Republicans & Democrats

“The Uniparty has forsaken the American border to the same digital docility to which Israelis had been forsaken on October 7.”—ILANA Mercer, “Hamas, Israel And The Anatomy Of State Treason,” October 12, 2023
“THE GULF BETWEEN principles and practice, doxa and praxis, is eternal—all the more so when it comes to the politician. When you think of a GOP candidate, in particular, you think of neither creed nor action, but, rather, of a list of talking points and policy positions to the exclusion of bedrock principles. ‘God, groceries and gas’ was how one gaseous hack smugly summed it up.”—ILANA MERCER, “RFK, Jr.: Authentic Americanism That Loves Liberty, Loathes Lockdowns, Upbraids Abe,” May 18, 2023
“While offering meek opposition to the Ukraine project, and little effective resistance to COVID-related usurpations; the ostensibly ‘sane’ wing of the GOP is ready with an alternative war: China.”—ILANA Mercer, “Oh, What Wonderful Wars: The West’s Lying Warlords,” March 10, 2023
“The overtone window alludes to a range of ideas once considered unthinkable, but now normalized. With their flaccid, crushingly stupid responses to most situations, for example the self-induced ‘crisis’ on the south-western border—Republicans have normalized tyranny, including an open border, through which millions of impoverished people may flow, are flowing.”—ILANA Mercer, “GOP Swallows Classified-Doc Bait, Shirks Constitutional Obligations,” February 1, 2023
“It is illegal for state attorneys, whose job description is to uphold the law, to nullify the very law they are paid to enforce. How is it that only Gov. Ron DeSantis grasps that?”—ILANA MERCER, “Ron DeSantis Delivers First Principles In Action,” November 10, 2022
“Laziness notwithstanding, I suspect that the intellectual quality of our representatives and the voters has so degraded—that neither voter nor candidate knows the channels and ropes through which action is to be taken to rectify wrongs.”—ILANA MERCER, “Ron DeSantis Delivers First Principles In Action,” November 10, 2022
“Voters don’t seem to expects our Republican representatives to work for their pay, as in improve our lives. Politics being an extension of the cellphone Selfie; a good TV appearance or a ‘feisty’ tweet is considered as good as work. Consequently, our US elected representatives think their role is to tweet their outrage. Or, rant flamboyantly on Tucker Carlson Tonight.”—ILANA MERCER, “Ron DeSantis Delivers First Principles In Action,” November 10, 2022
“The imperative is to define the Democrats as the deviants they are. Demons. Demented. Yet Republicans, miss the mark and slide into extenuation: They call the Democrats ‘radicals,’ their agenda a ‘radical one,’ when the Democrat party is in fact the party of perverts. To label Democrats as radicals is to compliment them. I’m a radical reactionary; a radical for free-speech, a radical for property rights, for localism, for individual liberty. See what I mean? The ‘radical’ adjective is not necessarily pejorative.”—ILANA Mercer, “Say It! The DemonCrats Are The Party Of Perverts,” October 27, 2022
“Not nearly enough is said about the DemonCrats’ sexual politics. Twerking tush in front of school kids is indecent exposure. It used to be illegal, certainly and indisputably immoral. There used to be laws prohibiting the wearing of sexual prostheses in public and dangling them in front of others, much less minors. But thanks to the Democrats’ sexual proclivities and politics, we have other-gendered people inflicting their kinks on kids, under the guise of education. The same American children can’t read, write or do arithmetic, but are No. 1 in pornography and Critical Race Theory.”—ILANA Mercer, “Say It! The DemonCrats Are The Party Of Perverts,” October 27, 2022
“The Democrat Party stands for loosing robbers, rapists, killers and perverts on the land.”—ILANA Mercer, “Say It! The DemonCrats Are The Party Of Perverts,” October 27, 2022
“The Democrat platform promises to end Anglo-America, welcome the world, evict the unborn as a constitutionally enshrined right, while sundering the Bill of Rights and reveling in all manner of evil, criminal and carnal.”—ILANA Mercer, “Say It! The DemonCrats Are The Party Of Perverts,” October 27, 2022
“The Democrats are dominated by demonic females who rage as though permanently on the rag.”—ILANA Mercer, “Say It! The DemonCrats Are The Party Of Perverts,” October 27, 2022
“What, if anything, have Republicans done to stop policy and society from taking on an anti-white hue? They rabbit on about Critical Race Theory (CRT), framing it as Marxism, when it is, as I’ve pointed out for years, unadulterated anti-white agit prop. For Republicans, moreover, it seems impossible to mention white suffering without dragging in the ‘black experience.’ Republicans just can’t seem to protect or stick up for besieged whites and are forever searching their brains for ways to show off how black-focused they are. Channeled by conservative TV windbags, CRT is said to be bad not because it’s pure and simple anti-white racism tinged by ethnocide—not Marxism—but because it demeans the nobility and abilities of blacks. Likewise, black violent crime conservative bobbleheads lament because it hurts blacks the most, rather than because it rips through 87 percent of the rest of society.”—ILANA Mercer, “Tucker Cancels GOP, So Should You: ‘Republicans Have Done Nothing To Defend YOU,’” May 19, 2022.
