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January 23, 2009

GOP Ultimatum for Dems: Play Nice or We Use Your Tricks

 

 

You’ve heard the expressions: turnabout is fair play, payback’s a b****, what goes around comes around, and so forth.

 

After eight years of ridiculous behavior on the part of much of the liberal organism throughout the country and on Capitol Hill, the rolls are now reversed.

 

Now we know the culprits are not all libs, but they are represented in the majority of leaders within the liberal ideology and the Democrat party. We also know that Bush was no saint, but let’s not be extremists, here...

 

 

 

It will be interesting to see these liberals now make the case for cooperation in government, for saying nice things about the president, for not being mean-spirited, being gracious, etc., when this clearly was not the chosen path for them.

 

Republicans should thus fight every judicial nominee, saddle Obama with every imaginable loathsome label a president could be stuck with, and refuse every cabinet appointment, conduct investigations in bogus criminal ties, the whole nine yards. If the Dems decide to go after Conservative alternative media, the Republicans should promise to return the favor once back in power (which always happens sooner or later) and go after mainstream liberal media. In other words, if you’re going to be the opposition party, you may as well do a good job of it.

 

Remember, it is not we who declared war on these libs, but they who have declared war on us; therefore, it is perfectly reasonable that we use proportional strength to counter strength. It is also necessary: If libs play dirty, they need to learn it hurts or they will continue doing so. It is they who escalated the lack of good will with their own childish behavior and it is they who must stand down and start being civil once more.

 

This is about more than winning the policy battle with Democrats, it is about restoring good will, tolerance, and respectful demeanor in the political process. We can come together and act like Americans who respectfully disagree on some issues and agree on others, as has been the case for the most part, but the onus is on the left to begin moving down off the ledge. Otherwise, we stop everything that is important because of the unfortunate childish behavior of the left, which  has forced us to take a stand to end the misbehavior. This should be a clarion call to the left: we are laying down the law and we are telling them how we are going to move forward. It doesn't matter which party is in power, if they refuse to act like Americans, we will shut them down.

 

The first thing liberal Democrats can do to show us they are ready to move out of diapers is to back off of any Bush administration witch-hunts, forget about silencing Constitutionally-protected opposition conservative talk-radio and the blogosphere, undo Pelosi’s recent changes to House rules, not send the IRS after political opponents, and so on. The liberal Dem leadership should also loudly condemn and prosecute threats by groups of rank and file lib citizens to commit violence and hate crimes and to create national instability every time they do not get their way, be it terrorizing church goers, harassing businesses who employ private citizens who dared contribute to a ballot initiative with which the libs did not agree, or what the libs were ready to do had Obama lost: carry out shootings, bombings, and other violence, which of course Conservatives would not then or now lower themselves to do.

 

Without such a sea change among our pre-school friends across the aisle, Obama should look forward to chants of "no war for oil", "don't hate the poor", "Hitler", "don't pay off your greedy pals", "criminal"..."selected not elected", but also endless filibusters and other moves by elected Republicans to literally suck the oil out of the engine of government. After all, turnabout is fair play, and, as Obama’s own White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said, crisis is opportunity. Never mind that Americans will soon be suffering Obama-fatigue syndrome from the wall-to-wall media and pop culture worship of him from bathroom stalls to soda cans and music download sites to every magazine cover in the check-out line, it could indeed be a very long two-to-four years for Democrats in Washington.

 

 

 

Posted by Martin at January 23, 2009 02:42 PM

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