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The Current Crisis
It Is Over
Our President has a difficult time conceiving of this growing majority who oppose him.
WASHINGTON — The Democrats are about to be beaten by something that they do not in their heart of hearts think exists, a huge national majority. At this late hour, with the storm clouds gathering and the livestock getting restless, they see only sunshine. Yes, there is “foreign money” out there. Yes, the media has bungled broadcasting the purity of the Democratic message. And naturally angry voices can be heard. Yet surely there is no majority gathering to unseat the party of decency and good deeds. Well, there is, and it is nothing like the Democrats describe it.
That majority is amiable, sensible, and believes in limited government. It is convinced that we face a catastrophic budget crisis, and that measures must be taken against the spending and on behalf of growth. Furthermore, many of these friendly Americans would be delighted to give our President a ride home if they found him on a street corner, though they would be a lot happier if he did not live at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. They doubt he would ask them in for a drink. After all, to him they do not exist.
Many of these people are Tea Partiers. Now they certainly do exist. Yet they are nothing like the Democrats believe them to be. They are not angry and warlike. They are concerned about what the Democrats have done these past months, but they will retire them the old fashioned way, through the ballot box.
Our President has a difficult time conceiving of this growing majority who oppose him. Apparently in May, President Obama asked a group of presidential historians over to the White House to discuss history and to inform him of any historic movements comparable to the Tea Party Movement in all of American history. The historians told him what he wanted to hear. As Peter Baker wrote in the New York Times Magazine, the President wanted to know whether there were “precedents for this sort of backlash against the establishment? What sparked them and how did they shape American politics.” Reportedly the historians spoke of the “Know-Nothings” of the 1850s, the Populists of the 1890s, and the Coughlinites of the 1930s. Thus our President was reassured. They were racists and fruitcakes. He heard nothing to challenge his smug sense of history.
Yet, once again he was misinformed by his experts. Michael Barone speaks more accurately of the historic precursors to the Tea Party Movement. He says voters concerned about limited government and federal spending were forming a prodigious movement toward the end of the 1930s. The movement in his mind might have successfully challenged President Franklin D. Roosevelt by 1940, but the rising threat of Nazism intervened. Doubtless there have been other precursors to the Tea Party Movement, for instance the original Tea Partiers back in colonial Boston. The truth is there has been a tug between big centralized government and local government since the founding of the Republic.
Reading the piece by Baker was an odd experience. It was talking about a president who in less than two years has lost the trust of the American people, especially Independents. It quoted soaring rhetoric from Obama in June of 2008 when he said, “we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet [the whole planet!] began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth.” After that there will be nothing to do, so we can all play golf or read a good book.
There was also this: “Obama’s team takes pride that he has fulfilled three of the five major promises he laid out as pillars of his ‘new foundation’… — health care, education reform, and financial reregulation.” So what? Education reform is a nullity. Ten years from now, test scores will still be in the drink. As for the other monstrosities, they are a large part of the Obama disaster. The growing majority that is about to retire Obama’s Democratic majority in the House and possibly in the Senate knows this. The Ruling Class, including Baker, seems to be oblivious of it, but the rest of the nation knows it.
Socialism is another of the gods that have failed. If you balk at my use of the word socialism, how about if I say Liberalism is another of the gods that have failed? What is astonishing is precisely how extreme the Liberalism practiced by Obama and the Democrats has been. Well, it has failed. The Liberals show no hint that they realize this, but the American majority does. Now that majority has to deal with the mess we are in. As for the Liberals, they have to explain why they are summarily leaving office.
About the Author
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. is the founder and editor in chief of The American Spectator. He is the author of The Death of Liberalism, published by Thomas Nelson Inc. His previous books include the New York Times bestseller Boy Clinton: the Political Biography; The Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton; The Liberal Crack-Up; The Conservative Crack-Up; Public Nuisances; The Future that Doesn’t Work: Social Democracy’s Failure in Britain; Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House; The Clinton Crack-Up; and After the Hangover: The Conservatives’ Road to Recovery.
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Booger | 10.21.10 @ 6:12AM
From the desk of S. Alinsky:
Dear President Obama,
For reasons which are beyond my ken, I have been allowed to pen this brief letter to you. I hope you find it helpful in your ongoing mission on behalf of my Grand Host. It may be that he has allowed me to pen this to you as gratitude for my humble dedication of my life's great work to him (although gratitude is not something we really see very much of down here) or because he is concerned that you are having difficulty carrying out his plan on Earth. I suppose I have been brought in as a consultant, for want of a better term. At any rate, here are a few pointers which, having studied my work as much as you have, you should already have come up with on your own.
First of all, please remember that power is what the enemy thinks you have. You have, I suspect, attributed great power to the "Tea Party" movement of the opposition. In doing so you have caused fear amongst your followers and emboldened the enemy. Quite frankly, when you attributed power to them you de facto gave power to them. This was an error. Now that your followers believe the "Tea Party" crowd has power, it has become so. You should have known this would happen.
This naturally leads to my next point. You have gone entirely outside the experience of your people. Why do you have that clown as press secretary, anyway? He's clearly in over his head. Unfortunately, you have very few people with any military or law enforcement experience at your disposal, and its beginning to show. Confusion and fear are spreading among your camp. I understand that many (most?) of your staff is retreating, even abandoning you. You really need to get some experienced people in there who will be sympathetic to you. I hear Colin Powell might still be available. Just think about it.
Now, early on you did a fine job of making the enemy play be their own rules. The problem now is that you are now the one in charge of the rule book, and you have made far too many promises. You promised free health care to everyone, with no increase in spending. You promised to end the wars and close Gitmo. You promised no new taxes (oh, like we've never seen that mistake before) for the middle class. Now the enemy is holding you to your rule book. It hurts when they use it against you, I know. Believe me, I've had several years down here to think about it, with no end in sight. Maybe you should just ditch the rule book altogether. I hear one of your guys had an idea about just admitting "the Constitution is wrong". Couldn't have said it better myself. Let's you ditch the rule book and do whatever you want. Might be worth a try.
It seems that of late you have ceded the ridicule rule to the enemy. I know, the whole "tea-bagger" thing seemed like a good idea, but it was really a one-time shot that you've hung onto way to long. Of late you and your comrades are the ones on the receiving end. Our good friend M. Dowd tried to help you out, but quite frankly I think she needs to get back on her meds. You've definitely let the other side get the other hand with ridicule. Maybe John Stewart would make a good press secretary? Just a thought.
Now remember, if its a good tactic, your people enjoy it. I have to ask you this as a friend, are your people in Congress enjoying themselves right now? Why not? Maybe, just maybe, you need to re-consider some of your tactical decisions. We all have to reconsider from time to time. Take it from me, I haven't had a choice to do anything else for quite a while now.
Finally, and this is the most important point for us to discuss at our present juncture, I have to ask you this: Did you break through and take power without a constructive alternative to what the other side is doing? You ran against the war, the deficits, and unemployment. Looks to me like they're all still there. You almost make it seem like the other side was right about your lack of experience. I've almost grown wistful thinking about what Hilary might have done. Oh well, no use in regrets, is there? You'll have plenty of time for that once we're here together in retirement.
At any rate, I hope some of this may have been helpful. If so, I don't suppose that as the most powerful man on Earth you could arrange a little something for me? Maybe just a nice glass of tea. Or water. Or even just dip your finger in some and put it on the tip of my tongue. It is just devilishly hot here right now.
Your adviser and admirer,
S. Alinsky
a.m.| 10.21.10 @ 7:07AM
I am ROFLMAO! Great "letter", Booger
David W| 10.21.10 @ 3:11PM
I do hope Mr. Booger is keeping copies of these letters. I think after the Nov 2 election you could put them into a book and have a best seller on your hands. You could make a killing selling them at the next Republican Convention in 2012.
J Baretincic| 10.21.10 @ 5:10PM
Great idea David. We will see if Booger takes your idea and runs with it.
megapotamus| 10.22.10 @ 6:00PM
Saul sits at the left hand of Lucifer so I don't think it's too much to presume that he gets a franking privilege.
The Bishop| 10.21.10 @ 8:12AM
Booger, you've authored the revised Screwtape Letters. Well done! You do C. S. Lewis proud.
Pascal| 10.21.10 @ 8:31AM
Booger: How you do go on . . . and on and on . . .
NavyBrat | 10.21.10 @ 8:58AM
AWESOME as usual, Booger! Wonderful job!
Stephanie| 10.21.10 @ 10:24AM
Booger, as always, you make me smile and sometimes chuckle. Thank you~
Freelancelot| 10.21.10 @ 2:28PM
Just like B.O.; aka Zerobama; aka Emperor Dumbo.
IzeHavitt| 10.21.10 @ 11:32PM
WARNING!!!!.........To quote that master elocutionist, one Lawrence (Yogi) Berra: "It ain't over 'til it's over ". We still have twelve days until Election Day. That's a lo-o-ong time in politics. Given all that is at stake, we conservatives cannot afford to become complacent or cocky in any way. The party of the devil will stop at nothing to maintain their hold on power. After all, that's what they are really all about anyway. It could go so far as they may attempt a coup. Does this sound crazy and outlandish? You bet, but just remember, communists never, EVER give up. And this bunch doesn't believe in the Constitution anyway, (except if it applies to them ) So if any of you are spiritual, continue in prayer. If you know how to pray perfectly, so much the better. Remember, it is " In God, We Trust ".
JmsA| 10.21.10 @ 11:41PM
I don't know about complacency, but I suspect there's an awful lot of chomping at the bit going on.
irish19| 10.22.10 @ 9:37PM
You are exactly right. Now is not the time for complacency. We need to educate as many people as possible about the threat we face and get them to vote for conservatives (if possible) and Republicans (if not).
The proggies have to be stopped dead. Gridlock will suffice for now.
Jeanette | 10.23.10 @ 5:35AM
This is what I'm apprehensive about, some kind of "October Surprise" that might take the form of something like 9/11. A national emergency of some sort? Some reason to postpone the elections and institute martial law? After all, every crisis represents an opportunity.
UpChuck.Liberals| 10.21.10 @ 2:45PM
Brilliant. Genius even.... Bravo, Bravo.
Ben in Virginia | 10.21.10 @ 12:28PM
@ The Bishop stole my thunder... It was like reading a little C.S. Lewis.... Very good job indeed!!!
Goatlocker| 10.21.10 @ 12:36PM
Very clever! Nicely done.
Bill Diebold| 10.21.10 @ 1:08PM
...you da man Booger...
dw| 10.21.10 @ 1:17PM
From the desk of President Barack H. Obama
President of the United States of America
Dear Saul,
What a wonderful surprise to hear from you, even if it is under somewhat difficult times. Last time we spoke you were in a heated exchange with Adolf, Joe and Karl as to who was more destructive to the overall human condition here on earth. As I recall it was fairly obvious that Adolf and Joe had a more direct impact as they had been involved in various genocidal programs that actually physically destroyed millions of humans. But you and Karl, with the advantage of your commanding intellects, maintained that without Karl, Joe would not have been in a position to do his evil and you offered that you must be considered because of the significant impact you have had in bringing down the United States over the last few decades, which will ultimately culminate in a net negative impact to the whole world. And I dare say, without your guidance I would not be in the position I now occupy to instigate that event. It was and is a most magnetic debate, as I have many times dwelled on it amid certain times of self reflection.
Well enough with the good moments and on to the subject of your latest inquiry. Harry contacted me yesterday after he recieved a letter from our mutual benefactor, Mephistopheles, and He seemed quite upset because things weren't going right and apparently, Meph was threatening him with a violation of contract punishment. Harry said Meph gave him another chance, but I have to point this out to illustrate the complications we are experiencing with what has become an adversarial electorate. We all know Reid is as dumb as a rock, but in this instance he has a point. I can't quite put my finger on it but something is just not right with the impact of Mephs usual domination of the masses. We are doing the same things as before but, like I say, these twits are not responding as before.
Could you please have a word with Meph and delicately advance my concerns on this. It appears Harry tried to breach the subject in his letter only to pay a painful price for it last night. You should see Harry's ass, he won't be sitting on his throne anytime soon. We all know Meph has a hard time with advice but Saul, these pedestrian morons are just not in the same trance as they were before and I am worried that I am losing my power of persuasion no matter what lies and artful deceits we come up with.
Be assured, I will implement all of your sage advice with zeal. And I will continue to utilize my intellectual superiority as always. You know I am fully committed to my duty and to the mission. Please reassure our leader of that. I know failure is a not tolerated and results in a very unpleasant future so rest assured I will succeed.
As for liquid refreshment you know it is impossible to sneak anything by the Satanic Sentinel Security Forces. You can't even bribe those S.S. devils. Remember what happen to Dr.Mengele when he tried to smuggle in his pain medication. He is still paying for that. So I am sorry I can not help you with that, Saul, but if there is anything else I can do, let me know.
Please talk with Meph about what I have relayed to you. We need his help right now, more than ever.
Yours with fond regard and affection,
Little Barry
UpChuck.Liberals| 10.21.10 @ 2:50PM
Again, very nicely written. Sadly the 'real' Barry could never have written it, he lacks the intellect.
