Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "The Bulwark"
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But, David, you're not quite right about Britain "suspending elections for ten years." Byelections went on regularly, and there were seven while Britain was at war.
In every one, the main candidates were the National Government and the Commonwealth Party.
The National Government was supporters of the War Cabinet, i.e. "the Churchill Administration"; in the large, it was a formal, go to meetings together, alliance of Labour and the Conservative Party, with individual Liberals involved.
Commonwealth was a temporary alliance of Independent Labour and the Communist Party with, I imagine, some Trotskyite/ist involvement.
The results: Commonweath 7. National Government Zero. A 7-0 shut-out.
This, incidentally, should have warned Churchill that he was on ver-ree thin ice -- and given that back in his first election campaign, in Hammersmith, a multi-member constituency, as barely an adult, he had cooperated with Labour and written sympathetically about them -- this is the Keir hardy era, remember -- it is surprising how oblivious poor old Winnie was in '45.
The Communists, foolishly, took this to mean England was on the cusp of The Revolution. It was nothing of the sort. Independent Labour simply walked away from the thing some time around Portdam, and the Communists went back to drinking too much with coal miners.
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@sharondavid-melly1498
My boss, John Brademas (D-Indiana) was a Deputy Speaker -- and for that matter I've been "Speaker" in a number of studenty things, including head of the city-wide High-Schol UN Assembly, which put a photgraph of me in the Speaker's chair of the Provincial Assembly out in the local daily, the Globe and Mail. A bit of a giggle, really. But from my Washington years I know a little bit about the whole thing.
Yes, Nancy was an excellent Speaker -- but that's because she is tough, very smart, and decent. She was certainly the best Speaker since Mister Sam, Sam Rayburn.
Newt is intelligent, but aggressive more than tough. He is stunningly dishonest in a succession of interesting and differing ways. Through all his early years, for instance, he pretended to be an independents and futuristic politician when in fact he was the bought and paid-for pet of the guy wh made those excellent Cannon Mills towels.
(One of the interesting side-lights of American politics is the number of men in business who make absolutely first rate products, but then indulge in infantile and ignorant versions of right-wing politics -- undoing in the public world all the good they had done in the private. The guy who made Smucker's superb jams is another. Buy their jam. Don't buy their founder's damfool politics. Henry Ford was perhaps emblematic of the type.)
John Bohner and Paul Ryan are no Einsteins, but they are both decent human beings, at least once Ryan got through his teen-age Ayn Rand fixation which lasted into his forties. Both are also well informed, sane, and thoroughly competent at their jobs.
Kevin McCarthy? A wondrous being! The original gen-you-whine fool. Incompetent, stupid, and ignorant. A man with an idyllic smile, he lights up a room. This beautiful half wit wanted to be Speaker, was willing to humiliate himself without limit to get the job. He did so and he got it. Then showed the rest of us -- though he never figgered it out himself -- that he didn't have Clue One about how the job worked or what its purpose was.
The present two, Jordan and Scalise?
Forgive me the horrible insult: they are typical of the current Republican Members of the House.
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The question for you professional commentators, Tim, Bill, and Charlie, is not "Is Trump guilty, cluck-cluck-cluck?"
It's what is the responsibility of the commentariat to get objective information through the heads of the third of the population whose brains have been rotted out not just by Trump but by Fox, and by Ayn Rand.
{A couple of Ayn Rand notes for you all: "Atlas Shrugged" had sold 700,000 copies in Hungary by the time the Communists went down. Paul Ryan -- who may very well be responsible for the defenestration of Tucker Carlson from Fox, used to make the book "recommended," at minimum, for his Congressional staff.
{I read all of her stuff in a three or four month binge when I was 17, and adored her for a summer -- exactly until I met some grown-ups when I hit university. I suspect the same thing has happened to Paul Ryan. He's outgrown her. I also suspect that she is the subterranean influence accounting for a great deal of America's current sickness, as, perhaps, in Hungary.}
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But, but, but Tim, are you telling me all those MAGATypes only know how to break stuff?
That's, that's, that's, well I'm just so kerflustered, Tim. I would never have imagined such a thing possible of upstanding folks like the Trumps. Donnie, and Eric an junior Donnie. An' fer shure there are kinder people in there, too, you know. you know.
I mean they have a deep bench of intellectuals, Tommy Tuberville an Stephen Miller, and people like Charlie Kirk and Dinesh D'Sousa to give the whole thing a depth and breath of patriotism with that strong administrative competence America needs to run its guvvermint...
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