“Anyone running to permanently restore due process of law lost by so many Americans, especially the Jan. 6 dissidents? Show me the Republican lout who is able to articulate that, no, we don’t need new laws. No other country has as many laws as the United States Code. (Attempts to count the number of laws scattered over upwards of 23,000 pages have failed.) How about electing people who understand how to uphold rights already instantiated in the founding documents, and forcefully enforce the laws that ensure ordered liberty?”—ILANA Mercer, “Tucker Cancels GOP, So Should You: ‘Republicans Have Done Nothing To Defend YOU,’” May 19, 2022.
“Is there one GOPer running in the primaries who has promised and comprehends how to ensure that no centrally or locally directed lock-down will ever occur again? Any conservative campaigning on a serious examination of lockdown crimes against the citizens and travel restrictions on the unvaxed? Has even one of the Republican candidates traipsing through Fox News’ green room addressed the creation of an unvaccinated underclass (villains all) and a vaccinated upper-class (virtuous)? Who among these contemptible clowns clawing their way to D.C. has even mentioned the fact that we the unvaxed are still being denied access—based not on active aggression we’re committing, but rooted in our peaceful rejection of the corporate, State-mediated aggression against us: We won’t take the Hemlock. Is a single Republican moron proposing to ensure that never again will the medical idiocracy—bona fides established during the pandemic—come between a dying patient and his family?”—ILANA Mercer, “Tucker Cancels GOP, So Should You: ‘Republicans Have Done Nothing To Defend YOU,’” May 19, 2022
“Against the potency of the Democrats, Republicans offer only impotence. The GOP strives to fit in. The typical ConOinksters—the con artists formerly known as neoconservatives, as Establishment Republicans, as ConInc, or the ‘Big Con’—their existence consists in pacifying the left and deceiving the right. Blunt is better: Republicans live like you would in a gay bathhouse: on their knees. At every turn, they apologize and expiate for their principles. Their feeble reaction to Democrat depredations, in general, has the effect of normalizing decadence, degeneracy, lawlessness, and breakdown of all standards—the systemic institutional rot that is convulsing the country. Republican reaction to a steady stream of brazen invaders breaking the Southern border, in particular, is to whinge ever-so occasionally and oh-so softly.”—ILANA Mercer, “Tucker Cancels GOP, So Should You: ‘Republicans Have Done Nothing To Defend YOU,’” May 19, 2022
“THE DEMOCRATS have always set the terms of debate; Democrats stand tall for their core principles, as atrocious as these manifestly are. Consider: How does the illiberal left deal with Republicans? They leverage against their political opponents the full force of the managerial, permanent state, which they’ve captured. They galvanize the DOJ (Department of Justice), the Security and the Surveillance State to destroy as many conservatives as possible. Rivulets of words like ‘treason’ and ‘white supremacist’ soon run through the Democrat-dominated media and through other intellectual means of production captured. Subpoenas are issued. Congressional hearings are hastily begun; impeachment proceedings set in motion. The criminal arm of the Democrat Party is marshaled in quick succession. These vampiric operatives—BLM, Antifa, demented distaff—are soon staking out, stalking and canceling conservatives making life intolerable. Simultaneously, and in addition to utterly demonizing their opposition, Democrats typically plug away at making the country ungovernable, lawless, diverse to the point of distrust.”—ILANA Mercer, “Tucker Cancels GOP, So Should You: ‘Republicans Have Done Nothing To Defend YOU,’” May 19, 2022.
