The American Spectator : Obama's Opiate

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Let's cut through all of Barack Obama's baloney. His speech on the economy at Georgetown University on Tuesday was a testament to the massive ego of a callow leader with grandiose pretensions bordering on megalomania. Everything he outlined in his vision for a near-Utopian economic future is designed to come about through the intervention of a government central planner -- his own Oneself -- combined with the coercive force of government to make it happen. It's a promise of economic growth at the point of a gun, at least tacit if not explicit -- and all as if some genius in the Oval Office or elsewhere in Washington has the wherewithal to know exactly how and where to "invest" and to "regulate" and to "stimulate" and to "reform" (the latter meaning, in most cases, to have government either take over something or else kill something it currently considers politically incorrect).

Others who actually understand economics -- unlike Obama -- already have been pointing out all the flaws in his radical change we dare not fall prey to. And others doubtless will take on the task of pointing out all of his speech's fallacious logic, deliberate misrepresentations, smoke- and-mirrors accounting, and convenient fictions in political narrative.

What's left for forward-looking conservatives, then, is to figure out how to keep Obama's false Utopia from becoming a reality before a somnolent American public wakes up. And we cannot do it -- absolutely cannot -- unless we understand, and prepare for, the reality that proto-fascist Keynesian economics will appear to work in the short term. Conservatives are justly warning that Obama's economic interventionism is a profoundly dangerous new opiate that eventually will lead our free economy into a quivering, junkie-like existence. But we make a big mistake if we don't realize that opiates do produce a real (if short-term) high.

All of the cash being pumped into the American and world economies, literally out of nowhere, through bailouts and stimulus packages and Federal Reserve actions and probably-illegal commitments to the International Monetary Fund, will create an illusion of recovery. By late summer or early fall, Obama will be claiming credit for the apparent effectiveness of policies that never were needed in the first place. And, like any good opiate, its first "relief" will seem to be substantial and reasonably long-lasting. So watch for everything to seem on the right track from, say, sometime in August all the way through next spring -- and for Obama to claim the mandate due a miracle worker.

Then look for the economy to start slowing down again, just as the New Deal economy slipped back into the doldrums after the first shot of FDR's financial heroin wore off. And Obama, ever-ready, will tell a credulous public that the six prior months of apparent recovery were proof that he knows what he is doing, and that the current slowdown is evidence that we need more of the medicine. He will reprise, almost word for word, these passages from his Tuesday speech at Georgetown: "All of this means that there is much more work to be done. And all of this means that you can continue to expect an unrelenting, unyielding, day-by-day effort from this administration to fight for economic recovery on all fronts. But even as we continue to clear away the wreckage and address the immediate crisis, it is my firm belief that our next task is to make sure such a crisis never happens again…."

Like a long-successful drug pusher, Obama will tell us that what we need is one more shot of his potion, one more sprinkling of his magic dust. And he'll say that those who would deny Americans his cure, those benighted and greedy conservatives, are not to be trusted because it was their fault we had been down-and-out in the first place. And so he'll frame the election as a choice between more of his "cure" versus more of the conservatives' pain. As Billy Joel sang in "Captain Jack," Obama will say "just another push, and you'll be smiling."

Conservatives must be prepared for all this. Conservatives must not make the mistake of warning that all will go to hell because of Obama's outrageously big government, unless we make clear that we are talking long-term, not short. Otherwise, Obama and his lackeys at the New York Times and CBS will make conservatives into Chicken Little-like laughingstocks, falsely warning that the sky would fall.

And even if conservatives are careful to couch their warnings in terms that only consider the long term, that distinction will be of little use to the huge percentage of Americans who these days (unfortunately) think only in the short term. There's just no way conservatives can win by making only the argument about the long-term detriments of Obamanomics. Sure, conservatives can and should warn about hyperinflation and stagflation. Conservatives can and should warn about massive debt heaped on our children and grandchildren. But that can't be our primary message. Today's text-message attention span and instant-gratification ethos won't reward that sort of appeal.

Smart conservatives, therefore, will find another overarching theme. We must find a way to pound home an understanding of the infringements on liberty that Obamanomics represents. We must find a way to explain how it would interfere with our own free choices, how it would mire us in bureaucratic red tape, how it would lead to rationing of some goods or services we take for granted.

