The American Spectator

Appleby| 9.8.09 @ 6:31AM

Okay, that accounts for one.

Do not expect the MSM to suddenly sprout legions of Woodwards and Bernsteins from the dragons teeth sown by the Grass Roots Media; the one thing I have learned about socialism (besides that it simply cannot work because it is designed not to work) in my life here in Kanukistan is that the old joke definition of insanity -- doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result -- is also the hallmark of socialist thinking.

Keep on outing these folks and sooner or later the revolution will come.

Meanwhile up here we have turned up another clown, this time named Iggy, and so far I am encouraged to hear that as he begins to mouth the traditional liberal platitudes, the conservatives (so-called) are pulling ahead.

Steve| 9.8.09 @ 6:32AM

This would be amusing if it weren't so pitiful. What conglomeration of blithering idiots would elect a psuedo-marxist "organizing" thug from Chicago and then suddenly turn from him, as startled as Claude Rains. They're shocked, shocked, to find socialism in the White House! Why, that conglomeration would be the hapless American public.

Who could have listened to Obama's "pastor" and NOT known what we were going to be subjected to? What idiot would that be? A good chunk of the American public.

While I share Mr. Lord's glee at this goof being shown the door, the fact that the MSM successfully embargoed (and continues to this day) Obama's entire career (if it can be so termed) and kept a substantial chunk of the American public in ignorance is frightening proof of their power. Forgive my poor latin, but "Carthago delenda est" when it comes to the mainstream media. The media must be destroyed if the nation is to survive intact.

Etiquette Man| 9.8.09 @ 6:40AM

My goodness! A nicely marbled, lightly marinated, tasty hunk of conservative red-meat without a single poison pill hidden inside!

No, "Well this is a good step, but . . ."
OR
"Of course, Obama will still kick our ass, so we'd might as well curl up and surrender proactively . . ."

Mr. Lord, have a chat with Quin Hillyer, STAT! If anyone can save him from his incipient fauxcon defeatism, YOU can!!! ;-)

Great piece. Truly excellent work. Detailed, factual, and inspiring to us plain-vanilla-no-prefix-required conservatives in "flyover country."

Thank you, Mr. Lord.

Best,
EM

drudge ette obama| 9.8.09 @ 6:58AM

If the White House frames this as a vetting issue, then let's dig deeper and asked how the vetting failed? Then take their criteria and apply it to Valerie Jarrett and Doug Lloyd.

Who should be the next czar to get the "Alinsky Freeze Frame Treatment"? I think it should be Doug Lloyd, especially given current events such as the Venezuelan uprising against Chavez, the predicatably socialist Oliver Stone's love-fest movie on Chavez and Chavez, himself, putting his mug in the press and saying that he can work with Obama. Well, we already knew that.

Remember Valerie Jarrett was Obama's first choice as his replacement in the U.S. Senate, but Blago wouldn't do it. We can save her for later.

"Van Jones" Doug Lloyd, just like Kennedy "Borked" Bork.

http://politicalticker.blogs.c.....in-senate/

Robert Rosencrans| 9.8.09 @ 7:38AM

Obama should have read Lenin, not Alinsky:

Every question “runs in a vicious circle” because political life as a whole is an endless chain consisting of an infinite number of links. The whole art of politics lies in finding and taking as firm a grip as we can of the link that is least likely to be struck from our hands, the one that is most important at the given moment, the one that most of all guarantees its possessor the possession of the whole chain.

Lenin, What Is To Be Done?, “The Plan For an All-Russia Political Newspaper” (1901)

R Martin| 9.8.09 @ 7:47AM

Mr. Lord is spot-on. The appointment of a Van Jones and others of his ilk highlights a clearly leftist philosophy in the White House, a philosophy in no way diminished by Mr. Jones' resignation.

I believe inadequate attention has been given to Mrs. Obama's role in these appointments and the general conduct of business within the administration. Remember, she wrote a rather nasty undergraduate thesis, was not proud of her country until her husband emerged as a national political figure and subjected her two young children, year after year, to the vile rantings of the Rev. J. Wright. Michelle is probably well to the left of her husband, and her influence is evident in practically everything he does. She bears close watching.

TennesseeVolunteer| 9.8.09 @ 7:49AM

The libs will turn up the volume.
Where will you be on Sept. 12?
What will you do to better tell the story of freedom on 9-12?
Who will you bring with you and get to do their own thing on 9-12 to demonstrate to our citizens in America that it truly is the land of the Free!

RustyG| 9.8.09 @ 8:16AM

I knew these things about Obama before he was elected. The republicans are doing an excellent job at standing in the way of his Marxist agenda.

Are there no Patriots in the dem party, or will they continue to rubber stamp the destruction of our country?

