While in college, I had a German Shepard named Sheena. She was a loyal dog, well behaved, friendly, and as dumb as a bag full of hammers. This was a dog that would even be considered dumb when compared to other dogs, and yet, all it took to train her to not urinate indoors was to soak a rag in her urine and then tie it to a stake outside in the grass. She got the message immediately, and once she began receiving small pieces of cheese for doing business outside, she even learned the all important trick of faking her business in order to receive the Kraft individually wrapped slices of imitation cheese food. So the question has now been sufficiently begged, if my dumb ass dog could be trained without the aid of understanding English, where on Earth did we dig up these dolts who occupy our House of Representatives that seem so unbelievably bereft of the ability to learn from nearly three decades of electoral disaster and reward? In short, collectively, we have elected the single dumbest demographic of morons imaginable.
The only thing this current group seems truly adept at is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. We keep waiting for them to learn, and they refuse to do so. At some point in time, the GOP apparatchiks will learn, about this I have faith, that their base is more interested in having them do the right thing and could not care less about the politics of holding power. Here’s the good news in all of this however, there are 151 Republican House members who are capable of doing the right thing for the country and are less interested in the politics of holding power. That is something tangible upon which a future can be built, and that, along with the 30 or so GOP Governorships, represent the assets upon which we can build our movement to take back our country.
Take a good look at the names on this list. It is the roll call vote of yesterday’s House vote on complete capitulation. Notice who’s on board with allowing Barack Obama to loot the nation and shred our Constitution, and who stood up against this act of continued self destruction. What a way to bring in the new year, and what a perfect gift it is too. John Boehner has solidified his deserved reputation for being Barack Obama’s tool. Eric Cantor, Darryl Issa, Duncan Hunter, Alan West, and about 150 other guys showed us all that we do not stand entirely alone against a federal bureaucracy hell bent on scrapping our founding documents.
I remember defending Boehner and the bulk of the Republican Party on many occasions when this fight began in earnest. I argued that tax rates were the secondary issue to spending, and stated that allowing rates to increase would be acceptable provided that cuts in real spending, to be effective immediately, were in the bargain. So, what did John Boehner, leader of the chamber of our legislative branch that constitutionally controls the purse strings of our national budget, receive in the deal that saw an increase in the taxes paid by 70% of Americans? Barack Obama has been given a net increase in spending just to the South of $350 Billion. Simply stunning, the deal negotiated and agreed to by the Republicans in charge of the party today.
There are some who blame the sad state of affairs on the defeat of plan B. There are some who might blame Senate Republicans for this, but the fact is, the GOP controls the House. All spending starts there, according to our Constitution, which despite the best efforts of our academia elite, still exists. There have been over 1300 days since our national spending has been operating under the constraints of an actual budget, and for any one who has ever balanced their very own check book, the folly of this is easy to spot. Perhaps this explains why our deficit has reached a proportion that defies the darkest imagination of a Fellini nightmare film.
The true fiscal cliff is not one in which these professional liars have figured out how to establish a series of never ending artificially inflated crises in order to have the citizens vote away their personal freedoms and grant larger and larger chunks of power and authority to an increasingly cynical ruling class. The true fiscal cliff, and one that can not be avoided for ever, is that limit of people who are not bound by our legislative edicts to lend us the money to keep this sham going. 85 Republican House Members, all of whom were elected by constituents who had faith that they would know better, voted for this. John Boehner and Paul Ryan were among that group. I do not care how large of a percentage of the time these men vote along the lines of how conservatives were supposed to vote, this was the one that really counted.
It only takes 17 House Republicans to stop John Boehner from spending another term as our Speaker. Enjoy that thin Ice John, you’ve earned it. Today’s political arguments are possible because of the great wealth built by the very system of economics being decried as the problem today. Americans are delusional in the belief that our vast wealth is an automatic happenstance, something that just happened as a part of the natural order of the cosmos. The truth is that there is a very definite limit to that wealth, and we passed that limit about 4 years ago. We are now cannibalizing that wealth, so thoughtfully created by multiple generations of people much smarter and wiser than we are.
