I personally think a woman who serially committed adultery on her husband, leading to a divorce, should probably shut the hell up about a national divorce.
With America -- and particularly the hopelessly blue states -- in deep moral decline, Erick may one day grab at the original intent of the founders, which accepted secession based on the belief that the Constitution did not have a compulsive power over each of (or a group of) the sovereign states. It was then generally accepted that the people of the states in convention could either interpose their sovereignty to arrest the acts of the general government or withdraw from the Union.
Jefferson, who in 1798 authored the Kentucky Resolution, made clear in his Northwest Ordinance of 1787 that new states would enter the Union on “equal footing” with the existing states, having the same rights and immunities as the original 13, including the right of interposition and WITHDRAWAL. We might soon prize the legal ability of Red States to escape the moral sewer being progressively dug for us by the Marxist Left.
Well, not QUITE a hard pass, buddy. You're more than willing to vote for and endorse unserious candidates when they appear on your ballot. (Hersch and Daddy Donny come to mind)
I would allege that No bigger ho dogs have come through this nation than JFK, Sr., MLK, Jr., Billy Clinton. Do some research and ascertain. Did you know that JFK said; if he did not have sex daily, he would have head ache? You would not have derived that from the MSM either. J Edgar Hoover kept records of all the guys, Kennedys' et als, and knew how to utilize the leverage. So, it just depends on one's perspective Every ones' opinions, religion, non-religion, politics, etc., are flexible to any degree, and to any regards, either with contempt or rose colored glassed as we deem it individually. The Trump haters gonna hate, but I would take DT over any Dem Socialists anytime. Selah
I'm not a Democrat so I don't care what Democrats do. As a conservative, I do care what allegedly conservative politicians do.
But thank you for pointing out exactly what the problem is in the GOP, rather than criticize their own elected officials Republican voters reflexively point to the other side and try to make them sound worse. Sometimes the only right response is to acknowledge that your own side sucks at something.
I go to MGT for Kama sutra advice and that’s it… 😜 Seriously, I agree with you 100% on her. She’s from a long line of loud mouths from GA just a different party. Whatever happened to Cynthia McKinney?
Cynthia was replaced by a bigger Dem Socialist ( is that possible?) named Hank "Guam shaking collapsing sinking" Johnson, Dekalb County Ga. I would have thought that a man of your pseudo-savant sex knowledge would never need any such tutoring. How are those lessons progressing. Might be trending toward pervert??? JMO
MTG is an embarassment to our state, her party, and the country. Speaker McCarthy needs to distance himself from her as far and as quickly as possible. There are 3 GOP politicians that I wish would never appear on TV again; Lindsey Graham, Rick Scott and MTG.
Perhaps the Congresswoman could visit “Moscow in wartime” as a counter to Biden’s trip to Kyiv and lay a wreath on the “Tomb of the Unknown Wagner Mercenary.” Putin would roll out the red carpet.
In the US House, the Democrats have Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Frederica Wilson, and Sheila Jackson Lee. The Republicans have Marjorie Taylor Greene. Both sides have crazy. So much of our political discourse is crazy.
“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche was wrong about God but he sure as heck was right about human beings.
We need term limits but the very people that have to bring that about have to vote themselves out of a cushy long term membership in the US Congress and Senate. They do not want to give up the Capital Country Club (even Johnny Isakson did not want to and look to the mess that all lead to). And they do not want to give up the financial opportunities that enrich them.
"“Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook." Harry Truman
My only comment on term limits is that the aids would become the defacto ruling class. They would become the embedded career politicians - the new swamp - while our elected officials would be mere figureheads. The aids are not elected, have no term limits, and no fear of retribution from the voters. It would be much worse, IMO, than the current status.
You raise a valid point. Maybe so. At this point in my life (at age seventy) I am trying to resist becoming cynical. Cynical old men are a dime a dozen.
It reminds me of the lyrics of an old George Jones song: "Sometimes, you just can't win"
Great job Erick. You have your pick of the litter in crazy Democrats. Many of them leaders of their party, yet here you go again attacking lowly House members of the GOP. You see why we cannot have good things?
‘Majorie Taylor Greene is from the wing of the GOP that got its ass kicked in the 2022 election.”
Nope. The GOP got hammered for its SCOTUS “win” on abortion. The “life at conception” Handmaiden’s Tale extremists on the right pissed off the female and moderate low-T voter. They came out in numbers never seen before in a mid-term election. Maybe that was worth it. But Green pulls the working class vote. I will take her crazy over the feckless Romney and McConnell Uniparty losing ways any day.