Appleby| 10.21.10 @ 4:44PM
This remindsi me of Flip Wilson's "Geraldine" who, in the guise of a preacher's wife, was quick to say "The devil made me do it!" until one day her husband, the Reverend, asked why the devil never did anything for him.
"I asked him that," retorted Geraldine. "He said that if it wasn't for him, YOU wouldnt have no JOB!"
KERRY MARVIN| 10.21.10 @ 1:25PM
C. S. LEWIS PENNED THE SKREWTAPE LETTERS,
HE WOULD BE PROUD, BUT I DON'T THINK,
C.S. AND S.A. ARE IN FELLOWSHIP AT THIS TIME. JUXA-POSITION AND DESTINATION,
I GUESS.
LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NEXT INSTALLMENT, OBOMMA REUNIONS WITH ANOTHER, "GOOD OULD SAUL!"
THEY CAN SING A ROUND OF FIDDLERS THREE, OR "FIDDLERS FELL OFF THE ROOF" AROUND THE FIRE?
Cashin' Kerry| 10.22.10 @ 12:35PM
Caps off to you, Kerry!
Now, could you please turn YOUR caps off, as well?
m. Twain| 10.21.10 @ 2:19PM
With regard to Alinsky as consultant:
“Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.”
Mark Twain, Notebook, 1867
Emma| 10.21.10 @ 5:22PM
And as is often observed by El Rushbo, those who are really good at what they do--make it look easy.
Yer good!
diane1976| 10.21.10 @ 8:42PM
I hope this thinking applies in Canada. For years Canada ran a budget surplus, sometimes the only industrialized country to do so.
Then we got this horrible government and now we have a giant deficit. They put money into all kinds of "pork" projects and they have their photos taken at local meetings of special interest groups signing fake cheques, to prove how generous they were.
Alan Brooks| 10.21.10 @ 10:53PM
Over? well we know one thing: the Bush dynasty is over.
Hope to God that is so!
Alan Brooks| 10.21.10 @ 11:37PM
Luckily, John McCain's glorious campaign saved America.
Saints be praised.
LtColUSMCRet| 10.22.10 @ 4:52AM
Alan, I would have thought one of your ilk would never praise a Saint (even one from N'Oleans). At least there will have been no Obumba Dynasty.
megapotamus| 10.22.10 @ 6:15PM
Actually I endorse this sentiment. It is the dialectic in action. McCain was a fence sitter, who can deny that? Much of what we are experiencing now was baked in the fiscal cake. McCain would have mitigated it somewhat but not enough to keep the malign stupidity of a Senator Obama from stealing the show. We must let these babies have their bottles, if only for a time. Now comes the timeout, good for everyone. Well, almost everyone.
CINCINNATIUS| 10.22.10 @ 5:29PM
Wonderful! I am sure Mr. Lewis is enjoying this play on his masterful work. I hope you continue letters to Obama and might I humbly suggest you assign the title of "uncle" to Alinsky since Obama has modeled his policies from Alinsky's teachings, he has to think of him as a near relative. Can't wait for the next "letter"!
Appleby| 10.21.10 @ 6:35AM
The only people who do not understand why socialism does not work are people who have never lived under it.
I suggest that when the Obamas are turfed out of the White House, they come to Toronto and live as middle class citizens under true-blue, actual, 100% socialism and see how they like it.
I did not understand viscerally why it cannot work until I did the same -- and now I understand that it cannot work because it is not designed to work. It is designed as a mechanism to convince people that this really is the best life has to offer -- by forbidding them to exercise any other option, and teaching them that personal responsibility is terrifying and they cannot be expected to exercise it.
Not that all Canadians are beaten-down proles, but it doesnt actually take all of them to keep the rest of them down. The great black cloud of foot-dragging, slump-shouldered witnesses whining *What can you doooooooooooooooooooo?* drowns out and drags down the rest, and soon there is little energy left to fight back.
There is a good reason why 80% of the population of Canada lives within two hours drive of America. The only thing standing between Canada and revolution is that safety valve of the Seven Last Words of Canada: I Will Get It In The States.
Maura| 10.21.10 @ 9:11AM
The Obamas and others of their ilk are commissars and have no intention of living like proles under socialism. That's for us little people.
Margie| 10.21.10 @ 11:40AM
Yes, and remember, the Democrats have always been "for the little guy."
Ned| 10.21.10 @ 12:55PM
correct, Margie, and they are doing their level best to be sure that everyone ELSE is a "little guy" - permanently.
Margie| 10.21.10 @ 1:27PM
Joe the plumber comes to mind. Remember how Obummer treated him? Prime example.
Pigletrios| 10.21.10 @ 1:30PM
Democrats are very very good at keeping the "little guy" the "little guy". We have been social engineering this country for the past 40 years and the same people who were poor then are still poor and their numbers are growing, the same people who were illiterate then are still illiterate now and their numbers are growing, the same people who were on the dole then are on the dole now and their numbers are growing. Nice work guys - here we are in the 21st Century acting like its the 19th. We have to keep pushing to change this mess folks - no rest for the weary
Anthony| 10.21.10 @ 3:57PM
A very pithy observation. Bravo!
idalily| 10.22.10 @ 4:22PM
It's called pork barrel politics for a reason. The Democratic Party: keeping people poor and on the plantation since 1790.
patricia| 10.21.10 @ 2:13PM
Oh? Is that why they "convieniently" EXEMPTED
themselves from the HC bill......?!
Chalkdust| 10.21.10 @ 10:04AM
What if they gave a revolution in Canada and no one came? Canada is full of absolutely nice people who don't complain and aspire to nothing more; than their government supported job, free (stand in line)health care and a chance to save a little money so they can, in their dotage, head South every winter and spend part of their life in the sun.
I submit that government hand-outs gradually turned what was once a nation of rugged individualists into autonomies.
Bob S| 10.21.10 @ 11:24AM
Chalkdust- I think you mean "automatons". Cheers.
Margie| 10.21.10 @ 11:41AM
Or Obamatons.
SonOfSam| 10.21.10 @ 12:38PM
or ObamaNazis. They're not merely wound up machines, they're soul-less pathetic little sickos who can only build themselves up by tearing others down. Starting with everyone who knows how to actually PRODUCE something other than bureaucracy, lawsuits and little fits of crybaby rage
Margie| 10.21.10 @ 1:30PM
Hey SOS, LTNS. (Long time no see)!
Yes, Obamaton was putting it lightly, I must say. :^)
Robert Dyment| 10.21.10 @ 6:20PM
SonOfSam, you have plumbed the Canadian character as evidenced by the majority of present-day Canucks. The majority of the youth are too busy massaging the genitals of their "partners" to put any effort into earning a living. This is the way of life that they learn at every level of "ejukayshun".
Chalkdust| 10.21.10 @ 3:53PM
Why yes I do.
buckeyeman| 10.21.10 @ 11:12AM
"The only people who do not understand why socialism does not work are people who have never lived under it."
Sorry, Appleby, but that won't fly. I've never lived under socialism but I can easily understand why it won't work. In fact, it's intuitively obvious that if you pay people to not work and penalize people who do work, that eventually, no one will work (at least not much). "Bienvenu a la France!!"
The source of peoples' misguided belief in socialism is complex, pathological, and not monolithic. Laziness, envy, and greed motivate many of the slime dwellers at the bottom. Greed, lust for power, megalomania and a few other psychopathologies motivate the commissars at the top. The world has seen the abominable consequences of collectivism writ large and has still not learned. Lack of experience is not the problem.
I feel the plight of our friends and neighbors to the north but sadly, we're not far behind. BTW, there is indeed "a good reason why 80% of the population of Canada lives within two hours drive of America" IT'S TOO DAMN COLD up there! :)
Kevin McGehee | 10.21.10 @ 12:29PM
"The only people who do not understand why socialism does not work are people who have never lived under it." ...is not the same as... "The only people who do understand why socialism does not work are people who have lived under it."
dragon6actual| 10.21.10 @ 4:53PM
Fair point Buckeye. The quote should be amended to read "The only people who do not understand why socialism does not work are people who have never lived under it, or those who lack common sense, fiscal acumen or both."
megapotamus| 10.22.10 @ 6:12PM
This is our basic problem and frankly, it is not a large one. Some of us have learned through abstraction; historical knowledge and mathematical application, that socialism (which is all Liberalism amounts to) cannot work. Our countrymen are learning this same lesson through experience and to me, it has happened with a rapidity I could scarcely have hoped for two years ago. Take a page from Tyrell: it is a cruel sport but vastly entertaining!
Bob S| 10.21.10 @ 11:22AM
Appleby- tell me about it. I live in the Buffalo, NY area, and on the weekends there seem to be more Ontario plates than New York! All at the gas stations, at the malls, at the restaurants, etc. Two hour waits going across the Peace Bridge. I also remember the hospitals here being packed when the Canadian government ran out of Health Canada money.
LeoInTheWoods| 10.21.10 @ 3:31PM
Yeah, I'm from and still work in Buffalo, too, Bob, where I used to do computer and network support as a consultant and support person for small businesses. The medical PC's all had the same comment, "About 1/3 of all the work we do is for Canadians" Sounds like enviable care to me...
Canadians will immediately counter with, "And just about everyone on your side of the river comes to Ft. Erie to buy meds", but what's that got to do with treatment?
crookedwren| 10.21.10 @ 12:44PM
GREAT COMMENT, APPLEBY. THANKS.
NeilBJ| 10.21.10 @ 1:31PM
You seem to imply that what we are living under now works. I submit that what we are living under -- whatever we want to call it -- does not work. (Some might call it Keynesian economics.)
Many of us seem to not fully perceive that our system is not working of if we do, we don't understand why. Maybe we should all learn about the Austrian theory of the business cycle.
What is worse, many of us are like the proverbial frog in the pot of slowly heating water that doesn't realize it will eventually be boiled to death. In fact many of us will even vote for the "chefs" who are controlling the burners on the stove.
The question is how many "chefs" of either party will there be after the elections? Maybe some will turn down the heat, when the real solution is take the pot off the stove and try a different recipe.
RWinks| 10.21.10 @ 2:27PM
By asking whether Socialism "works" or "doesn't work" I assume you mean does it lead to prosperity and the betterment of mankind. Several centuries of experiments, both large and small from communes to continental nations prove conclusively it fails miserably at producing prosperity and happiness.
As a system of power and control, however, it succeeds very well. With all power concentrated in the government, it combines the the power of the most despotic tyranny with the immortality and ability for infinite expansion of bureaucracy.
To those with a selfish greed for power over their neighbor, it holds an irresistible allure. To this must be added the sizable portion of the population who would rather steal a living than work for it. Since most haven't the courage to commit theft directly, they are satisfied with the government doing it for them. Thus the popularity of Socialism a century after it's failures became manifest.
idalily| 10.22.10 @ 4:29PM
To the selfish, the greedy, and the thieves, you must add the do-gooders, for they are the ones that are the most dangerous because they "care." They truly do pave the road to he11, where there is no freedom, no prosperity, no reward for hard work, and soon, no french fries.
megapotamus| 10.22.10 @ 6:21PM
I would like to interject that while I agree with the pragmatic case against socialism, I do not make it. If socialism produced twice or more the material gains of capitalism, or what is more accurately named.... Freedom, it still would not matter. Freedom, ordered freedom... Liberty.... is the most precious commodity of all. More even than food. Seriously. So do not fall too easily into the Benthamite formulation of the greatest good for the greatest number. It is subject to manipulation and, in any case, is secondary at least to the imperative of Liberty. Live free or die, as New Hampshire has it. I would say Live Free and Die Free full stop.
Impeach Don't Wait| 10.21.10 @ 2:54PM
"There is a good reason why 80% of the population of Canada lives within two hours drive of America. The only thing standing between Canada and revolution is that safety valve of the Seven Last Words of Canada: I Will Get It In The States."
Appleby,
Wow. I didn't know it was like that. How you enlighten me. Say it isn't so. Are you not exaggerating Canada's plight?
Occam's Tool| 10.21.10 @ 3:47PM
Yup. Well said.
Stormzeye| 10.21.10 @ 4:07PM
As one of my Canadian friends says:"Tell your kids to get ready for Canadian style socialism where they'll never starve but they'll never get rich and just muddle trough life with little purpose other than to work until the end."
John Schuh| 10.22.10 @ 6:59AM
Obama wants to remembered as the American Trudeau.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 10.21.10 @ 6:35AM
Can a man who so defiantly opposes the facts be characterized as "misinformed?"
When Obama was advised of the Know-Nothings he should have jumped from his chair and danced around the room before grabbing his golf clubs because he's king of the Know-Nothings who Do Nothing.
Obama and his stalwarts know nothing of how business works or what creates jobs or wealth.
In the minds of the Obamamites, the pie is limited and if Citizen X possesses wealth then Citizen Y must be given some of that wealth because the pie is limited.
In fact, the pie is unlimited, limited only by out imaginations and efforts. Unfortunately, the federal government is doing everything possible to destroy the private sector starting with the health care community.
