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" The revolt of the Irreconcilables against John Boehner&amp;#039;s leadership of the House, and against any member of the Republican congressional caucus not outfitted with a Reynolds Wrap chapeau,is probably the funniest thing since Willard Romney hit the checkout line at Costco. There&amp;#039;s still a chance that it&amp;#039;s mostly kabuki theater for the rubes and yahoos, but Senator Jim DeMint (R-Twelve Oaks) seems seriously to want Boehner&amp;#039;s head for a Christmas centerpiece. (&amp;quot;The Boehner&amp;#039;s head in hand, bring I bedeck&amp;#039;d with bays and rosemary...&amp;quot;) &amp;quot;Speaker Boehner&amp;#039;s $800 billion tax hike will destroy American jobs and allow politicians in Washington to spend even more, while not reducing our $16 trillion debt by a single penny...This isn&amp;#039;t rocket science. Everyone knows that when you take money out of the economy, it destroys jobs, and everyone knows that when you give politicians more money, they spend it. This is why Republicans must oppose tax increases and insist on real spending reductions that shrink the size of government and allow Americans to keep more of their hard-earned money. Big government is the cause of our debt crisis, not the solution. Washington has a spending addiction that is shackling our children and grandchildren with unsustainable debt. Conservatives fought for a balanced budget amendment last year precisely because we knew the political establishment in Washington would never stop their tax and spend addiction without it. However, if neither party leadership is going to put forward a serious plan to balance the budget and pay down the debt, we should end this charade. We can stop the fiscal cliff with the bill that House Republicans already passed that simply extends the current tax rates and replaces the defense cuts with reductions in wasteful spending.&amp;quot; I would advise all Republicans to listen to Jim DeMint. If you live outside South Carolina, don&amp;#039;t be concerned. You can pick him up through your fillings. And, down in Georgia, Erick Erickson, the mystifying CNN ideological quota hire and keeper of the Red State monkeyhouse, is painting blue lines on his face and riding to Bannockburn, or to the mall. Opinions vary. The fact is conservatives need to show conservatives can win. They can make a first stand in Virginia with Ken Cuccinelli. But they must do more \u2014 we must do more. Ken Cuccinelli, the famous transvaginalist and litigious global-warming denier, is the ass this ass wants to ride into Jerusalem? Again, I cannot endorse this proposal too strongly. If conservatives want to show they are not paper tigers, they must actually make concerted efforts in 2014 beating Republican incumbents. Conservatives have a better track record of this than liberals, but have their share of clunkers. They need to give it a full go. THUNDERCATS ARE GOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! Then there are a few things extra they must do. First, stop inviting squishy Republicans to take the flag flanked stage at conservative conferences thereby providing conservative bona fides to those who do not deserve it. Second, conservatives should set up a super PAC dedicated to defeating Saxby Chambliss in Georgia and maybe Lindsey Graham in South Carolina. Don&amp;#039;t do a major super PAC to do both, but one for each. Wait. Stop. &amp;quot;Conservatives should set up a super PAC dedicated to defeating Saxby Chambliss in Georgia...&amp;quot;? Isn&amp;#039;t this the same cat who made brave throatlings about taking on Chambliss his own self, but backed out because, dammit, he might, you know, lose, and that would be sad, and Edward Longshanks would disembowel him on stage at next year&amp;#039;s CPAC. Or something. Why, yes, it is.  &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;d actually be really awesome, but it&amp;#039;d be really nasty. I have a seven year old, a soon to be four year old, and a wife who does not like being anywhere near a stage. I&amp;#039;m not putting my family through that when the best outcome would mean a sizable pay cut and being away from my kids and wife all the time huddled in a pit of vipers often surrounded by too many who viewed me as a useful instrument to their own advancement.&amp;quot; This fairly well sums up the movement conservative view of things. Start wars that other people&amp;#039;s children have to fight. Propose bold political action for other people to take. It is for moments like these that we call upon the blog&amp;#039;s special economics correspondent Doyle Lonergan:  &amp;quot;Ye&amp;#039;re not just a cheat. Ye&amp;#039;re a gutless cheat as well.&amp;quot; He&amp;#039;s right about one thing. Conservatives truly do suck at this. God, this could be fun. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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