Michael L. Hauschild| 9.8.09 @ 8:19AM

Do not forget these two chiseled in stone realities.
1. We live under a political system defined as a “Republic.” You have turned over (sadly rented out) your political say to your representative.
2. Only thirty (+) Blue Dogs have pledged a “no” on the Health Care Reform to come out of the House. That is not enough.
The damage to America will come in the “joint committees” where the pinnacle of both power and susceptibility to “Chicago politics” resides.

Mean Sign Holder| 9.8.09 @ 8:23AM

I have a hard time feeling sorry for anyone who went to an Ivy League school. I say stop your whining. And that goes for you too, Mrs. B. Hussein Obama.

Robert| 9.8.09 @ 8:51AM

Thank you, Mr Lord, for summing it all up in a few pages. You made it undestandable for everyone. I am sending your article to all the Libs I know. Like Ricky Ricardo said "they got some splaining to do". {smile}

Dean| 9.8.09 @ 9:18AM

The MSM didn't vet Barack Obama, so why would anyone expect them to play any role in vetting the "green jobs czar"? Or any czar for that matter.

Becky| 9.8.09 @ 9:20AM

I would guess there are a lot of Democrats who are secretly hoping for Obama's failure themselves. It takes a lot of guts (integrity) to have principles and risk what you have to defend those principles. Like all bad times, the majority of those just sit around hoping for the best, while secretly encouraging others to continue to do the heavy lifting of cleaning up.

I spoke out at school once about a coach, and had quite a few other parents talk to me on the q.t. who were not willing to publicly complain for fear it would make it worse for their kid. It is human nature to believe that somehow things will work out for the best without having to get dirty.

Mattled| 9.8.09 @ 9:25AM

I just read an article bemoaning CNN on in Barnes and Noble.

One commenter had a suggestion to carry a small universal remote and change the channel.

All TV's at airports carry CNN's "Airport Channel"---the TV's are all LG's.

Can we bring an LG remote and change the channel? It would be nice to see something (ANYTHING) other than CNN in an airport.

Other public places as well.

Grzmlyk| 9.8.09 @ 9:29AM

You know, my idea of "social justice" would be if all my peers, colleagues, former friends and coworkers who voted so enthusiastically for Obama with one hand even as they patted themselves on the back with the other - and the celebrities, pundits and lobbyists who goaded them - were, along with their loved ones, consigned to live the rest of their lives in the "utopia" that Obama wants so badly to erect as a monument to himself - unfettered by the restraints that are now being imposed by those of us who never left the terra firma of common sense to board the Good Ship "Hope and Change."

Sadly, of course, that would mean our own enslavement as well, so the rejection of Obama has to be by the body politic in toto and, if we have indeed reached a tipping point (and I'm not yet convinced), that means we will wind up saving these fools and crooks from themselves.

Nevertheless, in a just world, this army of useless idiots, this vainglorious rabble, this insensate clay whose best use in a fair universe would be as land fill in some remote swamp, would all be quarantined together in a vast chamber with impenetrable Plexiglas walls, where we could watch them with great amusement as they scratched and climbed frantically and futilely to escape the prison they carved out of their own hubris.

Now THAT would be social justice.

JP| 9.8.09 @ 9:38AM

I could be wrong, but I detect panic in the Obama WH. Well maybe not panic per se - but the President and Rahm Emanual should be very worried. Thier latest stunt - an address before a Joint Session of Congress - indicates that the WH hasn't quite yet figured out that it isn't communications that is the problem, but the content of the President's actions.

There are currently anywhere from 4 to 6 versions of HealthCare out there; none of which is polling well in Middle America. To exasperate things, the nation is already suffering from Obama fatigue (he can't let a day go by without getting his visage plastered across magazines, breaking news stories, and radio addresses(I think Times has had his mug on thier covers now 12 out of the last 14 months). An address to Congress during Primetime could very well backfire.

The President and his congressional leaders wish to continue to control the levers of power (that is, be reelected); but they also wish to execute thier agenda (which 60-70% of the voters did not sign up for).

We are witnessing perhaps the end of the Obama Administration that took control last January. If the President wishes to survive politically, he will have to take a suddent sharp turn Right (that is to the Center). And that turn had better be a real one. Otherwise, he could be the first President to become a lame duck before his first year is complete.

Paul Milenkovic| 9.8.09 @ 9:51AM

The WSJ ran another article about the concern from China regarding the multi-trillion-dollar budget deficits in the US in light of the dollar being the international reserve currency and the large Chinese holdings of US Treasury and other bonds.

Can you believe it has come to this? Even the Communist Chinese believe that Mr. Obama on the far-left.

