The American Spectator

Stephanie| 7.29.10 @ 6:33AM

Per your last paragraph Quin, I am doing just that and have been for some time.
Good article today.

Eric Cartman| 7.29.10 @ 9:21AM

Yeah, it was a pretty good ending. But a link to "The Proper Method of Tar and Feathering" would be better: http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h569.html

BTW, does tar stick to skin that has been severely Botoxed?

Stan Marsh| 7.29.10 @ 3:09PM

But how do you tar a slime-monster? Is it like killing a vampire? Are there rules?

Eric Cartman| 7.29.10 @ 11:52PM

Yes, Stan. Good question. We have various techniques on the drawing board to try on subjects, but we need a lab rat. Have you seen Butters?

John Cooper| 7.30.10 @ 7:42AM

In this modern age, we can buy tar in spray cans. See http://www.unifireusa.com/reta.....IT=Pruning Seal Aerosol&vn=94052&categ=2190

Eric Cartman| 7.30.10 @ 9:05AM

But it's not hot! We need boiling tar! Big pots of boiling tar with asbestos clad alligators swimming in them!

DatsunMark| 7.30.10 @ 1:28PM

How about sharks with lasers?

Carole Robinson| 7.29.10 @ 1:50PM

we are awake smart and doing just that

Moey| 7.29.10 @ 2:13PM

Eric: I agree. I write letters, talk to anyone who will listen, post on my Facebook page and hopefully people will turn out for the November elections in droves. I am pretty cynical at this point and because of the 'organization' that Mr. O has surrounded himself with I would not count out some pretty high-handed shennagians during the election. As I say at this point I am pretty cynical.

Dfallis| 7.29.10 @ 3:09PM

Know exactly what Moey and Eric mean...disgusted is not even a harsh enough word for what I'm feeling. This coming November may be the bloodiest election ever seen in this country, but people from all walks of life and races are determined to go and vote for "real change."

John Wyatt| 7.29.10 @ 4:39PM

I'm not convinced that we will get to vote in November. I believe things could be so bad for the democrats that another "crisis" is created that would justify Marshall Law thereby postponing the scheduled vote indefinitely.

Sue| 7.30.10 @ 8:15AM

I have been thinking this, too. The Dems have made so many illegal and unconstitutional moves, and they are getting so desperate, I think they could probably steal our right to vote, too.

Fabulous80| 7.30.10 @ 11:17AM

I honestly believe if the Communists-in-Power tried to do this, we would have violence. There are so many citizens who are so totally disgusted with administration that I do not think they would sit back and allow this to happen. There are also paramilitary groups that I suspect would get into the act. I sincerely hope nothing like this happens (I am nonviolent). The reason our founding fathers gave us the right to bear arms was for just this possibility. I pray sane heads will prevail.

Thelma | 7.31.10 @ 12:50PM

I firmly believe that until the taxpayers and those who collect the taxes for the government stop sending our $$$ to Washington, nothing is going to change. I sincerely hope the Tea Party movement will eventually use this to put control of America back in the hands of the people.

Kay Van Eps| 8.2.10 @ 8:34PM

That's why I think he should resign... NOW! He is a failure as president. He'll go down as the worst president in the nations history, save for Andrew Jackson, or Jimmy Carter.

Everett K. Thompson| 7.30.10 @ 5:31PM

I sadly, believe that that "crisis" could be a new civil war, between illegal aliens (Latinos?) and those of us that want to keep our American way! And, our friends, the "African-Americans," will have to choose which side to join, OR stand back and pick up what is left!
I think WE need to make choices now, if we will be strong for America, or to get out and leave. Me? I'm picking out my gun...

Alan Brooks| 7.30.10 @ 12:40AM

But, STILL, the feeling in 2010 is the same as in '94:
sadness;
but also gladness that a power mad dynastician is gone from office to write his whitewashing memoirs instead.
Even the Kennedys (fortunately) didn't get two of their powermongers in the White House.
Even Rose Kennedy never publicly said anything so foolish as : "all America must be run by a [Bush]"
You say we should cease being so divisive, cease invoking the failed son of Reagan's failed vice president, yet your actual behaviors as Republicans and or Tea Partiers does not match the rhetoric-- you want your people in power; you want your families to benefit from partisan politics. There is no one left who doesn't know that.

In a word, Hillyer; boilerplate.

M L| 7.30.10 @ 9:04AM

Read "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand. Conservatives are the adults; liberals/marxists are the children. Conservatives know how to run businesses well, donate more to charities, think through actions before implementing them, believe in good and evil, believe in very hard work--not handouts; believe in teaching people to work hard, believe in God, love marriage between a man and a woman, believe in laws, like authority figures such as local police, are involved in character-building clubs for children such as Boy Scouts, love America, love the military and a safe America, and believe blacks and whites can equally be successful if they work hard; believe prejudice was gone because Americans voted for a black president (until Obama stirred everyone up with his race-baiting); Alan Brooks, you are completely childlike in your writing and I hope that eventually you grow up. America is the last best place on earth. No one owes you or anyone else anything. You work hard to EARN what you want. Tea party people are unique, unclassifiable, unorganized, REAL Americans. Leftists are really Marxists who want to forcibly take other people's hard-earned money. Jim Wallis freely admits this on youtube: "I am a Marxist" and "want to force redistribution." You are all exposed now. Great article, Hillyer!

RCV| 7.30.10 @ 10:08PM

Your self-conceit and self-righteousness is showing. Guess what? Ayn Rand wrote fiction, and not very good fiction at that. She was, incidentally an atheist, a serial adulterer and someone with evident sexual identity problems. I wouldn't take her as a model for good, clean, Christian living.

Like many other liberal Democrats I know, I love my country passionately and would die for it as my father did in WW II. I'm a weekly churchgoer, was a Boy Scout leader and have been married (to the same woman) for 40 years. America is indeed the last, best place on earth and a beacon for the world. I'm so sick of you right-wingers thinking you're the only patriots in the country, while you chatter away about nullification and secession and how our government is evil. Grow up. You lost the election. Maybe next time you'll get off your butts and work harder instead of whining all the time.

California70| 7.31.10 @ 5:16AM

RCV
But, what you neglected to say about Ayn Rand is that she grew-up under Communism!!

That is what she was writing about.

JmsA| 8.2.10 @ 1:14AM

RCV,

I guess, though you claim that so love this country, that nearly all democrats, not just the leftists, stood in unison to cheer along with the One in Congress, no less, when the president of Mexico assailed Arizona's attempts to protect the border and its citizens against the criminal illegal alien invaders. You're not fooling anyone. If anything, insofar as your writing here, you're just pissing in the wind.

JmsA| 8.2.10 @ 1:30AM

Oops, bad grammar alert. I meant to write: Though you claim that you and the democrats so love the country, nearly all of them, not just the leftists, stood in unison to cheer along with the One in Congress, no less, when the president of Mexico assailed Arizona's attempts to protect the border and its citizens against the criminal illegal alien invaders.

Thelma| 7.31.10 @ 1:03PM

This administration is excessive! This administration has enacted policies that the majority of Americans don't want and don't support. Obama has become dictatorial and has surrounded himself with radicals who wish to portray the tea party movement and other citizen activists as extremists. They are extremely good with words--covertly hiding the true meaning of the bills they submit and pass. One has to go to the far right to come back to the middle. There are too many entitlements, too many grants, too much of 'sharing the wealth'. I do not want the government to take from my pockets to put into someone elses without my permission. This president and his administration are destroying the America you say you love. I worked all my life, never whined, and I'm out to fight them with all my might. I don't want my children and grandchildren paying for their tax and spend policies, their extravagances, their lavish lifestyles and vacations--they need to get off their butts instead of working 160-180 days a year. Wake up, we need a clean sweep in our capitol city!

Paul| 8.3.10 @ 12:39AM

You sir are one of two things, a liar or one of the biggest dunces now living in America. There is no way that you can be all that you claim and believe in your post and yet hold the views that you expouse. You are as transparent as the air that you breathe. You fool no one but yourself.

Purpleguy| 7.31.10 @ 3:42PM

Saying it or writing it, doesn't make it so. A novel is your source? That's a laugh - maybe an interesting book, but hardly a model of our world. Ayn Rand? How about another famous conservative, Archie Bunker? Perhaps you share a lot of his values too?

As usual, you generalize, putting your side in a good light, while demonizing anyone not considered "conservative".

What I always find interesting is that the Founders of the Constitution and this Country were not conservatives. They were men of the Enlightenment and men of Science. They believed in the Rights of Man and Common Sense. They were the radicals of their day, with liberal and progressive ideas - not conservative ideas, that's for sure. But they did not fear Government, they feared power in the hands of one man. They took the weak Articles of Confederation, which had put States' sovereignty front and center, but ended up with competing factions between the states, with little uniformity causing delay and confusion. They strengthened the power of the Federal Government, giving it broad powers over the States, while at the same time ensuring the States had power over the Legislature through representation.

Conservatives do not hold the market on patriotism, love of America, the military, God, the Boy Scouts, Mom or Apple Pie. Liberals and Progressives are not Communists or Marxists but they can have extremists, just like you do on your side, but that is not the rule, but the exception. They do believe the government has a role in society, not like the Chinese Central planned economy, but there is a role, in partnership with business to create economic growth, innovation and a better civilized society.

Juan Flambé| 7.30.10 @ 12:14PM

Your a rasist!

Amalia| 7.30.10 @ 1:12PM

You can't spell.

NVA Patriot| 7.29.10 @ 7:15AM

November is coming.

Also - Peole on the Right are in no way comparable to people on the left. No "right wing Tea Party nut" has attacked a banker in his home. That would be the lefty SEIU. No Public administrative official has a husband who thinks anyone diagreeing with Barak Obama is a racist or Uncle Tom - that would be Shirly -waiting- for-lawsuit - money Sherrod. No Tea Party protest has destroyed a down town - that would be every protest associated with the left and includes most basketball celebrations. No Right wing pundit casually accuses all opposition thought as racist and inherently evil because it exits - that would be the left. No right-side thinker or pundits of teh right write about their desres to push the face of their fellow Americans through a plate glass window as a warning to others - that would be accepted thought by 400 left of center, liberal Journalists

Please read Ann Coulter to find the missing parts of your courage - Calling liars liars does not make you a racist. It makes you a herald. Accepting evil enables evil. Casually saying all of us are the same in ploitical discourse when the plain facts of destruction at leftist events and no destruction at right side events shows the lie that 'both sides do it' NO THEY DON'T

And I say this last as a warning - not a threat - if laws continue to be broken with impunity and no consequence - see property destruction, beatings, and illegal immigration, the left will reap the woe that comes when good honest Americans become so fed up that they see all governce as an impediment to Justice vice an enabler of Justice. Of all the tipping points the left seeks, this one they should worry about. The last time I checked history, when freedom loving people have a 'popeye' moment - they release their inner Patton - How'd that work out for the National Socilists's in the 40's?