“Principled, conservative libertarians will distinguish pro-Trump, Jan 6 patriots from the criminal arm of the Democratic Party: BLM, Antifa and other riffraff. These weaponized Democrats, immunized by party leaders from criminal liability, romped through America, in the summer of 2020, causing billions in damages. Like locusts, these cultural revolutionaries descended on their neighbors to menace them in places where they shop and socialize, sadistically threatening, and often physically harming innocents, unless they knelt like slaves.”—ILANA Mercer, “Deplorables, Cancel The January 6 PSYOP!,” January 6, 2022.
“Like them or not, our people are the ragtag bunch who would storm the plush seats of state power and corruption. The Democrats’ people are Black Lives Matter and Antifa. Be they illegal voters and criminal aliens, or just good old vandals, rapists and murderers—the criminal class is now the armed and shielded wing of the Democratic Party: Courageously and audaciously, Democrats lionize and give license to their criminal constituents.”—ILANA Mercer, “Deplorables, Cancel The January 6 PSYOP!,” January 6, 2022
“Unlike Republicans, who threw Jan. 6 political prisoners in a briar patch from which there is no escape—Democrats admirably stand tall for their core beliefs, as repugnant as these mostly are. The Left most certainly didn’t rush forward to condemn the Black Lives Matter and Antifa louts, as they looted and killed their way across urban America leveling private property—the livelihoods and businesses of fellow countrymen. Instead, Democrats defended the criminal arm of their party. ‘Riots are the language of the unheard,’ they preached, parroting MLK, who opposed violence.”—ILANA Mercer, “Deplorables, Cancel The January 6 PSYOP!,” January 6, 2022
“Democrats are the real racists” has become a popular, mocking meme. Having originated it back in 2014, I’d argue that the line, ‘Democrats don’t care that blacks are killing blacks,’ is a species of the ‘Democrats are the real racists,’ black-centric fatuity.”—ILANA Mercer, “Republicans’ Main Focus: Showing Off How Black-Focused They Are,” November 18, 2021.
“Seldom mentioned in Republican argumentation is the real hate crime in the room: black-on-white crime which is invariably not reported, underreported, or if reported, masked as something other than what it really is, which is systemic, institutionalized, white-hot hatred of whites. Republicans just can’t seem to protect or stick up for besieged whites and are forever searching their brains for ways to show off their Abe Lincoln pedigrees.'”—ILANA Mercer, “Republicans’ Main Focus: Showing Off How Black-Focused They Are,” November 18, 2021.
“For Republican leadership it is impossible to mention white suffering without dragging in the ‘black experience.'”—ILANA Mercer, “Republicans’ Main Focus: Showing Off How Black-Focused They Are,” November 18, 2021
“Enough of the cheering for the ineffectual GOP and its front men and women, who arrive in the Idiocracy’s version of Rome, only to do nothing, decade after decade. Oh, yes, they turn in appearances on TV and before congressional committees; get lucrative book deals, and consolidate political and corporate power for a lifetime.”—ILANA Mercer, “Self-Ownership And The Right To Reject The Pharma-State’s Hemlock,” October 28, 2021
“As the West careens toward the Covid-centered anthill society, nobody identifies and defends the individual’s dominion over his body and his right to reject the Pharma-State’s Hemlock prescription for that body. As emphasized, Republicans’ case against Covid mandates indirectly capitulates to coercion.”—ILANA Mercer, “Self-Ownership And The Right To Reject The Pharma-State’s Hemlock,” October 28, 2021
“It is always the Democrats that set the terms of debate. Republicans simply internalize the rules of the game set by their masters, and then play a reactive, rather than a proactive, game, panting hard, mentally flaccid and unfit. The anatomy of a good response is never, but never, to apologize and equivocate about a principled behavior, licit in natural law, in this instance the right of self- and national defense.”—ILANA Mercer, “In Praise Of Whipping Horsemen: ‘Whip Or Rein’ Was Never The Question,” Sep 30, 2021.
