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Look Bad in Anger
How about those violent Democrats?
What is it that has come over Democrats lately with their use of violent imagery?
First, it was Vice President Biden when he spoke before a Democratic Party fundraiser in Minnesota last Tuesday. During his remarks, the Vice President said he would “strangle” the next Republican who talked about balancing the federal budget.
The following day it was President Obama who said during a radio interview that the election of a Republican Congress in November would result in “hand-to-hand combat.”
Now we have West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin actually firing a rifle and putting a bullet into the heart of the cap and trade bill in a television political ad. Manchin finds himself staring down the barrel of an unexpectedly tough battle to hold onto the U.S. Senate seat that was vacated when Robert Byrd passed away last June.
Could you imagine the uproar that would ensue from the Left if Sarah Palin had said she would strangle a Democratic politician?
Could you imagine the howls of outrage from liberals if George W. Bush had said prior to the 2006 mid-term elections that a Democratic Congress would result in hand-to-hand combat?
Could you imagine indignation from Democrats if a sitting Republican governor running for the U.S. Senate had appeared in a political advertisement firing a rifle let alone carrying one?
Of course, we really don’t have to imagine any of these things at all. Remember last March when Sarah Palin’s Political Action Committee produced a map with crosshairs targeting twenty Democratic members of the House of Representatives who had voted for Obamacare? There was outrage from liberals across America.
“Sarah Palin is targeting — yes, with gun sights — House Democrats facing tough reelection fights who voted for health care reform,” huffed the Huffington Post.
Yet during the 2004 Presidential election campaign, the Democratic Leadership Council used a “Targeting Strategy” map against President Bush. The caption beneath the map read, “BEHIND ENEMY LINES: President Bush won nine states by single-digit margins. These states should be ripe targets for Democrats.”
Given that both a movie was made and a book was subsequently written about the assassination of President Bush it should come as no surprise that liberals did not object to the 43rd President being targeted with gun sights.
Or how about the headline that read, “Who’s palling around with terrorists now?” Jed Lewison of the Daily Kos wrote:
Reload? Really?
Of all the images to convey about her movement, it is revealing that Sarah Palin chose one associated with violence. Palin’s rhetoric comes amidst a surge in right-wing extremism, a time during which she should be urging cooler heads to prevail instead of fueling the most radical elements of her base.
Yet somehow I don’t think Lewison is going to take Obama and Biden to task for using images associated with violence. Nor do I expect Lewison to take a Democrat running for the U.S. Senate — even a conservative Democrat — for firing a gun in a political ad if it keeps a Republican from gaining the seat.
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Booger| 10.12.10 @ 6:14AM
Vice President Joe Biden Promises to "Play Hell" if Dems lose 2010 Mid-Terms:
http://www.realclearpolitics.c....._hell.html
From the desk of D. Mephistopheles, Attorney-at-Law
Dear Vice President Biden,
Well, I must admit, you certainly have a way with words. Most of the time we here at the firm prefer a more subtle approach. It usually does little good to let the other side know your true intentions before you make your move. That being said, I was gratified to see that your audience was most receptive. The fact that they so enthusiastically accepted the idea of Hell on Earth is a great comfort to many in the lower levels of the firm. The fact that they actually prefer to rule in Hell rather than serve the other side was especially pleasing to The Founder of our Great Firm, who said that it reminded him of the "good old nights" when he first founded our great institution.
Now, since you have vowed to "play Hell", kindly allow someone who knows what that is all about to give you a few pointers. Please do pay close attention; while you used the word "play", the execution of a plan to bring Hell to Earth is anything but "playful".
