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Toughen Up

6.10.09 @ 6:01AM

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Ms. McCaughey lays out point after point explaining why the health care system is nowhere near a crisis. She uses clear and precise data, but the moronic mainstream media will not carry this information. Fox, TAS and right wing radio will sound alarms, but the efforts are similar to a shepherd who only tends to the flock inside the gates; the wolves and other wild things are devour all others. The people who can make a true difference, our elected representatives from Republican Party, must stand up to the demagoguery of President Obama, or else they are uselessly siphoning money and power away from a party of true opposition. The Titan of the Teleprompter is making his case with soaring rhetoric, parlor tricks, Machiavellian maneuvers, smoke and mirrors, half-truths and outright lies. Giving the devil his due, the man is persuasive. Where are the leaders of the Right? Where is the voice of reason? Where is our deliverer?

The Party of Reagan is in disarray; they are lost in the sound and fury that is the expected aftermath of an election massacre, but these are not usual times and the republic has no time to lose. The Democrats have not had such a popular leader as Obama since John F. Kennedy. What is needed is now is a true leader for the people who do not want an overweening nanny state. Waiting for Jindal or Palin is waiting for Godot. Gingrich is a great idea man and would make a wonderful chief of staff, but America has found him to be a bitter pill to swallow. Somewhere in the hallowed halls of the houses of Congress must be at least one member of the Republican Party who can pick up Reagan's torch and light our way out of this maelstrom. 

The health care system that this administration plans to install robs us of our independence and steals from our children; it will make them indentured servants to the state. This health care situation may not be the last crisis, but if a true leader does not soon emerge, the next (and real) crisis might well be the coup de grace.
-- I.M. Kessel

IF HEROD DOESN'T GET TO HIM FIRST
Re: Wlady Pleszczynski's Fathers and Sons:

Of the many frustrations in the lives of great men, their frequent inability to pass the baton surely ranks near the top. Though knowledge can be exchanged, good character cannot be transferred from one man to another, only directions on where and how it may be developed, and the vision of one man is too often another man's blindness. It is God's way that we come to Him as He leads us, and not on our own terms. We so desperately could use another WFB right now, but it is not our call. Perhaps God is raising up for us another to lead us out of this wilderness. My prayer is that we find him, and soon.
-- Mike Showalter
Austin, Texas

EERILY FAMILIAR
Re: Mark Hyman's Obama's Enemies List Grows:

And we're now expected to neither recognize nor point out the similarities to the same pattern of behavior by the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and our own lovable tyrant, Hugo Chavez!

"Oh! [downcast eyes]. We're not supposed to say that [embarrassed giggle]. Of course I didn't mean it [self-consciousness chortle]. Of course there are no similarities between the jackboots of the Obama administration, of the Soviet Union, of Nazi Germany, and of Hugo Chavez [knowing chuckle, with knowing laughter from knowing audience]."

P.S. -- Thanks to Judge Sotomayor for that technique. It's a gem!
-- A. C. Santore

CHEAT SHEET FOR THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
Re: Quin Hillyer's Questions for Sotomayor:

Well, Quin, once again, you've hit the proverbial nail directly on the head. In my opinion, a lot of good it will do us. But, stranger things have happened. Maybe the staff of the Republican senators on the Judiciary Committee read TAS and take notes. Don't hold your breath. Meanwhile, since we've all been absorbed with trying to master the wisdom of this Latino woman Socrates who is aspiring to secure a seat on the highest court in the land, there is a priceless photo on Drudge, of our daring First Lady, apparently giving the evilest of evil eyes to the charming wife of French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, Carla Bruni, who is looking skyward, perhaps for Divine rescue. Now what do you suppose this subdued little cat fight is all about? Maybe, our leader's attempt to tilt us "frenchward" is a bit premature, despite the "with every breath" efforts of the once and future FOREX champion, Mr. George Soros. As we self-destruct under national socialism, France refuses to go down without a fight. Could it be that the honeymoon is finally over for The One in Europe? We can only hope for change!

Hey, Carla, you go girl!
-- Mike Showalter
Austin, Texas

LEAVE THE BEAN COUNTERS TO THEIR DEVICES
Re: Roger Scruton's Farewell to Judgment:

Roger Scruton's "Farewell to Judgment" raises a question of vital importance for the future of human culture. I only wish he had defined the role of philosophy in the desired "restoration of judgment to its central place in the humanities." As I see it, part of the debility of the humanities in present-day education is due to the fact that philosophy has lost its central place within the humanities, and that in turn has been due to the failure of philosophers to see philosophy as distinct from and in a sense opposed to science. Philosophy was supposed to seek objective knowledge. When it was seen that only empirical science can yield verifiable knowledge, philosophers imitated science and broke up philosophy into specialized disciplines that at best could only be pseudo-sciences. Philosophy, to play its proper and vital role in human culture, must give up the vain dream of yielding objective knowledge of the external world and go back to its true task of giving us insight into our inner reality by examining our ideals and values. This is a task that philosophy shares with poetry, drama, fiction, and art.
-- D. R. Khashaba

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