When the GOP won Congress in 2010, they were given a short leash. Now nearly a year after they took office, the results have been disappointed. They laid down and let Obama engage in an illegal war to install Islamists in Libya. They backed down during the debt ceiling debate. John Boehner has been nothing more than a political Eunuch to Obama.The GOP Establishment is pushing the most Progressive Republican since the 1800′s down Conservative voters throats. In short, the GOP has proven to be a bunch of frauds yet again. This cartoon illustrates how many Conservatives feel about the Republican Party.
Keep it up GOP, you will go the way of the Whigs. We don’t need an appendage to the Democratic Party. We want a clear Alternative, not Progressive Republicanism.
Whoever said Elephants were smart?
(Hat Tip: Bumr50)
Tags: Rockefeller Republicans
But everyone knows why eagles soar
eaglesoars wrote:
Because it takes too long to walk…
eaglesoars wrote:
Hmmm…remember this guy?
We need a shock collar and an invisible fence.
BAD GOP!!!!
Thus far, NV is the only state where he pulled the majority of the primary pubbies.
Every place else, the ABR numbers were higher than his.
Evening, all.
Bumr50 wrote:
cattle prods and bang sticks
@ Brick:
I love how the GOP Political Ruling Class told us it was “over” after Nevada. Uh, not quite. Of course, the MSM is saying how this is a “big victory for Obama” with Santorum sweeping last night. I call bullshit. That whole OWS movement is designed for them to run against Romney as a Wall Street insider. Instead, frankly, Santorum can point and say “hey, I wasn’t the one attending four $37,000 a plate dinners in New York in one night, Mr. President.”
@ Carolina Girl:
You still call Обама a Президент?
@ Macker:
My ears!
Carolina Girl wrote:
Exactly. Running Mittens as the GOP candidate is a distinction without a difference vs. Obama.
It’s becoming apparent to even the most thickly skulled Republicans that their beloved party is really just a different side of the same coin.
Santorum for better or worse, is the last candidate that offers the clearest sane departure away from the mostly interchangeable professional ruling class.
I don’t like him but I’d feel better voting for him against Obama, than skipping the November presidential line altogether, if Mittens gets the nod.
@ Brick:
I don’t see how santorum can win. He took a 20 point loss in his last election on his home turf. What is different about him now? Or the electorate? Maybe anybody but Obama? But gingrich would be a stronger choice then. Santorum is going to be portrayed as anti woman.
The GoP isnt revving up the scandal a day obama slot as far as I can tell. Until they do that and cut the media to the chase Obama has a good change of winning the next election on a sympathy vote.
Spell check here say SAntorum is Santana and Gingrich is Heinrich or gingerly. Gingerly wasn’t she the porn star who made waffles for Weiner?
Urban Infidel wrote:
Ashcroft may not be a talented singer but at least he wasn’t involved in a scheme to smuggle rms to Mexican drug lords in an attempt to undermine the 2nd Amendment…
darkwords wrote:
He’s definitely not a perfect pick – in fact I’d characterize him as a mediocre pick at best. Everyone who’s left is an insider regardless of how they, their detractors, or the professional media may portray them now, or anytime right up to the swearing-in.
On a related note…the professional media did a helluva job this election cycle taking out any real threats to the status quo. Notice also – not a peep from Nader this cycle yet either. What gives?
@ darkwords:
Rosanne Barr will be Obama’s spoiler
How Mitt could be beaten
http://spectator.org/blog/2012/02/08/how-mitt-could-be-beat
Roland Martin lost his CNN gig
@ waldensianspirit:
Everytime I hear that name I think of the fishing guy.
@ waldensianspirit:
…And there was much Rejoicing….
@ darkwords:
The Primary reason that Santorum took a 19 point loss was his attention on one Foreign Policy point on which everyone called him a kook and the Establishment Republicans hit him almost as hard as the DemProgs.
That point, Iran getting Nuclear Weapons.
How crazy was he now?
darkwords wrote:
Mitt didn’t even run for reelection because he knew he didn’t have a chance.