Michael L. Hauschild| 9.8.09 @ 10:02AM

JP,
Panic mode in the WH? Do not become complacent.
Here is how I fear this will play out. A bill will emerge from the house that shows the electorate that “they have heard the voice of the people.” The members in peril of 2010 will be allowed to vote no and the cushion of victory will be sufficient and manipulated so that there will be created a “mandate.” to move foreword. (After all, it will be stated that most want “some form” of reform).
While this superficial (false transparency) document is scrutinized most will relax ignorant of the real amendments being crafted in the back rooms that will be reinserted in the joint committee version. Triggers, co-op’s, and the various false starts to confuse and fatigue the opposition will allow the majority to “tread water” while the Senate, in psudo-debate mode crafts their dual superficial public versions.
The Senate (far more regal and above the fray) will “know better” and will create two versions, one with no chance (Republican) and a democratic version to “counter balance” the red state obstructionists but so in line with the White House that it will be indistinguishable from what everyone conservative fears. These will be voted on, and the majority version will be treated as a budget measure and the fifty-one rule invoked. The Senators in election jeopardy, as in the House, will be permitted to vote no and return to their electorate with the plaintive “I tried” defense.
The two bills will be sent to the joint committee, all the “public option” aspects will become no longer “optional” and the nightmare will be returned to the respective legislative branches for a vote.
Huge democratic majority in the House, blue state incumbents in the Senate with no chance of electoral defeat, and plenty of cushion in both bodies for passage even while shielding the most vulnerable “blue dogs.”
The only thing that will defeat this “business as usual – elections have results” scenario is the escalation of the public unrest. The “Battle of the Bulge II” (don’t laugh, the combatants represent the same goals) is well underway.

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Oldefarte| 9.8.09 @ 10:21AM

"I" had HAD ENOUGH prior to 11/40/08, and expressed my distrust and dissatisfaction with him, his thoughts and his apparent [to ME] liberalistic/socialistic intentions. Unfortionately, very few other Americans listened or agreed with me. I predicted this would happend, and sadly, I'm right. The ONLY QUESTION now is WHAT DO WE AMERICANS DO ABOUT THIS SITUATION? We currently have conservative Republicans [and Democrats] in Washington that don't have the political guts to stand up to these tyrants, obviously [ie McCain, McConnell,etc]. Hopefully, Americans will go to the polls and vote beginning next year-----for each,every and any candidate that is truly conservative and who professes a willingness if elected to fight against this administration's policies. The VOTE is our only hope for survival; and unless Americans are willing to vote against any incumbent that is PLAYING FOOTSIE with these socialists; for any challenger who is willing to fight for America's values [ie Sarah Palin]; this country will continue to sink into the swamp of Marxist socialism!!!!!

loulou| 9.8.09 @ 10:39AM

There is no panic in the WH. They are confident that they can continue to seize power and trash the Constitution with impunity.

They are ruthless sociopaths. If they start losing voters all they have to do is increase ACORN activity. More elections will be tainted.

People who think Obama and his henchmen are worried better get real. They're not worried--remember, they won. They have the power and they're going to keep it and expand it.

Deborah D| 9.8.09 @ 10:43AM

Sunlight is the best disinfectant...I believe that the American people deep in their bones know this administration is against them. I also think they know they can't trust the MSM. Fox's ratings are huge. Beck and Rush continue to gain viewers/listeners. MSM ratings and dollars are dwindling.

Americans aren't stupid -- they've been asleep and misinformed. As the Tea Parties, townhalls, and the revolt of parents against Obama to student propaganda shows, Americans are waking up and seeing the sunlight.

Keep up the good work, Mr. Lord (and Mr. Prowler!!) Our country needs you all now more than ever. As Beck says "We surround them." God bless.

Grzmlyk| 9.8.09 @ 10:55AM

Oldefarte, I feel your pain. I tried to warn people too, but they were so intoxicated by the absolution from the twin original sins of racism and - gasp - self interest - that their votes for Obama supposed bought them that there was no reasoning with them.

Now the hangover has set in and it's a doozy - and the other shoe of the dollar's imminent collapse hasn't even fallen yet.

The problem is the bureaucracy is already so big, so all-powerful, and so ubiquitous that it has taken on an inertial momentum of its own. The federal government has permeated EVERYTHING.

So we elect supposed conservatives and they go to Washington and become a tiny morsel that's thrown into the maw of the Leviathan.

The tyranny of the banal bureaucracy has been brewing since FDR, and certainly became a fait accompli with LBJ's Great Society.

That's why abolishing the department of Education was quickly abandoned by Reagan - one pol can no longer stand up to a gigantic - and ever-growing - bureaucracy, no matter how good their intentions. The power now belongs to the steamroller that is the government.

