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November 10, 2005Attention GOP Leadership:If your plan was to make people so disgusted with your cowardice, your disorganization and your political tone-deafness that they either stop contributing to the RNC, or they decide to just sit out the next election (because what’s the point), or they decide to vote out every stinking one of you in the next elections, because you freaking well deserve ouster for literally doing nothing constructive and squandering your majority…well…you have succeeded spectacularly! Beyond your wildest imaginings, I am sure. I can’t think of a single reason to vote to re-elect a any one of you. The world is tilting, and you useless, ineffectual, dithering moneysuckers seem increasingly to be empty suits, given shape and movement not by ideas and a willingness to serve the electorate, but by wispy tufts of ambitious smoke. You seem directed toward nothing more than keeping your almighty Senate or House seat in your name. You give away your power, you give away your advantages in committee, you leave in place utterly feckless people like Arlen Specter and then, when you finally seem like you are on the cusp of doing something productive and right, like investigating the CIA or okaying drilling in a bare, muddly, uninhabitable tundra, you fall into a faint and go slinking back to your states and districts to gladhand and pump for money and then gladhand some more. In Vegas they have a name for folks like you, who smile and smile and dig money out of people while giving them nothing, literally nothing - not even a loveless tumble, for their dough. They’re called shills. Dolled up, ultra-cleavaged bimbos whose whole job is to create illusions - they are there to make a weakling feel strong, attractive and witty, until he goes broke, at which point the shills toe it for another table, and start romancing the chips away from another dumb schlub. A guy doesn’t usually realize he’s been shilled until he’s back from vacation, staring at his empty bank account and his bills, and wondering what madness possessed him to tarry so long with a broad so empty. Well, you folks are the broads, and I’m tired of being shilled. I only became a Republican because I wanted to be able to vote in primaries and I admired George W. Bush. I don’t need to be a Republican anymore. I can’t see what possible purpose there is to it. This is like watching a World Series where the series is tied 3 games to 3 and the stronger team comes out on the field and declares, “we forfeit. We just don’t feel like playin’ anymore…” I used to believe that Americans got the leadership they deserved. I don’t believe that anymore. I don’t believe anyone “deserves” this sort of testacle-free, untrustworthy so-called “leadership.” I ain’t gonna be a chump again. The shills are exposed. All bets are off. I will spend the next election, and the one following it, doing everything I can to replace you disappointing, entrenched frauds and fakers with real people who have real stakes in what is going on in the nation and want to effect real change for the better. Michelle Malkin has a collection of letters folks have sent to their reps. I suppose the writing is a good idea, but ultimately, these fools will not listen to a word of it, until they are ousted. Today the Marines mark their 230th Anniversary, too bad their examples of courage, sacrifice and honor are not reflected in the congress they help protect. UPDATE: An emailer named Brian has taken me to task for excoriating these GOP “leaders” in a manner reminiscent of how he and others had excoriated the president upon his nomination of Harriet Miers, for SCOTUS. As I wrote in response: Correct. and don’t think I hadn’t thought of them as I was writing my rant - I did - I recognised that I was, in some measure, feeling very much as the anti-Miers folks must have felt at her nomination. But the biggest part of my un-ease with the attacks against Miers was due to her not being permitted her hearing, the president being told one month that he had the right to his nominees, and the next month being told - by the same folks - that he had no right to his nominee, at all. In the end, we may both be demanding that they - the GOP and the President - dance with the ones who brung ‘em, so to speak, that’s true, but I had naively believed that what we all had said re Roberts - that the president was entitled to his nominee - was also true. I also felt that the president had nominated enough sterling judicial nominees to have earned the benefit of the doubt on Miers. Our reps, on the other hand, have done nothing lately to have earned that same benefit. As to whether my anger here is edifyingly Christian? I can’t say; it probably is not, but then again, I’ve never suggested that I am an edifying Christian - mostly I make a point of telling you how frequently I blow it - which is why I need God! Near as I can tell, anger isn’t a sin unless you let the sun go down on it. I rarely do that, and there is nothing wrong with a fine Irish rant of a blustery afternoon - particularly when the GOP leadership needs a good kickin’. There’s other angry folk out there - apparently Ankle Biting Pundit was pretty steamed last night, and Dr. Sanity, too - her post on “the game” is a must-read. Neo-neocon writes a thoughtful post on our weariness, but gives us a Churchillian reminder! Lorie Byrd hassome choice words, too. Prof. Bainbridge is feeling pretty much as I do, but he’s also angry at Bush and calling him an imposter. I’m not ready to say that - when you read that people think the economy is “bad” you realize that much of what is happening to Bush is simply the press doing a very effective job of talking down any good news. Michelle Malkin is posting reader emails and they’re pretty toasty! http://theanchoressonline.com/2005/11/10/attention-gop-leadership/trackback/ 30 Responses to “Attention GOP Leadership:” |
November 10th, 2005 at 12:38 pm
My Dear Anchoress,
Golly-did you trip over the cat this morning?
