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Streetcar Line
Wish List for 2010
Time for the bad guys to lose power — and the good guys to win the Super Bowl.
Hope springs eternal, sometimes far outstripping probability. In that light, here are some things I hope to see in 2010:
• Republican leaders finally actually win a legislative battle important to conservatives, rather than merely finding ways to put up a supposedly noble but failed fight.
• Eric Holder resigns amidst disgrace and scandal. (Eric Holder is a disgrace and a scandal.)
• Members of the New Black Panther Party are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the laws, both civil and criminal, for voter intimidation in Philadelphia.
• Obamacare is defeated in an open vote in Congress. (See item one above.)
• Valerie Jarrett is finally taken to account for her sleazy background.
• Emanuel brothers Rahm and Ezekiel are both forced to leave the administration in disgrace. (Chicago politics and eugenics both deserve to take a fall.)
• Labor bosses lose all their major battles (while workers actually benefit).
• Eastern European nations finally get the missile defense, and the other support, that they need in order to lessen the Russian menace. The Poles, the Czechs, the Latvians, etcetera, represent the new vanguard of freedom, and merit American admiration and diplomatic support.
• Frank-enstein twins Al (Franken) and Barney (Frank) become increasingly the main public face of congressional liberals, in the process sounding so obnoxious and radical that the public reacts by self-identifying as conservatives by ever-larger margins.
• The Reid-Pelosi minions lose their congressional majorities in November, thus helping eliminate the threat they pose to our beloved republic.
• “Yes we can” becomes an ironic buzzword of the right as crowds chant “yes, we can” beat Obamacare, yes we can stop cap-and-trade, yes we can stop “card check” legislation, yes we can stop the climate-change cultists, yes we can protect private property and the Second Amendment, and yes we can most certainly keep the energy of the TEA Party movement and the town hall meetings just as strong as, or even stronger than, it was in 2009.
• Ben Bernanke, up until now a terrible Fed Chairman (as he was a terrible Fed board member), finally gets a clue and makes strengthening and stabilizing the dollar the Fed’s primary focus.
• Liberal “establishment media” outlets lose so much money that finally, out of desperation, a few of them actually stop editorializing within supposedly straight news, start giving conservatives fair shakes in headlines and story placement, and in general become honest organizations rather than knee-jerk mouthpieces for the political and especially cultural left.
• Ice fields in both Antarctica and the Arctic Circle grow so much, so undeniably, that Al Gore admits the inconvenient truth that he was wrong all along — especially when the snows of Kilimanjaro also cover every peak and slope of that mountain.
About the Author
Quin Hillyer is a senior editor of The American Spectator and a senior fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom. Follow him on Twitter @QuinHillyer.
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Ret. Marine| 12.31.09 @ 10:06AM
My only wish is to see this pretender-n-theif resign and taker the entire CONgress with him, God knows they need to get back in touch with We the People, but they think we don't exist.
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Le Cracquere| 12.31.09 @ 10:46AM
You forgot both the Yankees and the Mets hitting the cellar in their respective divisions. Ah, Elysium...
Oldefarte| 12.31.09 @ 11:07AM
I wholeheartedly AGREE; but I wouldn't HOLD MY BREATH concerning the Saints though [unless Greg Williams can get some of his now injured defensive backs healthy]!!!!!
Art C| 12.31.09 @ 11:24AM
You forgot Janet "returning veterans are the ones to watch, not thoze whose fathers TOLD us to watch" Napolilitano. What a disgace.
Road Kill| 12.31.09 @ 1:05PM
A great wish list. But be honest here, those wishes will have to sprout legs and we'll have to grow backbones. Nor will all of those wishes bear fruit. We can't sit on the couch in 2010.
Margie| 1.2.10 @ 5:07PM
I haven't sat on my couch since '92. And you better believe I'm not sitting this time around. I'm voting Republican, so there!
Anything else is a vote for the Communists.
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MacAoidh | 12.31.09 @ 2:21PM
I've got a few as well:
1.Head Of New Iran Gov’t: Thanks For Nothing, Obama
2.Obamacare Fails In House Conference Vote
3.Louisiana Unemployment Drops Steeply In 1st Quarter
4.Saints March In; Crush Colts 38-20 For Super Bowl Title
5.Indictments Handed Down On Climategate Fraud Beef
6.Holden: Scaled-Down Bond Issue Targets “Necessities”
7.GOP Gains Produce Boehner As House Speaker
8.Panicked Obama Proposes Tax Rate Cuts To Stimulate Economy
9.“Atlas Shrugged” Tops 2010 Christmas Week Box Office Standings
10.Back To Back: Mainieri, Tigers Celebrate 7th National Title
http://thehayride.com/2009/12/.....en-thread/
glenny in BR| 12.31.09 @ 5:39PM
Spoken like a true Louisianian. Geaux Tigers! glenny in BR
Jeff Perren | 12.31.09 @ 2:25PM
"Time for the bad guys to lose power"
From your pen to the public's ear conscience. Everything depends on whether the country returns to one valuing freedom and self-reliance.
Will it?
Howard| 12.31.09 @ 2:32PM
A few more:
1. Dingy Harry Reid loses in Nevada
2. Alan Grayson that loudmouthed Ahole in FL loses
3. Chris Dodd in CT loses
4. Deval Patrick MA loses, and a precursor of 2012. Patrick, a flim flam man is the original Obama.
Patriot| 1.1.10 @ 9:31PM
And please, God, don't forget the arrogant and obnoxious Barbie "Call me Senator, General" Boxer. Her stupidity alone should make her ineligible for political office.