Action one: Obama's Civilian Security Corps. During the previous election, your President promised to establish a civilian security corps which would be answerable to him and would be equal in size and power to the U.S. military. The lower management of our firm was positively delighted with this promise; needless to say they have been QUITE disappointed that this initiative has not yet been carried out. It must proceed post-haste. Please be assured that this force is equipped with a proper uniform, with either a black or brown shirt (those snazzy New Black Panther Party outfits might be a good starting place) and appropriate levels of authority. One thing here: make sure that this new force does not take the same thrice-cursed oath of office as the current U.S. military officers. The oath that U.S. military officers take to uphold your thrice-cursed Constitution is nothing but an impediment to our goals, and the fact that the overwhelming majority of those officers take that oath seriously and are willing to fight to defend it causes us no end of consternation. Instead, make sure your new Civilian Security Service takes an oath of loyalty directly to the President. It is of the utmost importance that their oath be to a man (albeit one who is more than a man, as we all know and acknowledge down here) and not to some ridiculous set of laws.
2. By whatever means necessary, protect the gains already made, especially Obamacare. Our actuarial department has determined that the more rapidly and fully this program is implemented, the more quickly Hell will come to Earth. Under no circumstances must you allow the forces of the other side to circumscribe this grand project. Of especial importance are provisions allowing for the Ultimate Right of free access to abortion upon demand, including up to three months after live birth, and the termination of medical assistance privileges to those individuals to elderly, weak or infirm to carry their own weight in society. Once you make sure that these programs are firmly in place and accepted by the populace, Hell on Earth will follow in short order.
3. Much of your opposition is coming from those religious fanatics who actually believe in such ridiculous superstitions as a "resurrection", "atonement" by some so-called "Christ", and such like, while bitterly clinging to their ridiculous, out-dated Bibles. It's time to put an end to that. We have out-sourced the IRS to you for a reason. If these "churches" continue with their teachings on "pro-life", "marriage", etc. which are in opposition to your legitimate governmental authority, have their tax-exempt status revoked, then tax them out of existence. If they object, or try to resist, we can provide assistance from the BATF as well. Just get them out of our hair, and once again Hell on Earth is sure to follow.
I hope these suggestions prove helpful, by which I mean you should implement them immediately. Do not delay until the new Congress is sworn in next January. The lame duck session is there for a reason. Please remember, failure to deliver on your promises to our grand firm would constitute a breach of contract. I hope I do not have to remind you what THAT could mean.
Sincerely,
D. Mephistopheles, Attorney-at-Law
Anastasia Mather| 10.12.10 @ 9:45AM
I think these should be turned into a column.
Booger| 10.12.10 @ 9:49AM
Thank you for saying so, but truth be told I'm just working it all out since OBAMACARE RATIONING TOOK MY MEDS! My therapist assures me this works just as well as lithium. I'm beginning to wonder.
Cordially,
Bogger
Booger| 10.12.10 @ 9:51AM
Great. Now I can't even spell "booger" correctly. I really miss my meds.
Sandra| 10.12.10 @ 9:53AM
Herr Goethe would be so proud of this new version of Faust.
Booger| 10.12.10 @ 11:15AM
Danke schoen. Although I think I rather prefer Marlowe.
Cordially,
Booger
Lewison| 10.13.10 @ 4:14AM
Yet somehow I don't think Lewison is going to take Obama and Biden to task for using images associated with violence.
I agree with you
http://www.linkdelight.com
wodiej| 10.12.10 @ 2:13PM
well done! you are very good at that....a column for sure would be popular.
dw| 10.12.10 @ 3:27PM
Dear, Dear Mr. Mephistopheles,
Please forgive me for my uncontrolled exuberance and I, hopefully, assume my apology will be accepted. I offer as my excuse my inability to reign in my enthusiasm over the prospects of implementing your mandate to impose "Hell on Earth".
The audiences seemingly unabashed affirmation to submit to your rule transforms me into a raving, unthinking purveyor of lies and hyperbole at the impending prospect for the final solution to the problem the former United States has presented in its efforts to resist the world wide domination of our true leader.
Now as to Action One, we are, behind the scenes of course, inacting strategies to bring about the reality of the "Obama Civilian Security Corps", which we will refer to as the OCSC, and we can assure you it will achieve all of the potential as planned in our pre election contract discussions. The suggestions of Adolf, Karl, Joe and Saul, at that time, were not lost on us and will be implemented point by point. Their experience in these matters are not under appreciated and, in fact, we have set aside a team of our brightest to fully study in detail the collective works of all of their tactics so as to best make use of them at the right moments.
