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Derek Hunter, TownHall:

Democrats Are Evil, Not Stupid

Democrats are the evil party, but that doesn’t mean they’re stupid. In fact, I often have to remind people that they are evil, not stupid, to explain why they do the things they do. They know what they’re doing, and you should too. It explains why, after more than 6 weeks, they suddenly decided to vote to reopen the government. It wasn’t because they felt people were suffering – you don’t subscribe to a political philosophy responsible for 100 million deaths in the last century if you have concern over suffering – but because it was electoral politics, plain and simple.

What changed the “principled stance” Democrats had been taking? The election happened. That’s it, that’s really all it was. If this had happened before the vote, there was a chance some Democrats, the more radical ones, would have stayed home. Disgusted people don’t generally go out and vote for the people with whom they are disgusted. 

But they did vote, and Democrats won the elections they should have won, so the threat is gone. They waited a week because they couldn’t do it immediately, lest they expose themselves as the frauds they are. But a week later has people have already forgotten how short a period of time ago the election was – “was it last week or the week before?” It really is that simple. 

Also worthy of note is the fact that none of the 8 Democrats who voted for the “deal” are up next year; they’re either retiring or have 15 political lifetimes between now and when they could next face voters. In other words, they were strategically chosen to cast just enough votes to end the shutdown while giving as many of their fellow travelers as possible the cover they need to pretend to be outraged over an end to the shutdown with nothing to show for it.

As usual, one of our best Senators predicted this way back on October 8th:

Sen. Kennedy Perfectly Called How the Shutdown Would End Weeks Ago

“It will end eventually when Senator Schumer goes to six or eight of his members and his Democrats and says, ‘Do me a favor. Vote to open it back up. I may have to criticize you, I’m not gonna vote with you, but I need a way out of this. I need an offering.’” He even warned, with his trademark wit, that Schumer would have to be careful not to make it look orchestrated. Because, as he put it, “if it looks contrived… he’s boned.”

Kennedy is so much fun:

As for what I mean about adding “AND”? Here’s some libtard radio host claiming disciplehood: