Tuesday, June 10, 2014

I Ain't Gonna Miss Him

You?

22 comments:

  1. Another generic Colbertish-looking politician gone.

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  2. He was somewhat prescient: from Slate's article 'Cantordammerung':
    He’d remind conservatives that he was elected in James Madison’s old House seat—you know, James Madison, author of the Constitution. “Madison argued that electoral accountability was one of the bulwarks against tyranny embedded in our constitutional structure,” he wrote in National Review in 2010. “The tea-party movement is appropriately vowing to hold elected representatives to account.”

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  3. Ironically he was sunk for the one thing that I admired him for; a willingness to tackle the immigration issue.

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  4. Yeah, I agree with him more on this, and the Tea Party less.

    Related to this, the Tea Party even wants to deny Americans citizen rights based on the supposed crimes of their parents.

    Even when I agree with them on matters such as fiscal responsibility, their contempt for the Constitutional rights... make that human rights.. of immigrants and American children of immigrants makes me lukewarm to them.

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  5. Damn Will,Cantor is one of the moderates you so adore.

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  6. He's not a bad guy, Russ. It's just that when I see his face I automatically think, politician.

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  7. Actually, dmarks, the immigration issue is tearing the libertarians apart, too. On the one side you have people like Ilana Mercer and Heather MacDonald who are rabidly against it and on the other side you have people like Bryan Caplan and Ben Powell who are strongly in favor it. I of course tend to side with the latter group and you on it.

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  8. Cantor outspent his opponent $5.5 million to $140,000. If that is a trend, how refreshing.

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  9. I just think that people are fed up with both parties at this point and the fact that this Cantor dude was in the leadership probably didn't help him.

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    1. Tea Party Rising. Ya thought Cantor was a bit too conservative Will? Have you taken a look at his potential replacement?

      YeeHaw!

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  10. Not important, but interesting, how the demographics of Jewish House and Senate
    membership just got even more lopsided...

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  11. There seems to be a real schism on the left when it come to Israel. The politicians love it and the intelligentsia (academia, thinks tanks, etc.) hate it....Or so it seems.

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  12. I'm not going to especially miss him, but I'm not a Republican....so I had no vested interest in him.

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  13. Yes, and the schism extends to the
    liberal bent of US Jews, who vote
    over 70% liberal. The fundamental
    evangelicals who claim great support for Israel vote over 70%
    conservative. Couple cogs missing in there somewhere.

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  14. Apparently the Chamber of Commerce
    put their money on Cantor; Brat's literature suggested jailing Wall Street operators rather than bailing them out. IMO, sort of a populist religious libertarian unknown professor type.

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  15. I can dig the anti-Wall Street, anti-bailout aspect.

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  16. I'm just waiting for Brat to explain how Christian Capitalism is NOT a contradiction in terms.

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    1. I can't see how it is a contradiction.

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    2. You're not looking deep enough or hard enough then.

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  17. Disagreement,RN. Disagreement.

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  18. RN: Basically, I see no contradiction between capitalism (in which the people get to control their own property/etc with minimal government control) and Christianity.

    Other than "Render Unto Ceasar", there's precious little in the Christian message to support socialism/fascism/etc and to oppose capitalism.

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