The funding for this action is 80% in place and will be at full finance within a matter of weeks when we recieve the promised, final payments from our foriegn allies.
Respectfully, we wish to gently suggest that for the uniform we, at least initially outfit our internal forces with some sort of red, white and blue theme so as to, as Saul opined, disguise our ultimate goal in a patriotic like package in order to continue the confusion and misdirection of the dim masses. As an aside, we are continually astonished at the true level of ignorance exibited by so many of the people. I know the committee to a person said we could count on that, but please forgive us our pessimism at that assertion. We never could have imagined the degree of truth in that statement. Now back on track, once we have siezed the nation beyond its ability to undo us we can re uniform our troops in a more appropriate way as you require.
Please make no mistake, we acquiesce to your every command so let us know if that will be acceptable. We humbly believe it to be a sound idea.
As to your oath suggestion, we will implement that in its entirety as it is a brilliant instruction. Just curious, did Adolf come up with that one?
We are committed to your edict on Obamacare and will do everything imaginable to, not only maintain it, but to add whatever mandates to it in an effort to further its intended design of ruining the financial structure of the United States and sending the population into abject poverty. (I love the irony of impoverishing even those who mindlessly support us)
When the OCSC is in full operation we will be able to use them to ruthlessly beat the population into full submission thereby making resistance to our policies impossible and from that point on there will be nothing to stop us from instituting your all encompassing will upon the earth.
Of course, religious fanatics will be eliminated from the outset until they cower in fear and dare not provide any form of threat to your regime.
So we are in complete agreement as to the importance of realizing the OCSC as soon as possible.
We realize that once that is done all of our goals will follow due to our ability to suppress all resistance with this organization and then from that point on dominate all future activities.
We will not fail in our service to you because we know failure is not an option and besides this is what we want with all of our hearts and (your) souls.
With all respect and awe,
Joe Biden, V.P. ot the U.S.
The Underwearinator| 10.12.10 @ 6:37PM
Your a rasist!
Stammon| 10.12.10 @ 6:17AM
Repeat after me;
All Republicans are evil. All are stupid, hicky, gun toten' reactionary bible thumping inbreads. They can't even vote for their own interests.
If you keep that in mind you will understand the self deluded mindset of the lefty Democrats.
Paul from SA| 10.12.10 @ 11:37AM
Stammon, sorry but I have to disagree... or clarify.
All conservatives are corrupt and inferior -- that covers all Democrats' accusations whether evil, racist, dishonest, stupid, violent, sexist, intolerant, full of hatred, blah, blah, blah......
Senor Mick| 10.12.10 @ 12:39PM
Mah favorite inbread is pumpernickel.
UnChuck.Liberals| 10.12.10 @ 9:49PM
Well, my favorite inbread is Sour Dough. Which is what our currency is becoming.
Ret. Marine| 10.12.10 @ 7:28AM
This is nothing less of a sign that the " hinged", i.e. referred to as the left and their minions, among us, to include the pretender-n-thief, his side kick commonly referred to as his V.P., or venal person, biden are smelling the very release of fumes of the right thinking, or referred to as the Christian majority of this center right country peoples of discontent. This is their way of saying "I'm not sorry in my attempt to rob the entire nation of their freedoms"
It is highly probable the aforementioned malcontents of this regime are seeing their hope and change meme falling off the cliff of reality with them in tow. Or it is a signal to the troops of the marxist/progressive/socialist/loser types to arm up for the coming battle of their evil vrs. our civil tones.
Really, its just too bad for them for now they have a situation on their hands regardless of how many lies, deceitful remarks, or outright theft of honesty they try, it is still regarded as the lost of their perceived kingdom right before their lying eyes. No, it is not a matter of We the sheeple against you, but that matter is of We the People recognizing fraud when we see it and you just can't stand the sunlight afflicting your faces.
