Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Those of you in NFL cities know very well that the most popular player on the team is the backup quarterback. Everybody loves him – until he takes the field.
I wonder if the Dems threw Pelosi, Reid, Frank and Dodd under the bus if they would make out better.
I think the American electorate is sick of the corruption. It really has become so obvious…
Sheesh, I forgot Murtha!
You hadda say his name! Sheesh!
And my day was going so well…
babs, how on earth could you have forgotten Murtha?
The GOP should be the GOSP – Grand Old Stupid Party. They talk like Adam Smith out of office, then act like LBJ in office. The base is kinda sick of it, and morons like Lindsey Graham, Hatch, and McConnell don’t help a bit.
QM,
I’d add the Honorable McLame and good ol’ Neutered Newt to the list. Unless we start to see the emergence of more folks like Boehner, Jindal, Palin, or Demint, the GOSP (I would have said GOSB, but this is family fare) is doomed to live in Taxi One Hell for a long, long time.
I heard today some of the garbage spewed outa Newt’s mouth this weekend, and, so help me, I was looking for a pile of rocks to throw at the guy!
I’m telling you, folks, Pravda has made more damn sense in the last 10 days than any group of
RepubicsRepublicans we’ve heard from in the last year. To hear them say “Straighten up your act, Amerika, or you will become the next Zimbabwe!” really shook me up. I had to wonder if Vlad Putin ghost wrote the article! If so…next time you’re in town, surf and turf on me, Vlad!Conservatives in Europe are not the same as they are over here. What is Conservative there, is RINO here.
Here. Here…
The divine Frau Angela is the epitome of European Socialism. Just because Germany softens a bit or shifts a bit to the right, doesn’t mean they’re anywhere near to embracing Conservative anything.
They only thing that the U.S. has going in its favor right now with Merkel is that Hizzoner pissed her off with some unfortunate phraseology while in town, and that probably wasn’t a terribly bright thing to do. Angela Merkel is nobody to muck around with. She knows people…
Still a step in the “Right” direction Skippy-san.
That’s only fair. European Socialists now think of themselves as “Democrats”.
There is no exact correspondence.
What is RINO in the States would be right-wing liberal here, that is liberal in social issues (gender, abortion, immigration), but strictly free-market in economic issues.
As for the European conservatives, that differs from country to country. German and Italian Christian Democrats are perhaps what the social-conservative, catholic part of the US Democrats once used to be. The conservative parties of Sarkozy and Berlusconi are however more a Republican-light brand.
Merkel anyway is not the epitome of European-Socialism. Merkel is the epitome of political hollowness. On a ideological matters, she could wrap up your empty suit three times. But that doesn’t mean he isn’t up to her as a power politician.
Skippy’s right, but what defines this round of conservative elections is that they are anti-EU, being elected to the EU. In other words, a significant movement of nationalists, backing controlled immigration and the sovereignty of their individual nations, is growing quickly and measurably. The danger is that they become like the GOP once they get into office.
And in the council elections in England, Labour was thoroughly trounced, losing over 360 seats while the conservatives, who have barely a brain and a leader amongst all of them, picked up over 240 seats.
Zane/
Your right about that, the Torys don’t have a clue either, but at least there is a little room for improvement in that they are at least anti-EU and anti-open Muslim immigration at the grass-roots especially. I love to hit “Harry’s Place” and “The Devil’s Kitchen” (a spectacularly creative foul-mouthed Scot whose a founding mem. of the Libertarian party (LPUK–the el-pukes) An ex-barrister, ex-MP “The Fat Bigot Opines” is a good read on the inside-baseball of it all as well. The Barron and Dymphna at GoV must be grinning about now. It was a depressed voter turnout on the left all over–but especially in the UK–that led to the results; not so much a lurch to the right, unfortunately. It’s just that the rank and file on the left are fed up, embarrassed (UK & financial scandals) and afraid of the Muslims (Europe).
Well, the current President promised us Change. He and the other leaders of his party seem to be the only ones who can change the feelings many had about the Republicans. Not surprising really. After 8 years with lots of challenges and a disastrous Republican Congress, people wanted a change. Unfortunately, now that it is in the can, people are finding that New Coke isn’t really working out and are starting to long for Coke Classic.