So we elect these guys who may or may not have genuine small-government ideals, and they go to Washington and before you can say "socialism" they are going along to get along.

We need to do MORE than elect conservatives. We need to dismantle the monster that Federal Government has become. And that's going to require a full-court press on the part of ordinary Americans - if it's possible at all.

The time has come for a second American Revolution. In short, in our current course of human events, it has once again become necessary for Americans - we the people - to dissolve the political bonds which have connected us with the Federal Government and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's god entitle us.

Now where have I heard THAT before?

JP| 9.8.09 @ 11:18AM

Michael,
I understand your comments, but the President wouldn't be calling an unprecedented address to Congress during Primetime if he wasn't desperate.

The President and the Dems in Congress are attempting to square a circle. Yes, they can get ObamaCare through at any time, but they cannot do so without doing irrepairable damage to both Obama's ability to govern and putting one or both Houses at risk in November 2010. The thing to remember, is the Dems want to pass thier agenda, but they certainly do not wish to destroy thier majority status.

The President and Speaker Pelosi, and Reid can pass ObamaCare anytime they wish. What is putting sand in the gears is thier failure to spin the bill so as to make it something it isn't. They were totally taken by surprise late last July when voters began to show up at Townhalls angry. Half of the angry voters are Democrats who voted for Obama.

The Dems will never give up a government option. The question arises, are they willing to put thier majority status in danger in order to get thier bill through Congress? This is a game changer and the President knows it. One false move and his administration is finished -that is, it will be a lame duck.

Missy| 9.8.09 @ 11:47AM

Lloyd is next.

Let's "Van Jones" Lloyd.

Dai Alanye| 9.8.09 @ 12:02PM

It feels lonely here. Where's the Boob to defend his vote for B O?

Sue| 9.8.09 @ 12:54PM

Mr. Lord, you forgot about the Supreme Court Justice appointment, Sotomayor, who doesn't believe that the Constitution is the "law of the land" and states can restrict our rights. That's a biggie.

You also forgot the confiscation of creditors' property rights (bondholders of GM bonds); that's another biggie. This alone will do more damage to our capitalist system than we could hope to repair.

It's difficult to include everything, but I "hope" you will "change" your article when these old/new revelations come to light.

Jeffrey Lord| 9.8.09 @ 12:59PM

Sue...

Thanks...Even the Internet has a space limitation on this, I think!

Keep a pad handy...there's three plus years to go. The list will grow...

Michael L. Hauschild| 9.8.09 @ 1:27PM

JP,
You probably are right, but I just cannot place any trust in the beltway duplicity.

Todd| 9.8.09 @ 1:55PM

Boob decided to make his odious presence known on Mr. Lord's blog today

Gill O’Teen ✝✡| 9.8.09 @ 2:01PM

Windbag old man alert! You have been warned.

Grzmlyk, in your comment posted at 9:29AM, you expressed a wish that those “who voted so enthusiastically for (obumassiah) (would be) consigned to live the rest of their lives in the "utopia" that (obumassiah) wants so badly to erect as a monument to himself. A similar idea was proposed by either Dr. Walter E. Williams, Dr. Thomas Sowell or Rush Limbaugh. I forget which, maybe all of them or some combination of any two. I think that in order to bring this about there would have to be a radical revision of The Constitution, something I’m reluctant to call for given the likely delegates to any Convention gathered for such purpose. More likely, our only path is to follow the road paved by my ancestors in South Carolina back in 1861. This solution is fraught with peril as Sherman made quite clear to the citizens of Atlanta in 1864. However, it is a trail for which I have great sympathy.