Barack Obama has cleverly laid out an appealing, overarching vision. We must lay out a different vision, just as readily understandable, of how Obama's vision would actually burden us or restrain us. And we must also explain how we propose to let the innate genius of the free American people lead us back to prosperity without central planning by The One who The One has been waiting for.

Right now, Obama holds more cards than most Washington conservatives think he holds. We need to know how to play our own cards far, far more effectively than we so far have done.

Letter to the Editor

Bram| 4.16.09 @ 7:17AM

It's like drinking a lot of booze, then getting a headache a few hours later. The conservative realizes he drank too much. The leftist decides to never stop drinking again, ever.

Deborah| 4.16.09 @ 7:25AM

Good article, Mr. Hillyer. I think you hit on a term that might be beneficial -- "Central Planning"... Americans over the age of 40 understand that term. That might awaken some sleepy heads. For the younger set, I think we must educate those around us because they have been denied any education about what our country is about (they're only taught what this country did wrong, not what it did and does right -- just look at Obama's speeches overseas, not a peep about the goodness of America).

We have a lot to overcome in a short period of time because we've all been asleep at the wheel while the left has been driving the bus head-on into our lane. We must bring back the words of our founders. Explain freedom and what that means to a prosperous nation and how once it's gone it won't return for many, many years.

Indiana Alex | 4.16.09 @ 8:07AM

I think what's missing in this analysis is the prospects for inflation. In a recovery driven by printing money, and government spending, there won't be the kind of productivity gains that will allow the economy to grow without producing inflation.
In that sense, the "recovery" should be short lived, but the inflation should drag on for a while.

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TennesseeVolunteer| 4.16.09 @ 9:05AM

Quin, one of the solutions to your suggestions are the Tea Parties. I wa so impressed that the overriding reason that people stated they were there was their anger with 'politicians from both parties'.
they are exactly right.
There is a great shift among america's center. It takes time and is happening slowly but your words help all of us. Keep up the good work and never, ever quit!
Hold on, good sir.

dcd| 4.16.09 @ 9:38AM

Problem is, looking back over the past decade, this message is like the cocaine dealer telling you that the heroin dealer's product is no good.

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Obama’s Opiate Economy: Spending, Taxes Without New Jobs « Peace and Freedom Global F links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…latter meaning, in most cases, to have government either take over something or else kill something it currently considers politically incorrect). By Quin Hillyer American Spectator http://spectator.org/archives/ 2009/04/16/obamas-opiate Others who actually understand economics — unlike Obama — already have been pointing out all the flaws in his radical change we dare not fall prey to. And others doubtless…

Ned| 4.16.09 @ 10:42AM

Just say no, old advice, but good advice.

Sara| 4.16.09 @ 11:13AM

The GOP can not play any cards with RINOs in the Senate stacking the deck. That Spector, Collins, et.al. signed that massive socialist pork bill wihout even reading it and everything else Dear Leader has send down the toilet, says the GOP either flushes out the tank, or goes the way of the Whigs. So far the GOP leadership is continuing to play dead (even after losing all power!) in the face of massive spending and the loss of constitutional liberty.

These socialist, globalist GOP members are a serious problem for liberty. Obama would have no cards if the GOP was a united opposition party for freedom. Unfortunately, we have "progressed" to be the pup tent RINO party.

Appleby| 4.16.09 @ 11:28AM

Just bring them north to Kanukistan. That's the land of buy what we have, not what you want; of being told that they ordered one lot of fans in April and have sold them all and no, they can't get any more this year; in fact, it is the land of the seven last words of socialism: "I Will Get It In The States."

You don't have to wreck your own country to demonstrate why this dreck won't work. Just come up here and look at ours.

Peter McGrath| 4.16.09 @ 12:01PM

My favorite line from our Chief Moral Coward's speech at Georgetown is that he'll provide "tax breaks for people who need them." Naturally, we can rely on his years of broad executive experience to cull those who "need" tax breaks from those who don't. Surprise, surprise, most of the people - in his Alinsky oriented worldview - who need a tax break - don't pay federal taxes in the first place (except for the federal tax on cigarettes, recently imposed to provide health insurance for "chirren"). Such persons comprise his political base, and will be the ones most harmed and degraded by his immoral, socialist, policies.

Those who actually pay taxes can expect nothing short of increased theft of their hard-earned income by the corrupt political class, not to mention - if one complains - scorn and opprobrium from the same said class of Leninist cowards and hacks, for having earned such income in the first place.

