The Glade 4.0

...This election was an absolute indictment of the Obama/Liberal agenda in this country. Anyone with a drop of political savy understands the implications of what happened last night. In Massachusetts, one of the most liberal states in the country, despite effots by the national Democratic political machine and stumping by a former and current president, for a congressional seat held by the "Liberal Lion" of the Senate, the Democratic candidate was not just beaten but trounced.

Not only was she trounced, but she, a well known, widely supported, and entrenched Attorney General lost in districts no Democrat has lost in longer than anyone can remember. She lost in Hyannisport. She lost in Barney Frank's district.

She lost to a virtually unknown libertarian conservative Republican who ran on a single platform. Lowering taxes, and stopping this version of healthcare "reform".

Democrats who wish to remain in office, and in power are going to run away from this in droves. Because if this can happen to a 4-1 favorite in Massachusetts running for the Kennedy seat on his legacy of healthcare, then it can and most certainly will happen to them.

The American people are waking up (...) and they are angry.

Beau Biden will not run for father's former Senate seat

Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden will not run for his father's former Senate seat, he announced via email to supporters this morning.

"I have a duty to fulfill as Attorney General -- and the immediate need to focus on a case of great consequence," Biden wrote. "And that is what I must do. Therefore I cannot and will not run for the United States Senate in 2010. I will run for reelection as Attorney General."

The decision is a huge blow for Senate Democrats who had long insisted Biden was a certain candidate. Republican Rep. Mike Castle is now a strong favorite for the open seat.

Of Biden's decision, Castle said: "I respect Beau Biden's decision to remain focused on his significant responsibilities as Delaware's Attorney General."

The certainty of a Biden candidacy had declined significantly in recent weeks due, at least in part to an ongoing investigation into an alleged pedophile pediatrician being conducted by his office.

Biden also may have had doubts about a candidacy in the wake of the defeat of state Attorney General Martha Coakley in a Massachusetts special election, a race cast as a sign of just how bad the national environment had grown for Democrats.

With Biden out, Democrats are likely to turn to Newcastle County Executive Chris Coons as their preferred candidate although there is sure to be some chatter that former Lt. Gov. John Carney will switch from the House race to the Senate contest. Carney is, however, leery of leaving a near sure thing House seat to take on Castle, one of the state's best known and most popular politicians.

Interim Sen. Ted Kaufman, a longtime staffer to then Sen. Joe Biden, reiterated this morning that he will not be a candidate for the remaining four years of the term in 2010. "I will not seek election for the balance of the term," said Kaufman in a statement released this morning.

No matter who Democrats nominate, however, Castle is a clear favorite.

Biden's decision comes only a few weeks removed from Sen. Byron Dorgan's (D-N.D.) decision not to run for re-election. Dorgan's departure led to the candidacy of popular Gov. John Hoeven (R) while Democrats have yet to find a candidate in the Republican-leaning state.

19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

the new 41/59 supermajority is certainly a mandate for conservative governance....

You clearly don't get it.

No, he does not. He makes that clear with every derogatory dismissal of the tea partiers as fringe elements without realizing that they are really main stream, center-right folks who are fed up with both parties acting like they're spending money they earned, rather than knowing they're spending money that they have taken from the public.

The party who finally gets it and acts on it rather than acting derogatory, or giving lip service to the anger but ignoring it in the way they govern, is the party that is gonna grasp the initiative and hold it for a good long time. If the Democrats wanna start governing center-right, rather than far left, ......

*edit* You see, this is where even Libertarians fail. Many of the fiscal issues espoused by the Libertarian party would seemingly fit right in with the center-right groundswell, yet they continue to do poorly at the polls. I am convinced the reason for that is that while they are main-stream on fiscal matters, they are far left on social matters. Their stance on social issues are not resonating with the mainstream, because they are viewed as being in bed with the liberals of the left. They will tell you it is a conservative view, but it is not perceived that way. Mainstream, center-right folks are generally opposed to legalizing drugs, for instance, viewing that as something left-leaning ne'er-do-wells would want. I (and so many others just like me) tend to agree with the Libertarian party on fiscal issues, while vehemently opposing their views on social issues, and that is not gonna change anytime soon.

19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

Also, Bery, what you need to understand is that what liberalism is, is the will to compel another person and restrict their liberty through use of government force. So when you seek to legislate away individual liberty and God given freedom in the name of social "conservatism", you are actually acting liberally in your methods.

19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

If your argument is that simple democracy is the highest moral imperitive, you've already defeated yourself in your own argument.

19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

I posit that the method and the tool are what is important here, as it is the method and the tool of your preference which is now being wielded by those who are causing the "core rot".

Libertarians do not generally advocate the use of the tool, much less the ends to which liberals would apply it. We are simply willing to sit back and allow God to do the judgeing, while we are content to simply argue for our conservative preferences rather than compell others to God's standard by force.

Any other way legitimizes the weapon of your own unmaking, and in that way makes you saddly participatory in your own plight.

Nice philosophical argument which fails when placed in the real world. God gives us law, and says that He has set before us life and death, blessing and cursing. Those do not just apply to the next life, but to this life as well. God knows us better than we know ourselves.

Again, you have an argument only if you live as a hermit and I come to you and try to force you to live a certain way. But you choose to live in a society, and like it or not, what you do affects others around you. Don't like the society's rules? Go live as a hermit. I don't think any one will stop you.

19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

You have no more right to adopt another into your herd without their consent than others have to do the same to you.

But you aren't being adopted. You are making a choice: Live in society and abide by the rules, or live outside the society with no interaction. Until you can convince enough people in the society that your proposed rules are better. Thus far, Libertarianism has failed to do so. I don't think that's gonna change anytime soon, either.

19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

That is not correct. The fact that we need government at all disproves that.

19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

Conflating the nebulous idea of "government" with a government of illibertarian coercion seems problematic to me. And that is assuming that I accept your premise that we need any government at all.

19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.