The American Spectator : America's Quiet Anger

flacracker| 3.30.10 @ 6:31AM

Well said, Mr. Gannon. Can't wait for Nov. 2010 to turn incumbents onto the street, be they Democrat or Republican. It's time to take back America.

Dan Hirsch| 3.30.10 @ 10:11AM

AND WE'RE SICK OF BEING CALLED RACISTS BY RACISTS!

Rick V.| 3.30.10 @ 10:50AM

Dan,
Amen! And again I say, amen! The charge of racism is always - always, always, always - used by those who cannot defend their own arguments and beliefs on merit. It's the equivalent of one 4-year-old calling another 4-year-old a poopyhead. "You have a Pretty Pony and I don't, so you're a poopyhead!" Or, "You've got a job and I'm on welfare, so you're a racist!" Between "the needy" and Congress, the working class is forever burdened with an adolesentocracy. This isn't a matter of Republicans vs. Democrats, it's the workers vs. the drones.

InDemRependent| 3.30.10 @ 1:52PM

Rick V,
Maybe if your words didn't associate "welfare", "needy" with not white you wouldn't be seen as a racist. Also, who is the working class? It isn't just whites. You may not be racist...but you sure are IGNORANT!

Dan| 3.30.10 @ 3:09PM

Where in Rick V's post did he say anything about "non-whites"? You just proved the point of the article.

Stuart (Austin, TX)| 3.30.10 @ 3:47PM

I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU: We have been told that America is awash in racism, and that we have far to go before the country is fixed. Does anyone out there have any PERSONAL experience - as opposed to something you've heard about, seen on TV or read about -- that supports the premise of this argument? I'd like to know, because I think we have arrived at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s color-blind society. If only our politicians would let us enjoy it.

nickless| 3.30.10 @ 5:50PM

America is racist? We just had a majority of the country give the presidency to a man who was clearly not worthy of it, and they did it just because he was black. Charges of racism are only flying because now all those penance-voters now realize that it was a stupid thing to do.

Aedyn| 3.31.10 @ 11:16AM

Racist? Nope, It's prejudice.
And yes a majority of the ones who voted FOR Obama are prejudiced.

Voting FOR a person because of skin color is prejudiced just the same as NOT voting for them because of skin color.

Harry in Florida| 3.31.10 @ 12:08PM

The manager of my father's assisted living center (and his staff) all voted for Obama. He told my brother his rationale for that was, "its time that we have a black man in the White House." That is racism.

csledbetter| 4.2.10 @ 6:56PM

It is not racist to have voted for Obama for the express purpose of breaking the color barrier for the highest office in the land. I hate what Obama is doing, but I am glad the US has elected someone of color. It actually lays to rest the main arguments behind affirmative action and brings us to the point where we can argue that if you are not successful in this country it is NOT because of your skin color, so go pick some other excuse (Stupidity? Drug use? Laziness? Bad personal choices? Poor work ethic? All are alternatives once the color excuse is eliminates.)

Godhelpusall| 4.5.10 @ 10:07AM

"It is not racist to have voted for Obama for the express purpose of breaking the color barrier for the highest office in the land".

Actually, yes, that IS racist. Voting for or against someone because of the color of his (or her) skin is absolutely racist.

I voted against the Obamessiah because he is a Communist, not because he is black (or half-black).

Carl| 4.15.10 @ 2:24PM

communist?! All I can see is that you disagree with the man on policy and choose to call names. The congress just handed the biggest sop to the insurance industry.

choose to take on his policies and stopp the name calling.

Rex| 5.20.10 @ 7:59PM

"communist?! All I can see is that you disagree with the man on policy and choose to call names. "

Those who adhere to an collectivist Alnskyite worldview are, quite appropriately, known as communists.

AnalogMan| 4.6.10 @ 6:30AM

That's a helluva expensive way to make a point. Personally, I think you got a bad bargain.

Kim| 4.6.10 @ 10:15AM

"It actually lays to rest the main arguments behind affirmative action "
Actually, to vote for Obama just because he is black and not whom you (or anyone else) may consider the right man for the job IS affirmative action!

Christina| 4.2.10 @ 11:15AM

I don't give a flying @#$% WHAT color he is. I didn't vote for him because I found his ideology to be frightening and dangerous for our country, and I was right. What kind of person would continue to attend a church with such a preacher? Question asked, but NEVER answered.

Achilles Toejam| 4.3.10 @ 3:14AM

Christina, you're referring to Rev. Jeremiah Wright and his church? You know the one they gave Louis Farrakhan a lifetime achievement award for the "truth" I wonder if Calypso Louie has been back to the mothership parked on the far side of the Moon as the tale that he recounted to a crowd back in the 90s I believe.

He has answered the question, it's in his book that he has sought out these radicals since he was a boy first it was Frank Wilson, Bill Ayres Weather Underground, radical socialists groups in college and as a professor he taught Saul Alinske rules for radicals tactics and he was the one that sought out Jeremiah Wright because right was into identity politics and so was Obama.

What really disturbs me is the media and how they became this radicals cheerleading squad, totally biased and betrayed the trust of the American people as far as being any type of watchdog for truth.

Harriett Sharp| 4.1.10 @ 9:40PM

Since when did stupidity, ineptness, lack of experience, arrogance, and a massive coverup become a racial issue? Seems to me there's enough of this to spread quite evenly over every race and political party.

The big problem is that people did not listen when in one campaign speech, the promise was made "the America as you know it will never again be the same." No explanations given, no indication of the changes he expected to make, and it is the only campaign promise he has kept. Well, those voting for a black man on the basis of 'change' are getting what they voted for. Next time knock off the racial stuff and listen to what the MAN (of any color) has to say. Do your homework. Far more reliable.

Elaine| 4.1.10 @ 9:47PM

Oh, don't I wish more people would have paid more attention to this man's background and the words he didn't say. He promised everything he is giving and ruining our country in doing so.

Paul| 4.2.10 @ 12:29PM

I agree nickless. Living on the border with Mexico and being part of the so-called "white" minority of 5%, we have an Spanish expression that seems to apply: "La verdad no peca, pero incomoda". Translating: the truth does not lie, it just makes one uncomfortable. So, the reality of the national election of 2008 should speak for itself, as regards racism. Meaning, give me a break liberals and open your mind to something that does not robotically confirm your predispositions. As a former liberal, phi beta kappa variety, I know the pathology.
PS: Our cemetaries down here confirm the intermarriange of the Anglo and Hispanic.

Achilles Toejam| 4.3.10 @ 2:19AM

Ditto Nickless, you may want to include the many voices of warning about this guy going clear back to his childhood indoctrination into communism by Frank Wilson his mentor.
Just wondering, what if that long form birth certificate really doesn't exist and the guy is not constitutionally eligible for the office wouldn't that make every executive order and legislation that he signed null and void?

Boy, talk about a constitutional mess that would rip this country apart.

tzsigane| 3.30.10 @ 9:50PM

In the south and rural PA, racism is still abundant compared to VA where Mr. Gannon is from. I have live in all places and have experienced the colorblindness as well as the racism. The issue is entirely relative to where you reside. Same with sexism. It exists but people don't like to admit that it is an issue even though some place may have evolved, others are still lacking. And lets us not forget that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. hit his wife.

Msharp| 4.1.10 @ 8:11AM

To tzsigane: Why do you single out the "south and rural PA" as the only place of abundant racism?? You have NO idea what you're talking about. I live north of Atlanta in a moderately affluent area. My neighbor on the right is black, my neighbor on the left is from India. There are people of color at my church and in our scout groups. Quit living 50 years ago and wake up to today. There are pockets of racism EVERYWHERE, not just the south or rural PA. My husband's cousin is married to a black man in Chicago and they have experienced racism there for years. It has NOTHING to do with location.

Elaine| 4.1.10 @ 9:44PM

You've got that right.

Myster E.| 4.8.10 @ 12:01PM

Where does it say in tzsigane's post that the south and rural PA are the "only" places of abundant racism? T only compares it to Virginia. You people need to learn how to read and comprehend what people say instead of turning people's posts around to say what you want it to say.

jo| 3.30.10 @ 10:09PM

Racism is quite often a purely intellectual pursuit devoid of experience and fueled by cynics.

Experience is everthing.

I live among Chinese, Arabs, Indians, Russians, Africans, Lebanese and others - with mutual repect and in peace. It is as easy as falling off a long but infinitely more enjoyable.

Experience is everything.

Love thy neighbour.

Chrissy| 3.31.10 @ 9:50AM

I live in Michigan. Racism is rampant here - sometimes I'm just flabbergasted by what people say to me -- without shame or embarassment. Middle school kids think nothing of talking openly about their sense that blacks don't belong in their white schools. My own next door neighbor told me that the reason is supports the Tea Party is that these are people who tell it like it is when it comes to blacks, Latinos, and gays. That's my PERSONAL experience...this week.

Mike| 3.31.10 @ 12:38PM

We should ALWAYS recognize what "is". There is a culture dominating certain classes in our society that is completely self-destructive and counter to our country's founding principles - that of personal responsibility and charity. While it is unfortunate that this very culture paints a broad brush on a particular race as a whole, the facts are clear: The dominant race of this culture is obvious. This does NOT mean that a given race has a propensity to behave in a certain way - but it DOES demonstrate that these destructive and parasitic cultures are significantly higher percentages of some races over another. Why is that? And why does our government reward it? Until the members of this culture are made to account for their actions, and the rewards for non-productivity are an empty stomach instead of entitlements, this behavior will not change.

Doc| 3.31.10 @ 1:28PM

Which culture is it you speak of? I have firsthand knowledge of there being more than one group of people receiving assistance, it seems here you are speaking of a specific group.

Mike| 3.31.10 @ 2:32PM

Yes, we are a society of groups and always will be - it is human nature. My argument applies to all cultures and groups that support and encourage aberrant behavior (as compared to personal responsibility and charity), where their members are personally rewarded/supported by our government because of, or in spite of, their behavior. Without this hand-out mentality, these groups will simply cease to exist. The fact that you mentioned knowledge of more than one group like this reinforces my point. And if you have, in your own mind, singled out a specific race or culture based on your perceptions of behavior, then you are human, too!
Bottom line is this: there are INDIVIDUALS that are unable to provide/take care of themselves. We who are able are also responsible to take care of them (love your neighbor). However, there are those who simply refuse to make their own way and are content to live of off the labors of someone else - because they can. Shame on us for allowing this to be. We are hurting them and destroying our society by doing this.

Achilles Toejam| 4.3.10 @ 2:29AM

Mike, your bottom-line statement is very close to the opinion of Benjamin Franklin that I read one time on what should be done with the people you are referring to and the consequences of not doing it for them and society as a whole is destructive for both.
It might be from a book called "The Making of America" by Skousen.

lizzy| 4.2.10 @ 2:40AM

Doc. Dude. Look. Oakland, Detroit, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, most major inner cities - these are predominately black ghettos which have been shepherded by democrats for 40-50 years! They get reelected for bringing home more and more handouts for less production and responsibility and the results speak for themselves....Color Blind!

Elaine| 4.1.10 @ 9:52PM

The words Personal Responsibility and Charity say it all. BUT with the Health Bill, Personal Responsibility has been shoved out the door and Charity will never happen because the government is taking care of us.

I think somewhere in scripture someone said approximately, "You will be provided with food, but that doesn't mean I have to throw it into your nest." Something like that.

JO| 4.1.10 @ 7:23AM

That's so very sad Chrissy. I'm glad I don't live in your neighbourhood. If I did I would move, sadly many don't have that option.

I know a lot about racism, having lived in South Africa years ago - one thing you notice about racists is that they are usually emotionally stunted and dumb. When you think about it, it makes sense for hate is something that stunts ones mental development - racism is nothing more than a psychological and intellectual cage.

God bless Chrissy.

earthman| 4.1.10 @ 4:41PM

As long as there is white people there will be racism, sexism, and homophobia.

Charles R. Williams| 4.1.10 @ 4:55PM

earthman,

Wasn't it African-Americans who voted overwhelmingly for Obama? White people split their vote, going mostly for the obviously better candidate.

toneyal| 4.1.10 @ 7:57PM

Obamas’ two goals:

1. A new pledge of allegiance:

I pledge allegiance to Obama,
Ruler of the United States of America,
and to his associates for whom he stands.

One nation, under Obama, indivisible,
With liberty and justice for Democrats.

2. A new “high 5” greeting; with right hand raised chant:

Obama Rules!

Amccoy| 4.1.10 @ 10:04PM

Toneyal, there is no truth to your post so why do you even waste the time of everyone who reads it. Stick to facts, please. Your post is detrimental. We don't need more BS in this country, we have more than enough already.

Christina| 4.2.10 @ 11:19AM

There was no obviously better candidate between the Dem and Rep nominees. That's the sad sad truth about politics. Those who shouldn't run do so anyway because of the lure of power and those who should run don't want to enter the den of corruption.

Christopher Holland| 4.1.10 @ 5:28PM

That should be 'are white people' , not 'is white people'. And if every person on the planet was white, how could there be racism? And if every person on the planet was black, there might be even more homophobia. One of the dirty little secrets of liberalism is the deep bias in African and African American cultures against gays. Not that you will ever read about in the lame stream media.

Rewrite your paper by Monday and resubmit it to Miss Smith for assessment.

jo| 4.1.10 @ 5:51PM

Earthman: "As long as there is white people there will be racism, sexism, and homophobia. "

Sadly white people don't have a monopoly on racism etc. - I've seen it all over the show.

The cause is realted to fear, ignorance and financial interests, which we all know - or should know.

I'm from Australia, and yes we have our racists - if you study our history you will find we have done the most disgusting things to our indigineous people - same as you lot.

Sadly western democracies have built their wealth and prosperity on the blood sweat and tears of black, brown and yellow people - we are still at it.

It makes one want to cry.

Charlie| 4.6.10 @ 11:18AM

@Jo
Thanks for your statement about America and black, brown, and yellow people being misused. Gee wonder why 'red' always gets left out. Bet you didn't grow up hearing your father called "Breed".

Elaine| 4.1.10 @ 9:54PM

That is a racist statement whether you are aware of it or not. Better said, "As long as there are humans etc........... Racism is not the problem of only whites. Shame on you.

lizzy| 4.2.10 @ 2:42AM

@ earthman, ergo, you are a racisit!

Beth| 4.2.10 @ 12:39PM

earthman, that is a racist statement. Are you white then?

Tom Hankes| 4.2.10 @ 1:22PM

Earthman, look in the mirror and you'll find all the racism you need. You indicted yourself with your own words. Who are perhaps the two most famous Americans in lifting black men up to a more equal footing? Kennedy and Lincoln. You need to take a hard look at your preconceived notions of white racism.

Doug| 4.2.10 @ 5:09PM

Mr. Hankes: http://tinyurl.com/y9bh9g8

Poppakap| 4.1.10 @ 8:08PM

...and my personal experience is that black/red/yellow people are every bit as racist towards those that look different from them, as any other race. No race has a monopoly on racism. Period.

As for the person you spoke to regarding the Tea Partiers means nothing except for stupid people are found everywhere, in all races, in all nationalities, in all religions, in all neighborhoods, in all political parties. To carry a belief about any group of people due to the comment of one idiot, is idiocy itself.

mary| 4.1.10 @ 10:26PM

That is so odd, Chrissy. I live in the Oklahoma and we never have comments like that. I also have friends in Michigan and have never heard such comments.

Beth| 4.2.10 @ 12:34PM

Chrissy, I live in Michigan too, northern Michigan, and resent you coloring all of Michigan with your personal experience. While I am sorry for your experiences of 'racism' it is unfortunately a very human trait to distrust, even fear, that which is different from ourselves. It is something the vast majority of our people strive everyday to, and more often than not succeed in, eliminating from our behavior. At least that has been MY experience.

Achilles Toejam| 4.3.10 @ 3:01AM

Chrissy, maybe you should go to the Tea Party or 9/12ers meetings and find out for yourself, I can tell you that certainly hasn't been my experience with these people.

Ykl| 4.4.10 @ 1:26PM

Chrissy, Try stopping in on a Tea Party and introduce yourself to the blacks and other ethnic groups who love America and attend. Conveniently, the media is able to angle photos to exclude those in the crowd , but they are still there in ever growing numbers.

Joe| 3.31.10 @ 11:53AM

I am holding my hand up. I have witnessed racism first hand. I was told to my face that I was the most qualified applicant for the position I applied for. I was told to my face that the company wished to hire me on my merits but could not. "We must hire a minority". I was turned down for a position I was fully qualified for so a minority that was less qualified could get the position.
The person that got the position was hired for skin color alone. That is racism, pure and simple.
I was the wrong color for the job, for this country, for anything but paying taxes.

Joe in Atlanta

Lori| 3.31.10 @ 12:40PM

Amen brother!

Andi| 3.31.10 @ 5:41PM

I am holding my hand up too. My best friend is a black man, and when he and I would go to a busy public place such as the outlet mall, I would be on the receiving end of much ill will from black women - if looks could kill, I would have been dead 100x over. I have been intentionally brushed into by several of them, and more than a few have made sure that I heard them discussing with their girlfriends how I "had no place stealing a black man" or that I "should stick with my own kind." (I use the past tense only because I now live in another state and we get to see each other rarely.) On the other hand, the white people either paid us no mind whatsoever, or smiled and/or gave us approving nods.

Racism will exist anywhere there is an "Us & Them" mentality. I have seen it on both sides of the white/black "line", but it is more prevalent among black people (and somehow more acceptable).

People who have not been to a Tea Party, yet claim that the movement is racist, either on its surface or at its core, are ridiculous and lazy (and I don't care what race you are). Why not find the next rally and check it out for yourselves. At the rallies I've gone to, there have been blacks, Latinos, Cambodians, and others. They have been welcomed warmly. As far as I'm concerned, the real story is with the Russians, Eastern European and Southeastern Asian immigrants (from former or current communist/socialist nations) that have been there because they recognize the slippery slope this country is traveling on now.

Christina| 4.2.10 @ 11:22AM

Those who criticize the Tea Party movement do so in order to discredit it. It's becoming too powerful for their comfort. Don't buy into their smear campaigns. It is nothing like what they say. Remember that they have an agenda, too!

Kim| 4.6.10 @ 11:02AM

My hand goes up, too. I spent the first 10 years of my childhood in a predominantly black town and the rest in an exclusively white town. I had negative experiences in both places. Many times I was bullied because I was white. Before I moved, I was in middle school (6th grade) and my best friend, who was black, endured painful peer pressure to turn her back on me because I was white. One time they wanted her to spit on me to prove she was "one of them". I saw the look of anguish on her face as she tried to decide what to do. What a horrible thing for both of us to go through, especially when we were budding adolescents who had the natural desire to be accepted by our peers and were beginning the struggle with self-identity anyway. The addition of racial issues confused both of us, because before that, we were naive to this and didn't see each other as "black" or "white"; just friends. Our friendship was strained after that, and I lost touch with her because we moved to an all white town where blacks were not welcome. Awful! No, I don't live in the South--this was in Western PA, so whoever thinks that racism is restricted to the American South, think again. The town I moved to was a very small, middle-class town and part of an affluent school district, but we were the "working class" kids and were looked down upon by the kids from the suburbs who had "wealthly" parents--doctors, lawyers, etc. Social status was akin to "racism" there. In both towns I saw industrious, hard-working people, welfare bums, drunks, you name it, so no specific race gets the corner on being the most racist, laziest, etc. Racism, sloth, addictive behavior and other social ills are a common factor of the human race--not just one specifically.

S.M.| 3.31.10 @ 12:24PM

Stuart (Austin, TX), Howdy fellow Texan!! We have not yet arrived at MLK's Dream, because we are still discussing race issues in this country. The Dream is still a goal, though, so don't give up. I'm white/Caucasian; neither Cauc nor Asian, so the term alludes me first of all. I have very few white friends, most are black, and they like to be called Black, and not so much the term African-American, they roll their eyes at it actually, and sigh deeply, and then say "black"... They deem the term African-American too politically loaded to use in normal conversations, and too many syllables. I travel with my friends and their families. I am the only "white" in the group, and I am always being asked to step out of the group photo, or asked if I am "sure" I am with these folks... I get very upset... all because life has to play like some Sesame Street game: Which one of these things is not like the others? This is trivial compared to other forms of racism, but this is a form of racism that seems to be impenetrable... One of my black friends gets so sick and tired of constantly being reminded she is black. She once said about her life growing up, "I would never have realized I was black if it were not for all the non-black people who keep reminding me of it." This friend lives in Austin also, and has also expressed how the city is not as "urban" as she would like... no real R&B stations or acts come there, and it's called the Music Capital of the USA... I know what she means... but then again we do have a "Black Day" and a "Hispanic Day" at the predominately "white act" Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. How many people realize that there were just as many Black and Asian cowboys, and twice as many Hispanic, as there were Caucasian ones? Should I blame Hollywood? Not as long as public libraries are still free in this country!

indiegirl| 3.31.10 @ 2:58PM

i live with racism every day. in a neighborhood that's about 50/50 black and white, i have several neighbors who hate me for no other reason than that i'm white. i used to walk my dogs with a guy in my building who's black until a new black woman moved in next door to him and told him he needed to "stop hanging around with those damn white bitches and stick to his own kind."

oh yeah. racism is alive and well. just not the kind everybody's whining about these days.

on the other hand, the guy who lives next door to me is black and is like a brother to me... he has a key to my house and i have a key to his... we trust each other and look out for each other.

John D | 4.1.10 @ 12:35AM

I have lived a great deal of my life in Asian and Europe. From my experience I would say that America is probably the LEAST racist culture I have seen.

I'm not talking about the professors, diplomats and the wealthy. I'm talking about the people who get up and go to work, wait the tables, drive the cabs and build the buildings.

Ask a Japanese what he thinks of Koreans or Chinese, or ask them what they think of the Japanese. Ask an Indian what he thinks of just about anyone else. The Germans may voice public angst about the antisemitism of the past, but privately they still think the Jews are to blame. They're not real fond of the Turks, Italians, Arabs, Muslims and "Osties" either.

When there was a large American military presence there were bars and gashauses which posted signs that Blacks were not allowed.

The Thais hate the Burmese and exploit the refugees, just as they exploit the Cambodians and Laotians. All of those they exploit hate them right back for giving them charity.

America is much, much more laid back about race than most societies, we just talk about it more.

The Infidel| 4.3.10 @ 7:01PM

You forgot to mention the middle east;
Thais hate Saudis
Thais hate Vietnamese
Saudis think all (TCNs) third country nationals are dogs
Saudis hate all westerners
Westerners hate the Saudis after being there...
Bahraini cops beat up Saudis coming over for drinking...
Egyptians hate Saudis
UAE nationals will not admit to speaking Hindi, even though their mothers are Indian
UAE nationals hate Lebanese
UAE Nationals hate Palestinians
Etc Etc unending litany...
Just what I saw in 6 years in the middle east

Bill A | 4.1.10 @ 9:12AM

I married my wife in 1978. She was of Cherokee,Black,Caucasian and other Indian descent. I am of caucasian descent. We both grew up in NYC. In 1980 we moved to Mass. While we occasionally experienced bigotted behavior in our travels, the instances were relatively few. Most Americans are pretty decent people. JoAnn died in 1991, cancer. We have two daughters who resemble our current President in looks. I am not a supporter of Mr. Obama's policies. Does that make me a racist or do I get off the hook for having married my wife? I have often thought that racism will cease to be a problem when we stop labelling everyone. We were never an interacial couple. I assure you that we were both 100 percent human.
Be Well

California70| 4.1.10 @ 4:13PM

Stuart (Austin, TX),
You are absolutely. We have arrived at the "color-blind-society". At least the "whites" have!

Obviously, nobody told people of color!! Whenever they are on TV, they still demand to place the "race-card". Evidently, that just cannot seem to stop being "Victims". Evidently, they continue to WANT to identify themselves as a victim instead of "taking responsibility" like an adult!!

Bill A | 4.1.10 @ 5:04PM

I grew up in Brooklyn,NY. Al Sharpton first came to prominence when I got together with JoAnn.
Decorum does not permit me to print my loving mother-in-law's comments on this vile person. Decent folks see through this nonsense including many people of color although they pay a price for it. Just ask Bill Cosby. I still have great faith in this country. When you read our history notice that whatever has been needed, whenever it has been needed, it has ALWAYS risen to the fore.
However, it is always a small,determined group that gets the job done.

Elaine Suhre| 4.1.10 @ 9:39PM

There is still underlying racism in the US today on both sides of the line.

Some of it is so subtle, one thinks, "Oh well, that's just the way things are". Through the decades, all of these "Oh wells" have helped racism stay alive. Unless one broadens s/his experiences and tries to understand the wo/man in the street, ones next door neighbor, and those who are not next door neighbors, racism will dwell in the underbelly of humanity.

Achilles Toejam| 4.3.10 @ 2:43AM

Stewart, you get a cigar. I think there's people in our society that benefit from keeping racism in the limelight, it's the old divide and conquer game pitting groups against each other and while they are so preoccupied with that the political class steal us blind and usurp jurisdiction the Constitution doesn't grant so we are no longer sovereign citizens lending our consent to be governed but subjects to be ruled by a class of people who deem themselves better than us.