Ms. Jones| 7.29.10 @ 1:37PM

You forgot to mention that the SEIU didn't attack the actual banker in his home; they continued their rant even after being informed that the only resident at home was a terrified 14 year old kid, cowering in fear in a bathroom.

NVA Patriot and others, please, please do not take up arms quite yet. Seek non-violent means through prayer and the ballot box FIRST. I share your frustration; and believe me, I am willing to put my life, my fortune and my honor on the line to defend our Constitutional Republic. I haven't given up hope on the "ordinary" American citizen's ability to hear and act on the truth quite yet. God bless our Nation!

NVA Patriot| 7.29.10 @ 2:33PM

Hi - Not advocating violence, nor would I advocate it.

My job requires me to work with many people in and out of government. I work with people all across the country. I am simply observing that security and respect for the law are based a just and fair interpretation and implementation. When the law is used to foster lawness a dangerous downward spiral begins. Liberals have a great deal of hubris. They think they can control the whirlwind. You can't. My post simply acknowledges the circumstances progressives are leading us to.

Alan Brooks| 7.30.10 @ 12:48AM

"My job requires me to work with many people in and out of government."

Good thing you people hate guvmint so much, otherwise- boy, would we be in trouble.

M L| 7.30.10 @ 9:27AM

NVA Patriot, You are correct. A spirit of Lawlessness is flourishing this year in America. I suggest that everyone pray literally HOURLY in these days we live in. Pray for forces of darkness to be restrained, exposed, thwarted, and stopped. Repent of sins committed. Because people have turned from God, and parents have shirked their duties to raise their children on the Bible's teachings, not many of the current young generation know the basic Ten Commandments. America's people are becoming lawless. This is nothing new in history, but fixing it requires a turning away from sin and back to God. For help, print out Charles Stanley's "140 Days of Prayer" sheet on what to pray for each week leading up to the election. The website is InTouchMinistries.org.

I agree, NVA Patriot, that "liberals" think they can control the whirlwind--but they haven't been taught about the French Revolution accurately. It got out of control very quickly. But liberals are Marxists today. They are Democrat Socialists of America members (70 in Congress right now). They want our earnings just because they WANT them. Ask your "liberal" relatives and friends if they believe in redistribution of wealth, how they feel about Jim Wallis, Sojourners magazine, the public option, failing states, the Fannie Mae scandal, the Cloward-Piven ideas. Marxists are the enemy; they worm their way into children's lives through teachers, "emergent" church youth groups as a means to "recruit" more Marxist believers. Read the Communist Party USA website; they have plans for us you won't believe. Pray hourly, get very well informed, and pray more. It is what it is. As Ephesians 6:10-11 says, "Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes" and "after you have done everything, to STAND." And eventually, once more, may God Bless America!

Bill P| 7.29.10 @ 4:51PM

Very well done Patriot!!

DanMingo| 7.29.10 @ 5:52PM

"No Tea Party protest has destroyed a down town - that would be every protest associated with the left and includes most basketball celebrations"
Haha; because most basketball fans are liberals?

I presume that when you go after the lawbreakers you will start with those who destroy property and take the lives of innocent people; i.e. those who pushed for and carried out an illegal war in Iraq, complete with extraordinary renditions and torture.
Welcome aboard fellow fighter for truth and justice.
Who's Ann Coulter?

jim| 7.29.10 @ 9:18PM

tell that to the 300,000 kurds sadaam killed with chemical weapons. I'm sure you would've justified Hitler.

Mary| 7.29.10 @ 10:51PM

Golden answer, Jim! Thanks for your clarity.

Chas| 7.30.10 @ 3:15AM

And while he's at it Jim he can also explain...
"complete with extraordinary renditions and torture."
...to all the victims of Uday and Kusay's rape rooms!

carnot| 7.29.10 @ 9:38PM

hmmmm......first candidate for "justice"?

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 7.29.10 @ 7:37AM

No matter what you do, a growing number of people are growing to believe that they are entitled to a lifetime of ease.

I often wonder if anything or anyone can stop it.

Nancy in NC| 7.29.10 @ 1:40PM

Read an e-mail recently about birds at the bird feeder on a ladies' patio...lots of birds and lots of bird poop. It finally dawned on the house owner that there were basically two choices...put up with the bird poop or remove the feeder.

We need to stop feeding those who poop on our country.

Bill P.| 7.29.10 @ 4:57PM

Hey: The key to living ijnthis country is to understand joy does not come from scamming the system. It comes from the opportunity to make something for yourself. This is the lesson so many legal immigrants bring with them when they join our society. They only want the opportunity to make something for themselves. The victory here is doing it not getting it!!
Most scammers are not immigrants, they are born in to the welfare attitude right here in the good old USA, and our politicians are the enablers!!
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Melvin| 7.29.10 @ 7:43AM

First thing that Americans as a whole need to do is admit they made a mistake by electing that miserable, loathing bugger in the White House.
A few people I have heard, have openly admitted they made a mistake by voting him. Well, that is a start I suppose. Some say the first step to redemption is admitting your fault.
For those that read American Spectator on a regular basis are very well aware of the negatives and damage that this man and his willing accomplices in the Legislative Branch have done. There are also ticking IED's that have been appointed by him to the Supreme Court that will explode in the most inopportune moment, but all we can do is marginalize their social damage that they will cause. In being lifetime appointees this short of their resignation is next to impossible to contain.
Americans have always been starry eyed dreamers who somehow always seem to pull off the impossible at the last second of imminent destruction.
But has American exceptionalism, and the elixir that binds us together as Americans been so diluted and demonized through government propaganda spewed by government run schools, college academia, and media that younger generations have not a clue what it takes to be an American let alone know that it is every Americans duty to question the status quo.
Quin Hillyer wants Americans to get involved. This is fine well and good, but with many of the choices that the Republican Party have put forth is like trying to make gold from dog squeeze. No matter how many coats of gold paint ya put on it, it still is dog squeeze.
Come to think about it, I guess the first ones who should admit they made a plethora of mistakes over the years is the Republican Party Leadership, the RNC, Party elders and local leaders, because they have failed miserably or succeeded depending on who one talks to .
By all accounts, the, Republican," girls" appear on track to attempt to straighten out his god awful mess that the Republican Party Leadership has gotten us into.
Besides Progressivism is for girly men anyway.

Nancy in NC| 7.29.10 @ 1:50PM

It's going to take decades to restore this country, and it's got to be done one step at a time, the same way we got into this mess.

Remember...all politics are local. If we start on the local level and begin electing conservatives, that will be step one. Then we must make sure we get conservatives in our state. Gerrymandering has set up a system that leans toward the Dems and minorities. Why should a black or Latino person's vote be more valuable than mine? We don't change the past by screwing up the present...we just screw up the present.

People need to accept that, yes, we have done some things wrong in this country, i.e. slavery, interrment of Japanese, etc. No amount of money or apology will ever change those facts. It's time to let it go, and get on with things.

The best way, IMHO, to rectify the past is to restore honest government for and by the people. Free rides do a disservice to all; those that give the free rides and those who receive them. We promote shame from those who receive and a sense of entitlement, and we install resentment from those who pick up the bill. Neither promotes a healthy, stable country.

I contend that the car would never have been invented if Henry Ford had the climate of regulation and government interference that we have now.

The government is killing this country. It's up to us, we the people, to take it back and give it life.

DanMingo| 7.29.10 @ 5:56PM

I contend that the car would never have been invented if Henry Ford had the climate of regulation and government interference that we have now.
That socialist Henry Ford?
Who thought the best car was one that his own employees should be able to afford.
The one who thought many car parts should/could be made of hemp or soybean materials, and fueled by alcohol.
Screw him; he was a champion of the working man and an environmentalist.

Gill O’Teen ✝✡$| 7.29.10 @ 8:03AM

I’m not that optimistic that we’ll have honest elections this November. I am at the point that I can easily be swayed into suspecting that there will be a crisis, if nothing else one staged by the loonies on the left, which will provide all the justification the incompetent won thinks is needed to prompt he issue an executive order suspending the vote. There will, after all, be no voter intimidation if there are no voters.

Gill O’Teen ✝✡$
gill.Oteen07041776@gmail.com
“We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.” - John Adams.
Only 906 days to go.

Melvin| 7.29.10 @ 8:16AM

I could be wrong but this circulating Urban Legend that the moron will suspend elections due to some massive, massive Constitutional, man-made disaster, or some other conflagration.
I'm not a Constitutional guru, but I can't remember if Thomas, George, and the rest of the boys covered that aspect.
Not that junior pays any attention to the Constitution anyway, but if he did do something stupid like that, because it is going to get very, very ugly in a short amount of time because if that was to happen, it would be like Hugo Chavez coming to the White House and throwing junior out the window declaring himself in charge, in the short term Hugo might be doing us a favor, but crap like this just doesn't happen like it does in Zimbabwe.

Gill O’Teen ✝✡$| 7.29.10 @ 9:30AM

I was not aware that I was repeating an ‘Urban Legend’, though I am not the only person who thinks something is rotten inside the beltway. However, I do try to connect the dots. I am trying to reconcile that the lord of flies appears to be pushing the people along the gulf coast over the brink, the people of Arizona over the brink, gum’mint debt over the brink, all the oil companies over the brink, all us taxpayers over the brink, American Heroes in the muddled east over the brink, healthcare over the brink, the financial sector over the brink, and that’s just off the top of my bald head. So the troubling question is why would someone who took an oath to preserve protect and defend the Constitution to the best of his ability seem to be deliberately pursuing such a path over the brink. Blend with that how he seems unconcerned that his party, based on current polling, appears headed over its own brink, and that if what most of us here fondly wish comes true the first Tuesday of next November, his hype and chains agenda might be over the brink. If nothing else he appears to have mastered the art of brinkmanship. But to what purpose? I don’t think his plunging us over the brink is simply because he’s the lemming in front.

Gill O’Teen ✝✡$
gill.Oteen07041776@gmail.com
“Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things you couldn't do before.” - Rahm Emanuel
Only 906 days to go.

Melvin| 7.29.10 @ 9:47AM

Point noted, but we need to keep in perspective. The politicians are not the ones leading from the front over the cliff.
They're lining up behind us, and pushing with they're Progressive bulldozers. If I have understood your post correctly.
They have this insane philosophy of believing that in order for this Nation to proceed into the future, they must literally destroy us in the present.
Unfortunately there still is large segments of this population that still firmly believe, "This could never happen in this Country."

California70| 7.31.10 @ 5:31AM

Melvin you state:
"Unfortunately there still is large segments of this population that still firmly believe, "This could never happen in this Country."

