Republicans' On-Going Civil War!

[Medicine Man]

With all the OTHER various-conflicts, within the Republican Party....who'd have expected to see THIS one??!!!
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DENIERS Put On-Notice!!!
January 15, 2015

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"This year is quickly shaping up to be a banner year for action on climate change. And just in time. Last year was the hottest year on record. We also logged the highest global carbon emissions ever. This resulted in a slew of extreme weather events, such as California’s drought, the region's worst in 1,200 years.

In response, from China to Chattanooga, there is new activity on the climate front. Private sector leaders are recognizing the financial risks of global warming. Elected officials are protecting constituents from the fallout, including agricultural crop losses, security threats, infrastructure damage, and other economic costs.

Crucially, the U.S. Congress could surprise many by taking action on climate change. While many doubt that a GOP-controlled Congress will do much on the issue, the truth is that a climate-friendly Congress may emerge from the partisan fray."

 

[Rhea]

That would be a great thing.

 

[untermensche]

I will believe it when I see it.

The Republicans have little conception of "the commons" and the notion that some things should be preserved and not polluted or exploited.

We should be trying to leave as much oil in the ground as possible and working towards that goal when in fact we are doing the opposite, extracting it as fast as possible.

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

“Some conservatives think Romney is self-delusional, but that doesn’t mean we should sit back,” Deace said. “Are we going to split our vote again? It’s time for us to find someone and say, ‘This is our son with whom we are well pleased.’ ”

My bold.

Will the real conservative please stand up

I think I'm gonna gag.

 

[fromderinside]

“Some conservatives think Romney is self-delusional, but that doesn’t mean we should sit back,” Deace said. “Are we going to split our vote again? It’s time for us to find someone and say, ‘This is our son with whom we are well pleased.’ ”

My bold.

Will the real conservative please stand up

I think I'm gonna gag.

There's this joke about a guy waking up in hell with shit up to his chins. All around him he hears murmuring.

Just then the devil's speed boat can be heard in the distance and it becomes clear that the murmuring is "don't make a wave"

Conservatives are those dealing with the devil trying buy him off to get him to not make a wave.

 

[Arctish]

I wonder if we'll be seeing a Bush-Romney ticket. If they combine forces they could probably fend off the likes of Cruz and Jindal. Walker might be a problem but if Bush and Romney get the big donors lining up on their side, they can bury him.

 

[Bronzeage]

I wonder if we'll be seeing a Bush-Romney ticket. If they combine forces they could probably to fend off the likes of Cruz and Jindal. Walker might be a problem but if Bush and Romney get the big donors lining up on their side, they can bury him.

I don't see Mitt Romney running second on any GOP ticket. Jeb Bush doing the same is just as unlikely.

 

[Sarpedon]

One thing that amuses me about them is that their love of money and making a virtue of greed has led them to this. By fetishizing success in business, they are essentially saying that any successful businessman is qualified to hold high office. So that means there's no way for them to stop any megalomaniac rich fuck from running for office.

 

[ZiprHead]

Not another Bush, please. No, just no.

 

[Medicine Man]

One thing that amuses me about them is that their love of money and making a virtue of greed has led them to this.​

....And, more-often-than-not, it's a.... ​

Family Affair
September 1, 1992​

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By fetishizing success in business, they are essentially saying that any successful businessman is qualified to hold high office. So that means there's no way for them to stop any megalomaniac rich fuck from running for office.​

....At LEAST (I'm assuming most people are thinking) not more than TWICE!!​

Daddy Bu$h
November 20, 2002​

Lil' Dumbya
May 1, 2003​

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[Bronzeage]

One thing that amuses me about them is that their love of money and making a virtue of greed has led them to this. By fetishizing success in business, they are essentially saying that any successful businessman is qualified to hold high office. So that means there's no way for them to stop any megalomaniac rich fuck from running for office.

It's the old capitalist paradox of "If you're so rich, why aren't you smart." There are enough factors of random chance in any market, that a fair percentage of men are successful and become wealthy, mostly for being in the right place at the right time.

I once worked for the same company for 22 years. I sat in the back row of the church for the owner's funeral in year 21 and listened to the minister drone on and on about what a good businessman Bob had been. I couldn't help thinking about the three times he skirted bankruptcy in the time I spent there. This included the time he bought a thoroughbred racing horse farm. After three years of operation, he discovered that horses he had purchased for $22k were actually worth about $600. His farm manager bought the horses at auction, but never mentioned he was also bringing his own horses to the auction. Old Bob was in the hole for about 8 million dollars. He got out of that mess by taking advantage of an upswing in the popularity of German cars and sold his Porshe and BMW dealerships for enough money to clear the debt and a little left over. If not for that, he most likely would have spent the last 20 years of his life working for a used car auction lot.

When my tenure at this company ended, I was service manager for a recreational vehicle dealership.
We were located in the center of the city, where the rent is high. I calculated that if my shop captured all the RV repair business in the entire city, we would still lose several thousand dollars a month, because our overhead was too high. Fortunately for Old Bob, he died before he saw the ultimate end of that disastrous business decision.

 

[Medicine Man]

One thing that amuses me about them is that their love of money and making a virtue of greed has led them to this. By fetishizing success in business, they are essentially saying that any successful businessman is qualified to hold high office. So that means there's no way for them to stop any megalomaniac rich fuck from running for office.

It's the old capitalist paradox of "If you're so rich, why aren't you smart." There are enough factors of random chance in any market, that a fair percentage of men are successful and become wealthy, mostly for being in the right place at the right time.

....And, some.....mostly out of habit....prefer to let their family....​

...Make ALL Arrangements, For Them!
February 11, 2004

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"Those who encountered Bush in Alabama remember him as an affable social drinker who acted younger than his 26 years. Referred to as George Bush, Jr. by newspapers in those days, sources say he also tended to show up late every day, around noon or one, at Blount's campaign headquarters in Montgomery. They say Bush would prop his cowboy boots on a desk and brag about how much he drank the night before.

They also remember Bush's stories about how the New Haven, Connecticut police always let him go, after he told them his name, when they stopped him "all the time" for driving drunk as a student at Yale in the late 1960s. Bush told this story to others working in the campaign "what seemed like a hundred times," says Red Blount's nephew C. Murphy Archibald, now an attorney in Charlotte, N.C., who also worked on the Blount campaign and said he had "vivid memories" of that time.

"He would laugh uproariously as though there was something funny about this. To me, that was pretty memorable, because here he is, a number of years out of college, talking about this to people he doesn't know," Archibald said. "He just struck me as a guy who really had an idea of himself as very much a child of privilege, that he wasn't operating by the same rules."

 

[Sarpedon]

It is less amusing when they win.