A Nauseating Pile of RINO (Censored)
Tags: RINOs, Second American Revolution.
Normally, I’d keep this to my Nevada blog, but this is just too much – and too illustrative of the sort of nonsense we’re going to have to battle against in our Republican party:
Republican presidential adviser Sig Rogich said in an interview televised today that he is supporting the re-election of U.S. Sen. Harry Reid because replacing the most powerful member of Congress while the state is in the worst recession in memory is a bad idea…
…Rogich, a long-time Republican operative and George H.W. Bush adviser, is co-chairman of the “Republicans for Reid” campaign.
Replacing Reid, “is just wrong, it’s just not the smart thing to do,” he said.
“We’re in protracted water negotiations with Arizona, with (Sen.) John McCain at the table, Utah, with (Sen.) Orrin Hatch, (Sen.) Dianne Feinstein representing California, and Colorado,” Rogich said. “Who would you like to have at the table? A junior senator or a newly elected senator…”
This is RINOism at its worst – he’s selling out the people of Nevada and the United States because Reid is better positioned to keep the pork flowing. That’s it – its what RINOs want…just a piece of the Democrat action. As long as Harry lets some of the swag head towards the likes of Rogich and his friends, its all good.
Those who tell us to compromise are telling us to give up our views and get with the program. Not for them is the clarion call of America’s Founders – nor the courage which preserved this nation through perilous times.
I’ve got some news for the RINOs: We don’t want to be part of a program which takes the sublime ideals of the Declaration of Independence and mixes them with the diseased imaginings of warmed-over Marxism…the sterling qualities of George Washington do not mix well with the junior-league Leninists running the Democrat party.
Half a loaf is, often, better than none – but I won’t have our loaf mixed with refuse from the liberal sewer.
Mark Noonan is co-author (with Matt Margolis) of Caucus of Corruption: The Truth About The New Democratic Majority. He also blogs at Nevada News and Views. Follow Mark on Twitter.
15 Responses to “A Nauseating Pile of RINO (Censored)”
Caucus of Corruption
this is correct given the senate senority rules. ALL POLITICS R LOCAL!
>the majority leader can send home the pork while a freshman gop’er will go to the back bench.
1. Water law is nonpartisan. Any agreement made about water allocation will have to go through a water court and survive the guaranteed challenges that are filed on any and all water court hearings.
2. Harry Reid has nothing to recommend him as a water law expert, much less as a skilled negotiator.
3. Any Senator involved in water law negotiations is going to have skilled and experienced water law attorneys at his side. Water law is extremely complex and no one can just step in and negotiate water allocations and such without an extensive background in the subject.
4. There is no guarantee that Arizona will not have a junior senator of its own at the table.
5. People who don’t live in the West don’t have a clue as to what we are talking about and ought to shut up.
I recently moved from Colorado, which is the only state in the union (except for Hawaii, of course) which has no river flowing into it from any other state. Every river in Colorado originates there. There are more water law attorneys in Colorado that in the rest of the nation, combined, or so we have been told.
People from the Midwest and East were always blithely telling me I should just pump water out of the river to irrigate my property, and were amazed and often disbelieving when I told them that this was illegal and that I had to purchase water rights and then have them approved by the water court before I could take a gallon of water out of the river. It cost me more than $20,000 in legal fees to acquire those rights, and a simple change of the point of diversion from the river required another court hearing, and responses to the automatic challenges and objections filed for every water court issue.
I now live in Wyoming, where Nebraska agents patrol irrigated lands to be able to lay claim to water they can prove is being wasted or used improperly, to be sent downstream to Nebraska.
To pretend that these issues are going to be decided only by a handful of senators, on their own, without legal counsel at hand, and that seniority will make a difference, is silly.
once again, you have stories for every damn issue that comes up.
Probably because I have life experience. Real life experience, not some superficial abstract university experience.
