If America Seems Ungovernable To Liberals, Then Maybe They Should Stop Trying To Govern Us Into France.

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If America Seems Ungovernable To Liberals, Then Maybe They Should Stop Trying To Govern Us Into France.

Written By : John Hawkins

Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby. — P. J. O’Rourke

Paul Krugman’s latest missive from the heart of outoftouchastan is a reprise of the same complaints that have appeared everywhere on the left since Scott Brown was elected:

What we’re getting instead is less a tragedy than a deadly farce. Instead of fraying under the strain of imperial overstretch, we’re paralyzed by procedure. Instead of re-enacting the decline and fall of Rome, we’re re-enacting the dissolution of 18th-century Poland.

A brief history lesson: In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Polish legislature, the Sejm, operated on the unanimity principle: any member could nullify legislation by shouting “I do not allow!” This made the nation largely ungovernable, and neighboring regimes began hacking off pieces of its territory. By 1795 Poland had disappeared, not to re-emerge for more than a century.

Today, the U.S. Senate seems determined to make the Sejm look good by comparison.

…In the past, holds were used sparingly. That’s because, as a Congressional Research Service report on the practice says, the Senate used to be ruled by “traditions of comity, courtesy, reciprocity, and accommodation.” But that was then. Rules that used to be workable have become crippling now that one of the nation’s major political parties has descended into nihilism, seeing no harm — in fact, political dividends — in making the nation ungovernable.

How bad is it? It’s so bad that I miss Newt Gingrich.

…The truth is that given the state of American politics, the way the Senate works is no longer consistent with a functioning government. Senators themselves should recognize this fact and push through changes in those rules, including eliminating or at least limiting the filibuster. This is something they could and should do, by majority vote, on the first day of the next Senate session.

Don’t hold your breath. As it is, Democrats don’t even seem able to score political points by highlighting their opponents’ obstructionism.

It should be a simple message (and it should have been the central message in Massachusetts): a vote for a Republican, no matter what you think of him as a person, is a vote for paralysis.

The irony of this is that far too many bad bills have gotten through Congress of late. TARP at the end of Bush’s presidency, anyone? A stimulus bill that cost more than the Vietnam and Iraq wars combined that’s been so ineffective that they’re talking about going for round 2? Cash for Clunkers? Pretty much everything that has passed Congress since this crisis began and everything they’ve tried to do has been dogcrap-on-the-bottom-of-your-shoe bad — why do you think they’re having trouble passing it?

Moreover, look at what Krugman’s really complaining about: the Democrats can do almost anything they want — if they can get a single Republican senator to go along. What does it say about these bills when they can’t get a single vote from a gang of Republicans that includes John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, George Voinovich, and Robert Bennett?

The Democrats keep putting up this unpopular, ultra-left-wing, future-killing legislation that the American people don’t want and what — Republicans are supposed to toss their principles over the side and just go along with it? Why? “Oh, if they don’t, the country will be ungovernable!” Please, spare us this horse flop.

Barack Obama has been trying to take advantage of an economic crisis to pass every agenda item on the liberal wishlist, despite the fact that health care, cap and trade, card check, and the other garbage they want to ram through have nothing to do with fixing our economic problems and will help sink this country over the long-term.

In other words, Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Krugman and Company can’t wait to commit national suicide and they’re complaining that the “Party of No” won’t let them have any bottles of pills or razor blades. If that makes the country “ungovernable” in the eyes of liberals, then maybe they should stop trying to “govern” us into France.

DCS

How much longer before the rest of America wakes up and realizes that a leftist can never, in any way, be a good American because of what they believe?

How much longer before we realize the enemy is not outside the camp, but inside and pretending to be our ally? How many more people must die before we say “Enough!”?

It’s time we took the gloves off and made these pussies remeber that it was real men, not them, that built this country into what it is today.

They want to accuse us of not playing nice? Fine, take their “Rules for Radicals” playbook and shove it back down their throat. It’s dependent upon the idea that most people don’t want confrontation, so we take it and turn it back on them.

Leftists, at heart, are gutless cowards who want their way, but don’t want to work for it. That can be exploited and used against them because the vast majority of people in America reject this world view.

It’s time we either get in the fight and slug it out with them or raise the white flag and start referring to our nation as Americastan because that’s exactly what is at stake here. Just look at where Europe is now (broke and being overran by Muslim hordes) and you’re looking at our future if we don’t dig our heels in now.
Jack Schite

France is awesome. Have you ever been John? I lived in Paris for a while and loved it.

If the republicans want a different direction they need to propose an alternative. Oh wait, they gave but it’s the same old song and dance. Their policies for the last thirty years took us to the brink of financial collapse and now they offer two options: more of the same tax cuts and deregulation, or a “no” to everything else.

