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The Current Crisis
The Delusionals
Democrats are having an impossible time accepting their historic thrashing.
Liberals are having a difficult time explaining what happened to them Election Day. Actually, it appears that many of them do not know what happened to them. They are in denial.
Frankly, I expect many Democrats on Capitol Hill are going to go on about their business as though nothing exceptional happened Tuesday. They were reelected as usual. So who are those guys standing in the hallways of the Congressional offices waiting for them to leave. Many Democrats are going to have to be eased out of their offices, and professional help may be called upon. I suggest anger management counselors. They could have a quiet talk with those members of Congress who, as the saying goes, do not get it. Possibly these experts have a gentle way of telling the defeated members that they are history. Maybe some will be led off to The Daily Show to join Jon Stewart in acting superior and laughing at his agelastic efforts at humor. Possibly there is a branch of psychiatry that deals specifically with delusions of victory. Its adepts coax the defeated members of Congress out of their offices and into the sunlight. Let us face facts; it is going to be very difficult talking to these defeated Democrats.
Consider one who is going to be leaving her office very soon. Tuesday night she said to a room filled with election workers, “We have taken the country in a new direction and we are not going back to the failed policies of the past.” That was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She was fully dressed, but there was an air of the manic about her. How is incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner going to deal with her when he arrives at her office? He may need a tranquilizer gun.
The reason that it is difficult to deal with many of the defeated Democrats is that they do not recognize that Republicans even exist, or for that matter Independents who broke 55% for Republicans. These Democrats think history is with them, and that the whole world is going their way, adopting huge stimulus policies, cap and trade, and variations of Obamacare. They do not realize that there is no way to pay for their extravagance. Moreover the civilized countries of the world, for instance Great Britain and France, are paring back entitlements and cutting budgets because they recognize they cannot pay for them.
The delusions are held not only by defeated members of Congress. Other members of what Angelo Codevilla calls the Ruling Class also share their benightedness. Ross Douthat in a column in the New York Times Monday thought Social Security, founded in the 1930s, was “achieved amid strong economic growth, rather than at the bottom of a recession.” That is a unique perspective on the 1930s! He concluded that “Obama seems as if he would have been a wonderful chief executive in an era of prosperity and consensus, when he could have given soaring speeches every week and made us all feel tingly about America.” Has Douthat heard the things Obama has actually said about America, its arrogance and its militarism?
Then there is the Times’ David Brooks, who now seems to be calling the incoming Republican majority in the House a party that has “developed a sense of modesty” and will act as Brooks tells them to act. On November 11, 2008 he wrote that “…the Republican Party will probably veer right in the years ahead, and suffer more defeats.” That is a theme Brooks has reiterated time and again. Well, the party did “veer right” and in 2010 suffered the greatest off-year election victory in two generations. It will now go its own way irrespective of the ipse dixit judgments of Douthat and Brooks, and the rest of the Ruling Class.
One of these popinjays’ favorite judgments is that the Republican Party has no very well defined alternative to Obama’s governance. They are the party of anger and you cannot govern from anger. Yet this too is nonsense. The conservatives are not particularly angry, and they do have an alternative to Obama. The conservatives in the Republican Party and their re-enforcements from the Tea Party have a perfectly workable alternative to Obama’s socialism. It is Congressman Paul Ryan’s Roadmap to America’s Future. It is a plan to grow the economy, cut spending, and in general revive America. We shall be hearing more about it in the months to come.
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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Tim*| 11.4.10 @ 6:37AM
David Brooks is a RINO-CINO Neocon AgendaBoy,who The Mainstream Media Liberal Agendists trot out, as a Faux- spokesman for Republicans.
Punt this Twerp Weasel Son Of A Bitch.
The Tea Party Rebellion is now Inside Congress & Inside The GOP.
Carpe Diem.
Spartanfan| 11.4.10 @ 7:50AM
'Tis Time... Cry Havoc! And loose the dogs of war!
Spartanfan| 11.4.10 @ 7:50AM
'Tis Time... Cry Havoc! And loose the dogs of war!
Deborah D | 11.4.10 @ 8:10AM
Amen, Tim*! I'm sick of the know-it-alls who want to tell Americans what we think, how we feel, what to think, how to act. They want us to sit down and shut up -- well, too late for that. We stood up. We spoke up, and now, Mr. Brooks, we have a Republicans majority in the House. It's time for the likes of you to sit down and pay attention while we save the country from the likes of you.