In the coming months the economy will continue to unravel as capital sits on the sidelines unsure of what's coming next.
Unless the Obama policies are reversed and soon what's coming next will be rather unpleasant for most, if not all.
ggoblue| 10.21.10 @ 7:24AM
12 days til we knock them on their ass
the only question is weather we kick them while they are down, or let them back up.
they will eat us alive if we let them back up
Kenny| 10.21.10 @ 7:47AM
Well said, GGoblue.
I personally opt for kicking at gaggle of the Left (Democrats, elitists, ruling class, etc.) from Sunday and back while their down.
Stephanie| 10.21.10 @ 10:35AM
George Soros needs to be kicked especially hard. He's funneling monies into several avenues to hit at Beck and FOX News. He needs to be kicked hard and often.
Anyone see that the ONE will be on John Stewart sometime soon?
Margie| 10.21.10 @ 11:57AM
Georgie Porgie puddin' n' pie kissed America and made it cry,
when the Lord God came out to see it,
Georgie Porgie fainted and died.
(Taken from an old Nursery Rhyme.)
OK~ lame attempt, perhaps.
The point is~ he ain't gettin' away with it for ever!
Remember Georgie, our God is an awesome God: Romans 12:9.
Ret. Marine| 10.21.10 @ 7:52AM
Why let them back up, the next thing we know we would be in the fight for our Republic life. Me I am all for kicking them while they are down, they will remember what it taste like and will not forget the feeling of the blunt object upon their wounded heads for quite some time. As for me, I'd just as soon as kill (politically speaking of course) them outright and put them out of our misery of knowing them might again resurface in the future to do their demented damage upon our grand children. Never let your enemy up while he is down to remove all doubtswhenever possible.
John Navratil| 10.21.10 @ 9:00AM
Good thought, Ret. Marine!
But, it's hard to put a stake in the heart of the Liberal/Progressive/Socialists or whatever they will call themselves in the future to distance themselves from their past. It's hard because the ideas (platitudes, really) sound so nice. Who's against free Bubble-Up and Rainbow Stew?
In order to put the stake in the heart, we will have to go after the RINO's (the ruling class) and actually CUT the government. Britain's 500,000 would be a SMALL start, but in the right direction.
When Chris Wallace tried to pin Carly Fiorina down on just one item of the budget she would cut, Fiorina fumbled and evaded. Her correct answer should have been "There is not one item, they are ALL to be cut. We will not dig ourselves out of this on the backs of a single group or constituency. The pain will be shared."
The Tea Party has its work ahead and the people of America have got to learn, viscerally, the meaning of "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."
Margie| 10.21.10 @ 11:51AM
Example to the nation of what's needed budget-cut wise: Think Chris Christie.
Fearless Gov. of NJ taking that state for a run for its money, heh. Standing up to Lefty Unions and getting the state's spending under control.
Wanted: Fearless leaders ready to cut gov. spending & cut taxes at the same time.
Leftists cry, "It can't be done! It can't be done!" Like the Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz cried that she was melting.
Conservatives KNOW it can be done~ and do it.
D_Right_One| 10.21.10 @ 1:47PM
Y'all do know that the American treatise is Progressive and always has been. The very foundation of this country, the Constitution, and related Amendments are Progressive in nature. I'm only saying that we do believe that life in America should be fair. Politically, we swing back and forth, teetering Right then Left, like a bunch of penguins on ice. I'm just saying like the bit of a centrist that I am.
LeoInTheWoods| 10.21.10 @ 3:37PM
You left something out when you said, "I'm only saying that we do believe that life in America should be fair."
America knows: "Fair is where you take your pig if you covet ribbons."
James Massey| 10.21.10 @ 2:46PM
The only reason to let them back up, is if you are in shooting war and need a better target. NO ONE with any sense wants that!
Albert W. L. Moore, Jr.| 10.21.10 @ 3:43PM
They will always come back, slither up your leg and promise everybody the world with a fence around it, with slimy sophistry, pretending the best of intentions.
The devil always wants to deal.
So eternal vigilance is indeed the price of liberty. I hope the vigilant ones will lodge themselves in my party; the other party has submitted to communist leadership.
A serious problem is the tendency to consolidate power in the federal government, which is really just the states in congress assembled. A retired Marine with colonnades of leisure time might be interested in reading "The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions: Guideposts of Limited Government"
by William J. Watkins, Jr.,
http://www.constitution.org/lr.....atkins.htm
A good work for any patriot, actually.
jerry dodge | 10.21.10 @ 5:07PM
Whenever America has had fanatical enemies, it has been necessary to crush them totally to convince them that further nonsense was futile. Think of the Nazis or the Japanese militarists. Now think of the Islamists and/or the enemies within like the Alinskyites/Marxists now running our country. We are in for a long battle back from this mess we are in.
LtColUSMCRet| 10.22.10 @ 4:59AM
Urrrraaaaagggghhhhhh!. Once down keep them down. Stab them in the heart, eviscirate them and then hurt them (politically as you state). Especially the current crop of Demodawg leaders who are without a doubt the most evil critters on the face of the Earth. Semper Fi Marine.
idalily| 10.22.10 @ 4:40PM
True that. And thank you for your service to our nation. God bless.
buckeyeman| 10.21.10 @ 11:17AM
The Republicrats will not "let them back up". They will offer them a hand, dust off their pants, and offer to take them out to dinner (on their taxpayer funded credit card) - and probably apologize. Think I'm wrong??? I hope so, but just wait and see.
OB1KNOB| 10.21.10 @ 1:37PM
My thoughts exactly, buckeyeman.
idalily| 10.22.10 @ 4:33PM
Yep. It's called bi-partisanship. Gag.
Emma| 10.21.10 @ 5:30PM
Winston Churchill said it with more aplomb, but I think he would said we kick them while they're down:
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves. "
trish| 10.22.10 @ 12:09AM
I had sickened chills when Obama's first day in the Oval Office was kicked off with sending the bust of Sir Winston back to England. Churchill saved the world with his courage and brilliance. Obama isn't fit to sit in the same room with the bust of the greatest human being of the last century. We will retrieve the bust, and bust the fraud.
chester arthur| 10.21.10 @ 11:02PM
Back in the 60's,there was a comic named Dave Gardner.One of his favorite lines was,'When a man's down,kick him and let him rise above it'.
megapotamus| 10.22.10 @ 6:04PM
The foolish misapplication of mercy or simple forebearance is the root of much of our current trial. I don't care if it is your brother, your mother or your sainted gran. Anyone who spouts Lefty crapola needs to be shut down, hard.
And I do mean hard.
RustyG| 10.21.10 @ 7:47AM
"Many of these people are Tea Partiers. Now they certainly do exist. Yet they are nothing like the Democrats believe them to be. They are not angry and warlike. They are concerned about what the Democrats have done these past months, but they will retire them the old fashioned way, through the ballot box."
It is my belief that although there are millions who have attended and participated in Tea Party events across the country, there are many million more who agree with and support the movement. These non-participating Tea Party Patriots will join in on November 2nd. These people are "The Wave".
notyetcountedT| 10.21.10 @ 1:49PM
yes we will...this will be a political beatdown that no pollster could predict--and will stun and stumble the arrogant leftwing socio-trash that plagues us
trish| 10.22.10 @ 12:15AM
I was at the 9-12 rally in DC last year. It was one of the most momentous events of my life. My fire fighter brother was responsible for knowing crowd sizes, and he swears we were 1.8 mil in number. With little organization, and paying our own way, we came. This is why I believe there will be a tidal wave of conservative voting in two weeks. These neo marxists have indeed unleashed a power they do not comprehend.
rigdum funidos| 10.27.10 @ 11:13AM
you are certainly right. i am one of them. from limited funds I sent $100 each to ten conservative candidates with a chance to win a House seat, but in a close race. and my wife and I will vote; and next time around I will do more.
coal carrier| 10.21.10 @ 7:59AM
And to think, all of that effort to campaign in 57 states will go for naught.
LarryK| 10.21.10 @ 9:12AM
"Priceless!"
Stephanie| 10.21.10 @ 10:37AM
I'm laughing!!!!! Go Coal Carrier!
Vince| 10.21.10 @ 11:43AM
Obama was thinking of the 57 Muslim countries.
Margie| 10.21.10 @ 12:02PM
What else would he be thinking?
Ned| 10.21.10 @ 1:08PM
"Thinking?" - the guy is a frickin' socialist, for crying out loud! They don't "think", they recite from their little red book.
Margie| 10.21.10 @ 1:51PM
Actually I consider him a Communist.
Lest you think otherwise perhaps my post would be better understood if I wrote it this way:
What else WOULD he be thinking?
A man (our President, no less) who openly states that he will stand with his Muslim "brothers" if things got tough?
'Nuff said.
idalily| 10.22.10 @ 4:38PM
They are on the same continuum, each at a different stage. The Communist is an idealist; the Socialist is the disiullsioned Communist who has to use force on the Commune to implement all the "good" ideals he knows are best for us. Obama may have started down this road a Communist, but he is evolving more into a true Socialist with each passing day.
SJC48| 10.21.10 @ 8:50AM
Elections must be an irritating inconvenience for the Democrats/Socialists in power - the leaders of Iran, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, China, etc. don't have to deal with the unwashed masses having the ability to vote them out of power - these pesky elections are sure getting in the way.
Rocin| 10.21.10 @ 8:53AM
Do NOT get over confident. There are hordes of loyal Democrats, most of them living, who will vote for a continuance of this mess!
Ken (Old Texican)| 10.21.10 @ 9:06AM
Rocin,
You are precisely correct. Everyone here must vote straight R this go around, if for no other reason than the idiot straight D votes need to be offset.
Tim*| 10.21.10 @ 9:15AM
We Tea Party Rebels ain't votin' for RINO-CINO's just because they're Republicans .
That's exactly how The RINO-CINO's Arlen Specter and Mike Castle got in & stayed in Power .
The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates.
Rise Up In Rebellion .
Al Adab| 10.21.10 @ 11:22AM
Tim*:
Actually, now that the herd was culled in the primaries, Ken is correct. We eliminated a great many RINO/country club/accomodationist Republicans (not all to be sure, but many) so now we must eliminate the Demos and then again cull the herd. That can only be done with a majority.
The battle is far from over. It will take much work (blood ters, sweat) before a final conclusion is reached. Nov. 2 is only a new beginning. We are reliving the early 1770's and either our petitions for redress will be heard or...
John Navratil| 10.21.10 @ 12:05PM
Al Adab,
While expressing a great deal of sympathy for Ken and his call for a straight ticket, I question not only that it can only be done with a majority, but suggest that a majority at all costs (Mike Castle, e.g.) will actually make the job more difficult.
I'll pick on the Senate and a majority of one obtained by the supposed victory of Mike Castle. The R's have the gavel (a good thing), but they have just made the least conservative R the most important person in the Senate who along with Snowe and Collins will have to be wooed courted and compromised with. How successful will the necessary hard choices be? The Republicans, being forced into the Democrat-lite mold will be prime targets for opposition.
It's not that I don't want conservatives in the majority, it's that a RINO dominated Senate is not good for conservatives. Furthermore, a majority of one gets the gavel and sets the agenda (important), but will not be able to get anything passed the President's veto. Like it or not, all the action in this cycle will be in the House. The Senate won't be much help in any case. I'd rather be set up strong for 2012.
All that said, I'm praying for Christine O'Donnell. Now ask yourself to rank these three scenarios:
(1) Republicans get a majority with Mike Castle.
(2) Republicans get a majority with Christine O'Donnell.
(3) Democrats keep the majority with Chris Coons.
Is (3) really that much worse than (1)? The rout of the Democrat Party will certainly put the fear of God in whomever is left.
Margie| 10.21.10 @ 12:08PM
"Full steam ahead, damn the Timmies*!"
Too many Tims| 10.21.10 @ 12:46PM
(sigh)
Tim*| 10.21.10 @ 9:36PM
Too Many Freakin' RINO-CINO's & their Apologist Asskissers.
The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates past November.
Rise Up In Rebellion !
Tim*| 10.21.10 @ 9:30PM
Get Bent Neocon RINO CINO Crank Lady Margie .
Ken (Old Texican)| 10.22.10 @ 1:34PM
So Tim*,
What are YOU going to do?
...Any vote other than R is a vote for a communist, (pardon the shorthand).
So what are you going to do? Write in and give a half a vote to a communist?
Al Adab| 10.21.10 @ 12:26PM
A RINO dominated (there's the key) Senate is not good for Conservatives. Agreed
Again, we have to continue to cull the herd after Nov. 2. It is just the beginning. 3 is not much worse than 1, but marginally so. Still it has to begin somewhere. If they mean to have a war, let it begin here.
What I find so frightening is the fact that our situation as a country had to come to this before the voters began to understand the difference Conservatives can make and now look how close run a thing it actually is. That a bare majority will emerge when it should be a tidal wave change shows how far we have fallen.