Their desperation is a sweet reminder of who they really are, a travesty of the human experiences of their own making. Get over yourselves, you not all that and a cheese with your buggers.
JFGalt| 10.12.10 @ 7:42AM
It's called Hypocrasy - it's the trademark of the Democratic Party not that the Republicans are a whole lot better.
cyberdog| 10.12.10 @ 8:14AM
If I am supposed to be afraid, well I'm not feeling it. I've never met a liberal that I felt was tough enough to back up any threat of violence.
Old Soldier| 10.12.10 @ 8:35AM
I've never met an AMERICAN liberal who could back up thier violent threats. I have met plenty of foriegn liberals/ statists who won't hesitate to kill. That's why the libs love thugs like Lenin, Guevara, and Mao who were so good with violence.
Curly Smith| 10.12.10 @ 9:43AM
I think you're overlooking the obvious. Liberals will never physically attack somebody who is both willing and able to fight back. The foreign liberals you cite attacked their own defenseless populations. You see plenty of violence from the American left when they're given cover by the police or other public institutions and told in advance that there will be no repercussions (the usual WTO riots, the Black Panther Voter Intimidation, etc). Liberals are political bullies, they're cowards who attack the defenseless. You're in no danger of being physically attacked because they don't see you as defenseless.
Ole Sarge| 10.12.10 @ 9:57AM
That is why firearm ownership is a keystone of our civil rights.
Most European countries HAD at one time the very same types of rights, I think the Swiss Confederation is the only one left with them.
When to limit the right to defend yourself, (by fists, legal means or weapons) you thereby restore the tyranny of the State, and allow those elites that 'run the state' to run right over you like a bump in the road.
Senor Mick| 10.12.10 @ 12:45PM
I'll say it again--one day liberals will wake up and realize that they too have accessto the same 2nd Amendment the rest of us do. It may take years--generations, even--but they will do this.
Now, I'm torn about this. Perhaps by that time the 2nd amendment will have been gutted despite the efforts of us like-minded folk here and it'll be too late for them (but not for us law-abiding citizens who already own firesticks). I hate to think of liberal and conservative militias battling out as if it were the Kansas-Nebraska border of the 1850's.
Rev. Jesse Jackson| 10.12.10 @ 10:36PM
Old Soldier,
You're right. Liberals are gutless pussies. I read that that pussy Che Guevara, the poster boy of all revolutionaries, pleaded for his life. He tried to negotiate with the Bolivian soldiers, but then the call came from the U.S. - shoot his sorry ass. Ha ha! I would have loved pistol-whipping Mao's fat face. LIBERALS ARE PUSSIES!!! You want hand to hand combat Mr. President? BRING IT!!!!!!
Tim*| 10.12.10 @ 8:38AM
This election is about JOBS & THE ECONOMY .
This is D Trash Talk .
The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates .
Rise Up !
Kenneth E. MacAlister Jr.| 10.12.10 @ 8:44AM
"What has come over Democrats lately with their use of violent imagery?" Very simple. "Rules For Radicals" & it's author Saul Alinsky. When people adopt as their tactical bible a book dedicated to Satan, "the first radical rebel" nothing else but evil & violence will follow. The violent imagery Mr. Goldstein describes is Saul Alinsky's book speaking & acting out through the thoughts & actions of Democrats & leftists. The good news? Satan has already been defeated. He lost the moment Jesus Christ was resurrected from the grave by GOD. Those aligning themselves with Saul Alinsky & Satan have already lost the battle also. Are all Democrats & leftists determined to follow Satan? Not likely, but they need to recognize Saul Alinsky, whose strategies they are employing to defeat their political enemies was obviously enamoured with Satan enough to dedicate his book to him. By following Alinsky's advice in "Rules For Radicals" they are, like it or not, no different than Saul Alinsky.
Nancy in NC| 10.12.10 @ 9:20PM
I urge everyone read the book "Rules for Conservative Radicals" in order to fight back the tactics of Alinsky.
