The establishment has lost all control of their party

Time to discover a new blog: Bats Right/Throws Left written by "Doghouse" Riley.  I like his wit. I like his irreverence. I like that he's a Hoosier, and I like him because he has two cats, Stinky and Larry.  Doghouse has been blogging for awhile but I just found his blog recently.  Let's take a peek at a recent post,

Could we just say it, please? This ... [is] what's really wrong with the Republican party. They don't like Romney, who couldn't be more Pro-Bidness if he shit tax exemptions, because he gives off the odor of a man who might try to do something Big while in office to get himself a statue. And they don't like Palin and the Palinettes, because they know these people are fucking loons. That is, they know that a strict application of so-called Republican principles would sink everyone who couldn't move offshore. But, of course, in order to keep going since Reagan they've had to insist that every colossal failure has come about because their principles weren't applied strictly enough. They're stuck in mid-extreme, and nobody wants to yell "Fire!" Or "Shit!", which would be closer to the truth. They can't decide if it's better to lose now, or later.

... For the fucking life of me: the Plutocrat party cannot win on its own, and it cannot govern or remain popular when it manages to sneak in. Not to mention that reading Ayn Rand is now the mark of its intellectuals. Why are you not making common cause with the moderate 'conservative' in the White House? The goddam Democratic party is yours for the taking, and there's little risk Barack Obama is going to do anything in the next five years. The Other Party refused to stomp a mudhole in your snake handlers' cult. Suck it up and do it yourselves.

Exactly.  The establishment has lost control of the Republican party and they are scared shitless because the tea party keeps dragging their party farther and farther to the right, past "conservative," past "far right," past "fringe right," past "loony right," past "nihilistic right," and are now entering the realm of "We just make shit up because our supporters will believe anything we say!" 

The establishment doesn't know what to do.  They must have found themselves in a fit of ecstasy when Obama offered them everything they wanted (the "Grand Bargain") with almost no strings attached, and then watched in horror as the tea party refused to accept it.  

More good points: 1) if the tea party got into power and got their way, the economy and the country would fail.  2) Whenever the Republicans get in power and their programs fail, they insist it's because the Democrats somehow managed to dilute their programs. 3) Now the the Democratic party has given in to the the establishment on almost everything important, why not just take over the party?

--Trakker

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Will Rogers, Mark Twain, bloggers who made a living on clever talk

Doghouse Riley writes topical standup comedy for a theatre audience that no longer exists. Nice writing but it won't sell tickets. Rogers and Twain were lucky to be writing before TV.

Check out Doghouse's list, "Better Sites Than This One" - leading to

http://brilliantatbreakfast.blogspot.com/2011/08/i-am-not-ready-for-my-childhood-to-be.html

When we first bought our house, a friend came over with her mother on the day we closed, took one look around, and said "You are going to be working on this house until the day you die."

[Trakker]

"You are going to be working on this house until the day you die."

This seems to apply to just about anyone who buys an existing home regardless of age, but it has never been truer than of the house my daughter and son-in-law purchased a few years ago. Every small repair has resulted in major discoveries of frighteningly bad wiring, construction, fixtures, etc. and every time I visit they have had to strip more and more drywall from the walls and ceilings because every new discovery brings more new discoveries of shortcuts taken. They would have been better off gutting the house before they moved in and rebuilding it room by room. Two good maxims to live by, Never look a gift horse in the mouth and never look behind your walls.

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House : Spouse : Entropy

It's less aggravation to live with problems than to fix them.

If it's perfect today, on the day you bought it or married it, it won't be tomorrow.

I knew he was dead when he dropped the remote.

Ask your spouse.

[Dan D. Doty]

Hate to tell ya Trakker, but you are the Estabilshment.

And Blue Oyster Cult said this ain't the Summer Of Love.

[Trakker]

It's less aggravation to live with problems than to fix them.

That could easily be my motto.

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Vestibulum quam elit, accessio inuidiae minus est vivere eos

Event Manager page, envy is less than the addition of them to live

Vestibulum quam lacus, invidiae minus additum habitare

Event Manager lakes, the less added to envy to dwell

Vestibulum quam lacus, invidiae minus additum habitare

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Sufficient to the day is the evil thereof. - King James version.

Don't borrow trouble.

[Trakker]

I think we're supposed to let God fix our problems, but when my roof leaked I had to call a roofer. Guess he was busy creating hurricanes and tornadoes to cause more mischief...