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Band of Bumblers
Carrousel riders. Tough on Teddy. The California Dems. Whose 9/11? Plus more.
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We’re not afraid to show our pride.
The Constitution is still our guide.
Colors merge, backgrounds blur
When the souls of real patriots stir.
The winds are swirling. We’re on the way
To take back our country…beginning today.
— Mimi Evans Winship
WHITEWASHING REALITY
Re: Andrew Cline’s
Ted Kennedy’s Real Legacy:
Very surprised to find such an article on your website.
Whitewashing reality is not generally what I expect when I read
your articles. The inclusion of Mr. Cline’s article was not one
of your better calls.
— Marie
Ted Kennedy has been met by all the aborted fetuses he helped to
their doom. He has met Jesus who showed him which door to take.
Ted Kennedy was a murderer of babies.
— Annette
VACUOUS LEADERSHIP
Re: Brian O’Connell’s
San Francisco Democrats:
It’s really a shame that the best this state can do is a re-run of Moonbeam and the demonstrably incompetent Newsom. Californians need only take a look at the For Lease signs on Market Street to see where this vacuous rock star would lead the state. Under Newsom’s stewardship, the minimum wage in San Francisco is some $1.49/hr HIGHER than the state minimum, 72 hours of sick time is guaranteed for even part time employees, and the list of business-destroying accomplishments grows weekly.
It’s also a sanctuary city where illegal aliens can murder
citizens, get “free” medical care at residents’ expense, and then
if the heat gets too high he will fly them to LA where they can
hide for awhile. Oh we need him in the State House. Has anyone in
or outside of this once great state figured out that cities and
states with huge deficits are usually run by ultra-liberals who
think nothing of jacking up taxes until everyone flees and the
tax base disappears? Does anyone understand that term limits are
OUR responsibility? Vote!
— Greg Mercurio
Vacaville, California
SPEAKS FOR ITSELF
Re: Jeffrey Lord’s
Honoring Teddy By Opposing Healthcare:
Mr. Lord’s principles of Christian forgiveness, charity and loving our enemies shine through in his thoughtful remembrance of Senator Kennedy. And it is through actions that principles are best demonstrated. Put aside a man’s words and evaluate his actions: that will render a fair portrait of the man. So what can we make of Mr. Lord’s statement regarding Kennedy and principles?
Mr. Lord writes, “As with us all, Ted Kennedy’s life will speak for itself…The legacy I most appreciated was the ever-present idealism, the commitment to his principles — and the lasting lesson that you should not just find your principles but fight for them as vigorously as he did for his.” What principles were those, Mr. Lord? Yes, he fought for the poor; this begot generations of welfare dependence. Kennedy fought for government run health care; the care to be provided by the programs was substandard to anything he knew his entire life. He fought civil rights for everyone; only the principle of this justice was based on reverse discrimination where color counted more than character. Until his dying day, Kennedy was an unrepentant statist.
Socrates wrote, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” If the good senator took time to reflect on his legacy, he might have seen the damage he was doing. He might have become a mighty voice for justice — true justice, not the false and shrill cry of the Left’s identity politics, revenge and retribution. If Senator Kennedy were to have come to the light (Right), his voice would have been like no other. But for many reasons, Kennedy never turned his back on liberalism, and his was not a liberalism his brother John would recognize, let alone support.
How Edward Kennedy (titles don’t transfer to heaven) is judged by
his maker is not a call that can be made from this earthly
kingdom. If he was repentant is his personal life is not the
question here. Mr. Lord specifically wrote about Ted Kennedy’s
political idealism and Senator Kennedy’s legacy does speaks for
itself. The question remains if it is one that bears
repeating.
— I.M. Kessel
MOVING HEAVEN AND EARTH
Re: Joseph Lawler’s Failure
Rewarded:
“Higgs presents a 1941 poll that found that 40 percent of
businessman believed that the U.S. would become a fascist or at
least semi-socialist economic system after the war…” Sixty-eight
years later, Obama and DemocRATS are moving heaven and earth to
create FDR’s neo-fascist state. Those who believe in the rule
oligarchs like FDR are alive and well in the 21st century
DemocRAT party.
— Michael Tomlinson
Jacksonville, North Carolina
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Brubaker| 8.28.09 @ 7:06AM
Brandon Schaefer, I can only wonder what sorts of things you were writing and saying during George W. Bush's eight years in the White House.
Did you "support your president" then? Or did you perhaps, just once in awhile, voice your displeasure?
Michael Dooley| 8.28.09 @ 8:18AM
That's right, Kristine. Let's go back to doing what we did before since we all know it worked so well to line the pockets of Liberal academics and policy wonks: Hold expensive conferrences in choice locals with fine wines and food. Present papers, have panel discussions, sell books, wring hands, and all repeat the mantra: "Violence BAD. Talk Talk Talk!!! Violence BAD. Defund the military. We're ready to lead---now you follow!"
yeswecan| 8.28.09 @ 8:19AM
I do not consider him as my president.He has yet to prove he is eligable, let alone capable.His golf game is the last thing to prove he is good for nothing.Flush him.