Krugman is right as usual, John. It’s easy to tell when you spend more time attacking the messenger than you do the message.
Mike_M

Krugman, like all liberals, is secretly pining for a dictatorship because his party was too bunglingly incompetent to advance their agenda even with absolute power in Washington.

Guess what libs, you blew it. All the “we won the election” trumpeting you did over the last year is dead and gone. You squandered it on corruption and cheap power plays. You put pompous assholes like Van Jones and Rahm Emannuel in positions of power and they pissed everybody off and turned them against you.

The era of big government is drawing to a close, and Obama will be remembered as the one that pounded the final nails into the coffin with his reckless spending and utterly pathetic leadership that destabalized the welfare state to the point where the dependents the Dems have worked so hard to create have learned they can no longer rely on the government.
http://TheNixonTape.Blogspot.Com Dick_Nixon

France is awesome.

Nixon knows several relocation companies in the DC area Jack that can help you return. Although, let’s face it, France is a third world shit hole with decent food, over rated social life, and a thriving trend in torching cars by it’s Muslim population.

Since January 2007, the US economy has gone in the shitter. What happened that month Jack?
http://guardian.blogdrive.com/ CavalierX

France is awesome.

Sure. The car fires keep the place well-lit every night, and the old and poor die off in droves every summer to make room for more illegal immigrants from North Africa. Awesome.
CoolCzech

France is awesome. Have you ever been John? I lived in Paris for a while and loved it.

Posted by Jack Schite
2010-02-09 09:18:00

Why, yes of course you did. Liberals, after all, are by nature haughty cheese-eating surrender monkeys.

But tell me: the French have built some 90 nuclear reactors. You suck French toes and kiss French butt at every opportunity… think we need more nuke power in America?
CoolCzech

“Krugman, like all liberals, is secretly pining for a dictatorship because his party was too bunglingly incompetent to advance their agenda even with absolute power in Washington.”

Or not so secretly.

Doesn’t Tom Friedman always pop a chubby when raving about how the “enlightened” Evil Totalitarian Communist Regime of Red China “Makes the Trains Run on Time?”

No one worries about filibusters in Beijing, right?
CoolCzech

“France is awesome. Have you ever been John? I lived in Paris for a while and loved it.

If the republicans want a different direction they need to propose an alternative.”

- Jack Shithead

Well, how’s this for an idea: instead of France, how about having the USA become more like America.
Jack Schite

Actually with the end of white affirmative action it is becoming more like the promise of America, coolczech, and that’s what has the white mad hatter republican panties in a bunch.

Liberals are as American as conservatives are ignorant, and that’s why this is a great country.
CoolCzech

You mean the Promise of America was to be like France one day?

Who’d a thunk?

You’ve got it SO wrong, Jack… we ex-Europeans have come here to get AWAY from Europe and it’s so-called “Elites.” Not to mention Soviet-style healthcare and economics. We’ll be damned if we ever allow lefties that have no idea what its actually like to live like that drag Europe here after us.
Drake

Liberals are as American as conservatives are ignorant, and that’s why this is a great country.

Priceless.
Mike_M

Posted by Jack Schite
2010-02-09 10:38:45

Yeah, take your PhD girlfriend into the wrong Paris suburb without a hijab then come back and tell us how awesome France is.
airfr8er

Yeah, take your PhD girlfriend into the wrong Paris suburb without a hijab then come back and tell us how awesome France is.
Posted by Mike_M
2010-02-09 11:19:32

Muslims hate blow up dolls?
http://guardian.blogdrive.com/ CavalierX

Muslims hate blow up dolls?

I thought that was the term for a female suicide bomber!
http://shrines.rpgclassics.com/genesis/kingbounty/ Hack_the_Rogue

First up the troll:

France is awesome. Have you ever been John? I lived in Paris for a while and loved it.

Oh give it a break, little boy. No one here buys your fairy tale fictional bio. We all see it for exactly what it is: a misguided and stupid attempt to try to impress us. We’ve seen it before. Pretty much every troll who posts here claims to have some exotic job, is jet setting world traveler, is a millionare, etc. My point is that you are not fooling anyone here and should not even try.

As for France? France sucks. France has not been worth a shit since 1815. France has not shined as a nation since the days of the First Empire.

and that’s what has the white mad hatter republican panties in a bunch

You say “White” like it’s a bad thing. So like so many other leftists, you are a (probably self hating) anti-White racist. No suprise there.

And a quick comment to Dick Nixon….

France is not a third world country. It’s simply not fair or correct to label them as such…yet. But with the unchecked influx of hordes of primitive third worlders into the country their culture is rapidly being engulfed by third world values….much like our border regions are here in the US.
http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

The US isn’t governable, the Democrats in congress are just radical and incompetent. They have no leadership and are pressing an agenda the nation despises.

Leave it to elitist leftists to blame the US instead.