It’s time for a reboot.
In my opinion, the Republican National Committee has too much baggage – including some catastrophic legal impediments – and has made too many mistakes. It would be far better to disband the RNC entirely, found new party organizations in each state, and elect a new national organization under another name and with none of the current personnel. It is also vitally important to put an end to open primaries, which allow our leftist opponents to rig the nominations in their favor.
Be that as it may, Republican Party unity is a thing of the past.
Here’s how the story is taking shape:
- ★ Soo Evening News: Fox News Benches Karl Rove and Dick Morris (h/t: Speranza)
- ★ Business Insider: There Is A Brutal Civil War In The GOP, And It Looks Like Karl Rove Will Be The First Casualty (h/t: Speranza)
- ★ Real Clear Politics: Yes, Romney Was The Problem (h/t: Flyovercountry)
- ★ PJM: No Virginia, the RNC CANNOT Monitor Polls for Ballot Security
- ★ Redstate: A Primer for Rich Donors Who Got Taken to the Cleaners by Republican Consultants (h/t: Flyovercountry)
- ★ AmSpec: The Quisling Consultants
- ★ Weasel Zippers: Good News: Boehner Removes Conservatives From House Financial Committees… (h/t: waldensianspirit)
- ★ Breitbart: Rep. Hensarling Throws Boehner Under Bus on Conservative Purge
Seems that Boehner tried to pin responsibility for the purge of conservatives from the House Financial Services Committee on incoming chairman Rep. Jeb Hensarling. Hensarling’s spokeswoman vehemently denies that he had anything to do with it. - ★ Kan. US Rep. Huelskamp: House demotion vindictive
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – U.S. Rep. Tim Huelskamp blasted House Republican leaders Wednesday for “petty, vindictive politics” following their decision to remove him from key committees, including an agriculture panel he says has included a Kansan for 151 years.The GOP congressman, who represents Kansas’ 1st District, said on a media conference call that his only explanation is that he didn’t vote with House Speaker John Boehner on key votes over the past two years.
- ★ Breitbart: Boehner to Conservatives: We’re ‘Watching’ Your Votes
After purging four conservative House members from key Committees, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) threatened Republican members of Congress on Wednesday by telling them Republican leaders are “watching” their votes to determine future committee assignments.Boehner’s remarks are a sign that the moderate House Republican leadership will be less tolerant of conservative dissent.
Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS), who was removed from the Budget Committee, said Boehner warned those in his conference that “there may be more folks that will be targeted” and the Republican leadership is “watching all of your votes.”
“It was a message to the Republican Conference in general, especially the comment today that there may be more punishment coming if you don’t vote the right way,” Huelskamp told The Hill.
Breitbart News investigative reporter Matthew Boyle broke the story that House Republican leadership used a secret list of votes in a closed-door meeting to decide to remove Huelskamp and Reps. Justin Amash (R-MI), Walter Jones (R-NC), and David Schweikert (R-AZ) from their Committees.According to The Hill, Boehner “addressed the firestorm over the removal of four lawmakers from plum committee assignments at the weekly GOP conference meeting.” His remarks may be a sign that Boehner is willing to adopt the tactics of former Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX), who was known as “the hammer” last decade for his ability to whip Republicans in line.
Some of DeLay’s former aides now work for Boehner.
[...]
Boehner’s moves upset many prominent conservatives — and some are calling for him to be removed as Speaker.Ned Ryun, the president of American Majority Action, on Wednesday urged conservatives “fire” Boehner as House Speaker, noting that only 16 Republicans needed to abstain from voting for him for Speaker to get the process or removing him started.
“Speaker Boehner has been an abysmal failure as speaker, and his latest purge is the nail in the coffin for conservatives,” Ryun said. “Boehner has never won a negotiation battle with the White House or Senate—and he’s been nothing short of an embarrassing spokesman for the Conservative Movement. It’s time for him to go.”
Tags: cartoon, John Boehner
So, what would you propose in the interim (that period between disbanding the RNC and founding new part organizations in all 50 states)? Acquiescence or asking for a “time out” from the Democrats until we can get it together?
must be Miller time somewhere
Boehner has to go.
An OT brain bleach pic of Mooch on THE WH CHRISTMAS CARD
http://mediacdn.disqus.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/396/2759/original.jpg
yenta-fada wrote:
Which just goes to show that, even during the Christmas season, unpleasantness is inescapable.
Speranza wrote:
MacDuff wrote:
The michelles mirror ladies call those ‘chesticles’. lol
@ Speranza:
Is Sharpton ever going to get around to paying the millions in back taxes he owes?