Macker wrote:
Macker wrote:
OW! I’d never heard that song before. I took my nic from a password restore from a German blog that knew I’m an american and meant it as an insult. “I wanted to give you a password you’d never forget” (you arrogant Ami).
I understand Ashcroft has been very ill, but I’ve never understood exactly what’s wrong.
Lynn Cheney is coming on Hannity to talk about the Egyptian hostage situation. Apparently there are some new developments.
OFF TOPIC: Watch what happens when this Russian motorist was listening to John Lennon:
AZOlddog wrote:
I think the yinzers here might beg to differ with you. But they can speak for themselves.
OK, a quick update: I just got home from the hospital, Mom has an irregular heartbeat after the surgery, so they kept her overnight for observation.
Her irregular heartbeat was pretty much what started this whole thing off, then they found the cancer. The surgery went perfect and the lymph biopsy was negative, so everything is good on that front. If everything goes well I should be able to bring her home tomorrow morning.
Then another doctor’s appointment and as I understand it 5 weeks of radiation treatment to make sure they got all of the cancer with the surgery.
I would like to express my most sincere thanks and appreciation to everyone who prayed for my Mom today, thank you from the bottom of my heart.
@ Macker:
That looks like a s**tload of transformers just went off.
@ AZOlddog:
welllll…..his 18 point loss in pa was a multi-variate ass beating.
first, bush was not real popular here in 2006. santorum was elected in the 94 takeover and was voted out in the 2006 ass beating of the republicans. the dems ran a brilliant candidate against him, the son of a beloved governor. bob casey junior negated the pro-life pedigree of santorum AND he unabashed backed bush (who was in the mid 30′s at that point, and then endorsed arlen specter whose days were numbered in the gop her in pa. the fact that santorum decided not to bother to live in pa anymore also sunk him.
so he was unpopular because he went all DC on us, backed a wildly unpopular bush without a problem, then backed arlen THEN the dems ran the son of a popular governor…santrum won the T bust lost the phillie and pgh suburbs, oddly, the pgh suburbs were the very place where he grew up and USED to live. he lost those because of his pushing intelligent design and involvement in the terry schiavo thing, neither issues were important to his suburban voters. he was not listening to his fiscon suburban people and treated everyone like shit, frankly. i hope he learned to be nicer and more receptive to his constituents because he was a real asshole.
in the gop primary, the gop governor got 22k more votes than santorum, we walked away from him and didnt vote for him in the primary even though he was running unopposed.
Brick wrote:
The other question is why he peeped in 2000.
@ doriangrey:
Hang in there dorian.
@ doriangrey:
good stuff, her irregular heartbeat is an easy fix. being cancer free is the goal here and it looks like she is well on the way to that.
now go have a beer and take a nap.
@ coldwarrior:
Quite concur.
Macker wrote:
VI Lenin
@ doriangrey:
Hey sweetie. kiss mom for all of us and give yourself a big hug.
A word of advice: TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF. In some ways this is harder on the caregiver than the person being cared for. Don’t be shy about asking for help.
unclassifiable wrote:
thank you doctor!
coldwarrior wrote:
+1
This cycle is Santorum’s last shot at political redemption. Not everyone gets a second chance in this arena, Mr. Santorum – don’t mess it up. Still wouldn’t want to sit and have a drink with the guy, though.
Brick wrote:
i hope he laerned a thing or two.
i will give him this tho, he gets islam. he understands it and identifies it as a huge threat. he knows his shit on ME politics and his work with the able danger stuff is indispensable.
@ doriangrey:
Here’s another prayer, since I wasn’t on the thread when the news was given. -prays hard-
@ Brick:
I’ve just resigned myself to the fact that all politicians are assholes and that seems to reconcile all of those conflicting feelings.
coldwarrior wrote:
Yeah and what the hell happened to THAT? The PA congressman (whose name I forget) who was pushing it was defeated.
santorum by county in 2006
toomey by county 2010
eaglesoars wrote:
billie jeff clinton and the machine went after them hard.
@ doriangrey:
That’s great Dorian!
