a strange moral sense
hyperbolic times
Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh
Polite debate is no longer the accepted norm in our society. The liberal left is not tolerating divergent opinions, they want them eliminated. Outrageous labels, personal threats, and even violence have escalated during what used to be polite discourse and disagreements of opinion. [Read more…]
Hijacking Elbert County
“It is both breath-taking and disheartening to witness the speed with which this has all happened. I refer to the near-total hijacking of Elbert County government by the Democrat party over a relatively short period of time.
This takeover is reflected in several ways but the most evident is the ongoing deliberations by the committees and commissions assembling the new oil and gas regulations, and the county’s new venture into regulating water use. I have listened to several of these meetings and one can easily conclude that the main objective of the groups is to craft the new regulations in a way that their complexity will discourage petroleum exploration firms from ever developing the county’s oil and gas resources. [Read more…]
keeping score
RE: (click box to see cartoon)
My statement, “And now they [the left] control the Elbert County Republican Party,” has apparently unhinged the Elbert County Leftist [ECL] McShay.
Next time, before an ECL member launches into a potentially libelous rant, he should read more carefully. I said, “And now they control ….” I didn’t say, “And then they controlled….” McShay has confused causation of alleged incidents in the past, with present and future causation. The two simply cannot connect.
My reasoning for saying, “And now they control the Elbert County Republican Party,” is based on the assumption that the Elbert County Republican Party has a goal of electing Republicans to local offices. I believe this is actually in their bylaws.
As has been substantiated in multiple writings, and as was again substantiated in the Denver Post excerpt within the blog item carrying the above quoted statement, the winners of the Republican primary in Elbert County associate with Democrats. They’re liked by Democrats, they share policies with Democrats, they’re published on a Democrat web site, and they even smoke cigars with Democrats and hang out socially.
So, reasonably, evidently, observably, I call them leftists. Democrats are leftists, so they must be too. It’s no stretch to connect those dots.
Now, and this is where McShay should pay close attention, if the Republican Party exists to elect Republicans, but they’ve instead elected known leftists, a reasonable person could conclude that leftists now control the Republican Party.
This is an important fact to keep in mind as the ECL takes over majority control of the BOCC for the next 4 years. What the ECL plan to do to Elbert County, the oppressive zoning, the takings of private property rights, increasing taxes, the suppression of commerce, the preservation of horse pastures, etc., these things are going to fall squarely at the feet of the ECL.
They wanted the power, they went out and got it, now they own the consequences. No more blaming Republicans. Sorry, that card has been removed from the deck.
Official BOCC decisions in the past in Elbert County cannot be directly ascribed to the ECL, however, the list of ECL talking points McShay detailed in his above referenced cartoon, points that also comprised the substance of Rowland’s and Ross’s campaign rhetoric, have all been factually rebutted or shown to be of no consequence. So those talking points at least can’t be ascribed to Republicans either. Maybe it’s because they don’t really exist?
Anyway, whatever I say will be formed into an unsavory mudball by the ECL and hurled at me with invective, ad hominem, innuendo, unsavory name calling and various misrepresentations. It’s what they do, and it’s what one gets who has the temerity to criticize our leftist overlords.
I try to remain philosophical about these personal attacks from the ECL. If they want to keep pulling their pants down to show their literary junk to the world, I figure the least I can do is comment about it, even though that apparently makes them keep doing it. They intend to silence those who dissent from their orthodoxy. That isn’t going to happen here.
B_Imperial
lying down with dogs…
…waking up with flees.
In Elbert County the left controls the tea party, such as it is. They control the Democrat Party. And now they control the Elbert County Republican Party.
B_Imperial
condolences
Critics painted me as a defender of the old guard. Ha! The only things I defended in this election cycle were competence, sound management, realistic thinking, and the rule of law. Tragically, these bedrock principles did not win today in the Elbert County Republican Party primary. Well, the principles still exist, and it appears I will have plenty more opportunities to defend them in the future.
Come November, commissioner choices will be between agenda driven liberals and, um, agenda driven liberals. I’m sure this prospect has the New-Plains democrats, populists, and leftists, dancing in their switch grass patches tonight, however, consequences for the county will be grim.
We’ll see ubiquitous zoning and higher taxes. We’ll see environmentalism and its basket of unfounded mythologies unleashed in a flurry of ersatz relevancy as they consume the public discourse. We’ll experience these mythologies fail in an expensive protracted drama full of denial and blame. We’ll see none of these agenda progenitors take responsibility when their no-growth, anti-industrial, country-in-county ideas further impoverish Elbert County. We’ll see the few of us who use their 1st Am. right to dissent from these prevailing insanities called more names, if that’s even possible at this point.
I never wrote for the sake of the old guard. I wrote for the sake of limited sound government. A voting minority of Elbert County voted for bigger more intrusive government. They made a big mistake, and the county government they’ve chosen for all of us will make us pay dearly for it. That’s what unbridled government does to people and these people are all about the unbridling of government power.
The left has won. You’re not going to like these new-strange bedfellows when they start implementing their plans for you.
B_Imperial