History has proven many times over that Socialism will eventually collapse in upon itself, and indeed every instance of a society with a top down form of government has suffered the same end without exception. That will happen to us as well should we continue along a path towards that end. In the grand scheme of things, whether we correct our course now, or wait for the collapse, Americans will learn this lesson. I am just one of those helpless optimists who wishes to avoid the catastrophe. We don’t really need to reach bottom in order to fix our problems. It is possible to return to the constrained government, society based on personal freedom and property rights before we completely cannibalize that wealth so thoughtfully provided for us by our forefathers.
Cross Posted from Musings of a Mad Conservative.
I am happy my representative, Pete Olson, voted no.
BREAKING: Congressmen Confirm That Boehner Will Either Resign Speakership Or Be Forced Out
Gee, I hope so.
@ huckfunn:
I’ve also read about a contingent of Dems planning on voting for Boehner for the Speakership, because let’s face it, he is a useful idiot for their side.
So, the kids from Sandy Hook Elementary school went back to class today at a different school.
With a bunch of cops on duty.
Funny…I seem to recall a whole boatload of libs going bonkers over the idea of having cops or armed security guards at schools when Wayne Lapierre proposed it.
Flyovercountry wrote:
I hope that he’ll spare us the sobbing drama and just quit.
@ huckfunn:
Leia says that she’s available for the job, as long as she’s allowed to take periodic naps during the day.
And she wants a pet door installed in the House chamber.
lobo91 wrote:
all the while holding YOU responsible for some maniacs behavior 2000 miles away
lobo91 wrote:
I’ll personally donate to the peanut butter pretzel slush fund.
the GOP is divided, there is blood in the water and the libs are circling like sharks…now is the perfect time for a gun grab
Happy New Year ya’ll! Had to take a mental sabbatical. Feeling better now and will slowly wade back into the fray!
huckfunn wrote:
Who is the alternative?
The Gods of the Copybook Headings are soon to make an appearance.
@ Dolphin:
So far, the smart money is on Leia.
This is on topic from Instapundit
@ Dolphin:
Hiya Dolphin! Happy New Year!
John Boehner calls it quits.
@ lobo91:
Can’t do any worse.
finally, the Bone man hit’s the bricks…
c’ya
Dolphin wrote:
From what I’ve seen Eric Cantor may be the lead horse. Hard to say. These things have about the same intrigue as electing a new pope.
I may have found Hillary’s missing State Dept airplane in Iran. Hillary it seems has been a busy little beaver just prior to Christmas and came off second best. Hence her apparent ‘missing in action’ reports.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/12/30/us-plane-reportedly-made-emergency-landing-at-iranian-airport-3-weeks-ago/?intcmp=obnetwork
@ huckfunn:
Then again, it might be Doriangrey.
Dolphin wrote:
Oh, just watch. The ‘establishment’ Republicans will try to make it McCarthy (I think that’s his name) -- he has been Boehner’s executioner, the one who kept score about the conservative Republicans’ voting records to decide who kept their committee leaderships and who got booted.
Personally, I miss Tom DeLay
@ eaglesoars:
Thanks! Just had to take a break from all the political/news cr@p. It was nice. Watched a lot of Netflix and very, very little of news or internet.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Saw that report about 4 days ago -- don’t believe it
Boehner out tomorrow? Orange Crush!
eaglesoars wrote:
I’m pretty sure that I’m a man without a party.
if the subject involves a Clinton, account for how much is unsaid….
she is a monumental liar
Dolphin wrote:
I know the feeling. I found a GREAT history/food/food history blog I’ve been happily wallowing in.
Lost Past Remembered
Bumr50 wrote:
you don’t need a party…both are corrupt
heysoos wrote:
I hope it wasn’t anyone I know.
@ huckfunn:
Is Issa in the house? I can’t remember. He has a good head on his shoulders.