Deborah D | 11.4.10 @ 8:18AM
By the way, Mr. Tyrrell -- thanks for your most excellent observations and your always fun way of presenting them. I always look forward to your columns. The Delusionals, indeed!
Booger | 11.4.10 @ 6:39AM
From the Realm of Blue Nirvana:
I, Aqua Buddha, have come forth from Nirvana for the purpose of chastising you who do not follow the right paths, and who thus receive the recompense of bad karma upon yourselves for your degenerate conduct. Specifically, I speak to Democrats and their ilk, who have used me as a weapon of partisan slander in the strange political fray going on within your plane of existence.
While it is true that suffering is a normal part of your mortal existence, I find that Nancy Pelosi and her fellow adherents to the strange philosophy of the Democratic party suffer from a perverse desire to heap up far more suffering than is necessary for enlightenment. Furthermore, rather than endure this suffering themselves, which is the true path to wisdom, they inflict it upon others, even their own followers, which is a strange and unnecessary thing.
First of all, this Nancy Pelosi person must accept Antiya, the truth that all things must come to an end. This is especially true of her current political career. I suggest that she consult with the crone of the East, Blanche Lincoln in this matter, as she will have much to share with her about losing. Only when these foolish Democrats can accept the end of their base careers in political machination can they come to enlightenment and find peace.
I would suggest to Nancy Pelosi that the Antiya of her political career was brought about more quickly by his rejection of the Noble Eightfold Path. Specifically, she has failed to have right understanding, and seeks happiness through the pain of others. She has failed to have right thought, being selfish and deceitful even to herself in her own mind. She has foregone right speech, choosing instead to slander and defame those whom she wrongfully perceived as her enemies. She has not chosen right action, instead doing that which she knows to be harmful to others. She has no right livelihood, existing instead only as a parasite upon the labor of others. She has no right effort, for all of her efforts are attuned to destructive ends. She has no right mindfulness, for she lacks the reflective focus to see her own evil. Finally, she has no right concentration, for she diffuses her energy in worthless pursuits.
So, as you can see, Nancy Pelosi has chosen the path of darkness. No doubt in the next life she will be re-incarnated as nothing more than a dung beetle, and only that if she is lucky. She has chosen wrongly and is thus denied both Nirvana and a seat as Speaker of the House.
Thus Speaks Aqua Buddha
Charles Burlington| 11.4.10 @ 7:41AM
(Aqua) Booger- I love your letters- I think I may be reaching Enlightenment!
Aqua Buddha| 11.4.10 @ 8:33AM
Pay no attention to that Booger imposter behind the crystal curtain.
Nancy Pelosi will be re-incarnated as Nancy Pelosi. It is a far worse punishment.
I, Aqua Buddha, have spoken.
Chris| 11.7.10 @ 12:19PM
Excellent Booger! But please leave the poor dung beetles out of it. Nan will be reincarnated as the bug that eats the dung beetles' dung- if she's lucky.
Stephanie| 11.4.10 @ 6:56AM
Booger and Emmett, you two crack me up this morning. And baby, I need a laugh!
Appleby| 11.4.10 @ 7:10AM
The Sixties are Officially Over. Except, apparently, in California. I lived there when Governor Moonbeam was installed the last time, and trust he will not be coming to work on a skateboard this time as someone his age could get really hurt on one of those things. (I personally was riding motocross in those days, but am sensible enough to know that I am no longer 25 years old. I dont think GM has figured out that when he looks in the mirror it ISNT some old man who jumps in front of him.)
Carol| 11.4.10 @ 7:20AM
If Boehner has to use a tranquiizer gun on Pelosi - I want to be there to witness that!
It is going to be so much fun to hear the whining we will hear for the next 2 years.
The Tea Partiers have shown the Ruling Class that WE ARE BOSS AROUND HERE AND WE AREN'T GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!
For those of you who are disheartened that the GOP didn't take the Senate - that's a good thing because Obama doesn't have a tool anymore to blame them for all of his failures.
And the House holds the purse strings.
Take that, Nancy!