Mr. Lord, you asked, “When exactly in the last nine months did you reach the point where you "had enough"?” Well, I had enough much longer ago than that. I opposed the government compelling our young men, of which I was one, to die in a far-off jungle fight that did not have victory as its goal. Korea was such a war, and look how well that turned out. It is still being waged. Iraq and Afghanistan have turned into such wars. I “had enough” of our fight in the Middle East when George The Dad didn’t topple Saddum when he had the chance and allowed the Iraqi army to massacre the Kurds. I had more than enough when George The Son ordered an American Warrior to remove the Stars and Stripes from a statue to the then Iraqi dictator because it might offend the locals. I had more than enough when Tricky Dicky ordered a wage freeze. I had more than enough when carternomics made me wait in gas lines for hours as rampant inflation was depleting my buying power as I tapped my feet. Then he let the Iranians kidnap our Citizens and did nothing until he sent a woefully poorly equipped rescue force to a date with desert sands. I had more than enough when Ronaldus Magnus cut my federal taxes but after his increases in medicare and social security payments went into effect, my net pay decreased. About that same time, my greatly loved Mother, now asleep in Jesus, had to refuse a much deserved pay increase because it would put her in a higher tax bracket with the result that she would have had less money to take home. I had more than enough when George The Dad broke his famous “Read my lips” pledge. I had more than enough when after winning election over an obsolete embarrassment who went down without much of a fight in 1992, Clinton and Gore took a bus ride to Washington stopping at Thomas Jefferson’s place to sneer with contempt at one of the greatest Americans. Then came hillarycare and collusion with the Chinese to destroy American manufacturing. Then there is Clinton’s famous “I did not have (a relationship) with” nationally televised pack of lies. Then there was his later conviction on perjury. I had more than enough when George The Son signed the pharmacy bill, when he signed TARP, but I really hated when he overrode Congress to hand billions to the car companies by executive dictate. By golly, that’s grounds for impeachment, in my book. But the dumbokrats could not call for impeachment since they had voted for the original bill. I had more than enough when the replickons chose the head RINO to be their presidential nominee. A man whose self-declared greatest achievement was his ability to concede to the opposition. Unlike many, abortion is a litmus test for me. I absolutely refuse to vote for anyone who belongs to any political party that has built its platform with the bones of butchered children. Accordingly, I had more than enough when the supremes used Roe v. Wade to ram infanticide down my throat. I had more than enough when my then representative to kongress dickie gephardt-less, in spite of running as a pro-life candidate until then, decided that in order to win the berghof, he had to embrace legalized baby massacre. I had more than enough when the supremes legalized the theft of private property in their blatantly unconstitutional eminent domain decision. What about the house bank scandal? I watched the dumbos trash American Warriors looking for an edge in the polls. I became fed up with our lord of the flies when I learned that he had voted to allow American Citizens to die by opposing the Born Alive Act. I knew he was a kommie-nist when I heard his praise of his Chinese masters last year congratulating them for their successful Olympic show. Just consider how well that bird’s nest turned out. In short, I have been fed up for about as long as I can remember. But now I’m determined that enough is too much and I’m not going to take it anymore. Just consider that according to reports I found on Drudge this morning, The U.N. is advocating for a global currency to replace the duller. The duller’s value has declined against the euro and the price for gold is over $1,000 an ounce. France is contemplating using the pig puke scare as the crisis it needs to suspend their constitution. Voters have learned that they can vote themselves other people’s money. Legalized theft. Robin Hood was born 700 years too soon. Bonnie and Clyde would simply run for office today. Tax dodger Al Capone, expert in the Chicago Way, would be obumassiah's Imported Beverages Czar. In short, I don’t recall a time when we have not had a corrupt government. This is why Grzmlyk’s thoughts are so appealing.
Gill O’Teen ✝✡
gill.Oteen07041776@gmail.com
Don’t Tread on Me!!

Everly Waverly| 9.8.09 @ 2:03PM

Lets be patient, Obama will destroy himself. Although admittedly what's happened since Obama took office is discomforting, what his FCC guy Mark Lloyd will try to implement will make all the things up to that point seem insignificant. When peoples favorite "Talk Show" hosts are removed from the air, "All Hell Breaking Loose" will be a mild description of the fall-out. This week-ends March On Washington is going to be a warning, believe it...

crookedwren| 9.8.09 @ 2:15PM

Lloyd MUST go. Not to mention John Holdren, Cass Sunstein, and the Emanuel brothers. I'm sure there are other Maoists / Leninists / Marxists involved as well.

There's a New Zealand blogger who has been gathering some incredibly significant artifacts on Obama and Company. Articles. Photos. An amazing archive of actual materials. I'm learning more every day.

Glad we still have some brave voices willing to reveal the Truth.

But I'm saddened by those (especially those in my own family) who still cling to the false promises of the O. and the Neo-Dems. They are dupes. And the Neo-Dem-Panderers -- the MSM -- shamelessly exploit the naivete that still exists out there.

Have been reading Anne Coulter's book (Guilty.) The way the MSM, that august fourth estate, has misled the American people is CRIMINAL. Truly.

But wanted most to applaud this conversation, pray that this continues and grows, work toward a strong presence on the 912 March and other events, and encourage all of you here to keep up the good work.

The future of our nation, our children, our grandchildren requires that we continue the Battle -- although, I confess, I am sometimes fatigued and overwhelmed by all the fires we have to douse, all the heads of the hydra we have to destroy.

Get to the 912 March, folks, if you can. Or -- if it's impossible for you to get there -- help some others get there in your stead.

For the first time in many years, I'm hearing Truth being spoken about our leftist media and educational system, the cancer-ridden Democratic Party and Federal Government, the Maoist/Marxist/Leninist "grubs" that have infested the bureaucracies that exist in business as well as government.