@ eaglesoars:
I am still not sure exactly what happened with Delay. I know there are some here that have strong feelings (negative) with regards to him.
huckfunn wrote:
Oh there would be hell to pay if that happened.
Brick wrote:
I doubt it…you are nobody, just like me…individually we are easy, so we gotta stick together…at least Boehner is smart enough to realize how stupid he is
@ eaglesoars:Link is broke. Sounds interesting would love to check it out!
Now this should be interesting.
Al Jazeera Acquires Current TV
This will be a great help in keeping the uninformed voter misinformed…
Dolphin wrote:
Try this.
http://www.lostpastremembered.blogspot.com
@ Da_Beerfreak:
Heh, Gore profits from terrorists. May they all rot in hell.
Thank God my Rep voted against this idiotic bill.
@ Da_Beerfreak:
Bookmarked. Thanks.
@ eaglesoars:
That would make it about second week in December for the emergency landing and that would be about a week too late to ‘explain’ Hillary’s ‘missing in action’ reports,but you never know as ‘time’ is often ‘flexible’ to cover up foibles. There are also inconsistencies in the report. At one point they say Rasoulinejad said three passengers left Iran but later say A separate report by state TV said the Falcon-900 plane had one passenger and two crew members . As well the story about some malfunction necessitating a landing in Iran is a complete load of bullshit. They claimed that the plane was flying to Rotterdam in the Netherlands from Abu Dhabi in United Arab Emirates when it encountered mechanical difficulties. But then would have you believe that it made an emergency landing at an Iranian airport presumably the southern city of Ahvaz in iran. Well in that case why would a Falcon –900 aircraft on a flight plan Abu Dhabi -- Amsterdam bypassing multiple western controlled airports in the Gulf, and land at a small regional Iranian airport with no repair facilities? The last sentence Every day some 500 foreign airplanes pass through Iranian airspace, including 30 American aircraft smells of cover-up and only reflects the reality of normal commercial overflight practice guaranteed under IATA rules and has nothing to do with arrivals into Iranian Controlled Airspace.
These guys need a refresher course in the University of Lying and cover ups. They’d get a ’F’ mark for that effort. Pathetic!
@ Dolphin:
One would imagine that given all of the funding the State Department uses that they could hire in some more convincing liars. If one is going to indulge in cover stories then one should make them watertight.
This State Dept. cock-up is typical of the hubris and incompetence that exists within US government departments.
Dolphin wrote:
sorry.
Lost Past Remembered
@ Aussie Infidel:
Hell, they can’t even lie convincingly about personnel matters.
All those underlings they claim “resigned” over the Benghazi report are still on the payroll. They just gave them a couple of weeks of “administrative leave” (aka paid vacation), after which they’ll all get new jobs.
Ok, with Boehner out, who’s a worthy successor?
@ mfhorn:
you…why not?
mfhorn wrote:
See #6 above
Dolphin wrote:
He had a lot of enemies in Texas and in my opinion he was framed on the money laundering conviction. He got Texas re-districted to get more republicans elected at the state level using an organization he set up that took corporate money.
He was one tough SOB and if he were speaker now, Obama and Reid would be crawling naked over broken glass for every last penny.
@ heysoos:
@ lobo91:
Two worthy names! Don’t you have to actually be in office to be Speaker, though?
If not, I’ll defer to Leia.
@ Aussie Infidel:
That ‘report’ has more to do with internal Iranian politics than anything in Realityville. Have you heard anything about Iran evacuating Isfahan?
mfhorn wrote:
Nope.
Gingrich comes to mind, doesn’t he?
@ eaglesoars:
Which would actually be a good way to raise some extra revenue, if they put it on pay-per-view…
mfhorn wrote:
The House can elect anyone it wants as Speaker.
Doesn’t even have to be a human.
lobo91 wrote:
well, that accounts for Pelosi
lobo91 wrote:
That explains Nancy Pelosi.
@ heysoos:
Yup…the first undead Speaker.
@ lobo91:
Hmmm…
Leia.
Col. West.
Newt.
Ted Cruz.