Melvin| 11.4.10 @ 7:28AM
To be sure the flower power generations and their acolytes will leave ticking time bombs in their vacated office spaces, much the same mischief as when George Bush took office in 2000.
This time it will probably be with more vitriol and more expensive for the taxpayers to pay for the repairs.
It will be a pleasure not to see Ms. "Flower Power," Pelosi with her botoxed gaze which is more attributed to what many of us call the, "Stomped on bullfrog look," which Ms. Pelosi feels like right now.
There is one thing that we must keep in perspective. The elections may have cut the head of the snakes off, but the body of elected bureaucrats, and unelected appointees are still in place with all their power and funding to keep dutifully droning along with the Communist agenda.
Like Pelosi said, "We may lose power, but socialized health care will still be here when we regain the House.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 11.4.10 @ 7:31AM
It is typical of politicians to believe the election was all about them, either good or bad and in fact it wasn't.
This election was about a group of Americans knocking Congress off it's keister by sending a strong and unmistakable message to stop the spending and regulatory nonsense inside the beltway.
When the Republicans talk about rolling spending back to 2008 levels it's disheartening. Federal revenues exist in a trough between 2000 and 2004 levels and may fall from there.
What's needed is a balanced budget with no exceptions. If federal bureaucracies have to be cut in size and scope so be it. They won't be missed.
The country faces many problems and it's obvious that the Obama White House has no intent on handling any of them that don't involve expanding the government and ignoring situations involving illegal immigrants.
When the Republicans take over in January they should move to hit some of those issues hard including passing legislation for massive crackdowns on illegal immigrants while welcoming immigrants who applied to come. They should also insist the fence on the border be finished as promised.
Ironically Kay Bailey Hutchinson is one of the biggest impediments to the fence being finished.
Whatever the Republicans do they should think it out and stick with it. Now is not the time for timidity.
Siegfried X| 11.4.10 @ 8:15AM
Why drive off a cliff for no reason? Why make it easier for Democrats to win in 2012? None of this has any chance of becoming law with a Democratic President and Senate, so taking these tough votes would just result in attack ads for Republicans in 2012. We would be repeating Nancy Pelosi's mistake of taking dozens of tough votes without any possible benefit.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 11.4.10 @ 9:34AM
Actually, the Democrats had the tough votes and did succeed in reaching their goals. Now it's the Republicans turn to take the tough votes.
The benefit is the Republicans have momentum and I think it will be easier to get these issues through the Senate then many believe.
In essence, you're recommending they do nothing and hope for success. Like that's going to work. That is the cliff.
Siegfried X| 11.4.10 @ 10:17AM
Pelosi's House passed over 400 bills which died by filibuster in the Senate. Those bills didn't accomplish anything but give Republicans attack ads.
The reality is that the voters have prevented Republicans from passing most of the conservative agenda. So it is not me saying do nothing, but the voters. The only ways to pass legislation are to have two-thirds of both houses, or control of both houses of congress and the presidency. We don't have that now, and won't have all of it next year.
Wishful thinking won't pass legislation. We should not sacrifice our army fighting battles which we can't win. The goal is to win the war, not (politically) die valiantly.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 11.4.10 @ 3:17PM
Wishful thinking is when you do nothing and think your wishes will come true.
Willey| 11.5.10 @ 5:00PM
Siegfried X is a phony Concern Troll--ignore his rants.
Fredrick Ward| 11.5.10 @ 5:31PM
If they do nothing then they will find their jobs handed to someone else just as they are taking the jobs of those who did not do what the country wants. Easy or difficult they better do the job we sent them there to do. Period. NO EXCUSES.
John Navratil| 11.4.10 @ 2:00PM
Siegfried X,
There will be no attack ads if the bill are what was asked for. Quite the contrary, there will be issue ads to Democrat obstruction of the will of the people.
Bring it on!
irish19| 11.6.10 @ 9:40PM
Bingo! The Republicans need to pass bill after bill on illegal immigration, balanced budget, etc. and then dare the Senate to kill them or zero to veto them. Then they get to tell the electorate that they held up their end of the bargain, but were stymied by the obstructionists in the Senate & the poseur in chief in the White House.
REB| 11.5.10 @ 7:55PM
The point is to make the remaining dems "DEFEND" this commie crap and show them for what they are thus resulting in their complete killoff in 2012! Also all this crap can be killed off by cutting off any funding for it,Americans have spoken,get your commie paws off my liberties!