The bickering classes tear each other apart for crumbs off the master's table when the real truth is that the table and the house that contains it belongs to them but it's just they have been deliberately dumbed down and psychologically manipulated not to see the big picture in context.

4thsos| 7.25.10 @ 10:26PM

the race card is a weapon of hatred to be used on the innocent

Lori| 3.31.10 @ 12:44PM

Exactly!

Doc| 3.31.10 @ 1:19PM

I seems that is implied, the non-whites that is, because it would not make sense for another white person, in the context used, to call another white person a racist. So, it would appear that the proof you speak of does not exist.

Daniel| 3.31.10 @ 2:05PM

He didn't say anything about non-white. Seems as though mr InDemRependent is one of those lazy folks who sees it okay to take from those who have earned it and give it to those that have not, an obvious moocher!!

Sharon| 3.31.10 @ 2:57PM

Thank you Dan, for wording the response I was thinking so very well. InDemRependent certainly did prove the entire point of the article with his own ignorant post!

Rus| 3.31.10 @ 3:34PM

Exactly!!!

Beaker| 4.1.10 @ 2:01PM

I don't see "welfare" or "needy" either.

Joan| 4.2.10 @ 9:18AM

To Chrissy,
Your neighbor is mis-informed about Tea Partiers, and so apparently are you. We do not express opinions about race or ethnicity. We are outraged about spending PERIOD. I for one have posted in several places the need for Americans to change the language ... to stop using terms like white and black. There is no black race or white race. The human race is various shades of BROWN. And like the cover of a book, we should be judged by what is within, not by the covering. I am against the now passed "Wealthfare" legislation, for I do not believe it has anything to do with Healthcare. It is nothing more that a government powergrab packaged with a benevolent sounding name. Had it been judged by its content, and not its covering, even more Americans would oppose it. Incidentally, I am also very much in support of helping those in need of healthcare. It is not this goal that I oppose. It is the mechanism being used. Pelosi said we had to pass the Healthcare Bill to find out what's inside. Just a question for ya: Do you sign contracts without reading them, waiting to see if you got what you were promised afterward? That's absurd! The whole point of reading a contract BEFORE you sign it is to make sure it does not contain any clauses that may injure you. If you find them, you don't sign. That's the whole point. As for all of this talk about race, I would ask EVERYONE to read the article of these postings again. It does not say anything about race. It is talking about the quiet anger brewing in America because of Washington's corruption. Yet here we are, talking about race. And that is exactly what the political pundents want, to divide along racial lines so that we never really talk to one another about the substance of this administration's agenda. Just another thought, Nancy Pelosi's favorability rating is at 11% ... Harry Reid's is at 8% ... Barack Obama is still up there in the 40s. If you can't help yourself from looking at this as a racial indicator, then you should be suprised to find out that more folks support the "black" guy than the white guy and gal combined. So, are you saying we are against white people?

Concerned for my country| 4.2.10 @ 5:11PM

Joan...I agree 100% and thanks for attempting to get the comments back on the point of the article....which has nothing to do with racism and everything to do with the frustration being felt across America by the majority of citizens regarding the huge government deficit spending and federal power grab. Unfortunately there is an underlying purpose by the left to throw out the "racist" card (as IndemRependent did) to somehow discredit those who disagree with Obamacare and it get's us off subject and on defense. We must stay on task and change the direction the federal govt. is on: the solvency of our country depends on it.

JT| 4.2.10 @ 9:59AM

It was quite obvious that Rick V. is a racist, Dan. Can't you see it? It's so obvious that, well, InDemRependent can, well, TELL. It's a skill liberals have that conservatives don't -- not only the ability to read minds but the hauteur to tell us what we should be thinking,

JT| 4.2.10 @ 9:59AM

It was quite obvious that Rick V. is a racist, Dan. Can't you see it? It's so obvious that, well, InDemRependent can, well, TELL. It's a skill liberals have that conservatives don't -- not only the ability to read minds but the hauteur to tell us what we should be thinking,

Paul| 4.2.10 @ 12:16PM

Maybe Ann Coulter is right after all: Liberalism IS a mental disease. As a former George McGovern advocate, I can tell you from personal experience that is IS. Good point Dan. My definition of liberal is to recall the French diplomat who approached every problem with a closed mind and an open fly, no?

JimE| 3.30.10 @ 6:11PM

Your name says it all, nothing more than a confused troll.

Rick V.| 3.30.10 @ 7:17PM

InDumbRedundant,
Thank you for drawing that distinction, you poopyhead.

The Clintidote| 3.30.10 @ 11:59PM

The Normal-American Community is done with democRats and, as P.J. O'Rourke has said, will be hunting them with dogs.

Good riddance; let's get it on.

Malika| 3.31.10 @ 12:22AM

Where does Rick V say anything about not white??? Nobody here has said, implied, thought or meant white or non-white. It's time to come to terms with YOUR racism, and get over it. Stop leaning on that crutch, cause nobody is thinking it but YOU.

larry| 3.31.10 @ 8:33PM

Hey, Rick V. Get a life bud,,,,,,,,,You have no clue and your comment proves it to the umteenth degree.

Rick V.| 4.2.10 @ 11:55AM

Larry - "pal" - if you understood my original post, you'd understand my retort. Perhaps you could ask someone to explain it to you slowly. Once, twice, "umteen" times.

norm| 4.2.10 @ 8:05AM

School vouchers for low income kids in D.C. [BLACK] were cut by Republicans??? oh no it was non other then our union owned President. Strange to see a black president "STANDING IN THE SCHOOL HOUSE DOOR".

Achilles Toejam| 4.3.10 @ 2:10AM

IDR, arrogant? It's not arrogant to speak the truth. Personally I think the label racist has been overused as a tactic for so long that it doesn't mean anything anymore to many people especially when it's asserted that only white people can be racist put forth by people like Al Sharpton.
People resent the welfare state on two levels one being the taking of our money in the guise of charity, and if it is taken without our consent that's theft!
Second thing is that it creates dependency and after a generation or two the recipients no longer feel the slightest bit ashamed or suffer any stigma that has historically been attached to the label "receiving welfare."
It's not hard to understand how this can happen is just human nature to be able to get used to having other people pay your bills but the status itself is a kind of slavery of the mind IMO.

Don't blame the messenger that brings you the truth, except it for only by accepting it can the first steps be made to change it, the war on poverty and the great Society after trillions of dollars have virtually nothing to show for it but a deeply entrenched dependency class and that my friends is heartbreaking.

Our country is at a crossroads in one direction lies socialism and we are 70% there or better, the other direction is an awakening and revival of the principles this nation was founded on, unalienable rights granted by God a nation of laws not men private property rights were a person has free exercise of their freedom and liberty so long as it doesn't infringe on those same rights of others, in short restoration of our constitutional republic that is my understanding of what the tea party movement and 9/12er's are all about.

The next two elections will tell which road we are on, maybe the Obama zombies should try living in Venezuela for three years first before they advocate taking us down that road.

California70| 4.1.10 @ 4:07PM

to: Rick V.,
Well said!

Jim| 3.30.10 @ 11:01AM

Well said Dan, thats the truth , the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Thanks.

Donna Pericolosa| 3.31.10 @ 11:23AM

The only racism that's still legal in the US is against whites. The only sexism that's still legal is against men. If you want to end institutional racism and sexism today, you must oppose affirmative action.
By the way - it was perfectly predictable, and was in fact predicted, that if Obama were elected, any and all opposition to him would be dismissed as "racist". And that's exactly what's happened. This is just another leftwing tactic to crush dissent - which the Left has always and everywhere done throughout its entire history.

Jerry Aggson| 4.2.10 @ 11:00AM

Your absolutely right Donna, and what is so dumbfounding to me is that so many of our fellow Americans are blinded by it! Only recently are Republicans pushing back against these tactics, and thats a good thing.

Rosalee| 4.1.10 @ 10:34PM

**applauds**
well said............

Steve| 3.30.10 @ 11:08AM

We need to go beyond the next election. What would it take to initiate and pass a constitutional amendment to prohibit earmarks and their like? That is the only way to stop the corruption that the earmark process has created.

doogle| 3.30.10 @ 4:24PM

What would it take to pass a constitutional amendment to recall or fire politicians?

Be nice if we could pass around a petition, when enough have signed it, have a "re-election" to fire the incumbant and elect a new senator/rep/president. Four and six years are WAY too long when it becomes obvious a mistake was made.

We hired'em, we should be able to fire'em...

tzsigane| 3.30.10 @ 10:04PM

Agreed. I also think that there is honor in retiring and some of these folks are too old to be in. At minimum make sure they can efficiently & effectively use a computer. How many of these old guys really understand the day to day reality of citizens anymore? Think about it.

Kovertoom| 3.31.10 @ 9:22AM

I checked it out already. All we can do is ask their party leader to bring them up on charges of malfeasance. BWAHAHAH! Like that will happen.
Is anyone out there writing a constitutional amendment for congressional term limits?

indiegirl| 3.31.10 @ 3:02PM

are term limits the answer? what about stripping congress of all its perks? what about ripping away their huge salaries, benefits, retirements, and houses in DC and making them live in dormitories while they're in washington?

that'd be a way of limiting terms AND ensuring that the greedy and lazy aren't spending ANY time in DC... much less too much time...

mary| 4.1.10 @ 10:33PM

Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution

"Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States."

Tracey | 4.2.10 @ 1:58PM

You have my vote, Mary!

Now, please see the one that eliminates the income tax and the IRS... (website) www.TheFairTax.com The more I know the less I want to know.

Kathy| 3.31.10 @ 12:00PM

Line item veto, term limits, no more career politicians. No more special interest perks.

How many of the votes were "bought" or worse yet, how many changed their vote at the last minute because of threats some kind of harm, to them, or their families, or their post-political future?

California70| 4.1.10 @ 4:27PM

Kathy,
While you at it, while your stating career politicians, how about including being a politician as party of the "family business", i.e., Mit Romney, his father was a politician, how about all the Kennedy's, and Even Bayh of Indiana who is quiting because he knows he won't be re-elected!

These people have become nothing but a continuation of the former politician we had only worse! When was being in politics supposed to be the "family business" passed down from father to son?

mary| 4.1.10 @ 10:39PM

Pose that question to Senator Coburn. He has been working to eliminate earmarks.
http://coburn.senate.gov/publi.....fWeek.Home

Alan Brooks| 3.30.10 @ 3:12PM

Worse than you all think: humans are not compatible beings, which is why Communism failed, and why we will never know a decent politics. It's not merely sound & fury, it is empty sound & fury.
I know you don't think so now-- but you will later.

Tracey| 4.2.10 @ 2:01PM

Alan, so true - it is often abhorent what we do to each other. But, what a great place to start, at the ground level on teaching our offspring how to become or develop compatibilites...

ANTIPOWER| 3.30.10 @ 4:12PM

No one has to wait for November. 3 steps: 1) make sure every one you know is registered to vote (hopefully as an independent) and educated, educated, educated as to what is going on. 2) Identify sponsors of liberal media; contact them; politely tell them you can no longer purchase their products because you will need every dime to pay for increasing healthcare costs and taxes. Also remind them that in the last century Communist, socialist and marxist governments killed over 100 million people and destroyed their economies in pursuit of their consistently failing agendas. and when it is time to vote, never,never, never vote for an incumbent or a candidate that is running for one office while holding another. Never let them accumulate any power

Tina H| 3.30.10 @ 8:16PM

I agree. We must keep the pressure on. To wait until Nov. is not acceptable. The giant has awaken & he must not go back to sleep. Do everything you can, letters, petitions, donate time, participate in local tea parties, stay focused on this fight to take our country back. There is strength in numbers & 'quiet anger'& waiting until election will not give us the numbers we need. It will not be enuf to sit back this time. They will run right over us again. Keep in mind, God helps those who help themselves!

tzsigane| 3.30.10 @ 10:00PM

Reality, reality, reality, the government is content with its people be dumbed-down to better control and instill fear into the masses. Its money, money, money that rules & their products come from the Pharm companies which are taking the reins on our economy. When will the majority stepped back and asked themselves if all those drug companies are necessary & that everyone should be on prescriptions? How many are truly necessary? Think about it. Pharmaceuticals are one of the USA's #1 products folks. Drug everyone up and eventually they'll stfu and pump $ into the health care system willingly.

Larry| 3.31.10 @ 11:56AM

You can also boycott GM.
GM is the left and the left is GM

Kathy| 3.31.10 @ 12:06PM

I would rather own a defective Toyota, than a GM vehicle. I now own a pre-governmental motors Chevy, and I have always preferred GM vehicles, BUT, I will NEVER, EVER, EVER purchase another GM (governmental motors) vehicle again. Same with Chrysler, never again.

Sharon| 3.31.10 @ 3:00PM

Amen, Kathy. We just traded vehicles and the newer one is certainly not a government Motors variety. Never will be again!

tzsigane| 3.31.10 @ 7:29PM

Check out the flick : Who Killed the Electric Car. Nothing but GM damning the people.

mary| 4.1.10 @ 10:50PM

1) register republican, it is next to impossible for a third party candidate to win. if you register independent you are out of the primary voting.
2) regain control of the electoral college register to work at the precinct level. http://nationalprecinctalliance.org/
3) do not donate to the RNC or DNC. Donate directly to the candidate.

Rhonda| 4.1.10 @ 11:55PM

The most important thing to do is to reseach canidates, know their past performance, find out before hand if they were doing their job or just voting "present". Personally I think the too liberal Repubs are just as bad if not worse than the Dems, least the Dems aren't pretending to be what they are not. Another thing to keep in mind, if the independants split the conservative vote too much we could be facing even worse Dem rule. See how they are acting now with elections approaching? Imagine what victory will do to them.

Tracey| 4.2.10 @ 2:05PM

Done and done and done! Thanks, Mary

Otis A. Glazebrook, Iv| 3.30.10 @ 5:30PM

Well said Mr. Gannon. I pray that you are right.
I hope that the very first thing that is eliminated in the New Congress is the concept of "Safe Seats" for both parties.

Nancy Agarwal| 3.31.10 @ 9:31AM

It isn't only middle America. There are PLENTY of very angry people here in the DC area who feel the same way. We are tired of being called "racist" because we disagree with the Government takeover. We are frustrated because Americans have been brainwashed and are blindly following Obama and the idiots in Congress down the road to the Socialism. Our Constitution will soon be as worthless as the American dollar unless we clean house in November and elect people who are truly honest and who understand what the Constitution and Bill of Rights really mean.

JackR| 3.31.10 @ 12:16PM

Nancy A. - you have the perfect attitude for a new group called GOOOH (Get Out Of Our House). Google it and check it out. They want to replace every congressman at once - a dream I share.

USMC 6035| 3.31.10 @ 8:35PM

AWESOME site, Jack R! What WOULD the Special In terest groups do if they were instead of pocket-lining career pols, confronted by serious-minded average work-o-day people?!

Remember this; By the people For the people! Anything else is criminal fraud and misapropriations.

Tracey| 4.2.10 @ 2:07PM

Agreed, USMC 6035!

Robert| 4.2.10 @ 1:02AM

If the natural desire to live free of government interference makes one "racist", then that is high praise for "racism". Of course if that's the case, then we'll also need a new word to describe the concept of hostility toward an individual based on the individual's race, since "racist" certainly will not be describing that...

Jack | 3.31.10 @ 3:05PM

You are right! No incumbents NOW! This is not a party issue. This a a question of saving our country. There is a culture in Washington that corrupts everthing and everyone and only a complete change of membership will suffice.

1SG Parker| 4.1.10 @ 6:08PM

Well said my friend, well said.

RationalGeezer| 4.2.10 @ 8:25PM

If we won't fight to defeat voter fraud, then no election will get rid of these traitors.

rsbrownjr| 3.30.10 @ 6:53AM

Yes, very well said. We the people hold the term limits in our hands. We do not need any legislation for that. We must simply go to the polls and vote, while we still can. I still prefer the ballot box and the jury box to the cartridge box. But, many of us have the cartridge box and will use it if pushed far enough. We are those silent, angry ones, for the time being.

Emily| 3.30.10 @ 11:32PM

I don't think I know what a cartridge box is. Are you referring to bullets?

L. K.| 3.31.10 @ 12:50PM

Yes, he is refering to bullets. Washington, Jefferson, Madison, etal would have already taken care of this problem.

Sharon| 3.31.10 @ 3:04PM

Yes indeed, L.K. That is precisely why the government will be attempting to remove our right to bear arms ....... just as soon as they grant amnesty to all the armed illegals, that is.

Emily| 3.31.10 @ 4:46PM

But wait though, are you saying you will use bullets if pushed far enough? As in, you'll use guns and violence to get your way?

Doc| 3.30.10 @ 7:11AM

This article shows why voting is so important and not something that should be taken for granted. Not just on the national level but, also at the local level. The local level is where all politicians get their start but, also where they can be stopped before they bore their way into the system like weevils.

Glen Bradley | 3.30.10 @ 1:07PM

Agree all around, local elections are, in the long run, more important than the national elections, and with regards to voting, not just voting in the general, but voting in the primary as well. One of the biggest tragedies of 2008 was in the GOP Primary where people voted not for the candidate who represented their views best, but for the candidate that the media told them was most likely to win. Until we can get rid of the "horse-race voter" mentality in the primaries, we will only ever have two bad choices come November, as the media seems to prefer bad candidates who will fill their news cycles and earn them profit.

To America: do not vote for the candidate that the media tells you will probably win, vote your conscience every time. That was the system our Founders intended, and that system will work! Our current practice, clearly, has failed.

Robert| 4.2.10 @ 1:18AM

Another reason not to vote for the candidate the mass media tells you will probably win or endorses - the mass media leans heavily anti-liberty and pro-statist. If Republican voters in 2008 had generally known that, then the New York Times' endorsement of John McCain would have been an immediate kiss of death for his nomination in the primary. Those who run for the Republican nomination in 2012, if a statist-leaning mass media outlet denounces the candidate, that candidate should respond, "I'm hated by the mass media who favors our enemies? Thank you, thank you, thank you, that's the BEST endorsement they could ever give me!"

mary| 4.1.10 @ 10:53PM

You dont really vote. Precinct chairman vote for you. Get involved at the precinct level
http://nationalprecinctalliance.org/
Congress is up for grabs and half the sentate in the fall. Many primaries have already been settled get involved now.

luke | 3.30.10 @ 7:13AM

there is a huge anger and the pols don't get it or don't care. the huge job losses amongst men has gone unremarked for instance. dc is controlled by special interests who have sliced and diced this country into voting blocs who can be bought off. no more.

Lynn| 3.30.10 @ 7:30AM

It is time to term limit those in Washington who think they are our rulers and replace them with someone who wants to represent us.

OC Jackson| 3.30.10 @ 1:21PM

Agree. Along with the term limits, we should seek (somehow) to ensure that politicians who are voted out because they didn't serve the people, or who have served only one term do *not* receive life-long retirement pay equaling their congressional salaries. Also, let them pay for their own health care. After all, it is not what they voted for the rest of us.

Harry| 3.30.10 @ 2:27PM

I must disagree with term limits. I like the idea but we have to think about the "unintended consequences."
If you impose term limits you leave the reins of power in the hand of the unelected staffers, lobbyists, and think tanks, the denizens of the District of Columbia who know (and care) even less about the states and districts the Senators and Representatives are supposed to represent.
I'm not certain what the real answer is, but I don't think term limits is it.

BobF| 3.30.10 @ 4:20PM

Speaking as a former lobbyist from Florida, I can state two unequivocal facts: 1) power did not end up in the hands of "unelected staffers, lobbyists and think tanks;" and, 2) "representation" did not suffer nearly so much as feared while "leadership" did.

Today it is much harder to be a Florida lobbyist (and a lot less enjoyable) because there isn't the time to ingratiate one's self with a particular set of legislators; the two chambers are far less collegial and true "friendships" with lobbyists are rare. The best staffers at the time term limits took effect took the opportunity to leave with their knowledge of the process and become lobbyists themselves, so staffers, by and large did, not end up with the sort of unaccountable power that many (including myself) feared.

For the record, I quit lobbying before term limits came about because I realized I would not ever become a "rich" lobbyist; I could not sell my soul to the highest bidder; I had to lobby for things I truly believed were good and right and in the best interests of the People. Believe it or not, there are lots of lobbyists with such self-imposed boundaries, but they toil to get by in great anonymity and don't ever expect to rise above the mid-middle class.

What term limits did do that hurt was that they put newly elected state legislators in the predicament of figuring out whether or not they ever wanted to be in leadership positions long before they'd even mastered the process. If you're newly elected, you have to decide before you've even taken your oath whether or not you ever want to be Speaker of the House or President of the Senate. So, maybe eight years wasn't long enough. But having it capped at 12 years, or six full terms in the House and three full terms in the Senate would probably fix that.

The other thing that needs fixing is that the anonymity that hiding behind a 527 organization and fund provides needs to be abolished. The 527s have become the work-around that allows for insider dealing to take place.

Mike M| 3.30.10 @ 4:57PM

I think there are merit-worthy points in both Bob F's and Harry's comments. I have only spent about 3 of my 18 or so years as a social studies and history teacher with specific classes on Civics. In that time, my studying, researching and discussions with students has brought to my mind the notion that two items We The People NEED to consider are, some type of term limitation on ALL politicians. The unfettered or semi-restrainded limits to how long a person can serve gave rise to the Bryds and Kennedy marathon terms of office which have not always, or often enough provided a lasting service to the majority of constituents, state-wise or nationally. If a politicians can't serve the people sufficiently and succinctly with lasting measures taking care of the needs as laid forth in both the Federal and their State Constitutions, influenced by morals, ethics, rational thought and practicality, then the individual needs to transition out and a new person steps in. Steps can be taken to avoid any "power vacuum" or other transitional problems. Secondly, we NEED to either get rid of the Electoral College and replace it with a more adaptable, fair, consistent and accurate political element, or redesign the institution. The purposes for which the EC was set up don't accurately reflect the make-up of the nation in the same manner they did fifty years ago. We need a practical checks and balances system, of which the EC is a part, which will be allowed to serve under the full intention in which is was originally designed. Our nations population has changed dramatically, both in it's size, the literacy rate and quality of its citizens, and the demography of where people live and how much more mobile they are in the 21st century than ever they were in previous centuries are contributing factors to be considered. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and for letting me share mine.

Rand| 3.30.10 @ 10:29PM

Harry, Term limits will do exactly as you suggest. But there is another layer of control that will have a huge impact on policies too...that's the bureaucracy. My cousin was a city manager (read bureaucrat). I asked him once what happens when he disagrees with the city council members. He said I wait two years when they'kre voted out and do whatever I want...unfortunately, that would be the result of term limits. The huge Washington extremely liberal bureaucracy will become uncontrollable.
Gannon is right, the anger is boiling against the socialism with which we are being saddled.

indiegirl| 3.31.10 @ 3:10PM

i agree with you 100%, harry... term limits are not the answer... as i commented above... strip their benefits. how long do you think pelosi would have stayed in DC had she not been able to fly her family around on military planes and charge tens of thousands of dollars worth of booze to the american taxpayer?

how long do you think reid would have stayed if he had to live in a congressional dormitory while in DC doing the business of government?

do you think ted kennedy would have gone to his death holding his senate seat if he hadn't had such a cushy deal?

nope. strip their salaries, strip their benefits, strip their retirements and we'll get the congress that the constitution intended... one made up, not of career politicians, but people who have actual jobs and are connected to their communities... because they work in their communities; are part of their communities.

Harry| 4.1.10 @ 10:54AM

I wouldn't strip their benefits, but I would change where they are paid from.
IMHO, making Congresscritters paid employees of the Federal government creates a conflict of interest. They should not draw one penny from the Federal Government.
Instead, Senators should be paid by the state represent, which should also provide their staff, living quarters, travel expenses, etc.
Representatives, likewise, should be paid from their districts, which should also provide their staff, living quarters, etc.
Ideally, each state should maintain a "consulate" in the District of Columbia, containing the congressional staffs, living quarters, offices, etc. of their delegations.
I think that sort of arrangement would contribute to a proper outlook of the several States as sovereign entities, working together under the auspices of a Federal Government.
Senators and representatives should also have to live with a realization that they could face recall at a moment's notice...

Beth| 4.2.10 @ 1:13PM

That is the best idea I've heard in a long time, Harry. How can we 'make it so'?

Jack | 3.31.10 @ 3:13PM

I was once the recipient of wisdom from a very uncultured source. "If you don't change nuthin!nuthin changes! When we replace the congress we must hope our new represenatives have the intelligence to replace the staff who in themselves are a large part of the mess we call our government.

canuckistani| 3.30.10 @ 1:54PM

Term limits mean money needs to be raised more acutely each time around. Without corporate interference, where's the money to come from? Careful what you wish for without a complete overhaul of campaign finance that the supreme court has delightfully put a huge monkey wrench into. Plains states will have the ADM and Monsanto slates to contend with, Florida and Cali the lawyer's slates and the midwest states will have the Burger King slate.