Fortunately, we have found our passion..the Republican elite...that's a different story. However, we are in the process of co-opting the GOP whether they like it or not. And we have just begun to fight. Remember, Nov 2 is the first scrimmage in a long war.
Redstateboy| 10.12.10 @ 8:52AM
"Conservatives, unlike far too many liberals, know what a figure of speech is when we hear it."
Great line... because it's true. Liber-uls are the most linghini-spined, limp-wristed, shallow, sad people one can run in to.
Mark James| 10.12.10 @ 12:51PM
You better hope you are right because they were going nuts for years during and after Reagan nearing violence at every turn. Now they (the left) had a taste of ultimate power for 2 years under Obama and giving up that much addiction in November could cause a violent withdrawal by the far left. Stay sharp.
Nunya| 10.12.10 @ 1:26PM
That's why all my guns are loaded...
Rev. Jesse Jackson| 10.12.10 @ 10:38PM
Mine are oiled and loaded, also, Nunya. Long live the NRA!!!!
John Navratil| 10.12.10 @ 8:54AM
There is, at least, a third explanation for Maddow. Palin is the wolf and we have to scare the little lambs into huddling together and bleating for protection. The very protection the big tough Democrats will bring with their hand-to-hand combat and strangulations.
Poor little lambs. They won't recognize November 3.
Sandra| 10.12.10 @ 10:05AM
Are you talking about the "sheeple" and the "dogs" (the "wolf looking ones," the "herding by nipping at your heels ones," and the ones that blend in looking like a sheep until a predator comes?) that defend the sheeple from the wolves?
Mrs Palin strikes me more of a Belgian Malinois, or Alsatian/German Shepherd type, not a wolf, not a predator at all.
But the shrieking Maddow sees everything not a sheeple as being a wolf.
Doctor Right| 10.12.10 @ 8:55AM
Everything the Democrats are doing right now is based on one thing:
TOTAL DESPERATION.
Just sit back and enjoy it!
Albert| 10.12.10 @ 10:15AM
My only fear here is that sometimes acts of desperation pay off.
Franklin| 10.12.10 @ 11:45AM
"sometimes acts of desperation pay off." especially when their voting base doesn't pay attention to anything going on. They only hear what their dear leaders tell them and take that for truth.
I pray that we can keep our message simple for the clueless to understand. Sound bites and 5th grade words are needed. Summarize your points before going on to meat of the issue.
Louis Jenkins| 10.12.10 @ 8:59AM
Well if you can't dazzle them with brillance you can always dazzle them with BS. Phittt, phittt, phittt, as a kitten, or Joe Bite Me, would say. There's a difference between the RINOs in the District of Criminals and true Conservatives. True Conservatives go about their business day to day, but when they get angry it is not in front of a teleprompter or for the crowd. They get seething angry, and say what they mean. Bite Me and the Jackass say it for fluff. Twenty days and counting. And yes, the Democrats are in the cross hairs-so to speak.
glassfinger| 10.12.10 @ 10:08AM
There is a wealth of pontificating and excessive analyzing about the coming 11/02/2010 elections. Has anyone out there traveled this country in the past few weeks, and talked with people when you arrived at your destination? There are a lot of very angry, very determined people out there, and we built this nation. We aren't bib overalled hicks with shovels, though that seems to be the only 'worker' the occupant of the White House seems to think is a 'worker'. That anger is about to be displayed, and for the most part, including Fox News, the 'media' may be underestimating the level of that anger. We remember what made this contry, and by God, we're going to bring it back. 11/03/2010 is going to be something else again, a day like no other, except maybe back in 1776.
Nunya| 10.12.10 @ 1:34PM
I certainly hope you're right, but I fear that there are so many uninformed or misinformed people who can tell you who the contestants are on American Idol but can't tell you who the Secretary of State is, that all vote Democrap. They have no clue, but they vote Democrap because that's the way they've always voted. You can listen to them on Hannity's "Man on the Street" segment, and it's utterly amazing the ignorance that abounds in this nation.