I disagree. Republicans lost in 2022 because of bad candidates and “election denial” candidates. Democrats made Republican candidates look “crazy”, uninformed, or backed by Trump (not a positive thing in some states).
You are correct that the Democrats do have their fair share of crazies, but so do we and we need to recognize that.
Yes, and clearly moderates preferred fetterman to a TV doctor and a senile old man to a pathological liar and narcissist. It's not that hard to understand what happened, the more hated candidates lose.
Mind is wide open and filled with independent thought based on independent analysis. I think you doing some pot calling the kettle black here. You are just repeating the Uniparty media narrative.
The problem here is that getting this wrong... assuming that "election denial" is in fact that reason that Democrats performed better in the midterms... when Democrats are full-on election deniers and most people at this point give a rats arse - or in wake the the Twitter Files, see that there WAS election cheating at the highest levels of government and big tech management stacking the deck in favor of the Democrats... is going to be a death prescription for the GOP in 2024.
Be honest here.... when you think about the mayor of East Palestine, Ohio... he is not your kind of people. You really don't like it that he is Republican. Bearded white male blue-collar working people and their ilk. Establishment Republicans are only second to liberal Democrats in their blatant dripping class-bias against these people... those without a college education that install your solar panels and repair your Teslas.
Trump was brilliant in seeing these politically lost voters. They are people that hold almost all traditional Republican values except for the Republican history of aligning with big business and against labor. But Republicans no longer have big business. Republicans in fact have nothing... they don't have minorities, women, youth, educated, government, non-profit... and they no longer have Wall Street and big business. Hell, they don't even capture enough interest with small business.
Trump connected with the working class, and now because of that the GOP also connects with minorities.
But you hate Trump and really don't like the working class and prefer your GOP party stay pure, elite and ruling-class. And thus people like you will ensure that the GOP continues to lose... and the Democrats can peel off more of the working class with their tax and spend hand-outs and unionization platform.
I've only read a few of your comments but I would not describe anything you have posted as independent thought. I'm not saying not to be a jerk, just my honest assessment.
Republicans need to stop pointing to the left and start looking at our own side. We need to clean our own house. Because one thing is for certain, independents that decide elections aren't persuaded by Republicans pointing at Democrats and calling them crazy when we have our own bag of mixed nuts on our side.
I have read most of your comments and most follow the Uniparty narrative. Like others in charge are telling you how to think. Now maybe you read alternatives views, do the deep thinking and come to your own objective conclusions. However, the start of this comment indicates that you don't.
"Lowly House member" who is one of the most prominent fundraisers on our side, tied to Kevin McCarthy and Trump, and whose antics get disproportionate media coverage and she knows it? Give me a freaking break, Frank.
Can you articulate your political long game here attacking Green? I see zero upside.
You are a media guy so I assume your perspective is media-sensitive, but in terms of politics, it does not add up when there are copious targets of crazy and worse in the Democrat House. And again, Republican attacks against Republican politicians that pull in the working class vote seem just what the Uniparty ruling class wants.
This is ... incredible Erick. Too bad you have to waste energy on my House Rep MTG ... I voted for her in the General, but not the Primary. Your comment on DeSantis is also pertinent.
Hey, you ever think about getting a job as a nationally syndicated radio host? I'm sure you'd rock!
She is what my millennial daughters call “EXTRA.” Not exactly the quality of statesmanship. Let’s see. AOC and MTG should cancel each other out for crazy extremist narcissists. Anyone for Hank Johnson?
With America -- and particularly the hopelessly blue states -- in deep moral decline, Erick may one day grab at the original intent of the founders, which accepted secession based on the belief that the Constitution did not have a compulsive power over each of (or a group of) the sovereign states. It was then generally accepted that the people of the states in convention could either interpose their sovereignty to arrest the acts of the general government or withdraw from the Union.
Jefferson, who in 1798 authored the Kentucky Resolution, made clear in his Northwest Ordinance of 1787 that new states would enter the Union on “equal footing” with the existing states, having the same rights and immunities as the original 13, including the right of interposition and WITHDRAWAL. We might soon prize the legal ability of Red States to escape the moral sewer being progressively dug for us by the Marxist Left.
MTG is an embarrassment to the GOP. How in the world did the people of her district elect her?