If you are calling me a liar, claiming that I am not a Western rancher, did not have a ranch in Colorado, did not deal with water issues there, do not operate a large ranch in Wyoming, deal with water issues here, etc. please do me the favor of making an even bigger ass of yourself and saying so. Go ahead and deny my history in a farming family, my many skill sets, my travels, my experiences, my social environment, whatever.
Or do what you have been doing, and simply lie about what I say.
I was out repairing my driveway this afternoon, grading it after it became badly rutted during the recent snow melt, and had to laugh, thinking of you and your callow smugness. I know you are probably working on offshore drilling, but still—if, as a Petroleum
Engineer, you were to work on a new land-based drilling project, once you put away your little yellow hat and clipboard (if you ever get into the field at all) and got into your little rented car and drove home to your little rented condo, and the project got started, my cousin would come in and build the road and drilling pad and get paid about four times what you earn over the same period of time, and my brother (if he still had one of his businesses) would sell your company the material to do the work for at least as much money. And they would drive their own cars home to their own fully-paid-for houses, happy to own their own successful businesses, and as they are classy people whose parents brought them up right they would never think of sneering at people who make less money, much less bragging about what they have.
See, I live IN the world, not in an ivory tower looking down at it and sneering at it. And I had the benefit of a family which taught manners and good breeding, taught us to respect others and not judge them based on how much money they make or where they went to school but on their character and decency. I have traveled extensively, and have never once been so boorish as to ridicule or disdain the cultures I experienced.
Maybe I was lucky to be born into a family with such values and civility, maybe I was lucky to be born in a country which values them. All I know is, your very classless posts remind me of my great good fortune.
BTW, do you know the slightest thing about water law in the American West, or are just so callow that you think tossing out sneering comments is adequate to establish you as a commentator?
Since you have no actual experience to fall back on, please do enlighten us from your vast storehouse of book learnin’.
Amazona,
First off, I am an E&I Engineer Project Manager.
Second of all, I have 2 years of field service experience in the North Sea, I have seen many blue collar workers with no education, who work 60 hours a week and sure, they earn more money than I do. But i would rather work 40 hours, and travel, and enjoy my life, than to work 60 hours and not be able to do anything fun.
Third, I bet I have traveled to more countries than you have. 31 to be exact. Most for my job, others for vacation. You see, we get 6 weeks of vacation right out of school and at our new jobs.
Fourth, I speak 4 languages and am much more cultured and civil than you. You are a rancher in the American west? what year is this? 1855? Seriously, get a life, you claim to be this righteous person, yet, every “experience” you post on here smells of BS.
Fifth, the story about your brothers is so typical of an American, claiming you don’t brag, and yet you post stories about how they have fully paid houses and how you earn more than others…on another note, with houses so damn cheap in most US cities, its no surprise that your brothers can pay off a house, I am sure they made a lot of money with no education..haha..that’s an accomplishment. for your information, I own a 400k Euro condo in Paris which is not fully paid off, but I live there and as previously mentioned, work for Statoil in our Paris branch.
Sixth, I don’t know how old you are, but I am 28, and am already making $221k per year here for the next 6 years. My family raised me well, sent me to a top engineering school in the world ( Imperial College London) a top 10 school for engineering in the world. Statoil also then paid for my MBA from INSEAD in Paris….but off course, those schools don’t mean a thing to you, because they aren’t american and you’re ignorant about the world.
Either way, believe me, out of 31 countries I have been to, America is by far the worst, and most ignorant country. The people are rude and brash, and above all OBESE! haha…seriously, every person you see here is overweight. Like I said before, in about 30 years, your country will be a leader in nothing and perhaps not even a country anymore…I see secession stickers on cars here in Houston all the time…
Either way, don’t lecture me on your world views and how righteous you are, i could care less. You’re a former colony, the outcasts of Europe who came here. Even today, your criminal nature, and violent people are a tribute to your lawlessness and ignorance.
“cultured and civil”?
Try boorish and crude.
Cultured and civil people, wellbred people with parents who teach them social skills and manners, do not barge in where they are not invited and then unleash torrents of abuse and insults about their host nation.