Patriot| 11.6.10 @ 12:25AM
We're just getting started, too--2012 is just around the corner!
irish19| 11.6.10 @ 9:42PM
That's one of the common threads I have seen surfing the blogs after the election. People know that this is just the first shot. As I have mentioned on some of them, the Tea Party did not even exist two years ago. Now it is a going concern & can spend the next two years identifying and to a certain extent grooming conservative candidates so that come 2012 we have the very best candidates we can find.
bluecollarbytes| 11.4.10 @ 8:06AM
We have been on the road directly Left, so if Republicans veer right that might only start to get us traveling the middle as we careen a bit from side to side.
Siegfried X| 11.4.10 @ 8:09AM
"One of these popinjays' favorite judgments is that the Republican Party has no very well defined alternative to Obama's governance. "
That alternative will be defined by the Republican voters as they select a presidential candidate.
Since McConnell and Boehner are not running for president, this will not be a replay of 1994-96 when that candidate was Senate leader Bob Dole. In other words, Republicans in Congress will not control that future agenda as Gingrich and Dole did back in '94. Within 6 months Congress will be mostly as side show as the presidential campaign heats up.
Jedi Clampett| 11.4.10 @ 8:09AM
At least Nancy Pelosi kept one promise: She drained the swamp of corruption! Albeit not in the way she intended.....
Douglas Fletcher | 11.4.10 @ 8:10AM
I have a plan.
letsmakeobamaresign.blogspot.com
Ret. Marine| 11.4.10 @ 8:36AM
Now that's the kind of suggestion I can get behind. There already is a site ( research Flloyd Brown) out there with thousands of signatures regarding this matter, help it go virol. Its time to make it stick. FIRE the FRAUD
Bydand76| 11.4.10 @ 8:27AM
Good Article,
Just to underscore Mr. Tyrrells' point. I find it very interesting that some of the elites in the Republican party are starting to harp on Sen. Jim DeMint because he didn't endorse the Republican candidate over the Conservative there by costing the Republicans a chance at the Senate.
Pro Libertate!
Doctor Right| 11.4.10 @ 8:35AM
"Liberals are having a difficult time explaining what happened to them Election Day. Actually, it appears that many of them do not know what happened to them. They are in denial.+
Good.
The last thing we need is a Clinton-esque, rightward pivot that allows Obama to take credit for anything and everything.
The House has been purged of "Blue-Dogs". Most of the remaining Democrats are of the far-left fringe type, and that will illuminate the difference between Republicans and Democrats more effectively than any campaign advertisement.
Obama will NEVER surrender his agenda. To do so would be to admit that he's NOT in control, or that he was wrong, and these are two things that a malignant narcissist simply CANNOT do.
The GOP needs a careful "strategery" in the run-up to 2012, one that's both publicly aggressive and silently passive-aggressive. Make the Democrats, including Obama, show who they REALLY are.
If those fools don't think we have a mandate from the electorate to roll back the leftist, statist agenda, then 2012 can make 2010 look like a garden party.
The GOP must recognize that they have two (2) agendas for 2012:
1. Defeat Obama
2. CRIPPLE the Democrat Party, and put them on life-support.
Per # 2 above, if we take back the White House and the Senate, we need to take aggressive action against the Dems and their corrupt constituencies ASAP. This means NO MERCY. Leave no stone unturned to expose the rot, corruption, and excesses of the Dems and their union allies.
This is WAR. After a Dieppe-like route in 2008, we have now landed in Normandy. It's time to move inland towards the heart of the enemy (yes, "enemy"...Obama said it first) and CRUSH them.
Mel Torme| 11.4.10 @ 9:07AM
Since there is no article by Eric Peters this morning, I will post one that the Spectator decided to skip about 3 weeks back.
Mel Torme| 11.4.10 @ 9:09AM
October 22, 2010
Too Much Traffic—Too Many People?
By Eric Peters
Once population gets to a certain density, it's game over—for liberty. I mean, for real-deal, live and let live, do-what-you-want-to (provided you're not physically harming anyone else) liberty.
You know—what most of the founding fathers (Alexander Hamilton and his proto-Republicans excepted) had in mind.
The best analogy I've found is traffic.