Or, the Democraps get the vote because someone "feels" that these programs are "good" for the "children" or some other BS. Vacuuous minds that can't think, only "feel". It's sad, but it's also dangerous. We have idiots voting for communists, but couldn't even tell you what that means.
Unless we turn this ship around soon, our Republic will be lost.
Nunya| 10.12.10 @ 1:35PM
Sorry, it's "Vacuous"
RichTex| 10.12.10 @ 10:30AM
Speaking of firearms, I guess things are just a little different down here in Texas. Our Republican Governor, Rick Perry, who is comfortably ahead in his re-election race, has been known to carry a shootin’ iron and use it too. Last February, he was out jogging with his daughter’s Labrador retriever puppy when a coyote threatened to attack the dog. Perry, who holds a concealed carry permit, drew his .380 Ruger and promptly dispatched the coyote with one shot. His Democrat opponent has wisely refrained from mentioning this incident during the campaign. And Strum, Ruger & Co. latched onto the publicity and has brought out a “Coyote Special” edition of the same handgun.
Richard| 10.12.10 @ 11:46AM
Of course leftists are violent bullies. All Leftist proposals require government coercion of the individual. We are to do it...or else!
RacerJim| 10.12.10 @ 12:11PM
To coin that ages old adage, "Fight fire with fire", my retort to the Democrats violent imagery is this violent imagery...
Ready on the left,
Ready on the right,
Ready on the firing line;
Lock and load,
Aim,
FIRE!
Chalkdust| 10.12.10 @ 12:15PM
If you HAD to pick a deamoncrat to vote for or share a foxhole with, you could look high and low before you found a better man than Joe Manchin, Governor of West Virginia. Having said that, Joe Manchin would be owned lock,stock and barrel by Obama (or Hillary Clinton) if he made it to Washington. He just made a last ditch effort to win and sell his soul to the devil by having a lying, molester of women (Bill Clinton) come down to Morgantown and do some speechifying for him. Manchin mighta got himself elected if he took Billy-bub up some dark hollow for some mutual target practice once he got him to visit.
Ned| 10.12.10 @ 1:03PM
It does say quite a bit about the left that their Senior Statesman and Head Cheerleader is a sex predator, doesn't it. Of course, if you were married to the Hildebeast, you might be a bit 'edgy', too...
Nunya| 10.12.10 @ 1:38PM
"Hildebeast"??
Hilarious!! :-)
jtjt| 10.12.10 @ 5:01PM
"Could you imagine indignation from Democrats if a sitting Republican governor running for the U.S. Senate had appeared in a political advertisement firing a rifle let alone carrying one?" Such is the life of the lily livered Republicans. Why doesn't a well-known Republican make a video composite of some of the events that the left tosses out as campaign ads. I want to see what the libocrat media will do with it. Someone ---- please.
jack| 10.12.10 @ 9:51PM
You guys are great, I love seeing your post. FYI
I hear that Lead is a better investment than Gold right now, right up there with pork and beans.
Speedypete| 10.12.10 @ 10:10PM
The violent videos I like to pass around are the ones on YouTube at the early Spring town hall meetings where the union thugs were tossing voters from the Democrat districts out of the meetings. The are funny and tragic to watch like a bloopers and practical jokes show vid because you know it is stupid and you know they are going to do it anyway.
Yosemeti Sam| 10.13.10 @ 1:21AM
" ... The following day it was President Obama who said during a radio interview that the election of a Republican Congress in November would result in "hand-to-hand combat."...."
There ya go, the PEN1 -ordained 'one' showcasing his prescient street-organizing honed bravado - as in veteran boot-to-baby-ass combat
general.
MtTopPatriot| 10.13.10 @ 6:48AM
Careful for what one wishes for...
The rate tyranny is working to destroy America, her people and what she stands for, gun barrel diplomacy may end up being the only recourse to redressing these abuses of power, and subsequent tyranny that will result, if the checks and balances of the rule of law, that are the bedrock of our Republic, are usurped in entirety by the clear and present acts of the ruling elite continue, a course of absolute greed and power, a road to ruin.
