RRD:Consider this:the Republicans won in 2010, in a overwhelming repudiation of the Obama administration and it's policies.What has happened since then?
*The GOP broke it's promise,(and emboldened Obama) by settling for a trivial 50 billion in cuts,(which,in reality,turns out to be less than $400 million) *Currently due to the moral cowardice(fn2) of the GOP leadership the media is discussing--not whether a balanced budget amendment will be part of the deal,or a repeal of Obamacare,or a end to funding the war in Libya--but whether Republicans will accept tax increases.
*At the same time this is occurring,the Senate leadership is trying to make it easier,not harder,easier,for Obama to have his nominees confirmed.Is this the message these clowns thought we were sending to them? fn1
http://theneointellectual.blogspot.com/2011/04/cbo-budget-deal-cuts-this-fisc... fn2. At first I believed that they were simply inept negotiators,now I am convinced that it is altruism undercutting their "convictions".(I use altruism in the way Ayn Rand used the term) See: Altruism — Ayn Rand Lexicon http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/altruism.html
...."What is the moral code of altruism? The basic principle of altruism is that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the only justification of his existence, and that self -sacrifice is his highest moral duty, virtue and value. Do not confuse altruism with kindness, good will or respect for the rights of others. These are not primaries, but consequences, which, in fact, altruism makes impossible. The irreducible primary of altruism, the basic absolute, is self -sacrifice—which means; self -immolation, self -abnegation, self -denial, self -destruction—which means: the self as a standard of evil, the selfless as a standard of the good. Do not hide behind such superficialities as whether you should or should not give a dime to a beggar. That is not the issue. The issue is whether you do or do not have the right to exist without giving him that dime. The issue is whether you must keep buying your life, dime by dime, from any beggar who might choose
to approach you. The issue is whether the need of others is the first mortgage on your life and the moral purpose of your existence. The issue is whether man is to be regarded as a sacrificial animal. Any man of self -esteem will answer: “No.” Altruism says: “Yes .” “Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World,” Philosophy: Who Needs It , 61.
*The GOP broke it's promise,(and emboldened Obama) by settling for a trivial 50 billion in cuts,(which,in reality,turns out to be less than $400 million) *Currently due to the moral cowardice(fn2) of the GOP leadership the media is discussing--not whether a balanced budget amendment will be part of the deal,or a repeal of Obamacare,or a end to funding the war in Libya--but whether Republicans will accept tax increases.
*At the same time this is occurring,the Senate leadership is trying to make it easier,not harder,easier,for Obama to have his nominees confirmed.Is this the message these clowns thought we were sending to them? fn1
http://theneointellectual.blogspot.com/2011/04/cbo-budget-deal-cuts-this-fisc... fn2. At first I believed that they were simply inept negotiators,now I am convinced that it is altruism undercutting their "convictions".(I use altruism in the way Ayn Rand used the term) See: Altruism — Ayn Rand Lexicon http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/altruism.html
...."What is the moral code of altruism? The basic principle of altruism is that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the only justification of his existence, and that self -sacrifice is his highest moral duty, virtue and value. Do not confuse altruism with kindness, good will or respect for the rights of others. These are not primaries, but consequences, which, in fact, altruism makes impossible. The irreducible primary of altruism, the basic absolute, is self -sacrifice—which means; self -immolation, self -abnegation, self -denial, self -destruction—which means: the self as a standard of evil, the selfless as a standard of the good. Do not hide behind such superficialities as whether you should or should not give a dime to a beggar. That is not the issue. The issue is whether you do or do not have the right to exist without giving him that dime. The issue is whether you must keep buying your life, dime by dime, from any beggar who might choose
to approach you. The issue is whether the need of others is the first mortgage on your life and the moral purpose of your existence. The issue is whether man is to be regarded as a sacrificial animal. Any man of self -esteem will answer: “No.” Altruism says: “Yes .” “Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World,” Philosophy: Who Needs It , 61.
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