Neal| 3.30.10 @ 3:36PM

"Where's the money to come from?" Good question... I imagine the answer will be "nowhere". Which only helps the situation... politicians will have to run on their own merits... not on other people's money.

teotwawhki| 3.30.10 @ 4:39PM

We need to overhaul the election system. Instead of candidates raising money, let each voting district provide a booklet with a position paper and a resume for each candidate. No other advertising is allowed. Lying on your resume disqualifies you from the election. Giving money to a candidate is bribery and gets you a jail term. Repeal the 17th amendment. All meetings between members of congress and lobbyists are public meetings with minutes taken and videotape shot. If any money changes hands, one or both parties goes to jail.

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Harry| 3.31.10 @ 10:53AM

Sorry. Meant to include bureaucrats.
The real solution would be stuff the genie back in the bottle and worms back in the can. If the Federal Government didn't wield such extreme power over virtually every facet of our day-to-day lives, we wouldn't CARE how long Representatives or Senators held office.
But good luck with that.

Harry| 3.31.10 @ 10:53AM

Sorry. Meant to include bureaucrats.
The real solution would be stuff the genie back in the bottle and worms back in the can. If the Federal Government didn't wield such extreme power over virtually every facet of our day-to-day lives, we wouldn't CARE how long Representatives or Senators held office.
But good luck with that.

tzsigane| 3.30.10 @ 10:07PM

All of those old guys who have been in for more than a decade need to retire.

Sam| 3.30.10 @ 7:34AM

Very fitting description Mr. Gannon. I have always voted since my first presidential election which was for Mr. Reagan. Obviously, that has not been enough.

Now I will make my first sign and join others at the local Tea Party rally on April 15th. Starting next month I will begin attending the local monthly Republican meetings at the county courthouse. I will continue to peruse sites such as this and send pertinent articles to friends and family and post the same on my FB. And most of all I will call upon God to give me wisdom, strength and courage to fight to return this nation to what our founding fathers desired for it to be rather than what it is now.

Ruth J Campshure| 3.30.10 @ 1:04PM

Voting is the answer, I believe. I have voted in every Presidential election since Eisenhower, and am proud to be an American. I want my Country back NOW!

Glen Bradley | 3.30.10 @ 1:21PM

Voting is both the problem AND the solution. Voting our conscience for the best candidate for the office is the answer. Voting for the lesser of two evils or just for whomever is expected to win, now that is the problem that brought us to this point. The lesser of two evils is still evil! Yes, yes, I now all about strategic voting, but look around us ladies and gentlemen...it just doesn't work.

N W Johnson| 3.31.10 @ 12:01PM

Lately, few of our choices of candidates have even risen to the level of the lesser of two evils. Truly competent people rarely run, and, when they do, they don't stand a chance because they don't look pretty on TV and they don't tell the sheeple what they want to hear.
We need informed voters as well as better candidates.

Melissa Craig| 3.30.10 @ 3:51PM

How about the senate, congressional, and local councilmen and school board elections? Is it too much to ask people to get off the couch and vote more than once every 4 years? It is obviously not enough to make a difference.

Hollee| 3.31.10 @ 1:32PM

Yes, Sam! To add to what you have said, I have pledged to become more involved with my community where children are involved to ensure that the truth is being taught rather than the toxic lies that are bestowed upon them in school. I have pledged to become a beacon of reason, truth, and integrity.

Ret. Marine| 3.30.10 @ 7:35AM

Do We the People expect to stay silent (angry) til our precious liberties are wittled away alltogether? Do these so-called leaders of the fed type really think We the People will suffer their distaste for us much longer before the crap really hits the fan?
I have seen all I want out of people who do not know how to manage their own affairs, and then expect me to pay for their foolishness, expect is not the term here, they demand it from me, my friends, their families. And just where is our voice, you say at the ballot box, bullshale, they have stolen that as well, see ACORN, Sec. of State project, etc. and now they have the gull to accuse me of being a bigot, a racist, a Nazi, a tea-bagger, these vile little pigs, oh and let's not forget the civility agreement recently brought out by these same vile little pigs, man you have got to give this to them, they are sure masters of projection.
By my numbers they are outnumbered by 20 to 1. Just who do they think they are trying to fool, their little gubmint-schooled idiots, sure as H is not We the People. How long before that silent anger becomes a full out revenge for their theivery of the public trust, our hard earned fruits of our labor, our sanity, and the well being of these United States? I never believed the bullshale of this vile obumbler being the "great healer" they claimed him to be, rather the "great deciever" is more to the point.
Place your faith in God, and God only. Pray that cooler heads prevail for the sake of our very lives because we all know who 'wins" this battle, and it is not the great Obumbler.

Sam| 3.30.10 @ 12:03PM

Thank You!

Ruth J Campshure| 3.30.10 @ 1:07PM

AMEN! Our God is in charge, not any man. He does let mankind have their own way and either we sink or swim by our own choices.

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 2:14PM

And which god would that be?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.....traditions

The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense founded on the Christian religion.
President John Adams June 10, 1797

Douglas| 3.30.10 @ 2:49PM

The only true God. If you don't understand what that means maybe someone will help introduce you someday.

Your knowledge of history is very limited indeed.

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 4:20PM

It becomes clearer, you believe in religion as long as it is chrisitanity. So much for supporting the Constitution.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Margie| 3.30.10 @ 10:00PM

Pray to whoever you want to, dude. Just leave us alone to pray to who we want to. Nobody said anything else. whew!

Jewell| 3.31.10 @ 12:35PM

Please note: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, OR PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF..."

Lori| 3.31.10 @ 1:02PM

AMEN!

TomB| 3.30.10 @ 4:04PM

I carefully read through the chain starting with Ret. Marine's post down to yours, and "Christian" does not appear until yours. Why do you assume that wen someone says "God" or "god" that they are referring to the Christian God?

In case you haven't heard, anyone can write anything in Wikipedia so it's not a particularly reliable reference about anything remotely controversial.

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 4:24PM

The link was for those that may need a refresher on the many religions in the world (since you obviously didn't follow the link). And it is pretty obvious the reference is to a christian god. The Constitution protects all religions. You'd think you would probably know that since the first amendment comes before the second amendment.

Blackwatch| 3.30.10 @ 10:17PM

The great I Am is the god of the Jews and the Christians. This is a Judeo-Christian nation. We don't have a state religion now nor do we want one.

And if you don't want a state religion then you better thank your lucky stars you live in a Judeo-Christian nation instead of a Isalmic "Republic"
where you wouldn't have a choice.

JJ| 3.31.10 @ 11:43AM

Christianity is NOT a religion. Catholic, Methodist, Baptist, those are religions.

George F| 3.31.10 @ 3:44PM

JJ For your information Christianity is the religion under which the various sects function.

canuckistani| 3.30.10 @ 1:32PM

Excellent review of the tenor of the middle-america we all purport to support.
But one problem, it's more complex than that. America was riding along nicely after the WW2 under both Dems and moderate republicans, real economic growth, GI Bill, interstate highway projects, Medicare, Civil rights, Fannie and Freddie. Then what? Reagan showed up and put the screws to the expansion of the middle-class. Bush followed with getting into bed with Sam Walton and China, and Bush 2 with his gift to the rich and his ill-timed tax cuts. The republican house impeaching Clinton over a BJ - they dishonored our institutions for what again exactly?
I think America needs to get back to what it was before this stupidity started: living within one's means. People taking subprime mortgages without reading the fine print were mostly "real" Americans that forgot savings and hard work got you a house and security. "Real" Americans watch TMZ and cheat on their spouses, get pregnant before marriage and "real" Americans are the primary consumers of Meth, heroine, cocaine and the like. Most scandals of sex and perversion do not come from the coasts, but from "real" states like Idaho, SC and NC.
Dick Cheney, a "real" American from WY, has been on the take for 40 years, led Halliburton after he got his sweetheart supply contract from the DoD and has promptly moved their HQ to Dubai. Standing tall? Semper fi? Perhaps not.
America needs smart people running the joint. Where was the "real" American anger at the activist Supreme Court for permitting unlimited corporate money in elections? When will "real" Americans realize the institutions we support are populated with "real" Americans, warts and all?
Republicans talk a good game: shut down the dept of Ed, roll back the nanny state, reduce govt spending. Guess what? They didn't do it. Love em or hate em, Dems get sh!t done. They are not the party of white-haired men that are bankrupt of ideas. Our children are fat, lazy and under-educated. Is that the governemtns fault? When did the government become parents? When "real" americans stopped doing their duty to their kids.
Obama has been in office a little more than a year. Are we really that delicate? Where were you asking for spending cuts and a wartax when we went to war in Iraq? We re-elected Bush, remember? Is that Obama's fault or ours?
9/11 and the market meltdown happened on Bush's watch. Is that Obama's fault or ours? We went from record surpluses to record deficits on Bush's watch. Is that Obama's fault or ours?
I don't agree with their policies, but Americans are sensible, generally see the forest for the trees and vote sometimes with pinched noses to move the country along.
Anger is a hard emotion to sustain. It thrives on helplessness, and is currently being fanned by so-called leaders of the tea-party movement. Dick Armey: please people, check his record. Palin: please people, she's a quitter with empty rhetoric. Tancredo: please people....and on and on it goes.

I want an alternative to Obama, but I don't resent him for doing precisely what he campaigned on. He carried "real" states as well as "their" states. Is it his fault or ours that he is doing what he said he wanted to do?
Finally, what are "real" Americans prepared to do to get their country back? Step on "those" Americans, or find common ground to advance together?

RC| 3.30.10 @ 3:48PM

Cheney did not return to Halliburton after he was the VP. He was not the one who moved it to Dubai. Nevertheless our high business taxes is what really caused halliburton and other companies to move overseas. I see you conveniently left off Clinton gving our missile technology to the Chinese for campaigne contributions

tzsigane| 3.30.10 @ 10:16PM

Yeah I heard there was a great deal on oil in Iraq. lol
Do you know him personally or just from what you've seen on TV?

Ertdfg| 3.30.10 @ 5:27PM

"...Medicare,... Fannie and Freddie." ... "I think America needs to get back to what it was before this stupidity started: living within one's means. "

Um, so "living within one's means" and keeping/expanding Medicare, Social Security, etc. are the goals?

If you don't see the contradiction with ever expanding entitlement programs and "living within one's means" then I suspect there's not much I can say to explain the problem; and I suspect you're not going to have a working solution.

"Where was the "real" American anger at the activist Supreme Court for permitting unlimited corporate money in elections?"

Probably out reading the First Amendment and understanding that "Congress shall make no law" doesn't have the exclusion "unless I want them to"... Sorry, but the Constitution isn't as unclear as you'd hope, or as unclear as the SCOTUS has made it.

"I want an alternative to Obama, but I don't resent him for doing precisely what he campaigned on. "

Reducing deficits, being responsible with taxpayer money, real cuts in government... oh, not those campaign promises I guess.

George F| 3.31.10 @ 3:47PM

"I want an alternative to Obama, but I don't resent him for doing precisely what he campaigned on. "

Obama has done very little of what he campaigned on and is far more radical than his campaign platform.

Margie| 3.30.10 @ 10:05PM

You are lying. Not good.
Vote for whoever you want but quit lying about others.
Dick Armey, Sarah Palin and Tom Tancredo are all excellent people.

david| 4.1.10 @ 1:20AM

You are so incredibly right!! Just kidding feces for brains. HAHAHA!!!!

tzsigane| 3.30.10 @ 10:13PM

We might have to use the 2nd amendment to our advantage before it goes away. That's why it's a good one though, to keep fear instilled in them.

Emily| 3.30.10 @ 11:39PM

Ew, seriously? That's how you want to use the 2nd amendment? "I want a gun so that I can gain power over people by threatening violence"

johnT| 3.31.10 @ 7:39PM

Fear tactics. Just like you fear what will happen if you get out of your car and approach an officer when he pulls you over. Turn the tables. The whole gov't controls us via fear tactics and the only thing left standing for the American citizens is the 2nd Amdmt. Doesn't mean you have to use it, but the fact citizens are armed keeps the authorities from going medieval on you. This Amdmt wasn't put in the ultimate document of the USA (the Constitution if you forgot) for no reason. We're just so far removed from why it was, that people squander at its existence.

anne m erskine| 3.30.10 @ 7:40AM

EXACTLY RIGHT - and Americans better let this anger boil over in November 2010 and November 2012 by ousting the most anti-American government in our history - Obama/Pelosi and their Chicago thug anti-Constitutional, Go To Hell American People arrogance must be swept out -
ObamaKillCare must be repealed and rewritten, students loans returned to the private sector, all taxes cut, government cut, welfare cut, our foreign policy relationships restored, our military spending increased - Obama is a disgrace: a puerile, petulant, detestable, graceless embarrassing little man in short pants who, along with all the other Dems, extends his middle finger to all Americans to tell us to sit down and shut up - SEND THE SAME MESSAGE BACK IN NOVEMBER 2010 AND 2012. Americans have to restore out Constitution or we will become slaves of the state - mere peon workers who pay for the elite snobs in D.C. THROW THE BUMS OUT -
Thune/Ryan 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Annie PA| 3.30.10 @ 12:51PM

Thanks Anne! Awesome rhetoric, great visual of the Obaminator in short pants. All true, all true.

Emily| 3.30.10 @ 11:42PM

Indeed, excellent rhetoric! ObamaKillCare, I hadn't heard that one before. I will put it in my facebook status update to make sure everybody gets more scared and less rational.

tzsigane| 3.30.10 @ 10:18PM

you guys talk like poopyheads yourselves.

Melvin| 3.30.10 @ 7:42AM

"Quiet Anger," is a vast understatement. I have talked to many NC residents and trust me their anger is not quiet, but absolutely livid.
The Mid-Term Elections are coming and to be quite honest with you, the Republicans have not really settled on a campaign plank other than the repeal of DemCare.
The Republicans appear to be massively behind the times in that respect, and cannot bet all their chips on voter discontent.
If anything, Republicans are cozying up to Democrats with bipartisan support of Amnesty, and an Energy Bill that used to be titled Cap and Trade Bill.
This new found Senatorial and Congressional love could be bad for the electorate because this is track that the Republicans took before Obama.
The Republicans are trying to water the legislation down rather than fighting it outright with no input or presenting a plan of their own.
But I have to say this, if I see Lindsay Grahm's hog jowled mug next Chuck Schumer any more I would declare he fancies himself as a Progressive.
And Linday's running partner John McCain is being forced to keep is Progressive mouth shut strictly because J.D. Hayworth is squirting Conservative lighter fluid all over his butt, and the voters of AZ are the ones in control of the matches.
The Country is wishing that the Fall Elections will correct the left leaning tilt, but you know the old saying, "Crap in one and and wish in the other and see which ones fills up first."
My suggesting is, better pick out a pair of gloves and purchase a can of Lysol, because it is going to stink.

Ken (Old Texican)| 3.30.10 @ 10:00AM

Melvin,
I agree with your assessment:

""Quiet Anger," is a vast understatement. I have talked to many NC residents and trust me their anger is not quiet, but absolutely livid.""

Actually, heh, I think your assessment, "livid", is rather understated.
HMMMMMMM...
If I'm not mistaken, "lock and load" was a final command when AWAITING an assault; when preparing to receive that assault.

My understanding is that when ready to MAKE an assault, the final command is: "fix bayonetes".

"Quiet anger" or even "livid" does not quite translate into action for many people.
I personally think we need to begin thinking of and utilizing "ACTIVE VERBS" :

FIND the strongest "freedom"candidates.
SUPPORT those candidates and get their names in peoples wallets and purses..... on paper.

VOTE for those candidates in the primaries and Nov. 2.
RE-LOAD is what you do after losing a battle. I was fascinated, and deeply impressed, that Sarah chose that precise verb over the weekend.

FLANK'EM is what one does when one/s are outnumbered or out-gunned....like in congress today.
MOON'EM is what those Scots did in the recent motion picture "Braveheart".
GIDEONIZE as did Gideon thinning his ranks to men of absolute conviction.
DEFY by taking a day or week or month off without paying witholdings...all of us at the same time.

well.....you get the gist.

Anger does have a way of wearing off, true...until it turns into meaningful action verbs.

IdahoGal| 3.30.10 @ 1:09PM

Excellent! I like your style!

Glen Bradley | 3.30.10 @ 1:44PM

HEAR HERE!

Ken, I have been fighting against both parties for 20 years for their lack of respect and their abrogation of the Constitution. I have seen many of my fellow activists fall by the wayside as I pressed on. I saw our ranks swell in 2008 and diminish again by 2010. In all that time I have never laid down my sword.

When I joined the US Marine Corps, I raised my hand and swore an oath to uphold and defend the US Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. I will carry that oath until the day I die.

Today, the enemies of the Constitution are the establishment politicians of both parties who put their own access to the public larder above the interests of the people who elected them. It's time to send a message that will not soon be forgotten.

We must elect Constitutionalists into every office in the land in 2010 and 2012 with a mandate for reform to restore the Constitutional order. We can, and we must restore the greatness of America, but we will need the help of each and every American citizen to do it. PLEASE do not merely take their word for it, but do your research. Suddenly, "the Constitution" has become the rhetoric of the establishment now seeking reelection because THEY KNOW what the people want, even of they have no intention to deliver it.

Well, I DO, and so do many, many others.

We can, and we must elect genuine, principled Constitutionalists into every office in the land in 2010 and 2012, from dog catcher to the Oval Office. With the help of all you fine patriots out there, WE WILL!

Glen Bradley | 3.30.10 @ 1:31PM

I am running for NC State House out of Franklin County (District 49) and I have a complete platform -- State nullification, choice in education, firearms freedom, stop forced annexation, stop runaway spending, stop runaway taxation, and restore the Constitutional Order.

The most important elections in 2010 -- ESPECIALLY in North Carolina, will be for the State Assembly. By erasing the gerrymander that keeps NC in a stranglehold, we will return a real voice to the NC Voters, and our GOP Congressional Representatives will have no motivation to "cosy up" and become "Democrat Lite" anymore once we erase the gerrymander which enforces liberal/progressive rule across our entire state.

Wild Hiccup| 4.1.10 @ 2:14PM

Bravo! The electorate concentrates on the top of the ticket and always ignores the real power - which is located in the State Legisltures. It does not matter how fed up the people are, they do not have a clue on how to vote.

George W. Sarkisian| 3.30.10 @ 7:43AM

Thanks Mr. Gannon. We Remember in November.

David Williams| 3.30.10 @ 9:33AM

I think we have a bumper sticker here.

Get out & vote| 3.30.10 @ 7:49AM

I am always impressed with the quality of comments to these articles. People need to understand the power of their vote. So often you hear "my vote doesn't matter". When you look at the low percentage of people that vote, You can see that a significant increase would make a difference. I challenge everyone to get just one person that would have not voted to the polls in November. If this is done, you will see how much difference a vote makes!

Gerald Stephens| 3.30.10 @ 7:54AM

NOT ANGRY...ENRAGED!

There are uniquely American solutions.

November elections. Organize to vote as if your life and that of your children, and the Nation depend on it

Civil disobedience. Refuse to comply with the unconstitutional 'mandates' imposed in arrogant defiance of your constitutional rights.

Revolution - the ultimate guarantor. The Founders, throughout the debate and deliberations preceding the Bill of Rights and Constitution decided and inscribed the means by which the nation was to be defended against all enemies both domestic and foreign. It is recorded as a citizen's duty and sacred right to do so.

Their revolution was one of great suffering and death. The choice was clear then as it is now. Be crushed by the King of England or live in freedom. We are confronted by a new self indulgent king. Should civilized means not reign him in, We the People will again be confronted by Choice.

Gerald Stephens
Hartford, CT

Jobe| 3.30.10 @ 8:50AM

This is my greatest fear. I look at my children and grandchildren and ask myself about the morality of leaving it to them to clean the nest of poisonous insects who have invaded our government, led by Obama. The country was stunned and united when President Kennedy was assassinated, but I wonder what might happen if Obama is killed. I have read about the conflagration we call the First World War and the match to that tinder box was the assassination of the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand. I fear that as this government continues to ignore the masses who are sick at being used and discarded someone will lighr our tinder box. After that, it's anybody's guess what will happen.

Pat| 3.30.10 @ 9:29AM

Wonderful analogy of our current predicament to the assassination of Ferdinand and I have to agree that we dwell in a house of tinder, but I believe those who are striking the matches reside in Washington DC and are controlled by a shadow organization. I fear for my children’s and grandchildren’s future so deeply I lie awake at night out of frustration that our ultimate contingency goes well beyond death by taxes or minor violations of civil rights.

alert1201| 3.30.10 @ 10:25AM

I do not wonder what would happen if he were killed, I worry about what will happen if he is not re-elected. Will the blacks riot because their boy was not chosen again? Will there be racial riots like the 60s because America rejects him the second time around.

My hope is that he will lose the Democratic primary and the wrath of the brothers will be taken out on the Democrats and not the whole nation as it will be if he loses the general. Either way it will not be pretty.

Emily| 3.30.10 @ 11:46PM

Probably. Them blacks! Always rioting!
(sarcasm)

Sarah| 3.31.10 @ 1:31PM

Yeah, 'cause it's never happened before.

Emily| 3.31.10 @ 4:54PM

But women have rioted lots of times before... and nobody is saying "if Sarah Palin doesn't get X, will the women riot?"

And that's because we understand that not all women riot, and not all women support Sarah Palin. Why can't we apply that understanding to race?

Sarah| 3.31.10 @ 5:57PM

I have to ask, Emily...have you ever been diagnosed with any mental disabilities? Your total inability to understand basic logic is, well, breathtaking. Or clinical.

Emily| 3.31.10 @ 6:54PM

Zing! Nice one! You got me, fair and square.

tzsigane| 3.31.10 @ 7:47PM

Emily had a good analogy. Also, let's not forget the 60's were a time of the civil rights movements. People were fighting for basic rights folks.

timmyT| 3.30.10 @ 10:22PM

Based on history all of hell breaks loose.

Richard Persing | 3.30.10 @ 10:20AM

'Civil disobedience. Refuse to comply with the unconstitutional 'mandates' imposed in arrogant defiance of your constitutional rights.'

It's dificult given the fact Obamacare gives the IRS access to everyones personal bank accounts. If the IRS cannot access monthly premiums or penalties, you go to jail. Freedom in this country is a thing of the past, Liberty is on life-support and Obama controls the plug.

Sarah| 3.31.10 @ 1:29PM

That's why you don't keep your money in the bank. They can't steal what they can't find.

j4140| 3.30.10 @ 8:05AM

Taking my anger out on Nov. 2010. Watch out. But, my anger is solely reserved for the Democrats, who have proven they care little about the people. We need a Republican majority to staunch the bleeding until 2012.

Richard Persing | 3.30.10 @ 10:10AM

We need a conservative majority. Democrats put us on a frieght train to socialism, full speed ahead! liberal Republicans like Hagel, Snowe, McCain, Graham, and other so-called moderates have us on a trolly to the same destination.

We need to support republicans, being the opposition party, but they need to comply with constitutional conservative principles in return for our support.

Rick V.| 3.30.10 @ 1:19PM

Richard,
I cannot agree with a blanket assessment like "we need to support republicans." George I & II were Republicans and neither met a spending program that they couldn't justify as compassionate conservatism. We need a leader that will reduce spending and cut taxes; the long-term gain will greatly outweigh the short-term pain.

moe or les| 4.4.10 @ 11:32AM

I agree 100%. I am a tea party guy, and I am afraid we might split the party if some republicans do not get conservative. I do not think this country can survive another four years of liberalism as Nancy, Harry, and Obama have crammed down our throats. Maybe they will listen, after april 15th 2010. I dearly hope so, for the sake of this wonderful country, I call home.

TennesseeVolunteer| 3.30.10 @ 8:07AM

Many people in fly over country are now leading "lives of quiet desperation".
My industry, construction material manufacturing, has been decimated to 1/5 of what it was in 2006. (With the commercial real estate loans yet to bounce).
I have a company that cannot service it's own debt, we can't sell any of our assets because they are more or less valueless in an economy like this. We know that our government is intentionally working against us so we wait..for inflation to finally kill us off, a better marketplace, a good idea, Nov 2.
We are not afraid, we are not quitters but right now the deck is stacked against entrpreneurs and hard working small businessmen.
We have been demonized by our President and his leaders, the Congress, the media and people who have always looked tothe government for their sustenance. Tea Parties, town meetings, letters, phone calls, emails have all been ignored. Now we wait, quietly for our Independence Day....Nov. 2, 2010.
We absolutely understand its importance.

Jeanette Parker| 3.30.10 @ 12:24PM

I hear the quiet desperation in your voice....that echos my own.....I have a home purchased in 2002 that is breaking my back (lost half my accounting and tax clients...they went belly up)....it was on the market for 2 years with not even a nibble....the bank laughs at me because I still have equity in it, it's not "underwater" and not past due....but not enough income and identity theft in 2007 made for a denial on my refinance request....(from BOA who took a big chunk of the bailout money)......

I'm angry, I'm motivated, I'm an Independent who will forever vote Conservative....I pray to God millions more will join me on election day in November.

Ret. Marine| 3.30.10 @ 9:01PM

We will be praying for you brother, hang in there and remain positive about your blessings, hold onto them with the attitude of " they just fired the first shot" now it's time to take careful aim and destroy them. Their day is coming, they have earned it, pay it back double.

Margie| 3.30.10 @ 10:12PM

Tennessee Volunteer,
You're in our prayers too. Stay strong.

