While the Syrian Civil War rages on, it is now clear that a moment long overdue is coming in the Republican Party–whether the anti government Tea Party Movement is finally going to get what it deserves—a total repudiation by the mainstream conservatives in the party over whether America takes a stand against the outlaw Syrian government and its war crime of chemical warfare against civilians!
Speaker of the House John Boehner, and Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham have come out for the Obama stand, and are ready to fight for a resolution backing the President’s use of force against Syria.
So the gauntlet is thrown down for Tea Party members in the House, numbering about 75, and the Tea Party Senators, including Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Mike Lee, and others, as we see whether they will stop the partisanship and anti government lunacy, and back Barack Obama for once!
As predicted, a “civil war” is likely in the GOP, and if the Tea Party Movement triumphs, it will doom the Republican Party after 159 years! This is a battle for survival of sanity, responsibility, and mainstream conservatism as an alternative to the Democratic Party!
Hello Professor,
The battle for survival of sanity indeed.
When you have those like “No Nothing Davy†giving voice as if they were true Republicans but nothing more than history repeating itself with the “No Nothing Party†that was within the Party at the turn of the century. I would suspect that he does not even know the origin of that label.
The Tea Party, which if we go back, is history repeating itself from this “No Nothing Party.†It was an embarrassment to the Republican Party back then just as it is again today.
I find it humorous that Davy is expounding on the value of Faith Based Religious Schools but here in Maryland and Delaware, these students are the most under achieving in the area. Should they try to transfer into the public schools and within the respective grades, as a general rule the Faith Based schooled student cannot read or perform math at the level they were trying to transfer into. Oh I will say that they can quote scriptures…..they can’t read those scriptures but they can quote them.
I know of one girl who comes to mind, was a straight “A†student in her Faith Based School but flunked out of two different colleges because she could not pass English 101, Logical Argumentation / Critical Thinking. She would start with a poorly written “Opening Statement†and when it can time in the next paragraph to give evidence, supporting statements, facts to support that opening statement, all she could do was start repeating scriptures that had no tangibility to the subject. The Faith Based School this young girl attended did her no favor or justice when it came to her education. This girl could not generate an original thought for herself.
Here of late, four Faith Based Private Schools have lost their accreditations because the 12th grade students cannot demonstrate proficiency past the 4th grade.
Davy is about dismantling the public school system in this country and replacing it with these Faith Based Schools but being funded with public money. Just as his lack of education is so blatantly displayed in his writing postings, he would be in favor of all our children being brought down to his level of ignorance.
This is why he can be so easily convinced into the fallacies, falsehoods, and outright lies propagated by the extreme right. This fool is even convinced that the Extreme Right Propaganda is speaking for God, which is so drastically so incorrect for anyone who has read, studied, and supposedly following the teachings.
Yes Professor, my Republican is in a civil war battle for the sanity of the Party indeed. This is why Karl Rove is building a War Chest to purge the Tea Party members from the offices they hold now.
Food for thought.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/did-the-white-house-help-plan-the-syrian-chemical-attack/5347542
Yossef Bodansky is the Director of Research at the International Strategic Studies Association (ISSA) and Senior Editor of Defense & Foreign Affairs publications (including the Global Information System: GIS), was, for more than a decade, the Director of the US House of Representatives Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare.
Also almost a year ago on Sept. 28 , 2012 Leon Panetta stated that we’ve lost track of chemical weapons in Syria after rebels took control of a base with such weapons. http://e-ring.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/09/28/panetta_we_ve_lost_track_of_syrian_chemical_weapons
I can see the Conspiracy theories have begun, as witness the articles mentioned by Eugene.
Certainly, we need to be certain that the Assad government in Syria launched this chemical weapons attack, but it makes no sense that Obama and Kerry and Hagel would want to engage in military action for some ulterior purpose. This is not the deceit and evil of Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld, and to imply that is a misunderstanding of the people involved, as not all politicians are war mongers—certainly NOT Obama, Kerry and Hagel!
On another blog I read, someone brought up that there have been many humanitarian disasters the rest of the world has ignored, including the United States, and was wondering why is this one different.
On Chris Matthews show tonight, it was hinted that this issue about whether or not to intervene in Syria will split both parties.
The Syria issue will, assuredly, split both parties, but it is the right thing to do!
Yes, there have been humanitarian disasters before, which have been ignored, as in Cambodia in the 1970s and Rwanda in 1994, as two examples, and there has been great guilt about both. But we also intervened in Bosnia in 1995 and Kosovo in 1999 to end Serbian mass murder, and that was the right thing to do!
And Syria is different in the sense that it is only the third example of chemical warfare since international agreement in 1925, with Hitler and Saddam Hussein being the earlier examples. And Syria is in a delicate area internationally, and threatens Israel, Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia, among other nations. So for humanitarian and strategic reasons, Syria must understand that chemical warfare will not be tolerated!
@Rustbelt
Here it is about Chris Matthews: http://www.thepeoplesview.net/2013/09/the-other-civil-war-over-syria-identity.html
The frequent whining sessions are why I’m not a huge fan of his show.
@Princess Leia and Rustbelt
This is one of those cases where I can be fed up with MSNBC too: http://www.politicususa.com/2013/09/04/no-msnbc-obama-defensive-righteously-angry-short-memory.html#comments
@Princess Leia
Like that blog entry, I also consider myself a liberal interventionist or a humanitarian hawk.
I agree with all three of you, ladies, on MSNBC and Chris Matthews wrong stand on this matter.
And I would say i agree with Rustbelt Democrat that I am a “liberal interventionist or humanitarian hawk” ! LOL Although I must admit I dislike the word “hawk”, since it implies being a neocon, which most certainly I am NOT!
Speaking of McCain, did anyone see the photo of him playing poker on his cell phone during the hearing?
Yep. Sure did. And your average worker would have gotten fired, or, at the least, reprimanded over that.
HAHA, Yes I did! LOL He seems to have been bored! LOL But realize, when one is a Senator, he lives by different rules, whether we like it or not!
Speaking of living by different rules it is hard not to notice our dear leaders excessive lifestyle. It is off to the links once again after announcing to his subjects something about some RedLine that he now says he never mentioned. This is what you get when the cheering media refuses to vet a forth rate senator/ community organizer because of his race.
Dave, you are displaying your racism out front, and finding fault with someone who worked to help the poor (a community organizer), but have no problem with corporate manipulators, such as Romney! What hypocrisy!
And of course, George W never took time off, or did he not set a record, along with Reagan, for off time, while Obama has taken the least time off of any President? But he is not entitled to any off time, while Congress takes five weeks, and you certainly take lots of time off for yourself, but with the world problems, Obama has no right to relax at all, heh? He has no more, and in fact, far less, of an “excessive” lifestyle than Bush or Reagan had!
Do you realize how ridiculous and demented you really sound, Dave?