John Navratil| 10.21.10 @ 12:34PM
Al Adab,
Don't despair over the bare majority. It's pure math. We have the 2006 and 2008 elections to purge, yet. If every Senator were standing for election, it would not be nearly so close.
RWinks| 10.21.10 @ 2:46PM
Al Adab, It will never be over. "Constant vigilance is the price of liberty". The reason we have fallen so far is we have ignored the problem for too long. We must work for every election.
It is human nature for people in a group to become "company men". For politicians, government is the "company". Even if we win all the elections (not gonna happen), it will take 3 elections to clean out the Senate. After that, they will have to be culled every two years to remove those who go over to the Dark Side.
Those who would be free must sign up for the duration and the duration is a lifetime.
megapotamus| 10.22.10 @ 6:09PM
Of course a RINO is not a conservative, possibly not even of the Right. These are not liberal Republicans but Republican Liberals. Castle would have been a disaster. Would he have ever made and issue of the Beardless Marxism of the now desparate Coons? Hell no. Accomodationists are out. Let them sit in the middle of the road and suffer the fate of many and sundry an armadillo.
Margie| 10.21.10 @ 12:06PM
he, actually~ truth is if evry conservative voter would have been actually out there and voting for conservative Republicans in the Primaries in the first place, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in in the first place.
Always easy to blame the politicians but the truth is we get the government we deserve... by not voting!
Yes so now the electorate is finally awake. Some of us have been awake for decades already.
I say~welcome to the FIGHT!
"Full stean ahed, damn the Timmies*".
Tim*| 10.21.10 @ 9:33PM
This is the Fauv Conservative Neocon Crank Lady Margie ,who voted for The Serial Traitor To Conservatism John McCain in The New Jersey Primaries .
Get Bent Crank Lady Margie .
Tim*| 10.21.10 @ 9:49PM
This is Why We Pennsylvanians were stuck with RINO-CINO Arlen Specter and almost had him beat with Pat Toomey in 2004 ,when Ricky Santorum & Bush butted in & campaigned for Specter in the last weeks and gave Us Specter again in a razor thin Vote.
Why would We Tea Party Rebels Vote For Another Specter in A General Election. It's Capitulation.
This Is "The Lesser Evil " Crap that We Tea Party Rebels ain't takin' .
The GOP doesn't own We Tea Party Rebels.
The Tea Party Reballion Escalates.
Rise Up In Rebellion .
Screw The RINO-CINO Ruling Elite .
Olduffer| 10.22.10 @ 1:38AM
I'd like to finish your comment with the words of Thomas Jefferson "We are reliving the early 1770's and either our petitions for redress will be heard or it will be time to refresh the tree of Liberty with the blood of patriots and tyrants"
cuban pete| 10.21.10 @ 9:10AM
I'm from Chicago. You are right sir. We cannot rest. I don't care what the polls say we have to play hard until the final whistle. These jokers will do anything to maintain control. The media stooges are touting a Republican rout only to get us cocky.
Anthony| 10.21.10 @ 8:56AM
Our president has hit reality at 80 mph and it is an ugly scene. He and his Ivy League, Ivory Tower, reality challenged academics, have run America into the ground.
This arrogant empty suit has the gall to talk down to us Americas about what he perceives as our acting out of fear. What this fool doesn't get is that we are reacting to the idiocy that passes for intelligent government coming from him and his fellow clueless Ivy League morons.
We, the people are America. We make America work. We do the hiring, we do the heavy lifting. We pay the bills. I've had it with Obozo, Pelosi, Reid and the other incompetant morons who see themselves as statesmen, while they squander our hard earned money and proclaim we need to give more.
Every leftist hegemony that he & the D gang of fools has tried to impose on America has failed. More to the point, it has also placed America in a very dangerous and vunerable position. Just watch our biggest creditors and you get the picture.
The Left has been trying to destroy this country for decades. This last and best opportunity of theirs, with "The One" living at 1600 Penn. Ave. has failed.
In two weeks Americans are going to kick their collective asses like they and America has never witnessed before. Obozo doesn't know what fear is, but he will after Nov. 2nd.
This clown of a president wants hand to hand combat, well, you got it pal. Let's see who is still standing after Nov 2.
Rmm| 10.21.10 @ 9:31AM
Anthony:
Ditto, beautifully put!
Couldn't have said it better myself.
wodiej| 10.21.10 @ 10:10AM
I agree....I don't see how they think demeaning and insulting the backbone of this country is actually going to help them. Getting a ivy league education does not equate to common sense.
Ned| 10.21.10 @ 1:12PM
Getting a ivy league education does not equate to common sense, especially if concessions were made to get you in, and somebody else picked up the tab.
Mimi| 10.21.10 @ 10:53AM
Anthony....you must have tuned in to America's consciousness....12 days to go we are all thinking alike. YES..{pumped fist} ! Thanks for putting it in just the right WORDS!!
LeChat| 10.21.10 @ 1:26PM
The Democrat Party needs to be burned to the ground on election day. This will serve two purposes: First to remove democrats from office. Second to serve notice on the republicans that they are next if they don't get their act together fast.
East Texas Rancher| 10.21.10 @ 9:01AM
The Dems do not seem to be very worried about the coming election. In fact, they seem to be totally unconcerned. This worries me, quite frankly. I think we are about to see some move unprecedented in our history and I believe it will claim our freedoms beyond anything we can imagine. I hope I am wrong, but I feel Obama has his own October surprise waiting for us.
East Texas Rancher
wodiej| 10.21.10 @ 10:08AM
Skepticism is understandable but I think the liberals with their irrationality simply are underestimating the American people. Some do not even believe they are going to lose the majority in the House.
Franklin| 10.21.10 @ 9:02PM
There won't be an October surprise, there will be a November surprise - when the voter fraud starts kicking in.
Don't underestimate the lenghts Democrats will go to steal elections. I'm from Minnesota - remember Al Franken?
'Nuf said.
Tenn Slim| 10.21.10 @ 10:45AM
Dems do seem to be unconcerned. Media would have us belive so.
Tenn Rep saw the writing on the wall, retired.
A good sign for all the Dems.
end
Margie| 10.21.10 @ 12:14PM
"Cept it won't be a surprise, East Texas Rancher. We all know it's coming. And if we all don't get out & vote (straight 'R')~ then we will get the government (namely Obama II) AGAIN!
Just like how we got Clinton II. So folks, if you choose to sit at home complaining or write your brother-in-law's name in on the ballot, just count yourself as one who sides with the enemy.
Tim*| 10.21.10 @ 9:41PM
Screw You RINO-CINO Neocon Crank Lady Margie . You voted for The Serial Traitor to Conservatism McCain in The New Jersey Primaries.
Tell Us all about McCain-Feingold , McCain-Lieberman, McCain-Kennedy , The Gang of 14, Opposing The 2001 &2003; Bush Tax Cuts, Tarp .
The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates.
Rise Up In Rebellion.
Margie| 10.21.10 @ 10:14PM
Poor baby got yer knickers in a twist again, eh?
Tim*| 10.21.10 @ 10:22PM
Poor Hypocrite RINO CINO Serial Badmouther of Republican Candidates Dr.Rand Paul And Dr.Ron Paul .
You Phoney Bitch.
Albert W. L. Moore, Jr.| 10.21.10 @ 2:52PM
I share this suspicion.
ckrcsmith| 10.21.10 @ 5:02PM
East Texas Rancher, I have been worried for some time about whether we will see Obama's version of the Reichstag Fire.
Albert W. L. Moore, Jr.| 10.22.10 @ 3:33AM
We might see, before the election, his original birth certificate showing that he was a natural born citizen at birth, which the Obama cabal can be expected to trumpet to try to obscure the fact that neither birth parent is black.
Bob Miller| 10.21.10 @ 9:48AM
If Congress and the Judiciary can't rein in all the czar, czarinas, and other bureaupaths, Obama will still be able to wreak havoc and blame it on others.
rainmaker1145| 10.21.10 @ 10:01AM
On November 2nd, we could see a 3000% reduction in socialism and big-government spending and that would indeed give us reason to rejoice in all 57 states as we remember fondly our greatest President ever - Imam Obama.
wodiej| 10.21.10 @ 10:05AM
lol...good one.
D_Right_One| 10.21.10 @ 1:57PM
Let's first get rid of Obamacare - if you can't afford for your health, then shame on you, 2nd is SS bennies - again if you haven't saved for your retirement, then shame on you twice, 3rd is Medicare - again, if you haven't saved in retirement for your health, then shame on you thrice. The rest of the bennies paid by taxes such as Welfare, Food Stamps, housing vouchers, and Unemployment should also be eliminated. This is America and you're responsible for yourself. Let me know if I left anything out.
wodiej| 10.21.10 @ 10:04AM
Look at France if you want to see the wrath of socialism. Capitalism for better or worse, is the model to govern by.
There are always going to be corrupt, unethical and immoral people in society-liberals and conservatives alike. You don't throw out the baby with the [dirty] bathwater as they say. You preserve the great foundation and punish those who unjustly and unfairly mock and take advantage of it.
In the end, we reap what we sow. What the liberals are trying to do is take away free will that was granted by God.
Petronius| 10.21.10 @ 10:10AM
Every other November the Democrats and RINO's place their flaming grocery bags full of feces on America's doorsteps and ring the bell. Last time, not only did most voters step in it, some of their houses burned. This year their fund raising is well down so the bags will be smaller. No matter.
I predict the first law passed by the liberals during their lame duck session of vengeance will be a gun ban.
Note to Booger
The hierarchy of our infernal regions do find this years campaign amusing, but the sudden rise of the virtuous in your midst which used to be merely off putting now has Ole Scratch confounded. As to the late S. Alinsky making his complaint public through your offices, he has been reprimanded and punishment meted out. Misery was and is his profession. So he's getting a little late experience. Barbara Billingsly having just departed your world is down here doing a little in-service for Stratch's opposite Number. He has been detailed to see to Her every need while she records Her series of lectures on manners and etiquette as once practiced during those Earth years A.D. 1950-1962. Nothing like a captive audience, is there?
All the Best
Membership Committee
Hell
Tenn Slim| 10.21.10 @ 10:40AM
Well, that article about sums it up.
Toss the Incumbents, inaugarate the newbies, watch the purse, maintain the tower watch and all will be well.
BS....
Our Pres lives in his own self made world. Reality is the folks that got him there. Soros, Podesta, Alxelrod, Alysinki, Ayers, The Crowder group, Tides, Moveon, etal, will still be at the US Ramparts. If you or anyone, thinks these folks are going to go home, quietly, naive is not the word.
The Progressives have been at this for 100 odd years. To think they will let one election push them away from power??? Absurd.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
Let our guard down one bit, and we are lost indeed.
end
cuban pete| 10.21.10 @ 11:10AM
You are correct Tenn Slim.
Politics is like baseball.
As Earl Weaver said-"You can't run the clock out. The other guy gets his at bat."
We need to keep on keeping on.
By the way Nashville is one of the greatest towns on earth.
Margie| 10.21.10 @ 12:18PM
Amen, Tenn Slim.
Let not our guard down= vote early and straight 'R'!
It's the least we can do.
Then if all else fails- Man the ramparts! (pardon the shorthand).
PattyMor| 10.21.10 @ 10:49AM
The fight has only just begun. George Soros held his money back this cycle, just to save it for 2012. Plus the DemoCrats need republicans to run against in the all important 2012 election.
Let's (Tea) party onward to victory!!
Louis Jenkins| 10.21.10 @ 10:59AM
All of the promises made by Obama in '07 and '08 ring false. But as hinted at above, they may have a dirty trick or two up their sleeves. The problem is, with this election, the Liberals have managed to split the conservatives into two camp. We've got RINOs and we've got true Tea Party Conservatives. Maybe we'll grow, or maybe we'll not. As Ken has said we'll have to vote straight R, which I will never do for local reasons, but on the national ticket he's correct. The Tea Party must grow, and not shrink back from its beginnings. The Tea Party must become bigger and better. Only by getting the RINOs attention, which has been done, can progress be made.
james wilson| 10.21.10 @ 11:58AM
Liberalism-socialism has failed only in the sense that it degrades people and nations by its nature, but it has no more left our lives than it did with Reagan, who only righted the state of the New Deal for continued adventures. Socialism is the natural end for democracy. Tocqueville saw correctly that the only cure for that was very small government involvement in life and a high voluntary "reciprocal influence of men upon one another". That barn door opened a long time ago.
Ken (Old Texican)| 10.21.10 @ 12:30PM
James,
Thank God we don't have a "democracy". We have a Republic...if we can keep it.
FOLKS, I AM VERY SCARED.
In fact I have been so scared that I wrote one...of several ...alternative futures ...following the elections. I utilized fiction as the tool, and very serious contacts as my research base.
I do hope each of you will go to the website and hit the link for chapter one I just added.
www.texassaidno.com
Newt read it and came out with his "Sharia Law NO!" for all courts in America....State and federal.
Folks, I have unmasked the bastards, and painted just one route they may take.
PLEASE, BE SCARED ENOUGH TO PREPARE FOR THE RAINY DAY COMING.