Speak out. Speak up. Stand firm.

God Bless You All.

Northern Rebel| 9.8.09 @ 3:25PM

Didn't your mother tell you: You are who your friends are.

Obama is a communist,(Van jones) terrorist,(William Ayers) racist( Reverand Wright).

He is also quite possibly, the Anti-Christ.

Cow Rie| 9.8.09 @ 3:42PM

As my dear old mom used to say, "Birds of a feather, flock together."

Wake up people. The enemy is here and in the White House, in the media, in the Congress, and in our schools. All on OUR public dole. Time to fight. Time to push back - hard.

Cow Rie in Tx

Nobama| 9.8.09 @ 4:36PM

No way Northern--Obama's not the Anti Christ! The Anti-Christ wouldn't live or die by a teleprompter.

jr| 9.8.09 @ 5:12PM

Everly Waverly "Lets be patient, Obama will destroy himself." Hopefully, you are correct, but whatever each of us may contribute, we should do so. Remember that Communism and Nazism did not happen in a short time, it took years. It was a process of lying very big while taking the two steps forward, getting pushed back one, thereby gaining one more than yesterday. That has repeatedly happened since FDR. History is the truth teller if you wish to check. The Democrats will pass a health care bill because they believe that is why they were elected. Obama was elected because people were denied the truth of his past - and the people were ignorant enough not to check. Hopey and Changey are still around, one must look closely. Thanks to Fox, some truths are getting out. There may be a time in the very near future that Fox will have to share its mic with the leftists after the Democrats pass the equal time legislation. If so, that might be the beginning of the end. Will the voters be aroused sufficiently to get rid of Democrats in 2012 -- I don't think it will be enough to make a substantial difference and Obama will still be around to spread his leftist message.

Grzmlyk| 9.8.09 @ 5:41PM

Well, Gill, I can't say I enjoyed the litany of things you brought up, but I appreciate the effort - and it's incredibly depressing.

And the thing is, you really only skimmed the surface. GW Bush allowed Ted Kennedy to write the No Child Left Behind legislation and he was as pro-illegal immigration as any lefty; we barely dodged that bullet (for now). And I don't think you mentioned LBJ's Great Society, which really completed the pass at socialism that FDR threw. And I'll bet it thrills you that our soldiers now have to Mirandize the enemy on the battlefield. Such a proud moment for our armed forces.

And still there is no shortage of additional insults to the American Constitution that have occurred in the last 40 years - which is now nothing more than just another boring, irrelevant piece of paper that has nothing to do with the way we run our country anymore.

THAT'S the dirty secret of the State of our Republic. The only time the constitution is invoked these days, it is to further distort its original intent as part of an ever more egregious power grab.

But our troll friend Bob - who pretends to be a conservative - would say hey, relax! Effective tax rates NEVER go up and GDP ONLY goes up. He's wrong on both counts, of course, but the point is too many people remain complacent even while Rome is burning.

Too many people are either out-and-out criminals (everyone in the Obama administration), aboard the gravy train or too enamored of the reflection in the vanity mirror of what they perceive as their "goodness" to care that the ship is sinking beneath their feet. It's as if someone on the Titanic saw people on the decks below drowning as they were disgorged into the sea and thought, hey, no problem: I'm dry!

Hell, most people still think the party of Big Business and Wall Street is the Republican party!

We are living the old boiled frog paradigm. We are now at the point where the water has started to bubble and STILL many haven't waken up.

And the sad fact is that most people really don't want freedom. They're happy to be told what to think, what to do, where to go, what to eat whom to like, whom to hate, etc. It absolutely amazes me.

I don't know what it's going to take for us to take this country back - as I've said, I am not optimistic about this and think it has to get soooooo much worse before it gets better. Under Obama - and whomever succeeds him - it will.

The damage is done, and as Gill reiterates that famous quote attributed to Tytler, in a democracy - or a representative republic - once a populace realizes they can vote themselves the public funds, it is OVER.

Will the last free man turn off the lights as you depart for serfdom?

Ray| 9.8.09 @ 5:42PM

Thanks for a GREAT article, Jeffrey. And, I believe, thanks 'EM' for your response...ditto everything you said, as well as many others here...I'm glad I finally found the Spectator!

Mattled| 9.8.09 @ 5:50PM

Mr. Lord,

I asked what else we can do to speed up the media's demise.

You answered it was already happening and that we always want things to go quicker than they actually progress (paraphrasing).

Any updates on that? This latest Van Jones media blackout shows they will not stop at nothing including losing their credibility.

