Kickin’ Conservatism
By now most of you have probably heard that President Obama paid a backhanded compliment to Rush Limbaugh when he (Obama) said the following:
“You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done,” he told top GOP leaders, whom he had invited to the White House to discuss his nearly $1 trillion stimulus package.
It seems as though Fastidious became a bit fed up when a Republican Congressman from Georgia, Phil Gingrey, ended up telling folks that it was easy to say things if one was a talk radio host, but that congresspeople had real jobs (or words to that end). She called the good Congressman’s office and much learning ensued.
At the end of her rant, Fastidious leaves us with this closer:
Listen, Republican leadership… you sacrificed your principles on the alter of political expediency, and so when I call to remind you of them, don’t tell me I’m the nut job. Stop insulting your base.
I’m about to nail a conservative Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the Holy Church of Republicanism.
As an Independent who is not a Republican, in large part, for the reasons she mentions, I’d be glad to help craft those theses. I’m concerned about one thing, however.
It will be quite a challenge to keep it to 95.
4 Comments, Comment or Ping
Fastidious
27 January 2009, 20:10, UTC
Thanks for the mention.
Dear Husband and I are still chatting about the Ninety-Five Theses, and as I have been thinking about this, I think it’s really just ten theses… uhm… also known as the Bill of Rights.
Whatever happened to he governs best who governs least?
Michael Woodring
28 January 2009, 7:24, UTC
Fastidious,
Not a problem. Enjoyed the post. I think your original idea of 95 is still sound. Remember, the Catholic Church of that day had the Ten Commandments, but Luther saw 95 different issues which needed to be addressed to ensure that, among other things, the Ten Commandments were kept. Today, we do have the Ten Amendments, but there are probably 95-plus things which the Republicans could do to get us back to the “keeping” the Ten Amendments.
Haggs
28 January 2009, 10:25, UTC
It seems Phil Gingrey is just waking up to the truth that conservatives are nutjobs and shouldn’t be running the government.
Michael Woodring
28 January 2009, 11:11, UTC
Haggs,
Nothing like addressing an issue on its merits, is there.