You live in a very rural area, let's say. Very few other cars are on the road. So, when you roll up behind some old geezer doing 33 in a 55, it's easy to just pass the old dude—and no hard feelings either way. He's able to trundle along at his pace without cars (and angry drivers) stacking up behind him; you're free to drive around the old coot and continue at your speed.
No tensions; no problems.
There are very few traffic lights—and when you come to a stop sign, you're almost always the only car around and it's just a minor, momentary interruption of your travel.
You can pull right onto the main road from sidestreets, usually—with just a quick glance either way to be sure no one's coming.
Usually, no one is.
If you need to park, you just pull into a spot.
And there is always an open spot.
In winter, you can usually get where you need to be without too much trouble because there's no one else causing wrecks that block the road or interfering with your momentum.
Driving is a joy.
Contrast this scenario with the situation that's become typical in and around every major population zone in the United States circa late 2010:
All it takes is one inept/fearful/reckless driver to gum up the entire works; everyone is stuck behind the old coot up ahead in his '87 Buick doing 33 in a 55—because there's no way you can pass with all that oncoming traffic plus you're 12 cars behind the coot anyhow.
And there's more than just one inept/fearful/reckless driver to deal with now, too.
Itinerant workers—often with no insurance; not infrequently drunk—driving beaten-up old wrecks are a constant peril. Many don't read English, so traffic signals are a mystery to them.
Huge SmooVees with distracted hausfraus chattering away on their sail fawns blast through red lights, turn into your lane or don't notice the light has changed green until it's on the verge of turning red again—just in time for you to get stuck in another cycle of waiting.
You're thwarted (or threatened) at almost every turn—literally. Get by/past one and there's another one 20 yards ahead. The conga line of cars barely moves an inch. At every stop sign, there are scores of cars lined up awaiting their turn. Cars are backed up for blocks at traffic lights. Merge lanes are choked. You have to circle every parking lot like a shark, waiting for a spot to come open—and be ready to fight for it.
It takes forever to get anywhere. No one smiles. Everyone's tense.
Might as well give up and turn on the radio.
Driving has become the equivalent of being a mouse in a Skinner Box. You dread leaving your house.
The same dynamic operates in the political realm.
In a frontier-type, low-density environment, people are independent-minded and self-sufficient. To a great extent they self-police—and are happy. They earn their own keep and expect to be left alone in return.
Because people are not constantly rubbing up against one another, there is much less social friction. People can go around one another. You don't like your neighbor? Well, you almost never see him anyway and it's easy to avoid having to deal with him. He goes his way, you go yours.
Resources abound; useful work is easy to get. People are largely free to do what they want, within reasonable bounds—and to enjoy their lives.
This is how America was—I can remember it like it was yesterday. And it's the reason why America was, for the most part, a great place to live ... until about the late 1960s. At which point the population began to balloon at an almost unimaginable rate.
170 million suddenly—and 40 years is suddenly—became 300-plus million.
An almost doubling of the population it took more than 400 years to achieve in the space of my own short lifetime (I am 44).
Suffocating, omnipresent traffic—formerly an isolated curiosity you experienced on field trips to NYC or LA—was unknown to most Americans when I was a child in the 1970s.
Now it is the rule.
The suburbs were then still pleasant, affordable and peaceful places to live and rear a family.
Now they are disconnected, overpriced—and a torturous drive to and from your place of work.
In the 1970s, one could easily access solitude in the nearby woods, on a forest trail—or local park.
People and cars and noise were not everywhere—yet.
Even air travel was nothing like the hateful, demeaning experience it has become today.
What has changed? What's the common denominator?
Too many people.
Worse, most of these are not even American people. Deliberate policy changes (the Immigration Act of 1965, specifically) have unleashed upon this land a literal tsunami of humanity—most of it Third World humanity. Is it surprising that America is increasingly coming to resemble a Third World country as a result? With the same horrid pathologies—from a seething (and growing in size) permanent underclass to the despoiling of formerly magnificent natural vistas to the relentless lowering of our political discourse to simple-minded catchphrases and childish images marketed to a junior high-level mindset?
This is an obvious, even elementary consequence of adding tens of millions of Mexican peasants and Central-South American stoop laborers, Somalis, Pakistanis and Afghanis—the whole polyglot stew.