I sincerely believe that not enough people know the bias (too used to consuming news the same way).

Other things I've noticed are that going grassroots/local has been productive.

I like calling local network affiliates and holding them accountable rather than the networks themselves. The networks don't care.

Jeffrey Lord| 9.8.09 @ 6:02PM

Mattled...

Forget the MSM. Talk radio, Fox, the Spectator and other conservative magazines, the WSJ, NY Post...don't forget the books...Levin, Malkin, Morris etc. Concentrate on building our side...forget the other guys. They are the other side. The Yankees won't do what the Red Sox ask.

Boe| 9.8.09 @ 7:56PM

'Words.--Just words. 'Just Words.... Words that.. People who are only savy about FOUR human "functions"- which takes no extra effort
,Intelligenc or AMBITION to learn and do : Eating, Drinking, Talking--and having Sex. The - "IMs" (IGNORANT MASSES-All voted for OBAMA) and continue to DUPLICATE/ multiply /support Obama!....As the great Goethe stated : "NOTHING IS MORE TERRIB LE THAN IGNORANCE IN ACTION".
These "IMs"- Jessie Jackson et. al. in addition to the horads of Obam-like people--including all those Indoctrinated by Jeramiah Wright--and other such anti american, racist "preachers" and their ilk - -who believe like Obama--an his CRIMINAL admin. are/will be an on-going "problem"!!

Boe| 9.8.09 @ 7:56PM

'Words.--Just words. 'Just Words.... Words that.. People who are only savy about FOUR human "functions"- which takes no extra effort
,Intelligenc or AMBITION to learn and do : Eating, Drinking, Talking--and having Sex. The - "IMs" (IGNORANT MASSES-All voted for OBAMA) and continue to DUPLICATE/ multiply /support Obama!....As the great Goethe stated : "NOTHING IS MORE TERRIB LE THAN IGNORANCE IN ACTION".
These "IMs"- Jessie Jackson et. al. in addition to the horads of Obam-like people--including all those Indoctrinated by Jeramiah Wright--and other such anti american, racist "preachers" and their ilk - -who believe like Obama--an his CRIMINAL admin. are/will be an on-going "problem"!!

Ken (Old Texican)| 9.8.09 @ 8:06PM

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DaveS| 9.8.09 @ 8:07PM

Bill Ayers was obvious; this hack - nobody heard his name in '08. And now they lie that he didn't fill out a form - or know he had a Croatian great-grandfather or something. The polish is off and now the veneer is under attack. Drowning executive branch (I can't say one hanging on - not PC.)

Ken (Old Texican)| 9.8.09 @ 8:21PM

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An American| 9.8.09 @ 9:24PM

Hopefully, this won't end with Van Jones...after reading about the various kooks and commies that now have places at Obama decision making table...we need 20 Becks to out Obama's Alinsky followers.

philfl63| 9.8.09 @ 9:27PM

I will say what no one else will say as they have been subdued and castrated by years of political correctness. I do not want a group of radical, anti-American, crazy Negroes running my country and trying to destroy my American culture and way of life. I need only look at the Dark Continent to see what ignorant, resentful Negroes have wrought- A entire continent engulfed in a mass suicidal death spiral. Not in this country. No way and no how Obama & Co.

ATLmedia| 9.8.09 @ 9:30PM

Glad to see American Spectator acknowledge the
slight of hand "Southern Strategy" Nixon (& all later R Prezes) used to fool the rubes here in the South. Racism is far from exclusive to conservatives, but they WERE great at exploiting it-until Obama- for election victories .Has the strategy of Newt/Rush/Glenn run its course?

Etiquette Man Shooz| 9.8.09 @ 10:06PM

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Etiquette Man| 9.8.09 @ 10:18PM

ATLMedia,

Not sure where you stand, politically speaking, so please don't take it as a personal affront when I respond to your saying that racism is not "exclusive to conservatives" (gee, thanks!!!) by making the following observations:

Jefferson Davis was a Democrat.

Nathan Bedford Forrest (founder of the KKK and inspiration for "Forrest Gump's" first name) was a Democrat.

Bull Connor was a Democrat.

George Wallace was a Democrat.

John F. Kennedy's brother wired tapped Dr. King.

Neither the Civil Rights Act of 1964 nor the Civil Rights Acts of 1965 would have passed without republican support. Fewer than 50% of Democrats voted to support this landmark legislation.

Seeing a pattern?

(If you're a conservative, I respectfully suggest that you stop playing defense, and take it to the libs. If you're a lib, consider this a complimentary history lesson on the racist origins of your movement and party.)

The "Southern Strategy" was a successful stratagem to get racist Demonrats (is there another kind?) to vote against their interests by supporting a moderate Republican (Nixon) that they thought was a racist, too. He wasn't, as Mr. Lord ably demonstrates. Perhaps you skipped over that part.

