Republican Gives Wingnuts the Middle Finger in Tennessee

Unless he has a clear track record of siding with Dems

and his constituents know about it, this guy is toast when he comes up for re-election.

"I'll take incompetence over a business model incentivised to kill me any day." -- DtR(H)

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by: redstateblues @ Tue Jan 13, 2009 at 18:17:33 PM CST

Of course, Wonkette has a better scoop than Kos

http://wonkette.com/405417/ten...

and re: the point of redstateblues:

And full credit is due to the new Speaker Kent Williams, who candidly acknowledged in his address that he would likely be kicked out of the Republican party and lose his next election.

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by: Jambalaya @ Tue Jan 13, 2009 at 19:35:53 PM CST

That makes sense

"I'll take incompetence over a business model incentivised to kill me any day." -- DtR(H)

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by: redstateblues @ Tue Jan 13, 2009 at 19:54:06 PM CST

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Umm

Sounds like the Democrats rolled over and elected themselves a Republican Speaker.

I guess that's a great victory to anyone who looks up to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.

To me?  Well, not so much.

Best to kill them early instead of letting them possibly need food stamps.
--marilou, 2010

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by: Ralphie @ Tue Jan 13, 2009 at 19:54:09 PM CST

yes, all Republicans are exactly the same

good point!

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by: Jambalaya @ Tue Jan 13, 2009 at 19:57:27 PM CST

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Most people

Would have tried to flip one Republican vote and get a speaker of their own.

Only Democrats would engage in a circle jerk like this.

Best to kill them early instead of letting them possibly need food stamps.
--marilou, 2010

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by: Ralphie @ Tue Jan 13, 2009 at 20:03:41 PM CST

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oh, this guy, who is beholden to Dems for his position, is not "a speaker of their own"?

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by: Jambalaya @ Tue Jan 13, 2009 at 20:10:05 PM CST

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Wow, principles before politics

And the righties still don't get it.  

"Collective fear stimulates herd instinct and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd." -Bertrand Russell

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by: parsingreality @ Tue Jan 13, 2009 at 20:13:18 PM CST

A lot of the lefties commenting above don't get it either

I'm with you, I take this as someone who does not want to see the GOP dragged off into wingnutville.

Tom Tancredo Interview

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by: DavidThi808 @ Tue Jan 13, 2009 at 21:43:27 PM CST

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I agree...

Stop the presses...

Seriously - although I don't agree with Republicans on a lot of things, I think we need an effective, rational, sane opposition party.  Without that, the Democrats will just run open-loop and smoke-filled-rooms will completely run the show (instead of the 90% that they do now).

Not to mention - I actually have civil libertarian sympathies with the concept of limited government intervention in private lives.  I wish one of the major parties would agree with me on that... the Republicans want to monitor who I sleep with (perverts!) and the Democrats want to hand over my Constitutional intellectual property rights to the highest bidder (toadies!).

The party with the highest potential of being that is actually the Republican party, but they are currently too wrapped around the finger of the American Ayatollahs Religious Right.

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by: G Pulviczek @ Tue Jan 13, 2009 at 22:21:40 PM CST

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I/P rights issue?

Just want to know what you're talking about there...

"I have come to the conclusion that the making of laws is like the making of sausages-the less you know about the process the more you respect the result."  -- Anonymous IL State Rep. circa 1878

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by: Phoenix Rising @ Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 13:13:34 PM CST

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DMCA

The Dems are in bed with Hollywood / MPAA / RIAA in extending copyright indefinitely.  Disney got their big money adapting public-domain works, and then turned around and got laws passed prohibiting their own works from ever passing into the public domain.  And it's not just Disney.

Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution says, in part:

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

The Democrats are intent on working with big business media to make that "limited time" effectively unlimited.

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by: G Pulviczek @ Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 15:06:04 PM CST

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Okay, just checking

Though it's not like the Republicans were anti-DMCA or against Copyright extension.

There have been a few noises, mostly from the newer Progressive community, on reining in copyright terms, but I wouldn't count on much.

"I have come to the conclusion that the making of laws is like the making of sausages-the less you know about the process the more you respect the result."  -- Anonymous IL State Rep. circa 1878

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by: Phoenix Rising @ Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 15:51:59 PM CST

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And frankly

patent reform has to take front seat there.  Copyright reforms would be a welcome tweak once the real problem is handled.

"... politics has been divided between two types of people: those who want more people to vote, and those who want fewer people to vote."
- Sen. Kerry

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by: cdsmith @ Thu Jan 15, 2009 at 01:21:46 AM CST

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Software patents are even worse now

The patent office is now saying no to everything so only the large companies with a staff of attorneys can go through appeal after appeal to get one approved.

It's gone from a way to protect the little guy to one more way to protect the big corporations.

Tom Tancredo Interview

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by: DavidThi808 @ Sat Jan 17, 2009 at 10:21:44 AM CST

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