Nachos to go with your beer tonight?
@ doriangrey:
Take care of your Momma.
We got this big eagle that hangs around the valley and he looks like he can take care of himself.
I have been feeding him on this big poster of President Obama……
I keed.
doriangrey wrote:
Glad to hear she’s recovering, Dorian and coming home. I think it’s also great news to hear a plan of attack has been formulated and ready to be implemented.
@ Brick:
OK, learned a bunch about in-state Politics up there. How do you guys stand with or against him on a National level?
Just asking not arguing. Really want to know.
@ Prebanned:
The only time I’ve ever seen a real honest-to-god bald eagle was in the Everglades. Outward Bound expedition. The ropes course. I was struggling to navigate the dual ropes and everyone on the ground started yelling “LOOK! LOOK UP! EAGLE!”
I looked up and there it was.
Then I fell off.
@ AZOlddog:
i’ll vote for him over
rom-bamaromney and obamacoldwarrior wrote:
It was my understanding that Weldon did all the heavy lifting on Able Danger – and his efforts were rewarded by the administration with a raid and innuendos of impropriety about his family and threats of jamming them up.
As for Rick on the ME – I agree. He really does get it.
@ AZOlddog:
I would prefer Newt over Santorum, but against Romney – no contest I take Santorum.
He’s not as FisCon as I would like, and has a tendency towards more intervention than necessary IMHO. Also he’s very preachy.
But his pluses far outweigh his negatives, in that I know I’m going to get a candidate that’s strong on defense, acknowledges the gravity of our fiscal situation, understands Islam, and has a “my way or the highway” temperament that I respect even though I sometimes disagree with it.
Keep in mind that I personally believe that not having Romney as a nominee is just the tiniest bit less important than getting rid of the Marxist. Not much at all.
@ eaglesoars:
Awwww
‘bradying’
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/the_brady_hunch_ztvoAGfI7PM1tjThaD790L
So Rick qualifies as ABR-ABO but, that is his acceptance level for National?
AZOlddog wrote:
I was born and raised around Pittsburgh but haven’t lived there for years, so my yinzer status is honorary.
But hubby is a lobbyist with many clients in Penna. He knows the Hill, having been a House staffer and committee staffer in a previous life. He has had to take clients to meet with Santorum and has dealt with other offices who had to deal with Santorum.
Everybody hated him. He treated his own constituents like shit. He was self-righteous and arrogant. Did he get leadership positions? Yes he did. That’s not a popularity contest, that’s a party politics contest. Why do you think he supported Spector? Party politics.
The concern is not that he’s not conservative – he is – the concern is that he would focus on social issues instead of the economy and govern with bile.
Why then, do people like Sean Hannity say he’s a great guy?
Because Sean is naive and hasn’t done his homework.
@ doriangrey:
Awesome news! Wish I’d been here to add my prayers for your mom earlier, but I’ll add ‘em in now for the heartbeat situation.
—————–
Update: Met with my surgeon today, I’ve been released to drive & to work part time for a couple weeks. Also met with the cardiologist yesterday, my ‘bad’ cholesterol is down 17 points to 72, my ‘good’ cholesterol is up 7 points to 31, total chol. is at 131, down 10. Managed to drop about 15 pounds since the first of the year. I’ve still got a long ways to go on the weight, and need to get that ‘good’ cholesterol up some more, but I’ve got a good start going so far. Now I just need to keep it up!
Brick wrote:
That was his name. Curt Weldon. I still have my Able Danger folder around here somewhere. The links have probably rotted, tho
@ mfhorn:
no more incentive spirometer for you!
AZOlddog wrote:
Honestly? I think he’s going to be a tough sell in Pa. If he gets the GOP nod, I’d wager 1/2 of the votes he gets are anti-Obama votes, not pro-Santorum votes but in the end, he carries the state. Kind of a distinction without a difference, but a distinction nonetheless. Disclaimer: My opinion is worth exactly what you paid for it.
@ eaglesoars:
i hereby dub thee to the order of ‘Yinzer in Abstentia’ n’at.
