS. Audit the Fed.RC one wants...um...
as much as I want payback, I would rather see our new powers used to ensure that the constitution is made utterly inviolable once again.Ohhh, RC one wants to shoot Obama in a theater,
sic semper tyranis.Ray76 is unclear about impeachment procedures, but wants it anyhow:
I think the argument against symbolic impeachment is a good one.uncitizen is pretty sure every single person in America voted against President Obama last night:
If the new House passed articles of impeachment, Obama’s inevitable victory in the Senate would make him stronger.
Symbolic? What are you talking about?
>> Obama’s inevitable victory in the Senate
Did you miss the election results?
The time to turn things around is now. Everybody seems to want it if yesterday is any indication. We have more people on our side than ever. To not impeach is.....well...chickens#~+.BCW rather typifies the undirected threatening exuberance the GOP Congress is gonna have to deal with:
okay REPUBLICANS - you now have the ball in Congress! Do the RIGHT thing and get the US govt back on track and UNDO everything that fraudulent socialist in office has done over the course of 6 yrs!!! I'm watch - Freeper's are watching --- Elections do have consequences don't they Barry!!!
Sorry Oz, but the veto is something that can actually evaporate and you know that. I think you'll find that the socialist takeover attempt has failed rater miserably and depending on how deep the level of hatred and disgust for the left goes, there may be a level of backlash you've not prepared for.
ReplyDeleteInteresting times ;).
1. The veto might evaporate for some incremental proposals, but not for anything like what Freepers want.
DeleteThough I suppose some weakening of the ACA might be on the table. Keystone Pipeline is for sure, but that's pretty incremental.
2. Wow. This was the worst socialist takeover attempt ever. It almost seemed like moderation!
3. I'm seeing very few signs people are becoming more politically active (or violently politically active) in any appreciable numbers, on either side of the political spectrum.
Though I'll admit I have a pretty big status-quo bias, I've not been proven wrong in my political lifetime.
4. Main point: our Republic is set up to make any quick change quite difficult. This is why I'm not really concerned about what the GOP can do (though this assumes that endless investigations turn up nothing notable).
So now they're cheering the gain of 7 more RINOs in the senate? Boy, their purity tests sure are shabby.
DeleteLol. Right anonB? I wonder how long it'll take them to realize that they didn't get conservatives in power, just moderate Republicans who had to tread closely along the center line.
DeleteI love it when people throw around the word "socialist" when they obviously have no idea what it actually means.
DeleteYou do, Euph? Maybe I should use Communist instead, since it's much more fitting.
DeleteWhy don't you tell us what a socialist is, Euph :).
Better yet, tell us what a socialist is, in your opinion. Just a warning, I live in the UK, which, by American Right Wing standards is a communist utopia (it's not), so your ideas of socialist thought won't be anywhere near what socialism truly is.
DeleteSure, Hah, you can use communist. But that just proves you have no idea what communist means, either.
DeleteHahyrningur, Your blog has be one of the most aggressively insane things I have ever read. It's light years ahead of many Freeper commentaries in terms of sheer madness.
DeleteMuslims using Ebola against the west? Obama hiding dead Ebola victims in his golf course? Murderous alphabet soup?
Do a profile on this guy Ozy!
Hahyrningur isn't going to answer any thug, it appears, just throw shit and run away.
DeleteSo many furtive anons hiding under rocks, so little time :). Which one of you centipedes are from spain? Or should I say Andalucia? Lol.
DeleteHe may enjoy the conspiracy theories overmuch, but our buddy Hahyrningur does seems pretty happy in his partisanship, which puts him a head of most Freepers!
DeleteI am the one writing from Andalusia.....
Deletehow did you know?
I looked a bit more at your blog. You say your daughter and sister turned the Norwegian social services against you because of antisemitism against your Jewish fiancee?
lol wut???
I've always wrote here as anonymous, but I'll use my name now
Lol, Oz. Not so much partisanship as a pox on both your houses. You think you're very different from Stormfront, or AlShabaab? Not really.
DeleteRodri: we have our means and ways, you know. As for Norway, it's a long and boring dysfunctional and antisemite family story.But not really surprising, statistics taken into account - most bad blood occur in the family circle, not in the larger society.
You think you're very different from Stormfront, or AlShabaab? Not really.