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…shattered by Mervyn King’s intervention Photo: AFP Long before the first anti-capitalist protester descended upon London to rage against the G20 summit, a brick had already been thrown Obama’s Opiate - Spectator.org Let’s cut through all of Barack Obama’s baloney. His speech on the economy at Georgetown University on Tuesday was a testament to the massive ego of a callow leader with grandiose…

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Liberal Opiate of the Masses « Analysis and Synthesis Home Analysis and Synthesis Feeds: Posts Comments Liberal Opiate of the Masses April 16, 2009 by Angel Excellent article by Quin Hillyer in The American Spectator: Let’s cut through all of Barack Obama’s baloney. His speech on the economy at Georgetown University on Tuesday was a testament to the massive ego of a…

Oldefarte| 4.16.09 @ 1:13PM

Great article, Quin; and equally great [some] responses! Let me clue you all into my 63 year old observations. Before a culprit was arrested, tried and convicted for the Oklahoma City bombing; the liberal lunacy machine was proclaiming that it was the rightwing, conservative movement in this country that was responsible. Well, "3" nutjobs [described as conservatives by liberals, even though it was never proven that McVey or Nichols had any political-party persuasions] performed this dastardly deed; but [again] the leftists were screaming that basically ALL conservatives were deserving of suspicion; and that the government should monitor these conservatives. Fast-forward to just last week when Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security Director, issued a scathing report that warns all law enforcement to monitor returning war [Iraq/Afganistan] vets, protesters of government policies [ie tea party 4/15/09 activists,etc], and anyone else that refuses to blindly consume the Obama manta from on high. THIS should be an extreme alarm bell to America, since Obama's government is now filled with numerous such looney-extremists liberals who are making governmental policy decisions that could/will have extreme ramifications for all of us NORMAL individuals. When this country has thousands of Muslims any of whom could be radicalized into terrorist-type action [similar to 9/11/01]; and when our government is now more concerned with our own military personnel than they are about these potential domestic terrorists; alarm bells should be sounding all across America!!!!!

Marc Jeric| 4.16.09 @ 2:23PM

Frightening parallels:
1) WW1 in Russia - crisis; soviets (that's community organizations); Lenin power by coup; then revolution by mass murder - the left in perpetual power through nationalizations; wars of conquest; gulag for reactionaries;
2) Post-war economic depression; rise of Mussolini and his community organizations, i.e., fascists; control of banks and industry; wars of conquest;
3) Post-war economic depression; riots, strikes, demonstrations; brownshirts - Hitler; control of industries anf banks; mass murder of inferior races; wars of conquests; gulags for reactionaries;
4) Financial breakdown due to communist policies of giving credit to "underserved minorities"; unemployment; takeover of central power by the far left; nationaling banks and energy industries; spreading of welfare; ACORN brownshirts stealing elections and in charge of census; Dept. of Homeland Security calling for control and defunging of the extemist right wing; preparing grounds for eternal election victories; nomination of revolutinary marxists to executive offices.
And they say that the history does not repeat itself. Yes, it does, especially when the masses are "educated" by the goons of the teacher unions.

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Another Obama move to make your day. - VolNation links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…in what country, and where you went to schoolis totally unimportant.--Ayn Rand Today, 02:43 PM # 9 ( permalink) gsvol Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 2,980 Let's cut through all of Barack Obama's baloney. His speech on the economy at Georgetown University on Tuesday was a testament to the massive ego of a callow leader with grandiose pretensions bordering on megalomania. Quote: Others who…

DaveS| 4.16.09 @ 7:02PM

The , uh, natural-born citizenship issue for His Highness is not going away soon. The CIA tracked him when he traveled to Pakistan - when it was illegal for Americans to travel in Pakistan. And there is a Kenyan birth certificate for this guy - an American version he refuses to produce himself because he can't. There are no records of him OR his mother as patients around the date of birth in any Honolulu hospital, and is there a birth address beyond 'Honolulu?' His paternal grand-mama says he was born in Kenya. Why say this 'old stuff' now? Folks, it's a house of cards and it's coming down sooner or later. The Tea Parties won't take him down. The rules for President will. One last comment: I was at the Fishkill, NY, Tea Party last night (glad I went) and I'll be darned if I saw a single person-of-color there. Wonder why?