@ mfhorn:
Ted Cruz is going to be in the Senate. I don’t think that would work well.
Ted Nugent, maybe…
@ eaglesoars:
Don’t get me wrong, I really liked Delay, I understand the charges, but I think that he was run out similar to the likes of H. Cain and others. He was a regular on a local radio station here. The “host” Dan Patrick has gone on to serve in the Texas house and is doing a fine job (IMO).
Dems and rinos will eat the good ones alive. They don’t have skin thick enough to survive the personal/ethical attacks (or at the least the supporters don’t).
@ eaglesoars:
Really? I didn’t know that!
In that case, as much as I would hate to lose him in the senate -- I vote for Ted Poe.
… or uncle Ted (Nugent)
//
BoehnerWatch is boring.
Much like Boehner.
@ lobo91:
This is why I love this site. I learn something almost every day.
Has there ever been a speaker of the house that was not an elected sitting official?
@ eaglesoars:
@ Dolphin:
What was good about Delay? He was a Big Government Progressive.
Rodan wrote:
That’s what SHE said!!
//
@ Dolphin:
Not that I can recall.
Leia could be the first. She’s also promised to donate her salary to animal shelters.
Except for her peanut butter-filled pretzel allowance.
@ eaglesoars:
How about Charles Johnson for speaker?
this site needs to get pounded by Savoy Brown…it clears the head
@ Bumr50:
I agree, The GOP are Big Government Nation building Pro-Islamic Progressives. The Democrats are Islamic loving Marxists.
What’s the difference?
Rodan wrote:
Tom DeLay was not a progressive.
And he knew how to destroy his enemies
eaglesoars wrote:
The whole damn world would shit if that came to pass!
huckfunn wrote:
Didn’t Obama already have one installed for Boehner.
@ eaglesoars:
What did Delay ever do for Fiscal and Economic Conservatism? His record as Majority leader is not good in that area.
@ eaglesoars:
Told ya so!
Panko breaded snapper with brown & wild rice, steamed broccoli and shiner Bock beer bread (i.e., dinner) awaits!
Nite all.
Rodan wrote:
I’m not sure of dates so I can’t say ‘as majority leader’ but I know he voted for a balanced budget amendment and line item veto
Ok, here. DeLay’s voting record.
DON’T tell me he was ‘progressive’
We need somebody who understands and can communicate the concept of balancing a budget in terms of simple arithmetic. A backbone is not optional.
@ eaglesoars:
He seems to have started Conservative but then abandoned fiscal responsibility post 2000.
Rodan wrote:
Not what I see…………
eaglesoars wrote:
Just the initial rumours on the 2nd Jan. Some BS about the nuclear facility sitting on an active fault line but that’s just nonsense as there have been no significant tremors over the past week. If these reports are true it’s more likely that the ‘Son-Of Suxnet’ may have struck again.
I think I’ll wait for some follow up reports before I make a few considered guesses.
eaglesoars wrote:
Bolton would make a great Speaker
Bolton would really put a cat amongst the pigeons. Fearful RINOs would be seen fleeing back to their caves …. and country clubs
Dems would be seen kicking on the floor and frothing at the mouth
Pelosi would have a mental breakdown … again… and take to her bed.
and Obama would declare war on Congress …. ummm …. again !
Chuck out Mr. Weepy on the 3rd. and elect a real man.
Bolton for Speaker
Pass it on !
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Yeah. Altho’ here’s hoping the Israelis have been having some fun.Aussie Infidel wrote:
Yeah, but I don’t think it would be a lot of fun for him. For Gingrich it would be a blast -- a new happy warrior!
@ eaglesoars:
True.
Bolton would have made an awesome Secretary of State.
The denizens of ‘Olde Foggy Bottom’ would have shat themselves
LOL
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I think it was these guys….
Woo Hoo! Louisville 17 Florida 3 in the Sugar Bowl! Second quarter…..
click the cc button for English subtitles…
@ The Osprey:
OMG! That’s hilarious -- Monty Python
The Osprey wrote:
“What? Another mysterious blast in Iran……..”