God's speed
Too many Tims| 10.21.10 @ 12:50PM
Texas, you'll be the first one against the wall when the coup starts. Keep your powder dry.
Tim*| 10.21.10 @ 9:52PM
Too many Apologists for The RINO-CINO ruling Elite.
RINO-CINO Asskisser
You ain't No Tea Party Rebel .
TODO| 10.21.10 @ 12:33PM
Well OK, vtwin! let me be 1st to take your bet. Never put me in a sailboat that you're skippering, bub; you have NO clue whatsoever which way the winds are blowing! BTW, can you please describe one 'perverse scheme' of the Tea Party patriots?
Is it perverse to reject anti-Americanism and the downright treasonous behavior emanating from the White House the last 2 years? Here's my scheme:>>this is ME, quietly waiting in line at my polling place to peacefully register my bottomless disgust with the Left and everything it represents
.....using a mere flick of the wrist....A VOTE!!
joyce | 10.21.10 @ 12:35PM
Thankyou Mr. Tyrrell, - I pray everyday for this country - The American people are much brighter and much smarter than our president thinks !! We do have common sense and know the policies he has implemented are disastrous and are already effecting our lives . I hope that we do get most of these people out of this special office that they hold on Nov. 2nd !! I WILL BE PRAYING -
Deminthemidst| 10.21.10 @ 1:05PM
How are the policies disastrous, Joyce? Perhaps you mean the bill signed to ensure equal pay for equal work to women? Yes, better keep the women down - after all, they are not as smart or effective as men anyway?
The Consumer Protection reforms? OF course, why wouldnt we want credit card companies to change our rates without notice or apply payments to accounts with the LOWEST APR first...I mean, come'on.
Instead of rhetoric, why dont you tell me EXACTLY what Republicans will do...
Granny3| 10.21.10 @ 1:45PM
Hilarious! I am REALLY put down. Have you missed the last half century? We are finally reaching the era of the level playing field. If we could get good educations in our schools, it would definitely be leveled. So if you want to poke at something, go to you schoolboard meetings and work for equal opportunities.
Deminthemidst| 10.21.10 @ 3:40PM
Is this snark? I cant tell, but are you implying that women are on a level playing field now?
CopyKatnj| 10.21.10 @ 4:17PM
Thanks to the Consumer Protection reform, I lost the 30 day grace period for any credit charge, just prior to the act my interest rate increased and my minimum payment amount doubled from 2% to 4% on another credit card. Note that I always paid my statements more than minimum and always earlier than the due date. Thanks for helping me out Pal.
In future, don't help, stay away.
Cisco| 10.21.10 @ 1:13PM
If we were so smart Obama would have never been elected in the first place.
Bill from WV| 10.21.10 @ 12:58PM
Once you have your enemy down, destroy him or he will rise to fly at your throat!
These people need to be politically destroyed and those who do need to understand if they backslide THEY will be destroyed as well!
This is only the first round, those in politics need to understand that things have forever changed with the electorate.
If you disregard the will of the people for your own gain you will be retired.
If you don't vote don't bitch!
Send em ALL home NEVER to return!
MRD
LeChat| 10.21.10 @ 1:33PM
I would like to go after the high-value targets like Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank, but they're not on the ballot in New Jersey
Albert W. L. Moore, Jr.| 10.21.10 @ 2:56PM
True, and the place to start is to hold Republican officeholders true to the principles of those who elected them.
Ron | 10.21.10 @ 1:00PM
Glad to see I drive someone nuts. And here I thought I was wasting my time. "Backwards" is the idea that a powerful central government will impose fairness and morality among the masses. This system failed a thousand years ago. It fails today. I give you France for example #1. My own Detroit for example #2. Us "teabaggers" wish to see control and power returned to the people, as the founders intended. How that is hateful or racist I cannot begin to comprehend. Or perhaps it is more compassionate to keep lower class on welfare while taxing any potential employers out of the country. If liberty is backwards, I'll take it over the forward thinking socialist agenda of this government (both on the R and D sides of the aisle) any time. God bless.
Deminthemidst| 10.21.10 @ 1:02PM
And what do you intend to do with your power?
Deminthemidst| 10.21.10 @ 1:01PM
Republicans: where your civil liberties and personal freedoms and the Constitution(!) are our first priority*
*disclosure: this only applies to heterosexual, white, christian males.
Margie| 10.21.10 @ 1:34PM
Liar, and race baiter and typical Democrat!
Deminthemidst| 10.21.10 @ 1:45PM
Sorry, but the GOP wants to:
1) use govt to control a woman's decision about her own body
2) tell American citizens of certain (non-christian) religions where they can and cannot develop private party
3) use govt to tell gay citizens who they can and cannot marry - and - whether or not they are free to die in combat
How is my statement a lie again?
Margie, its ok to think that the government should only serve your values at the expense of others - but at least be honest about it, will ya?
Deminthemidst| 10.21.10 @ 1:46PM
private "PROPERTY" - not "party"....
Al Adab| 10.21.10 @ 1:55PM
Sorry Dude, but your recitation is incorrect.
Have a great day.
Deminthemidst| 10.21.10 @ 3:27PM
Again...can you be more specific.
Why am I a 'liar'?
What did I say that was 'incorrect'?
Or am I totally bumming everyone out looking for some specific defense of right wing ideas?
LeoInTheWoods| 10.21.10 @ 3:46PM
There's no city anywhere in the US where anyone can open a business anywhere just because they own the property. Most places, you can't even hang awnings over the windows of the business you already have open without getting the permission of some local development council. This is a specious argument, and always has been, believable only by someone who has never tried to open a business in a city.
Where Dems are in control - since they like SO much control - it's worse; you are also required to hire certain percentages of minorities, pay certain "living wages", and hang the right political signs.
Again, this is a specious claim that can be believed only by those who have never tried to open a business or build.
Deminthemidst| 10.21.10 @ 3:54PM
So you are of the opinion that those that wanted to open the Islamic cultural center in Manhattan did not have the right to do so?
At least your honest, most of you just say its because they were muslims.
And as Fox news tells you and you program in your small brains ; all muslims are terrorists.
Small, small, brains.
Granny3| 10.21.10 @ 1:51PM
Another male basher. Why are you so threatened by white Christian males? Almost all American males have been neutered. Christians are your least worry, my friend. We know man is inherently nasty and only God can change a man's heart. We know laws don't change a man's heart - you can't MAKE a man good. We believe in free will and consequences. Do you even know any Christians and what they believe about government? I don't think so. You all screamed that Bush was establishing a theocracy. Where is it? What liberty was taken from you? Let's have an honest answer, please. Christians are mocked on the web everywhere and we have to live with it. We live our lives trying to help others and make the world better. And that is the real Truth.
Margie| 10.21.10 @ 1:59PM
Heh, hey Granny~
How do you know when a Democrat's lying?
Their lips are moving.
Deminthemidst| 10.21.10 @ 3:30PM
How does denying another American citizen their constituionally-given rights translate into 'making the world better' in your eyes?
Its not about neutering anyone - its about letting everyone (even gays, muslims, women) have the same personal freedoms that Christian, heterosexual males have.
TPMLurker| 10.22.10 @ 2:16AM
You have no [C]onstitu[t]ionally-given rights. Your rights (and mine) come directly from the Creator. The Constitution merely protects those rights from usurpation by the Government.
Nobody is denying any Muslim religious freedom - I *WILL*, however deny them my permission to build their 'victory mosque' on a sight where a piece of one of the 9/11 airplanes came to Earth. I *WILL* deny them my permission and good-will when the Muslims (including-and-especially CAIR) provide proven aid and support to terrorists as documented by the CIA, have reporters that speak truth to power fired, and seek to impose Sharia law *ANYWHERE* within the borders of my country. I *WILL* deny any pseudo-religion that has proven itself to be incapable of tolerance (as demonstrated by the Ft Hood shooter, the NY Square Bomber, the Shoe Bomber, the Underwear bomber, the attacks on the USS Cole, WTC, and UN Headquarters), that has lied to so many in pursuit of it's goals and that admits that lying to others in pursuit of its goals is considered 'honorable' by it's pseudo-religious beliefs (and can no longer be believed because of the lies), and that uses the term 'religion' as legal cover for violence when attempting to impose secular law on me and mine that is incompatible with the US Constitution.
I look forward to the day when all restraints are removed because the Muslims (including the one in my house at 1600 Penn Ave) finally took take one step too far and open-season in the US is declared on all Muslims in the US.
There's a reason that so many prison inmates convert to Islam - and it's not that Islam is a 'religion' of peace and tolerance - it's so the inmates can claim justification under the 'religious freedom' clause of the Bill of Rights for the violence and degradation of women that Islam allows in the name of their false god 'allah'.
If Islam were truly a religion of peace and love as the liers at CAIR and the NY mosque claim, you would not see violent criminals converting to it in the numbers we do, nor would we see the threats against those that speak out against their extremists - heck - we'd see Islamics speaking out against their own radicals.
Muslim terrorists do *NOT* deserve American respect or any constitutional protections under 'religions freedom' as long as they advocate replacing US laws with Sharia or get away with special-interest exemptions from Congress (such as not paying for health-care) because they claim a religious prohibition on 'gambling'. This brand of Islam (and there is only one) is simply a sham to bypass and excuse their behavior while they violate the laws of the land and the personal bodies and property of Americans while they attempt to turn our Mothers, Sisters, and daughters Daughters into their 'chattel'.
Floyd Krautner| 10.21.10 @ 1:20PM
Working people who vote Republican are like Chickens voting to make Colonel Sanders their protector.
Unless you are a millionaire you'll never get a single measurable benefit from any GOP policy.
Everything the Tea Party etc is aiming for is GOP policy from A to Z. Namely, you'll end up further in the hole than you already are with a GOP administration.
The Republicans promise to go back to the Bush policies that put the country into the ditch. As several GOP candidates like to spout "A definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result."
Every Republican administration since Reagan promised smaller government only to renege on every point once they were in power. Is there any doubt that history will repeat itself if they get back in the driver's seat?
In fact, the GOP is promises to revert back to Bush's failed policies guaranteeing a prolonged recession if they get back in power. They say their total goal is to defeat Obama, but they neglect to mention that this means giving the country a beating at the same time. The Republicans see their role as being naysayers who block all legislation that might actually help the working class.
If you want more layoffs vote Republican.
If you want more jobs sent overseas, vote Republican because US Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Donohue said, "there are legitimate values in outsourcing-not only jobs, but work..." Donohue had some advice to the hundreds of thousands of workers who lost their jobs to outsourcing. "Pockets of unemployment shouldn't lead to anecdotal politics and policies." People affected by outsourcing should "stop whining," Donohue says.
Donohue vowed to fight any attempt to reduce outsourcing. (see: Chamber is in favor of outsourcing American jobs http://www.stltoday.com/news/o.....2bc8b.html US Chamber of Commerce lobbyist moderated panel on outsourcing American jobs: report http://www.rawstory.com/rs/201.....witterfeed)
This is the kind or treachery the GOP delivers to working people.
And who drove the bus into the ditch? Bush, Cheney, Rove etc were at the wheel, so they get the blame.
Morons who want a rerun of the Bush-Cheney horror story will get more than they bargain for.
represent 22| 10.21.10 @ 1:54PM
What is your problem? I was doing fine under Bush. I got taxes reduced by quite a bit each month, I loved my healthcare, etc. You should see what our current President has done to that! And we haven't even seen the worst of things yet.
Can you understand me? I understand you, but I don't believe you have even a little understanding about me. You really should try.
D_Right_One| 10.21.10 @ 2:14PM
You didn't address the issues raised.
Floyd Krautner | 10.21.10 @ 2:51PM
You do not respond to the issues raised!
I run my own business. We rely on customers who work for a living. When they are out of work our business goes to hell.
When the Conservatives beat down the working class, we lose 2/3 of our business. Jobs outsourced to India, Taiwan, Korea, China etc have never bought ANY of our products. Incidentally, profits have been down for 4 years, but our sales are rising slightly since Obama got elected.
I loved my healthcare, etc. You should see what our current President has done to that!
As for health care, the Insurance Companies have a license to raise rates any time they feel like it, which is at least once a year. Anthem wanted to raise my rates 39% and that was before Obama-care.
A major element missing from healthcare reform is a PUBLIC OPTION like Congress has. Without competition, everyone is at the mercy of greedy insurance companies.
Note that it was the GOP who emphatically prevented a PUBLIC OPTION.
Answer me this: Why shouldn't I be able to buy insurance from any company in the country? Why can't I negotiate and play them off against each other the way we do suppliers and dealers?
I remember very well the duplicity of Republicans during the healthcare hearings. They ran their committees and made many amendments which were approved (they seriously weakened the policy). Then when it came time to vote, they wouldn't endorse the changes they themselves made.
In my business, a people who do jerkwad moves like lose most of their business. Everyone exposes frauds to our competitors to keep things moving without big problems. We cannot stand dishonest dealers and suppliers. Letting a few crooks run the show would mean the end for us all.
