Category Archives: Republicans

Fox News’ Political Insiders Reject Their Insider Status

Democrats, Elections, Politics, Republicans

The Fox News show Political Insiders may have to change its name since the term political insider has, at long last, become a pejorative. Regular Doug Schoen appeared on November 1, right away protesting too much about being no an insider. The pollster declared himself an OUTSIDER. The former “long-time Clinton insider” may no longer be a Clinton insider, but he is the consummate insider in Republican circles; a Democrat house-trained by Republicans insiders.

Pat Caddell, on the other hand, is a different kind of animal. Caddell was perhaps the only Democrat (other that Dennis Kucinich) to express righteous indignation, in 2013, over the treatment of the tea party by no other than “establishment Republicans.” They “wanted the IRS to go after Tea-Party groups,” contended Caddell. These groups “are an outside threat to their power hold, the lobbying-consulting class of the Republican party.

In the wonderful chaos initiated by the Republican campaign of Donald Trump, it’s good to see the insider honorific become a liability.

Obedient, Authoritarian, Stagnant Liberal Left Watches As Right Rebels

Democrats, Free Speech, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Regulation, Republicans, The State

The Republican political establishment and the colluding quislings on the Left all work in tandem to keep the status quo. It’s a spoils-system designed—reflexively, really—to benefit both factions.

Donald Trump started a grassroots process of structural upheaval. The momentum appears unstoppable.

After being filtered then ridiculed by bumbling idiots on the right and left—Fox’s Megyn kelly* and now CNBC—The presidential candidates want to speak directly to the people without network and party leadership intervention.

The Dem media are criticizing the wonderful chaos in the GOP ranks. Aren’t liberals always boasting about being the radicals who rebel against stagnant political strictures? Do they ever revolt against their own party apparatus? What losers (here’s an example of how a leftist revolts against reason and refuses to debate).

RNC Chairman Reince Priebus is running scared. Didn’t his outfit threaten to keep Ron Paul from the debates? Overthrow this Priebus ponce.

Another left-liberal conceit is to blame big money for owning politics. Regulate speech is the Dem mantra. Jeb Bush has huge money behind him. And he’s sinking.

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* No wonder Ms. Kelly, on her increasingly dull, Fox News me-me extravaganza, depicted the CNBC shtick on debate night as that of a press asking tough questions. Sounds like projection to me. CNBC ignoramuses were asking the type of questions she pursued on first debate night.

UPDATED: A Halloween Horror Story In The People’s House

Constitution, IMMIGRATION, Neoconservatism, Republicans

A Halloween Horror Story In The People’s House” is the current column, now on The Unz Review, America’s smartest webzine. It tells of how the vampiric Republican regimists and their zombie media are working against the insurgent. The thing is, it’s a true story.

An excerpt:

Washington is moving aggressively to inoculate itself against The Insurgents. By the looks of it, there will be no Republican insurgency.

The series of political eruptions begun when Donald Trump appeared on the scene is losing momentum.

The Republican Comitatus, to use Cullen Murphy’s description of Rome on the Potomac —”the sprawling apparatus that encompasses” political party leaders, pseudo-intellectuals, media, donors and kingmakers—has sprung into action to restore status quo.

Insider Paul Ryan has secured himself the position of House Speaker.

Ask neoconservative kingpins William Kristol, John McCain, Roger Ailes and the Koch Brothers who they’d tap for the position, any position—and the Ryan/Marco Rubio duo would be the reply.

Sen. Marco Rubio, however, is just where the vampiric Republican regimists want him: running his mouth off in the presidential debates. Paul Ryan is thus the right young blood to rein in a rebellion dominated by an older and wiser America.

Incidentally, neoconservative tool Rubio brought up some bad memories, during a September, Fox News broadcast, when he called for a “new American century,” an impetus that elicited a Halloween shudder.

The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) consisted of a group of prominent global interventionists close to or in the administration of Bush II. This group—among whom were neoconservatives Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz—had formulated a scheme for a post-Hussein Iraq well before September 11. By the early summer of 2001, Bush had assembled his neocon posse whose plan to go global could, at the time, be found on the Project for the New American Century’s website.

But I digress (or maybe not).

According to historian Clement Wood, it is an unwritten law followed “scrupulously,” “although omitted from the Constitution,” that the Speaker of the House of Representatives possesses “the czar-like power” “to recognize only such members as he pleases, and thereby strongly to influence legislation.”

After playing hard to get, pampered prima donna Paul Ryan agreed to assume the czar-like powers of Speaker of the House.

Much media coverage was given over to young Ryan’s feminist-worthy demand for a work-life balance. … Lost in the victory Ryan scored with feminists was the blow he dealt to the Republican insurgency rising. …

… Read the rest. “A Halloween Horror Story In The People’s House” is now on The Unz Review, America’s smartest webzine.

UPDATE: So you know: “Marco Rubio’s New Billionaire Backer Top Funder for Open Borders.”

GOP Establishment Big Guns (‘The Kochtopus’) To Tackle Trump

Classical Liberalism, libertarianism, Media, Politics, Republicans

Megyn Kelly was first to galvanize the Koch Brothers, the big GOP guns, in her crusade against the one anti-establishment Republican candidate. Her love-in with Charles Koch exemplified the Barbara Walters school of “journalism,” so admired by Kelly. Kelly’s clucking and cooing over Koch was truly a disgraceful bit of journalism.

This libertarian’s curiosity was piqued when Kelly, who hates Trump, solicited comments from Koch about his ideological bent. Koch called himself a classical liberal, then scratched his nose in discomfort and went on to mischaracterize classical liberalism. Kelly was clueless, so she was unable to quiz Koch further.

In any case, it was obvious that Kelly was bringing out the GOP’s biggest ammunition against Trump. The Trump guy is doing something right if he’s angering the Koch kingmakers.

Although late in the day, the Wall Street Journal is hard on Kelly’s Jimmy Choo heels, featuring an article about Koch complaining about Trump:

… Asked whether he thinks the rise, and media coverage, of Donald Trump in the GOP field has distracted from serious policy discussions, he said, “Well, yeah. I mean, critical for a free society is tolerance,” an apparent reference to Mr. Trump’s comments about immigrants and women that some have called insensitive. …

“Talk to the hand,” the American people seem to be telling the establishment.

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David Gordon details how “The Kochtopus” went up against Mr. Libertarian himself:

“The Kochtopus vs. Murray N. Rothbard”