That's what the Jews thought who were living in Germany when Hitler took over.

First, he made a law they could now longer own business. Then he made a law that they had to wear stars. Then, he took their property away. Then he made them live in ghettos. They still dutifully went along and followed the laws Hitler made. Where did they end up? Do you remember?

I was 7 years old, and remember watching Movietone News in the Movie Theater with my parents when they showed Our Military finding the Jews in the concentrations camps and ovens.

So America, just keep letting Obama and his Communist appointees keep making up all these unconstitutional executive orders, and the appointees making up all kinds of new policy instead of the Congress of the United States, and we will find ourselves in the same kind of situation or worse!

CB| 7.29.10 @ 10:59AM

When he took that oath, did anyone see his other hand? Were his fingers crossed? It seems that the only rule of law he's interested in is the one that 5-year-olds use on the playground (Nyah, Nyah, didn't count, I had my fingers crossed).

Yes, I will be at the voting booth, at the rallies and doing what I can, but how difficult it is to see the truth behind the electioneering lies and determine what a candidate will really do once in office. They are not all so blatant as Obama was.

John II| 7.29.10 @ 9:41AM

Besides, why would Hugo throw the Professor out the window when he could keep him on as a reliable advisor?

Melvin| 7.29.10 @ 9:49AM

Baby Hugo doesn't like to share his new toys. He gets rid of the competition.

Gary| 7.30.10 @ 12:15AM

We don't know yet for sure, but Obama has shown a propensity for "undoing" his competition also – witness his Senate race.

Today he has more ammunition, and more weapons at his disposal than merely the Chicago machine. Hard to say, but he could make Baby Hugo look like Baby Bunting.

Odie W. Kelly| 7.29.10 @ 8:10PM

Do not take it personal, I do not know why I felt the urge to inteject my thoughts and ideas into the conversation, your comments just happened to be the one I was reading when the urge hit.
We are going to be faced with two choices, neither of which is satisfactory. 1)Exist in a dictatorial democratic socialist government or perish the thought , take up arms and have a military coup where the leader would be our defacto dictator.(There are no George Washingtons available in our time.) No one seems to be commenting on the fact that through our neglect we have elected spineless representatives.
Peoples power rest with the legislature. (Senate and the House of Representatives) These representatives were supposed to jealouly guard their and our power, but by default they have allowed the legislative branch of our government become almost irrelavent and have turned almost all legislative power over to the executive branch. Even if we caused a wholesale change in the legislative branch in november not much will change because all the rules and regulations of health, finance, production, manufacturing and other aspects of our lives will be contingent on the rules and regulations imposed on us by unelected officials answerable only to the excecutive branch. The powers of the Executive Branch must be diminished or we are in fact living in a quaisi dictatorship of our president and his army of czars. What is your solution? The damage is done. Wresting the power from the Executive branch may take many generations and possible will have to be washed in the blood of freedom loving people.

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Fabulous80| 7.30.10 @ 11:36AM

Odie W. Kelly: Wait! Remember who controls the purse strings? Congress. If we take over Congress in November we can de-fund all those Czars as well as the unconstitutional legislation passed by the 111 Congress. Our first obstacle is to ensure a fair election in 2010 and elect men and women with the stamia to take on these challenges.

Thelma| 7.31.10 @ 1:09PM

Actually, Odie, WE control the purse strings. Only until we stop sending our $$$ to Washington will anything change. I hope the Tea Party movement will eventually convince all its followers to stop the money flow from our labors to those who waste it.
Congress needs a major overhaul! And now after such hard work, they get a seven week summer vacation. How sweet it is!

California70| 7.31.10 @ 5:21AM

I'll give you my solution.

IMPEACH OBAMA and his Communnist administartion as soon as possible or America is in the perverbial toilet!!

Ken (Old Texican)| 7.29.10 @ 8:33AM

Quin,

thanks again for helping us keep our eye on the ball.

Folks...get off your lazy butts and vote conservative as possible in your PRIMARIES!
Then drag your brotherinlaws to the polls in November with the simple instruction to vote "R-straight ticket" simply to cancel out a straight-ticket communist voter on the dole.

Your brotherinlaws ...being lazy...will enjoy the simple vote strategy.

JimH| 7.29.10 @ 9:02AM

I think that the Republican party might also want to consider recrruiting poll watchers from the NRA and other groups with similar interests. In the past, maybe it was just the districts I lived in, but the poll watchers tended to be little old ladies. If the opposition is going to send NBPs and SEIU thugs we need to defend ourselves.

R Martin| 7.29.10 @ 8:38AM

Yesterday's judicial decision in Arizona is yet another political horror which will raise the temperature in the pressure cooker of voter indignation. We may be a "nation of laws", but when one lawyer with a leftist philosophy and dressed is a black robe can subvert the will of millions of people who want some control over their lives and safety, it's time to say NO.

Louis Jenkins| 7.29.10 @ 8:47AM

Yes, we're hoping for the salvation of Nov. That is our last hope, after which, well....Basically, the currently elected Republicans must stand fast, and together, otherwise, the Democrats will will have a jolly good time during the lame duck session. Let's hope it does not come to that. Meanwhile, I'll vote, my family will vote, my neighbor will vote, my minister will vote,...

Anthony| 7.29.10 @ 9:14AM

Well Quin, since you've put things as bluntly as you have, let's cut to the chase as to what options we Americans have in order to get our country back.
We can start with removing that gang of D pols who appear in your caption photo, as they represent the worst of the hard Left in congress.
We can insist that judges follow the law, or perhaps, we won't as well. Two can play the lawless game.
We can tell Obama and the Ds, that if they insist on their hardcore Leftist agenda, that if we are successful in November of ridding Washington of these Marxists, payback will indeed be a bitch.
Or, we can just start to kick ass, starting now.

Grace| 7.29.10 @ 1:10PM

I vote for kicking ass right now.

jrjr| 7.29.10 @ 4:57PM

I would also go for something "light" at this point. If it can be done, all of the cr&p that has already happened will take a lifetime or two to correct -- and if you do not go for this, remember that Social Security, free lunch, free loans, free houses, free attitudes, etc., has been around since the fabulous FDR - 1930s. We are stuck with it now. The Repubs will not have the guts to overturn most of it.

DW| 7.29.10 @ 9:44AM

I feel your pain, and unfortunatley, most days I think my only defense will be to listen to Ayn Rand and shrug. I'm losing my will to carry the world on my shoulders.

John II| 7.29.10 @ 9:44AM

How come the trollsters never respond to posts like this one by Quin? Or is it too early in the morning?

Eric Cartman| 7.29.10 @ 10:19AM

No, they're up. They have to untangle their dreadlocks from the milk crate headboard and lay there for for the buzzing in their head to stop. Then they have to get a bowl of kasha and pine bark cereal with yak milk. Then its a yoga session - well, they try to have sex with themselves. Then a few bong hits and its on to the computer! But firs they have to peddle the generator to charge up the battery.

Notice there is no mention of a shower or sponge bath (that's Saturday) and they practice the one-square-a -day toilet paper life choice style (use both sides, kiddies!) of hygiene. Then there's another bong hit and they are ready to blog. A quick check in with Media Matters and the Soros people, and onto Am Spec! By then its 3:00 PM, so give it some time, John. They'll be here.

Quin| 7.29.10 @ 11:25AM

This is one of the funniest comments I have read in ages. You just made my day!

John II| 7.29.10 @ 11:46AM

And I'll still be nursing my midriff when they arrive. Occasionally the rib-tickling spills into the rib-cracking, but thanks anyhow, Eric: it's worth the pain!

Gill O’Teen ✝✡$| 7.29.10 @ 12:39PM

You might wish to somewhat modify your 'dreadlocks' remark before the Notional Association for the Agenda of Commie Parasites sends Breitbart an edited transcript of your remark.
Gill O’Teen ✝✡$
gill.Oteen07041776@gmail.com
“It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand. I was quite tired after spending a full day working.” - Rosa Parks
Only 906 days to go.

Radegunda| 7.29.10 @ 2:31PM

What do you have against kasha?

GBBBB| 7.29.10 @ 3:16PM

Dang stuff tastes worse than the cardboard it is packaged in ! Yukk

Radegunda| 7.29.10 @ 5:08PM

Do you mean Kashi? Have to admit I like some of their stuff. Dump on some sugar and salt if that's what you're missing.

John II| 7.29.10 @ 6:44PM

Well--there's a way around all this lefty fuss about healthy food: Honey Bunches of Oats mixed with Cocoa Puffs, Corn Pops, and two or three extra teaspoons of heavily processed sugar!

Might as well enjoy it while it's still legal.

David W| 7.29.10 @ 10:18AM

Per the "Cloward-Piven strategy of manufactured crisis". A good read would be the "R Document" by Irving Wallace. I read it a long long time ago, but from what I remember Obama and company are setting the stage for something similar. And remember what Woodrow Wilson's administration did to those who spoke out against the government.....

Fabulous80| 7.30.10 @ 11:50AM

I missed "The R Document" in my education, so looked it up on Internet. If you are not familiar with this book either, here is a summery:

A good story of how people in power use fear to justify reducing our civil liberties. It is even more pertinent today than when it was published in 1976.

"Before the Patriot Act, there was . . . The R Document. As crime and violence threaten to engulf America, the President proposes a daring new amendment to the Constitution, allowing the Bill of Rights to be suspended during times of national emergency.To its supporters the 35th Amendment is the only way to keep America from sliding into chaos. Its opponents see the Amendment as an outright attack on freedom. Christopher Collins, the newly-appointed Attorney General, has reservations about the Amendment, but feels confident that it would not be abused in the way its more hysterical opponents fear. Then a deathbed confession from his predecessor warns him to beware of something called "The R Document".What is The R Document, and what does it have to do with the proposed 35th Amendment? As state after state ratifies the Amendment, pushing it ever closer to becoming the law of the land, Collins must get to the bottom of an unimaginable conspiracy-before time runs out for the fundamental liberties of all Americans.First published in 1976, Irving Wallace's bestselling thriller is more timely than ever before."