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Margie| 12.31.09 @ 4:06PM
I add to this list my prayer for Rush Limbaugh to get better and live a long and prosperous and happy life by the Grace of God.
And for the health and safety of all of our brave men and women who are on the battlefields laying down their lives for freedom EVERYWHERE! And for their families at home, the same.
And for all Lefties everywhere that they come to their "RIGHT" minds and sin no more.
And for all the Spectator authors, thank you and may this forum continue to grow (unlike the Left's, ha!) and grow and grow!
A Happy & Blessed New Year!
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jack | 12.31.09 @ 11:05PM
its been one heck of a year i do hope 2010 will be much better
GregA| 1.1.10 @ 11:06AM
I pray for the end of these Intolerable Acts that are being foisted upon us by the tyrannical US government behemoth (NY too!) God Bless us all.
Bush is scum| 1.1.10 @ 7:27PM
Reggie Bush that is and any team that he is on should never get into the super bowl much less win it.
Tyler| 1.1.10 @ 9:35PM
That's mean, Reggie's no worse than any other NFL jock.
Don't hate, appreciate!
Franklin| 1.2.10 @ 8:27AM
We all get a super jolt when our government leaders start responding to our emails saying "What a good idea. I will give it consideration." ... and they actually do consider it!
Road Kill| 1.2.10 @ 12:44PM
Here's part of an article written Dec. 27th. This is the truth that stares us in the face! The wish list does not address what is truly happening. McNickol does.
Serfdom vs Liberty 2010
by Colin McNickol
It was in 1774 that John Adams reminded how the "most sensible and jealous people are so little attentive to government that there are no instances of resistance until repeated, multiple oppressions have placed it beyond a doubt that their rulers had formed settled plans to deprive them of their liberties."
And that's not merely to "oppress the individual or a few," he added, "but to break down the fences of a free constitution, and deprive the people at large of all share in the government, and all the checks by which it is limited."
Mr. Adams, of course, would have been labeled a "right-wing extremist" or a "militia maniac" by today's "progressives" in Congress who have been working so assiduously to soil the fabric of America. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would dismiss Adams' sentiment as "un-American" and tap dance around its implications of unconstitutional freelancing.
But on the cusp of a new year and the second decade of the 21st century, this is where America finds itself: Constitutional perverts and rule of law scofflaws are in charge, the once-creeping crud of socialism has broken into a trot and an increasing number of good and decent people really are mad as hell and not willing to take another centimeter of the shaft.
And perhaps, just perhaps, revolution is nigh.
"Revolution" is a dicey word in any era. Indeed, it can be accomplished by the ballot and not the bullet. But the Founders and the Framers had no qualms about the latter. How soon today's "leaders" -- supposed custodians of the Constitution but merely unionized garbagemen -- seem to forget that America was born in armed revolt and that the luminaries of the era acknowledged its necessity in the defense of natural rights.
Certainly, and as Thomas Jefferson reminded in the Declaration of Independence, "governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes." But the heaviness and permanence of the corrupt nature of our government surely will force the hand of the people to press the button or pull the trigger in the new year.
bobbyg56| 1.2.10 @ 2:32PM
FACTS that liberals can’t dispute…………….
FACT: Joe Wilson was right, Obama is a liar. Big time.
FACT: Joe Biden is a loose cannon
FACT: Harry Reid is a disgusting, disingenuous, lying b***head
FACT: Nancy Pelosi is one ugly hag
FACT: Sarah Palin is one good looking woman
FACT: Barbara “call me Senator” Boxer is a real bitch
FACT: Ted Kennedy was a drunken sot.
FACT: Alan Grayson of Florida is one big dufus
FACT: Charlie Rangel, Tim Geithner, Bill Richardson, Tom Daschle, Nancy Killefer friends of Obama
all tax cheats
FACT: Van Jones, Bill Ayers, George Soros, Reverend Wright radical friends of Obama. “By my friends you shall know me.”
FACT: people that vote for Ron Wyden, Merkley, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, Maxine Walters, Max Baucus, Chuckie Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Patty Murray, Dianne Feinstein, Pat Leahy, Charlie Rangel, Russ Feingold. Robert Byrd to name a few, aren’t useful idiots, just idiots.
FACT: Bill Nelson, Mary Landrieu, Chris Dodd, Bernie Sanders and others are guilty of accepting bribes on Obamacare and should be impeached.
FACT: supporters of abortion have contributed to the murder of 46 million, that’s 46 million babies. That ranks right up there with Stalin, Hitler, Mao Zedong some of the world’s worst butchers
FACT: Obama’s position on abortion “It’s above my pay grade.” is despicable.
FACT: Social Security/Medicare/Medical are broke. Obamacare will send us into bankruptcy
FACT: the surplus that liberals like to credit to Clinton was the result of a Republican congress lead by
John Kasich and Newt Gingrich
FACT: Republicans need more candidates like Tim Pawlenty, Col. Allen West, Mark Rubio, John Kasich, Newt Gingrich. Don’t know them, do a google search.
FACT: remove GOD from political discourse and guaranteed, things will get worst
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When the
breath disappears
in the pallor
of an eternal
dream I see
beautiful skies
on the sound
of a springtime.
Francesco Sinibaldi
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