Who the hell did this commercial?
I nominate Louie Gohmert for speaker.
eaglesoars wrote:
HOT, an Israeli cable TV network.
The Osprey wrote:
The dudes that are dressed in chador like Iranian women are from some Israeli sitcom. “Rita” who they make mention of maybe running into her family is an Israeli singer who was born in Iran…
@ MacDuff:
Bridge water is healthy and lighting them Gators up!
@ The Osprey:
Thanks for the insider cultural info -- makes it even funnier!
unclassifiable wrote:
He’s a sophomore…we’re looking for big things!
Touchdown!
Bad to worse
@ RIX:
I’ll be sure to use parental controls so that I will skip it just flippin’ channels.
I don’t even have kids. Evil is not even worth a glimpse.
RIX wrote:
Oh this is gonna be too funny. Remember that British woman, Yvonne somebody who worked for one of the UK newspapers and was captured by the Taliban? She promised them she’d ‘look into’ Islam or something, and actually sincerely converted and went to work for Al Jazeera in the UK
Then she sued them for being sexist pigs.
BWAHAHAHAHA!
@ unclassifiable:
Good move.
eaglesoars wrote:
Moon bats are strange & exotic creatures.
Good night all.
doriangrey wrote:
They need to elect Ron paul, just to make ObamAA- shit all over Soros’ hand.
@ MacDuff:
The old swinging gate play.
Seems a bit desperate.
It’s a new twist ! The combination of The Hunger Games, and Peronist Argentina ! “And the money kept rolling in …”
Louisville’s rockin’, Florida’s reeling! 30-10 beginning first half.
Louisville’s about to score again! Gators in chaos!
uh, this is not good. It sets a precedent for the globalization/Agenda 21 crowd. (h/t) instapundit)
This is right up there with executing American citizens w/o due process.
@ eaglesoars:
And yet we’ll hear nothing about it from the civil liberties crowd on the left, because it’s Obama doing it.
Just imagine if something like that had been done while the ebil Booosh had been in office…
bwahahahahahahaha
Obama’s ‘fair share’ fiscal cliff deal not so fair to shocked voters: ‘I take home less now, thanks Obama’
@ lobo91:
The really disturbing part -- there is no treaty that acts as an anchor for this. Even the European Arrest Warrant -- which says if you’re in France and break a German law, you can be arrested -- is underpinned by treaty. It’s bad law, but it IS law.
There is NO law here. None. I’d be more comfortable w/heysoos’ black ops scenario than I am with this.
feel good story of the night
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/214714.php
@ rain of lead:
I like this one:
@ lobo91:
comedy gold I tells ya
rain of lead wrote:
And my fave:
You JUST found out? Honey, it’s called PAYING ATTENTION.
@ eaglesoars:
Judge
DreddObama disagrees with you:@ eaglesoars:
well momcat just dropped a bombshell on me….
the girl is no longer a girl
she started today
so not ready
rain of lead wrote:
UM,….what?
lobo91 wrote:
I hope his ass ends up in Leavenworth -- or that max security place in Colorado
@ eaglesoars:
she started her period
shes 10 and 1/2
didn’t expect it to happen quite this soon
@ rain of lead:
…
no, better not say that
eaglesoars wrote:
More likely that we all will.
Poor Leia.
I was cursing at the computer in my office, after Windows crashed in the middle of something.
Since there’s nobody here but the two of us, of course she thought I was mad at her for something.
Dogs are smart for not using computers…
rain of lead wrote:
oh. got it.
Yeah, well, trust me -- she isn’t ready either. She’s going to need you in ways she can’t even imagine. Like settin an example of how she should expect to be treated by MEN -- not these friends-with-benfits losers.
HER biggest challenge tho is going to come from her girlfriends. The peer pressure is unreal.
@ eaglesoars:
yeah,
that peer pressure bullshit
I’ve been trying to give her the tools to deal
hope she’s been paying attention
@ rain of lead:
DON’T let on that you know. Play clueless.