Appleby| 10.13.10 @ 7:33AM
Anybody remember 1968? Anybody remember that this gang of sophomores in chief is stuck in 1968?
All we have to do is understand that this is an attempt to re-do 1968 and this time *get it right* and this time put the right people in charge of stopping it in its tracks.
The people who are uniting to bring those Chilean Miners out into the sunlight after 68 days underground -- and the common humanity that they exhibited while they waited for safety -- including the teamwork, sharing, and refusal to quit smoking although the first liberal instinct was to force them to toe the PC Line even in extremis -- should be our example. Human beings pushed to extremes remain human. And both this group of miners and the Israelis show us how it is done.
The flippin Sixties are OVER. Get it together, you Forties, Fifties and Eighties Americans, and prove it!
Michael J. Scott | 10.13.10 @ 8:53AM
I suspect the reason liberals are so incensed over Republicans using so-called violent imagery is for this very simple reason: when they use it, they really think they mean it. Of the two sides, only the left has been truly violent. They do not disavow those who act violently in their interests. Rather, they praise them. The right, of course, immediately distances itself from acts of violence committed in its name - such as McVeigh or others.
So when the right uses "violent" metaphors like "reload" and "target," the left believes we mean it.
That being said, I have to wonder what would happen if someone on the right, not a racist like McVeigh, but someone committed to the thinking of the Founders - guys like Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Adams - if that someone (or someones) were to act "violently."
I have to think that, at some point, perhaps after the brown shirts come for our guns and jack-booted thugs stomp on the last vestiges of our freedoms, that "right"-thinking Americans will rise up, and then the left will finally realize what sort of sleeping giant they have awakened - and how disastrously they overreached.
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What happens when a Marine tries to spark a second American revolution by assassinating the President on Inauguration Day? Read Jefferson's Road: The Spirit of Resistance.
http://astore.amazon.com/theamericansp-20/detail/B003VRZH84
prestonsbrooks| 10.13.10 @ 11:17AM
An Armed Man is a Citizen. An unarmed man is a Subject. Obama will have Clinton sign the UN gun ban treaty. If he canot have it ratified by 2/3s of the Senate, he will institute it via Executive Order and initiate Confiscation.
Heartland Liberal| 10.13.10 @ 12:34PM
I found the commentary here amusing, if whiny. Seems to me the rough tough cream puffs of the radical right are trying to pooh-pooh their own rhetoric whereas libs stand up for what they believe. That, and the fact our cause is right, is why we will win. Venceremos!
Martin Treptow| 10.13.10 @ 3:30PM
Heartland,
Really?
If your "cause is right", then please list the Democratic Congresspeople and Senators who are currently running for re-election by trumpeting their accomplishments in the Federal Legislature.
Here, let me... (a comprehensive list):
1.
Uhhhh.....
You're welcome.
Troll.
Fail.
Cheers!
prestonsbrooks| 10.13.10 @ 12:51PM
Looks like you found some really good acid, dude.
joe biden| 10.13.10 @ 4:47PM
Hey Heartland:
Venceremos? really? You sound like Senor Chavez down in venezuela. he just lost his SuperMajority but has vowed to radicalize further to maintain power. Ahhh the sweet stench of Communism!
John DuBose| 10.13.10 @ 10:25PM
All this violent talk from both sides only makes it harder for the Republican House that is coming soon to make some reasonable deals with the President and at least a 41+ group of Democrats in the Senate.
Noting much good will happen without some deals. That is the TRUTH.
Cylar| 10.14.10 @ 3:35AM
Who says we want to make any deals with these assholes? The RINOs who stab our own guys in the back doing that are being run out of the party as we speak. (Yeah, I know McShame is going to get re-elected.)
The agenda is to pursue....our agenda. I think this time the Republicans finally understand that they're there to fight for their voters' interests, not make deals with the opposition.