Curtis Rasmussen| 4.16.09 @ 7:35PM

Dave, on the other hand, I got sick and tired of people assuming that I was naturally going to vote for The Most Liberal Senator because I am black. Even when I told them my viewpoints, race trumped all logic in their minds. I even had a douche boss that thought whites should vote for him to make up for centuries of injustice. What happened to merit?

Liberals and Democrats seem play the race card often to divide people and make way for their socialist policies. Don't fall for it.

lisa| 4.16.09 @ 8:24PM

Given that your entire article contains absolutely no evidence whatsoever (impressive!) and doesn't manage to come up with a particularly convincing message to those who aren't already predisposed to agree with you, how exactly do you plan to defeat Obama? Cos if what I read in that article is the GOP's master plan, you guys are in some trouble.

Howard| 4.16.09 @ 8:55PM

Good points. I agree in order to make inroads with today's stupid younger generation, the treat from Obama must be the restriction of their freedoms. Since they don't care much except for their narcissistic actions, the warning must be that Obama's policies will destroy their latte drinking. I give up.

DaveS| 4.16.09 @ 10:00PM

Lisa, you're in the same sinking boat.

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Denise-Mary| 4.16.09 @ 11:11PM

Regretfully, I must agree with "lisa." I voted for the Dem candidate in eight out of nine GE's - finally saw the light in 2008 and avidly campaigned for McCain-Palin. Lost quite a few friends and the respect of family members by doing so, but hell, I would (and will!) do so again. I spent hundreds of hours reading and learning about both political parties, the respective candidates and their platforms. I drew tables comparing each candidate's stance on each issue, and included the Communist platform in a third column - right next to the info culled from Obama's official web site. In some instances the text was verbatim.

And I'm sorry to report that just about NO ONE wanted to know. That is what we are up against, folks. People just plain DON'T WANT TO KNOW. (I could be crass and phrase this another way, but don't want to be tossed off this site...) I've reached the unhappy conclusion that the ONLY way the masses are going to wake up is when their pocketbooks are hit VERY HARD. But that result may not occur until after the 2010 elections, and we can't afford to lose those potential conservatives in our government. Moreover, if Emanuel/Obama succeed in their push to legitimize illegal immigrants, an estimated 14 million to 35 million more voters might be conveniently placed in the Dems' corner. Hell, they won't even need ACORN anymore.

I don't see any Republican "leaders" stepping up to the plate and defying the corruption in government - and there's quite a few who have actually contributed to that corruption.

Score one for you, "lisa." Tens of millions of decent, hard-working, tax-paying Americans are adrift, floundering for leadership. NOW is the time for the Republicans to defend us, not later when there's nothing left to defend. Not later, when Obama's Civilian National Security Force is indeed out in full force, quashing any criticism. But which Republican (other than the Texas governor) has spoken out on our behalf? Which Republican has denounced, with neither apology nor equivocation, the beltway chicanery? Who among conservative leaders has the courage to take our outrage and organize or channel it into one massive nationwide outcry - instead of 100,000 single outcries arising from 800 Tea Parties yesterday?

I know I'm ranting and these comments are somewhat disjointed (I'm sounding far more like a liberal than a conservative:) But I write out of frustration that at times borders on despair.

I will attend as many more Tea Parties as are organized. I will continue to write my elected officials. I will continue to contribute to the campaigns of conservatives in states other than my own. Even so, my voice is but one small voice among many millions who vehemently disagree ith me.

How do we take the millions who AGREE and combine those voices into a single, solidly-unified whole? Are the Tea Parties truly a grassroots movement, or are they merely astroturf?

As to that last, this might be one occasion when I myself "don't want to know."

Zak Klemmer| 4.17.09 @ 12:07AM

We can thank George W. Bush's blunders of the Obamanation. I thought that America had finally waken up when Ronald Reagan was elected- but I was wrong.

Xiangwei| 4.17.09 @ 12:31AM

Can Conservatives offer some real solutions instead of just ranting? Conservatives have just had the White House for 8 years and the Congress for 6 years... What were they doing in those years?
I would be interested in a real answer, not a lecture. Welcome to blog on my site: http://www.nuzcom.com/

Angel| 4.17.09 @ 2:18AM

The American people are responsible for Obummer's election. The liberal fascists couldn't have won their class-warfare campaign if our citizens weren't so envious of others. Shame on those who covet the fruits of their fellow Americans' labors. If we lose our country it will be because of the failure of the individual. Don't blame it on George W., look in the mirror, first.