PersonFromPorlock| 3.30.10 @ 8:10AM

Voting out ALL incumbents saves the country from the Democrats without encouraging the Republicans to think that their kind of corruption was any better. "Character is destiny" and we really do need new (and hopefully better) people in Congress. Later, after the former members have been investigated and the guilty charged, those left unstained can run for office again.

martin j smith| 3.30.10 @ 8:11AM

Here is a practical way of looking toward No0vember 2010 ( and in fact 2012..
The goal: removal of all politicians who have a D - in fornt of their names. This leads to the question of whom to vote FOR.

To decide that one must realize the importance of a referendum outcome that is decisive nationally and internationally. Thus it would require great discipline in regards to at times voting for people who to say the least are less than perfect.
Do not forget for a moment that even if all was vunderbah in the election outcome, the Democrat Left, the MSM media and all their buddies will do everything possible to not cooperate in fact to sabotage at every possible opportunity. This element must be factored into your thinking.
So inclusion do primary Repubs who you do not like but once choices are made vote them, in as if your very life depended on it because it does. Then monitor every ragamuffin in office and hound those who deviate from listening to the voters.

One final thing: Not every Tea Partier or sympathizer of same is a conservative. I am physcally and national defense in that mode but more soft on some social issues. The vast majority of voters are in fact CENTER RIGHT
please bear that in mind as well.

Tracey| 3.30.10 @ 9:51AM

I agree. I don't even consider myself Center Right. I consider myself CENTER. I may not be correct all the time but I know wrong when I see it and WRONG is at both extremes.

But the best bet, vote out all D's. ALL of them, there is no such thing as a moderate D. This vote on healthcare proved that.

Margie| 3.30.10 @ 10:19PM

Martin J.,
Great, great comments and I couldn't agree more. I'm voting Republican as I have since my first vote. I understand the importance of not letting the D's win. I also understand how others think about voting on principle though I happen to believe it's the best principle to always vote R, but if we want a good candidate to be chosen then that means we all get more involved in the Primaries and locally trying to get the conservative in as the nominee. That's where it counts big time.

Athelstane| 3.30.10 @ 8:25AM

If we fail in November, then--We must not fail.

Johnny Beigler| 3.30.10 @ 8:28AM

The phrase "elections have consequences" means "don't use your vote to send a message". That is, don't vote against a Republican you don't like, because you will hand the seat to a Dem. The #1 priority this Nov should be for Republicans to take back the House of Reps. Then they can 1) starve the healthcare reform by refusing to fund it, and b) get the committees back in the hands of Republicans. As a extra benefit, a R-controlled House would present a credible threat of constitutional enforcement to an out-of-control Executive branch that has apparently never read the Constitution.

Dee Flood| 3.30.10 @ 8:36AM

Voting in November is our tool but we must be prepared that there is so much fraud in our voting system: dead voting, non existence people voting, double voting, old people talked into signing what they do not understand, bums voting for a pack of cigarettes, etc. We must fight this. While ACRON might be breaking up, they are still there and will be called by a different name and no doubt will be funded and backed by the administration and the left courts. What can we do?

Tracey| 3.30.10 @ 9:53AM

ACORN is just going into hiding and they will come out with a new name but with the same function. Cheat at the election!

Carol| 3.30.10 @ 9:02PM

Dee this is my greatest fear. We are living in such corrupt times I wonder if we can get a fair vote.

Reality check| 3.31.10 @ 7:54PM

Really a lot of our election are rigged in some form like you state. Dead people voting is my favorite. Let's not forget this has been going on for decades though. It wouldn't be the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd time. We just chose to complain when our guy didn't cheat good enough.

RetAF| 3.30.10 @ 8:40AM

Well written. There is still a "silent majority". I hope.

This is what elections are for. But as Johnny B points out, I worry that Repubs will be split by the Tea Party. They are calling for moderate Repubs as well as Democrats. We must unite behind any conservative candidate that can beat the democrats. As we have found out, there is no such thing as a "moderate democrat!"

Frank Drackman | 3.30.10 @ 8:41AM

I'm still incensed about this 10% Tanning Tax...
Where's the Watermelon Surcharge?, the Malt Liquor Excise Tax?, the enhanced sentences for Crack Cocaine??? I mean, Afro-Sheen Environmental Impact Fee...
I'd like to get around it my tanning in my back yard, but my nextdoor neighbor looks like Kim Jong-Il's idiot younger brother...and most of the Tanning Salon Owners are hardworking businessmen, its not fair, just not fair...

Frank

bifozz| 3.30.10 @ 8:46AM

I am mad that I am mad so much. Damn the democrats and the whole bunch in the white house. November is getting closer every day...

Dan | 3.30.10 @ 8:46AM

I wish I had more room to write what I really want, but I'll try to boil this down into succinct points:

1) Yes, Americans are angry. Yet we must temper that anger with no small amount of patience, because if things boil over before Nov. 2, we may not get the chance to "vote the bums out."

2) Casting a vote does matter. All those Republicans who sat on their hands in November 2008 because McCain wasn't to their liking are now wishing they had a vote to take back. Remember, voting for someone means you're also voting against someone else.

3) I have never before seen a government or a chief executive as arrogant and out of touch as the current ones. Obama was on NBC this morning talking about how insurance companies "are going to have to behave" under his health care reform plan. Behave? They're in the business of making money, as galling as that may be to many. The problem is not with the insurance companies per se, but with the entire system that began with HMOs in the 1980s and the attitude of "all-you-can-eat" healthcare. Had we stuck with a fee-for-service plan, costs would not be out of control today and office visits would still be affordable. But the Democrats would probably still have found a way to nationalize the system, because that's what Socialists and Marxists do.

4) Obama and his ilk are betting that the anger will subside over the next nine months, and those of short attention spans will forget - and vote Democrat again. People, do not let this happen. Stoke the anger quietly, remain patient, but when the polls open at 7 AM on Nov. 2, let your anger be heard loud and clear!

And a personal observation: During the Texas primaries on March 2, I voted in a polling place that included both the Democratic and Republican primaries. One election worker noted that there were never more than three or four people voting Democrat at any given time, while the Republican line was, at times, stretching out the door. This could lead one to believe it might be the Democrats who will be sitting on their hands in November, believing their work to be done. I pray that is the case, but if it isn't, don't let yourself be dissuaded by long lines at the ballot box. If necessary, take the day off to vote, and allow as much time as it takes to cast your vote. Don't wait until you get off work and then find long lines, then decide to go home instead. VOTE!

Berl| 3.30.10 @ 10:14AM

Republicans did not sit on their hands at John McCain. We were and will be outnumbered. We may never win another election. Somehow, we must figure out a way to game the system like so many of our fellow-citizens have.

Richard Persing | 3.30.10 @ 10:36AM

'Casting a vote does matter. All those Republicans who sat on their hands in November 2008 because McCain wasn't to their liking are now wishing they had a vote to take back.'

I voted for Bob Barr, a vote against Obama. It didn't effect Obama's vote total. Do I regret not voting for McCain? NEVER! I voted on principle and will never regret it.

Obama has us on a frieght train toward socialism, McCain would have had us on a trolly to the same destination. Vote, but be careful who you vote for, they may be another Scozzofava (NY republican who dropped from 2008 congressional race and endorsed a democrat instead of conservative).

Don L| 3.30.10 @ 8:50AM

If the constitution was such a powerful document it wouldn't be so easily trashed. With lifetime rulers re-elected, siphoning off the cream and their friends in the Supreme Court looking to European Law as we go Socialist, there is little hope for law-abiding citizens. Ironic that this nation and its constitution was only created because our forefathers defied the law! Will it come to this again someday? It took seven or eight decades for the Russians to take down their wall and it only happened because they (and Reagan, Thatcher, Welesa, and John Paul II) defied the law. History is long but memeries are short.

Mattled| 3.30.10 @ 8:50AM

Karl Rove knew how to get to the Evangelicals. They are quiet and there's a lot of them.

If I recall correctly, right after the election of 2008, many wanted to punish the R's (and Rush has stated "are you happy now?) and also couldn't stand McCain. McCain was/is a terrible candidate and ran a terrible campaign.

Rove's estimation was 600k in Ohio alone stayed home. Total US estimate was around 8 Million stayed home. Somewhere around 2 Million vets stayed home.
Again, this is my recall. Someone asked how could Vets not vote for McCain? Easy----there are military types who really don't care about whether or not they served. It's not an automatic (any Vets out there speculate?).
Look at Kerry; it was Swiftboat Vets who brought him to light as a Leftie, and his tough military strategy went away. He came out looking more like a coward in the end IMHO.

If Romney gets the nomination in 12, there is speculation they (Evangelicals) will stay home again.

That's a lot of ifs, but Rove got them out in 2004 to the point where the Dems' thought they had the election locked up. The Evangelicals came out in full force to defeat the Libs.

Margie| 3.30.10 @ 10:33PM

Well if you want this Christian's opinion I will tell you that like Rush said to those who wouldn't vote for McCain, "Are you happy now?" I voted for McCain and I would vote for Romney. I would note want to him to be the nominee but if he were you better believe I would vote for him if he were. Just as I would have voted for Scott Brown and I voted for Chris Christie here in NJ.
I am smart enough to know that I am voting for a party's ideas and to know the urgency and importance of electing Republican candidates so that we do not have the party of death in office. You can work with a Republican administration but you cannot work with the Democrats. So the question truly is~ do we want Obama II? Are we willing to take some more punishment? Not I.
As I said in my above comment to martin J., we need to especially work to get conservatives nominated early in local elections as well as the big one. By sending our dollars to them and getting the word out. It already is spreading like wildfire with the NJ MA and VA elections and we need to keep it up.
Onward!

wade| 3.30.10 @ 8:53AM

I'm not so sure. I read a lot of commentary like this that gives the impression there is a large majority out there just waiting to vote against Obama and the Democrats. Yet polls show Obama leading several top Republican. And they give him a 46% or so favorable rating. We fail to remember that a lot of these moderates blow with the wind. Obama will shift his rhetoric and the MSM will hit the propaganda hard these next months and in 2012. These moderates will likely be fooled once again. If they didn't catch it in the last 18months then they will fall for it again. No politician ever made a mistake assuming the general public was ignorant and gullible.

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John| 3.30.10 @ 8:55AM

217 days

LogicalUS| 3.30.10 @ 8:55AM

And people are getting entirely fed up and I have heard pastors recently comforting their flocks that even if America goes the way of a dictatorship that God is still in control.

And who can blame them after watching the sad spectacle on Sunday of the Communist in charge of the Democrat Party lead by Nancy Pelosi trying to make a point by walking defiantly thru the hundreds of thousands of Americans who had come to DC to be heard that they had the POWER.

Because that is what that entire episode was all about, the Pelosi and her communists were trying to tell these people they could voice their concern all they wanted but she and here fellow communist had the POWER and they could\would do whatever they wanted.

If these Americans were really as violent as these vile people wanted to protray them, there is no way these scum would have walked out among them.

Louis Jenkins| 3.30.10 @ 9:38AM

Dear LogicalUS:

My minister has spent several Sundays on pre-destination, and that God is in control. It has left me in a quandry. I believe Homeland Security and FEMA has a policy requesting that ministers should preach this during times of disaster and strife. The framers of the Constitution believed that we are creatures molded in God's image, and bestowed by Him with the freedom to choose between good and evil. I cannot accept that we are pre-destined by God to live under a dictator, or monarchy. I recognize only One supreme authority and it is not government. HE has granted freedom, life, and liberty to each of us. It is not God's will that we exist as slaves to another man, nor to a Government filled with falsehoods, lies, and deceit. I guess you could say I have backslid.

Ryan| 3.30.10 @ 11:56AM

So, was God surprised? Is He not in control?

Paul addressed the matter very well - about a government that was FAR worse than any in the US, that consistently put him in prison, that made martyrs of many of the early Christians:

Romans 13: 1Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God.
2Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves.
3For rulers are not a cause of fear for good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from the same;
4for it is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil.
5Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of wrath, but also for conscience' sake.
6For because of this you also pay taxes, for rulers are servants of God, devoting themselves to this very thing.
7Render to all what is due them: tax to whom tax is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.

Paul NEVER resisted authorities other than in preaching the Gospel, and never stated that they didn't even have the right to take his life. He operated within the laws that he was under - as a Roman citizen, he made a right appeal to Ceasar. We must do the same. We have more of an ability to seek their changes than he did, and God - for good and/or ill - has set this government over us.

Reality Check| 3.31.10 @ 7:56PM

That's great and all Ryan, but now can you quote something from the Constitution of the USA?

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 2:10PM

And which religion is that?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.....traditions

The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense founded on the Christian religion.
President John Adams June 10, 1797

Kevin| 3.30.10 @ 3:34PM

What's your point? Is that your answer to any religious comment?

Ryan| 3.30.10 @ 4:58PM

No, my point is that it's wrong to assume that God doesn't know or care about what is going on and that He's not in control.

And maybe we need to take a look at the leaders we get and why He placed them over us.

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 5:02PM

Then WTF are you complaining about - it's god's will - so STFU and pray.

Ryan| 3.31.10 @ 8:17AM

What shows I am complaining? I don't do much of that.

I live within the laws of the land - which means I can seek change - I don't just have to rely on prayer and hide in my hole.

john54| 3.30.10 @ 10:25PM

Heh good luck with that one.
Let's try to also tackle sexism while we're at it.

Ryan| 3.31.10 @ 8:18AM

An overstatement. Study the issue - Christian men (mostly) formed a secular state. Hardly a real atheist in the bunch.

tzsigane| 3.31.10 @ 7:59PM

Either way I think the issue here would be the Constitution not the Bible.

tzsigane| 3.31.10 @ 7:59PM

Either way I think the issue here would be the Constitution not the Bible.

Margie| 3.30.10 @ 10:53PM

Louis,
Backslid? Why, because you do not believe that God has predestined us to Socialism? Of course He has not! Though we will have a great tribulation, (Mt. 24)~ Remember this is all just temporary.

And remember the promises: "But according to His promise we wait for new Heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells." 2 Pe. 3:3. "In this you rejoice, though now for a little while you may have to suffer various trials.." 1 Pe. 1:6. "For yet a little while, and the coming One shall come and shall not tarry.." Heb. 10:37. "And let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we do not lose heart." Gal. 6:9.
God bless you!

Kent Keller| 3.30.10 @ 11:47PM

The hearts of the people are reflected in the leaders they choose. What I mean by this is when we as a nation decided to kick God (loud patriot-I am talking about Jesus) out of our public discourse, we also pushed His blessings away as well. Romans 1 makes it very clear. God will give us over to our sinful nature. If we as a nation continue to kill innocent children, entertain ourselves with immoral material, knuckle under to gay marriage, ect. God will continue to withhold His mercy, which may mean we may have a ways to go before we right ourselves.

I don't believe we are facing predestination, but God's displeasure at what we have allowed to permeate our nation.

Don L| 3.30.10 @ 9:09AM

"We fail to remember that a lot of these moderates blow with the wind"

Yes - Blaming the "I won't vote for McCain" voters is missing the point. You can't win when you build your own Trojan Horse. McCain, would be helping Obama if he weren't running, just like his sidekick L Grahmnesty is. He's cooing about helping next on cap and trade. If I'm going to have a home invasion -I don't want it to me by my own family. Slow poison is worst that fast poison because it's so insidious. You can't fight a war with the enemy in your own ranks. Obama and his socialist cronies are in power because too many wimps in the GOP have been saying "us too" instead of fighting with tooth and nail for our constitution and our freedoms -they are part and paarcel of the problem. Vote them all out!

Frank Hannon| 3.30.10 @ 9:14AM

This column takes a fair measure of the pulse of the people.

It is exactly correct in indicting BOTH parties; let us not forget that it was "W" who initiated the rewarding of Wall Street's bad behavior with bailouts.

I'm less optimistic over the power of the ballot box. PEOPLE ON WELFARE ABSOLUTELY SHOULD NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE.

Emily| 3.30.10 @ 11:51PM

Do you mean really mean that? Because you see how that would be a gross violations of human rights, as set in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

Sarah| 3.31.10 @ 1:36PM

So you think it's fair that people who pay no taxes should be able to vote for programs that force taxpayers to support them?

"Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner."

This is a constitutional republic, not a democracy. Voting rights were restricted from the beginning for some VERY good reasons. Maybe you should do some homework and find out what those reasons were.

Rmm| 3.30.10 @ 9:15AM

To the arrogance that spews from the Left, you can kick a dog only so many times before he bites you in the a**. November 2 can't get here fast enough!!!

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 2:08PM

I agree, the fascist republicons can "kick a dog only so many times before he bites you in the a**." I voted for both parties until bush - then it became anyone who does not agree completely and unquestioningly became a "liberal who hates America". I am sorry but that is just not the case, the republicon party is now the amerikan nazi party. Do some research and turn off fox news (owned by a foreigner, aussie) and rush (also a foreigner, canadian).

Stuart (Austin, TX)| 3.30.10 @ 4:14PM

LoudPatriot, you are in the habit of posting statements of fact that are demonstrably false. Rush Limbaugh is a native of Missouri, not Canada. You have been with the Left too long to recognize what the truth looks like when it doesn't suit you.

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 4:29PM

Your right, I didn't research that one - born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri - or at least that's what it says at Wikipedia - but as I was informed earlier "In case you haven't heard, anyone can write anything in Wikipedia so it's not a particularly reliable reference " by one of your brethren.

JimE| 3.30.10 @ 6:19PM

loudtroll,
Hit the road clown.

heh!| 3.30.10 @ 10:27PM

Maybe we should just respect the dog in the 1st place and not kick him. Then your a** won't hurt.

heh!| 3.30.10 @ 10:27PM

Maybe we should just respect the dog in the 1st place and not kick him. Then your a** won't hurt.

Louis Jenkins| 3.30.10 @ 9:18AM

Anger in America? There is not a Tea Party Member behind every tree in fly over land with an itchy trigger finger as the Statist Media would have the world to believe. If foul angry words emanate from anyone it is from those firmly in the hands of the Pretender n Chief. They drank the cool aid and are now ravenous Zombies bent on devouring every iota of personal treasure that is left to working Americans. They are determined to grind the last vestiges of Freedom under the heels of their jackboots. Below are statements posted on this website by those Zombies just yesterday. Draw your own conclusions.

“activists screaming "Nigger! Faggot!" to the top of their lungs at members of Congress, how the hell can you expect "fair" reporting to "our just cause"? God, you people are grotesque!”

“enthusiasts are bitter to the bone. You spew your putrid hatred at your gatherings, and good people all over this country are appalled at your hateful incivility. You will never earn respect from civilized people. Bigots! All of you!”

Tea Party members, Conservatives, Constitution loving individuals have went through all the phases of dealing with a catastrophic incident: anger, denial, making a deal with God, depression, and finally acceptance. We’re wise enough to know that actions based on anger only bring harm to oneself and to those we love. We have accepted that the Pretender n Chief and his cohorts are what they are (insert your own description here). We have accepted that Pelosi and Reid and their Zombie followers do not hear nor understand the public’s wishes, desires, or protests. It’s when the anger dies down and silence covers the land that acceptance will turn consequential. A decision to cross or not cross the Rubicon will be made in Nov. 2010.

Ken (Old Texican)| 3.30.10 @ 12:31PM

Louis,
Yep.

Ret. Marine| 3.30.10 @ 9:12PM

I'll second that, hear hear,

India Owens| 3.30.10 @ 9:19AM

Don't forget that we, the taxpayers, are now on the hook for covering student loans that go into dilenquency. With Sallie Mae out, and the government direct loan service in, not paying back your student loans is now 'ok'. Not to mention that the direct loan program does not supply enough money to cover four years of college, much less the traditional five it now takes to complete a degree. This will be felt by students, taxpayers, and universities.
Intrusive governance continues and another private sector is outlawed by the democrats.

tzsigane| 3.30.10 @ 10:36PM

This leads to having control of the higher education now, along with the public schools. Eventually Americans will end up like the characters in the movie "Idiocracy". Our education will be further controlled by the gov't and as the population grows & grows everything will be dumbsized and people won't have to be edjumacated b/c the gov't will just do it all for us. Then all those home skooled (if thats allowed) will be the geniuses of society.

davelnaf| 3.30.10 @ 9:26AM

The dems believe their own propaganda, implicit in their rhetoric about how Americans will soon learn to love Obamacare, that they have repealed the laws of politics, and perhaps even Nature itself, and are now immune to the consequences of their arrogance and disdain for the voters. The trick now, as they see it, is how to bamboozle these rubes into once again voting for them in November. But, like the first verse in the Democratic Party prayer book says, “Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.”

Steve| 3.30.10 @ 9:39AM

The U.S. Post Service was established in 1775. You have had 234 years to get it right and it is broke.

Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 74 years to get it right and it is broke.

Fannie Mae was established in 1938. You have had 71 years to get it right and it is broke.

War on Poverty started in 1964. You have had 45 years to get it right;
$1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor", and they only want more.

Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. You have had 44 years to get it right and they are broke.

Freddie Mac was established in 1970. You have had 39 years to get it right and it is broke.

The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil.
It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion a year,
and we import more oil than ever before.
You had 32 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure.

And don't get me started on Foreign Aid.

You have FAILED in every "government service" you have shoved down our throats while overspending our tax dollars.

AND, YOU WANT AMERICANS TO BELIEVE YOU CAN BE TRUSTED WITH A GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM?

IT'S NOT ABOUT THE NEED FOR GOOD HEALTH CARE, IT'S ABOUT NOT TRUSTING THE GOVERNMENT TO RUN IT.

Petronius| 3.30.10 @ 12:00PM

The Post Office Dept. was established in 1775 and was a political whipping boy until the U. S. Postal Service was established July 1, 1970 in wake of the strike that year. We did not know then nor does anyone know now who really owns it. The federal government is just a middle man for our company incorporated in the state of Delaware where all the certificates and documents are sealed against inspection courtesy of the current VICE President.
We did get it right for a brief period until erstwhile RINO Sen. Bob Dole confiscated $26 billion of postal revenue we paid to the OPM for retirement and medical benefits and gave the lot to Archer Daniels Midland to fund the damned ethanol scam which has cost American drivers billions more in unnecessary fuel costs and TAXES as ethanol gives lower milage than 100% gasoline. As a cohort postal employees were actuarily sound into the extended future without need of any further subsidy. Today the postal service is undone by technology and internal Luddism from the top down. And just like the beltway liberals, they also refuse to face reality. I say this only because unlike every other item on Steve's list, the U.S. Postal Service is not on a mission to impoverish it's customers. I started my career with 1st class stamps at a nickel. The price today relative to inflation is a bit high, but then we have to repay the OPM fund for our retirement expenses.

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 12:16PM

That's what republicons do. When in power they do everything they can to break it, especially if it is a government program that works, and privatize anything that does work, which costs 10 times more, so their multi-national corporation buddies can get rich.

JimE| 3.30.10 @ 6:20PM

loudmoron,
Go back to listening to ed schultz or KOS. You are a retard.

tzsigane| 3.30.10 @ 10:39PM

Maybe we should just pull out all the plugs and go back to living like the Indians did. Peaceful & not bothered by fabricated systems.

Kat| 3.30.10 @ 9:41AM

Nice piece; too bad he didn't add that many of us are also angry at Republicans and their supporters who did nothing while Bush federalized education, handed out free drugs to seniors, and started 2 useless and expensive wars. Republicans don't believe in small government anymore than Democrats do. And their hypocrisy makes me furious.

Richard Persing | 3.30.10 @ 10:54AM

This is why government controlled education is so dangerous, you have people who view history only as far as their most recent personal memory, in this case No Child Left Behind.

Bush didn't federalize education. The Dept. of Education within the executive branch was created in 1980, during Jimmy the-peanut-farmer Carter's last year in office.

Bush did however propagate socialized education, therefore he too is at fault for your ignorance of history.

Old Joe| 3.30.10 @ 1:30PM

I seem to remember something about a significant event that took place on 9/11/2001 that may have had something to do with one of those wars and I believe every significant democrat in the country as well as the UN was very worried that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and that is why America wanted to go to war with Iraq. I guess I could be wrong and my memory is failing at this advanced age.

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 2:01PM

9/11 was saudi's not iraqi's. There were no weapons (the ones rummy and cheny supplied) left in the country. Again, to much fox news with no research on your part.

Sara| 3.30.10 @ 9:43AM

I have "progressed" from anger to sheer panic at this point. It is as if we have a bull in the image of Chavez in the White House china cabinent. He is siding with America's enemies and weakening America and our allies. He hates our country as much as his minister of twenty years hates white people and their freedom. He hosts home grown radical terrorists Ayers and Doran in the White House while has has named his political enemies who have done nothing violent, dangerous home grown terrorists. He is spending to the nation into the total slavery of foreign debt to such an extent, we will never be able to dig ourselves out.

Finally, he has targeted the elderly for early death and it just so happens that population he desires to make suffer and die is over 90% white. Ordinarily I would not even consider a modern president of the US targeting a race he hates for death, but Obama did attend a the church of a flaming racist for twenty years and has has used our Justice Department to protect NOI racist thugs who intimidated voters at polling places. The man has totally creeped me out.

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 12:13PM

You watch too much fox news - and believe it.

republicons - save the fetus, abandoned the child. republicon disaster relief - every man for himself (and duct tape).

