Indeed, and it should never be forgotten; but I believe the epigram has been updated.
(Not to worry, though: just replace “boot” with “Birkenstock”….)

There’s that one-word problem in it.

How Congress can…

Remember, the opposite of Congress is Progress.

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BrianE:
…has been lost on the Republican party.

No, just its elected representatives, and the RINOs who infest it.
😀

Well, that’s a relief!!

I mean, who would spy on me, take my money and give it to inappropriate causes, and encourage criminals to attempt to prey on me, if the government was shut down?

UNTIL I’m dead, whatever comes, I will lament this, as I seethe. Traitors.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has just revealed that he doesn’t get it.

He seeks compromise with an opposition entirely unwilling to do so, even in the slightest.

An opposition that will only ‘settle’ for surrender.

His initial behavior indicates a fundamental failure to grasp the reality he faces.

In fairness, he leads a party deep in schism between its leadership and its base.

So no matter what he does, real compromise, even within his own party is not possible.

Capitulation is not compromise and when compromise is not possible, only confrontation or surrender remain.

Had he a deeper understanding of the reality he faces, he would understand that the principled path forward is not one of compromise but of confrontation.

If Johnson continues to seek compromise, he is embracing surrender both to the Democrats and to his collaborationist party members.

The principled path forward is to tell his membership that while he is Speaker, there will only be single issue funding bills sent to the Senate.

If House committees refuse to issue single funding bills, they will not be brought to the floor.

If the House fails to pass single funding bills, then so be it.

If the Senate votes down those bills, then so be it.

If Biden vetoes those bills, then so be it.

If those opposed to singular funding of the Military, Education, Social Security, Homeland Security, etc. insist that it is all at once or none at all, so be it.

Johnson must stand for what is right or be seen to give in to what is wrong.

It still applies; when a leader can’t take the heat, they must get out of ‘the kitchen’.

We are losing this fight and we are losing because we refuse to fully commit to the fight.

We understandably fear that such a fight might well destroy what we are fighting for but what we fail to understand is that if we do not fight, there will be nothing left for which to fight.

We would not fight when we had a real chance of winning. Now the day has come when we must fight with all the odds against us and only a slim chance of winning.

If we once again shy from the fight, in the not too distant future we will face a simple choice; fight when there’s no chance of winning or accept enslavement.

Make no mistake, we are facing tyranny and the totalitarian left will settle for nothing less than the enslavement of our minds, bodies and souls.

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.”

It has ever been so.

And thanks, crasey!

We are (OK, have been) in the era of big government conservatism. I think Reagan’s admonition that government isn’t the solution, but the problem has been lost on the Republican party.

Is big government conservatism just creeping socialism versus big government leftism which is trying hard to socialize everything?