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Friday, January 30, 2009
The Desiccated Remains Part 2: A Strange Definition Of Tyranny
Ponder well the following snippet, from this blog:
We start with the House 188, the geniuses who voted against the stimulus package on the ground that it's "too liberal."When they and their staffs showed up for work this morning, they would have found that their security paraphernalia no longer gained them admittance to either the Capitol or the particular building that houses their offices. In fact, upon further checking they would have found that they no longer had offices. They would have found all their crap piled up on the sidewalk, with a Post-It note to identify each particular doodyhead's crap, accompanied by a note explaining that there was no particular rush about getting that crap the hell off the people's sidewalk, as long as it was gone by noon, when it would be moved to the Mall for a giant bonfire, with wienies and marshmallows provided for all spectators by their Uncle Sammy.
All money, all congressional privileges and perks would have been shut off, and bills would have been sent to their local residence addresses demanding repayment of every cent allotted to them in any fashion (including the cash equivalent of all goods and services provided -- yes, including "Sunny John" Boehner's tanning-salon visits) for "service" in the 111th Congress, now that they have officially committed themselves to not providing any service in the 111th Congress.
All their assets would be frozen, and all family members as well as all contributors to their 2008 campaigns would be rounded up and shipped to temporary relocation tents (or leftover FEMA trailers, where available) until their new Special Reeducation Center is ready for occupation at Guantanamo Bay, hopefully sometime in the next year. Those people would of course be ineligible to benefit in any way from any aspect of the government's efforts to combat the economic meltdown.
Any of the House 188 attempting to interfere with these new arrangements would be given one warning, and then arrested for obstruction of justice. In case of further disturbance, they would be designated terrorists with "enemy combatant" status and shipped off for a grand farewell tour of the CIA "black site" prisons. In cases of noncooperation, security personnel -- ideally not the same useless bunch that failed to police the inauguration -- would have authorization to blast the bastards' thieving brains out.
As for the Senate, the same treatment would apply immediately to RSCC honcho Sen. John Cornyn, who would be invited to provide a list of like-minded members who are committed to substituting their plan of nonstop obstruction above the interests of the country.
Yes, Gentle Reader, the name of that blog really is "Down With Tyranny." (Applause to Commonsense And Wonder for this link.)
Only a week ago today, your Curmudgeon wrote of the assault on freedom of speech and the vote by liberals who'd always claimed they were the whole of freedom. He got considerably more than his usual quota of hate mail for it; liberals have always hated to have their machinations dragged into the sunshine, but that post appeared to flick them in a particularly sensitive place. It started him thinking about the asymmetries between rightist protest and leftist rage, both in word and deed.
The Democrat caucuses on Capitol Hill under President Bush behaved as badly as any Congressional caucus for at least a hundred years. Their entire purpose was to obstruct and dishearten the Administration and the Republican Congressional majorities. Remember the assaults on the Bush tax cuts? Remember the battles over court nominations and the slanders heaped upon the nominated jurists? Remember the assaults on the president's Cabinet appointees? Remember the Democrats' treatment of John Bolton? Remember the way Senate Democrats threatened to bring the business of the chamber to a complete halt should any Republican dare to bring the president's partial Social Security privatization suggestion to the floor? Your Curmudgeon does.
Apparently, that wasn't evil. It was a principled, courageous stand against the BushHitlerCheneyHalliburton hydra and its limitless appetite for power. The mere suggestion of the "nuclear option" -- the suggestion that Senate procedural rules could be changed, by a simple majority vote, to prevent the filibustering of a nomination, in fairness to nominees who'd been waiting months or years -- had Democrats howling from coast to coast about the imminent arrival of totalitarianism. You'd swear the president had suggested rounding them up and clapping them into concentration camps. The elements of the status quo that facilitated their obstructionist maneuvers were treated as sacred.
But for Republicans, in their shrunken groups, to attempt the same thing? Hey, that's just wrong. Undemocratic. Flouting the Will Of The Pee-Pul. A hangin' offense, from the legislators all the way down to the cooks and gardeners.