I realize that being a tax cheat is apparently a requirement for people who want to advise Obama on economic matters, but this is getting ridiculous.
lobo91 wrote:
20 years from now, Sharpton will be regaled as a prince of civil rights, a servant for black Americans, an icon of honesty and service…a great, yet humble man
Get out of the way and let it burn. No one can save someone that doesn’t want to save themselves. You’ll only get burned yourself if you try.
heysoos wrote:
And they’ll likely be in the process of adding Obama to Mount Rushmore…..seriously, I’m surprised we haven’t already heard talk of that.
@ MacDuff:
It’s more likely that Obama will still be president after getting rid of that pesky Twenty-Second Amendment…
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
They’ll have to get rid of the Second Amendment first…
Someone should poll the congress on which blogs they visit and comment on. The GoP will get more mileage out of the effort.
lobo91 wrote:
I expect that there will be some very creative (twisted) rule making from the BATF in the next year or two trying to do just that.
MacDuff wrote:
That seems to be what our current GOP “leadership” is already doing: acquiescence and appeasement with no end in sight.
off topic, new joecartoon out, in case there are any other fans.
http://www.joecartoon.com/index.php/everything-else/dancing-monkey-dont-never-get-to-be-kong-2/
@ Speranza:
I believe I may throw up. Maddow, Sharpton? He couldn’t scrape that barren any lower?
MacDuff wrote:
Fred Thompson’s tweets are usually hysterical.
Flyovercountry wrote:
Where are Chris Matthews and Lawrence O’Donnell?
MacDuff wrote:
They will name a shitload of places and buildings after Obama.
There’s more: Paul Ryan backs Boehner on conservative purge, refuses to deny whether he was involved.
I’ll say here that I doubt that Ryan was directly involved. More likely he’s that ancient and scrawny prison-guard tending the shower in “American History X”; they just told him to get out of the way.
Wow no comments in almost two hours. I ought to have stuck around.
IS the new royal baby a life form yet? Or still disposable protoplasm?
darkwords wrote:
there was a problem beyond staggering morning sickness?
darkwords wrote:
For the Jacobites and Yorkists amongst us, he’s a life form; he’s just not in line for any British thrones.
MacDuff wrote:
A free market political system… may the best product win
coldwarrior wrote:
no. It was a back door ‘rhetorical’ abortion shot.
eaglesoars wrote:
oh, ok.
my ‘irony’ senses are decidedly lacking today.
@ coldwarrior:
from a previous thread.
Try to keep up, m’kay?
BTW, Calo reports that Lily is stable and they’ll be trying to get her off the breathing apparatus shortly. Probably already have as that report was around 7 pm
eaglesoars wrote:
‘extubating’ (removing the ventilator and getting the patient to breath on their own) is a very tricky dance.
patients rapidly get lazy and become dependent on the vent. lily want on it for real long so she should be ok.
eaglesoars wrote:
personal liberty, ever smaller government, states rights.
i just channel my inner goldwater/buckley and drive on.
Interesting read.
coldwarrior wrote:
I’ve only been on it once and it was already gone by the time I came to, but god was my throat sore! chipped ice all nite.
eaglesoars wrote:
extubating after a few days or when the patient is weak is when it gets difficult.
i dont like the vent.
darkwords wrote:
its the dui argument.
wanna end dui? lose license forever. period. kill someone while driving drunk, no trial, straight to the chair.
now there is an industry around dui and govt relie$ on that cash flow
@ darkwords:
That article doesn’t mention how many of those kids are runaways.
@ coldwarrior:
She had 2 days of pulmonary toiletry before surgery, so she should be OK.
I just hope she remembers my words to her before her surgery about extubation trials “breathe deep and slowly, it’ll feel like you are breathing through a straw -- don’t panic. Keep breathing deep and slow.”
Calo wrote:
as long as she was compliant and the therapists were on the ball, that should do it.
nice advice. i whisper that in p/t’s ears when needed.
coldwarrior wrote:
it’s only a matter of time till they realize they is money to be made in the sale of sightly used organs.
@ coldwarrior:
As a step-mom of a kid who, at 22, killed her best friend in a drunk driving accident a few years ago and currently resides in a FL prison, I can only hope you never have to visit that heartbreak in your kid’s life.
brookly red wrote:
they’ll get my liver from my cold, dead,…oh wait…
Calo wrote:
sure hope i dont.
that doenst change the fact that there is an industry around dui’s and that governments rely on money from fines. this causes the problem to never quite go away, always to be there as a cash cow.
so instead, lets take speeding.
lose you license for one year for every mph you are over. no bargains, no trials…no money for the towns either. my little burgh would lose thousands a quarter and have to lay off police whose job it is to simply nail speeders who are unaware of the trap.