Ryan| 3.30.10 @ 12:56PM

Who is it that runs most adoption agencies and orphanages? The state or Christian charities?

What would have happened in disaster relief if everyone took personal responsibility for themselves and their belongings?

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 2:04PM

Thanks to Reagan and Bush the religious reich. And I hope you at some point in your life have an opportunity to take "personal responsibility for themselves and their belongings" with NO HELP from anyone after a natural disaster. You deserve it.

JimE| 3.30.10 @ 6:22PM

lOUD LOSER,
How's that sex with animals thing working out for you? Do you enjoy as much as your mother?

Emily| 3.30.10 @ 11:55PM

Oh, BURN! Nice one, JimE! Topical, topical!

Chuck Zinner| 3.30.10 @ 10:18PM

LoudPatriot, Dude, you are not making any sense. There are many Christian Ministries that help out in disasters. I know, I freely contribute to many of them. However, I am sadden that the government wants to tax me more so I cannot freely give as much to these worthy causes.

Chuck Zinner
Jackson, Mo

Old Joe| 3.30.10 @ 1:33PM

NO, you don't watch enough Fox News.

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 1:59PM

No you don't know how to do any research to determine the validity of fox news. You prove ignorance is bliss.

S_in_Severn| 3.30.10 @ 9:45AM

It is also the good people that after September 11th, 2001, went to work at various government agencies and law enforcement entities. Went to protect the citizens from enemies outside and are right now wondering about those, inside, and at the upper most levels of their organizations.

I pray, "push" never comes to "shove" but there might not be such a monolithic "Government enforcement" unless it is of one political party's creation and loyalty.

AndaO| 3.30.10 @ 9:46AM

Thank you for your words. I am joining my local Tea Party and working to make sure we can influence the choice of conservative (real ones) Republicans. We absolutely need to win at the ballot box. And, unfortunately, as someone above observed, we need to be very vigilant against fraud. We must make sure that our votes are counted.

Jim| 3.30.10 @ 9:46AM

April 15th in DC!

megapotamus | 3.30.10 @ 9:51AM

There is a quick concession to other-pary-ism here, but it doesn't go nearly far enough. Don't like that healthcare mandate? Well, the precedent for it was set by those two dashboard saints of "constitutional" jurisprudence Alito and Roberts in the Cali medical marijuana fiasco. McCain is the author of so much unConstitutional legislation in his putrid career it cannot all be named. Romney is the author of socilized medicine in one state. Graham seeks cap and trade and wants to trade Gitmo for it. All these crapulent hypocrites and many, many others represent the first hurdle. Purge is not too strong a word. The various depredations of Obamunism are not opposed in the Congress or in the street on principles by our Rep leaders as they have no standing and perhaps no desire to do so. McCain especially is well known to hold his buddy-boy relations with other members, even the despicable Ted Kennedy, in far higher regard than the Constitution, which he seems never to have read. We may need these figures now for tactical reasons but no one should suffer under any illusions that turning out Democrats and putting in Republicans is a final cure for what ails us. At best it is the initial cleaning of the wounds.

Rock| 3.30.10 @ 9:52AM

Excellent description of America today, thank you for a precise testament too the thoughts of many Americans. All I might add, is if there is any hint of voter fraud, or illegal activity that cast any shadow over the 2010 elections, I suspect the mood in this Country may become militant. I hope not, the end result would be catastrophic for America. But living in a Socialist Society is not a acceptable idea for anyone who loves freedom.

ds80| 3.30.10 @ 9:54AM

A pitchfork makes such a nice walking stick on the way to the polls ...

Nov 2010: Time to Refresh the Tree of Liberty

Allen Churchill| 3.30.10 @ 9:56AM

This peice describes 3/4 of the people I know- and no Frank Rich it has nothing to do with race. It is because we are being screwed.

Anthony| 3.30.10 @ 9:57AM

Our "post partisan" president can't help but be in our faces; that's the essential nature of community activists. Add to this his particular brand of arrogance and that of the elite Left, and quite frankly, I'm suprised things are as civil as they are.
The Left is relishing the "perfect storm" that has brought about this unique opportunity in history for them to do all they have hoped for during the past 60 years. The four corners of deceit, still in control, have the throttle to the floor.
November 2010 will be the pressure release that keeps the lid from blowing sky high. Sane Democrats would be wise to acknowledge this and help put a stop to this rampage of the Left.
Despite some aspects that have creeped into American society, socialism is not, and never has been, a part of the American Experiment, nor will it ever. American exceptionalism is still the fabric that makes up this country. The Left had better understand this, and damn soon.

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 12:10PM

fascism n. a merging of the interests of big corporations and government, adjoined with a systematic curtailment of civil liberties

Republican party - Permanent war, fear, the nanny state, big spending, torture, execution on demand, complete paranoia regarding the media, illegal domestic spying, denial of habeas corpus, indefinite detentions, torture and secret military tribunals; control over your body, denial of evolution and outright rejection of science

Republican Patriotism Means No Questions

Karl Rove once said that "we're an empire now – we create our own reality".

Facts are stupid things. - Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President

"Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others: The Constitution of this Republic should make a special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom."
Dr. Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence

14 signs of Fascism - republicon amerika
1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
3. Enemies/Scapegoats used as Unifying Cause
4. Supremacy of the Military
5. Rampant Sexism
6. Controlled Mass Media
7. Obsession with National Security
8. Religion and Government are Intertwined
9. Corporate Power is Protected
10. Labor Power is Suppressed
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
14. Fraudulent Elections

Ken (Old Texican)| 3.30.10 @ 12:36PM

Loud Patriot,

Mr. Obama Thanks you for your vote. He calls you a "useful idiot". Enjoy.

InDemRependent| 3.30.10 @ 1:44PM

Ken(Who Cares),

The GOP and FOX thank you as well...so many useful idiots.

Stuart (Austin, TX)| 3.30.10 @ 3:59PM

Not sure where you got your definition of fascism, but it's not anywhere near correct. It's easy to win arguments when you get to invent your own definitions for material terms, isn't it? The actual definitions of fascism are reproduced below, and you'll see that they have nothing to do with corporations. They do, however, have an awful lot to do with totalitarianism, which is the EXCLUSIVE domain of Leftists (remember, Hitler was the fuhrer of the National SOCIALIST German Workers Party), not conservatives.

fas·cism /ˈfæʃɪzəm/ Show Spelled[fash-iz-uhm]
–noun
1.(sometimes initial capital letter) a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
2.(sometimes initial capital letter) the philosophy, principles, or methods of fascism.
3.(initial capital letter) a fascist movement, esp. the one established by Mussolini in Italy 1922–43.
Origin: 1915–20; < It fascismo, equiv. to fasc(io) bundle, political group (see fasces) + -ismo -ism

Dictionary.com Unabridged; Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2010.

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 4:33PM

I beg to differ. But to be more specific:

2.(sometimes initial capital letter) the philosophy, principles, or methods of fascism.

14 signs (philosophy, principles, or methods of fascism) of Fascism - republicon amerika
1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
3. Enemies/Scapegoats used as Unifying Cause
4. Supremacy of the Military
5. Rampant Sexism
6. Controlled Mass Media
7. Obsession with National Security
8. Religion and Government are Intertwined
9. Corporate Power is Protected
10. Labor Power is Suppressed
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
14. Fraudulent Elections

martin j smith| 3.30.10 @ 9:58AM

Anyone who says that voting for MacC would be the same as voting for BHO is not using their heads. As foolish and misguided as MacC is, he is not a Left ideolologue. Having said that I would also say that inspite of his very poor campaign, he had enough supporters ( or votes against Obama )such that a competent campaign might have squeaked out a win. On balance however McC would have made our nation more not less safe and would have not put our nation into the ground nearly as much as we are. We would have been better off then we are now.

Mel Torme| 3.30.10 @ 11:06AM

Sure, Mr. Smith, that is probably true, but so what, I ask? It's like, yeah, we've got Brezhnev in office now - glad we don't have Kruschev anymore!

(I'm not trying to compare McCain to a communist, BTW. Obama is a different story.) I just mean that there is no point in giving any support to some lame-o like Juan McCain. Your country will just go down the same path slightly slower. That's nothing to be all gung-ho about, if you ask me, Martin.

No, I didn't "sit on my hands". I have voted since the 1988 election for libertarians every time*. I believe in them - hence I vote for them. I others did the same, and wouldn't let the media and even democrats pick their candidates for them, we'd get somewhere in our fight to bring freedom back.

Yeah, I know, "he can't win, waah, he can't win" - of course not, if we have a country full of people who are afraid to stand for what's right.

* Actually, I deviated from that to vote for Chuck Baldwin in 2008.

Ken (Old Texican)| 3.30.10 @ 12:38PM

Mel Torme,

Mr. Obama Thanks you for your vote. He calls you a "useful idiot". Enjoy

Mel Torme| 3.30.10 @ 3:58PM

I'm not enjoying any of this, hotshot.

I don't know if you have ADD or some other new-fangled problem, Ken, but I just got through telling you that I didn't vote for Obama (and would never think of it). This crap about "a vote for [anybody but the RINO, who may even win] is a vote for the worse guy" doesn't make a lot of sense. I vote for whom I believe in. McAmnesty would probably not have turned out to be any better for the country. Here's why:

McAmnesty's first order of business would be to REACH ACROSS THE AISLE, just like a Bush. These guys just want to be liked, and they don't have any principles, besides "vote for me, because I'm not the real Socialist". I could see Amnesty having passed long ago (note the last name) and then a lot of bipartisanship on the gov't takeover of healthcare after a small bit of civil bickering over details. Their would have been no Tea Parties, as most of those participants would be assured that the GOP is "fighting for them".

Give it up. Start over. Vote for the guys that stand for liberty. If we don't soon, violence will be next, and I am not looking forward to that.

Pingback| 3.30.10 @ 10:05AM

DBKP FLASH Headline News » Anger in America: Voting is the Only Voice They Hear links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…Americans. Don’t turn to the Mainstream Media where the “dissent = patriotism” meme died on January 20, 2009. Check out James P. Gannon’s American Spectator piece. From America’s Quiet Anger: There is a quiet anger boiling in America. It is the anger of millions of hard-working citizens who pay their bills, send in their income taxes, maintain their homes and repay their mortgage…

Richard Baker| 3.30.10 @ 10:10AM

Hopefully, the November elections will deal with the problems in Washington. However, as Mr. Jefferson noted, ultimately the desire for Liberty and Freedom are guaranteed by a population which will fight for those ideas. Keep your powder dry and your hatchet scoured, my fellow countrymen.

Ken (Old Texican)| 3.30.10 @ 10:13AM

Folks, please see my reply to Melvin above.
Thank you.

Kat,
Mr. Obama thanks you for your vote.

Sarah,
As Rush says: "No need for panic! I will tell you when to panic." As painful as it may be, we are going to reverse this course.
God bless

louis tully| 3.30.10 @ 10:13AM

Quiet anger or passiveness? How does one tell the difference?

Katherine Ochoa| 3.30.10 @ 10:43AM

The elites that rule aren't worried about us. They are simply waiting for us to die off. The Constitution? Does anyone under the age of forty even know what that is anymore? The youth have been indoctrinated in the public schhol systems. Meanwhile, both political parties are in thrall to the National Chamber of Commerce and their allies of convenience in the SEIU and other left-wing ethno-centric organizations. They are pushing for amnesty as they have in '06 and '07. The twenty million illegal aliens, who never heard of the US Constitution and could care less, and the hundred million relatives they will bring in (legally) once amnesty is law - are poised to REPLACE the current US population.
That's why the elites have nothing but contempt for the rubes and old timers like us who grew up in the forties, fifties, sixties and seventies.
The ONLY chance we have to save this great country and to preserve it for our posterity to fight as if this is our last stand - nothing less will cut it anymore.
For starters, I suggest all to visit this great site, where you can make a difference now:
www.numbersusa.com

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 11:54AM

Then WTF are you doing supporting the fascism of the republicon party?

Jeanette Parker| 3.30.10 @ 12:40PM

Why are you pontificating on this web site as if you are the only all seeing, all knowing, I'm right, you're wrong Loud Patriot in the world?? Grow up, little mind....this is not a discussion about either party... common sense voters are Independents voting for the most conservative candidates.

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 1:55PM

This is a republicon publication, and I realize republicons, such as yourself, think only those that agree with you should have a voice (contrary to the Constitution) but I disagree with most of what is said here and feel like rebutting the posts. I don't see you publishing your address and phone number "Jeanette Parker".

American| 3.30.10 @ 11:06PM

Would Loud Patriot be the perfect example of the Neo-Com?

granny3| 4.1.10 @ 5:46PM

Heaven's no! I know lots of neocons and they are quite well educated and intelligent, and 9/11 showed them exactly how much they loved this country. That's when many neocons were born. Don't knock 'em.
(This Loud Patriot guy isn't very well read and doesn't know much about the history of his country. And he certainly doesn't know any Republicans or conservatives. That's the Blue State national educational system for you.)

Katherine| 3.30.10 @ 12:40PM

Who said I support the Republican party?
Both parties have been corrupted by big moneyed interests and fundamentally betrayed the American people. The difference at the particular moment in time is that the R party seems to be getting the message, somewhat - while the D party is beyond hope. Until we start a third party we're stuck with radically reforming the R party. Nobody says its going to be easy. We've got to fight it one primary at a time. The National Chamber of Commerce's strangle-hold on the Republican party elite has got to be challenged and broken.

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 1:57PM

So the democrats trying to regulate campaign money, insurance industry, the banking industry, and others is not getting the message? You need to look at proposed republicon legislation if you think republicons are "getting the message".

Bill| 3.30.10 @ 6:07PM

What a maroon. Democrat regulation of the banking industry is what led to the mortgage bubble fiasco.

Fascist propaganda: saying the same lies over and over again, in order to get the weak and gullible to believe it. See: Goebbels, Joseph (or LoudPatriot)

gearjammer| 3.30.10 @ 10:46AM

Bush and McCain at least had enough sense to be alarmed about high unemployment and an economic pie that is not growing. The democrats and especially Obama are " so blase" about such things. Reality is their worst enemy and their only weapon is to create a false perception. They own all the perception making machinery. The networks, Hollywood, Academia, newspapers, publishing- all of this keeps them alive. yes, they are losing their punch, but still they are strong. Fight back by not feeding these entities with your money. Cancel or trim that cable bill which does so much to keep the media conglomerates going with a steady flow of cash. The dying newspapers and magazines drive them nuts-do anything to push them further into economic oblivion. But, television is still the big player-it keeps their ranks united,their message hidden and lies delivered as truth. You wanna conquer socialism in America, this irrational, unconstitutional, indecent society they are promoting ? Well. conquer television and you are on your way to saving America.

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 11:58AM

It's conservative media, 6 corporations control almost all of what you see, read, and hear, conservatives to the core and all intertwined with the military industrialized complex. We are in the position because of 30 years of reaganomics. Trickle down doesn't work, has never worked, and will never work. I bet you didn't compain when bush was pissing on the Constitution and called it a "god damned piece of paper" did you? Republicons are the party of hypocracy.

Ken (Old Texican)| 3.30.10 @ 12:41PM

Loud Patriot,

Mr. Obama Thanks you for your vote. He calls you a "useful idiot". Enjoy

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 1:52PM

You're sharp Ken, you old Texican you.

RodgerS| 3.30.10 @ 10:46AM

Operation O: We have been attacked from within and the sleeping giant is reawakening, again having been attacked without warning by a President, Democrats, and the mainstream media, whom will all live in infamy.

JimP| 3.30.10 @ 11:10AM

Amen, Jim Gannon and all the patriotic commenters on this thread!

For anyone out there who isn't angry/enraged, you soon will be because ObamaCare is already having its negative effects on the economy. If the GOP doesn't retake Congress this fall and 'defund' 'O'Care we'll have another Great Depression by 2012, which will guarantee the ouster of Obama and the Dems.

Margie| 3.30.10 @ 11:08PM

JimP!
Amen.

Reality Check| 3.31.10 @ 8:04PM

I take it you make more than $250k a year. Also, you must agree the war in Iraq started in 2003, will have no impact on our Great Depression of 2012. I beg to differ on that but we can blame it on whoever b/c by then it will be a whole messy game of "who done it". :)

Tim| 3.30.10 @ 11:14AM

Yup !
" WE REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER " !

The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates .

John3| 3.30.10 @ 11:20AM

I pray that true American Democracy survives! I thought we gave it a real blood transfusion when Mr. Brown was elected in Massachussetts only to be trampled upon by the unsconstitutional scheming of the leftist Democratic Party headed by the President. November is our real (I believe, LAST) chance to turn this country around. I pray that Americans wake up and smell the garbage and vote with their hearts and soul.

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 12:18PM

Me too! Vote against fascism, vote Democratic!

Ken (Old Texican)| 3.30.10 @ 12:42PM

Loud Patriot,

Mr. Obama Thanks you for your vote. He calls you a "useful idiot". Enjoy

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 1:50PM

14 signs of Fascism - republicon amerika
1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
3. Enemies/Scapegoats used as Unifying Cause
4. Supremacy of the Military
5. Rampant Sexism
6. Controlled Mass Media
7. Obsession with National Security
8. Religion and Government are Intertwined
9. Corporate Power is Protected
10. Labor Power is Suppressed
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
14. Fraudulent Elections

johnT| 3.31.10 @ 8:06PM

This just reminds me: the name of Hitler's personal train was "Amerika". Pretty neat huh. (Yeah not so much).

Petronius| 3.30.10 @ 6:19PM

Can't vote for Demoncrats. They look at me as an entity to be subjugated. The RINO's merely want to deny me economic and social advancement by maintaining the status quo by means of the tax codes. I want my FREEDOM back; ALL of it!! I claim the right to live by and for myself without hindrance from the Democommies, Repulicronies, and or ignorant populists.

Emily| 3.30.10 @ 11:58PM

Something is not MADE unconstitutional by the mere fact that you DEEM it unconstitutional. Nice rhetoric, but what was unconstitutional about what happened?

Dave Williams| 3.30.10 @ 11:24AM

This is a fine piece, but please don't marginalize the many rock-ribbed conservative ATHEISTS who stand with you, shoulder to shoulder, in the fight to reverse the disastrous course upon which American has now embarked.

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 11:51AM

You didn't get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.

You didn't get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate
energy policy.

You didn't get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed.

You didn't get mad when the Patriot Act got passed.

You didn't get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.

You didn't get mad when we spent over 600 billion(and counting) on said illegal war.

You didn't get mad when over 10 billion dollars just disappeared in Iraq.

You didn't get mad when you found out we were torturing people.

You didn't get mad when the government was illegally wiretapping Americans.

You didn't get mad when we didn't catch Bin Laden.

You didn't get mad when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter Reed.

You didn't get mad when we let a major US city, New Orleans, drown.

You didn't get mad when the president ignored the clear and timely warning that terrorists were going to hijack planes and fly them into the WTCs.

You didn't get mad when the weapons inspectors, who said there were no WMDs, were ignored.

You didn't get mad when hundreds of thousands of innocent people were killed in Iraq.

You didn't get mad when we gave a 900 billion tax break to the rich.

You didn't get mad when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark.

You finally got mad when the government decided that people in America deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick. Yes, illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, stealing your tax dollars to make the rich richer, are all okay with you, but helping other Americans...oh hell no.

Don't any of you Randian fetishists let the door hit you on the ass when you check out of society in protest and make God damn fucking sure you don't use ANY income or usage tax funded services from this point forward such as: Roads, sidewalks, highways, bridges, street and highway lighting, the NOAA weather services, police, fire, and paramedical services, the US military, the Army Corps of Engineers, FEMA disaster relief, public buildings, the local, state and federal court systems, Civil Engineering projects such as flood control, dams, clean water supplies, EPA regulated clean air and water, FDA regulated and inspected medicine and food supplies, Centers for Disease Control monitoring of diseases and pandemics, goods, products or services that were developed as a result of NASA, US Military, or taxpayer funded research conducted at Universities, the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, the Department of Homeland Security, the Diplomatic Corps, The Justice Department or any other Cabinet level federal agency, the school systems, public transit, the quasi-public railroads, the laws which keep me from killing you egotistical, selfish pricks in your sleep or anything else.

A Libertarian is someone who read "Atlas Shrugged" and didn't get the joke. A conservative is someone who read the first 50 pages of "Atlas Shrugged," but had to quit reading because the plot was too complex,

Petronius| 3.30.10 @ 12:22PM

LP
The law your president just signed will be the death of all Freedom loving Americans by bureaucratic fiat. So what's your problem?

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 12:41PM

Oh no! The health insurance industry got some regulation and now it's the end of freedom? What a bunch of freaking idiots. The un-PATRIOT ACT of bush was the end of freedom, certainly not health care regulations. Hypocrisy at it's finest.

Ryan| 3.30.10 @ 12:58PM

Really? What freedoms have you been arrested for exercising?

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 1:48PM

And what healthcare freedoms have you been arrested for? Come on, be real. It's the spying, torture and the general disregard for our Constitution I am referring to. Have you even read the un-PATRIOT ACT? Obviously not.

Ken (Old Texican)| 3.30.10 @ 12:43PM

Loud Patriot,

Mr. Obama Thanks you for your vote. He calls you a "useful idiot". Enjoy

Mel Torme| 3.30.10 @ 4:02PM

Can you quit with the Cntrl-V, Cntrl-C ing, Ken? We're all pretty familiar with how to cut and paste.

Emily| 3.31.10 @ 12:01AM

Ken, you fox! It's funnier every time. And nice thinking- copy and paste is waaaaay easier than reading somebody's message and thinking about what they have said.

Katherine Ochoa| 3.30.10 @ 12:50PM

The only thing we know for sure about LoudPatriot is that he or she is a coward who hides in anonymity and who, regardless of his or her political persuasion, is someone whom no self-respecting, honorable person would want to have as a friend, colleague or associate. You must be sitting in a dark cellar, in your underwear, with not a friend in the world. You should change your handle to LoudAnonymousCoward.

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 2:23PM

That's funny. I don't see you publishing your address and phone number with every post "Katherine Ochoa" or anyone else on this site for that matter - so I guess all of you are "cowards" hmmmm, or is this the typical republicon hypocrisy.

(http://www.republicanoffenders.com/) sadly only covers 1998 to 2008 because there are a lot more over the last couple of years.

betty| 4.3.10 @ 12:57AM

If Obama were the man he claims to be the first thing he should have done was to repeal the "Patriot Act" rather than broadening its powers. As to Obamacare, healthcare reform is necessary, the operative word here being 'reform' rather than transform. If Obamacare was truly meant to help rather than being an excuse to grab power then the student loan program wouldn't have been tied to it. As to laws and taxes and federal powers and organizations, what might have begun as an altruistic endeavor too often has been transformed into a miasma of paperwork, idiotic regulations that harm rather than help. As to your belief that these rules, laws and regulations are all that keep you from killing me...well, I do have a gun...

steve| 3.30.10 @ 11:55AM

Hmmm, who won the election last year? Grow up you bunch of cry babies!! You'll get your chance to speak in November with your vote in the mid-term elections. In the meantime, those in power get to make the decisions and drive the agenda. That's how DEMOCRACY works! You might want to read your high school government book again...

Petronius| 3.30.10 @ 12:18PM

Those in power and making these decisions are Breaking Their Constitutional Oaths and violating our rights. Dictating to lawful citizens how they must spend their own money is beyond the pale.

Jack | 3.30.10 @ 12:19PM

Wow, Comments on this article are way up vs a short time ago. Alot of people are pissed and they are finding each other! Reading excellent commentary from likeminded concerned citizens With just enough lost lib nuts sprinkled in to make it interesting. Only 7 months to go folks!

roger | 3.30.10 @ 12:21PM

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Tony| 3.30.10 @ 12:21PM

To LoudPatriot:
Load but certainly not a Patriot - or serious believer of Pelosi/NYTimes/Lame Stream Media BS -
How about you get over the 'illegal war' and 'No WMD' lameness - the web is full of photographs of gassed Kurds and gassed Iranian troups - a nuclear reactor was blown up by the Israeli AF.
Get a clue and some research.
'New Orleans drowned' - 50% of New Orleans is below sea level - no kidding.
Why no white people ever shown on Miami rooftops demanding someone take care of them?
Too busy rebuilding and just doing what it takes most likely -
Your Idol has trebled the National Debt in one year.
Your Idol as created legislated Socialism -
Want same names?
Democrat = Baby Killer.
Obama = Marxist.
Democrat Liberal = anti male, anti religion, anti white, anti capitalism, anti American, guilt ridden elitist, know-it-all, run my life better than I can.
I love it when the MSM and the Dems parade out kids for political show - that 11 year old at the signing - which kids you for a*****e - pre or post aborted ones?
To Steve:
The lies are too long for here - just the trampling of our Constitution is enough.
Yeah, we will see in November -

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 12:34PM

You're funny!! One, I'mm not getting over the war because we are still paying for it (hence, as you so aptly point out the large increase in debt, caused by not putting all the costs of bush's war in the budget). Any weapons Iraq had were supplied by rumfeld and cheny (ever see the pic of rummy shaking saddam's hand? or look at the weapons supplied by republicons - that's why they couldn't believe he had no weapons)

Republicon - kill everyone that doesn't look like me or agree with me.

