It is rare in politics when you can see clarity over where a person or party wants to go.. My state's former congressman Mike Castle was very good at talking out of both sides of his mouth... I once heard him extol all the benefits of dismantling public schools, was getting really angry over his direction, and swearing to myself that he had to be unseated by any means possible, even if it was from a Tea Party candidate, and then, almost in the same breath, he switched: "one the other hand...." and begin running down my list of why public schools had to be saved... and I could feel myself cheering for each one... "yes, he gets it.."
It was my eye opener to politics in the real world: the politics of Washington. Prior I had the naive assumption one pitched causes to one's constituents and ran on whether they wanted to go or not go in that direction... For example, take this cause celebre going on locally in my own state: if you want to breathe toxic elements you vote for this candidate, and if you want something more eco-friendly to go into the University of Delaware's campus, you vote for their opponent. That may work locally but real politics doesn't work that way. In real politics both candiates play both sides and dodge being pinned to any side whatsoever... aka Chris Coons, John Carney, and Tom Carper... for examples.... Real politics is about getting and keeping money.
So it is refreshing when clarity sneaks in through a back door... Like X ray glasses. When you see the skeleton upon which all the now invisible flesh is hanging....you surmise the flesh form would kind of be draped across the skeletal frame you currently see in your vision. If the skeleton was crouched, about ready to pounce, you should know to run, even thought you had no idea what animal's skin and fur and facial features might be. If the skeleton was ambling slowly to you, head to the ground, like a horse, apparently grazing, you would know it probably was safe to relax and check it out more closely....
The skeleton of the Republican party is its money. Without big money it can't survive. For one, it certainly doesn't represent any real human being's interests. Instead it represents a very radical minority's interest, people that are impossible to find among one's acquaintances, and without huge sums of money it would by now long have been eliminated.... Like impoverished flesh draped across a skeleton, it's shape IS its skeletal structure, which in this case is... HUGE money.
Don't know if anyone else is familiar with literature surrounding pimps and hoes.
Unfortunately my knowledge mostly comes from one ancient Tom Clancy novel.. In that relationship, psychological control was established by isolating a subject down to one single lifeline through which the pimp controls. Everything must go through him/her, otherwise you perish. This enables the handler to get his subject to behave as he wishes, often doing things in ways the subject would never have done on their own. Crazy things happen this way.
That is the best analogy as to how a creep like David Koch, can make Republicans everywhere do crazy, almost suicidal things. Shutting down the government and getting absolutely nothing in return... Remember that? No? Don't worry, it got quickly pushed off the screen by the Obamacare rollout. Remember the success of Obamacare? Probably not; That was yesterday pushed off the air by Issa and the IRS Tax Controversy, which last year was determined to not be any of a controversy at all... Issa's contention now, is that taking the fifth is not taking the fifth if one makes a statement when taking the fifth... Yes! Of course it is bizarre! Would anyone be talking about it if it wasn't bizarre? And that is the point. Push success off the table, and put something, anything else on to scream about... Did anyone hear about Benghazi? Despite that nothing un-American happened there, despite a very rational explanation by the CIA that satisfies all inquisitiveness over how it played out ... there is under this almost perfect "Republican type" of President, nothing else to put on the table.... So therefore. Benghazi it is... At least it is noise.
Usually craziness like this is dropped. How many utterances by a Tourette syndrome sufferer currently make the nightly national news? Yet it would probably be quite a bit,... if they were as wealthy and as willing to spend as is David Koch....
The point of this embellishment, is to show that the current irrational behavior of the Republican Party, if understood by the relationship of pimp to hoe, is actually very rational. Just like an abused child has to use their brain to navigate around their irrational and sick, diseased abuser, so do Republican operatives have to do irrational things to stay alive and in office....
So putting on one's X ray glasses and looking at the Republican Party, one sees nothing but the skeletal frame of David Koch..... Studying what is David Koch, will point us to what the Republican Party IS going to do, when our nation elects them in 2014..... It is pretty much determined that without any type of uprising, they WILL win both houses of Congress in 2014.... So what will that be like?
Study the frame of David Koch.... By luck, we were handed a copy of what David Koch stood on 34 years ago.... ..He was vice president of the Libertarian Party candidacy, and he published a testament to all he believes.... As you know, even though George HW Bush was silent after accepting Reagan's VP offer, prior to that he coined the term "Voodoo Economics" of which even after all this time, he today still believes he was right. And so do we. The point, is that whenever one is campaigning for oneself... one tends to be very honest. It is only after one loses or after one wins, that one begins talking outside of both sides of one's mouth... Therefore if we could only find somewhere, what David Koch was running on and stood for in that campaign, we would know exactly what the Republican Party will do if both houses get owned by it in 2014....
Hey, guess what? We do! Thanks to Bernie Sanders who brought it back up to the surface.... If this is what you believe in, then by all means, vote Republican... But if this really scares you. even if you currently resided in a safe district, you can't just sit still. IF you sit still like always. then expect this......
We , the Koch-funded Republican Party of 2014 do attest to the following....
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“We urge the repeal of federal campaign finance laws, and the immediate abolition of the despotic Federal Election Commission.”
“We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid programs.”
“We oppose any compulsory insurance or tax-supported plan to provide health services, including those which finance abortion services.”
“We also favor the deregulation of the medical insurance industry.”
“We favor the repeal of the fraudulent, virtually bankrupt, and increasingly oppressive Social Security system. Pending that repeal, participation in Social Security should be made voluntary.”
“We propose the abolition of the governmental Postal Service. The present system, in addition to being inefficient, encourages governmental surveillance of private correspondence. Pending abolition, we call for an end to the monopoly system and for allowing free competition in all aspects of postal service.”
“We oppose all personal and corporate income taxation, including capital gains taxes.”
“We support the eventual repeal of all taxation.”
“As an interim measure, all criminal and civil sanctions against tax evasion should be terminated immediately.”
“We support repeal of all law which impede the ability of any person to find employment, such as minimum wage laws.”
“We advocate the complete separation of education and State. Government schools lead to the indoctrination of children and interfere with the free choice of individuals.Government ownership, operation, regulation, and subsidy of schools and colleges should be ended.”
“We condemn compulsory education laws … and we call for the immediate repeal of such laws.”
“We support the repeal of all taxes on the income or property of private schools, whether profit or non-profit.”
“We support the abolition of the Environmental Protection Agency.”
“We support abolition of the Department of Energy.”
“We call for the dissolution of all government agencies concerned with transportation, including the Department of Transportation.”
“We demand the return of America's railroad system to private ownership. We call for the privatization of the public roads and national highway system.”
“We specifically oppose laws requiring an individual to buy or use so-called "self-protection" equipment such as safety belts, air bags, or crash helmets.”
“We advocate the abolition of the Federal Aviation Administration.”
“We advocate the abolition of the Food and Drug Administration.”
“We support an end to all subsidies for child-bearing built into our present laws, including all welfare plans and the provision of tax-supported services for children.”
“We oppose all government welfare, relief projects, and ‘aid to the poor’ programs. All these government programs are privacy-invading, paternalistic, demeaning, and inefficient. The proper source of help for such persons is the voluntary efforts of private groups and individuals.”
“We call for the privatization of the inland waterways, and of the distribution system that brings water to industry, agriculture and households.”
“We call for the repeal of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.”
“We call for the abolition of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.”
“We support the repeal of all state usury laws.”
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Sound familiar? Of course it does.... As goes the pimp, so goes the hoe....