“That’s the Right’s problem. The anatomy of every single left-manufactured, network-news outrage sees our side always conceding to the legitimacy of the Left’s argument—accepting the premise of their gripe, arguing on their terms of debate. And then going on the defensive, instead of playing offense.”—ILANA Mercer, “In Praise Of Whipping Horsemen: ‘Whip Or Rein’ Was Never The Question,” Sep 30, 2021.
“Be they illegal voters, criminal aliens, or just good old vandals, rapists and murderers—the criminal class is now the armed wing of the Democratic Party.”—ILANA Mercer, “January 6 Committee: Menstrual America Vs. MAGA America,” July 29, 2021
“Provided your thesis allows for a cozy convergence of agreeable storylines—you are well-positioned to peddle a national bestseller to the approving left, libertarian, neoconservative and pseudo-conservative smart-set.”—ILANA Mercer, “On The Backs Of Poor Whites? How J.D. Vance Elites Become Elites,” April 20, 2021.
“The defining difference between Democrats and Republicans is this: Republicans live on their political knees. They apologize and expiate for their principles, which are generally not unsound. Democrats, conversely and admirably, stand tall for their core beliefs, as repugnant as these mostly are.”—ILANA Mercer, “Rising Republican Rotters To Look Out For,” February 11, 2021.
“Unlike Republicans, Democrats admirably stand tall for their core beliefs, as repugnant as these mostly are. The Left most certainly didn’t rush forward to condemn the Black Lives Matter and Antifa louts, as they looted and killed their way across urban America. Instead, Democrats defended the déclassé, criminal arm of their party. ‘Riots are the language of the unheard,’ they preached, parroting MLK.”—ILANA Mercer, “Rising Republican Rotters To Look Out For,” February 11, 2021.
“Be they illegal voters, criminal aliens, or just good old vandals, rapists and murderers—the criminal class is now the armed wing of the Democratic Party.”—ILANA Mercer, “The Criminal Class Now The Armed Wing Of The Democratic Party,” January 29, 2021.
“In the liberal vernacular, states’ rights are synonyms for racial hatred and discrimination. Now Democrats are shrieking louder than Dixiecrats ever did that the intervention by the Federal government in state affairs might undermine this ‘cherished’ principle. (So, they know about the 10th Amendment?).”—ILANA Mercer, “Bring In The Feds! Protection Of Natural Rights Trumps Federalism,” July 24, 2020.
“When libertarians begin to sound like Republicans all the time, it’s time to ‘check your premises.’”—ILANA Mercer, “The Ethics of Social Distancing,” blog version.
“Conservatives want to be nice. To be nice, one must remain in denial of things not nice.”—ILANA Mercer, “Why Conservatives Ignore White-Hating Politics,” The Unz Review, September 19, 2019.
“When all is said and done, not even Democrats wish to be governed by the likes of Kirsten Gillibrand and Kamala Harris, who rage as though permanently on the rag.”—ILANA MERCER, “Dem’s Dystopia: End Anglo-America, Welcome the World, Evict the Unborn,” The Unz Review, August 8, 2019,
“Establishment conservatives will get together on Fox News to grate on about how ‘libtards’ are making them sad by calling them Nazis. Conservatism Inc., however, is seldom blocked or deplatformed. And they certainly don’t stand up for those on the dissident right who are.”—ILANA MERCER, “The Anatomy of a Twitter Blocking“—My Own,” WND.COM, June 27, 2019.