@ eaglesoars:
There’s a study. I got the impression all of them are runaways.
Calo wrote:
My cousin’s daughter killed herself and two of her passengers. Senior prom.
I hope your step-daughter is doing ok.
darkwords wrote:
I didn’t find any information in there one way or the other.
coldwarrior wrote:
they have run out of things to tax… it is the logical next step. I am surprised O’s website doesn’t have a link where you can sign up to donate a kidney to help pay for Mooche’s next vacation.
note the complete absence of a sarc tag.
@ 44 coldwarrior: I’d up the driving and drinking age unless someone was in the military. I always pushed the boundaries and never relented until a girlfriend threatened to leave me. I valued her enough that I finally stopped to stop about what the hell I was doing. I wish I had known earlier in life. Probably the only thing that would have made a dent in me is jail time or a scared straight scenario. something to deliver the reality home.
coldwarrior wrote:
I’m not so sure. There ain’t no cure for stupid -- or peer pressure. You can tell an 18 yr old till you’re blue in the face………..
@ coldwarrior:
The worst racket is those cameras.
lobo91 wrote:
oh boy…they were going to put those up in pgh and there was almost a freakin riot!
the mayor backed off. the jig is up on those.
@ eaglesoars:
still doesnt change the fact that dui and speeding are cash cows never to be really fixed, just milked for all they are worth.
they are a road tax paid to modern day highway men…your local traffic cop.
@ 52 coldwarrior: For me growing up the drinking always occured at a long distance from home that involved a long drive for a lot of people. What I like about England was all the neighborhood pubs with no parking. Everyone walked to the pub. And there was a community in the pub. You didn’t think about going to another pub.
lobo91 wrote:
If the cameras don’t cheat I like them. THREE TIMES Hubby got camera tickets from the same damn camera and every time he admitted to speeding. I read him the riot act -- our auto insurance could skyrocket. He finally knocked it off. Whatever that burg got in fines would pale in comparison to what it would cost us in increased insurance.
@ 53 coldwarrior: like you say they don’t solve the problem. And a more serious measure might. We have repeat dui’s here on the order of 10 repeats and nothing is ever really done unless they cause an accident.
@ darkwords:
yep.
oh, and i have been SOOOOOOOO guilty of driving smashed, so no saint me!
havent done it in years tho
darkwords wrote:
aint about solving the problem, its about making $$$.
the ‘complaince-industrial complex’ loves this sort of thing.
(if i may borrow from the good general)
coldwarrior wrote:
well yes, you get it. anytime the punishment for an infraction of anything is money paid to the gubermint it will be a cash cow.
eaglesoars wrote:
Glad to hear she made it through surgery okay.
@ brookly red:
jails/incarceration is a racket as well.
90 days for a joint? puhleeze….cut his arm off instead!
to paraphrase the late great hst
@ 57 coldwarrior:
It’s important to train kids not to get in a car with a drunken driver. How to avoid the peer pressure. How to make a better choice. Call home no worries, or stay and sleep it off.
I was the worst drunk and wouldn’t listen. Someone would probably have to punch me to have kept me from driving drunk.
Other advice for kids is never cook scallops for Gordon Ramsey.
Virginia DUI/DWI laws are tough
That’s if you’re convicted. But DMV can (and probably will) suspend your license before you get to court.
darkwords wrote:
When I worked for the NM legislature back in the late ’90s, I remember a case that came up during a committee hearing on DUI laws.
There was a guy in Santa Fe who had been convicted 48 times!
Off for the night. Best of prayers for Lily.
@ darkwords:
i was good in high school.
i used to tend bar early in my college career…go home at 0600 all smashed up after a long night work then the staff afters.
i do miss the afters tho. that was fun. one of the locals would host it after hours and behind locked doors once or twice a week just for staff of all the bars/restaurants. good times.
darkwords wrote:
true.
eaglesoars wrote:
you get to pay the compliance industry…interlock device and lawyer, then you get to pay the state and local fines.
its a racket.
lobo91 wrote:
see, that is just absurd.
@ coldwarrior:
But you still lose your license.
For some people it will make no difference, tho. There are always people who just get in the car and go.
eaglesoars wrote:
temporarily.
and yes, some peeps are just outliers.
coldwarrior wrote:
where was it PA I think where the judges were actually caught and convicted of sentencing kids to a detention center for bogus reasons…
some year ago I got a ticket for drinking a beer on the street. (walking) I told the judge it was entrapment. I walked out of a hot subway, saw a neon sign (which requires an expensive permit) saying cold beer… I bought one (and paid tax on it) which had no warning on it that I couldn’t actually drink it. And got the ticket as soon as I walked out the store… the judge laughed fined me one dollar.
brookly red wrote:
Yep. There were kickbacks involved somehow.