I am Intrigued and am going to library today to check it out.

gearjammer| 7.29.10 @ 10:32AM

The economic boycott against the left is needed. Some of you still buy their newspaper and magazines, cable is a massive money stream-cut back, forget the movies, let them tomatoes and grapes and tequila from Mexico rot on the shelves-add to this lists of actions that will hurt them in the pocket book. At home, be tough with your relatives and friends. Inform them brother fought brother in the civil war, and only a minority supported our revolution. Let them know you consider voting democrat an act of treason. Hit local businesses hard. Many of them are big time dems-stop giving them your money. Send post cards rather than emails to corporations that support Obama and the democrats. 10000 postcards swamping a mail room will catch notice of the CEO. And hammer television and the lavish salary and perks of " stars " who preside over falling ratings.

carnot| 7.29.10 @ 12:31PM

yup....the problem is how to avoid getting swept up in the ensuing chaos.

davelnaf| 7.29.10 @ 10:50AM

Good article. But I have to blame Ronald Reagan for the current state of our country. His success was mind-boggling to Democrats and very hurtful to their psyches. This obvious dolt shamelessly fooled Americans with his honest and straightforward way of communicating what he wanted to do. For Democrats this was, on the face of it, appallingly unfair—if not contemptible—and they had to do something about it!

By the time Bill Clinton came along in the ’92 primaries dems were ready, eager, and willing to convert to a new political faith. All the old style liberal democrats, like Dukakis, had more or less played fair. Bill Clinton and his moll, having realized how politically retro this was, offered their way. Winning was to be the new way, the only way.

Then, William Jefferson Clinton actually got himself elected president of the United States of America. After Democrats stopped jostling each other like the pre-humans in that cave in the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” they realized how significant this was. It was the Dawn of the New Politics they had been waiting for.

So, with tears streaming down their cheeks, dems got down on their knees and wholeheartedly embraced the new faith. They touched the monolith! And here, at last in their rewired brains, they had real weapons they could use to defeat their political enemies! No more would they have to eat that honesty and integrity stuff! If a majority of Americans were dumb enough to buy into the Gipper’s yucky “Shining City on a Hill” delusions, snickering dems reassured themselves as they picked fleas out of each other's fur, they would buy into anything their new political imam said was true. The dems were ecstatic! They were going to the political Promised Land where no dem would ever have to campaign hard for reelection again!

Despite the glorious history just encapsulated none of the current dishonesty in politics, or its twin sister dysfunctional governance, has been, or is, the fault of Democrats. It’s all been Bush’s fault.

Leo| 7.29.10 @ 11:14AM

I wish your timeline was anything close to accurate... sadly, the dishonesty predates your timeline substantially. I remember Johnson justifying Medicare by saying that "medical costs may skyrocket, this is the only thing we can do", when he knew for sure that getting the government involved causes prices to skyrocket. That self-fulfilling prophecy was the greatest swindle I have witnessed in my entire life.

Bill| 7.29.10 @ 5:14PM

Leo: I need to correct your assertion this all starte with Johnson. Certainly the "Great Society" was his attempt at making his mark on history, and Medicare was part of that. Ironically teh "unintended consequences" theory again pops it ugly head. There was nothing wrong with our medical suystem. It was the fact that Medicare by itself waoulod bankrupt America. Obama in his ALinsky cvlothing took advantage and created his own crises. BAck to history--I'm not this old but from what I have read this "progressive" attitude that our new ruling class has reagrding the ability of government to relue all has been going oin since Woodrow Wilson. With the oush from the likes of Franklin Roosevelt we haev hade this "CREEEPING SOCIALISM'" for over 80 years. Enabling dependency is the easiest way for politicans to get elected and retain their power. Taking responsibility for one's own plight is almost gone from our culture.
Anyway did more than his share to enable government to overwhelm personal responsibilities but it has been gojng on for over 100 years and it is tiome we started pushing back. Nice talking with you.

Radegunda| 7.29.10 @ 2:37PM

Remember that at the same time they adopted the "anything to win" attitude, they also made clear that they considered it completely illegitimate for Republicans (or non-Dems) ever to have a congressional majority, even by fair election, because that was just voters throwing a tantrum like 2-year-olds. Voting against Democrats was made equivalent to "anger" and "hate."

If electing Republicans (or non-Dems) is illegitimate, ergo any means are acceptable to prevent the election of Republicans.

Oldefarte| 7.29.10 @ 11:24AM

Quin just NAILED IT and HIT THE BULLSEYE. Since I think that I go back a ways more than he and therefore am able to remember more, I can honestly state that this LIBERAL-CREEP EXCREMENT has been occurring for my entire lifetime. It has only recently come to a head due IMO to mainly the tea party movement of concerned citizens as to the direction of our country. Thank God for them and their energy. Redundantly I say that my generation typically were so busy working 24-7, raising families, and in general doing personal stuff that political matters were not on many of us' radar screens. Consequently, the extremist-liberals [many of whom never worked, live off of taxpayer funded welfare, and have oddles of time on their hands to rally, protest and create civil disobedience] were continously planning, plotting etc politically speaking to get to the point that they have now reached [a radical extremist President, Democrat controlled congress and thousands of potential agitator-voters streaming across our southern border daily, all at our government's facilitation]. As Quin said, it's time to stop this, and, with the internet available, it can be done quite simply. The solution is to........VOTE! If you're not a rally-tea partier type, then simply communicate with your family, friends, church members, work associates,etc via the internet and then, starting in November, GET OFF YOUR GLUTAMUS-MAXIMUS and go VOTE FOR TRUE CHANGE!!!!

carnot| 7.29.10 @ 12:33PM

I agree. but where does one look?

Republican party? ummmmmm.....nope!

DonDuke| 7.29.10 @ 12:45PM

Carnot! You hit the nail on the head. The republican party is palatable only when referenced against the democrats. Where have all the leaders gone? Everyday I look for another Ronald Reagan and everyday I am confronted by the reality that is our federal government........ baseless, classless and character-less minions.

Grace| 7.29.10 @ 1:12PM

A guy like Chris Cristie is who I'm looking for.

Gene| 7.29.10 @ 1:37PM

Paul Ryan and Mitch Daniels look pretty good too.
I am voting in my state's primary next week. On that ballot I will be voting against every incumbent. The intent is a message.

Ms. Jones| 7.29.10 @ 2:00PM

Unfortunately, truly honorable, decent people (with some obvious exceptions) won't go anywhere near the DC cesspool we call Congress. Who wants to call the likes of pathetic Queen Bawney Fwank, Chris the Sandwich Man Dodd, Nancy "I've Botoxed and I can't get up" Pelosi, Harry the Dinosaur Reid and Pete Stark-raving-mad "Honorable" and try to keep a straight face? Who wants to spend that kind of money for the opportunity to have every aspect of one's life--and those of one's family members--dissected by the Gotcha! mainstream media (now proven to be utterly corrupt and partisan)?

I've noticed that many folks posting here are still operating under the misconception that there are only two choices at the ballot box: Democrats or Republicans. In other words, Republicrats, since one is virtually indistinguishable from the other once elected. Due to the grassroots efforts of the Tea Partiers, 9/12-ers, Oathkeepers, etc. we have an opportunity to dismantle the two party system come November. Please do not "hold your nose" and vote for a Rino when there could be a viable Independent or Libertarian candidate.

The thing I loved most about Ronald Reagan was that he was utterly confident in the rightness of his beliefs. When questioned by the incredulous press, his attitude was, "Yeah, so what?" He understood that to be elected President is an honor, and that Leaders LEAD. It is not a popularity contest where one "governs" by finger pointing and laying blame.

Margie| 7.29.10 @ 2:17PM

You're advocating a Ross Perot answer to the problem. We do have, in reality a two party system. Sarah Palin even said this. The answer isn't to not vote or to vote 3rd party. Unless of course you want to lose.

victor| 7.29.10 @ 5:02PM

Margie:
"Unless of course you want to lose."

Bingo!
They don't want to and have no intention of winning.
They're content to be malcontent losers.
You cannot get anything done if you don't WIN!
Losing takes no effort at all!

John II| 7.29.10 @ 8:04PM

That's right--Perot gave us the Clintons on a chipped platter.

I've often thought, however, that if he hadn't stirred up trouble in '92, he might have taken the White House in '96 with no hard feelings. Remember his private initiative against Iran and the consequent Ken Follett novel?

And imagine if he had been early in his second term when 9/11 happened. By now, the war on terror would be over--there just wouldn't be any more terrorists, by God!

Ah well.

Clinton nee Publius| 7.29.10 @ 11:42AM

The historical track record of every democracy has been the emergence of a liberal-progressive mindset that understood they could vote themselves endless gifts from their own treasury without being held accountable for the outcome. Yet there is no decision we can make that does not have consequences and the consequences of liberalism have always been the failure of the sponsoring democracy as the liberals voted themselves gifts until the people they despoiled were bankrupted and the government fell.

In the past this was acceptable because the liberals always saw themselves as the tyrannical successors to the democratic government the would seek to depose as they had the capital and wealth to sustain the tyranny until the reins of power were firmly in their hands and they could proceed to squelch the voices of democracy and accountability. This is how it all worked and how they hope to make it work today.

This is the actual record in history. The Islamic jihad is but a branch of liberalism as it seeks to undertake the same outcome, but with a theocratic underpinning to provide it with a heightened patina of legitimacy for the purposes of ensnaring those who would otherwise not consider participation in the scheme due to their own moral convictions, yet the goals are exactly the same: to enable the conspirators the opportunity to endlessly pillage the wealth and freedoms of the people "they rule" for the people's own good, being the God on earth who enjoys the ultimate of human pleasures - deciding who will live, who will die, who will prosper, who will suffer and who will be forced to pay them patronage and embrace corruption for the sake of those who enjoy the game. This is all the seek and it is everything for them and for us and you would do well not to forget this is what they really seek.

We have come to a great divide and have slept while this terror has raged and grown around us. Our enemies have not slept, but have carefully built up their strengths and prepared for this final war to end democracy and provide the means for a sustained tyrannical movement of crony capitalism that provides socialism for the elite, socialism for the poor and enslavement for all others. This is not something we can ignore. The wars in distant lands (Persia) will come to our shores yet again and in many forms. Their leader is already here and plotting our ruin in the name of social justice, race and democracy. There is only one slim hope - a fool's hope really. We have the opportunity to stop this once and for all time; to embrace a new form of capitalism and economic philosophy (Lovellian economics) that offers us the chance to end the tyranny of liberal-progressives and religious tyrants and fascists and communists and socialists forever as it systemically eliminates the lack of transparency that is critical to the continued perpetration of the liberal criminal conspiracy. It is a thin hope, but it is the hope we have as we know that doing things the same old way and expecting a different outcome is how we got jihad, socialism, liberalism, Obama, $13 trillion in national debt and an end to our freedoms.

Margie| 7.29.10 @ 11:58AM

Where's Jeffery Lord?

First of all we have to defend our conservative friends. Then we will be able to honestly unite to defeat the enemy.

Ken (Old Texican)| 7.29.10 @ 12:19PM

Margie,
I think Mr. Lord is in meditation. He choked on a gnat.
He is a good guy,but he blew it on the "lynching" deal.
He will be back...in spades.
God bless

carnot| 7.29.10 @ 12:34PM

just couldn't leave it alone...could you?!

