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John Longenecker
Safer Streets No more even-handedness,
please.
Excuse me, I am not a fan of even -
handedness. We did not send people to Washington or their state
capitols to be cooperative, but to be partisan. Because, when you
sit down to negotiate what you now have (to paraphrase Marie
Parente) you lose. Democrats will never treat you nearly as well
when you lose as we treat them when they lose.
And when they use that against us, it is only because we went in
and were even - handed.
This election win and all its
message didn't happen just so we can give it all away, or even some
of it. That's how we were played into this mess to begin
with.
Which brings me to another saying...
If you think the cost of a good education is expensive, try the
cost of ignorance.
Has America learned anything or not?
No more compromise. It's what's made our streets
unsafer.
The idea of getting along in
Washington might have been praised and appreciated as dignified and
decent, but it has always been a trap to keep governance a one-way
street. I have complained that Republicans are so pre-occupied with
being ladies and gentlemen that they never really did anything for
constituents; they let the left punch them in the stomach, steal
their milk money and eat their lunch.
You're going to hear a lot of this
for the foreseeable future: now is not the time for
compromise, or you'll simply be played again and again. Nor
is this payback for anything.
This is blowback for the
viciousness, the indignities and the corruption where we had been
goaded into 'tolerance' or 'patience', political carping, smear and
other traps which were pure demagoguery, distraction and
self-indulgence.
For now, therefore, things have to
be rectified to be much more compatible with our way of life, and
our way of life is that the people are the Sovereign, not the
governments here. And this will never be restored if we plan on
being even-handed.
Or... haven't we learned
anything?
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[...] Voters
have spoken: They've had enough. Enough of the 2009 Nobel Peace
Prize winner's rhetorical abuse. Enough of his feints at
bipartisanship. Whatever the final tally, this week's turnover in
Congress is a GOP mandate for legislative pugilism, not peace.
Voters have had enough of big government meddlers "getting things
done." They are sending fresh blood to the nation's Capitol to get
things undone.