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Xenophon| 4.17.09 @ 10:18AM

Big government conservatives and liberals have led us into this trap. Once you build a power center, it's just a matter of time before rival parties will contend for it. We have arrived at the endgame. Too bad none of you guys were listening to the states righters back in the day...

Wendy| 4.17.09 @ 1:01PM

How can your message appeal to other people when it is based not on what is going on around you, but vague hypotheticals with no seeming consequences? You think telling people they will have less choices and more bureaucracy means anything in their minds? You have to concretize the pain caused by the government.

THAT MEANS YOU HAVE TO TELL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED. Tell them the truth about this financial crisis instead of tap-dancing around the subject and inappropriately blaming the "greed" and "recklessness" of the private sector with the condescending caveat that homeowners got greedy too, and oh by the way, the government did not help. Tell them in no uncertain terms that the government caused these crises. Tell them how mark-to-market, SOX, the GSEs, HUD, the FHA, Basel II, the CRA, loose fiscal policy, and loose monetary policy were responsible for the housing bust AND a financial crisis AND a recession.

The intellectual laziness on the right is killing the movement. You had better find out what the hell is going on instead of just giving people generic blah-blah-blah and hoping they know what you are talking about when you yourself do not know what you are talking about.

If even YOU don't know how the government caused the most terrible things--the housing bust, the financial crisis, and the recession--how do you expect the average person to appreciate it, and how do you expect them to fear government interference in other areas and in the future?

emily| 4.17.09 @ 2:48PM

Why all this hatred towards obama?

Daphne| 4.17.09 @ 6:30PM

Wendy--laziness and weakness. Conservative men are weak, right now. What hatred, troll? It's called freedom of speech.

Cow Rie| 4.17.09 @ 10:17PM

Quin writes about the ObamaFix for the weak, drug addled starry eyed masses who have bought into his Cult of Personality.

Actually I think this Obama junkie-nomics is the bigger steroid version of the Dem's Clinton-Barney Frank plan of free mortgages bought up
by FNMA.

Sure they were good at first, that quick high of home ownership made all parties feel good. But then reality set in. People actually had to be responsible and pay for the notes. And the FNMA run by Dem appointees sold the slick packages around the world - spreading the risk. Well, we know what happened - sub prime collapse and the
credit markets destroyed. We are now picking up the pieces as Obama blames certain classes. Oh, but not his clan who created this disaster.

This Obama plan is the same liberal economics enhanced. Like those on steroids, it's bigger and meaner. After exhausting the hard work, free spirit and enterprise of those who produce, and the Obama's notes come due, the Chinese will shrug, and we will have a new sub prime collapse of the government. Free money for unproven energy scams , Dem political thought control groups, and rationed Euro health care will make it a dreary world indeed. Sub prime on steroids is the new ObamaHigh. Then you die.

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Obama’s Opiate links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…The One has been waiting for. Right now, Obama holds more cards than most Washington conservatives think he holds. We need to know how to play our own cards far, far more effectively than we so far have done. Read More Share and Enjoy: Related posts: Obama’s Big Government Gamble The more than 300,000 Americans who attended tea parties... Dig Deeper I wrote recently about the wonderful experience I had this... No…

Ante| 4.18.09 @ 5:16PM

i think that Obama should include his opponents who are capable for creative approach. Only through cooperation with honest and smart on the left and right solution will arise.

Nick| 4.19.09 @ 12:15PM

Ante,

The problem is there are no "honest and smart" people on the left.

JT Lancer| 4.19.09 @ 3:04PM

The writer is correct in his assessment of Mr. Obama's economic plans and their disastrous consequences.

However, any illusion that the GOP and 'conservatives' will save us is a false hope, indeed.

After all, Bush ran record deficits six of the eight years he was in office. Bush expanded the welfare/warfare state to levels unforseen - until Obama took office.

Bush signed the first $700 Billion taxpayer funded bailout of the Wall Street fat cats. The nationalization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac happened under Bush, not Obama.

Where were the protests from the right while Bush amassed excessive deficit spending and the Fed printing presses cranked out fiat dollars at record rates?