“The Republicans are meek, more eager for swamp-creature tenure than to save the country. However much state power flaccid Republicans capture, they quickly come to heel when Democrats crack the whip.”—ILANA MERCER, “Mueller & Mohamad Atta: Fake Intel Runs Through Prague, Part 1,” April 11, 2019, WND.COM
“The sounds emanating from the uterine core of the Democratic Party are the subhuman grunts and growls one hears from animals in estrus or mid-feed. Something is terribly wrong with them.”—ILANA MERCER, “The Party of Man-Haters,” Townhall.com, October 19, 2018.
“The Democratic Party has come to be controlled by hysterical women and their domesticated man servants. In conduct, these Democratic women are more feral than female.”—ILANA MERCER, “The Dominatrix Party,” American Greatness, October 21, 2018.
“A Democratic takeover promises to be a bitch for ordinary men.”—ILANA MERCER, “The Dominatrix Party,” American Greatness, October 21, 2018.
“Democrats demonstrate daily that they’re not for the rule of law, but for the law of rule, mob rule.”—ILANA Mercer, “The Party of Man-Haters,” Townhall.com, October 19, 2018
“Then as now, the Republicans were the party of the crony capitalist centralized State. Unlike the current Democrats, 1861 Dems were the party of states’ rights.”—ILANA Mercer, “The Radical Republicans: The Antifa Of 1865,” The Liberty Conservative, September 5, 2017.
“While the Left controls the intellectual means of production—schools (primary, secondary, tertiary), media, foundations, think tanks, publishing prints—the ‘Respectable Right’ is hardly on the outs with the liberal smart set.”—ILANA Mercer, “Trump Doesn’t Need To Talk Like A Con-Servative,” WND.com, March 17, 2016.
“Democrat Grover Cleveland was America’s last conservative president. He preached and practiced the maxim that ‘the people must support the government, but the government must not support the people.'”—ILANA Mercer, “Trump Doesn’t Need To Talk Like A Con-Servative,” WND.com, March 17, 2016
“It should be plain to see that where conservatives reduce the reality of crime to a political theory—too much welfare, too little capitalism, not enough Trumpism—they’re flirting with Cultural Marxism lite.”—ILANA Mercer, “What Cultural Marxist Would Say About Looting,” WND.COM, September 14, 2017
“The only time you want the president to reach across the aisle on matters immigration is to grab a Democrat or an errant Republican by the throat.”—ILANA, “ICE Agents Prefer Deporting Illegals to Changing Their Diapers,” March 3, 2017, Townhall.com.
“Audacity we won’t miss: Obama praised his spoilt daughters for graciously wearing ‘the burden of years’ of life in the lap of luxury (courtesy the taxpayer), a sentiment his wife, Michelle Antoinette Obama, seconded.”—ILANA MERCER, Townhall.com, “‘Go On Now Go,’ Barack Obama, ‘Walk Out The Door …’” January 19, 2017.