Totally agree. But to answer your question... the only thing that separates MTG and Hank Johnson is 10 congregational districts and 13 letters.
Absolutely. Two peas in a pod.
If you’re going to quote the pledge, quote it correctly. It’s, “for which it STANDS,” not for which it states.
MTG represents everything that is wrong with the GOP and why I refuse to identify with a party that supports either her or Trump.
Can someone please primary this woman out in 2024? Seriously.
Kemp should support a primary challenger to her kemp very pouler in her district
"Hard pass on this."
Well, not QUITE a hard pass, buddy. You're more than willing to vote for and endorse unserious candidates when they appear on your ballot. (Hersch and Daddy Donny come to mind)
Sleazy adulterers are the order of the day in parts of today's GOP it seems. Embarrassing.
I would allege that No bigger ho dogs have come through this nation than JFK, Sr., MLK, Jr., Billy Clinton. Do some research and ascertain. Did you know that JFK said; if he did not have sex daily, he would have head ache? You would not have derived that from the MSM either. J Edgar Hoover kept records of all the guys, Kennedys' et als, and knew how to utilize the leverage. So, it just depends on one's perspective Every ones' opinions, religion, non-religion, politics, etc., are flexible to any degree, and to any regards, either with contempt or rose colored glassed as we deem it individually. The Trump haters gonna hate, but I would take DT over any Dem Socialists anytime. Selah
I'm not a Democrat so I don't care what Democrats do. As a conservative, I do care what allegedly conservative politicians do.
But thank you for pointing out exactly what the problem is in the GOP, rather than criticize their own elected officials Republican voters reflexively point to the other side and try to make them sound worse. Sometimes the only right response is to acknowledge that your own side sucks at something.
Yep.
I go to MGT for Kama sutra advice and that’s it… 😜 Seriously, I agree with you 100% on her. She’s from a long line of loud mouths from GA just a different party. Whatever happened to Cynthia McKinney?
Cynthia was replaced by a bigger Dem Socialist ( is that possible?) named Hank "Guam shaking collapsing sinking" Johnson, Dekalb County Ga. I would have thought that a man of your pseudo-savant sex knowledge would never need any such tutoring. How are those lessons progressing. Might be trending toward pervert??? JMO
MTG is an embarassment to our state, her party, and the country. Speaker McCarthy needs to distance himself from her as far and as quickly as possible. There are 3 GOP politicians that I wish would never appear on TV again; Lindsey Graham, Rick Scott and MTG.
Perhaps the Congresswoman could visit “Moscow in wartime” as a counter to Biden’s trip to Kyiv and lay a wreath on the “Tomb of the Unknown Wagner Mercenary.” Putin would roll out the red carpet.
Hey, don’t give her any ideas…..
In the US House, the Democrats have Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Frederica Wilson, and Sheila Jackson Lee. The Republicans have Marjorie Taylor Greene. Both sides have crazy. So much of our political discourse is crazy.
“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche was wrong about God but he sure as heck was right about human beings.
We need term limits but the very people that have to bring that about have to vote themselves out of a cushy long term membership in the US Congress and Senate. They do not want to give up the Capital Country Club (even Johnny Isakson did not want to and look to the mess that all lead to). And they do not want to give up the financial opportunities that enrich them.
"“Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook." Harry Truman
My only comment on term limits is that the aids would become the defacto ruling class. They would become the embedded career politicians - the new swamp - while our elected officials would be mere figureheads. The aids are not elected, have no term limits, and no fear of retribution from the voters. It would be much worse, IMO, than the current status.
You raise a valid point. Maybe so. At this point in my life (at age seventy) I am trying to resist becoming cynical. Cynical old men are a dime a dozen.
It reminds me of the lyrics of an old George Jones song: "Sometimes, you just can't win"
I'm with you, but I'm afraid I've already conceded defeat to cynicism! My wife calls me "Mr. Positivity!" Hahaha!
Our women always see right through us.
Great job Erick. You have your pick of the litter in crazy Democrats. Many of them leaders of their party, yet here you go again attacking lowly House members of the GOP. You see why we cannot have good things?
‘Majorie Taylor Greene is from the wing of the GOP that got its ass kicked in the 2022 election.”
Nope. The GOP got hammered for its SCOTUS “win” on abortion. The “life at conception” Handmaiden’s Tale extremists on the right pissed off the female and moderate low-T voter. They came out in numbers never seen before in a mid-term election. Maybe that was worth it. But Green pulls the working class vote. I will take her crazy over the feckless Romney and McConnell Uniparty losing ways any day.
I disagree. Republicans lost in 2022 because of bad candidates and “election denial” candidates. Democrats made Republican candidates look “crazy”, uninformed, or backed by Trump (not a positive thing in some states).
You are correct that the Democrats do have their fair share of crazies, but so do we and we need to recognize that.
Exactly. You lose elections because of bad candidates, not because of Supreme Court decisions.
LOL. Tell that to John Fetterman, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris? Critical think much?
Yes, and clearly moderates preferred fetterman to a TV doctor and a senile old man to a pathological liar and narcissist. It's not that hard to understand what happened, the more hated candidates lose.
You are wrong. That is a Uniparty propaganda meme meant to drive a wedge into the GOP. Good job taking their bait.
https://time.com/6231550/how-abortion-helped-blunt-a-red-wave-in-the-midterms/
Ah, the old "you are wrong" retort. Has that ever worked?
Open your mind a little. Think for yourself.
Mind is wide open and filled with independent thought based on independent analysis. I think you doing some pot calling the kettle black here. You are just repeating the Uniparty media narrative.
The problem here is that getting this wrong... assuming that "election denial" is in fact that reason that Democrats performed better in the midterms... when Democrats are full-on election deniers and most people at this point give a rats arse - or in wake the the Twitter Files, see that there WAS election cheating at the highest levels of government and big tech management stacking the deck in favor of the Democrats... is going to be a death prescription for the GOP in 2024.
Be honest here.... when you think about the mayor of East Palestine, Ohio... he is not your kind of people. You really don't like it that he is Republican. Bearded white male blue-collar working people and their ilk. Establishment Republicans are only second to liberal Democrats in their blatant dripping class-bias against these people... those without a college education that install your solar panels and repair your Teslas.
Trump was brilliant in seeing these politically lost voters. They are people that hold almost all traditional Republican values except for the Republican history of aligning with big business and against labor. But Republicans no longer have big business. Republicans in fact have nothing... they don't have minorities, women, youth, educated, government, non-profit... and they no longer have Wall Street and big business. Hell, they don't even capture enough interest with small business.
Trump connected with the working class, and now because of that the GOP also connects with minorities.
But you hate Trump and really don't like the working class and prefer your GOP party stay pure, elite and ruling-class. And thus people like you will ensure that the GOP continues to lose... and the Democrats can peel off more of the working class with their tax and spend hand-outs and unionization platform.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/watch-east-palestine-mayor-slams-biden-s-ukraine-visit-as-slap-in-the-face/ar-AA17LBo1
I've only read a few of your comments but I would not describe anything you have posted as independent thought. I'm not saying not to be a jerk, just my honest assessment.
Republicans need to stop pointing to the left and start looking at our own side. We need to clean our own house. Because one thing is for certain, independents that decide elections aren't persuaded by Republicans pointing at Democrats and calling them crazy when we have our own bag of mixed nuts on our side.
I have read most of your comments and most follow the Uniparty narrative. Like others in charge are telling you how to think. Now maybe you read alternatives views, do the deep thinking and come to your own objective conclusions. However, the start of this comment indicates that you don't.
"Lowly House member" who is one of the most prominent fundraisers on our side, tied to Kevin McCarthy and Trump, and whose antics get disproportionate media coverage and she knows it? Give me a freaking break, Frank.
Can you articulate your political long game here attacking Green? I see zero upside.
You are a media guy so I assume your perspective is media-sensitive, but in terms of politics, it does not add up when there are copious targets of crazy and worse in the Democrat House. And again, Republican attacks against Republican politicians that pull in the working class vote seem just what the Uniparty ruling class wants.
The political long game is to get rid of idiots like her. She is toxic and in no way deserves to be in the house of representatives.
No political strategy. Just emotional trantrums.
Getting rid of toxic people that are hurting the image of the party is a tantrum? Clearly you and I have very different ways of perceiving the world
This is ... incredible Erick. Too bad you have to waste energy on my House Rep MTG ... I voted for her in the General, but not the Primary. Your comment on DeSantis is also pertinent.
Hey, you ever think about getting a job as a nationally syndicated radio host? I'm sure you'd rock!
She is what my millennial daughters call “EXTRA.” Not exactly the quality of statesmanship. Let’s see. AOC and MTG should cancel each other out for crazy extremist narcissists. Anyone for Hank Johnson?
Georgia, DO BETTER