It’s hard to argue with your points, except to say to consider if the alternative will be an improvement. At least the Republicans are selective about the special interests they are willing to prostitute themselves for-the Dem’s are just plain slutty in that regard.
Have a Blessed day,
oddball
November 10th, 2005 at 12:40 pm
The alternative is to vote in NEW Republicans and get rid of these spineless boys and girls. Yes, it will be better.
November 10th, 2005 at 12:42 pm
Amen. I wish you had not been so circumspect, and had REALLY opened up with both barrels. Republicans suck eggs.
November 10th, 2005 at 1:24 pm
Wow. If the price for having an empty pants rise is being obliterated by a long, wonderful, and luminious rhetorical B-52 bombing run like this, I solemly promise never to abandon the courage of my convictions in your presence again!
-Unfortunately, our dear majority and its leaders (whether in one whited sephulcre or another, on Pennsylvania Avenue, under the Dome, or at Blair House) are finally discovering that in America you cannot rule. You must govern.
-To govern you have to acknowledge that the citizens of the minority at least exist, and have something to say, even if they didn’t “win” the election.
-Those neither in the “majority” or the “minority” were scared into propping up the “majority” mostly by a highly effective political advertising smear, and partially by an inept Democratic Party that nominated a world-class dweeb. They gave the “majority” a razor-edged margin, not a “mandate.”
-They really didn’t believe in the “agenda” that the noisy Republican base would bring to Congress, and they wanted to see somethiing like tangible results [beyond pictures of smiling Iraqi voting, recycled over and over] from our foreign adventures.
-They’ve seen results, all right. In Amman. Courtesy of the new generation of bomb makers whose skills we are honing to perfection in Bagdhad. Too bad we can’t conduct one of the endless Operation Mop-Em-Ups in Amman. Or in the British subway system. Or and or and or.
-Too bad we’ve demoralized and betrayed our real first line of defense against terrorism: the Central Intelligence Agency.
-Too bad we’ve tied up all our serious military options, which will soon be needed elsewhere. I’ll let you guess where.
-But, keep fighting, Anchoress. I’d much rather have you as an adversary then Bill Frist as an ally any day of the week.
-Start naming some names of the gutless wonders with the American Flags in their lapels, and quit bothering with impotent journalists, febrile ex-ambassadors, and nameless Islamic hordes overruning Western Civilization. Your writing is too good to waste on such targets.
-Your writing is very good indeed.
November 10th, 2005 at 1:27 pm
Please forgive my sins with HTML code, and please, if you have it in your heart, correct them and restore my good name!
November 10th, 2005 at 1:39 pm
Your code looks fine to me, Joe. But your reasoning doesn’t. If you think majority dems plan to “govern” when they get back in power, you’re not paying attention. WIth the adoring and unquestioning press behind them, America will look very different 20 years from now than it ever has. Of course, you’re counting on that. I’m not.