@ brookly red:
justice from a level headed judge.
coldwarrior wrote:
Nobody could figure out how the guy hadn’t been locked up years before. As it turned out, it was a combination of good defense lawyers and crappy work by the courts.
In order to convict someone of a subsequent offense, that carries serious prison time, the prior convictions have to be entered into evidence. Otherwise, it goes down as a first offense. That’s what happened with this guy. He was convicted 48 times as a first offender, because the paperwork was never done properly.
@ brookly red:
@ brookly red:
its an industry.
the state loses revenue on murder, not so much on other crimes and misdemeanors
lobo91 wrote:
causing him to pay 48 fines???
instead of simply going to jail after oh, say the 3rd one or so?
coldwarrior wrote:
which is why they always go for the plea
eaglesoars wrote:
I remember a story on the news some time back where they were talking about people with these insane numbers of unpaid parking tickets in NYC (like hundreds of them). Apparently, the worst punishment on the books for not paying parking tickets was suspending their license.
And guess what the penalty for driving on a suspended license was?
Suspending their license.
There was some woman whose license had been suspended something like 67 times.
I assumt that they’ve since changed the law.
lobo91 wrote:
In NYC??
Doubtful.
Just don’t try to drink a Big Gulp
@ coldwarrior:
Exactly.
I think the 3rd conviction was supposed to be a class D felony with a mandatory year in prison, but he’d never spent more than some minimal time in jail, because the system was screwed up.
eaglesoars wrote:
aaaa!
real crime there!
@ lobo91:
48 fines paid versus jail time.
the govt would rather have the $$$ fer sure.
Mark Steyn at his best.
The Royal Presidency
i guess this is the oot…
some tunes, the neon trees
check it aht, yinz!
@ coldwarrior:
if yer gonna play that one…
@ coldwarrior:
Bah! Give me a ratcoon any night on the OOT
eaglesoars wrote:
not so fast… http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2012/12/07/wh-petition-demands-obama-cancel-hawaii-vacation/
@ eaglesoars:
.
I think that may be the most insane thing. We’re paying someone $100,000 a year to take care of one dog. It’s not even some fancy dog trained to sniff out bombs, or drugs (which is probably good in Obama’s case, but that’s another story). It’s not Lassie. It’s a family pet.
Calo wrote:
a blast from the past.
@ brookly red:
Oh yeah, that’ll work………..
@ Calo:
hey ya’ll
how is everyone?
calo, is lily ok?
someone this morning was asking and I have been wondering
eaglesoars wrote:
of course it won’t work… but as Rand Paul said, let them own it.
rain of lead wrote:
yinz.
these cats are kinda growin on me
@ rain of lead:
I just called her nurse.
Lily is extubated from the breathing machine.
Excellent news. She is doing well.
Thanks for asking {ROL}
We’ve had enough bad news around here over the last month -- it’s time for some good instead.
Calo wrote:
BOOM!!!
the real recovery begins.
@ Calo:
that is great news
now
since I’ve been a little out of pocket….
wha happen to her?
Calo wrote:
oops…forgot.
mrs coldwarrior returns to work on neuro monday.
no restrictions, no damage.
EF 65%, she hit the gym today and in her words:
“i’m 25 again”
Calo wrote:
thank you for the update.
nothreat2u’s favorite ‘new’ song
This is one of the most beautifully written pieces I’ve ever come across. How one young boy’s encounter w/John, Paul George and Ringo,on a caravan trip with his (dying) Dad all the way thru to when Lennon was murdered and the memories of his Dad.
h/t instpundit.
Everything matters
eaglesoars wrote:
habit
@ coldwarrior:
Crap, my EF is only 40% after CRT 5 months ago.
But, I got 7 months to go to reach my peak efficiency.
@ rain of lead:
Lily had triple bypass heart surgery today.
It was a bit tricky as she has vascular disease as well and the docs had some trouble finding suitable grafts for her heart.
Kudos to her surgeon.
This calls for a glass of wine in a bottle that has been sitting idle on my counter for weeks now.
Drink up quickly, before I do.
@ eaglesoars:
we know.
nice story.
Calo wrote:
i have the rabbit to open and some waterford crystal…
@ coldwarrior:
My heart aches.
I do miss her so much.
Such a feisty, fearless soul we lost.