@ coldwarrior:
Now, what do I do with 3 of the things?! I’m able to almost get the thing to the top now, where I was before the surgery.
@ mfhorn:
Well hello! You sound cheerfull, always good news. Let me know if you need recipes
mfhorn wrote:
?
make a planter out of one of them?
@ Brick:
santorum could carry pa. romney, i doubt it. the dems will hit him hard here on the crap he pulled with bain. peeps dont like getting ‘fired’.
coldwarrior wrote:
*curtsey*
@ eaglesoars:
Sure! I’d love some new recipes.
They’ve got my email, or just share ‘em here!
@ coldwarrior:
Hmm. Tiny planter for something. That’s a thought!
coldwarrior wrote:
Agreed. Romney’s not enough of a contrast to what we’re already burdened with which is why he’s the perfect opponent. Romney and Obama are cut from the identical nanny state cloth.
mfhorn wrote:
get some small plant, perhaps a bonzai tree.
it could be a daily reminder and motivator to stay on the docs orders
eaglesoars wrote:
arise, oh warrior of yinzerness! feel the words of myron cope ringing in yinz’s ears, n’at! go forth and spread the word!
@ coldwarrior:
Ah yes! Myron Cope is to NFL Radio what Gilbert Gottfried is to Comedy!
OK, I’m back, had to sit down have a beer and watch a little TV and try to unwind, I can’t believe how exhausted I am, all I was doing was sitting around…
@ coldwarrior:
Oh my. lol lol lol
@ doriangrey:
I got here late. I am glad your Momma is doing well. Prayers will continue. You are a good son Dorian
coldwarrior wrote:
Ir’s worse than you know. I have an All-stars 1955 baseball with (among others) Smokey Burgess’ signature.
AND an original Roberto Clemente baseball card.
mfhorn wrote:
Did you talk to your nutritionist about nuts (remember the cashew nut butter recipe?)
Do you like fish?
Macker wrote:
Or Bob Prince to baseball
Not to mention his sartorial panache
Macker wrote:
you do realize that myron cope is the first football announcer inducted into the hall of fame?
he taught a class at pitt every spring, it was impossible to get singed up for unless you were a journalism major and then you had to bribe someone.
eaglesoars wrote:
bob prince was the protoype baseball radio announcer.
gunnerisms
and the sports coats! wow! panache indeed
@ eaglesoars:
Most nuts are ok. Fish is fine with me, but my better half won’t touch any seafood. And pork is kind of limited for her, too. Parents were here from Sat-last night, so we ended up eating out most of the time. Need to hit the store for the rest of the week’s meals. Stir fry chicken tomorrow, maybe turkey chili for Fri.
Weird cat just brought a sock up from the basement.
mfhorn wrote:
Does it have a Chunkels registration tag on it?
@ doriangrey:
Well, there IS a tiny green football on the side. I think I’ll toss it in the laundry, just to be safe.
@ coldwarrior:
My husband is 12 years older than I and a Yankees fan in his DNA. From the time I could listen to the radio, I was a Pirates fan. When the Pirates won the World Series against the Yankees, he was 20 yrs old listening to the game in biology lab at Cornell.
I was in third grade in a 6 room school house where the entire school was listening on all the transistor radios we had brought from home.
Hubby gave me a baseball signed by Bill Mazeroski.
mfhorn wrote:
Ya might be better off just burning it….
mfhorn wrote:
Use lots of bleach.
mfhorn wrote:
I suppose that’s better than a sock brought up by ceiling cat.
eaglesoars wrote:
nice!
get him this
Brick wrote:
Ceiling cat is better than basement cat, or so I have been told…
night, yinz
@ coldwarrior:
are you nucking futz? He goes beserk every time he sees that film.
nite yerself, I’m out too.
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
Nite, you two.
darkwords wrote:
Romney took a mighty big drubbing himself last time around. Yet everybody keeps telling him he’s “electable” and Santorum isn’t. Go figure.
@ 1389AD:
Romney is ONLY in the race to hand Obama 4 more years! All of the other 3 are more electable.