If this is the definition of “cultured and civil” in Norway, I’ll be happy to scratch that off my future itinerary list. However, I have traveled enough to learn that while any nation can produce ill-bred boors, I have yet to find a nation where this is a national characteristic.
My point was that while you preen about your self-described superiority, many lesser-educated people actually have lives which are at the very least the equal of yours as far as economics are concerned, as well as being far more wellbred and aware of social mores.
I love your condescending dismissive sneer about my life: “What year is this? 1855?” THIS is what passes for “cultured”, much less educated? Try that attitude in Texas and you may find your snotty nose firmly planted in some bovine byproduct as some Texas rancher teaches you a lesson about life in general and manners in particular—lessons which you clearly never learned at your mother’s knee.
You are so arrogant and have your head so firmly planted in your nether regions (where you clearly admire the view) that you arrogantly dismiss your complete ignorance about anything that is not within your tiny little frame of reference as “BS”.
What you do not understand about your appearance on this blog is NO ONE CARES. We all know people at least as well educated as you are, and that includes some of us. Ditto for traveling, languages, income, etc. None of these makes you special. What would make you special, which you lack, is humility and a sense of your place in the world.
Every word you have posted here has reeked of boorish, illbred, presumptuous, braggart arrogance. You think you’re special. I think you’re an ass. You define yourself by shallow externals—money, education, travel, job—but a real person is defined by character, decency, and civility.
Mark
Time to call “uncle Luigi” to make him an offer he cant refuse.
So if Reid gets dumped but the Dems still have at least 51 members, California will drink Nevada’s milkshake. Drink it up. Every drop. AND we’ll lose the wimpiest so-called leader in modern history.
It’s a win-win thing.
i could care less.
Well, mASS, for someone soooo educated, you can’t even use a phrase properly.
As for us being a “former colony?” So what? We went from colony to the world’s most powerful nation in less than 300 years. Can’t say that about Norway, although I hear they produce some very fine sardines. Norway would be nothing without NATO; your sorry ass would be speaking Russian. Oh wait; I forgot. You speak four languages. Russian is probably one of them, huh.
Once again, mASS, I challenge you to go into one of those Texas bars and slam America the way you do on this blog. They’d kick your viking ass into next Tuesday.
Oxygen thieves such as mASSie should get off the short bus, and jump in front of it…
Keef,
hahahahahah…you’re a bitter old white man.
Correction, you were the most poweful country, and that’s because World War II didn’t destroy your continent. But like I said, within about 20 years, you won’t be the leader in anything, nor a superpower.
The Chinese are already spreading their wings and soon enough you’ll be begging them to buy your debt.
You make fun of Norway…..hmmm….we would be nothing without NATO? is that supposed to be an insult? Is that supposed to make me shake in my boots? In your idiotic eyes, you think the world is about war and destruction, maybe that’s why your Marines are getting their asses handed to them in Afghanistan! haha..
The four languages that I speak, are probably 3 more than you, and they are Dutch, English, Norwegian, French.
You challenge me? no thanks, the bars here are filled with white trash, uneducated, and uncultured people who drink shitty american beer. It tastes like piss in a bottle.
But once again, good try old man, keep it up, keep votig for corrupt politicians who are caught with money in the freezer, and who are caught having gay sex in a bath room stall. Good job keeping your minorities poor and unassimilated. There are Hispanics here that can’t even speak english…hahaha..and they are considered American.
Besides the crime and pollution and horrible infrastructure in your country, I think its safe to say your best days are behind you and the worst is yet to come.
ahh mza, take it ez ok?
>these wingnuts on this site r a small gp in us politics. most americans aren’t into denial, repression, & bigotry.
“these wingnuts on this site r a small gp in us politics. most americans aren’t into denial, repression, & bigotry.”
Definitely a good thing to keep in mind.
I will do that from now on. I just refuse to believe that Americans are this insane and delusional as some of the “people” here. and I use the term people very lightly.
“I just refuse to believe that Americans are this insane and delusional as some of the “people” here.”
By and large we aren’t. What you are seeing on this blog is an extremely vocal wingnut minority.