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GOP: The Party of Personal Responsibility

by: Dean Barker

Thu Aug 21, 2008 at 06:40:31 AM EDT
And the award for the funniest LOL statement of the race goes to... the Mooney Times:
Sen. John E. Sununu is in serious political trouble, and it's largely no fault of his own.
I remember Charlies Bass explaining away his loss the same way back in 2006, but at least he had the decorum to wait until after he got defeated.

In other party of personal responsibility news, Shaheen will be speaking slot at the DNC convention, but still, at this late date, we have no idea whether Sununu has decided if he's a Republican and will be attending his own convention.
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Oh geez, yet again: (0.00 / 0)
The state, which has seen a steady migration of residents from Massachusetts in recent years, also voted for former President Bill Clinton twice in the 1990s.

I guess some people are just willfully stupid, and unable to read polls or election results.

And I guess they find jobs writing political analysis in places like the Washington Times.

I.O.U.S.A. (0.00 / 0)
brought to you by Republicanism...started by Hoover, greatly expanded by Reagan, and perfected by Bushununu, coming to an impoverished community near you, and soon !

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   Dorothy Parker

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Funny? (0.00 / 0)
Or strategically brilliant. As far as the Charlie Bass comparison you could look at the comment this way. Sununu can claim that he was prescient in predicting h is own defeat when he runs to take back his Senate seat in 2014.
"I knew all along I was going to lose. And I was right."

- John Sununu
somewhere in NH sometime in 2014


Don't be an * (0.00 / 0)
A new campaign against steriods, focused towards teens, reminds me of the junior Senator* from NH.

http://www.dontbeanasterisk.com/

With video!


The giant finds its gait.

For some reason, (0.00 / 0)
Personal Responsibility applies particularly to young people and taking care of children.  When the expansion of the school lunch program was being debated in Concord, Republican after Republican got up to assert that feeding the children would undermine the personal responsibility of the parents to provide for their own children.
But, I think I've since decided that what it means is that feeding the children deprives parents of one of the tools which lets them impose their authority and teach the children to obey--to make good on the threat that if they don't obey, they don't eat.

Personal Responsibility is really shorthand for OBEDIENCE.  No longer are there Ten Commandments to worry about; under the new dispensation, there's just one, DO WHAT YOU'RE TOLD.

I was sort of surprised because objecting to community assistance on the grounds of state interference would have made sense.  That the parents would be undermined took a bit of thought to understand.

Also, personal responsibility is consistent (0.00 / 0)
with voluntary servitude.  People learning to subordinate themselves is certainly preferable to having to coerce them.
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