Negative Space: Democrats
- Abraham Lincoln’s conservative principles
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Reading Lincoln, it seems that both conservative thought and anti-conservative thought really hasn’t changed much in a century and a half. Though less racist for his time, he was still racist. But his adherence to conservative principles enabled him to overcome his prejudices while his contemporaries who were not conservative sank deeper into racism.
- Alvin Greene, political scientist?
- Al Greene talks less than most politicians. But slow isn’t always stupid. The wild card is the felony charge. The conventional wisdom is that Al Greene is more beatable than Vic Rawl. I think that’s wrong.
- Bipartisanship in the defense of big government
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We’ve got to protect our phony-baloney jobs. Despite their complaints about Trump’s overreach, Democrats have introduced legislation to make it harder for them to block his administration’s regulations.
- Bob Filner’s party
- “Why would I want to break the law for Bob Filner’s party?”
- The candidate we deserve
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Do we deserve these two candidates? Well, we voted for them, and we listened to the media that pushed them on us.
- The cyclic transmogrification of the Republican Party
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From Lincoln on, Democrats have accused Republicans of their own failings: hate speech, violence, madness. And the more the left recycles the same serpent’s lies they used against President Lincoln, the more the left turns Trump into the new Lincoln.
- Defaulting on our debt is an executive choice
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If we default on any debt payments, it is because the White House has made the choice to default. There is no need to default even if the debt ceiling isn’t raised for a long time.
- Democratic National Committee membership scam
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The Democrats are phishing for people who don’t remember they’re not members.
- Democrats endorse public school elections, teacher recalls?
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Should legislators and teachers be evaluated for job performance in the same way? A group called Winning Democrats suggests that public school teachers should be elected positions rather than tenured, and that teachers should be subject to recall by the communities they serve.
- Democrats “oppress” black voters… by killing them en masse
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Over more than a century, Democrats throughout the United States have sought to glorify the Confederacy, from the battle flag to erecting monuments to the political leaders of the Confederacy. They have killed to do it. Republicans should work to tear down those monuments to slavery.
- Democrats: black voters prefer totalitarian Presidents
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They voted for Donald Trump over Hillary for the same reason they name their children after royalty, say DNC staffers and reporters.
- Democrats: Women faint, it’s what they do
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Press, Democrats, defend Hillary Clinton’s collapse, gaffes. “All women faint when they can’t stand the heat.”
- The Epaminondas Campaign
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The Democrats live like the plantation classes of Sparta and the pre-civil-war South. This is their strength until it is challenged, when it becomes their weakness.
- Failure theater in the Syrian war
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Just when I think I’m starting to understand the Democrats’ new policies post-2016, they come out of left field and support war in Syria. Are they flip-flopping because of failure theater or because they hate Trump?
- Gosh, Mr. Filner. Are you a corrupt sleazebag? Why no, Mr. Chairman! Not enough for charges anyway!
- It’s getting crazier and crazier. The Democratic Party here knew about the accusations against Filner before he even ran. They covered it up. Their investigation consisted of… asking him about it.
- Illinois Nazis and Lincoln’s Democrats
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An anecdote about other people’s money and other people’s time that I’ve had sitting around for a while.
- The last time an actor assassinated a president?
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When, asks Johnny Depp, was the last time an actor assassinated a president? The only reasonable explanation for this question is that Depp is a secret conservative.
- The left’s vicious racial shaming
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The left is waging a war against struggling mothers—all in service of creating racial discord and shoring up their identity politics.
- The Life of Stephen A. Douglas
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Where Abraham Lincoln’s conservative principles made a flawed man better, Stephen A. Douglas’s belief in the responsibility of government elites for managing lesser men made him far worse.
- Mark Udall announces surprising new endorsements
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Embattled Colorado Senator announces two new supporters from beyond the fields we know.
- Markos Moulitsas accuses President of assassinating Arizona rep
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Daily Kos chief claims President Obama’s exhortation to followers to “bring a gun” triggered assassination attempt.
- Mom didn’t leave the left, it left her
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Is my mom becoming more conservative, or is the left becoming more out of touch, not just with science but with mainstream religion?
- Nice park you have there; shame if anything happened to it.
- Who is the extortionist in the shutdown debate? Who is trying to cause actual harm right now in order to get protection money?
- Nobody Isn’t Partisan
- Partisanship always trumps principle, but this year is worse than any I can recall. If Nobody were on the ballot, he’d have a good chance of winning. With the election as close as any in recent years, Nobody might still garner a majority.
- An outdated code of conduct
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This social code once stood at the entrance to the Washington Post.
- The Parable of the Primary
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If Republicans are looking to be more Obama than Obama, they couldn’t have found a better cronyist than Donald Trump.
- Pennsylvania AG says crime is racist
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Pennsylvania Attorney General vows to stop investigating and prosecuting crimes. “We know most blacks commit crimes, so it’s racist to target criminals for prosecution.”
- Politico retracts Carson retraction
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Democratic house organ retracts most claims, sticks by allegation against Ben Carson “being black without a license”.
- Roundup of Reactions to the Democrat’s Latest Corrupt Lawfare
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There can be no comity in the face of corruption the size of New York’s and DC’s. Lawfare is war, and it must be treated like war.
- Senator Kamala Harris calls for slavery reparations
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California Senator and 2020 presidential candidate Kamala Harris calls on Democrats to support reparations to descendants of former slaves, and to descendants of Union soldiers who died freeing them.
- Slavery is barbarism
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Of course progressives believe slavery is a net economic positive. When the left talks rights, they’re talking about the power of government to force people to both provide something and to deny it.
- Take back the name
- I am proud to be a liberal. I hold as my political idols Jefferson, Paine, and other radical liberals from the founding of this country. It is time that real liberals took back the name from the conservatives!
- Trump targets mostly white audience
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Controversial presidential candidate speaks to MSNBC, Vox, and Democratic leadership.
- Who creates more jobs, Democrats or Republicans?
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More jobs are created under gridlock than under unified governments. However, this only applies if Republicans hold at least one of the House or Senate.
- Why isn’t Bob Filner resigning?
- Because he thinks he can get away with it—and chances are, he’s right. The watchdog media becomes a lapdog media where Democrats are concerned, especially when those Democrats are in contested areas.
- Wisconsin Democrats run on anti-jobs program
- Working through college as a waitress is laughable to Wisconsin Democrats.
- ‘They were not patriots’: New Orleans removes monument to Democrats
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Monuments to Democrats are increasingly under fire in their former firewall states.
More Information
- Democrats Tanked Gun Control To Up Their Election Chances
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“Apparently Democrats would rather have no gun sales ban than a sales ban that allows Americans due-process rights.” (Memeorandum thread)
- Why the Super Committee Failed
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“President Obama summed up our debt crisis best when he told Republican members of the House in January 2010 that ‘The major driver of our long-term liabilities… is Medicare and Medicaid and our health-care spending.’ A few months later, however, Mr. Obama and his party’s leaders in Congress added trillions of dollars in new health-care spending to the government’s balance sheet.
‘Democrats on the committee made it clear that the new spending called for in the president’s health law was off the table. Still, committee Republicans offered to negotiate a plan on the other two health-care entitlements—Medicare and Medicaid—based upon…”