November 10th, 2005 at 1:44 pm
I used to vote for dems, repubs and libs, after studying each candidate’s agenda. But for me, the Demo Party I registered as in 1978, has become the party holding some immoral positions that make me want to puke, and I cannot support a candidate that follows their platform to a tee. A renegade Dem, sure, but not a conforming one.
So, I’m left with this weenie ass party that is squandering the power it has been given. We have Congress. We have the White House. And, if God wills it, we will soon have the Supreme Court.
But what good if they will not have the courage to band together and get things DONE. I want my representatives to have cojones. To face up to the lying left, yes, but to also face up to the stupidities in their own party and do right in the sight of man and God.
I’m happy when a R beats a D, because a D can do a lot more damage than even a weenie R, but a weenie R can’t be a great leader.
Let’s pray harder, folks. I’ve been praying A LOT, but we need to storm heaven for our leadership.
Mir
November 10th, 2005 at 1:47 pm
Joe, there isn’t any leadership in the D’s, either. And their agenda is a lot more dangerous than anything the R’s have to the soul of the nation. I don’t want to be Europe, thanks very much.
Except, the MSM will laud the D’s and cover up pr justify their iniquities with fervor they nitpick the R’s sins.
Mir
November 10th, 2005 at 1:53 pm
My feeling any more is that there’s no party that is better than any of the others. There may be, here and there, candidates on either side who are more trustworthy or less likely to give in to what my father calls “The Washington Disease.” But they seem to be few and far between.
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I’m hoping next election we get some viable candidates - people I can vote for without holding my nose. I’m more of a Republican than I am a Democrat, but I’d vote for an honest, principled, non-caver-to-special-interests Democrat over a spineless or bought-out Republican any day.
November 10th, 2005 at 3:26 pm
Republicans Cave . . . Again!
While the Senate tries to punish oil companies for making a profit, the House drops a bill that would allow for more drilling. If our politicians really want to blame someone for high gas prices, they should look inward.
November 10th, 2005 at 3:31 pm
You know, I didn’t favor term limits because I opposed the Dems, I favored term limits because ALL politicians lose all touch with reality if they are there too long, and they tend to misplace their priorities if they think of public office as a “career” choice. Nearly everyone in Congress has overstayed their welcome. Even the “good” people in Congress, like Henry Hyde, Orrin Hatch, and others need to leave because they have been there far too long. Government by an established and perpetual political class is doomed to cause society to come crashing down. It also prevents any decent presidential candidates from ever developing. Only if we are ever allowed to get some new blood in there are we going to see positive change.
November 10th, 2005 at 3:57 pm
[...] The Anchoress is livid. [...]
November 10th, 2005 at 4:00 pm
A fine and truthful Irish rant. Must
be something in the air today as
Dr.Sanity also vents with gusto today.
Bravo to both you “scary” ladies!
MoDo must be jealous that it can be done
with wit and taste and truth.
November 10th, 2005 at 4:08 pm
Joseph said:
-To govern you have to acknowledge that the citizens of the minority at least exist, and have something to say, even if they didn’t “win” the election.
Nicely said, but there are some things that I as a voter (and if I were elected, a lawmaker) that are non-negotiable. One of those things is the life of the unborn.
You Democrats (I’m assuming you’re a Democrat) and us Republicans need to start putting the sharpest knives in the drawer up for our elections. This might mean overhauling our parties so there is no obstruction to the cream rising to the top. Had you put a Presidential candidate such as Joe Leiberman up there, I would have been honored to vote for him. I would have preferred John McCain as the Republican nominee. But as long as your party is co-opted by immoral loonies such as Kennedy and Schumer (and ours is co-opted by our own brand of loonies), nothing is going to change.
Give us some electable Democrats.
November 10th, 2005 at 4:28 pm
Find better Republicans in the primaries and vote for them. Vote for them again in the general election.