Bush and all republicons = fascists, idiots, or both.

The trampling was the most previlant under bush. Now I know why republicons are against education - it's to keep idiots like you supporting them and their total disdain for the Constitution, not just the second amendment.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross -- Sinclair Lewis

Keep up the ignorance - continue to watch the propaganda channel - fox news.

Ken (Old Texican)| 3.30.10 @ 12:45PM

Loud Patriot,

Mr. Obama Thanks you for your vote. He calls you a "useful idiot". Enjoy

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 12:49PM

Ohhhh, your clever. After the bush years and watching the republicons now I will never vote for another republicon as long as I live, democratic or third party. I prefer that over republicon fascism any day. You republicons need to read some history to see the tactics being used today by the republicon party are the same as the nazi's in WWII. Have you ever read "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich"? You might want to, if nothing else it will help you see how to be a good little republicon.

Ryan| 3.30.10 @ 1:00PM

I was wondering when you would invoke Godwin.

Thanks for your oversimplifications.

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 1:45PM

Sounds like teabaggers. The political kind.

Tony| 3.30.10 @ 12:54PM

LoudPatriot:
You are a laugh. A sad, transparent, lefty Marxist Laugh.
And a sad liberal Looney.
You think Olberman is unbiased and sane.
"Cheney supplied nerve gas to Saddam"
Right - and 'way cool' - you pulled out your
Famous Quote book from you old English 10 class to appear intelligent -
"Republicans are against education"
Huh?
Democrats and the leftist tax hound NEA made teaching a union job - with union results. Our kids can't find Canada on a map because of the ultra left Democrat back pocket NEA. And let's not talk about the typical ultra left tenured professors ruining American colleges and universities, living off the backs of American taxpayers.

Bottom line -
Democrat = pro abortion American baby killer.

And here is quote for you -
"Insults and apologies are what allow people like me tolerate people like you" - Tony

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 2:50PM

Gen 2:7
"And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."

Only AFTER man takes his first breath of life from God through his nostrils is he classified as becoming alive with a soul.

Democrat = equal rights, including females, to make their own healthcare decisions.

Republicons - save the fetus, abandoned the child, control the women.

Sue| 3.30.10 @ 11:15PM

Hey dork~ That verse you quoted was how God first created Man. After that we pro-create.
Get a life dopey.

Fred Henstridge | 3.30.10 @ 12:42PM

Last October I made a 9-day road trip along Historic Route 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles. As a photojournalist I spoke with many folks along the Mother Road and every one of them echoed Mr. Gannon’s comments. These people who live in “fly-over” country have had it with the policies of Washington and even their own State Houses. They are hard working people who have built businesses or carry our goods in long haul trucks. They are feed up with our immigration policies and welfare state. I would suggest that those elites who live and write in the bubble of D.C. or the media centers on a coast take some time to see the real America.

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 12:45PM

I agree with the fed up with the welfare state, fed up with the corporate welfare state created by republicons. And driving along the road taking pictures doesn't qualify you as a "photojournalist".

Ken (Old Texican)| 3.30.10 @ 12:47PM

Loud Patriot,

Mr. Obama Thanks you for your vote. He calls you a "useful idiot". Enjoy

Fred,
Screw 'em...... let them starve and eat their own arrogance.

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 12:51PM

Hmmm let's see, the amazing carnac. White guy, middle america, no college, watches fox news.

Ryan| 3.30.10 @ 1:01PM

Makes money, pays taxes, votes, produces, reproduces, gives back to society.

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 1:07PM

Imagine that - me too!

Melvin| 3.30.10 @ 1:09PM

Hmmm let's see, the real reality, young college student/graduate, thinks he knows everything, moved back into mom and dad's basement after graduation.
Thanks to Obama back on Mom and Dad's health insurance till 26.

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 1:42PM

White male, 50's, business owner, father, although I did just graduate from college (my own money), and sick and tired of the Nazi fascist reichwing bullshit.

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 1:44PM

And glad that I can continue, if I so choose, to help my children. Republicons - save the fetus abandoned the child.

Melvin| 3.30.10 @ 2:06PM

OK, Ok, I'll give ya that but, I bet you still live in the basement, huh?

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 2:26PM

Wrong again there buckwheat. And I still think Ken is White guy, middle america, no college, watches fox news.

mary| 4.1.10 @ 11:03PM

A Patriot believes in the Constitution which would include freedom of speech. Whereas, LoudPatriot believes in ridiculing others beliefs. Henceforth must be ________ you fill in the blank
(thought police)

Mark M.| 3.30.10 @ 1:12PM

Is it a co-incidence that a so-called "militia group" is busted by the FBI? The federals "say" they wanted to kill local cops, but I seen no proof....maybe they just wanted to be organized and feel safe in the event of a federal takeover....we can't know. Jack-booted thugs go in hard and fabricate evidence.....could be you or me next....

It is time to take back the country while there is still something worth taking back...."by any means necessary!"

Tom| 3.30.10 @ 1:19PM

I, personally, do not like the direction in which this country is heading. Seems like more of our liberties are being replaced with government rule. Tell me what is privately owned anymore, banks, the automotive industry, healthcare. This government stoped working for the people years ago. Now they want to dominate and control everything under the guise of " it needing to be fixed ". Sound like another culture that was around 20-25 years ago?

JonS| 3.30.10 @ 1:23PM

Lindsay Grahm-out! John McCain -out! We do not need Republicans. We need true conservatives! But beware the third party candidate in other than the primaries. All they serve in the general is to secure a win for the Dems - remember Clinton?

Quiet Anger? I would agree with livid. What is relatively quiet at the moment is action, we must be prepared, we must not be silenced. I too, am sick of being called a racist, but that will not stop me from debating the merits of conservative beliefs.

And to Steve-you had better read your school textbook again. We do not have a democracy - we have a Republic. Our Founders did not want majority rule, thus the various checks, balances and procedural means to fight bad legislation. These of course do not mean squat to Progressives, as it is all about them knowing better than us how to run our lives and spend our money.

For those out there not aware of a great information and inspirational source, try Patriotpost.us.

"We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times."
--George Washington, letter to Philip Schuyler, 1777
"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery." --Thomas Jefferson: Rights of British America, 1774. (*) ME 1:193, Papers 1:125

"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." --Thomas Jefferson: his motto.

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 1:39PM

"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."
---Thomas Jefferson, in an 1823 letter to John Adams

“I am
satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence.” Thomas Jefferson

"I hope we shall... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
-- Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 1816

"Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear." - Thomas Jefferson

Earl Porter| 3.30.10 @ 4:19PM

My, Oh my, Mr. Loudpatriot, What an amazing intelect you are!
The ability to redgurgitate quotes in rapid-fire (your speed typing skills are also quite awsum!)
The ability to memorize the DNC daily talking points memo and deliver it unfailingly in response to any political chalange
Your instant ability to analyse any situation and detect that any / all "bad things" are directly attribuable to George Bush
The ability to rationalize that the word "Patriot" is appropriatly incorportated into your blog-name

Yes sir, I am amazed at your retoric. But, I do have a few questions:
Have you ever had an original thought of your own?
Does the obvious detest of the American free-market system derive from some personal failure to perform, or from intense brainwashing?
Would you be able to survive on your own merits & earning (without government handouts), for longer than two weeks?
Did your mother smoke a lot of really bad dope while you were in the womb?

Finally, like our wise friend, Ken, states so suscintly and elloquently:
Mr. Obama Thanks you for your vote. He calls you a "useful idiot". Enjoy

PS Please forgive my spelling. I am a degreed Engineer, and we pride ourselves on being somewhate illeterate by Left Coast elitist standards. However, we also pride ourselves in being logical thinkers and astute observers of the "Cause and Effect" phenomena. You sir, and your ilk, are the cause of what is wrong with America. The Effect will be a huge turnout of conservative voters in November. I pray that after that election, your demented ideology lies burning in the ashpit of American history.

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 4:45PM

Did you read the post directly above mine? The post was in response to the quotes in the previous post. Do you understand critical thinking?

To answer your questions:
Yes
No
Yes
No

And I refer to the convicted criminals and nazi fascism supporters much more than I do bush, although the reich has become much more aggressive once they had what they hoped would be the new fuhrer (bush).

Likewise brother. "I am a degreed businessman, and we pride ourselves on being somewhat (sic) illiterate (sic) by southern elitist standards. However, we also pride ourselves in being logical thinkers and astute observers of the "Cause and Effect" phenomena. You sir, and your ilk, are the cause of what is wrong with America. The Effect will be a huge turnout of progressive voters in November. I pray that after that election, your demented ideology lies burning in the ashpit of American history. " Heil to the reichwing republicon party since that is what you support. You may be an engineer but you have no clue of history.

mary| 4.1.10 @ 11:09PM

Progressive is just another word for thinks the Constitution is outmoded and needs to be changed. How can you call yourself a patriot?

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 2:44PM

Freedom under republicons (bush)
Following are examples of freedoms which President Bush and his fellow Republicans in Congress have already expunged (as reported by the Associated Press):

FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION: Government may monitor religious and political institutions without suspecting criminal activity to assist terror investigations.

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION: Government has closed once-public immigration hearings, has secretly detained hundreds of people without charges, and has encouraged bureaucrats to resist public records questions.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH: Government may prosecute librarians or keepers of any other records if they tell anyone that the government subpoenaed information related to a terror investigation.

RIGHT TO LEGAL REPRESENTATION: Government may monitor federal prison jailhouse conversations between attorneys and clients, and deny lawyers to Americans accused of crimes.

FREEDOM FROM UNREASONABLE SEARCHES: Government may search and seize Americans' papers and effects without probable cause to assist terror investigation.

RIGHT TO A SPEEDY AND PUBLIC TRIAL: Government may jail Americans indefinitely without a trial.

RIGHT TO LIBERTY: Americans may be jailed without being charged or being able to confront witnesses against them.

So where the f**k were you when the republicons and bush where doing this?

Petronius| 3.30.10 @ 6:33PM

The Demoncrat administration is using this law against conservatives now, and you're complaining?

mary| 4.1.10 @ 11:14PM

Now you have resorted to vulgarities.
Look Loud Patriot: Go back to the last 4 presidents. We only have one party. The party that is marching us to One World Government. Tell me who did not promote that in the last 4 presidents?

What people are talking about here is the abuse of the Constitution. And your friend, BHO, is trying to break the economy and drive a stake in the heart of Liberty. This has been a long slow steady errosion of power.

Stop fighting over Dem or Rep. They just use that to aggitate us against each other.

Now do something proactive, if you are truly a Patriot and not just here to agitate.

L James| 3.30.10 @ 1:40PM

Re November 2010, which so many are breathlessly counting on: Eighty-percent of voting is by machine. Their manufacture is in the hands of two (really one) private companies. The technology for remote manipulation of these machines exists and can be easily employed in close elections. Prediction: November 2010 will see a couple test manipulations in close local elections. November 2012 is the main target.

L James
West Virginia

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 2:33PM

And who owns the company - why republicons - Rothschilds, Walden O'Dell, McCarthy Group, Howard Ahmanson, Nelson Bunker Hunt, etc. So it looks pretty good that the reichwingers will win elections regardless the will and voting of the majority of American. Gotta love the Republicon Amerika.

Peter McGrath| 3.30.10 @ 3:09PM

Voter fraud of late has originated from the Left, whether it be intimidation at precinct stations by Black Panther thugs, ACORN organizers spreading "street money" (usually $20.00 bills) to fill busloads of persons who would otherwise not vote, or outright fraud and manipulation of the voting laws or tabulation process (Lautenberg in New Jersey, that Dem-turd who ran in Minnesota).

Bogus criminal charges brought against Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska gave the Democrats their super-majority in the Senate (lost when Teddy Kennedy's legacy was sealed when a Republican took his seat by promising to kill the miscreant's life-long dream: government control of the healthcare industry).

The current version of the Democratic party is perhaps the most corrupt in our nation's history, from the very top to the very bottom. This has become apparent to the American people, who find Democrats and their discredited ideas and immoral values utterly antithetical to their own.

I am among the working angry, savoring the prospect of the electorate wreaking savage revenge on these filth who mock this great country and seek to undermine its venerable traditions and institutions.

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 4:49PM

ROTGFL!!!! Do you know how to gather information not from the republicon party, the church, or fox news. You freakin' crack me up. Your post is so idiotic it's not worth disecting and pointing you to some facts not conjured up by the reichwing.

That's the best laugh I have had all day!

I've posted it already but morals? Really? http://www.republicanoffenders.com/

Peter McGrath| 3.30.10 @ 5:24PM

Yes. Morals. I'm not talking about weirdos sending prurient messages to, or groping, their staff, or living with pimps/perverts.

I'm talking about immoral policies where deliberately malicious Leftists insitute policies designed to undermine private markets and then offer "cures" which ultimately destroy those markets.

Best example: the student loan market. First, the Feds began to underwrite most of these (below market interest rate) loans through the GSL and Pell Grant programs. Doing so made it easier to finance a college education than a strictly private market would have permitted. The result: much greater demand for higher education - which has resulted in massive increases in tuition (not to mention billions in defaulted loans picked by folks like me who pay taxes).

Escalating tuition rates (caused by Federally underwritten loans) were deemed by the Left to be a "crisis" so, instead of getting the hell out of the student loan business and limiting the damage, the Feds have now completely taken over the once private market for student loans. The predictable result will be skyrocketing tuitions coupled with likely meddling in curricula (i.e., political correctness monitoring) for any institution whose students receive federal loans. Meanwhile, Johnny (who still won't be able to read after 4 years of dumbed-down "higher" PC education) will end up defaulting and, once again, taxpayers like me will foot the bill.

Since when did the Federal Government become proficient at making loans? Or running automobile companies? Or "regulating" the healthcare insurance industry? The answer, in America of course, is "NEVER". Government takeovers of those industries and markets have been and will be a disaster for the American people.

Private markets work, government bureaucracies do not. Democrats used to agree with this basic fact. Our private, free economy (and bill of INDIVIDUAL rights) are the essence of what makes us the most prosperous nation in the history of mankind.

Asses like the POTUS, and the entire Democrat caucus, blinded by ideology and blind to the facts, either resent the private economy or are too stupid to realize how much damage they are wreaking on our way of life.

They will be hoisted, hard, by their collective petard, and will squeal like piglets.

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 4:59PM

Just an FYI - I was born and raised in Alaska, lived here all my life, and just about everyone new Stevens took money, and most know Sarah Palin is a joke, she didn't do squat and quite (just like everything else she did in life) before the job was done. Sarah cares about Sarah (oh she is a republicon) and no one else.

Peter McGrath| 3.30.10 @ 5:50PM

Thanks for that - very illuminating. I am sorry, though, that you feel that way about yourself. Remember, every dawn is a new day.

To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. 32Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8:31-2

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 3:11PM

"Prediction: November 2010 will see a couple test manipulations in close local elections. November 2012 is the main target." I think you missed it. The tests happened the whole time bush was in office. Republicons already know how to manipulate the machines and elections.

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/

WC Smith| 3.30.10 @ 2:28PM

Quite true, unless those that have their hand out and believe they are entitled are greater in number then us. The army that Obama is gathering is racist and in the cities, but the real problem is controlling the election process.

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 2:41PM

So I guess what you are saying is when a majority of Americans vote for something it's invalid unless it's republicon? How republicon Amerikan.

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The News Factor, an informative online Conservative News Magazine » We will come for links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…Flyover Country who are ridiculed, preached to, satirized and insulted by the Celebrity Loudmouths of the two Left Coasts, the Jon Stewarts and Keith Olbermanns, the Paul Krugmans and their ilk. America’s Quiet Anger. Their quiet rage abides, waiting till it can be expressed in that silent place behind the curtain where the ballot lists the names that they have now committed to an angry memory. WE’VE HAD…

Bill Lawrence | 3.30.10 @ 3:07PM

This surprising simple test demonstrates that liberals and atheists lack the intellectual acuity of conservatives.

Print out the list below. At the end of every line write a Y for yes or an N for no.

Liberals and atheists are more likely to accept the claim:

1. That man's activities are causing the earth to warm catastrophically ___
2. That society should assume that there are no significant differences between boys and girls, and men and women ___
3. That criminals are society's victims ___
4. That the Soviet Union was a noble experiment ___
5. That Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez are wise and able leaders ___
6. That women rarely make false rape allegations ___
7. That wind and solar power can provide our energy needs ___
8. That government bureaucrats and trial lawyers are the most important parts of a health-care system ___
9. That increasing the minimum wage will not increase unemployment ___
10. That consensual homosexual acts are not a choice ___
11. That we don't need a strong military because if we don't present a threat, other nations won't attempt to harm us ___
12. That guns, not their users, kill ___
13. That discriminating based on race is being against racial discrimination ___
14. That the National Socialist Party was not socialist ___
15. That being unable to replace a poorly performing teacher is good for education ___
16. That a child in the womb is not a human being ___

Now, count the Ys and Ns. Put the letter that appeared the most at the end of this sentence: Are liberals and atheists mentally less capable than conservatives?

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 3:15PM

Hmmmm. Interesting questions. Here's yours - f**k everybody else as long as I get mine __

And we already know conservatives can't think for themselves, they need the republicon party, the church, and fox news to tell them how to think.

Kevin| 3.30.10 @ 4:58PM

I don't need the republicans, the church, any news network, or you to think for me! You seem to have a very hostile tone and a general lack of respect for others who disagree with you.

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 5:17PM

I think you do! And yes I have no respect for anyone who supports the republicon party, the nazi fascist party, and if you would take your head out of your a** long enough to do some research and apply critical thinking you might understand why. I listened to eight years of this crap and it's people like you I am hostile to. But the difference is I am tired of the fascist crap and don't like those that support it (I think it is unAmerican) however many of the post here don't like people because they may get help with healthcare (you know, staying alive), or protection from the multi-national insurance companies, or because someone has a different skin color, or someone doesn't believe in the christian god. There is a difference and if you can't see it I am not going to take the time to help you get your head out of your a**.

mary| 4.1.10 @ 11:28PM

LoudPatriot; You are truly about agitating people. You are the only one on this entire post enciting anger or violence.

If you had the slightest clue what you were talking about it would be nice. Do you have any idea who benefits from the new health care bill? The insurance industry. Yes. If you had any international knowledge at all you would be completely aware that an 80 something in EU gets sent home without treatment while here in the US they get treatment. That = Death Panels. Lets see if we can stop treating the elderly and the young rarely get sick Hey we can save loads of money. Euthanasia is good too --- Yes now that we have government control of health care we can classify all dissenters as BiPolar and drug them ..... LOL

Dude you need to chill out or get a new job cause this blogging thing is gettin on your nerves.

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 3:36PM

1. That man's activities are causing the earth to warm catastrophically ___
No but they certainly contribute, but hey let's continue to buy our oil from the king of Saudi Arabia, let's not try and get off of foreign oil oh and at the same time improve our environment for out ancestors.

2. That society should assume that there are no significant differences between boys and girls, and men and women ___
There are significant differences but all people should be treated equally and not singled out for discrimination, white or any other reason.

3. That criminals are society's victims ___
Nope - but privatizing prisons when the goal of a corporation is to make money sure seems like it is in the best interest of the corporate prison to imprison as many people as possible.

4. That the Soviet Union was a noble experiment ___
Nope

5. That Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez are wise and able leaders ___
Nope

6. That women rarely make false rape allegations ___
And those that don't make false allegations should be treated as though the allegation is false?

7. That wind and solar power can provide our energy needs ___
A major portion of energy, at least for powering homes and offices, oh that's right you like buying oil for the King of Saudi Arabia and other totalitarian governments (Hugo Chavez - it appears you support him and want to continue to support him).

8. That government bureaucrats and trial lawyers are the most important parts of a health-care system ___
No, doctors and access to health care without going bankrupt, 60% of bankruptcies in the country are caused because of health care debt. Insurance executives and insurance lawyers should control my health care?

9. That increasing the minimum wage will not increase unemployment ___
You obviously have not researched this issue because it doesn't increase unemployment, republicon economic policies for the rich do. We had massive taxcuts under bush and an explosion of unemployment and jobs going out of the country.

10. That consensual homosexual acts are not a choice ___
What two adults do in the privacy of their bedroom is non of your business, republicons used to agree that the gov should stay out of the bedroom but of course http://www.republicanoffenders.com/

11. That we don't need a strong military because if we don't present a threat, other nations won't attempt to harm us ___
Military yes - spending more than the rest of the world combined, no.

12. That guns, not their users, kill ___
No, those pointing the gun kill. I support the entire Constitution, not just the second amendment.

13. That discriminating based on race is being against racial discrimination ___
Equal rights for all, white, black. whatever.

14. That the National Socialist Party was not socialist ___
Funny, that the republicon party is not nazi fascism__

15. That being unable to replace a poorly performing teacher is good for education ___
Not paying for public education is good for education__

16. That a child in the womb is not a human being ___
Bible: Gen 2:7
"And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."

Only AFTER man takes his first breath of life from God through his nostrils is he classified as becoming alive with a soul.

Bill Lawrence | 3.30.10 @ 3:53PM

You answered no to four of the questions and failed to give direct yeses on any of them albeit your answers to 9 and 16 can be deduced to such.

With regard to your answer for 16 you cite the Bible as authoritative -- and Genesis no less -- so I guess we can't call you an atheist yet you seem to be making a puzzling leap of logic that babies come from the dust of the ground.

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 4:12PM

And you answered none of my questions. 16 is because you appear to believe in the bible and yet argue against it.

Bill Lawrence | 3.30.10 @ 5:20PM

Scripture tells us not to murder and to look out for our neighbor even if he should be weak and helpless, but our understanding as to where life begins is based on observations of nature i.e. science although they certainly are not contradicted by Scripture -- think Psalm 139.

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 4:13PM

Since you want direct answers to your questions. Do you still beat and rape your wife?

mary| 4.1.10 @ 11:32PM

Tsk Tsk Agitator

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 4:07PM

2011 Military Budget request & Mandatory spending
$1.003–$1.223 trillion
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/.....ummary.pdf
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals/

Total health care costs 2008, not including health insurance costs and company profits
$2.3 trillion

So I guess your for socialism, to pay for the military to protect Americans, but not for protecting the health of Americans? So your for socialism to multi-national arms dealers but not for helping Americans stay healthy and not go bankrupt?

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 4:08PM

*This site will only allow 2 links per post*

Total health care costs 2008, not including health insurance costs and company profits
$2.3 trillion
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/

JimE| 3.30.10 @ 6:29PM

LOUDTARD,
Excellent cut and pastes from KOS and olberman's blog. You are a retard of the highest order. Try a new scam, every one of you trolls claims to be a 50 year old white educated business owner, truth is you are probably a 35 year old unemployed shithead with an associcate degree in liberal arts.

Petronius| 3.30.10 @ 6:47PM

Danke JimE
I just got a note from der fuhrer.
"Loud patriot ist sheissgieladen."
I know a free enterprise physician who would prescibe a high colonic and a shot of thorazine.

Earl Porter| 3.31.10 @ 1:04AM

Thankyou, JimE,
I think you have hit it on the head. People over 40 don't use near as much "Social Media Shorthand WTF " or open vulgarity as does Mr. Loudmouth. And seldom do us "older" people repeatedly use the deliberate misspelling of a name [ republicon] as a form of derision. (though, I have to admit, it is fun to mock ol' Loudlunatic by playing with his moniker)

I cannot believe that he is a businessman, either. Everything he espouses is anti business. As I said earlier, I think most of his problem was that he tried to be a busnessman, and was unable to compete with people that actually work hard, take risks, and make investments in an effort to create personal wealth. If you are a natural loser, the obvious leftwing response is to claim that those who succeed are evil Fascists, and demand that their wealth be confiscated and redistributed amoungst those who are unwilling to even try to succeed. Yep, he sounds like a 30 year old unemployed failure ... just looking for justification for a free lunch. However, I suspect that he is not just an "associcate degree in liberal arts", as you state, but rather a full blown "PhD in Community Organizing" or maybe even "Comparative Marxism".

It is nice to know that LoudShitHead is from Alaska, though. That explains alot. You know ... all those long, dark, cold, lonely nights ... out in the woods, alone ... with nothing but your pack of "special" sled dogs to keep you company. I suspect that his kids really are SOBs. Maybe Obomba and that Spawn-of-Satan, Peloci, can ram through a law that makes that dog-thing legal for ol' LousyPatriot!

tzsigane| 3.31.10 @ 8:09PM

Now if the military protects Americans, doesn't that keep Americans alive, therefore protecting their health?

mary| 4.1.10 @ 11:33PM

Stop blaming Bush and check Clinton on this subject. Think One Party.... Doh

Rebel Without A Pause| 3.30.10 @ 3:13PM

Yes, my wife and I are two of the VERY, VERY angry. We are both retired and very political. We ALWAYS vote in the primary and the general. We have never looked forward more to an election than this one.

DatsunMark| 3.30.10 @ 3:19PM

Right On Mr. Gannon!

dobrze| 3.30.10 @ 3:34PM

LoadPatriot needs a paragoric for logorrhea.

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 3:42PM

I'll pass on the opium, dude ;-), I don't think I have written as many words as the article, and you need a brain.

