Comments on: The Republican Party's Campaign Of Co-optation https://barelyablog.com/the-republican-partys-campaign-of-co-optation-2/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Myron Pauli https://barelyablog.com/the-republican-partys-campaign-of-co-optation-2/comment-page-1/#comment-16789 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:20:36 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=29638#comment-16789 The “smoking gun” of Republican PERFIDY is Republicans they will never propose any real CUTS in government. They will “cut waste” or “eliminate earmarks” (a triviality dwarfed by all the extra “troops” they want to fling over the globe). Alternatively, they propose nonsensical procedural gimmicks like a “Budget Balanced Amendment” (so Sonia Sotomayor gets to impose a sales tax!!??) or “Term Limits” (where Frank Murkowski gets replaced by Lisa Murkowski). Those gimmicks are as worthless as Pelosi’s “Pay As You Go” where you pay for Obamacare by promising to cut some other spending in Year 2019. Even Rand Paul; striving to be “mainstream” to the Kristols, Gersons, and Krauthammers of the world, has been disappointing.

Undoubtedly there are many sincere Tea Party goers, small businessmen, and others who are disgusted at the current socialistic slide of the country (which Bush helped greatly) but they are caught in the Partisan Media Shell Game:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_game

The government power brokers and their bipartisan quasi-fascistic “private sector” allies – the “contractors”, banksters, lobbyists, agribusinesses – cling like barnacles to the Titanic as it careens towards the iceberg. Changing from Captain Bush to Captain Obama to Captain Romney is like steering between Scylla and Charybdis:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scylla_and_Charybdis

Pathetic!

]]> By: Roger Chaillet https://barelyablog.com/the-republican-partys-campaign-of-co-optation-2/comment-page-1/#comment-16788 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:08:43 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=29638#comment-16788 I used to be a member of Moore’s Club for Growth.

I stopped reading his missives when he came out swinging for more immigration.

He’s another Establishment fraud.

]]> By: james huggins https://barelyablog.com/the-republican-partys-campaign-of-co-optation-2/comment-page-1/#comment-16787 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:52:03 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=29638#comment-16787 I am told that there are some primitive cultures that periodically leave children on the sides of mountains to be devoured by wild beasts. Stephen Moore would no doubt like to move there.

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