@ eaglesoars:
nope
not how I roll
we talk about everything
now that mother nature has put in her 2 cents
time to advance the biology lessons
(within reason, of course)
Speaking of losers, any one hear of the “urban league?” we live in a small subdivision outside of Katy, TX and they have been coming in and cruising the hood on foot. They apparently have a lot of names and use those names to try and get others to talk to them by saying, “Sally down on the corner of x & y, said to talk to you….” Today they tried to pull the racist bullshit by asking one lady if she would mind “Their kids running around in their streets…” Yeah, this boobs were black, seems to buss about 8-10 of them in and then they split up and, I don’t know, case the joint. For the record, we do have blacks, indians, mexicans, rednecks, all in all pretty inclusive. I really need to order that heavy ass safe!
@ rgranger:
hmmm
maybe turn the tables and start asking THEM the who,what ,when,where
and why
rain of lead wrote:
Get every video you can of the spring break college girls acting like cheap hookers on the beach pretending they’re having a good time. I’ve been in Panama City Beach when they were there one year. Believe me, those girls were mortified -- it was something they thought they ‘had’ to do.
If I thought I ‘had’ to do anything like that, my father would have thought he ‘had’ to kill me -- and he would have.
He had one of the biggest laughs of his life when I told him I was thinking about going to Woodstock……………that worked out well.
@ rgranger:
oh and welcome
I see you like cars
@ eaglesoars:
hmmm
not a bad idea
nite ya’ll
rgranger wrote:
Started out as a ‘community organization’ for civil rights, now focusing on ‘gun violence’.
I don’t know, but I imagine they’ve hooked up with whatever ACORN is calling itself now.
They showed up at my door about 2 yrs ago. I threw them off the property. Tried the same tactic. “We’re were talking to your neighbor, Donna…”.
pfft. That family is military -- as is much of this neighborhood. They had no luck and never tried again.
bedtime. nite everyone
Quiet in here this morning…
Well, if Boehner hangs on to the Speakership I’ll know that the GOP not only takes my vote for granted, but that it doesn’t really care about it at all. Happy to lose, maybe?
Off to the gulag….
Top o da morning! Still buzzing over the big Sugar Bowl win last night! Might have some Gator and eggs for breakfast …….
Two days left before I have to go back to work. Ugh.
Mike C. wrote:
That’s a pretty rough life you have there. How long is your “tour”?
@ MacDuff:
Only 3.5 weeks this time. Then I’m unemployed again. I either have to do something about that or enlist in the Free Shit Army.
Mike C. wrote:
Methinks that’s the very definition of “bittersweet”. Geez, sorry to hear that.
@ MacDuff:
Nah -- that’s normal for a consultant. One contract ends, then you have to dig up another one. It’s virtually impossible to line them up continuously, although I did manage to do that once, back in late 98. Anyway, this is no time to panic -- I’ll have plenty of time to panic later.
Wow. RIP.
@ MacDuff:
He was also famed as a gunsmith, smoothing out actions on Colt SA revolvers to his own specs. Didn’t use any new parts, just hand-polished and fitted what was already there. There was a very long waiting line for a Bob Munden action job.
Mike C. wrote:
I recall seeing this guy on a History Channel show shooting the two balloons. It was the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen, the two shots were undetectable until they ran the slo-mo tape.
@ MacDuff:
I’ve seen that show. You just hear one shot.
BTW, I’m not certain that sort of thing could even be attempted with “new model” Ruger SA revolvers, due to the transfer bar system. I sure never tried “fanning” mine.
Mike C. wrote:
Such is the life of an independent oil & gas consultant. I had a gig that lasted 3 years over in the Austin Chalk, just 80 miles east of where I live. That ended at the end of October. I found a new outfit, did a due diligence job for them in December and this weekend I’ll be headed for NW for a gig that starts up on Monday. 80,000 acres of title, leaseing and curative. I’ll spend the weekends in Ruidoso. Not too shabby.