Calo wrote:
mrs coldwarrior has a 40 or so yr old heart, plenty of collateral circulation, and was 100% blocked on RCA with zero other blocks.
event to cath time was 35 minutes, the entire upper echelon of the cardio team at our hospital was there for the cath. the head of the cardio department placed the stent, his second was the lead attending for interventional cardiology.
18mm stent, a big un.
i got to watch as i was upstairs on the stroke unit and got called down.
Calo wrote:
i play that song she loved real loud when it comes on.
we have her daughter watching our kids. we will help take care of her. she needs it now.
@ Calo:
‘indeed
miss calo,
you need to get busy and find some more feisty women to post here
marsthe blog needs women@ rain of lead:
There are LOTS of women here!
gotta go. Molly the Beagle is up. It’s going to be a ‘sick’ nite
@ coldwarrior:
Yes, you were lucky as was Mrs CW smart enough to drag herself into ER for chest pain. (I think?)
Not enough women do so, their chest pain tends to present itself as atypical from a normal man’s type of chest pain that is presented in literature. Therefore, the symptoms of heart disease in women are easily dismissed as something else.
I saw this happen here one night with Lily.
One blogger indicated her “spell” (Southern Speak) and symptoms as anxiety or indigestion.
In reality, it was a symptom of a bigger issue.
Calo wrote:
ah, no. mrs cw complained for one year to her pcp and me about the standard pre-MI symptoms.
shortness of breath, lethargy, not feeling ‘right’ und so weiter
we both missed it. pcp missed it huge.
he and i had a talk the other day as he was on my floor. he wont miss these again.
Calo wrote:
which is true.
conversely, not enough of the pcp’s check the heart.
its always the thyroid….
coldwarrior wrote:
Meh!
I don’t know what to say to her daughter.
What do you say?
Your mom made me laugh, made me cry, made me pray.
She touched my soul even though I never met her in person.
We promised to tell each other stories over the picnic table when we ran off to the mountains together.
Someday…
@ Calo:
my little ones are some small therapy for nothreat’s daughter.
the puti told her ‘i love you, you are my best friend’
of course the puti sez everyone is her best friend, but she does love ‘S’. the twins just love to be with her too.
mrs coldwarrior and i kinda watch over her. we overpay her wages by ‘tips’ and try to help out where we can.
Calo wrote:
see, we all got together a decent amount of times, so there is nothing that really needs to be said. we all get it.
she cries on our shoulders once in awhile, we do our best.
@ Calo:
here is what you say
“your mom was my friend”
what more needs to be said.
nite ya’ll
@ rain of lead:
rainoflead:
Sorry, your salutations of sympathy have been rejected by
Hallmark Greeting Cards.
Please resubmit.
{ROL} Thanks, goodnight.
Looks like I missed the conversation by a minute.
@ Mike C.:
Had to take yesterday off for switching hotels and other matters, so now I have tto work all day today to make up for it. Bummer. And I’ll probably spend the entire day trying to get this pathetic (but extremely expensive) software to draw a decent map, with a 50 % chance of not succeeding. The core functionality of the software (geocellular modeling and stochastic modelling) is pretty good, but the added on bits for things like seismic interpretation and mapping simply suck, even when compared to the same vendor’s old Unix/Linux products. This is what happens when you try to cram everything into one package.
Sorry, no real gun stuff of interest this morning…
BTW, that’s a pretty dead-on cartoon up top…
Wasteful spending? There’s an app for that.
Charlie Crist joins Dems.
mfhorn wrote:
He should take Colin Powell with him.
Bill Murray as a sexcapading FDR
Media involvement
A new school curriculum which will affect 46 out of 50 states will make it compulsory for at least 70 per cent of books studied to be non-fiction, in an effort to ready pupils for the workplace
Workers Food Stamp Paradise, here we come.
Compulsion huh
Here is my plan: give every moocher $1,000,000 to move to somewhere in the african continent but they must renounce citizenship and may not return, neither may their immediate family (group deal). So this doesn’t sound racist, we make the same deal to Dead White Democrats. I would suggest Mexicans too, but they have already proven that they aren’t going to honor the border
Sure it will be expensive, but think of the votes the Dems will lose!
@ waldensianspirit:
<blockquote>Books such as JD Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird will be replaced by “informational texts” approved by the Common Core State Standards.
Suggested non-fiction texts include Recommended Levels of Insulation by the the US Environmental Protection Agency, and the Invasive Plant Inventory, by California’s Invasive Plant Council.
On the upside, their indoctrination texts sound so damned boring that they could well be ineffective.
@ waldensianspirit:
Of course, that raises the question of what is “nonfiction” these days.
They’ll probably make Earth in the Balance and Dreams From My Father required reading (assuming they aren’t already).