He really was a rogue, though, and earned the "Tricky Dick" moniker. The country would have been better off without him, and he was rightly hounded from office.

I still think it's funny how mad the left gets about how he duped racists Dems.

Wicked? Of course, but very slick . . .

EM

Etiquette Man| 9.8.09 @ 10:26PM

philfl63,

Goodness, me!

Strong words, sweeping generalizations about entire population groups, aspersions based entirely on skin color!

This all sounds familiar, somehow.

Hmm . . .

Are you perhaps a distant relation of Mr. Van Jones?

Inquisitively Yours,
EM

Tom Anderson| 9.9.09 @ 12:00AM

To JP: the word you spell 'thier' should have been spelled 'their'. Excellent letter anyway. I was struck by your clear thinking.

Missy| 9.9.09 @ 12:22AM

Tom, you're a tough customer. A typo perhaps?

Scary control freak.

kerry francis kassis| 9.9.09 @ 3:12AM

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Gill O’Teen ✝✡| 9.9.09 @ 9:15AM

philfl63, I apologize for being as my Warrior Father used to say, a day late and a dollar short; nonetheless, I could not let your comment posted last night pass like gas in a scene from “Blazing Saddles” (you know, the one where the cowboys had beans for supper). The mere existence of Great Americans such as Walter E. Williams, Thomas Sowell, Herman Cain, J. C. Watts, Jr., Alan Keyes and thousands of others of those you call “crazy Negroes” whose names are only omitted here because I no longer have the requisite brain cell capacity to store them in memory, proves that you are nothing other than a racist and a bigot. As I have pointed out before, in my personal dictionary, ‘bigot’ is a contraction for ‘big idiot’. To condemn an entire collection of individuals for something so superficial as skin pigmentation is beyond contempt. All that matters is whether the color of a person’s soul is red, white and blue or kommie red. Pfft to you.
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Yosemeti Sam| 9.10.09 @ 10:31AM

"... On Sunday, a furious New York Times columnist Tom Friedman sat on NBC's Meet the Press and referred to the Internet in the context of Van Jones record as "an open sewer."...."

This servant of the nyt from his open mouth
spews aspersions upon citizenry muckraking for truths.

Used to be the self-blurbed job of the nyt
but alas that waning liberal outfit has lost its'
news-shaping mojo. Hence the indignation of
its' servants when out-scooped by the plain folks
who've rolled up their sleeves to provide real
journalism - however deemed imperfect among the preening putative elitist news censors extant.

Greg Zotta| 9.11.09 @ 3:09AM

Obama and the Czars
President Barack Hussein Obama said he wants to transform America. I ask, “Into what?”
“Amerika!”
He has appointed a number of radical “Czars” as his advisors. “Green Jobs” czar, Van Jones stated he was “radicalized in jail,” and admits to being a “Communist”, and a “rowdy black nationalist.”
The “science czar,” John Holdren is for sterilization and abortion for population control, and wrote, “Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.”

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the “health policy” czar blames the Hippocratic oath for the overuse of medical care, and that doctors need to serve two masters “the patient and society.” He stated, “Medical students should be trained to provide socially sustainable, cost-effective care.” One sign of progress he sees: “the progression in the end-of-life care mentality from do everything to a more palliative care shows that change in physician norms and practices is possible.” “Treating 65 year olds differently because of stereotypes or falsehoods would be ageist: treating them differently because they have more life-years is not.” Could this be construed as the “Death Panel?”

Legal adviser Harold Koh stated, “Judges should interpret the Constitution according to other nations’ legal “norms.” Sharia law could apply to disputes in US courts. The United States constitutes an “axis of disobedience” along with North Korea and Saddam-era Iraq.”

“Diversity” czar, Mark Lloyd on the First Amendment stated, “It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press…This freedom is all too often an exaggeration…At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.” He apparently will decide what is acceptable over the airwaves, and fine the stations 100% of the operating budget if he deems the content not “diverse” enough. Sounds like the “Fairness Doctrine” repackaged, and it’s meant to stifle conservative speech. They believe in free speech as long as you’re saying what they believe and want to hear.

Obama stated he was going to have the most transparent administration ever, and because these are just some of his “radical” advisers and some of their views I have the following questions for him:

What are they being paid?

How much influence do the czars have, and on who?

How much power do they have?

Who do they answer to?

How were they selected?

Who selected them?

Why were they selected?

President Obama now knows of their radical views, and thus will he keep them on as advisors? Probably, because these “Czars” are a reflection of whom Barack Hussein Obama really is.

Greg Zotta