“The tit-for-tat that goes for debate between Republicans and Democrats: By which I mean the perennial, ‘No, Democrats are the real sexists, we love women. No, Democrats are the real racists; we’re the party of Lincoln.’”—ILANA MERCER, “Helping The Sharpton & Obama Afrocentrism ‘Fade to Black’ (Part I),” January 13, 2017
“Obama is a case study in hubris.”—ILANA MERCER, Constitution.com (January 2, 2017)
“More so than Democrats are Republicans in the habit of shaming Americans into silence by telling them how aberrant and out-of-sync they are. Or, ‘this is not who we are’. ‘You are not who we are.'”—ILANA (March 4, 2016)
“Grand Old Party oldies are more likely to want less government than the youngsters they sired.”—ILANA (October 30, 2015)
“Republicanism is so meaningless a political identity that a Democrat can just as easily transition to being one, without too much pain.”—ILANA (May 1, 2015)
“The gold standard for stupid is this Republican riff: ‘Government would work much better if it were run like a business.’ It is in violation of the Law of Identity. A is A. Things are what they are. Government is government; it is not business.”—ILANA (October 25, 2013)
“The only time Republicans will shake fists and point fingers is over a war delayed, one that isn’t led by the US, or a war waged without the necessary conviction (read collateral damage).”—ILANA (June 7, 2013)
“From the expansion of surveillance-state USA, to the leveling of Libya, to forcing individual Americans to purchase healthcare and religious organizations to fund birth control; to the crafting of a Kill List featuring his chosen targets for extrajudicial elimination, to running guns to Mexico’s goons, while gunning for America’s guns—Barack Hussein Obama’s philosophical fingerprints are all over his administration. …The link between President Obama and the policies his minions have pursued, moreover, seems patent enough. Obama is the philosophical felon, the fulcrum on which everything pivots.”—ILANA (May 31, 2013)
“Republicans are as dazed and confused as the rival gang, reducing wrong-doing to these PC ‘isms,’ and partaking in the silly tit-for-tat: ‘Democrats are the real racists; Republicans are the party of Lincoln, the liberator of blacks. We’re against abortion and welfare because we love blacks. … Blah, blah, blah.”—ILANA MERCER, “GOP Tot For Tat Twits” (2013) & “Fee-Fi-Fo-Fem, I Smell The Blood Of A Racist,” May 16, 2014.
“Having turned the political flip-flop into an art form, Mitt Romney should try to elevate it in the cause of a principle, and do an about-face on foreign policy.”—ILANA (October 12, 2012)
“For one reason only was Obama on the ropes, while Romney floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee: Romney’s superior intelligence, his ability to store immense amounts of information and apply it to bolster his arguments—abilities his rival, Barack Obama, manifestly lacks. The belated scoop is this: The Child was not born in a barn and was never a brainiac.”—ILANA (October 5, 2012)
“Conservatism once had the genius of James Burnham, Russell Kirk, Frank Chodorov, and Felix Morley; now the brand boasts S. E. Cupp, Kathryn Jean Lopez, Rich Lowry, and their editorial enablers. (Perhaps National Review will recruit Jedediah [sic] Bila to replace the dismissed John Derbyshire?)”—ILANA (April 13, 2012)
“There is almost nothing that can reverse what the Progressives have wrought. The Ryan budget, viewed as radical by rival Rooseveltians Gingrich and Obama, will slow only the growth of the entitlement kudzu, not its invasiveness.”—ILANA (December 8, 2011)
“What are the odds that a Democratic commander in chief and his chief Republican rival declare their philosophical fidelity to the Progressive Theodore Roosevelt on the same day? To answer that question: The dice were loaded in Teddy’s favor. The sitting Democratic president (Obama) and the Republican odds-on favorite for president (Gingrich) are in TR’s corner—in everything from executive power and the projection of American power abroad to property rights stateside.”—ILANA (December 8, 2011)
“The politicians are posturing about living within the confines of the constitution. Alas, like a yeti or unicorn, a constitutional government is a mythical creature that is unlikely to materialize anytime soon. The political poseurs should be reminded that there is nothing constitutional (or just) about fine-tuning—increasing or decreasing—state spending to coincide with a supposed sovereign people’s acquisitive abilities and economic energies.”—ILANA (July 22, 2011)
“Republicans see the police state perfected under the now fully rehabilitated ‘W’ as a co-equal branch of government.”—ILANA (November 19, 2010)
“The Democratic and Republican parties each operates as a necessary counterweight in a partnership designed to keep the pendulum of power swinging in perpetuity from the one set of colluding quislings to the other, and back.”—ILANA (January 15, 2010)
