“We’re diverted totally from what this bill is about. Why? Because the anarchists have taken over,” Reid said on the Senate floor. “They’ve taken over the House and now they’ve taken over the Senate."And soon, Harry, they'll be coming for you. Bwahahahaha!!
Just another day in the legislative branch.
A bridge engineer is an archist?
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He will not allow us to sap and impurify his precious bodily fluids!
ReplyDeleteIt must be a shock for Reid to have to deal with Senators and House members who actually represent their constituencies and stick by it. Boehner is all verklempt about it, too.
ReplyDeleteSo now we're living in Somalia? Because that's what all the smart people tell me libertarians want us to be.
ReplyDeleteActually, I might be okay in Somalia. I have enough firearms that I could set up as a warlord... the only question is, do I have Harry Reid shot, or do I enslave him for the arugula mines?
Incidentally, speaking of your artwork, I had long wanted to read about the Spanish Civil War but avoided it because it had been so thoroughly mythologized by the Communists.
ReplyDeleteRon Radosh, in Spain Betrayed, recommended Antony Beevor's Battle for Spain as an even handed account. So I read it and highly recommend it. He is unsparing of both sides, and if anything reinforces my conclusion that the least worst side won that war. As unpleasant as Franco was, he at least prepared Spain for evolution into a constitutional monarchy with full democratic participation. And of the Fascist states of the 20th century, Franco's Spain was fairly light handed and much better than what the Warsaw Pact nations had to endure.
Steve: Yes, they're were no unadulterated good guys in that civil war, but things would have been far worse had the so-called "Republic" won (by the end of the war, the communists had either co-opted or exterminated most of their competition, and an exhausted Marxist state would have been in no shape to withstand a German invasion; Franco, on the other hand, proved to be extremely ungrateful to his German allies, repeatedly refusing to permit German troops to use Spain as a base for attacking Gibraltar, as I recall).
ReplyDeleteOf course, I meant "there were no", not "they're were no". Long day, very tired.
ReplyDeleteWould also recommend Jose Maria Gironella's novel The Cypresses Believe in God, for an interesting literary treatment of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.
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ReplyDeleteDid you read Hugh Thomas' "The Spanish Civil War?" Pretty good, I thought, and now out in a second edition.
Just a little note on Franco's Spain: My father, along with a number of other U.S. soldiers on their way to WWII, landed via aircraft in Spain for refueling. The plane had to take off immediately because all the Allied soldiers on board were going to be "detained", because Spain was "neutral". My father went on to Italy, to become a tail gunner in a B17.
ReplyDeleteFranco was an opportunist who waited to see which way the war would go.
Deborah..... "Anarchist" is one to add to the long list that you can imagine, and includes some that will not be repeated here. If Harry is scared by "anarchists", then let's send a few more to the Hill. Be afraid, Harry. Be very afraid.
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