Here's the bottom line. Businesses that sell real products always do better under Democratic administrations because the more money working folks have the better everyone does, even idiot Republicans.
Curtis Rasmussen| 10.21.10 @ 5:39PM
Government regulation in the healthcare business drives costs up. Obamacare will add a whole new steaming pile of mandates, driving rates through the roof. You can't keep your existing plan because your plan will change right out from under you.
Obamascare was written with the participation of the big players in healthcare, and they crafted a bill where only they could survive the tidal wave of mandates, regulation, and massive increase in the number of people on the books. Healthcare would then become a near-monopoly, eliminating even more choices and allowing the big players to set their rates as they see fit.
Medicare was gutted to the tune of $500 million to fund Obamaocare, leaving our elderly with no safety net and empty promises. the Dems are looking out for the little guy? My ass.
Businesses do better under DEM administrations? Obama has been president long enough to own this economy, I am still wating for the horn of prosperity. I hate to let you down krautno but it isn't going to happen. As a matter of fact, your inept prattle clearly shows that you're not above bending the truth.
Curtis Rasmussen| 10.21.10 @ 5:39PM
Government regulation in the healthcare business drives costs up. Obamacare will add a whole new steaming pile of mandates, driving rates through the roof. You can't keep your existing plan because your plan will change right out from under you.
Obamascare was written with the participation of the big players in healthcare, and they crafted a bill where only they could survive the tidal wave of mandates, regulation, and massive increase in the number of people on the books. Healthcare would then become a near-monopoly, eliminating even more choices and allowing the big players to set their rates as they see fit.
Medicare was gutted to the tune of $500 million to fund Obamaocare, leaving our elderly with no safety net and empty promises. the Dems are looking out for the little guy? My ass.
Businesses do better under DEM administrations? Obama has been president long enough to own this economy, I am still wating for the horn of prosperity. I hate to let you down krautno but it isn't going to happen. As a matter of fact, your inept prattle clearly shows that you're not above bending the truth.
Paul Ashley| 10.21.10 @ 2:15PM
What those on the Left fail to realize is that on the domestic front, pushed liberal policies. Most true conservatives deplored his ) and the GOP Congress') over-spending and his expansion of the entitlement state through the drug program. Bush the Elder did not like Reagan. Both are big-government guys. Obama is continuing most of the Bush policies and with regard to spending is going him 100 better. The Left has made this economic mess with an assist from a go-along-get-along GOP.
Paul Ashley| 10.21.10 @ 2:16PM
Oops - the site doesn't allow edits so ...
correction: "... on the domestic front, BUSH pushed liberal policies ..."
Floyd Krautner| 10.21.10 @ 3:12PM
LIBERAL as in refusing to regulate Banks and the stock market?
Reagan-Bush I set up the Savings and Loan industry for a huge multi-billion dollar rip off.
The day the law was passed President Reagan made a speech and said, "Gentlemen, we have hit the jackpot!"
It took a while to understand that Reagan meant the doors were open for a massive theft through banking insurance etc. This crooked deal cost the US taxpayer more than $153 billion (a big theft in those days).
"Half of the failed S&L's were in Texas, pushing that state into recession."
"Five U.S. Senators, known as the Keating Five, were investigated by the Senate Ethics Committee for improper conduct. They had accepted $1.5 million in campaign contributions from Charles Keating, head of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association. They had also put pressure on the Federal Home Loan Banking Board, who was investigating possible criminal activities at Lincoln."
Incidentally, GOP hero John McCain (Republican of Arizona) was up to this ear lobes in this scandal.
LtColUSMCRet| 10.22.10 @ 5:04AM
Go collect your GeorgieS funded paycheck from under the rock and quit trying to hide behind this Floyd nom-de-plume Hillary.
Margie| 10.21.10 @ 1:36PM
Stupid Trolls really "feel the need" to bash Republicans for some odd and unimaginable reason... wonder why that could be...?
Deminthemidst| 10.21.10 @ 1:47PM
Sorry to burst your echo chamber...but maybe a little 'fair and balanced' would help this hate pit?
Al Adab| 10.21.10 @ 1:53PM
Margie,
You are in great form today. Keep up the good fight.
To the lefties here it might be helpful if you understand that economies are not a zero sum game and that today's bottom third are not a permanent underclass. They can rise- given enough freedom of opportunity- and become tomorrows leaders. Conservatives seek Liberty not central planning, they seek equality in law not equality of result and they seek secure individual rights like property rights (which BTW includes one's earnings) not redistribution. If you wish for these things volunteer yourselves but leave us out of it.
Margie| 10.21.10 @ 2:26PM
Thanks Al Adab.
My Democrat Father and Mother once asked me this: "How could we have raised you to be a (conservative) Republican?"
I said, you didn't. I have a mind of my own, and I use it!
The Democrat party is now the party of the herd mentality and their ideology (now blatantly Socialist), trumps the truth. They are now the party of all out liars, race baiters, Communist loving, enemies of America embracing, condescending, intellectually bankrupt, Christian hating, Constitution perverting, freedom hating, tyrannical policy making, confiscatory robbing thieves.
And America is now awake ~ just beginning to wake up ~ just wait till we're FULLY awake!
America was born in FREEDOM and that spirit has been passed on down to us. We're the offspring of our Founders and part of God's very plan to keep it that way. Get out of our way Lefties, or.. you could decide to turn and come join us!
Deminthemidst| 10.21.10 @ 3:32PM
Who gets to be FREE in your world, Margie?
Just wondering....
RAMIII| 10.21.10 @ 3:57PM
Deminthemidst, Please define "FREE". What exactly do you mean by it? Thanks.
RCV| 10.21.10 @ 4:33PM
Your Mom and Dad were pretty smart folks.
Margie| 10.23.10 @ 12:35PM
My Dad IS smart, RCV~ he didn't vote for the Obummer. When it comes to Presidents, he comes to his Right mind, heh.
RCV| 10.21.10 @ 4:44PM
Probably the same reason you feel the need to bash Democrats.
Margie| 10.23.10 @ 12:36PM
Leftist's definition of bashing: Telling the truth about the Communists in our government.
idalily| 10.24.10 @ 1:04AM
Only Dems are allowed to speak truth to power, Margie. Didn't you know that?
Sandaber| 10.21.10 @ 1:41PM
"The Democrats are about to be beaten by something that they do not in their heart of hearts think exists, a huge national majority. "
So, lemme get this straight. If the Repelicans squeak by in the House in the worst recession since the depression (both caused by Republicans), but the Dems hold the Presidency and the Senate, then that is a "huge national majority?"
Is Tyrell ignorant or just plain stupid? Yo, white small business owners and really stupid working class guys here. The jig is up. After this election, your Party's animus towards non white people, science, and the 21st century will shrivel you.
Albert| 10.21.10 @ 2:04PM
"...your Party's animus towards non white people, science, and the 21st century will shrivel you." There is absolutely nothing true in this statement. Such "animus" as you describe simply does not exist. You live in a fantasy world of political correctness, where good socialists are true altruists and will care for everyone, in perpetuity. Nonsense. The real racists are your Democrats, the welfare plantation owners who, in penitence for "past sins", have taken upon themselves the "white man's burden" of caring for "non-whites" because they truly believe in their hearts that "non-whites" can not take care of themselves. And of course, these "good" Democrats make themselves rich and admired at other people's expense in the process. The real greed is in the Democrat Party, a party of crooks, liars, cheats, and thieves. And these are YOUR guys! Enjoy electoral defeat. It is coming.
Al Adab| 10.21.10 @ 2:30PM
Non-whites like Marco Rubio, Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas, J C Watts? Oh of course, that doesn't fit your sterotype does it?Bigot.
Albert W. L. Moore, Jr.| 10.21.10 @ 3:13PM
The Democratic Communists go so far in their racism as to choose a leader who pretends to be the son of a black Luo tribesman.
Deminthemidst| 10.21.10 @ 3:35PM
Wow you named 5 non-whites that are Republican. Great work.
Anthony| 10.21.10 @ 4:23PM
Can you name 5 Leftists that aren't morons? I know you think this one is easy, but in your heart, you know I'm right! (B.G. 1964)
Hey, are you vtwin's idiot twin brother?
Deminthemidst| 10.21.10 @ 4:30PM
No, I cant. I tried, but my heart would not let me find 5 people from the left who are not morons.
Shit.
What to do...what to do....
Maybe I will pray?
Al Adab| 10.21.10 @ 4:35PM
I probably should have included Thiu Pham and Joseph Cao as well just to be "fair".
Al Adab| 10.21.10 @ 4:29PM
OK. Edward Brooke, Bobby Jindahl, Michelle Malkin, Michael Steele, Linda Chavez... do we really need to go through this race baiting exercise?
Margie| 10.21.10 @ 2:10PM
Yo, dude Sandaber~ Quit the race-baiting and get real, ok? You do need a reality check. Sounds like you've been listening to and believing the Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton clan for way too long. You really don't know that these guys are serious liars and professional race bating creeps?
You need to get your head screwed on straight. Stop listening t your Party's lies and tune in to what real conservatives have to say and what we really think and believe. You might just find that your energy has been wasted fighting for the wrong side!
I'd welcome you if you want to be reasonable.. can you do that?
LtColUSMCRet| 10.22.10 @ 5:06AM
Sandie you are a racist pig.
Douglas| 10.21.10 @ 1:57PM
Obama's hubris in trying to control our society reminds me of the hubris of trying to control complex biological forces in the movie "Jurassic Park":
MALCOLM (Jeff Goldblum's character):
John, the kind of control you're attempting is not possible. If there's one thing the history of evolution has taught us, it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free. It expands to new territories. It crashes through barriers. Painfully, maybe even . . . dangerously, but and . . . well, there it is.
Ted R. | 10.21.10 @ 2:31PM
Tyrell angry? Oh, nooo. Sounding unhinged in this piece? Of course not.
Obama and his administration have done a great job, under the circumstances. History will record it. And they'll remember all of YOU for being his paranoid foils. Hope you enjoy over there, on the losing side of history!
MissYouRonnie| 10.21.10 @ 2:31PM
How I envy all of you who vote straight R and see results, here in MN it is the dems who always win in the end locally, we are stuck in a state of idiots who vote dem and love taxes...sigh. Just praying that Bachman makes it back in office over her opponent, the polls aren't looking good. What can you expect, it's MN.
Bill in NJ| 10.21.10 @ 2:34PM
And yet...Never underestimate the power of the left to steal an election.
They did in in 1960 (ironically, Cook County, Ill.).
They did it Minnesota in 2008.
They have done it numerous times with less coverage.
Elections are like a chess game: they are not over until the King is captured.
Volunteer to be a poll watcher!
Keep an eye out for fraud.
And hold your breath.
Albert W. L. Moore, Jr.| 10.21.10 @ 2:44PM
Barry understands Americans very well, just as every predator knows its prey.
He understands us as Lenin knew the Russians when the Germans inserted him into Russia to sap the Russian war effort. Never one to let a good crisis go to waste, Lenin took control of Russia, overthrowing a democratic government that took over from the Tsar. Lenin preached hope and change, by any means necessary.
While bizarre, having a mole in charge is not unknown. Harold Wilson was a Soviet agent while Prime Minister. Several Prime Ministers of India were accused of being in the pay of the CIA, and this was true in at least one case. (Can't remember his name, but can't help recalling he refrigerated his urine, and drank it.) The U.S. had a mole in the Kremlin, who disclosed the state of Soviet readiness during the Cuban missile crisis, blowing his cover in the process. He was promptly executed. Moles have been uncovered in various and sundry intelligence agencies and armed forces.
Barry's past and his recent political conduct are consistent with Comintern service.
So what are you going to do about it? The states elect the President. Article II Section 1 of the Constitution provides that each state is to appoint presidential electors in such manner as the legislature may determine. Each state determines who goes on its presidential ballot. Every senator and representative in the state legislatures - and Congress, too, since the Office of President is a federal office - should be pressed to mount investigation of Barry's birth and his life. For this may be a story of a man born in America to American parents, lost his citizenship, and became communist.
If investigation shows Barry to have been constitutionally ineligible or to have committed election fraud, the authority of electors pledged to him should be rescinded.
Deminthemidst| 10.21.10 @ 3:37PM
Dude, Glenn Beck just called and wants his talking points back. Wow. Just Wow.
LtColUSMCRet| 10.22.10 @ 5:11AM
Duminthemidst just wanted to advise you that your lord and master, GeorgieS is looking for you. He wants to ensure that you have received the paycheck. He said you have been doing such a good job spouting Commie philosophy. I wanted to say though, that you really should remove the fog from your brain and come to the light. You will feel (and being a good little libber I know you are all about "feel"ings) better and may become capable of thinking for yourself.
Perusha| 10.21.10 @ 3:12PM
The teaching moments that are Obama are not only continuing, but they are continuing to accelerate in both their frequency and their pithiness.
I’d say that his recent throw away line about how scared people don’t think clearly has to be about the most vital one yet.
What about “fear”?