“No sooner do the Republicans come to power, than they move to the left. When they get their turn, Democrats shuffle to the right. At some point, McCain reaches across the aisle and the creeps converge.”—ILANA (January 15, 2010)
“Someone ought to tell Mrs. Palin that idolizing the military – and the missions it executes on behalf of its political masters – amounts to the worship of Moloch, not the Almighty.”—ILANA (January 15, 2010)
“Unfortunately, Governor Palin has a propensity for rambling, run-on sentences, peppered with grating gerunds. Pearls of wisdom are often lost in the prolix answers she gives.”—ILANA (January 15, 2010)
“When Republicans and conservatives cavil about the gargantuan growth of government, they target the state’s welfare apparatus and spare its war machine. Unbeknown to these factions, the military is government. The military works like government; is financed like government, and sports many of the same inherent malignancies of government. Like government, it must be kept small.” —ILANA (November 13, 2009)
“As Dr. Johnson said, ‘There is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea.’ Neoconservative (Bush) or Progressive (Barack); louse or flea — a pest is still a pest.” —ILANA (October 30, 2009)
“The GOP needs Hispanics to sustain a worthwhile political life like an anaerobic organism needs oxygen. Come to think of it, a GOP that accommodates the demands of this demographic is better off dead.”—ILANA (May 29, 2009)
“The natural aristocracy precludes the political class, which uses coercion and deception to gain ascendancy. Members of the neatly bifurcated networks and pulp press, being mere supplicants to the state, are also excluded from the natural aristocracy.”—ILANA Mercer. “Writing In The Age Of The Idiot,” October 9, 2009
On Meghan McCain: “If Republicans don’t stop their love affair with idiots, it’s not a bigger tent they’ll be seeking, but a giant tin-foil hat.”—ILANA (May 8, 2009)
Republican Sen. Arlen Specter’s defection: “The imagery conjured by such ideological spit swapping between Republicans and Democrats is of two colossal, identical amoebas occasionally allowing their semi-permeable cell walls to open and merge with a biologically compatible, primitive organism.”—ILANA (April 28, 2009)
“George W. Bush set the scene for Barack H. Obama. Stimulus, bailouts, a house for every Hispanic—these were Bush’s babies.” —ILANA (March 6, 2009)
“How much to hand-out; who to hand it to; which hand-out makes the best use of taxpayer money; do the Big Three submit a business plan with their bailout requisitions, or not—that’s the depth of the ‘philosophical’ to-be-or-not-to-be among Republikeynsians.”—ILANA (December 5, 2008)
Bipartisanship: “Far better that the people’s representatives sleep with prostitutes than slip between the sheets with members of the opposition. The more the quislings collude, the less competition in government voters end-up with.”—ILANA (May 23, 2008)
“’Leadership’ is a euphemism for overriding the will of the people. No sooner does the pesky popular will intrude into the debate than the top Republican contenders begin to yammer about their obligation to demonstrate ‘leadership.'”—ILANA (May 18, 2007)
“Would that Republicans fussed as much over the many fully formed human-beings dying daily in Iraq, as they do over fetuses.”—ILANA (November 10, 2006)
“If establishment Republicans had the faintest affinity for conservatism, they’d quit pouring American blood and treasure down the Iraqi drain.”—ILANA (October 6, 2006)
“Antitrust laws ought to be deployed, not against business, but to bust this two-party monopoly, which subverts competition in government and rewards the colluding quislings with sinecures in perpetuity.”—ILANA (May 26, 2006)
“What we have now is a cartel, the traditional ideological differences between the political parties having been permanently blurred.”—ILANA (May 26, 2006)
“Republicans have framed a demand for accountability as an attempt to ‘politicize’ the Katrina cataclysm. Democrats, as always, refuse to recognize the banality of bureaucratic evil. Their boilerplate battle cry is “racism.” As the factions settle into their familiar foxholes, it becomes crucial to remind Americans that, irrespective of political fidelity, politicians – local, state, and federal – must pay for the lives lost to Katrina.”—ILANA (September 13, 2005)
“Republicans are the drag queens of politics. Peel away the pules for family, faith and fetuses and one discovers either ‘neoconservative welfare-warfare statists or global social democrats,’ or national socialists of sorts, who fuse economic protectionism, populism and a support for the very welfare infrastructure that is at the root of the social rot they decry.”—ILANA MERCER (November 06, 2002)

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