Eddie| 3.30.10 @ 4:03PM

Thank you Mr. Gannon for stating what the majority of us are feeling right now!

al Grumpy| 3.30.10 @ 4:05PM

Well said.I have a viseral hate for everything this congress does.The Islamic/Muslim/communist scum called congress and the Administration are single-mindedly dedicated to the destruction of the country.

Don T.| 3.30.10 @ 4:14PM

Maybe we should choose our politicians like we used to pick our military, through a draft. Everyone has the opportunity to serve one term. That way they won't enact legislation that they will have to live with later.

mary| 4.1.10 @ 11:35PM

my friend Ed says pick legislators like we pick a jury. We cant do any worse......

Anup Kumar| 3.30.10 @ 4:16PM

Aren't these the same American's who voted in Obama and these morons in Congress?? Well you are reaping what you sowed. This is what happens when there is a majority of Americans who are lazy and ignorant.

KG | 3.30.10 @ 4:41PM

Beautiful! Just beautiful. We've put up an excerpt and a link to the article.

sims| 3.30.10 @ 4:45PM

Yes, to the angry and yes, to the quiet. I cannot listen to any more rhetoric from this administration. I don't want to be educated on how this abominable legislation will "help me". I'm through trying to explain to my Congressional representative that she is working against everything I believe in. It's time for action.
November cannot come soon enough for me. And then, on to 2012.

Karen Walker| 3.30.10 @ 4:52PM

Thank you for describing so well what I AM.
Except now for the first time in my life I am making phone calls AND searching for a Tea Party group in my area so I can DO SOMETHING BEFORE I VOTE!

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Obama’s Broken Promises and America’s Growing Anger « Nice Deb links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…up and realizing that virtually every promise Obama makes has an expiration date, as Jim Geraghty so painstakingly cataloged, here.. James P. Gannon at the American Spectator writes eloquently of America’s Quiet Anger: There is a quiet anger boiling in America. It is the anger of millions of hard-working citizens who pay their bills, send in their income taxes, maintain their homes and repay their mortgage…

SFC MAC| 3.30.10 @ 5:15PM

Quiet anger?? Not me. I use my 1st Amendment rights, ( we still have those, don't we?) and stand up and speak out against this socialist autocrat occupying the White House. For eight years during GW's tenure, the frothing moonbats on the Left kept telling us that "dissent is patriotic". Well, the patriots are dissenting.

LoudPatriot| 3.30.10 @ 5:22PM

Use them rights baby because the next republicon that becomes president will take the rest (those that bush didn't) of those rights away. And let's see, hmmmm, what did the riechwing say when the left dissented? I think it was the reich that said it was unpatriotic. Over, and over, and over again.

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Worst Post Ever « The H2: Providing Evidence for $100,000 Since March 2009 links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…bsp;Threads Comments Teh Funneh Cranky R.I.P. Honorary Hostage Bewbs I, Rosetta, Am A Proud Racist Proof of Life Teh Funny Teh Summary Teh Yearbook Worst Post Ever This is an excellent article and you should have someone read it to you. * You may find this video helpful. That video cracks my shit up. Especially the two douchebags at the end. March 30, 2010 Categories:…

Enlightened| 3.30.10 @ 5:42PM

Americans are just angry, stupid, racist, sexist homophobes who should be ecstatic to accept our government's great benevolence.

Why else would they disagree with the one-size-fits-all, top-down restructuring of huge portions of our economy by a bunch of lawyer-politicians who have never worked a real job in their lives?

They should know that government forcing unpopular legislation down their throats is for our own good. What disturbed, truck-driving, baseball-watching simpletons.

Now pardon me while I get back to admiring my big brain in the mirror...

TL Roberson | 3.30.10 @ 5:58PM

Amen!

steve| 3.30.10 @ 5:59PM

Tony, I'll bet you've never even read the constitution. It's a real document ya know, on paper and everything. Read it. Understand it.

Rog| 3.30.10 @ 6:00PM

Well said! This would make a thunderous speech!

Warren Bonesteel| 3.30.10 @ 6:10PM

Pursue every avenue of peaceful resolution that is available to you.

...but, in the end, there is only one argument that tyrants and oligarchs truly understand.

The Founding Fathers knew that, and they knew it well.

loulai| 3.30.10 @ 6:22PM

Amen, Amen, and Amen. Brilliant article!

Anthony| 3.30.10 @ 6:26PM

This is a great piece. I am from the Northeast and voting D is a religion. But after working close to Maine state govt and seeing the crap that goes on, I moved away from it. Then we had the gay marriage campaign in Maine, which was a total turnoff for me in terms of the Democrat agenda--the way they conducted it. Now we have Obama coming on April 1 (appropriate ) to talk about health reform and how high our insurance rates are (and dis our fine R senators). This is such unmitigated BS. Our rates are high because we have no choice and that is because of all the regulation the Ds have put in law. We have Trish Riley, who is as arrogant as Obama, running Dirigo Health, Maine's "health reform" plan which has cost $23 million and change and covers exactly 3,000 previously uninsured after 6-7 years--it was supposed to cover 60,000 yearly. IT IS A TOTAL FAILURE AND DEEPLY UNPOPULAR. The insurance Commissioner is a Demo hack who makes up Dirigo's "savings". The dishonesty is utterly vile, vile, vile. I'm voting Republican as default from now on. And I finally stopped reading the NYT--I just can't stand it anymore.

John Parker| 3.30.10 @ 6:29PM

What makes anyone think that this gang of thugs will run a free and fair election in November? What's the betting that whatever aliases Acorn is now hiding under will flood the state registers will fake voter names; that the forms we are sent to confirm legitimate registration will mysteriously go missing; and that The Beloved Leader will decide there is a threat to the internet that requires it be shut down a week before the election?

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The West Ranch Beacon – News & Commentary for the Santa Clarita Valley » America’s Qu links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…who are ridiculed, preached to, satirized and insulted by the Celebrity Loudmouths of the two Left Coasts, the Jon Stewarts and Keith Olbermanns, the Paul Krugmans and their ilk. Read more here: America’s Quiet Anger Leave a Reply Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website Archived Entry Post Date : Tuesday, Mar 30th, 2010 at 3:30 pm Category : Local and National and Politics and…

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America’s Quiet Anger links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…finding “rights” not enumerated, powers never granted, meanings unimagined — believe that their country is being redefined without their consent. Read more at http://spectator.org/archives/2010/03/30/americas-quiet-anger Related posts: The Man Who Despises America by Mark Hyman, American Spectator, November 11, 2009 The very... Turning America Into a Banana Republic By Peter Ferrara, American…

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The American mood… as eloquently espoused by James Gannon links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…| 0 views This needs absolutely no commentary for me. It is a spot on accurate assessment of the mood of the nation, as deliciously put by former WSJ journalist, James Gannon, as it appears on American Spectator today. Apologies to the Spectator for the full reprint, but I don’t want to “interrupt” the flow with a hyperlink junk. And a H/T to the folks who post a Lucianne for the heads…

Norm Witkins| 3.30.10 @ 7:30PM

Just once I would like someone to say, isn't it time for the poor to become clever again. To plant gardens, to raise chickens, to learn to sew and fix their cloths, to learn how to work within the parameters of public transportation and maybe walk...to forget that busing crapola and reclaim their neighborhood schools and playgrounds and demand excellence and safety within them--like paying attention to what their kids are doing ...Funny think about being forced to be clever-- it is the first step to helping your own kind become intelligently self-sufficient.
My God, all my friends all rallied to help each other get through these times...sure we had a good start...we actually care and rspect each other. Somethings handouts do not do. Handouts make you weak and disrespectful. Period.

John| 3.30.10 @ 7:33PM

Hey LoudPatriotard! You are loud but definitely
NO patriot. A Patriot loves his country and his fellow patriotic citizens. Your posts don't reflect that love. You are more of a 'Hate-America-First' kinda guy. Sad. Please find a better country and go there.

Ken (Old Texican)| 3.30.10 @ 8:16PM

Loudmouth,

Mr. Obama Thanks you for your vote. He calls you a useful idiot.

Well done today. You darned sure earned your minimum wage from Mr. Soros.

Amspec,
Thank you guys again for the open comments section here.
You let us see in 3-D just how stupid the communists, (pardon the shorthand), truly are.

Rob Purdie| 3.30.10 @ 8:28PM

Brilliant.

Thank you.

Sooz W| 3.30.10 @ 9:19PM

Our biggest mistake will be waiting until November to run them out of office.

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The Quiet Anger : The Minority Report links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

The Patriot Caucus Upload Liberty Uncategorized Op-Ed Front page The Quiet Anger admin On March - 31 - 2010 Add to favorites Today on American Spectator, James P Gannon has an excellent post about America’s Quiet Anger. There is a quiet anger boiling in America. It is the anger of millions of hard-working citizens who pay their bills, send in their income taxes, maintain their homes and repay their mortgage…

ggoblue| 3.30.10 @ 9:36PM

217 days

Lullaby's, Legends and Lies| 3.30.10 @ 9:49PM

I hope, after the thousands of words written today, that Loud-Douchebag-Patriot comes down with carpal tunnel syndrome, and that it's not covered in Obamacare. That would be sweet justice!!

Tom (rural America)| 3.30.10 @ 9:50PM

Thank you LoudPatriot!!
I have never imagined myself at a Tea Party event until tonight.
Thanks to your abject left wing retoric, I will now make it a point to attend the next Tea party event in my area. I consider myself an independent voter. I believe the direction the country is going in is not in the best interest of the majority of its citizens. I have never been politicly active, but I have had enough of this BS from Washington from both parties to finally get off my fat duff, and do something.
Thank you again LoudPatriot!

mary| 4.1.10 @ 11:44PM

Go Tom:
http://nationalprecinctalliance.org/
make a differance

Julia| 3.30.10 @ 10:05PM

That could have been me writing that article. He read my mind. Listen up Washington, we know what you're doing to this great Country, and it ain't gonna happen.
As Former Secretary State Eagleberger said today, Obama is amateurish in foreign policy
and he's putting Israel in a situation that Iran may be that if the US doesn't feel Israel is important, then it may think they have the upper hand. We just don't do our allies the way Netanyahau was treated. I'm embarrased.
Grow up or get out You're over your head

Chris| 3.30.10 @ 10:21PM

There are many more of us than there are loudmouths that confuse loudness with intelligence. Name calling seems to be the preferred method of debate for the left. As the old saying goes, never argue with a fool because someone overhearing you might not know the difference. In any event, it best to ignore them because the energy can be best spent elsewhere.

Most of us are angry. I am an engineer that works (or used to work) in the land development business and I have seen the destruction of many people's lives firsthand, inluding my own. Hard working, conservative, good people have had their life's work erased in the span of 24 months. While there is much blame to go around, the seeds of the destruction were sown by the Federal Government and were nurtured by the Fed. As difficult as it will be to achieve, our salvation will necessarily involve re-orienting our government onto a sustainable path - a path that must be based on conservative principals if it is to be suceed.

None of us think that the current hard turn to the left will ever restore the prosperity that we once enjoyed. Maybe nothing will but giving in to that thought leads to despair instead of victory. At the moment, we are restraining our anger and waiting on November. Recently, Thomas Sowell opined that November may be our last chance. If we don't turn it around then, who knows where this anger could lead.

C.K. Amos| 3.30.10 @ 10:25PM

Wow, the tar-baby called Loud[mouth]Patriot seems a blend of Marxist Obama's "In your face" bluster, a touch of arrogance, several shakes of vulgarity, an all purpose dollop of denigration of others and a heavy does of know-it-all-ness. Good lib.

We're fortunate to have him remind of us of why the Demockacrats, liberals and leftists are the cognitively dissonant insufferables they are.

steve| 3.30.10 @ 10:50PM

"It is the fury of the voiceless, the powerless, the ordinary nobodies of Flyover Country who are ridiculed, preached to, satirized and insulted by the Celebrity Loudmouths of the two Left Coasts, the Jon Stewarts and Keith Olbermanns, the Paul Krugmans and their ilk."

If you don't like what they're saying, CHANGE THE CHANNEL!

tzsigane| 3.30.10 @ 10:58PM

All this talk about the tea party make me wonder how far we've come. Did America start to spiral out of control at the implementation of taxes? After all the original Boston tea party was about the taxes imposed by the mother country England. Here we are today paying taxes galore compared to the 6% fought over then. Where in the constitution does it say I have to pay taxes? I just have fear installed into me that I pay them anyway.

Bennet Cecil| 3.31.10 @ 12:07AM

If you are mad enough vote them out in 2010, 2012 and 2014. You can get rid of all of them in only 4 years. Elect new politicians who will reduce the size and cost of government. The last few months have demonstrated that there are no moderate or blue dog democrats. If you want to shrink government you will have to vote republican. Conservative democratic voters should not support the democrat party with its statist, progressive utopian agenda. It is a clear choice between the two parties. Do not complain, simply vote them out.

Answers1| 3.31.10 @ 1:00AM

Haiti immunizes whites against charges of racism.

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The Quiet Anger | RedState links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…Posts Log in Sign Up The Quiet Anger Posted by Black River Wolf ( Profile) Wednesday, March 31st at 2:34AM EDT No Comments Today on American Spectator, James P Gannon has an excellent post about America’s Quiet Anger. There is a quiet anger boiling in America. It is the anger of millions of hard-working citizens who pay their bills, send in their income taxes, maintain their homes and repay their mortgage…

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Government Fuels Quiet Anger Across America « Quipster links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

Quipster Quipster Front Page About More ← Hooves Make Way For 33 Worthless Presidential Promises Government Fuels Quiet Anger Across America March 31, 2010 · Leave a Comment America’s Quiet Anger. James T. Gannon at The American Spectator. Still waters run deep. There is a quiet anger boiling in America. It is the anger of millions of hard-working citizens who pay their bills, send in…

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The Silent Majority? | Conservative Cabbie links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…Palin SCOTUS Sonia Sotomayor stimulus Tea- Party Terrorism Mar 31 The Silent Majority? Filed Under American Politics Thankyou to Shockwaver for the recommendation. I highly recommend that you read this short but really well written piece on America’s angry yet silent majority. The same silent anger exists in the UK, which is why I can appreciate it. Comments Leave a Reply Name (required) Email…

Anthony| 3.31.10 @ 8:09AM

Correction on Dirigo Health--remember this when you see Obama spinning it on Thursday. It has actually cost over $150 million--a lot for Maine--and covers, after a number of years in operation, exactly 3,400 previously uninsured.

It's the dishonesty that makes me sick.

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America's Quiet Anger links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…Posts: 7,131 Thanks: 4,670 Thanked 14,070 Times in 5,930 Posts Groans: 5 Groaned at 19 Times in 19 Posts Rep Power: 291 Not Ranked America's Quiet Anger The Nation's Pulse America's Quiet Anger By James P. Gannon on 3.30.10 @ 6:07AM There is a quiet anger boiling in America. It is the anger of millions of hard-working citizens who pay their bills, send in their income taxes, maintain their…

Angela De Marco| 3.31.10 @ 9:01AM

This piece speaks to me in a voice louder than you can possibly imagine. And for the record, I live in New York. Thank you for venting for me so eloquently.

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America’s Quiet Anger | Republican Party of Door County links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…is deep, and it will not be salved by more presidential speeches, Congressional hand-outs, or promises of wonderful things to come. They no longer believe any of that. Read more: http://spectator.org/archives/2010/03/30/americas-quiet-anger Related posts: Beware the Emboldened Left Conservatives and Republicans who underestimate President Obama do so at... Tattered Liberty On its present course, as Dennis Prager put…

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The Quiet Anger | Stix Blog ver 4.0 links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic. Powered by WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin Share Today on American Spectator, James P Gannon has an excellent post about America’s Quiet Anger. There is a quiet anger boiling in America. It is the anger of millions of hard-working citizens who pay their bills, send in their income taxes, maintain their homes and repay their mortgage…

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AMERICA’S QUIET ANGER « News To Keep An Eye On links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

AMERICA’S QUIET ANGER « News To Keep An Eye On News To Keep An Eye On news that affects us all « A NEW DIRECTION AMERICA’S QUIET ANGER By dag37 http://spectator.org/archives/2010/03/30/americas-quiet-anger This entry was posted on March 31, 2010 at 2:38 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response,…

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READING ASSIGNMENTS | Obama.....Aggregated! All the Obama news you can FEED on. links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…problem. John Kerry, Joseph Lieberman and Lindsey Graham are furiously working to finalize climate change legislation, including sweeteners in the bill to make it more politically enticing. There is a quiet anger boiling in America ... among millions of hard-working citizens who pay their bills, send in their income taxes, maintain their homes and repay their mortgage loans -- and see their government reward those who…

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Anger, rage and everything in between links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…at night. And their resentment is multiplied by the media’s efforts to portray them all as dangerous, crazy people, and by the effort of certain Democrats to tar them with brush of violent intent. More… Share Leave a Comment Name * E-mail * Website Previous post: The next generation of junkies Get updates delivered to your inbox. Enter your email address Search Ramparts360 Categories 10th Amendment…

Ghost of MLK| 3.31.10 @ 12:55PM

Who is more racist than those who say, "'Those people' (insert favorite protected class) can't make it on their own without our help."

Gary| 3.31.10 @ 1:00PM

Would like to see the names of the actual individuals who wrote the h/c bill, even if they are staffers...publish the names. Wonder if it is possible to cut pensions of the President, Congress and all federal workers?

D.Nelson| 3.31.10 @ 1:50PM

I really want to laugh at people's comments. All they do is whine and complain and come election time either revert to voting for the name they know or don't vote at all. We have the power for change and are either to stupid to use it or when it is all said and done we just don't care enough. I am willing to bet that over 75% of the incumbents that run this fall will win and the complaining will just contine.

tzsigane| 3.31.10 @ 8:13PM

That would be nothing new. It's just today we have the technology to do it faster !! yeah!

John| 3.31.10 @ 2:06PM

And whom will these millions of quietly angry Americans vote for in November? All those 'Blue Dog' Dems who did what Masser Nancy told them to do? Or perhaps all those good littler GOpers, who did as Karl Rove told them, and voted for that MediCare monstrosity, or all that budget busting spending? "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants" - T.Jefferson

thedametruth | 3.31.10 @ 2:07PM

The problem here is that no longer can Americans trust that their vote is counted. From what I witnessed in the 2008 campaign, the individual who seized the White House did not reflect accurately the will of the American people. Voter fraud and intimidation were the rule, not the exception, and the potential for these things increases with the advent of mandated electronic voting machines, courtesy of Diebold, and which are notoriously easy to tamper with. That in and of itself is responsible for a great deal of the rage that is sweeping Americans and simmering to a slow boil. Almost all Americans know that the government and its media mouthpiece lies to them and many have experienced firsthand the craven rudeness and insensitivity to Representitives' constituents. Few of those in Congress seem to have any familiarity with our Constitution and if they do, appear to care nothing at all about it. THAT is why Americans are mad, and they will not stand for it much longer.

cyborg3k| 3.31.10 @ 2:50PM

How right you are. The 'rats are going to manipulate the vote in every precinct where they think they can get away with it, and Americans better be able to scrape together enough legal help willing to challenge the results in virtually every Congr. district. Acorn and its clones are already armed with million$ in free (taxpayer supplied) cash to fund their scams.

D.Nelson| 3.31.10 @ 4:52PM

Um hello, Acorn is now out of business or did you miss that?

Reality Check| 3.31.10 @ 8:20PM

Hey D.Nelson, Acorn is out of business, but the members are still alive! So similar to ants, they just moved to a different location doing the same old, same old. I'm sure they have new company name tags by now.

D.Nelson| 3.31.10 @ 4:51PM

OMG what a load of crap. He won, he won fairly. This country was wanting something different and sorry John McCain was not something different. Were there "issues" probably so, but don't sit there and tell me something was up in any election and especially the last 2. How mad are they? They are a little mad now, but come November these same "mad" people will again vote for the same old and then bitch and moan about it. Your statement is so laughable and so in the "norm" of someone who just doesn't get it.

tzsigane| 3.31.10 @ 8:18PM

I always love it when the dead people get a chance to vote. Now that's freakin awesome. The voted a lot back when Bush & Gore were running too!

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Right-Wing Links (March 31, 2010) links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…Fallacies of Economics They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 America's Quiet Anger If they’re psychopaths, then we can legally restrain them and feed them drugs… ONLY the Right huh? Liberty is color blind Load up on Guns my Friends The fundamental article of my political creed is…

Cold Warrior | 3.31.10 @ 4:45PM

Want to turn that quiet anger into action?
Take back the Republican Party. Become a precinct committeemen. PCs, and ONLY PCs, can vote for the Party leadership. HALF these slots were vacant in the last election cycle. In other words, the Party was at half strength. And split about 50-50 between conservatives and RINOs. That ratio would go to 75-25 in favor on conservatives if all the "quiet anger" people would INVADE and TAKE OVER the Party.
Go here to learn more: www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com

Thank you.
Cold Warrior
No More Scozzafavas!
ACT! Become a Republican precinct committeeman. NOW!

D.nelson| 3.31.10 @ 4:53PM

Wow here is a thought, kick both parties to the side and how about electing some independents for a change/

Susan Brei| 3.31.10 @ 5:54PM

Gasp! Then we'd have politicians who represent their constituents instead of towing party lines! Oh no!

D. McKay| 3.31.10 @ 5:48PM

Cut every government worker's wages in half or to minimum wage, whichever applies. That would rid us of some of them.

D.nelson| 3.31.10 @ 6:14PM

Do you mean politican or just general worker? There is a huge difference.

johnT| 3.31.10 @ 8:21PM

yeah its a huge difference btwn worker bees & drones.

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blog dot johnscott dot net » Anger under the surface: a good way of putting it links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

dot johnscott dot net » Anger under the surface: a good way of putting it Home Other Galleries Our Wedding & Related blog dot johnscott dot

Susan Brei| 3.31.10 @ 5:51PM

This little opinion piece paints a drastically oversimplified picture of America, politics and Barack Obama. I'm sure the Dems will lose a few seats here and there, but it won't be a landslide victory. The "flyover states" are not quite as ideologically unified as the author would like to think.

Take me for instance. My family is from North Dakota. I grew up in small-town rural Washington. I grew up evangelical. I now live in deep-red Utah. By all means, I should be a Republican. I'm not. I'm a social liberal, fiscal conservative who has a complex set of views on how our tax money should be spent. In my opinion, Obama has done a good job leading our divided country, and his policy ideas (health care exchange, no public option, approval of offshore drilling, etc) are centrist when you judge them against the Republican ideas from 10 years ago. In fact, they're centrist enough to make his liberal supporters angry time and time again.

I'm guessing if he walked with a swagger, spoke with a country twang, hailed from Texas and had white skin... you'd eliminate half the people who hate him in one fell swoop. He's just not "cowboy" enough for this country. That's what all of this is REALLY about.

Darragh| 4.1.10 @ 2:13PM

This is absurd and disingenuous. Obama is a good man in some ways, but he is arrogant and out of touch with the real world. (And please--I have a doctorate and MS in sociology from one of America's most liberal universities in Boston area, as well as a BA from an elite NE college--so don't appreciate being labeled. Though luckily I grew up blue collar Catholic and thus have a fine tuned BS detector).

At any rate, the way the Ds conducted their legislative campaign was tinned eared. I realize this is a complex issue, but people are frightened..on its face, this is a huge spendthrift debacle at a time when we seem more unstable than I can remember. Also, for us social conservatives, Obama's indifference to our sensibilities is appalling--and most conservative sites don't even touch on this.

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You Don’t Have To Attend A Tea Party To Be Angry « SPITFIRE MURPHY links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

Of Americans Say Obama Does Not Deserve Re-election March 31, 2010...6:26 PM You Don’t Have To Attend A Tea Party To Be Angry Jump to Comments James P. Gannon of The American Spectator brilliantly sums up what is driving the anger across America and points out that the majority of those who are fed up are seething in silence. It is the fury of the voiceless, the powerless, the ordinary nobodies of…

Me| 3.31.10 @ 7:25PM

I thought this artical was about the fact that under the new leadership, the harder I work and the more responsible I am, the further I will get behind. I thought this was about those of us who are doing the right thing but are benig forced to bear the burden of the social "entitlement" programs and how this is quietly enraging a silent majority that will/should speak-up in the most patriotic way with our votes ......never thought of it as commentary on racisism.

Reality check| 3.31.10 @ 8:24PM

Hey "Me". Shh. Be quiet your ruining the rampant complaining and the relentless tangents regarding whatever.

Reality check| 3.31.10 @ 8:24PM

Hey "Me". Shh. Be quiet your ruining the rampant complaining and the relentless tangents regarding whatever.

Steve| 3.31.10 @ 9:01PM

Well I know I;m not prejudice I don't like the white half of him either.

jedediah| 4.1.10 @ 9:39AM

You are prejudiced and--obviously--quite anti-intellectual as well. I predict you are a Republican--or a libertarian.

Greg| 3.31.10 @ 9:35PM

Joe, I have my hand up too. I have been hauling for two different civil engineering construction companies for 20+ years. I was asked to bid on a job for each of them. I won the bid. I was called a week later and asked if I was a minority status carrier which I was not. They told me that I was loosing the jobs because I was not a "MINORITY CARRIER" because the "GOV'T CONTRACT" said 75% had to be minority status. So how am I supposed to make a living?? Great government we have that is putting these stipulations on us!!

