One Party Will Do Anything to Win, The Other Has Some Limits
I had two sons that were pretty good at little league baseball. They both had one big deficit that held them back though – a Dad who didn’t give a fuck about little league baseball. My kids were afflicted with a Dad (Me) who didn’t push, berate & bribe them to try get better at little league baseball. They had a Dad who didn’t set winning at little league baseball as an important goal.
I looked at these other parents who were obsessed with winning and thought, “Well, in the long run we don’t stand a chance against these guys, so let’s have some fun until we quit.”
The children of those weirdos may have burned out and ended up hating baseball or they may be captains of industry or play for the New York Yankees now. Who the fuck knows?
All this to say, I wonder if Democrats will ever win against Republicans who are obsessed with winning to the point that they can lie impunity, and drink in the lies of their comrades like it is mother’s milk:
CALLER: Listen, Sean. I just want some people in the conservative party, Republican Party to fight as hard as me and my platoon did in Afghanistan. That’s all I’m asking for.
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SEAN HANNITY (HOST): I appreciate, first of all, your service. I’m sorry about your injuries, they sound pretty debilitating. I know many people in your position. It alters your life, and your family’s life forever. None of it is fun. And I — I just — we owe you a debt of gratitude. And we can’t forget our vets either.
Listen. I don’t like Jon Stewart, but Jon Stewart is right, on him fighting for these vets the way he has. Now, the very specific issues behind the scenes, a lot of people don’t know. But anyway, there’s a bill. Republicans support the bill, these burn-pit victims.
And the only reason it didn’t pass this week was because the Democrats, what they put in the bill, they moved $400 billion in discretionary spending to mandatory spending and that $400 billion had nothing to do with veterans. And Democrats want to spend another $400 billion on new spending completely unrelated to veterans.
The whole idea that Democrats would ever want to work with Republicans again after they stole a Supreme Court seat demonstrates what week-kneed, damp-under-the-arms quislings Coonsie and his ilk really are. “Well, we’ll let you have that one, but now let’s be friendly.”
Yes, Herr Hitler surely will settle down now that we’ve let him have Sudetenland, and we can welcome him into the commonwealth of nations.