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The Beginning of the End
Posted by zoboxrox in malfunction, politics on July 29th, 2009
I, for one, do not want the Republican Party to dissolve, believe it or not. It is far too amusing to watch, fumbling around issues. More importantly, its probably one of the few things that unites the Democrats at this point — they’re almost as splintered. But, at least in the Senate, it appears the thousands of cracks in the GOP are opening up into full blown schisms. You know the silly dog that bites his own tail — imagine its an elephant.
It started yesterday when Republican Senator George Voinovich of Ohio, who has already stepped on some GOP toes recently, went ahead and said this out loud and to another person, for reasons only known to himself (CNN reports):
Republican Sen. George Voinovich, who is not running for re-election next year, told a newspaper in his home state of Ohio yesterday that Southerners bore a good share of the blame for his party’s lagging popularity.
“We got too many Jim DeMints and Tom Coburns,” Voinovich told the Columbus Dispatch Monday. “It’s the Southerners….
“They get on TV and go ‘errrr, errrrr,’” he said, according to the paper. “People hear them and say, ‘These people, they’re Southerners. The party’s being taken over by Southerners. What they hell they got to do with Ohio?’”
Well guess who was not too happy about this? Did you guess Southern Republicans? You’re so smart. Once again, CNN reports.
Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana slammed fellow Republican George Voinovich Wednesday for saying the GOP’s problems stem from the fact that it is “being taken over by Southerners,” calling the Ohio senator “a moderate, really wishy-washy.”
“I’m on the side of conservatives getting back to core conservative values,” Vitter told the Washington Times. “There are a lot of us from the South who hold those values, which I think the party is supposed to be about. We strayed from them in the past few years, and that’s why we performed so badly in the national elections.
I suggest these guys settle this the old fashioned way… take it outside.
Is that a gun in your pants, or are you just happy to see me…
Posted by zoboxrox in Uncategorized, crime, politics on July 24th, 2009
How many senators does it take to screw in a light bulb? Of course the answer is 60 — and thank god for that. The Senate narrowly rejected an ammendment (which has to be approved by 60 votes — not a majority of 50+) attached to the new defense bill which would have allowed people to travel between states with concealed weapons, no matter the laws in the states to which they are traveling. In other words, anyone who has a gun permit, which is about as easy to get these days as a driver’s license in some places, could legally carry their hidden firearm on the streets of your home town, no matter what your local laws dictate.
My home town happens to be New York City, and I am so grateful to the two dissenting Republican Senators Richard Lugar of Indiana and George Voinovich of Ohio, because while its one thing to have a gun in your house, it is entirely different to bring it out with you at night. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO A BAR?!?!? There are so many morons out there (see below)… adding weapons to idiocy is never smart.
400 big city mayors, who came together to form Mayors Against Illegal Guns, agreed with me, including my own, Dictator Bloomberg, and sent a letter to the Senate pleading with them to come to their goddamn senses not to pass the bill. While this is clearly a case of the Federal Government imposing itself on State’s Rights, which is like, the main platform for conservatives these days, it was of course a Republican sponsored and supported bill.
The debate forced senators to wrestle with issues of states rights, sometimes in ways that seemed to clash with the general philosophies of their parties. Many Republicans, who typically favor limiting the ability of the federal government to dictate to states on social issues, voted in this case to limit the ability of states to insist on their own rules for concealed weapons carried by people from other states.
That said, however, 20 democrats also voted for the bill (NOT including my new Senator, Kristen Gillibrand, who was previously considered gun friendly but voted with her brain this time around). Why do people think this is a good idea? I know the argument – 
– but it doesn’t sit well with me. Is the good of the one really more important than the good of the many? Do we really live in a state of such fear that we generally feel a need to arm ourselves at all times? Maybe if we fixed the broken things in this country — health care, the economy, the middle-class — crime wouldn’t consume our streets. Is adding weapons really the answer to the problem?
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