Are we seeing the death of the Democrat Party as we know it?

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Where did I say greed

If I had to search, I'd say in either yesterday's or Sunday's conversations about the home-loan bubble burst and the greedy bankers...






Jog a memory?

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

I have some lingering notion that the good Rosco can be brought along eventually.

I dunno...


Is he a rifleman, or a bagpipe player?

 

[rosco rathbone]

If I had to search, I'd say in either yesterday's or Sunday's conversations about the home-loan bubble burst and the greedy bankers...






Jog a memory?

I may have made a reference to "incentivizing anti-social behavior" but I'd never go throwing the gasoline of greed on this class war bonfire.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

I may have made a reference to "incentivizing anti-social behavior" but I'd never go throwing the gasoline of greed on this class war bonfire.

Okay, now THAT put a smile on my face...

 

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[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Those "Ladies from Hell" have been known to carry a dirk and a basket hilted Claymore, maybe if he hangs around with us long enough we can upgrade his kit.

*chuckle*



He is some sort of former union thug, no???

 

[rosco rathbone]

I have some lingering notion that the good Rosco can be brought along eventually.

I'm an NRA member, I'm pro-nuke and I believe in male supremacy in the household, but other than that, I'm a bleeding heart lib to the bone. Incorrigible.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

I'm an NRA member, I'm pro-nuke and I believe in male supremacy in the household, but other than that, I'm a bleeding heart lib to the bone. Incorrigible.

What about beating your wife?




I'm considering converting to Islam!!!

 

[rosco rathbone]

What about beating your wife?




I'm considering converting to Islam!!!

Only on the ass cheeks with a strop. Anything else is abusive.


I live in a neighborhood full of Muslims from SE Asia. I dig the women, very feminine, colorful clothes. The head covering seems to be an afterthought, not like the Saudis.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

All we got is Charlie in the rice fields...




... and the fingernail parlors.

Viet Cong women get too fat on an American diet...

 

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[Ishmael]

I hear you, but I'm really torn on the term limit idea. There really needs to be some residual memory...

What gets me is the fear of change. These "moderates" know they are loathed, but yet, it's the party that got them to the dance, so they seriously consider "taking one for the team."

But not to worry, in an ever-expanding government, we'll always need petty bureaucrats...
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"Who can seriously doubt . . . that the power which a multi-millionaire, who may be my neighbor and perhaps my employer, has over me is very much less than that which the smallest [bureaucrat] possess who wields the coercive power of the state and on whose discretion it depends whether and how I am to be allowed to live or to work?"
FA Hayek

The legislative memory is in the senate, where it was always intended to be. 3 terms in the senate (18 years) and you're out, 4 terms in the house (8 years).

The whole notion of legislative memory is a fallacious argument. Seniority is all about power, personal power, and has nothing to do with serving the needs of the nation. It was the seniority system, particualrly in the senate and among the southern democrats, that kept Jim Crow in place long beyond it's time and provoked an over reaction that brought about the travesty of the 'great society.' You can not argue against the tenure system in the schools/universities or union seniority and then turn around and defend the seniority rules of the government. It is the antithesis of a meritocracy and an inconsistency in ones philosophy.

It is also worth noting that for the longest time there was a Darwinian form of term limits based on the age of elgibility and average life expectancy.

Ishmael

 

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[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Well, that's something to think about...





Maybe a reintroduction of dueling?




I'm thinking...

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

What about the Supreme Court?




How does that fit in?

 

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[Ishmael]

Well, that's something to think about...





Maybe a reintroduction of dueling?




I'm thinking...

If you want to re-introduce civility, that's the way to do it. I've long been a proponent.

Ishmael

 

[rosco rathbone]

You're almost there, keep your eyes on the horizon and put one foot in front of the other, before you know it you'll be there.

I think the Democratic Party lost the plot with identity politics and political correctness in the Jesse Jackson era, but I'll always be a staunch pro-union New Deal Dem, from the days before "Democrat" was synonymous with "pussy".

 

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[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

A armed society is a polite society.

If you want to re-introduce civility, that's the way to do it. I've long been a proponent.

Ishmael

It might have put Sheets to bed earlier...

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

You get one doze and a dribble then your out.

Ah ha ha...



Was it Holmes who said, if I die, prop me up, that SOB ain't naming my replacement...

 

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[rosco rathbone]

Like my Mom and her parents, they could never accept the fact that the Party wasn't being controlled by FDR anymore. Look back and realize that JFK would be excoriated as a right wing nut by today's Democrats.

Sure, but the flipside is that Eisenhower, Nixon and probably Reagan, if you look at his record closely, would all be moderate liberal RINOs and not true conservatives, to today's teabaggers.

All part of the great polarization.

 

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