November 10th, 2005 at 7:27 pm
As to whether my anger here is edifyingly Christian?
-Even if you are imitating Christ driving the moneychangers from the temple, you are still imitating Christ.
-I’m perfectly sure that you would be willing to pray for the repose of the souls of those who are angering you, so I see no reason why you shouldn’t be perfectly forthright about their actions, if they annoy you.
If you think majority dems plan to “govern” when they get back in power, you’re not paying attention.
-If they want to get anything done they will. Bill Clinton found this out early in his first term with his health insurance debacle. You spend too much time looking at the frothys like me that you find on the blogs who will never have the responsiblity of governing anything, even themselves.
-Look rather, if you are interested, at characters like Michael Coleman, mayor of my town, who has about a 40% chance, at the moment, of becoming the next governor of Ohio, if you want to see Democratic government in action.
-I doubt he’ll be nominated for President, but he is the epitome of “politics as the art of the possible”. We actually have a lot like him among Democrats.
I don’t want to be Europe, thanks very much.
-What on earth makes you think you will be? If there is one outstanding lesson to be learned from all the elections since 1978, and the consistent percentage of party self-identification, or lack of it, in this great land, is that nobody is going to push the country very far one way or the other. That is my point. Nobody will “rule”. Everybody must govern.
I favored term limits because ALL politicians lose all touch with reality if they are there too long
-This is simply not true. I have watched my state government totally degenerate under term limits. Why? Because no one in our legislature has to face the long term consequences of any bill that passes.
-If it makes them immediately popular, they will pass it. If it doesn’t they won’t. They will be gone from office anyway.
-The fine career politicians [mostly Republican, by the way] who used to run Ohio would never have even contemplated some of the extraordinary pieces of short term expediency with long term disasters attached that now routinely pass in Ohio’s Legislature.
but there are some things that are non-negotiable. One of those things is the life of the unborn
-I hate to disappoint you, but this is exactly the issue where the party in power is betraying you the most. As long as Roe v. Wade stands they will have the “values” vote glued to them.
-And with every passing year that decision stands, the possibility that the Supreme Court will reverse it diminishes, no matter how many “conservatives” the court is packed with. Just recently Judge Alito made some quite illuminating remarks about this. Anyone who is actively anti-abortion should read them very carefully.
-The party in power has consistently steered you away from a Constitutional change (which just might pass under the right circumstances with the right effort) and toward mere legislative sniping (”not under 18″, “not without parental knowledge”) that merely cements the court precedents more deeply into the fabric of our law as these pieces of legislative guerilla warfare are successively (and succesfully) challenged.
-A character like Karl Rove is perfectly willing to string you along forever on this one. Since you will vote your values above all else, he has your votes for good.
Find better Republicans in the primaries and vote for them.
-You won’t find them. You will have to make them by getting involved and making a nuisance of yourself within your own party.
-This is the message that Howard Dean brought to those of us on the other side of the fence: The most important Democrat to elect right now might just be a young County Commisioner or a School Board Member, because they are your party’s future. You don’t have to wait for Washington to do that.
-If you look into it, you will find that DFA and DNC are putting the money and the effort right there,into that principle.
-I’ll give you two tips about the immediate future of Democratic politics. Ignore anything Howard Dean says and watch what he does. And ignore anything Harry Reid does and listen to what he says.
-If you do these two things, the long term Democratic strategy will be quite plain, if you have eyes to see.
November 10th, 2005 at 7:42 pm
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November 10th, 2005 at 8:22 pm
A party needs both strategy and tactics to govern. Strategy is based on principles–on thinking in depth about the consequences of principles.
Reagan had both strategy and tactics. When I disagreed with him or things went badly, I usually would give him the benefit of the doubt because he had core values.
The last batch of Republicans that gave indications of serious thought about core values were the Contract Republicans. Unfortunately, their tactics were terrible after they took power, and they let Bill Clinton run rings around them.
I see tactics without strategy in the current batch of Republicans.
