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Jewish World Review December 11, 2012/ 26 Kislev, 5773 Voting 'Present,' Part 3 By Arnold Ahlert
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It seems that my idea of Republicans voting "present" and allowing Democrats and Obama to impose their socialist/Marxist agenda without restraint,
From columnist Ann Coulter,
From ABC News, Dec. 3: "Under one variation of this Doomsday Plan, House Republicans would allow a vote on extending only the middle class tax cuts and Republicans, to express disapproval at the failure to extend all tax cuts, would vote 'present' on the bill, allowing it to pass entirely on Democratic votes."
From a Real Clear Politics interview with Senator Ran Paul, Dec. 6: "I have yet another thought on how we can fix this. Why don't we let the Democrats pass whatever they want? If they are the party of higher taxes, all the Republicans vote present and let the Democrats raise taxes as high as they want to raise them, let Democrats in the Senate raise taxes, let the president sign it and then make them own the tax increase. And when the economy stalls, when the economy sputters, when people lose their jobs, they know which party to blame, the party of high taxes. Let's don't be the party of just almost as high taxes."
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Limbaugh doesn't have a good memory. Jewish World Review published my column entitled, "Changing Demographics? More Like Enduring Ignorance" on
"Harry Reid wants to end the filibuster? Tell him it won't be necessary. For the next four years, Republicans will do what a certain Senator from Illinois made a career of doing: they will simply vote 'present' on every bill put before them in both houses of Congress."
Every one of these people voted in the election. And make no mistake: every one of these people are what the media are currently referring to as a "high information" voter.
So what do the "low-information" voters know? They "know" that all of America's problems are only one tax hike on the "rich" away from being completely solved.
So Republicans should give it to them--but not by dignifying the process with a yes or no vote. As I've said before, even a no vote would lend credence to a president and his party who have made it completely clear they see anyone who disagrees with them, not as equals expressing a different vision, but as people beneath contempt. This is nothing new. For decades, progressives have made it plain that anyone who disagrees with them are not just wrong, but inferior, evil, stupid, racist, etc.
It is now the time for anyone with a backbone or integrity to stop dignifying that nonsense.
Now, I'm not kidding myself. Those two adjectives don't even remotely apply to a substantial portion of the GOP, or the chattering classes, including some on the right, who have the ridiculous notion that political relevancy, even if it means utterly compromising one's principles, is the Republican party's only salvation.
What a steaming load of b.s. that is. Substitute the word "Nazi" or "Communist" for "Democrat" and tell me what "reaching out in the spirit of compromise" would have accomplished with respect to those two ideologies. The murder of 3 million Jews instead of 6 million? Enslaving half of Eastern Europe for 70-plus years, instead of all of it?
The most laughable thing about this recent election is that Barack Obama and Democrats got away with blaming George Bush and Republicans for putting us in a "hole so deep, they couldn't possibly repair the damage in only four years." For argument sake, let's assume that they're right. But when you cut through all the blather about "unnecessary" wars, ramping up the debt and deficits, unnecessary tax cuts for the rich, etc, etc., you know what they've really been blaming Bush and Republicans for?
Acting exactly like Democrats.
It was JFK who cut tax rates more than any other president, even as he got America into a war that killed 58,000 troops. It was Democrats who established Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and their oh-so-unsustainable trajectories. It was Democrats who insisted on turning ownership of a home into a de facto affirmative action program, with all the attendant economy-wrecking consequences. And it was--and is--Wall Street fat cats who have donated far more money to Democrats than Republicans, to protect their crony capitalist agenda.
Yet above all, it was Democrats who took a decent public school system and turned it into union sinkhole, forever promising "reform," even as it continued to turn out legions of the aforementioned low-information voters--without whom Democrats and their socialist/Marxist agenda would already be consigned to the ash heap of history. An American Thinker column written by Glenn Fairman reveals just how far into the depths we have descended. Working one day as a substitute teacher twenty years ago, he made the following observation:
"In a dusty corner shelf of the room was a set of thirty-year-old textbooks from the mid-1960s...I was astonished to find what I would now consider an upper-level college textbook (that) contained a very detailed understanding of political theory, constitutional law, macroeconomics, American history, and comparative political systems. I spent the rest of the day in slack-jawed amazement, perusing what a student in a working-class town was expected to know before the mavens of education began tinkering with the curricula of our schools," he wrote. He asked the regular teacher what was going on. "The teacher related to me that the current texts had been scaled down to what used to be a grammar-school understanding, and they carried within them a jaundiced view of America, preferring to accentuate the warts and blemishes rather than the achievements of our political system."
There comes a time when the best one can do is preserve that which made a society great, even as the majority of that society yearns, knowingly or otherwise, for their own destruction. We have reached that time. Americans voted for "more," and they don't give a damn how they get it, or where it comes from. It is a runaway freight train of ignorance, and the thinking for many, is that Republicans should stand on the tracks in front of it waving a lantern, because the bridge is out just around the bend.
Step aside. The sooner we crash, the sooner we can pick up the pieces. And above all, do not legitimize the insanity by simply voting against it. Americans need to see progressives in all of their unrestrained excess--and in full ownership of the consequences.
Once again: give the people what they want, until they can't stand it anymore.
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