Of course “No Fear!”, as a happy face attempt to throw out one’s chest AND point of the jaw by asserting, essentially, that they are brave---one of the most key GOOD aspects of being alive--- has long been in CW. So, it’s pretty un-PC to admit to being afraid.
However, fear has its uses, just as pain does. I have a wonderful book, “The Brilliant Function of Pain”, that proves what its title claims, not only wrt physical, but emotional and mental dimensions---and, let’s NOT forget the core spiritual one!
Well, imagine a “book” that does the same about FEAR---right NOW, due to all kinds of nihilistic actions and intentions of various powerful people and institutions, such as Obama et al and Islam, not to mention the autocratic China and Russia, I claim that fear is the essential state of mind for anyone who’s learned the taught moments!
When a lion is about to chase you, fear is most appropriate! We all know how this bodily “mood” physiologically puts the survival “fight or flight” systems into action. I claim those of us who have awakened to the logical fear sweeping the globe resemble a weak old grandmother, facing a car with its tire on their grand kid. From nowhere, she finds the “impossible” strength to lift that car and save the future of humanity.
Just so, NOW.
Never forget that our “betters”, epitomized by Obama, firmly believe they are way ahead of the “stupid” people who voted them into office! And, this means, basically, that they ALWAYS think that they can say and do ANYTHING, and talk their way out of ANY bad results.
Also, even after they themselves have done a “bad” thing, like get donations from abroad, and hide this fact, they USE this memory to help them choose to claim their opponents did the same thing---with no evidence needed.
J’accuse!
Let’s cut to the “fear” chase. When Obama’s lips loosen the “sinking his ship” truth, as he sees it, about afraid people not thinking clearly because of their fear, of course it is easy to determine his understanding, AND the real truth about it.
Obama---and Islam---are the attacking “Lions”!
It is GOOD to be afraid of them, and to act with all systems, bodily, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.
People are MAD---there it is, emotionally.
People think America is going to HELL---there it is, mentally.
People VISCERALLY react to other people who look like enemies or dangerous types, such as those dressed like bin Laden or a mugger in the dark---there it is, bodily.
What about the spiritual dimension?
Well, as long as there is a self VERSES an other, fear is endemic, in truth. Indeed, every instant of our human bodily life is a continual struggle to maintain order---stay alive---while chaos is permeating our space-time. Do NOTHING---and soon enough, one dies. Even breathing and eating, while pleasurable enough, only keep the “alive” game going until it stops.
So, since mankind as a whole is so unevolved, at this time, and likely will be for many generations to come, the best we can do is live in the physically benign FEAR a civilized society maintains.
Most every religion has a “hidden” teaching, necessarily kept hidden from those who are untested and immature, which in Absolute Radiant Transcendental Being truth is ONE.
Actually, we should wake up and realize that even NOW, each human being is not only living accord to a Christian admonition, but is the bodily manifestation of it. Which one, you ask?
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” And, or, “Love your neighbor as you love yourself.”
Notice the basic see-saw “self-other”?
Hey, we are all NEIGHBORS!
A fin, the latter demand about “love” hinges on FIRST loving yourself. What a great and confusing test, perhaps the greatest teaching moment to “get right”!
Truly, each “self” ALREADY loves itself! Narcissus lives. Merely to try to stay alive and feel good and prosper, in all ways, expresses such self love.
But, AND, the impossible “dream” is to love the Self---the One without an other---of which ALL is the rising manifestation.
Who can do THAT? Except---the SELF!!!
Harley2002| 10.21.10 @ 3:49PM
I would guess you are one of the chosen ones you speak of. Because I have no idea what you are talking about LOL.
Harley2002| 10.21.10 @ 3:34PM
This President is so out of touch with the citizens of this country that he needs people to come in and explain why we are angry? This is very scary. He has lived in a cocoon where all he has been told his whole life is how wonderful and brilliant he is. We are in big trouble people this man is a lunatic.
Deminthemidst| 10.21.10 @ 3:47PM
Can any of you bozos give me one reason why a Republican majority in 2011 is going to make things better? What policies? Privatizing Social Security, closing Public Schools, taking away a woman's right to choose, telling Gay people that they can NOT have the same rights as straight people? De-Regulation of Wall Street? Really? Are you nuts? Going back to the days of denying coverage for pre-existing conditions? Are you nuts? Oh wait...lets sell insurance across state lines...what an innovative winner...b/c just what we need is another market dominated by the state of Deleware!
Face it, Americans are getting ready to give the keys back to the idiot who already drove their car into a ditch.
Harley2002| 10.21.10 @ 3:59PM
Original how you parrot the Otraitors ditch reference. Hey I had many problems with Bush believe me. His sitting on his behind the last 2 years of his Presidency was unbelievable.
But if you can't see the march toward Socialism and more and more government control over every aspect of our lives he is doing you are blind,
If you do see it and like it you are just a Marxist. Now many out here don't like Marxism and will fight it with whatever means necessary to stop it. I do not want to be told what doctor to go to or what to eat or what to drive or what light bulb to use etc.etc.etc. Especially by Hypocrites who follow NONE of the rules they want to impose on us.
If you like Socialism Marxism Communism whatever! They all are about government controlling a persons life there are many countries you can move to. Stop trying to destroy this one.
Deminthemist| 10.21.10 @ 4:19PM
Socialist!
Marxist!
Communist!
Oh my.
What freedom loving Patriots we have here!
Ha...what a jerk you are.
LtColUSMCRet| 10.22.10 @ 5:13AM
Dumassinthemidst I do believe your freshman biology 101 class is about to start.
George S| 10.21.10 @ 4:05PM
Are you saying a Republican congress has the ability to make things worse when there is a Democrat president? Okay. Then that means a Democrat congress can make things worse when there is a Republican president. So exactly when was that car driven into the ditch? In 2008? The Democrats had congress starting in January 2007. So we are not giving back the keys to the idiot -- we are taking them away. But what do I know... just a bozo.
Deminthemidst| 10.21.10 @ 4:22PM
You got me Einstein.
PJ| 10.21.10 @ 8:51PM
I would like to comment that if you want some rational answers from people who may disagree with you than you need to stop the juvenile, name calling. It's very uncivilized.
That said, I would like to answer some of your questions.
If the Republicans win both Congressional houses by a majority, they will have 1 more chance to make an honest effort (Obama can veto their bills & render the Congress useless.) to follow their original MO which is shrinking the federal government & letting the states decide what's best for their people. If the Republicans blow this then they will become irrelevant & probably implode soon after.
Closing of public schools has nothing to do w/government, just simple economic theory called The Law of Supply & Demand. The population is shrinking; supply(schools) is decreasing because the demand is decreasing.
Social Security: There is more money leaving the system than entering based simply on demographics and exacerbated by the corruption of both parties. I believe Bush 2 saw how successful the Chilean model was working w/their privatizing of SS & wanted to replicate a version of the system involving safety checks. Any investor savvy or not, would welcome such an idea. T-Bills only for long term investment stinks!
For a women's rights to an abortion: It is the duty of a government not to enact any laws that prove harmful to its population. It has been scientifically proven that most women who undergo an elective abortion develop psychological problems or exacerbate existing psychological problems. If an abortion is performed in later stages; ie after 8 weeks of gestation, the rate of future pregnancies ending in miscarriages for those women increases substantially. As of now there is only anecdotal information on the psychological damage inflicted upon the potential father.
I hope this satisfies some of your questions.
C. Merrill| 10.21.10 @ 4:00PM
Quote:" Some Americans are too scared to think clearly": Isn't it wonderful to lose your home, your job, everything you've worked for- and now be insulted?
Thank you, President Obama. I just can't wait to vote on Nov. 2.
idalily| 10.22.10 @ 10:01PM
You're obviously not thinking clearly...
Seriously, I do wish a Dem would explain to me how insulting American voters is going to "heal our nation." How, if Obama's so brilliant, he says "corpse-man"? Or why, if Bush spent us into the ditch, how spending MORE is smart and effective? Dems?
Bueller? Bueller?
Steve A| 10.21.10 @ 4:04PM
Hey Dem, Please expand on a "womans right to choose." A right to choose what? To terminate a pregnancy that is inconvenient? Please describe, in vivid detail, the exact procedure you are referring to. I bet you do not have the nuts to do it. As for gays, I say they can have all the rights they want, except calling it marriage as this is an actual definition. Words do, in fact, mean things. Call it a civil union, whatever, you can have all the bennies you want, even pay the marriage tax. Just get out of my face. I really do not care. As for the wonderful public school system, why is it that all of your liberal hero politicians send their kids private?? Social Security. Can't do much about that. Too many poor souls duped into buying that turd burger. Need to scale up retirement age. We are basically screwed on that one though. Thanks for coming.
Deminthemidst| 10.21.10 @ 4:12PM
Hey Steve,
I hope no one you know is ever raped by a stranger or another family member...surely you could have chosen a different word from 'inconvenient'. What an ass.
Words do matter, and yours tell me you are an ass. But worse, you are a product of many years of Right Wing radio and TV that has filled your brain with all sorts of sad ideas regarding people you dont agree with.
Believe me, the LAST place I want to be is anywhere NEAR your face.
mzk1| 10.21.10 @ 4:35PM
Oh, PLEASE! Rape / Incest are a very small % of abortions. A great deal ARE for inconvenience, in spite of all of the brainwashing the MSM have done to convince us otherwise. The main issue is not Roe v. Wade, but the Doe case that followed it, which took all of the restaints off. And Doe herself has since said that she was basically forced to have the abortion. "Choice" is a myth.
megapotamus| 10.22.10 @ 6:37PM
Democrats just love to kill babies. They like to kill their own babies but more than that they just LOVE that babies are killed, mostly black babies. This is the twisted sicko fact of modern life and was the twisted sicko fact of life in yesteryear. Babies? Kill 'em. Kill 'em with knives or poison or just whatever you have at hand. Whether they are the product of rape or incest is immaterial. Whether there is an actual medical reason for it matters not a whit. Kill them babies, that is what the Left aspires to though of course, they would kill all of humanity if given half a chance. Why? Because they hate themselves. Why is that? Because they know themeselves. I say, if humanity is so bad, set an example. Rid the world of your screeching, ravenous mouth.
Steve A| 10.21.10 @ 4:15PM
Hey Genius, I am actually fine with shredding the fetus of a rape or incest. I knew you would go there. Funny how you would not accept the challenge though huh??
Last resort when the debate is lost. call me a name. Oh, my feelings are hurt. Let me grab a tissue. Weak weak weak. Just like always.
Rosco1776 | 10.21.10 @ 4:25PM
Even God understands socialism.
2 Thessalonians 3:10
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
mzk1| 10.21.10 @ 4:37PM
Did anyone notice that the speech of Obama cited in the article sounds familiar? Anyone remmeber the slick commercials for Hands Across America?
NJK| 10.21.10 @ 5:06PM
"Furthermore, many of these friendly Americans would be delighted to give our President a ride home if they found him on a street corner, "
And many Americans don't trust someone who lies to their faces on a daily basis, and would not stop to pick him up. I am one of them. Let him hitchhike.
David| 10.21.10 @ 5:52PM
Hey Deminthemidst, you are truly a moron. "A woman's right to do what she wants with her own body???" As Steve A asked you to do, describe what happens in an abortion. Then describe what happens in a partial birth abortion. The fact is that a woman loses NO PART OF HER BODY when an abortion occurs. As to rape, it is almost impossible for a woman to conceive when raped. It is such a stressful sitution that her body shuts down. Anyone who has ever been to a fertility doctor will tell you how important it is to be relaxed when trying to conceive.
Single women and single men with the same seniority make exactly the same amount of money for doing the same job. The idiots on the left always compare married women to married men to skew the numbers and show that women make less than men. The fact is married men are CAREER minded and work many more hours than married woman who work fewer hours and are only holding down a JOB, not building CAREERS.
"...going back to the days of denying coverage for pre-existing conditions???" That provision isn't even in place yet. How can we go back to denying it when it is denied now?
One reason things will be better with a Republican majority in the House is that where spending originates. The repubs can refuse to fund Obamacare.
Homosexuals can have all the rights that heteros have. They are even adopting children and have been for years. What they cannot and should not have is a society that says "okay, you are MARRIED".
To Floyd Krautner, I don't even know where to begin with your rambling. Unemployment is at 10% so how can you claim that repubs put people out of work. I was in the 28% tax bracket and the first year Bush took office, he and a REPUB congress lowered it to 25%. People who were in the 15% bracket were put into the 10% bracket. I would call us all "working" class, on which you say your business depends.
So, if everyone is paying lower taxes and keeping more of their own money, AND IF you are losing business, I suggest to you in the nicest manner that you probably STINK as a manager and businessman. That can be our only conclusion based on your nonsensical statements.
Deminthemidst| 10.22.10 @ 12:03PM
The inital stages of the pre-existing coverage part of the HCR is currently in effect:
http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/.....0701a.html
Once the exchanges begin in 2014, it will be part of all plans included.
Its ok not to think that this is important or even to think that Health care is not a right of Americans - but dont lie.
Regarding men vs. women: do you really believe that this is true?