Crabby Apple Mick Lee| 8.28.09 @ 9:43AM
Kristine: I was in the 4th grade the day JFK was murdered in Dallas. I was a sophmore in high school when Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King were cut down. You could say I "moved on" I suppose; but I've never forgotten how horrible those event were and how devistated the country became. I am a Conservative. JFK, Bobby and MLK were Liberals. It never occured to me to remember those days for anything other than what it were.
I take that back. Maybe I haven't "moved on". I get emotional whenever I think about each of those days just a little bit too long. For years I thought nothing would hurt so bad as losing those men. I was right. Until 9/11.
Big J| 8.28.09 @ 9:59AM
Brandon, what planet are you living on? If you do not see the marxist path your Dear Leader is dragging us down, I suggest it is YOU who packs up and chooses another country in which to reside.
Absolutely NOTHING this impostor has done to date is within the bounds of our founding document(s) (that would be THE CONSTITUTION, in case you are not aware), and he has violated his oath and the will and trust of the American people at every opportunity.
I recommend you promptly remove your head from the sand (or your backside, whichever is appropriate), wake up and smell the statism. I would even recommend taking a few moments to actually READ the Constitution and Declaration of Independence.
At least then you might actually have a CLUE as to how far off base you really are.
David Govett| 8.28.09 @ 11:44AM
America has never learned how to respond to Asian mercantilism. Maybe after the last dollar is spent by the last American worker, America will get a clue.
Richard Roark | 8.28.09 @ 11:52AM
Crabby,
MLK was a rethuglican
http://tinyurl.com/kmezo9
IMKessel| 8.28.09 @ 3:36PM
The Obama Administration reminds you of the Rocky Horror Picture Show?!? As a former (and proud) RHPS “Regular”, I am stunned by the comparison. Frank N. Furter was an innovator; he created his own creature – and then seduced him Frank demonstrated competence. Who in The One’s circle jerk is competent? (Frank is cut more from a Clinton clothe than the Emperor’s clothing.) Maybe on a really great day Madam Speaker might look a bit like Magenta – but Magenta knew loyalty. On the other hand, Riff was a back stabber. Plenty of turncoats in the White House now. Still, a better comparison is Cabaret . The time, Weimar Republic and the people were without direction and full of desperation. The party in charge was completely overwhelmed. Morale and morality were at an all time low. The economy tanking. National defense weakening. Just saying…
Alan Brooks| 8.28.09 @ 7:40PM
We don't want to be apocalyptic, but Ted as any kind of bona fide role (outside of RHPS) model, is nothing short of shocking.
(If this is progress then we perhaps don't want to discover what devolution really is. Ted and Jacko beloved heroes? Positively dystopian).
BTW, If you drown or molest a liberal do you ever get a pass? can you obtain a Get Out of Jail Free Card? where does one apply for the card?
Ira, the brave new world singularity is arriving.
Sue| 8.28.09 @ 9:37PM
To Brandon Schaefer: Mr. Obama was the one who stated he was "transforming America" and changing it into something we've "never seen before." Also, he made the statement that with his election, "it will be a game changer."
He deserves absolutely no slack on anything. I didn't vote for him as I don't know what "transforming America" "change America" means, but I vote for someone who will uphold the Constitution. Mr. Obama is the one who has "changed the rules" on how the presidency is viewed in this Country.
He is the one who has hired a significant number of "advisors" who function solely outside of the Constitution with taxpayer monies, accountable to no one. Presidents have done this in the past, and I disagreed with them too. This man has exceeded all normal "actions" performed by the executive and if this is the "change" I'm not to be counted in and I will not bend or change my beliefs under some pretext that "I need to support our President."
He said he was "a game changer." Well, I'm in the game and I will be the one rooting for the underdog in this dog fight, and it will be for the Constitution.
No president in history that I know of has ever made the statement that he was going to "transform America" and the "transformation" would begin with his election.
He started it. Not the citizens.
Sue| 8.28.09 @ 9:42PM
If we were to build nuclear, where would all of the United Mine Workers work? Unions, once again mucking up "hope" and "change."
Darn them.
Sue| 8.28.09 @ 9:51PM
Steve McCann: There has always been a "world economy. I have a tea kettle from the 1920s made in Portugal. There were lots of recessions prior to 1930 involving world currencies and world markets. What are you talking about? If you want to make the connection that China and Japan buy most of our debt, where it used to be the Euopean nations that's reasonable, but trade and currency recessions have been around for centuries.
Alan Brooks| 8.29.09 @ 11:48PM
JFK's death was a tragedy, though he wasn't exactly Geo Washington. But Ted was just a senator, and a pretty wild guy considering all the potential that was bequeathed by his family. His eldest brother was war hero, so it wasn't all a bad legacy for Ted.
Ted blew it.
You do not get rewarded for blowing it no matter who-- or whom (Ira, I attended only publik skools)-- you are. We don't like it, but this is unfortunately a world of darwinist rewards and darwinist punishments.
Even Jacko's public adulation makes a little sense, he had some, rather imbecilic, talent. A fair dancer and singer. Plus, entertainers are supposed to be kooky, or why would they want to be in show biz?
But Ted as hero and role model? Unglaublich!