Marie Devine| 4.19.09 @ 3:53PM

While we are looking to condemn Barack Obama for his attempts at solving the financial crisis, be sure to look in the mirror. We have continued to want our nation to go against God's ways. He warned against debt, interest, insurance (surety) and seeking after riches and honor. That is our system. Add to it our rejection of the words of the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20) and our refusal to even see them in public, and you wonder why God has not flattened us and destroyed us totally. We could back out of our employment-bondage system that oppresses people, makes great inequality and causes world problems and turn to the garden paradise lifestyle with all our needs provided nearby. We need to press for this sustainable and beautiiful solution to our many world problems.

Our first weapon is to press for truth. Details of charges and evidences of forgery in several documents submitted by the Obama group are at my websites in court style. It is our responsibility to keep this information alive until Barack Obama is forced to release His identity information to quell these questions. There is no harm to him if he has nothing to hide. The harm is to the justice system and media being overwhelmed until this is no longer in question. We all only seek the protection of our Constitution from being available to foreign nationals, now or in the future.

http://www.divine-way.com/forgery_evidences_sss_reg_colb_birth_cert_for_obama_impeachment.html and http://obama-birth-cert-forged-sss-impeach.blogspot.com

It is reported that even the state of Hawaii would not accept the Certification of Live Birth presented by Barack Obama without further documentation.

Country Boy| 4.19.09 @ 6:10PM

Everybody says it is the 40% of the"non-tax paying" electorate who got obama over the top. These people supposedly have no stake in the game, nothing to loose if everything blows up.

Obviously, that premise is faulty. If the country has a major depression most lower income folks (many non-productive) will loose badly. But they have taught by obama types that if productive people loose, non-productive people will win. It just doesn't work that way,

frankg| 4.19.09 @ 8:58PM

Xangwei:
Bush, rove, other republicans campaigned against or were indifferent to conservative republicans (since 2000 but especially during summer of 2006 in order to push amnesty- they trashed conservatives). Over the past years, the gop advanced republicans despite what that republican believed in. Since then we've gotten republican lawmakers who switched parties, voted against tax cuts or conservative court nominees, endorsed obama, and voted for bailouts.
We've been getting compromise on policies concerning big government for decades now, those who advocate it have just learned to ask for twice as much.
In some ways the gop today reminds me of how the republicans appeared in the 70s, before reagan. Just there to put up a little fuss, and collect their pensions.
Denise-Mary on 4.16.09,
I appreciate your post, and hope to study and add to your efforts.
I do not think the tax parties were astroturf, but took off quickly thanks to technology used by people fed up with being ignored by politicians and picking a date to rally, speak up for, and defend America.

Howard Ino| 4.20.09 @ 12:20AM

It's Jammy Carter all over again!!!

When your parent's retirement is worth half in 4 years and you have to support them... and your are struggling under high inflation, high interest rates and high unemployment... you too will change your opinion!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagflation

When we gut our intelligence gathering (As we did with the Church hearings) and endure another hostage crisis or 9-11... you too will change your mind.

This is not a game between Democrats and Republicans... it's our basic freedoms vs. incompetent government.

Do you REALLY want Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae running your banks?
Do you want the IRS running your business?
Do you want Congress manufacturing your cars?
Do you want Harry Reid or Newt Gingrich deciding what you should pay your employees?

Do you really believe that ANYONE in Congress has the experience to run your life?

Just Damn!

Robert Dyment| 4.21.09 @ 8:28PM

Of course you are floundering. The decisive moment in modern history occurred when John XXIII refused to obey the Blessed Virgin's and Her Divine Son's request to disclose the 3rd Secret of Fatima. Or, one might also say, when the Second Vatican Council, with all the world's bishop's assembled, failed to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, as both Jesus desires (still) and as His Mother has pointed out.
If you think you have a tough sell, try telling people that their problems stem from such things as the use of the abortive/contraceptive birth-prevention pill and their embrace of the Sexual Revolution. The Blessed Virgin has said, "Only I can help you." She means that Her Divine Son will not withhold His Hand in Chastisement of the world until those two things take place: Release of the complete 3rd Secret and Consecration of-specifically-Russia. Why only She? Because God while he suffered on the Cross put into Her care the entire world. She is the Mediatrix of all graces that come to mankind from Her Son. What can we do? Wear Her livery: the Brown Scapular of Carmel, and pray five decades of the Rosary every day. Religious nonsense? Our freedoms, our lives, and our eternal salvation depend upon it. Forget about the Super Bowl; it could quite easily be turned into a radioactive crater.

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