"The fact is married men are CAREER minded and work many more hours than married woman who work fewer hours and are only holding down a JOB, not building CAREERS"
If so, god help your daughter, mother, sister, aunt, grandmother! You make the Taliban look progressive!
S&WM;&P| 10.21.10 @ 5:59PM
Perhaps Mr. President you should spend some time reading IKings 12:1-16, then you may just understand why we are angry!
RCV| 10.21.10 @ 7:30PM
What he will learn when he reads that passage in Kings is that the people got angry at their leader because they thought he wasn't listening to them and giving them what they wanted, so they threw him out. And the people ended up with a leader much worse, Jeroboam, who set up golden calves for the people to worship. I think that's a fair analogy for what will happen if the people once again entrust the government to the GOP.
Margie| 10.23.10 @ 6:01PM
Obfuscation #999~
Nice try but We the People who are voting Republican are voting for the conservative ideology to win out over your beloved Marxism. The "GOP" is slowly but surely being restored because more and more regular Americans have been awakened to what the Democrat Party stands for.
Thank you. Obama!
Isabella| 10.21.10 @ 9:06PM
Yes, it is over. I want Barack Obama to know it is over. Each and every day he has left to spend in our White House I want him to know it is over. I want him to know that I am thankful for one and only one thing resulting from his presidency. America woke up. Conservative Americans came alive. Ironically, Barry, it was you that brought that awakening. All the conservative news media, Rush, Glenn, O'Reilly, Sean, all helped, but it was actually your horrible, arrogant, evil radical agenda, in all its dark glory....that woke us up. We can all be thankful for the enlightenment. Your "Yes We Can" is now, " Oh No You Don't". It is over Barry, and when you reflect upon it, "It never was." It never will be.
Brian Richard Allen | 10.21.10 @ 10:31PM
Be OK to call B Milhous and his Crime Family "socialist," if that was what they are.
But it is not. And nor are Canada's Lefties nor Australia's nor New Zealand's nor any of the Western World's Lefties, merely "socialist."
What the governments of once-free western countries all have in common is that they permit We, The People, in America -- and their various sorry subjects in the rest of the once-free western world -- the pretense of owning our own businesses, homes and other properties but so restrict and order the conditions of such pretended "ownership"as to leave no doubt in any reasonable mind about who and what they really are -- and about the accurate name of their brand of "modified" Marxism / socialism:
It is Fascism.
By any other name.
rik| 10.21.10 @ 11:26PM
As usual, I do not read any comments but my own.
Just like every other long-winded war-&-peace poster. Oh well, here goes anyway... Obama, young people want badly to believe after years of mom/dad (correctly) telling them are wrong about everything, is one of their own, a young brash know-nothing who they desperately want to believe knows something. The all to end all. They HAVE to believe this. Massive peer pressure from peers that are equally deluded forces them to believe as they do & they don't have the guts to resist this pressure. Many of us were like that once, back in the Carter era. Grandpa Ronnie was hopeless, Jimmy was the shiz we were told endlessly just as the Nazi masses were told endlessly Hitler was the shiz. But, looking at it closely back then even though we were the die-hard Jimmy kind-of-folks we were, or were supposed to be, we finally had to switch & vote for Ronnie. It was that "supposed to be" that got to us, and made us wonder and switch before it was too late. Took guts & thinking to make this switch, & never a regret because it did take guts and thinking. Then again, some of us had integrity and at least some sort of real education.
Today? Education is mostly indoctrination. Big difference. Today it's all about the pseudo-intellectuals, youthful femmed-down yuppies with not a whit of real integrity or intellect armed with their fine mocha, an obnoxious status mutt, and a big attitude they can't back up with critical thinking. They only back it up with the idea that because they are yuppies, they are the shiz. Right. Like Jimmy dumb-a** was the shiz. Like Barack dumb-a** is the shiz.
This is going to be a landslide, shiz-holes.
Muriel| 10.21.10 @ 11:30PM
"About to be beaten".....What joyful words!
Take back America
House AND Senate
Make it good.
WITH THE GRACE OF GOD.
Never again to take God or the wonderful country bestowed upon us!
Muriel| 10.21.10 @ 11:31PM
add words: for granted.
sans| 10.21.10 @ 11:38PM
Enjoy your dream. No way we will let the likes of the GOP and Teacrackpot Dingbat Party take over our government. If you thought our country was so wonderful, you wouldn't be trying so hard to bring it down.
sans| 10.21.10 @ 11:44PM
To put the GOP back in power would be like putting the Taliban in power. No difference.
victor| 10.22.10 @ 1:09AM
Typical reply from the Liberals or Libertarians.
"No difference."
We Shall Overcome!
We shall relegate them and YOU to the dustbin of History.
rigdum funidos| 10.27.10 @ 11:41AM
think i'll stop reading now, with SANS stupid comment that Republicans are like the Taliban. soon we'll be getting brain-dead liberals reminding us of how we treated the Indians. PS: I am a registered Democrat and strong supporter of the tea party.
Osamas Pajamas| 10.22.10 @ 12:09AM
Glad warriors, do not rest quite yet. When David Astroturf asserts that some kind of Democrat victory is afoot --- and that we shouldn't hit the sack early on election night --- I am inclined to think that Astroturf refers to a massive underhanded scheme to steal or cancel votes and hijack the election, as Al Gore tried to do to George Bush in Florida, in 2000.
LtColUSMCRet| 10.22.10 @ 5:19AM
I see that the GeorgieS funded, college freshman have awakened from the party of last night having missed their first classes of the day and are befoggedly attempting to earn their GeorgieS dollars. Usual drivel spewing from their keyboards. If they do grow up they might realize how utterly stupid they are and become good citizens. Some anyway, otherwise we wouldn't have the current crop of Demoscum leaders who have not fully matured and still "feel" instead of think.
dams| 10.22.10 @ 7:32AM
We already voted in Texas. I had to STAND IN LINE to vote absentee! I hear that, nation wide, Dems have turned out in greater numbers than Republicans. Even in Austin, this line looked mostly Republican. I don't have time to explain, but you can just tell.
Margie| 10.22.10 @ 11:01AM
Beware of some cloaking themselves as conservatives whilst they are really Neo-Nazi, God hating, Christian hating anti-Semitic isolationists, and Anarchistic!
These have infiltrated the TEA party and are posers such as Tim*.
They refer to conservatives who vote Republican in order to defeat the Democrats as "Neo-Cons", "Israel-Firsters", "Faux Conservatives", "Faux Christians"~ BECAUSE WE REJECT THEIR VIEW OF REALITY!
They believe that their "church" has replaced Israel. They believe in Replacement Theology. This means that, according to them, Israel is null and void.
Thus to them anyone who calls themselves a Christian and a conservative AND backs Israel is a "Fake Everything."
Timmy* here has an especially vile persona but represents the ilk quite well.
Fortunately he is in a minority in this country~ and will never succeed.
chris haynes| 10.22.10 @ 11:34AM
So you endorse abortion in the case of rape?
Intersting standard of justice. Capital punishment for a completely innocent person.
Myself, I say this. Punish the guilty.
Dora| 10.22.10 @ 12:20PM
I am glad we are going to take our country back in November and hope people vote OUT Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Reid and those other 89 Socialist/communist in the halls of Co0ngress.
David| 10.22.10 @ 12:40PM
Deminthemidst, if coverage for pre-existing conditions is in effect, how long do you think it will be before insurance companies stop providing health insurance? They cannot stay in business under those conditions. Hello government run medical care with rationing and death panels. That is why it is so important for repubs to take the House in 2010, and then the Senate in 2012. REPEAL OBAMACARE.
Your only hope is that Bam Bam wins again in 2012, which I think he has a good chance of doing.
Deminthemidst| 10.22.10 @ 2:34PM
Its called competition, David, but Republicans dont really want to talk about that...I could care less if insurance companies that spend UP TO 50% of my premiums on things OTHER THAN healthcare cannot compete. And yes, if the public option were available (option being a useful word to remember there, despite the fact that it hurts your narrative) it would deliver the same healthcare coverage the govt already provides to millions of folks right now.
For the death panel - please dont do that. You seem informed and reasonable. Dont follow Palin in propagating a lie. There is no such thing as a death panel and I ask you to provide ANY proof (not Fox News links or Palin Tweets) that such a thing exists. (and while you are researching, you should also look into introduced this (actually very useful and important) amendment to the HCR bill.
Mad Hatter| 10.22.10 @ 12:42PM
Too lazy to make up new ones this moment, so here are some apropos ones I've previously posted:
On how they unrealisticaaly believe we don't "get" the brilliance of TARP:
Liberal pundits are starting to carp,
On the nuanced brilliance of TARP,
Obama eloquent waxed,
But our brains were too taxed!
In "The World According to Garp"!
Mad Hatter| 10.22.10 @ 12:44PM
On "draining the swamp" (written just after Obama's Martha's Vineyard vacation):
Nancy, with much ceremony and pomp,
Eagerly declared she'd drain out the swamp,
We don't think it's too harsh,
To say the Vineyard's still Marsh,
So this November, Tea Party will romp!
Mad Hatter| 10.22.10 @ 12:46PM
On Obama's re-cancellation of his Australia trip:
Another Obama foreign policy blunder,
America's old alliances torn asunder,
To Israel builders bossy,
No time to visit the Aussie,
Only Barack's approval is going Down Under!
Mad Hatter| 10.22.10 @ 12:49PM
Written after it came out how many thousands of stimulus checks went to the dead:
White House says, "Stimulus bill too sleepy? Arrrh!
Exaggerators, is what those weepy are!
Don't be mislead,
Our checks to the dead,
Is just our way of doing CPR!"
Said an Obama true devotee,
"Without lies, the I's drink no Tea.
Those with leaders parsonal,
Using their hate R-senal!
D-ceased? No, they all still will vote D!"
Mad Hatter| 10.22.10 @ 12:53PM
On Obama's saying we're just "hard-wired" that when there's fear, we ignore facts & science (and therefore disagree with him):
Obama's numbers are fast dipping! Whee!
So now he's started in ripping ME!
Dems threatened with firing,
Is it fear and hard-wiring?
No, my friends and I are calm, sipping tea!
Mad Hatter| 10.22.10 @ 1:08PM
Okay, for R. Emmett's Chicago mayoral campaign, I need to write at least ONE new one:
Emmett says elections will be a rout,
For reasons Dems have no clue about.
You may well start barrin',
All money that's "Foreign",
But won't change policies just too "Far Out!"
Tom in Michigan| 10.22.10 @ 3:51PM
The President invited a group of LEFTIST Presidential historians is a more accurate statement.
The group that most resembled the groundswell of rebellion against an overbearing, repressive government was called The Minutemen and, their open rebellion against royalist-statist tyranny led to the American Revolution.
That being said; Mr. Tyrrell is incorrect on one other point. "Liberalism" hasn't failed. It lives on but, what the "professional" American left practices is the exact opposite of "liberalism." It is statist, Marxoid oppression of The People and, THAT is what has failed. Finally and completely-after nearly 100 years of polluting the American body politic.
GalsDownSouth| 10.22.10 @ 5:18PM
Reading the "Comments" section at Spectator is as enlightening as the articles. All of you have me FIRED UP and READY TO VOTE! Is ChalkDust from Twiggs County, Georgia?
megapotamus| 10.22.10 @ 6:43PM
One serious caveat for Obama and his still motile minions. The "Know-Nothings" of the Gilded Age were not defiantly declaring an intentional ignorance of fact and science, as Barry would have it. Rather when the Gallups of the day tried to pin these Republican malcontents down, they never could find them. Anyone quizzed would claim to "know nothing" of this movement but then, she-BANG... they made their voices heard at the ballot box. Word to the wise. And the stupid too.
Yosemeti Sam| 10.22.10 @ 11:43PM
He,he:
Play it again - that lonesome Roy Orbison song.
Answers1| 10.24.10 @ 1:25AM
That's because the wacko libs have been fawning over this idiot since birth.
Black Mold | 10.24.10 @ 11:03AM
On the main subject (which is very hard to focus on with all the outstanding comments!) What the h*ll did he expect?
85% of the public DID NOT want anything to happen with the health care system yet he rammed it down our throats and it is leaving a bad taste.
He rammed through a stimulus package that did nothing, at least Bush's stimulus sent everyone a check! It doesn't hurt so bad when you get a check for destroying our deficit balance!
Plus all the other crap he and his cronies have pulled sooooooo............what did he expect???
You cant purposely screw the public and expect them to love you for it, we are not as stupid as those idiot lawyers on the hill think.
Brian Ankner (non-guru)
Guy Average | 11.19.10 @ 3:15AM
Booger has clearly read and become familiar with "Rules For Radicals". I've never read "The Screwtape Letters" so I'm assuming that the style must be similar to that, but trust me, the content is derived directly from "Rules For Radicals".
glass shelving systems | 12.6.10 @ 3:54AM
I do hope Mr. Booger is keeping copies of these letters. I think after the Nov 2 election you could put them into a book and have a best seller on your hands. You could make a killing selling them at the next Republican Convention in 2012.