Recent opinion polls show the citizenry steadily turning against the Democrats' agenda, most particularly the $825 billion "stimulus" bill. They're desperate to get their Mother Of All Pork Banquets catered before the Pee-Pul lose their appetite for it. Accordingly, we have President Obama thundering from the pulpit that we can't waste a moment in getting this Brobdingnagian monstrosity enacted: Someone in Foul Hollow, Tennessee might be in desperate need of emergency contraception!
So for a Republican to refuse to vote for it is tantamount to treason. At the very least, he should be cast out of office, stripped of all his worldly goods, and sentenced to sleep in a packing crate for the rest of his days. Or perhaps a decommissioned refrigerator; cardboard has been getting expensive.
Your Curmudgeon must apologize. He's been trying to milk a few laughs out of this tragedy, and he senses that he's not doing very well. But at least we have the Left's masks off, and little chance that they'll manage to get them back on in your Curmudgeon's lifetime:
- They want power.
- They want all the power -- no opposition will be countenanced. Anything they say about the sanctity of free expression or the vote is merely for cover.
- When out of power, they whine about being disenfranchised. and issue endless demands for conciliation, in the name of "bipartisanship."
- When in power, they redefine "bipartisanship" as "doing what we want."
- If they can't flatten the opposition, they'll vilify it until their tongues fall off.
- They have no compunctions about doing whatever they can get away with that's in their partisan interests.
- But their morals are infinitely superior to those of conservatives and libertarians, whom they'll cheerfully "re-educate" as soon as they get the chance.
Perhaps it's time to order a few thousand more rounds of .223 Remington.
Comments
I have been reading leftist villification of Conservatives all day. I feel battered and shocked shocked, almost as if I have been following a giant slug around all day, wallowing in its trail, and need to get rid of the clinging filth these people seem to ooze from every pore.
After reading the responses on Huffpost to the feature of W’s arrival in Texas (ugh. Nauseatingly evil), I thought that even a bath with lye soap wouldn’t scrub away the poison.
If we ever wondered where the left was going to channel its BDS hatred, I think we have our answer.
Posted by LizP on 01/31/2009 at 03:30 AMIt’s a bit surprising, nevertheless, to see them openly calling for members of Congress and their families to _literally_ be shipped off to concentration camps.
Posted by Matt on 01/31/2009 at 01:33 PMLiz and Matt,
This is not really new. Welcome to Wiemar circa 1933.Posted by ΛΕΟΝΙΔΑΣ on 01/31/2009 at 05:52 PMOh, the irony is simply delicious! Advocating the shipping of people who vote against you, and their families, off to some gulag; and all on a blog titled “down with tyranny.”
I thought the leftists prized themselves as intellectually superior!? I would think someone so intelligent as a compassionate progressive leftist would understand that what they posted here is not compassionate, not progressive, and most certainly the most vile form of fascism available for purview in today’s political machine.
Of course, leftists have always been good at getting rid of the opposition. Stalin killed 20 million simply to get rid of that pesky filibuster…
Posted by on 02/03/2009 at 01:38 AMThis is an interesting piece. Nancy Pelosi has made it abundantly clear that she neither needs, nor wants Republican cooperation with her agenda. This means that she and her Democrat cohorts can pass whatever legislation they like. I don’t understand why this joker believes that Republicans need to buy into it. Pass what you want, and don’t let Republicans share any credit…
The fear is, I think, that there won’t be any credit. The tired and shop-worn ideas don’t work, and what will happen is that the Democrats will end up covered in shit, and the Republicans will end up pure as the driven snow, just in time for the 2010 elections.
My hope is that they play the same game in the Senate, and the Republican Senators stand firm as a group.
Then the President will have a tough choice. Back up his call the bipartisanship with a presidential veto and an admonishment for his co-party members to get back to work on a real bi-partisan stimulus bill, or sign it and jump into the septic tank with the rest of them, proving once and for all that he’s all talk and no action.
It’s going to be really humorous. I’ll be buying a couple thou rounds of 7.62x39 to go with the Yugoslavian SKS I have on order.
Posted by Tony on 02/03/2009 at 03:51 PM
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