Two biblical sayings come to this agnostic’s mind: “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” and “You are neither hot nor cold but tepid, and I will spew you from my mouth.”.
November 10th, 2005 at 8:48 pm
Capitol RINOsaurs And Congress Critters In The Crosshairs
Conservatives have yet another item to be upset about as House leaders scrapped the plan to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling in order to pass a $51 billion deficit-reduction program. Both items were priorities, but the…
November 10th, 2005 at 9:53 pm
Anchoress,
Don’t mince words - tell us what you REALLY think!
All kidding aside I am with you 100%. If we are going to focus our energies and sacrifice time and money only for these dolts to fumble on the 1 yard line - forget it.
You can only ask so many times without results before it is over.
You know why VA has elected two democrat governors in a row? Republican infighting and indecesivensess.
You are 100% right and reflect well on all of us. If we do not take a stand and send a message when we need to, we become the shills.
November 11th, 2005 at 6:18 am
You know what might get things done? Then eliminate withholding taxes. On April 15th, make everyone write out a check for all his taxes: federal, state, and all the taxes that are hidden like the ones on cell phones, utilities etc., etc. When the taxpayer sees just how BIG a bite is taken out of his paycheck, we’ll have a second American Revolution.
When I think of all the pork - all the useless projects - all the things named after Robert Byrd….I am NOT forgetting this come 2006!
November 15th, 2005 at 1:42 pm
Tuesday Revue - November 15, 2005
This week’s Revue starts off with a post that immediately struck me as something Mencken would have written, if he’d been Albertan, an Oilers fan and a faithful reader of blogs. [U]rging good cheer is pointless. The Edmonton Oiler fan has been chosen…
November 16th, 2005 at 9:16 pm
Hmm…we’ve all been drinking the rant water again. I just went off on that stupid, spineless Warner amendment. See here:
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2005/11/gang-of-invertebrates-in-senate.html
(I can never remember if you take html so I didn’t hyperlink it.
You could even come over and rant some.
I put the whole ugly thing up so people are free to pick over the carcass and choose their favorite ugly. As you’ll see, I already fisked the ones that made me a candidate for blood pressure medicine.
November 21st, 2005 at 9:28 am
Watcher’s Council Results
The winning entries in the Watcher’s Council vote for this week are Let’s Discuss Bush Derangement Syndrome Again by Dr. Sanity, and Attention GOP Leadership: by The Anchoress. The link to both winning entries can be found here. Also, if y…
November 22nd, 2005 at 10:18 am
Watcher’s Council best posts week ending November 17
The Watcher’s Council selected these best posts from among those nominated for the week ending November 17. Dr. Sanity’s Let’s Discuss Bush Derangement Syndrome Again won in the Council category. What makes Bush Hatred completely insane however, is …
November 22nd, 2005 at 2:16 pm
[...] The full results are available here. Dr. Sanity won the council category with Let’s Discuss Bush Derangement Syndrome Again. On the non-council side of the equation, the Anchoress won with Attention GOP Leadership. Congrats to all. [...]
November 25th, 2005 at 9:24 am
[...] The winning non-Council post was The Anchoress’s throwing down of the gauntlet to Republican Party leaders, “Attention GOP Leadership”. The second-place post was Varifrank’s “The J. Patrick Buchanan Memorial Library for Failed Prophets of Doom”. [...]
December 8th, 2005 at 11:50 pm
[...] In the November 18th contest, our winners were a nearly-clinical assessment of Bush Derangement Syndrome from Dr. Sanity and a rare but much-needed rant to the GOP Leadership from my friend, The Anchoress. Two excellent posts from two very smart women. [...]
September 21st, 2006 at 12:48 pm
[...] Then again, it’s not like the GOP made a quick job of condemning Chavez, either…but they’ve been lacking cojones for a while. [...]
January 23rd, 2007 at 9:45 pm
[...] See also: The Anchoress! [...]