Victims: There Is No Party For Practical Conservatives

Ha! Only Ace has enough guts to let someone else speak and, boy, does he have a mouthful. Here's a few paragraphs - emphasis mine:

I hate how we’ve lost so much so far. I hate how we haven’t had more success. I hate how we have plenty of tacticians on our side, but too few strategists. I hate how some Republicans—both in the RINO camp as well as the “true conservative” side—relish fighting each other more than they do the other side.

Now, the latter is to be expected, it’s human nature. As Ace has written here many times, fights among friends are often the worst. Civil wars, etc. Ask any old Bolshevik whether he hated the Mensheviks more than running-dog capitalists and they’ll tell you the same old story: our friends suck.

But here’s the thing: I personally was ordered gave up my salary for a Sequestration that doesn't save enough money. And today, I was ordered home, ordered not to the job I've done for well over a decade, for a shutdown that almost certainly won’t stop the ACA.

I think "Losers" is appropriate here - not for you, guy, but those you're fighting for:

I asked for this. Ever since I was a young boy, I wanted to work in national security. A dorky South Side Chicago kid weaned on Tom Clancy novels, Harpoon on his PC, and Advanced Third Reich laid out on a basement card table who knew at an early age that he wanted to work to keep his nation safe. And I knew that the only way to do that was to work for the federal government.

I chose to become a public servant, recognizing that while I may argue against Big Government, against the welfare state, against the Department of Education, national security is and always will be a core function of our nation's federal government. Meaning, even as a conservative champion of limited-government, I wanted a career where I could still sleep at night, still look at myself in the mirror in the morning.

And now, today, I’m out of that job. All because politicians are making a gamble that may not even pay off. I would be THRILLED to lose paychecks in return for delaying the ACA. I’ll gladly pay that price, for I know it would save millions of my fellow citizens the money and headache of complying with a disastrous law. Take my job, please, and get rid of this abomination.

But who genuinely believes this will work? I fear that it won't. I fear that I, and many others, will have sacrificed pay—and not performed our jobs as public servants, serving each of you—in sacrifice for nothing much gained at all. So, GOP? Conservatives? Sequester, shutdown, now that we're finally here, I’ll support anything the team does, I’ll pay any price… just win something already, okay?

Just frakkin’ win, and make my sacrifice, and those of thousands of others, worthwhile.

Nope, not going to happen:

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ADDED - this guy's really getting the knife twist:

Tom Clancy just died,...