Oldefarte| 7.29.10 @ 4:30PM

Nope, Jeffrey Lord TOLD THE TRUTH. She LIED and he/Hall [her relative] DIED [but was NOT LYNCHED; but instead was MURDERED]. Know and DEFEND the [telling of] difference!!!!!

rdman| 7.29.10 @ 12:37PM

THE LEFTIST NEUROTIC (Democrats, Progressives, Socialists)

* To impress others with their spurious superiority; constantly promoting themselves, making themselves sound better than they really are. Narcissistic, with grandiose, inflated notions about themselves and their talents. Arrogance and contempt for others as a defense against feeling jealous of others and their success.

* Fearing failure and humiliation, they are exploitative and opportunistic, covetous of the success of others, and willing to do "whatever it takes" to preserve the illusion of their spurious superiority.

* Devious and deceptive so that their mistakes and wrongdoings will not be exposed. Untrustworthy, maliciously betraying or sabotaging people to triumph over them. Delusionally jealous of others.

* Vindictive, attempting to ruin others' happiness. Relentless, obsessive about destroying whatever reminds them of their own shortcomings and failures.

Leftists do not feel real self-esteem… they believe that they will only feel good about themselves if they become big successes and stars. This leads them to become intensely competitive with others for all forms of success and prestige… this will give them a sense of value.

Suppressing their own repressed feelings of worthlessness, and instead of developing themselves, they resort to projecting images. Pragmatic and calculating, the Leftists are able to change their image to get what they want. As they become more desperate and empty, they begin showing off and hyping themselves to attract more admiration.

Leftist deceive themselves and others so they can maintain the illusion that they are superior people. In truth they have difficulty functioning, yet for Leftists, even the appearance of functioning is everything. They are extremely dangerous as they strike out at anyone they perceive who might expose their crumbling image.

Leftists have a problem with hostility which manifests itself as vindictive malice toward anyone who they believe threatens their self image. They are openly hostile in a wide variety of ways, from arrogantly distancing themselves, to snide humor at others’ expense, to sarcastic putdowns, to sabotaging and betraying people. Hostility serves the Leftist in two ways 1) it compensates for their own feelings of inadequacy, 2) it keeps away people who undermine their fragile self-esteem.

Narcissistic Leftists build their identities around an increasingly inflated self-regard… they appear to be utterly in love with themselves. But, more precisely, they love the false facade which bears little resemblance to the undeveloped person beneath.

Narcissists care principally about themselves and about others only to the degree that they reflect well upon themselves. They remain intensely self-centered, with a limited ability to empathize with anyone else's feelings or needs. Relationships are one-sided because both parties are in love with the same person: the Leftist.

The Leftist’s narcissism puts them in constant conflict with people. Because they believe so much in their superiority, Leftists are competitive with the very people from whom they want admiration. If others do not applaud, Leftists will attack and humiliate them. Worse, narcissistic Leftists add insult to injury by demanding that people admire them even when they are contemptuous of the people whose admiration they demand.

Leftists are finely attuned to people's reaction to them and can instantly respond by projecting whatever image they need. But since their repertoire of images does not have a corresponding measure of reality behind it, everything they do is for show, because they are not personally committed to or involved with anything outside themselves.

The irony behind the facade is a deep hidden dependency on others, a dependency they cannot acknowledge because of the demands of their narcissism. Once narcissism takes over, Leftists cannot live with people and they cannot live without them, because they are hostile toward the people on whom they depend, and because they are "nobody" without the attention of others.

Dean| 7.29.10 @ 12:47PM

In the small southern Kansas town of Attica is the grave of Civil War veteran Nathaniel Grigsby 1811-1890). At age 50 he enlisted and served in an Indiana cavalry regiment. The following words are inscribed on the tombstone:

Through this inscription I wish to enter my dying protest against what is called the Democratic Party. I have watched it closely since the days of Jackson and know that all the misfortunes of our nation has come to it through this so-called party, therefore beware of this party of treason.

And this man never had the "privilege" of meeting the Clintons and Obama!

Wayne| 7.29.10 @ 12:49PM

Interesting that we have a person on my softball team with all these traits. So I decided to look him up in Google. Sure enough, he and his wife gave over 4000 dollars to Obama in 2007 and also in 2007.

David| 7.29.10 @ 1:12PM

I don't see how Sherrod can file a lawsuit and be awarded any money. I can't see how she was damaged. For maybe one full day she got bad press. So what? She has now become famous and a heroin and can get a better paying job in the administration. She is, as I predicted, becoming the new Rosa Parks.

In addition to not being damaged, the entire video, including her comments since the story broke, give a good indication that she in fact is probably still harboring ill will toward whites. Look at her comment accusing those who oppose Obamacare of being racists.

That woman deserves nothing whatsoever. Give her the old job back and be done with it.

Luis La Lama| 7.29.10 @ 1:17PM

my comment regarding our members of Government is the following:
Senators should be allow to serve only two terms, after that they become like robots, they seen to just go along.
congressman not more that 5 terms and if they screw up they should be fire.
lets stop calling and acusing each other of being Liberal, Conservative, left wing, right wing and any other stupid name found in the book, you people are elected to represent the people who in the United States, if averyone gets together and work as a team, this country would be better than it is now,

Nancy in NC| 7.29.10 @ 2:07PM

We should repeal the 17th amendment, and if that's impossible, lower the terms of Senators. They think they're demi-kings. The 17th Amendment was ratified in 1913, just when the progressives started their march down the socialism trail.

I think the Founders had it right when senators were chosen by state legislatures.

Doug| 7.29.10 @ 1:37PM

Get down on your knees.

Pray.

As soon as you get an answer, get up off of your knees.

Go do that.

George S| 7.29.10 @ 1:46PM

Dejection? okay... that's a healthy response to what may happen. But everything has a purpose. What if McCain had won in 2008? Would climate change legislation been signed? Yes. Would amnesty, in some form, for illegals been compromised with the Democrat majority? Yes. Would a health care bill authored by Ted Kennedy been proudly signed? Yes. More campaign finance laws to protect incumbents? Yes. With a Republican president, the minority Republicans would have had to swallow party loyalty and go along -- just like with Bush's compassionate conservatism. And Palin, in the VP Office, would have been marginalized to the point to not being a political force. And Paul Ryan would have been hounded by the McCain White House as divisive and uncivil.

Instead, Obama shows us what unchecked leftism does to the country. Sure, people in Chicago, Los Angeles, Buffalo and Detroit could tell you all about it, but let's face it, those places are not "White America", being used to being liberal doormats for decades; when the rest of the country feels it, they recoil in horror. And the Tea Party is born (no way in hell the Tea Party comes into being with a President McCain). This sudden uprising to take arms against an out of control federal leviathan is unprecedented in history. There was no uprising against the New Deal or the Great Society because people had faith in their government to tackle a problem. Today, we no longer believe that and, instead, come around to realize that government works against us. The Constitution is trampled on before our eyes and amended to "We the Congress..."

All this was possible because of Obama. For too long, we were fat, dumb and happy -- contented Baby Boomers spoiled by the sacrifices of others -- until we were jolted by the alacrity of the Obama agenda after the mask was pulled off. Now we are fighting back.

Dejected? A good thing, for it forces us into action. We have seen where leftism takes us and we do not like it. Fortunately, the damage done is minimal, within reach of being repealed. Once we get things back to normal, we will never, in our lifetime, trust liberal with government again. That is the window we need to take advantage of in order to attack the problem in the schools, the media and the entertainment industry.

This never would have happened without Obama and the horror he subjected us. This is our stand. Get out and vote and take two or three people with you. Then remember what it was like next time someone with a "D" next to his name smiles at you and tries to shake your hand.

Margie| 7.29.10 @ 1:48PM

There's only one way to avoid suffering dejection. Your hope has to be elsewhere, and not in mankind. Knowing that this life is fleeting and even shrter than I think, I must put my hope in the One who made me. In the meantime I do what I can in this short little life that belongs not to me but to God, to help elect the most possibly conservative candidates to the Republican party in order to defeat the enemy~ which is the corrupt Leftists.

Isn't that all we can do? All the in-fighting about the Republican party is all well and good~ and some of it isn't as we see here everyday because we make each other the enemy instead, but imagine if we all did honestly unite to do so~ to defeat the Leftist Party~ the Democrats~ imagine the ability we would then have to turn back the tidal wave that is surely coming, as is in fact already here?

I say there is still yet hope but only if we honestly unite.

Ken,

Did he swallow a gnat and spit out a camel? His entire point IMHO was not whether it or not it was a lynching but was to show how she was race baiting.

God bless!

William W. Wexler| 7.29.10 @ 1:49PM

Quin,

You're so full of shit that your eyes are turning brown.

Obama divisive? Jesus, where have you been? Obama has bent over backwards to try to work with the GOP, who refuse to believe that their crummy performance in 2008 was due to their ideology. Tax cuts for the wealthy, ship jobs overseas, create endless illegal wars on concepts, tank the economy, rob the bank on the way out of town.

Obama divisive? The GOP has voted straight down party lines on just about every single issue. That's divisive. If there is any dividing line with Obama and the country it runs right down the half of him that is black. If you can't see that you're blind.

You should have stopped after your first sentence. It's obvious that you're a young punk who doesn't have a clue what to write, and it figures you'd get a job making up baseless bullshit for a rag like this.

-Wexler

PS to imposters... since I have posted here before and had people posing as me, I make it my policy to only post ONCE. Any other posts in this thread supposedly by me will be posers, and you can tell because the name will not link to www.glennbeckreport.com

Slime away, jerkoffs.

davelnaf| 7.29.10 @ 4:31PM

Dear WWW,
When a cross-section of people in this country objectively reference the word “divisive” these days it is more than likely that they are NOT referring to the frequently steamrolled Republicans in Congress. When this group references the Bamster’s divisiveness it is quite likely that they will recall his “typical white people” remark as typical of his attitude set. For a president of the United States to allow this comment to slip out of his mouth in even an informal setting would be embarrassing to his supporters if it got out. But for Obama to do this in public and before rolling camera is indicative of something that people like you have been missing or unwilling to confront.

Radegunda| 7.29.10 @ 5:19PM

So the guy who said "get in their faces" and "hit back twice as hard" is not divisive. Not at all.

They guy who presses forward with policies that a large majority of voters say they don't want is not divisive. Voters say, "Please don't do this to us," and that makes him even more determined.

The guy who attacks a state for trying to defend its legal residents from violent and criminal invasion is not divisive. Not at all--even though a large majority of citizens are on the side of the state.

The guy who forcibly shuts down citizens' businesses--for the benefit of others from particular ethnic groups or a particular party affiliation--is not divisive. Not at all.