Jedediah Redman| 4.1.10 @ 9:36AM

The rise of white supremacy immediately following the election of Mr. OBama shold be written off as coincidence?
I am 73 years old; and can never remember politically inspired hatred to equal what is going on at the moment.
Color me Social Democrat...

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America’s Quiet Anger « Guns and Ammo links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…Several years ago, I really heard nothing of the sort, but I hear similar types of things from all walks of life now. A pot can only boil for so long before it boils over… http://spectator.org/archives/2010/03/30/americas-quiet-anger This entry was posted on Thursday, April 1st, 2010 at 8:38 am and is filed under Miscellaneous. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave…

Brian Dunbar | 4.1.10 @ 10:08AM

I would not use the word 'anger'. 'Bitter' is very accurate.

This quiet bitterness will come out in many ways.

Non-cooperation with the government. Feeding ratty data back to the government on census forms. Telling government busy-bees of all levels 'myob'. Refusing to take at face value anything a 'crat or pol says.

Supposedly there are large areas of this country that have low participation rates for mailing the census form back in - the southwest, southeast, West Virginia. Does htis indicate that 'a lot' of people simply threw the damned thing in the trash?

Diego| 4.1.10 @ 1:26PM

Bitterness? That's what you think?

Underestimate much?

Brian Dunbar | 4.1.10 @ 4:47PM

Underestimate much?

This is the thing: anger is hot and easily quenched. Very few of us can go to bed angry, wake up angry, stay angry all day long. Anger has a half-life of six month.

Bitter can be nursed for a lifetime.

We might hope the current climate is bitter, not angry. If it's truly the latter by the next presidential election there won't be enough angry people to make a difference at the polls.

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America’s Quiet Anger | MortgagePrep.info links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…hard work got you a house and security. “Real” Americans watch TMZ and cheat on their spouses, get pregnant before marriage and “real” Americans… The rest is here: America’s Quiet Anger Related posts on 30 year Current Mortgage Rates: 30 Year Mortgage Rates up to 5.08 … Freddie Mac: 30-year Mortgage Rate Rises Above 5% « Atlanta Homes Mortgages: 30-year fixed-rate mortgage…

Tulsa Jack| 4.1.10 @ 1:56PM

This is exactly right. I am furious. Can't march, can't contribute, but am enraged at the malicious destruction of American culture and institutions and determined to support its opponents all the way. A foreign conqueror could not do us more harm than these poisonous D-rat ideologues. Throw them all out! Down with tyranny!

D.Nelson| 4.1.10 @ 5:14PM

Exactly how are democrats = to tyranny? They may believe in a more socialist formation of gov't, but that is a long distance from tyranny.

Wild Hiccup| 4.1.10 @ 2:18PM

Nothing good will happen unless and until we can convince the voting majority to learn how to vote. The most dangerous time is when the crowd becomes angry. So they decide to choose a dictator to permanently destroy the good parts of their government.

jon B| 4.1.10 @ 2:55PM

You didn't get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.

You didn't get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate
energy policy.

You didn't get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed.

You didn't get mad when the Patriot Act got passed.

You didn't get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.

You didn't get mad when we spent over 600 billion(and counting) on said illegal war.

You didn't get mad when over 10 billion dollars just disappeared in Iraq.

You didn't get mad when you found out we were torturing people.

You didn't get mad when the government was illegally wiretapping Americans.

You didn't get mad when we didn't catch Bin Laden.

You didn't get mad when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter Reed.

You didn't get mad when we let a major US city, New Orleans, drown.

You didn't get mad when we gave a 900 billion tax break to the rich.

You didn't get mad when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark.

You finally got mad when the government decided that people in America deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick. Yes, illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, stealing your tax dollars to make the rich richer, are all okay with you, but helping other Americans...oh hell no!

D.Nelson| 4.1.10 @ 5:12PM

Why is it the gov't responsibility to see you are healthy? Can you name me one time a sick person in this country was refused medical care? We are not a nanny state, if that is what you seek, there are countries that offer you that option. I don't see why I have to pay for your medical care?

BTW, as for the torture issue, anything that makes a terrorist life that little bit more uncomfortable is okay with me.

1ST SGT| 4.1.10 @ 8:41PM

You mentioned, "You didn't get mad when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark."

If you spent %1 Million a day, every day since the Birth of Christ (2010 years ago) you would not have gone through $1 Trillion yet. That is a lot of money! Just how many Trillions are we discussing now? 13?

Whatcha think that's going to do to your purchasing power based upon the value of the Dollar? What will a car cost in 2015?

Stephanie| 4.1.10 @ 2:57PM

The only racism that my two children experienced was from a neighbor next door--a son of a "San Francisco Liberal" who often called them Camel Jockeys. (My kids are half Arab.) I was never discriminated against except for my religion (RC) and the fact that I go to church. Most of the stupid remarks were from "tolerant" progressives at a workplace.

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America's Quiet Anger - Benzworld.org - Mercedes-Benz Discussion Forum links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…Their quiet rage abides, waiting till it can be expressed in that silent place behind the curtain where the ballot lists the names that they have now committed to an angry memory. The American Spectator : America's Quiet Anger __________________ Don't believe everything you think MBCA Remove Advertisements Sponsored Links Benzworld.org - Mercedes-Benz Discussion Forum Advertisement …

Christus Regeln| 4.1.10 @ 3:22PM

Angry, waiting to vote in November, and hoping the Democrats and their criminal supporters such as ACORN and SEIU, will not try to undermine the legitimacy of the upcoming elections. If Americans lose confidence in the voting process, there is only one step remaining---armed revolution.

Pete| 4.1.10 @ 3:42PM

So what if they are angry or resentful? Living in a democracy means that not everyone gets what they want. Get over it, already!

Diann Averett| 4.1.10 @ 4:32PM

This is well stated and is exactly why groups like GOOOH - Get Out Of Our House- are growing. We want term limits. People want real representation and integrity in office. We want sound currency and equality of taxation and equal treatment under the law.
www.goooh.com

D.Nelson| 4.1.10 @ 5:06PM

No people don't want that, because if they did, they would vote to get that done. What people want is to just bitch and moan when issue X comes up and then after a bit and all the press dies down it's on to another issue. We have what we have because that is what the majority wants.

psutopgun| 4.1.10 @ 6:26PM

Very well said. Actually the government is largely responsible for this recession. Just follow the Community Fairness Act passed in 1977. I have told the President, in e-mails"WE ARE COMING...WE WILL NOT FORGET" You can take those words to the bank. I really don't believe they fully understand how bad it is going to be starting in November of this year.

D.Nelson| 4.1.10 @ 6:29PM

You will be coming in a very small group. I am willing to bet that 75% or more of the present politicans up for reelection in Nov will win. The republicans will gain a few seats on both sides but nothing more. I mean come on every time I turn on the TV the republicans are committing another stupid act. Sorry but neither party is going to take a major move in Nov.

Annie Ladysmith| 4.1.10 @ 7:19PM

Sadly, they have waited too long! After Kennedy was shot like a dog in broad daylight, after Vietnam, after Watergate, after Clinton, the fool, had sex with that woman, after Waco, after a secretary of state (yeah! Voodoo Witchey Hillary) called in the order herself to torch women and children at Waco, after Ruby Ridge, after Gitmo, after al gharib, after the fact that American kids keep coming back from undeclared, unconstitutional wars in body bags, FOR WHAT? Tell me for what? It is too late. There is a time for righteous anger but when the time is not taken over and over again then we become complicit in the evil which abounds.

1SG SGT| 4.1.10 @ 8:24PM

Annie, you're right. We take it over and over and over. We want to be good citizens. We want to be placid, law-abiding members of society, so we do nothing. We don't even all go to the polls and vote. Or, if we do, we reelect these bozos again and again and again.

Often the polls indicate that less than 10% approve of the job Congress is doing. 3 months later we reelect 98% of them to office. It defies all possible understanding. Stop Voting For Incumbents! It is simple. If it is broken, fix it.

Our military forces last fought in a war in World War 2. Don't bother to mention Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, for the other 20 or so police actions where we spent American blood for our politicians to project their influence on the world. We train soldiers to kill the enemy. Now, when they punch a terrorist we courts-martial them? We try and convict a Navy Seal for killing a known terrorist that attacked him and place him in Leavenworth for 25 years? Not what I call war. Police Actions.

We should all just go visit Washington, DC on vacation this summer. All of us simply go tour the Capitol; about 300,000 of us. Or maybe 1,000,000. All in one single day. No speeches, no marches or picketing. Simply go see your Senator and pack his offices like a sardine can. Same for your Representative. Just smile, shake his hand, be polite. By the hundreds of thousands. Then, go home. Enough said. Quiet, polite, respectful. But believe me, they will wake up. They will be afraid. Simple, lawful, effective.

1ST SGT| 4.1.10 @ 7:49PM

Far too many Americans feel the sun rises and sets in one political party or the other. You're either a Democrat or a Republican. Can't you see that each speaks a different platform, a different ideology, yet each Party cheats, lies, and steals to the beat of a different drummer? It is time to "Wake up!"

Until we Stand Up and let these lying bastards in Washington, DC realize that we are Mad, Mad As Hell, we will continue to subjugated and looked down upon. Some folks speak of the 2nd Amendment as though it is some excuse to go out and kill someone. Nothing could be farther from the truth. An armed citizenry is far more secure than a disarmed populace. Study just a little history.

Americans that are not felons should not only be able to carry a pistol on their hip, they should be required to do so. Now, only criminals can carry, not law-abiding citizens. Also, you elected officials will respect you much more if THEY fear you instead of us fearing them. You don't have to shoot anyone, that is not the point.

Our coffers are being plundered. The Dollar is worthless. We have a Private Corporation called the Federal Reserve that has lowered the value of our currency BIG TIME. Gold, the most stable commodity in existence costs nearly $1,200 an ounce. For nearly 150 years is was $20 and change until we came off the gold standard with the Federal Reserve! Gold didn't go up in value, the Dollar has plummeted.

Democrats or Republicans... The Devil or Beelzebub. Don't ask for Term Limits. Demand them. Don't ask for no more earmarks. Demand it. Don't ask for Constitutional Laws... Demand them.

"If you want to keep on getting what you've been getting, just keep on doing what you've been doing."

mary| 4.1.10 @ 11:52PM

Sign the Articles of Freedom being presented to Congress as a redress of grievances by the American people.
http://www.wethepeoplefoundati.....-03-08.htm
support the work of We The People Foundation they are working to restore Liberty.

Long Ben| 4.1.10 @ 8:29PM

I would remind all that not one Republican voted for the Obamacare boondoggle. And to all Republicans in Federal office now , I implore you
it is time for scorched earth ! Not another bill passes before November.

Long Ben| 4.1.10 @ 8:37PM

Scratch that, not another Bill passes till January

mpolzkill | 4.2.10 @ 12:24AM

And hopefully they remember that when in power
the Republicans were hardly better.

richard| 4.2.10 @ 1:49AM

This president is the most devisive president this country has ever seen, this is not about race this is about freedom and personal responsibility. This is about wealth distribution and Bidden even said so on the news and several other prominent Democrats have been emboldened to step forward and tell it as it really is this is control and wealth distribution in the biggest way.
I am so tired of affirmative action i was a middle manager for a major comapany and i was on the hiring committee and it made me sick when we bypassed completely capable white men to either hire minorities or women. It sickens me to see this country screwed like this. Yes prejudicces exist but it is more on the black side than the white side, has anyone read Obama book of his youth if you want to read about prejudice read that book or watch his minster do his chikeens come home to roost thing. Wow people are you so blind, how many times did some news media man/woman refer to the election as if it had better go this way or there will be rioting in the streets. Wow unbelievable.

laserdog| 4.2.10 @ 8:10AM

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RACE CARD: MANY WHITE AMERICANS DIED TO FREE AND EDUCATE BLACKS. The DNC is promoting using the Race Card. Learn your history.

http://www.floppingaces.net/20.....-other-...

Indy Voter| 4.2.10 @ 9:11AM

Thanks for posting, I was going to but saw you beat me to it. I plan on buying his books, we need more like him willing to speak the truth. Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams are others worth reading.

Bebe Hartnett| 4.2.10 @ 10:18AM

There is racism that's real all right. but not all who hate Obama are racists. It's just that when we read things like "Obama is the most divisive president we've ever had." The sheer exaggeration begs the question, why does this man appear so evil to you? What is the reason for the endless exaggeration about what Obama has actually done and what you think he really wants to do? Most people assume the hyperbolic anger comes against Obama comes from racism. But most of it is a simple Republican tribalism. Remember how much Bill Clinton was hated.

Bud| 4.2.10 @ 12:27PM

Bebe,

You allude to Republican tribalism and their hatred for various Democrat Presidents. Let me guess... You're a Democrat.

Bush 1 and Bush 2 had hate heaped upon them, also. But, you neglected to notice that.

Obama is not held in high esteem because he lied his way into the White House. He appointed a Communist to office. He espouses Socialist ideologies. He advances unconstitutional legislation. He has created massive debt on the Nation and he isn't done yet.

D.Nelson| 4.2.10 @ 4:15PM

Could you please provide examples where he lied? Or which person is a communist? As for socialist idea's, if you haven't noticed, about 53% of the voting population supported those ideas. Also name 1 president who has not added to the debt in some way during their presidency.

Chris| 4.2.10 @ 7:19PM

So many positions Obama staked out during the campaign have been reversed, it would take more than a comment to detail them. But if you were listening before the election, he would occasionally show his hand. Most famously with Joe The Plumber and a in speech a week before the election he promised to "fundamentally transform the United States of America". That appears to be the only promise that he is trying to keep. As to the math on the debt -
From our founding through 2008 we accumulated a $5.8 trillion debt. We are now projected to accumulate another $14 trillion over the next decade. That is what I call adding to the debt in "some way".

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Most Tweeted Articles by Insurance Experts links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…Afraid Guam Will "Tip Over and Capsize" Here is video of Democrat Rep. Hank Johnson saying he is afraid the addition of 8,000 U.S. Marines a... 2 Tweets WellPoint 2 Tweets The American Spectator : America's Quiet Anger 2 Tweets Obamacare Bullies and Punishes The Children | RedState Well, the young adults. However, since 26 year olds are now still considered children under Obamacar... 2 Tweets The…

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America’s Quiet Anger « Freedom Corner links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

America’s Quiet Anger « Freedom Corner Freedom Corner April 2, 2010 America’s Quiet Anger Filed under: Political commentary — Puff @ 7:13 am The american Spectator, April 2, 2010 By James P. Gannon on 3.30.10 @ 6:07AM There is a quiet anger boiling in America. It is the anger of millions of hard-working citizens who pay their bills, send in their income taxes,…

BettyO| 4.2.10 @ 12:31PM

I watched Obama during the campaign... felt the people caught up in the "change". Sooo, in order to make an educated decision on voting, I researched him. Wow, no... did not vote for him. His credentials were extremely lacking for the office. I have since, continued to watch and research the man. I have proven right.

michael e| 4.2.10 @ 3:39PM

A couple of chants I'd like to see go viral:

COME NOVEMBER! WE'LL REMEMBER!

and

OH NO YOU DON'T/WON'T
(response to "yes we did/can")

Oldefarte| 4.3.10 @ 11:42AM

I hope and pray that Americans express their QUIET ANGER in November+; for I know that, if they DO NOT, their opportunity for doing so will be forever lost, and that this country will thereafter cease to exist [at least, as we know it today]!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pinche Calderon| 4.3.10 @ 3:01PM

Is it really that amazing anger results when a group of people that were an absolute majority are no longer the absolute majority? The thing about it is that anger is not the only response that is out there. It had always been the conclusion that anger is the last resort of those that have little or no coping skills, thus why this anger is viewed as coming from unintelligent, uninformed peoples.

The higher the anger level gets, the higher the illogical thought process becomes and resorting to violent behaviors is a demonstration of the frustration level coming from these angry peoples. Clinging to a past that is bound to change causes people to lose control of their anger and then they resort to the lowest means possible for trying to stop that change from occurring. It used to be that when a person was angry they were supposed to count to 10 before acting. Maybe that count needs to increase to counting to 50-100 before doing something you will probably regret later.

Trygaeus| 4.3.10 @ 5:10PM

RE: Pichne Calderon

It has nothing to do with with not being an absolute majority and it certainly isn't illogical. If we continue down this path, the "past that is bound to change", will be the prosperity that we have always been able to pass along to our children. Surely you must understand why that is leading to anger.

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The Absurd Report » America’s Quiet Anger By James P. Gannon links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…bend that Constitution — finding “rights” not enumerated, powers never granted, meanings unimagined — believe that their country is being redefined without their consent. Read more from Spectator.org Social Networking: No Comments » Trackback URI | Comments RSS Leave a Reply You must be logged in to post a comment. April 2010 M T W T F S S « Mar 1 2 3 4…

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Quiet Anger - Old Hippie's Forums links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…Honolulu, Hawaii Posts: 2,794 Thanks: 474 Thanked 438 Times in 283 Posts Rep Power: 4 Style: Old Hippie Medium Quiet Anger http://spectator.org/archives/2010/0...et-anger/print The Nation's Pulse America's Quiet Anger By James P. Gannon on 3.30.10 @ 6:07AM There is a quiet anger boiling in America. It is the anger of millions of hard-working citizens who pay their bills, send in their income taxes, maintain their…

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Views on the News – 4/3/2010 by: david-coughlin | American Conservative Daily links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…ownhall.com/columnists/KenBlackwell/2010/03/28/demonizing_everyday_americans “America’s Quiet Anger ” by James P. Gannon dated March 30, 2010 published by The American Spectator at http://spectator.org/archives/2010/03/30/americas-quiet-anger ) Contributor's website: http://www.returntocommonsensesite.com Filed Under Conservative Musings Content posted by users from other sites is posted for commentary and news…

Georgia B| 4.5.10 @ 10:40AM

I do not believe or ever believed that blacks should not have their own Nation. They can get along or not get along with eachother and shoot eachother at will. Leave whites alone. Separate and equal. It is safer for everyone that way. Racist? I don't think so. Just honest but most people won't say it because they do not want to be seen as not P.C.

sdkinpa| 4.5.10 @ 2:36PM

Hate to say it but take a moment to think of all the third world contries in the world...got them? Ok what color are the people "running" that country? ooops! I guess I'm a racist.

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Week’s round-up: “Free” health care, expensive consequences | SmallGovTimes.com links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…its disastrous side effects and huge ramifications for the American people. Many are fighting for its repeal, including businesses. And many Americans who do work hard and pay their taxes are, rightfully, pissed. In other news, our extreme national debt continues to rise – both in numbers and in importance. Obama’s spending initiatives, including one that blew $5 billion taxpayer dollars on some…

white lady| 4.6.10 @ 10:12PM

Racism....I am a 40 yr old white woman who works with a majority of black women. I go everyday to work with a smile on my face, trying to fit in, but they don't really welcome me. Not sure if that's racism or just a culture barrier. I am not better than them nor are they better than me, just stating a fact that racism can be seen as many faces...it's up to you as an individual to look past the label and just communicate and interact with others. And I'm a Republican.

Iron Sights| 4.6.10 @ 10:28PM

Not reaching for guns or pitchforks, huh? Whatchu talkin bout Willis?

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There is a quiet anger boiling in America. : Missouri Today links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…in America. April 6, 2010 Written by News/Opinion Contributor, in Breaking News, National Leave a Comment Read what James P. Gannon writes in The American Spectator about Americans’ Quiet Anger. Here’s an excerpt: “…These quietly angry people gather in their churches while their religions are called divisive and their beliefs are labeled as bigotry, and they pray for a…

cat27| 4.6.10 @ 10:53PM

I would not attend a tea party meeting, but I agree with them completely. Before today, I would have called myself concerned and worried, but not angry. Today, however, I became angry. The insanity of saying we take off the table the option of using nuclear weapons in response to a chemical or biological attack is truly unbelievable.

Lavaux| 4.7.10 @ 4:41AM

When I read this kind of article, the question comes to mind, What were all these people doing in November 2006, when they handed control of Congress to the Democrats, and in November 2008, when they did the same with the White House? Were they so angry and disgusted with the GOP and President Bush that were willing to risk putting America entirely in the hands of the Democrats?

I guess they were. But elections have consequences, one of which is having to learn hard lessons about the nature of the two political parties.

The Democrats believe that America is and has been from her founding an essentially unjust country, which belief compels them to fundamentally transform her even if this requires them to violate her founding principles, documents and the supreme law of the land. What is more, this single-minded purpose drives Democrats to ruthlessly exploit the power given them in a manner that violates longstanding political customs and practices, and by so doing they break many of the bonds of fellowship and comity with their political opponents and the people. These Democratic tendencies put paid to the false claims and campaign promises that electing Democrats will restore bipartisanship in American politics. Democrats are by their very nature unable of comprise in proportion to the power they wield.

Republicans, in contrast, are a primarily conservative party that doesn't want America transformed because they tend to believe that it's a uniquely swell place. They're keen to conserve and enhance what's good and right with America, but all too often they get sucked into the false idea that government activism is the best way to do it, which leads them to embrace foolish policies. Worse, they fall prey to the false idea that the preservation of their own power is necessary to the conservation of America, which leads them to put horserace politics before principle to the end of preserving their power. This mindset isolates and detaches the GOP from the people, eventually alienating them from the party but not its principles, which the GOP are all too happy to abandon when their short-term political advantage so counsels. The foregoing notwithstanding, conservatism and the GOP are more compatible with bipartisanship and compromise because they are so often the requisites and products of the political customs and practices that are part of what's good and unique about America and worth preserving. Therefore, the GOP is by nature inclined to compromise in proportion to the preservative good doing so will gain for America less the harm that the terms of the compromise will do.

Right now the voters are having to learn these hard lessons about the two parties, which raises the question, Haven't we been here before, and shouldn't have learned our hard lessons the last go-round? Yes, but for reasons I can't quite fathom, each new generation of Americans must make the same mistakes and learn the same hard lessons the previous ones did. The redemptive part of this cycle - our abiding love for our founding principles and the liberty and prosperity they have delivered without fail - has until now always kicked in to save us. The silent anger of which this article speaks as well as the Tea Party movement indicate that it's kicking in again, but I remain skeptical of whether the strength and courage of conviction that impel it are sufficient in quality and quantity to save us. Or as my dear old dad taught his kids, “Hope for the best but expect the worst”.

MIke| 4.7.10 @ 1:48PM

Itr is hard to believe the short sighted ness of todays people.... We just came off of 8 years of failed policy, and now blame it on the new guy voted in by a record margin? I approve everything done so far, and there is so much more to do to successfully undo the Bush years...

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Quiet Anger and A Bit More « “The Way of the Wolf” – as told by Norm MacDonald links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…God would lead them by a cloud in the daytime and a pillar of fire by night. But then I know how silly that is. As I was reading my mail and pondering my circumstances, I friend sent me a piece call “ Quiet Anger “. As I thought about the writer’s words, I had one of those ah ha moments. He seemed to capture a good bit of my own thoughts. Thoughts riddled with doubt and frustration about what is…

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The Coffee Shop » A Free Home links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…restaurant somewhat humbled, and sensing a glimmer of hope for my beloved country. Use reason, Clifford A Wright See what Europe thinks of Obama as quoted by The European Times: America’s Quiet Anger: An article by James Gannon : April 12th, 2010 | Category: Commentary, Protest | Leave a comment Leave a Reply Cancel Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website You can…

Jeb| 5.1.10 @ 4:01PM

I have to say this...I am an independent, but lean on the side of moderate liberal on most things. It is quite sad that this "quiet anger" is listed as a conservative backlash, pointed at Obama. It is NOT. This anger is on both ends of the spectrum...and it is for a reason. George Bush had years to make things better for these people...he made it worse...Obama has the time now, but his party (as dirty as the exiting Republican Party) is only finding new ways to continue the "Bush parties" tactics of "more for Wall Street."

This anger is against establishment...the extablished Congress, party affiliation inconsequential...(after all, how many impotent, theatric, Senate rants must we hear before they end up doing nothing for substantial action to) follow it...It is against the "established business practices," those who fill their coffers with lie after lie.

This is not about party, it is about rampant greed and injustice.

Ian Hooper| 12.21.10 @ 3:13PM

Still pissed......

Around the world, we are the obvious enemy and proponents of terrorism. At home, this government looks the same to me.

pigbitinmad| 1.18.11 @ 3:24PM

I too hate the Wall Street banks and maybe Obama is not doing enough to defy them. But the Repugs like John Boehner and Mitch McConnell are even worse. They just made a blatant grab for the richest 1% (which we have to add to our mountain of debt to China). And we can't make any cuts to those stupid wars that we are wassting money on. YEAH, BE MAD, BUT STOP VOTING FOR THE PEOPLE WHO ARE STEALING FROM YOU.

Scott| 7.22.11 @ 11:37PM

What a bunch of crap. The party who is putting the screw to the American people is the GOP they are the ones who are kissing the back sides of the lazy and greedy rich. Tax cut on the rich do not make jobs and anyone with half a brain should be able to see that we have had 10 years of massive cut for the rich with no jobs being made here. Tax cut for the rich do make jobs but in China because these greedy pile of garbage don't care at all about this nation!

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