DeleteReally? Let's hear the ways you think we're just like Stormfront or al-Shabaab. I'd be interested in hearing your explanation. Assuming, of course, you don't take the stance of "If you don't believe me, I'm not going to explain it," right off the bat. :)
Let me count the ways :)... meaning, of course, that bottom line, you're just like everyone else. Stormfront is people who are *mostly* as usual, except for a hangup. So are the Freepers, so are most muslims (but not the muslims I denote as muslims - I'll explain that), and so are you. For Stormfront and that crowd, the hangup is Jews. For the left, the hangup is class. Heck, i even have a Freeper that would be your exact opposite, Euph: Quix.
DeleteAs for muslims, when I speak of them I use the definition as the wahabs would, which is a definition that definitely has broader support than you'd think. A wahab will not accept anything but the straight and narrow radical as a real muslim, and in their eyes a moderate is not a muslim at all. So be it. The moderates are killed just as dead as other infidels when push comes to shove.
Mesta (my fiance) would not be alive today if not for a moderate muslim doctor.
OK...so I must have missed the part where you explain how we're just like Stormfronters. We both have our hangups? Who doesn't? So essentially you're saying that the way we're like Stormfronters is that we both breathe oxygen.
DeleteAnd yes, Quix seems highly religious whereas I am not religious at all.
Still waiting for that explanation. :)
lol. Just as irrational as Quix, and just as dense. You could be the same person, Euph :).
DeleteAh, so now we get to "If you don't believe me, I'm not going to explain it." I'm actually surprised you waited this long.
DeleteAnd you seem to be projecting your own irrationality and denseness onto me. :)
You want more explanations, Euph? Lol. Quix is surrounded by hosts of angels, in a completely separate reality from everyone else's. You are surrounded by hosts of rainbow ponies, in a completely separate reality from everyone else.
DeleteSorry, Euph. Can't teach you to think.
So you've completely abandoned any attempt to explain why we're like Stormfronters and have instead tried to compare Quix's belief in angels (which I'm sure he/she believes are very real) to my enjoyment of a television show with fictional cartoon ponies. Well, I can't say I'm surprised that your desperation has driven you to that. But I do find it ironic that you think you have a better capacity to think than I do. :)
DeleteThere's a difference between hate and dislike, Rodri. We all both hate, dislike and like some things. Just the human condition. Feel free to include me.
DeleteAs for neonazis and racism and to some degree liberals, they have an overlapping area of dislike: Israel and Jews. There has been well-known examples of neonazi terror groups merging with muslim groups, for example Aryan Nations having a long relationship with descendants of Haijj Amin, and Tore Tvedt - a Norwegian nazi being chummy with Hamas. And of course, there's a huge area of cooperation between islam and communist-based terror groups such as many of the irish folks.
One interesting feature, which you'll be able to find out for yourself, is that the Stormfronters almost to a man dislike (or even hate) blacks. But they're blaming the Jews for the blacks being bad. Same with hispanics and almost any other stranger; they're bad because the jews arranged it so :). Just jump into Stormfront.org and start reading, you won't have to scroll far down and if that's not enough there's an area for "outsider challenges" where they argue their positions.
Yep, "grappling with its base" is going to be the ongoing problem for the Republican Party. They cannot win elections without votes from the far right but they cannot govern long if they listen too much to that wing of the Party. Nationally, those right wing ideas are political poison.
ReplyDeleteThe Republicans have been leading the religious right around by the nose for almost 30 years. I have been watching this a long time and wondering when the religious right will wise up. The Republicans want to be taken to the dance but at the end of the evening the Republicans will not put out. It would ruin their reputation.
If the Republicans in Congress passed bills that would placate Free Republic they would lose the votes of the rest of their Republican constituents. They really are in a bad spot but they got themselves into this mess all on their own. God knows how they are going to get out of it.
I think the worst we'll have to endure is the gloating.
ReplyDelete"If the new House passed articles of impeachment, Obama’s inevitable victory in the Senate would make him stronger."
ReplyDeleteI'm sure this is one of those guys who always yells "read the Constitution!!!" And he has no idea what the thing even says!
"Everybody seems to want it if yesterday is any indication."
ReplyDeleteOr at least an average of 28% of the voting public.