The guy who's scheming to do "amnesty" by executive order because the people don't want it is not divisive. It's not divisive to flood the country with illiterate Mexicans whose votes will overwhelm those of citizens who followed the rules.

And of course it's not divisive for a so-called president to bad-mouth "his" country for a foreign audience. Not divisive at all.

Bending over backwards to work with Republicans?? HaHaHaHaHaHa!!!

jwopic| 7.29.10 @ 6:46PM

Dems. Libs. Commies, Natzis, Linenists, really do get angry when the truth hits him in his brown bullsh$%t eyes! wexlar when the time comes you can sit right next to the Soteros on that slow boat to china! Now now oh don't bring Jesus into your rhetoric wex-lar. Are you that angry? Yeah I guess you are.

jwopic| 7.29.10 @ 7:54PM

I forgot one thing there wex-lar. Social republicans can't handle the TRUTH either. Don't be scared of the rhetoric you are spoon fed by those social so-called elites. I guess it really doesn't matter you are afraid because without Obama, Sotero, whatever name he spews out of his angry life mouth you will follow and follow. Christ came to give life. Dig real deep and see if Obama has given or TAKEN! Don't lie to yourself you are all you have, because when it's all said and done that man has only one agenda. It's what suits him! Not you or me or anyone even his so-called cronies! Will he fool you wex-lar or will you stand and not fall. Don't be scared!!!

dw| 7.29.10 @ 1:49PM

The cure for political dejection is Democrat rejection....

Margie| 7.29.10 @ 2:09PM

Good one!

David| 7.29.10 @ 2:03PM

To Comrade Wexler: The fact that ALL repubs vote against Bam Bam's commie plans is not the news. The news is how many DEMOCRATS ALSO vote with the repubs to defeat the commie plans.

As to the racism charge, it may surprise you, but WE DON'T LIKE HIS WHITE HALF EITHER.

I am confident that the reason you post only once, is that you have no evidence to support your leftist rantings when other posters challenge you.

Alice is waiting for you in Wonderland.

Margie| 7.29.10 @ 2:11PM

David,

Super post! Right on.

Dan| 7.29.10 @ 2:09PM

Your column describes my feelings perfectly. I would only add that Republicans are not doing nearly enough to help save our country from this corrupt, incompetent administration. 2010 is our last chance to save America from becoming a third world failed nation. Obama's plan to destroy America from within is working perfectly.

Ms. Jones| 7.29.10 @ 2:09PM

Wexler's early. Must have skipped the yoga class today.

David Williams| 7.29.10 @ 3:10PM

Given Mr. Cartman's description of what the trolls do in Yoga, I suspect 3W missing class today accounts for his mood and his mouth.

Roxana| 7.29.10 @ 2:11PM

I ditto all your "I" sentences.
And, I do what I can in all the areas of activism that you suggest.
However,
Even though I respect our Founding Fathers, I believe that they forgot one very essential factor in setting up our Constitutional Republic:
A way of policing our government officials BETWEEN elections. It seems that since they are nearly all attorneys that they keep finding ways to skirt the law to achieve their own agendas, funded by our taxes. When they do something against the constitution, as they seem to do more and more there is nothing immediate that we can do to stop them. If I, or any citizen committed the same infraction, we would be jailed immediately. By the time we have an election for alternate choices, they have done so much damage that it's nearly impossible to reverse! They have made themselves into an untouchable elite, and we have essentially become their powerless slaves.
Another result of this, which nobody seems to mention, is that the example they set for our citizens is tearing the honesty factor out of our country. Citizens see that they get away with all these infractions and dishonesty, and are demoralized to the point that they figure "why should I be honest - it doesn't get me anywhere, and if the "leaders" don't adhere to the law, why should I?" And so, lawlessness becomes epidemic.
So, here I stand, feeling tired, dejected, disgusted, furious, disheartened and disillusioned. And, I imagine that there are many more who feel as I do. Is there a real remedy?

Annie| 7.29.10 @ 2:15PM

We all need to fight hard to change the face of Congress and of all government this November and in every election here on in!
http://beaufortteaparty.blogspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwK82_XQUpQ

Jim Woodward| 7.29.10 @ 3:55PM

Annie,
Lived in Savannah for five years. Used to come up to Beaufort all the time. Lunch and dinner at a place that was a bank way back. Out in UT now. Nice blog.

David | 7.29.10 @ 2:15PM

We in Texas could improve our situation immediately and get out from under the federal government by becoming our own country. We are self-sufficient. We have everything we need. We are willing to drill for oil on land and in the Gulf. For the parts of the country that won't allow it, you will be paying $5 - 8 for a gallon of our gas while Texans will be paying a buck a gallon. We have all the ranches, farms, and fisheries to support ourselves in every way.

We don't have a state income tax, and what will the fed do when Texans stop paying fed income taxes? We would be able to start our own privatized social security system, and take care of our own health care needs. We have the Texas Medical Center, one of the top rated healthcare systems in the country. We'll secure our own border with Mexico. We will actually pass true color-blind laws to govern our social and economic structures and institutions.

Make no mistake...........Texas does not need America...........America needs Texas...........and the federal government should start acting like it. It's time for Texas to flex its muscles.

Puprle Lips| 7.29.10 @ 2:40PM

I'm sure the good people of South Carolina thought the same way in 1861.

Ken (Old Texican)| 7.29.10 @ 3:47PM

David...
It is not QUITE the right time for we Texans to make a muscle, and secession is not necessary.

The right time is November 5 or so after ACORN does their deal....and we see the results.

Total nullification is the answer. Texas just says "NOPE"....under the tenth ammendment.

Maybe Obamee will bow to Governor Perry just like he did to the Saudi king....when the chips go down.

See, Texas holds the reins on two thirds of American gas and oil...import points ...and refining....and independent cusses like you and me.
(smile).
Now...nullification is a HUGE step, and will require bloodshed if Obamee can talk our patriotic military into it. I don't think he can if we just say "NO" with empty hands.

No...we just demand that the feds follow the constitution...or we cut off their fuel. We just refuse to "sell" the fuel. Screw 'em.

Their wimps will wail..."blood for oil? blood for oil?"
OOPs.

Texan| 7.29.10 @ 5:07PM

Of the twenty largest oil refineries in the world, Texas has five. So not only do we have oil and gas in quantity, we have the capacity to refine. If Texas simply closes the valve, liberals in Chicago would freeze their asses off.

RCV| 7.29.10 @ 6:46PM

Sorry I'm late - the Communist cell meeting went longer than expected.

You guys live in such a bizarre fantasy world - nullification, secession. Read some history - Americans, real Americans like Nathaniel Grigsby cited above, gave his life and died for the Union as did hundreds of thousands of others. We'd do it again. The "Democrats" he was vilifying were the miscreants like you who purport to be patriots but who hate the United States; they're the ones who espoused nullification and secession and whose loyalty was to their states and not to the United States of America. Fortunately, Abraham Lincoln and the AMERICAN people stood fast and will do again whenever necessary.

So dream on, you insurrectionists and traitors to this country. Your silly tea bagger movement will wilt and die away, it's only legacy having denied the GOP any chance of returning to power.

Instead of whining like you're some oppressed serfs, get down on your knees and thank God you live in a free, just and prosperous society. And any time you Blowhearts want to turn off the oil spigots, just remember this - you don't own them. The multinational oil companies do. And they're not about to give up their profits for the sorry likes of you.

RCV| 7.29.10 @ 8:58PM

And while I'm getting this rant off my chest, let me tell you why you guys have NO chance of electoral success: You fail to appreciate that the political system our brilliant framers gave us is built on the principles of checks and balances and compromise. It is designed to force change slowly. Our framers, who were a diverse group of brilliant young (mostly) minds, knew that even in 1789, our country was a diverse group of people and interests. You cannot succeed in this system without compromise.

You seem to think you can run an ideological ideal up the flagpost and everyone will salute in unison. That's not how the system works. To succeed in a national political campaign, you have to get out in the various communities that make up this country and organize. That's why we won in 2008 -- many of us took leave from our professions or put schooling off and worked full-time in communities throughout the country. We worked with any group we could who had common cause with us on one issue or another. It didn't matter that the Clinton folks wanted single-payer health care, which Obama wouldn't trumpet, or that Edwards insisted on union issues and opposed free trade. We worked together for the election.

You folks are incapable of doing this. You're ideological purists. If anyone deviates from the party line on ONE issue, they're out. It doesn't matter that Rick Santorum supports 95% of your goals - he endorsed Specter, so he's anathema. You've already thrown Scott Brown overboard because he deserted you on one or two issues. John McCain's a traitor because even though he's a fiscal conservative and military hawk, he differs on immigration. Libertarians are leftists because they're not interventionists.

Your basic problem is you can't play well with others. This will doom you in seeking any effective political result.

Margie| 7.29.10 @ 9:48PM

Well RCV~ you're right about the Right not being as organized as the militant Left is. That is, maybe until now. You see, people are just plain fed up with the Left. It's like a Reagan Revolution without Reagan going on right now with the TEA parties. And though we fight a lot amongst ourselves (non-interventionism IS Leftist)~ and we DO hold our representatives to a higher standard, we still have a common enemy~ Obama and his minions.

Perhaps you underestimate us. Be careful. Maybe your perceived weakness is going to be our strength. Ours is the bubbling up of anger and outrage at the filth of this mere man who wishes to destroy our great and beloved country! The people are outraged and it's a REAL good thing.

RCV| 7.29.10 @ 11:05PM

We'll see, Margie. But the evidence tells me otherwise. Sharon Angle has turned an 11 point lead over Reid to a 4 point deficit; Crist is widening his lead over Rubio; Boxer's lead is growing over Fiorina; McCain is easily dispatching his tea party opponent in Arizona.

Yes the American people are disheartened and upset, as they should be at the collapse of the economy. But throwing out bombs like nullification and secession, making racial jokes about our President, telling people you want to abolish social security and medicare and the EPA, scares people in the middle of the spectrum, as it should.

As I've said before on this platforms, I have no doubt that the GOP will score gains in November. The state of the economy and the usual off-year phenomenon guarantees that. It's possible, though not likely, they will even have a slim majority in the House. The Senate is out of reach, and the non-tea party Republicans like Crist and McCain will not forget what the right has tried to do for them. The President's veto will insure that any efforts to undo the social legislation we worked hard for will be defeated.

There will be setbacks for Democrats to be sure: Our checks and balance system guarantees that the third branch - the Judiciary - will retain a conservative tinge for some time. But by 2012, the economy will have improved immensely, and Obama's election chances will improve with them. The inability of the newly elected GOP congressmen to accomplish ANY of the goals they're promising -- there will be NO healthcare repeal -- will turn off the tea party base, and they will turn on the GOP as they are now doing to their first "victory", Scott Brown.

