The red pill or the blue pill?
Nope. I'm not going to follow you down the rabbit-hole of nitpicking arguments, Andy.
A few points:
Irrelevant. McCain and Graham appear in a press conference and make policy statements and the GOP-controlled Congress moves those policy statements into law. Whether or not they are media whores in the process has no bearing whatsoever on the historical fact that the two of them exert substantial control over the GOP's agenda.
Ok, I stand corrected. However, that is also irrelevant.
First, you're telling me that the Republican President signed into law a bill that the majority of his party didn't support. Where was the outrage? Where was the official condemnation of Bush from the RNC? The absence of anything like a reaction means that the GOP supports, at least tacitly, the CFR law. It's party over principle, Andy. That's what the Republicans used as a political sledgehammer on the Democrats for decades. The Democrats were shameless party hacks. Principle meant nothing, they marched lockstep to the official party line. Now that the Republicans are in power, their behavior in that regard is indistinguishable.
Second, CFR is the law of the land and our right of free speech is encroached upon almost daily. This is happening on the Republicans' watch. They are responsible. And don't sing me any of that crap about insufficient majorities and "maverick" Republicans. The Democrats ruled with an iron fist for decades under identical conditions. They pushed their agenda even in cases where they didn't control but half of one branch of government. It isn't that the Republicans are weak or ineffectual, it is that they have become the Democrats, and there's no going back.
You keep telling me what you think is going to happen or what you believe is going to happen, but history isn't on your side. You keep telling me most Republicans don't agree with what the Republicans have done these past six years, but what difference does that make? If they don't agree, yet the end result is the same, what is the functional difference between that situation and the one in which they do agree? You might as well tell me you believe in the tooth fairy. That's not rational, that's...you guessed it...drinking the Kool-aid.
A few points:
That's because McCain & Graham are media hoars.
Irrelevant. McCain and Graham appear in a press conference and make policy statements and the GOP-controlled Congress moves those policy statements into law. Whether or not they are media whores in the process has no bearing whatsoever on the historical fact that the two of them exert substantial control over the GOP's agenda.
According to the final vote...
Ok, I stand corrected. However, that is also irrelevant.
First, you're telling me that the Republican President signed into law a bill that the majority of his party didn't support. Where was the outrage? Where was the official condemnation of Bush from the RNC? The absence of anything like a reaction means that the GOP supports, at least tacitly, the CFR law. It's party over principle, Andy. That's what the Republicans used as a political sledgehammer on the Democrats for decades. The Democrats were shameless party hacks. Principle meant nothing, they marched lockstep to the official party line. Now that the Republicans are in power, their behavior in that regard is indistinguishable.
Second, CFR is the law of the land and our right of free speech is encroached upon almost daily. This is happening on the Republicans' watch. They are responsible. And don't sing me any of that crap about insufficient majorities and "maverick" Republicans. The Democrats ruled with an iron fist for decades under identical conditions. They pushed their agenda even in cases where they didn't control but half of one branch of government. It isn't that the Republicans are weak or ineffectual, it is that they have become the Democrats, and there's no going back.
You keep telling me what you think is going to happen or what you believe is going to happen, but history isn't on your side. You keep telling me most Republicans don't agree with what the Republicans have done these past six years, but what difference does that make? If they don't agree, yet the end result is the same, what is the functional difference between that situation and the one in which they do agree? You might as well tell me you believe in the tooth fairy. That's not rational, that's...you guessed it...drinking the Kool-aid.
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