Mavericks and Mutiny
June 3rd, 2005 at 9:48 am by Preston Taylor HolmesThere have been some great columns this week covering last week’s McCain Mutiny and the self-absorbed Maverick’s deal – done with the eager assistance of the Sellout Seven – or as Ann Coulter called them, Seven “Extraordinary” Idiots.
You may remember, the seven very special GOP senators who showed their true colors to be a dingy yellow running down the center of their backs. Coulter:
The seven Republicans we’re not leaving in charge of the national treasury believed they could trust the Democrats to interpret “extraordinary circumstances” fairly. And why not? It’s not as if the Democrats have behaved outrageously for the past four years using their minority status to block Bush’s nominees. Oh wait – no, I have that wrong. The Democrats have behaved outrageously for the past four years using their minority status to block Bush’s nominees.
The Sellout Seven were likely driven by two motiviations – 1) the love and admiration of the mainstream press for their moderate “bravery” and 2) their true political leanings – liberal. It’s a well-established fact that most northeastern Republicrats are rightly considered “liberal” despite their GOP label. Just as Donks in the northeast are harder left than southern Donks, the northeastern GOP is harder left than the southern GOP. It’s all relative on a moving scale of duplicity.
And just how long did it take for the “deal that saved all of humanity” (Sen. Byrd) to be exposed for the nightmare that it is? About 48 hours or so.
At least it wasn’t an important job.
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The Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, thought the party with the most votes should be able to win. (Boy – talk about out of touch! And this guy wants to be president?)
The seven “maverick” Republicans thought a better idea would be to crawl to the minority party and plead for crumbs. If the “maverick” Republicans had a slogan, it would be: “Always surrender from a position of strength.”
Apparently sending Orville Reddenbacher to the United Nations was so troublesome to RINO Senator George Voinovich (OH) that he broke down in tears in the well of the Senate because he is worried that the world might be mad at us.
Lucky for George, America is rallying around him in support via a new website – ConsoleGeorge.Com. You can watch the video of George’s tearful plea for “friends around the world” and perhaps you can feel his pain as well. The website also provides George’s address so that you can send him a few extra tissues for when he is particularly overwrought about how the Ivory Coast or Paraguay is feeling about us at any given time.
He cares so much it HURTS.
Sometimes it hurts so much, he CRIES.
How bad was the Sellout Seven’s deal? In another excellent column this week, Pat Buchanan summarized the situation perfectly.
And the Senate was about to dynamite the last obstacle to President Bush’s honoring of his pledge to end judicial activism. The road was about to be opened for two, three or perhaps four Supreme Court justices, who would bring an end to the social revolution that has been imposed upon us from above since the time of Earl Warren.
Victory was at hand.
But that evening, Sen. John McCain and six other Republicans defected and threw victory away. They agreed to let Reid and Co. keep the filibuster-veto, if they would agree only to use it in “extraordinary circumstances.”
The naivete of the moderate Republican is a thing to behold.
Is it naivete, ego or simple stupidity? It’s hard to tell with today’s GOP. Buchanan goes on to stress the importance of ending the filibuster to get strict-constructionist judges on the supreme court – to at least partially stem the tide of the leftist judges who look more and more to international law to support whichever twisted interpretation of the constitution is necessary to fit their social agenda.
The mega-issue here, then, is: Who shall rule us? Shall it be unelected Supreme Court justices? Or elected legislators we can replace at election time? Is America a judicial dictatorship or a constitutional republic?
It’s looking more and more like a judicial dictatorship to me. But hey, no big deal. I’m just supposed to chill out, don’t rock the boat, man…. Just because I voted for a party that used to stand for smaller government, tax reform, strict-constructionist judges and a stronger national defense doesn’t mean I should complain when I barely get 1 out of 4. I’ll just be over here… in the back of the GOP campaign bus with my mouth shut.
Speaking of The Maverick, thanks to his campaign finance anti-free-speech law, this post may have to be modified according to new governmental guidelines as set out by The Maverick and the Federal Election Commission. Goldstein hits The Maverick on the head – he’s a “nannystatist fucktard” – and that’s about the closest I could ever come to complementing the Senatorial Shitstain.
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June 3rd, 2005 at 10:55 am
Preston, hey, just a quick comment. I’m the dastardedly fool that started the Coalition of the Chillin’, and the last thing I was trying to do was suggest that people should ‘move to the back of the GOP bus’. I was just having some fun with what I saw as an extremely overblown reaction from some folks – the judicial deal IS important, and we can differ on whether it was a good deal or not…but when I see people threatening to leave the party(!) over it, I think things are a little exagerrated. And I’m right with you on McCain-Feingold – it’s a travesty, and I’m in the Online Coaliton and right in the front lines with every one else. Keep up the great work…
June 3rd, 2005 at 11:00 am
Ah, I see the problem here. Preston got on the GOP bus when he was supposed to get on the short yellow bus.
June 3rd, 2005 at 11:17 am
First of all, Eric, I have feelings too, so be nice. Don’t make me cry like Voinovich.
Mark, I understood where you were coming from with the Chillin’ Coalition and there are quite a few bloggers I respect signed on (Beth, INDC and the Commissar come to mind). I know you weren’t implying that dissenters need to get to the back of the bus.
My objection is with the support-the-party-no-matter-what mentality that seems to fly in the face of the reality of the modern GOP.
I’ve run out of patience with the repeated betrayal by GOP politicians since the 94 contract-with-America-coalition fell apart.
I’m an independent conservative that has voted GOP by necessity and my willingness to do so is running out with each subsequent display of legislative weakness.
Hope that clarifies and thanks for checking in.
June 3rd, 2005 at 9:26 pm
Is it naivete, ego or simple stupidity?
Naigidity?
Stuegete?
Egopidete?
There is something there, I’ll get back to you.