And the incredible political organizational system we set up in 2008 remains intact and I can assure you will work just as hard as we did in 2008 for his re-election.

I genuinely agree with you that the increased political involvement we're seeing is a real good thing. But the disillussonism that will follow if people have expectations that are wholly unrealistic will not be.

I do not see this working out well for your side. I could be wrong, I freely admit. But I don't think so. One thing I'm certain about though - our glorious Republic will endure, and will prosper and will continue to serve as a beacon to good people all around the world.

Bob K.| 7.30.10 @ 4:13AM

Sorry, the economy won't be any better in 2012. Not with the same group running it now. So get out there again and keep on spinning!

victor| 7.29.10 @ 3:49PM

What a great example of Left wing Liberal Revisionist History, not to mention, not answering or addressing his points.
texas was the only Republic to join the Union and may very well be the only Republic to leave.
Good luck in getting the deadbeats, layabouts, goldbricks and loafers to support you in the Blue States, eh?

Jim Woodward| 7.29.10 @ 3:40PM

Yup,
If Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico and Arizona joined you we could really make it work. Plenty of oil, natural gas, coal, copper, gold, silver, timber, etc. Populated by those who are by and large, conservative, christian, freedom loving, family oriented constitutionalists.

victor| 7.29.10 @ 5:05PM

If you could get Colorado to join in as well, we would have 100 TRILLION Dollars worth of oil lasting nearly 300 years or so.
That would really fuel America's Recovery, eh?

Susan| 7.29.10 @ 2:37PM

Beautifully writte. I feel the same. I feel like I've woken up in the TWILIGHT ZONE. Our own president attacks the sovereignty of his own country. I'm all the things written here tired, dejected, disgusted, furious, disheartened and disillusioned. But I'm also scared. We have a president who wants to divide and conquer us from within, by race-baiting and the lock-step Nazis are right behind him doing the same. The Dems are all of one mindset. It's very troubling that not one of them will break ranks and say what needs to be said and do what needs to be done.

Black Quill and Ink| 7.29.10 @ 2:41PM

I fully agree with Quin. I have taken the additional step of creating a Black Conservative Blog (www.blackquillandink.com) for the purpose of educating people, especially Blacks, about the destructive action of this Administration. With over 90% of Blacks still supporting Obama, I think it is imperative that some efforts be set forth in hopes of turing Blacks around prior to the mid terms and certainly before the 2012 elections. Optimistic conservatives who voted for Obama, Independents and even some Democrats have figured out who Obama is. Sadly, this is not the case with Blacks. I hope with my blog that this will change.

Margie| 7.29.10 @ 3:03PM

Nice website, I like what I see, bookmarked it and will be back later!

Black Quill and Ink| 7.29.10 @ 3:19PM

Thanks, Margie. Still working to get it running smoothly. If you like my articles, please pass them along. Any constructive comments are also appreciated.

Purpleguy| 7.29.10 @ 6:10PM

Who you trying to convince? As if Illegal Immigration just started Jan 20, 2009?

You're other comments are quite extreme, don't you think?

John II| 7.29.10 @ 9:56PM

Purp! I'm not sure whether you're a little early, or a little late. Scroll up to Eric at 10:19 a.m. if you don't know what the hell I'm talking about.

Free advice always available for trollsters.

Ed Pizzella| 7.29.10 @ 2:56PM

Hear, hear and Amen. I want to see a huge voter turnout in November. I want to see the polls so crowded that it's difficult to find parking and traffic is backed up on the roads leading there. And everywhere I want to see signs that say "NO LEFT TURN."

tp| 7.29.10 @ 2:56PM

Suggestions for a more accountable America:

1) Remind your opponent our President and Congress' laws are responsible for our exploding debt, escalated tensions with our greatest allies and our greatest enemies' new-found opportunities to harm America. Refer your opponent to the Heritage Foundation and promise George W. Bush will never again be President.

2) Bring our military home. They are no longer supported by our Commander-in-Chief and should be removed from harm's way. They should be encouraged to study entineering and medicine within our universities - professional fields of study that find too few young US citizens qualified for these fields of study.

3) Demand charter school and voucher support - within each elementary school 1/4 of all teachers must have an accredited Bachelor degree in applied mathematics or engineering, 1/4 in applied science, 1/4 in literature and 1/4 in history. Too many contemporary teachers studied only early childhood or special education and are uncoupled from any expertise in a particular subject. Then objectively evaluate a teacher's abilities purely by the performance of their students on standardized tests - the standard of leading educational programs in the world. I'm not suggesting anything new. For almost 100 years our universities created the best engineers, doctors and scientists in the world and they still do. We must demand our primary educational system return to preparing students to excel in these fields.

4) Return to our Founder's legal principles - separation of powers. President Obama seeks to control both US Houses of Congress and the US Supreme Court. We must enable all citizens to fully participate in our legal system. Most high school students are capable of learning our laws and should be offered elective classes so that they may present for the bar upon graduation. To me it's all too obvious our President, armed with degrees from both Harvard Law and Columbia, has little or nothing to offer through thoughtful debate of civics, history, literature, math, science, economics, law, medicine, etc. I am confident even the most average of high school students could be, with 4 years of high school electives in law, better prepared to lead constructively in the private and public sectors and much less likely to become victims of our all-too corrupted legal system.

plainspeaker| 7.29.10 @ 3:01PM

Wow! Talk of secession, lynching, tar and feathering. Such harsh language coming from the basements of parents' homes. Maybe most of these commentators never go to the polls.

Sam| 7.29.10 @ 3:11PM

Great article. When asked by Fiorello LaGuardia if the Japanese soldiers on Guadalcanal were tough, John Basilone the WWll Congressional Medal of Honor Winner simply said..." yeah, they were tough, but the Marines were tougher".
Sgt. Basilone thank you for what you did for our country then and for the answer to what we need to do today.

paula colladay| 7.29.10 @ 3:32PM

To Plainspeaker: Your comment was snotty and typical of leftist smearing.

David| 7.29.10 @ 3:45PM

Plainspeaker, why don't you say what you mean?

Ken (Old Texican)| 7.29.10 @ 3:54PM

David,
Please see my reply to you above.

Plainspeaker finally got his talking points memo from Soros. heh.

Ddavid| 7.29.10 @ 3:49PM

Fantum, I bet you're glad you got that off of your chest. Ha ha.

I agree. Unfortunately, too many who are right leaning love to say that "all politicians are the same. There is no difference between them". To that I say, hogwash.

I have watched politics for a long time, and for many years, about 80% of what I watched on the tube was C-SPAN. That sure opened my eyes to just how downright dishonest the liberals and democrats are. At least the repubs try to have honest debates, whereas the dems simply make up things they claim are facts and demagouge the arguments.

To my fellow conservatives who have the habit of thinking that all politicians are alike, I say that in some senses they are; however, the repubs are not dishonest like the dems.

Why? Because the media allow the leftists and dems to lie and get away with it. They will nail a repub who they catch lying or even exaggerating. So, yes, the dems are lying pigs and the repubs are not.

Radegunda| 7.29.10 @ 5:27PM

You're exactly right. Republicans police their own, rather than circle the wagons like Dems. And if Republican pols don't discipline their own--even WHEN they do, which is usually-- the media make it the top story for a month or two. But somebody who exposes a crooked Dem is treated by the media as hateful and petty.

Average conservatives, those not in office, are much more likely than Dems to marginalize bad behavior among Republicans. The average Dem voter is more like to say, "So what, your guy did such-and-such in 1987."

Ken Roberts| 7.29.10 @ 4:10PM

The internment of the Japanese more than likely kept them from getting lynched . I don't like innocent people being jailed but that is one way of looking at it. they were in danger and also we were in danger from some of them that they might spy on us and destroy an American life . War is well Hell and nothing will change that but imagine the war if you were told not to shoot at the enemy for fear of hurting a civilian would that make you feel all warm and fuzzy ,?? It would not me . The war that raged in London for a long time took many civilian lives and also at Dresden many German citizens were killed , the one who kills the most wins it is a fact of war and can not be changed . Sure many can be saved but to allow our men to go on the battle filed with restrictions smells to much like a police action and not fighting a war. Korea was considered a police action but ask any one who served there and they will tell you it was a war. I have a brother in law that served and he can tell it like it was.

Ron| 7.29.10 @ 4:12PM

Excellent article. Most honest hard working Americans are fed up with lies, finger pointing, vicious attacks and childish behavior. We want the truth which comes from investigative journalism. Being hell bent on ideology and the end justifies the means is ruining this country. No body is perfect. Conservatives make mistakes but by and large will admit it, try to rectify it and move on but the media will tar and feather them and their families (Sara Palin) While giving a pass or completely burying anything that put the dems in a bad light. It's just too obvious to most citizens anymore what's going on. It needs to stop.

kenny bunkport| 7.29.10 @ 4:14PM

I'm disgusted. I'm furious. I'm disheartened and disillusioned.....I want fair play and integrity and intellectual consistency and common decency from all points on the political spectrum, but those attributes are not as prevalent on the left as they should be, and they are almost nonexistent on the right.

Ron| 7.29.10 @ 4:31PM

Kenny - you're a comedian right? That's funny stuff and exactly what the article was about. You can't be taken seriously. I'm surprised you left out the name calling.

carnot| 7.29.10 @ 9:48PM

oh saw off Ron. Kenny has the stats to prove his generalization. got em off the East Anglia web site!

Ron| 7.30.10 @ 12:29PM

I'm sawing right now.

Radegunda| 7.29.10 @ 6:07PM

It's leftists who believe "the system" is so rotten that they can trample on the rules to overturn it. That's why they have a hissy-fit if anyone suggests that voters identify themselves before voting.

It's also why they don't want the borders to be guarded or immigration laws to be followed. They want to use illegal aliens as a weapon against the citizens.

It's also why they really, seriously want to shut down media outlets that don't parrot the leftist line. They don't think anyone should be permitted to expose Democrat corruption.

Merrill| 7.29.10 @ 4:27PM

What a great article. Many thanks to Rush Limbaugh for highlighting it on his show today.
BTW, where is the right wing alternative to the ACLU? They seem to get away with murder (of America) with impunity!

victor| 7.29.10 @ 5:07PM

Go look up the ACLJ headed up by Jay Sekulow:

http://www.aclj.org/

Longplay| 7.29.10 @ 10:22PM

... and another:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.....fault.aspx

gearjammer| 7.29.10 @ 4:46PM

You jam the gears of a machine with a crow bar and the republican party is a suitable enough crow bar to jam the gears of the DPPM( democrat party political machine). This won't bring about some conservative utopia, but it is a needed victory in a fight for the American Restoration. And, give McCain some credit George S. He was not a madcap spender but a budget hawk of some credibility. He did a turn around and stood for drilling, and clearly understood securing the border was job one. I can't imagine him nominating a Kagen. She is trouble for decades.

Dianne| 7.29.10 @ 4:46PM

My 20-something son and I solved all the problems on a trip to the river: Each qualified (signed and verified signatures on petitions) candidate gets an exact amount of money from the govt, they can accept none from any other entity or person, they can spend that money any way they want to get elected. Once elected, they serve one term for some limited time. Then they are gone. This way, everyone, you , me, everyone, can run, farmers, electricians, mothers and fathers who can give four or six years to true "public service" and then go home. Think about it: it works. And I would serve, would you?

GENE HAUBER| 7.29.10 @ 4:59PM

WE HAVE ALLOWED THIS ADMINISTRATION TO DEVOLVE THIS NATION SO MUCH AS TO COMPARE IT TO A SUCCESSFUL ENEMY OCCUPATION THAT I FEEL THE LEADERS OF THIS GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE TARGETED AS ENEMIES OF THE STATE AND SHOT ON SIGHT.
THAT'S MY OPINION.

Franklin| 7.29.10 @ 5:46PM

And, the Republicans are any better - a huge list of their transgressions could be written too.

Vote for the TEA PARTY - we don't want to go back to the failed policies of GW Bush OR the Obama policies.

Radegunda| 7.29.10 @ 6:11PM

See above. Republicans are more likely to police their own. And the media will always cover for the Dems.

Voting "Tea Party" is just a way to ensure Dem-left dominance.

The Marxists didn't take over by way of a communist or socialist "third party." They did it by infiltrating and taking over the "Democrat" party.

The ONLY way to beat the Marxists is to steer the Republican party away from the sell-outs.

David| 7.29.10 @ 5:52PM

Old Texican, missed your earlier comments. "Just say no" to selling our oil and gas. I like it.

It won't only be ACORN out trying to rig the November elections, but SEIU and all of the other little groups who send out people to vote in the names of deceased people, and people who vote multiple times in multiple precincts.

The dems are going to contest all elections at all levels of government that are anywhere near close. They will insist on recounts and recounts and more recounts until the dem wins. They will involve the courts. They will stop at nothing to limit the gains repubs are going to make.

David| 7.29.10 @ 5:53PM

Ron, are you my Christian brother from San Antonio?

Stephanie| 7.29.10 @ 6:23PM

Nice article, but here in CA it's totally hopeless. We have double digit unemployment, we're overrun with illegals , are taxes are ridiculous and people are still going to vote for Boxer and the other fools that are running in November. I know you sound energetic in the column but I don't have much hope.

carnot| 7.29.10 @ 9:42PM

but....if enough of us elect the right people...the bailout $$$ Boxer et al are counting on won't come.......

Highland Infidel| 7.29.10 @ 7:14PM

Get out the vote. Drive the elderly and infirm to the polls in November. Make a list now of elibible voters in your area. Call in to talk radio; it's the only legitimate outlet to express your views.

curt morelock| 7.29.10 @ 7:38PM

Watchout for all kinds of; MUMBO_JUMBO during the 2010 elections... it will render the Florida hanging chads - childs play -court battles and the like for many months...(you know ... like the comedian finding those 400+ votes! They will try anything this side of out right criminal behavior?

Guardian| 7.29.10 @ 8:12PM

In the 1800's when the elected officials refused to enforce the law the people formed Vigilante groups and enforced it themselves.

carnot| 7.29.10 @ 9:40PM

9.5% and holding.

carnot| 7.29.10 @ 9:51PM

here's the deal.....the Republicans are a bunch of sawed off runts who can't play hardball. every time someone whispers racist or warmonger they scatter to the hills. I'll give this to the Obama/Lib fascists - they play to win no matter how many principles/promises are violated.

Ron| 7.30.10 @ 12:28PM

Gotta give you that.

carnot| 7.29.10 @ 9:52PM

9.5% and holding

Longplay| 7.29.10 @ 10:15PM

My frustration is that I live in Illinois, a nearly bankrupt state in which both parties have contributed to the mess - and to the corruption. My two senators are insane and the Republican running against them isn't all that great (albeit better than the other two). I'm torn between wasting time (?) at the local Tea Party gatherings to which I've been invited, and volunteering with the local GOP. I've financially supported candidates like marco Rubio and Sharon Angle, but my own state is so far gone it seems hopeless to try.

Tracy V-Chicago| 7.30.10 @ 3:45AM

Longplay...Our state is a lost cause! The home of Pay to Play Politics and Liberal Leaders! We just have to continue voting, educating, and staying involved....and hopefully... eventually... some day... maybe... there will be an awakening! P.S. I am fond of Marco Rubio too....damn we need someone like him!!! Take care and good luck!!!

Bob Grant| 7.29.10 @ 10:39PM

Quinn mirrors my sentiments...my optimism about the future of this country is proportional to the involvement of young people (18 to 35 year olds) in our cause. A metaphor I like to think about is rising water (socialism) threatens to break the levy. Sandbags (older and middle aged people) are what's preventing it from breaking, however, there is a limited quantity and as each day passes, it is more and more difficult to keep up with the water level. The levy is in desperate need of reinforcement (younger people)...at this time I do not see an impressive number of younger people demonstrating their disapproval at what's happening in Washington. I'm afraid the democrats and obama understand this more than conservatives and are thinking strategically. They know they are only as strong as the support they receive from 18 to 35 year olds...What's the conservative plan to attract this extremely important demographic?

Bob K.| 7.30.10 @ 4:28AM

It will have to be the economy, Bob. "Are you better off now than you were 5 years ago?" That will have to be the theme.

There is nothing out there for the 18 to 35 year old group now and there won't be if the tax policies of the current administration don't reverse.

Tracy V-Chicago| 7.30.10 @ 3:38AM

Mr. Hillyer: Very nicely put together piece of work. I believe you have spoken the words in this article that resignates with so many of us Proud Americans....Keep up the great approach to get people involved in eduating themselves rather than relying on the mainstream media outlets to inform us of important facts or even facts at all for that matter. Let's get honesty, loyalty, and patriotism back into this country!!! Thank you!

Chas| 7.30.10 @ 3:40AM

--From a teacher in the Nashville area.
"We are worried about 'the cow' when it is all about the 'Ice Cream.'
The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was while teaching third grade this year...

The presidential election was heating up and some of the children showed an interest.
I decided we would have an election for a class president.

We would choose our nominees.. They would make a campaign speech and the class would vote.

To simplify the process, candidates were nominated by other class members.

We discussed what kinds of characteristics these students should have.

We got many nominations and from those, Jamie and Olivia were picked to run for the top spot.

The class had done a great job in their selections. Both candidates were good kids.

I thought Jamie might have an advantage because he got lots of parental support.

I had never seen Olivia's mother.

The day arrived when they were to make their speeches.

Jamie went first.

He had specific ideas about how to make our class a better  place. He ended by promising to do his very best.

Everyone applauded and he sat down.

Now is was Olivia's turn to speak.

Her speech was concise. She said, "If you will vote for me, I will give you ice cream." She sat down.

The class went wild. "Yes! Yes! We want ice cream."

She surely would say more. She did not have to.

A discussion followed. How did she plan to pay for the ice cream? She wasn't sure.

Would her parents buy it or would the class pay for it... She didn't know.

The class really didn't care. All they were thinking about was ice cream..

Jamie was forgotten.. Olivia won by a landslide.

Every time Barack Obama opened his mouth he offered ice cream and 52 percent of the people reacted like nine year olds.

They want ice cream.

The other 48 percent know they're going to have to feed the cow and clean up the mess."

Tracy V-Chicago| 7.30.10 @ 3:54AM

I have a 4th, 3rd, and 1st grader and I can see this happening! Great experiment and educational piece for the kids! Unfortunately at my children's school in Suburbia Chicago their lessons were very one-sided! They did have elections, but Obama was pushed on them and favored. My children have to hear about politics on a consistant basis in our house....they voted for McCain.....they were somewhat loners! What can I say their grandfather is a vietnam vet...Great story....Keep up the great job with the young!

Ralph Novy| 7.30.10 @ 11:57AM

Your analogy is inapt. To make it apt, Olivia should have said something like "You all should have a fairer share of the ice cream that the rich kids are hogging right now."

Kim| 7.30.10 @ 7:59AM

All background presented outside the mainstream media on BO, and listening to and watching the man against what he does and has done, clearly shows he is one messed up pitiful psycho case and he is being puppeteered to run our country by power and money. There's Good (Washington/Lincoln), there's Bad (Hitler) and now There's Psycho BO. That man needs professional help, as well as be impeached for perjury and institutionalized for his own good, and to save the world from his madness.

pat| 7.30.10 @ 9:23AM

I see civil war if you guys keep it up. How is Obama worse than any other Democrat who ever took the oath of office? Face it you hate Democratic policies-nothing wrong with that, but don't make it about the man. Depression would not make McCain popular either. The unemployment rate due to allowing the auto industry to fold, teachers to be laid off, no govt spending, etc, would have been a pure slaughter for the middle class-I suppose that is better if you love the GOP. Me personally, I'm a fiscal conservative who is consistently against passing new spending laws without an equivalent offset or new taxes-neither party has engaged in that over the past 30 years-but which party claims to believe in it? The Hypocrisy! The war and Medicare unfunded liabilities should shame every fiscal conservative who voted for it right out of office! What were they thinking? Now that the GOP is temporarily out of full power they scream and yell but its the SAME people who voted for deficit increases when in power! I don't give them a lick of credit -its politics, and I'm not partisan. I don't vote GOP party line anymore because I see anti-libertarian (discriminatory practices) when it comes to race, sexuality, and more. Can we just keep the govt out of private lives? Nope, religious right gotta make us all bad if we don't think like them....freedom of religious is dead in this party. This article is for those who love to win and love to hate. No different than the Dems. Politics. Blech.

Deborah D| 8.1.10 @ 1:50PM

Obama is a dictator-wannabe. If you can't see that then you haven't been paying attention. Wake up.

Jack| 7.30.10 @ 10:39AM

This essay is tripe, and you are a raving idiot. Grow up and get a brain.

Ralph Novy| 7.30.10 @ 11:59AM

"I want fair play and integrity and intellectual consistency and common decency from all points on the political spectrum. But those attributes are not as prevalent on the right as they should be, and it seems they are almost nonexistent on the left. I don't mind honest and respectful disagreements; I am sickened by vicious attacks without substance."

Pot calling the kettle black.

Read. Think. THEN write.

CJohnson| 7.30.10 @ 8:16PM

Every parent needs to DEMAND that civics be taught, starting in K. And all schools need to promote community, citizenship and civic duty BEFORE teaching condom use.