But we aren't allowed to notice this—unless of course we "celebrate" it.
Though why such ought to be celebrated is something that's not easy to understand. By every measure save perhaps the profusion of electronic gadgets, Americans are miserable today (note the near-ubiquity of anti-depression meds, the pathological over-eating/obesity and nihilistic consumerism) whereas they were mostly pretty happy in the not-so-distant past.
Yet it is still in our power to halt the bum's rush toward the Third World future our "leaders" are laying the groundwork for. We have it in our power to say, "enough".
We do not need more people.
We certainly do not need more people from the Third World.
And if we can just get a handle on this mess, maybe one day going for a Sunday drive will be enjoyable again.
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Eric Peters (email him is a refugee from The Washington Times, where he worked as an editorial writer and columnist during the 1990s. He is currently a freelance car journalist and runs ericpetersautos.com. He is the author of Automotive Atrocities and his next book, Road Hogs, will be published this fall.
WAKE UP| 11.7.10 @ 7:23PM
EVERYBODY tapdances around the facts:
(1) the "multicultural" experiment is ONLY taking place in advanced, stable, democratic Western nations
(2) the "multicultural" people being brought in to test this are people who are incapable of multiculturalism in their own, backward societies (if they could do it, they would have modernised their societies and done it - QED)
(3) the result is that the solid fabric of Western democracies is being destroyed as intractable backward cultures are imported
(4) eventually the West will be reduced to the same bickering, tribal primitivism that the "multiculturals" have come from, and man's noblest achievement ever (the establishing of a sane, Judeo-Christian, democratic, free society) will be finished.
Unless we STOP it all now.
Ned the Red| 11.4.10 @ 11:03AM
"That was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She was fully dressed, but there was an air of the manic about her."
I kept thinking of "Baghdad Bob" perhaps Nancy could be called D.C. Pelosi.
Gary| 11.4.10 @ 2:14PM
Dr Right wrote, in part: "2. CRIPPLE the Democrat Party, and put them on life-support."
Hate to disagree, but we take them off life-support, burn the carcass, and bury it so deep it cannot ever rear its ugly head to trouble a free people again. Kind of what should have been done to communism.
Gary| 11.4.10 @ 2:14PM
Dr Right wrote, in part: "2. CRIPPLE the Democrat Party, and put them on life-support."
Hate to disagree, but we take them off life-support, burn the carcass, and bury it so deep it cannot ever rear its ugly head to trouble a free people again. Kind of what should have been done to communism.
TKP| 11.4.10 @ 5:03PM
Liberals believe:
Unemployment payments are a great economic stimulus
That "Job Creation" is a government program
Negotiation is possible with people who are still pissed off about the crusades
Punishing the evil rich will create opportunity for the poor
Compassion can be measured by the level of spending on government social programs
Europe style socialism is a great future to strive for
Reagan was an idiot
Obama is a genius
Clinton is one of them....triangulation anyone?
Delusional..... Naaaa
Maybe Savage is right - it is a mental disease
JmsA| 11.7.10 @ 10:53PM
It is a mental disease, psychosis: any form of severe mental disorder in which the individual's contact with reality becomes highly distorted.
Oldefarte| 11.5.10 @ 3:16PM
I submit that it is the liberal Democrats that are most angry.......angry that we unelitest morons out there beyond the beltway just don't GET IT; that we are all stupid, uneducated morons which should be directed and controlled by the magnanimous intelligence of the ruling class [ie El Chosen One, Boy-Roy Kerry, Sex-Crazed Gore, and Humanitarian-in-Chief Carter]; that we should all just work 24-7 in order to give 90% of our income to the cradle-to-grave historical welfare class that lives off of our tax payments; that this country should bow and scrape and redistribute our national wealth to impoverished countries; that we stupids should be re-educated to the fact that Muslim terrorists are really just good guy/patriots that are fighting us usurping non-believing non-Muslims;etc!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Black Mold Guy | 11.6.10 @ 5:52PM
It had to happen sooner or later that the liberal dems would take control. They have been trying to get in office and in control for a long time and we never let them do it until 2 years ago. That is when we found out what their real agenda was.
Until they got control, the people never really understood how wacko they really are. We kept thinking 'aw, they can't really be that nuts'. But they were and we let them get in control and now we understand what happens when nut jobs are in control.
Hopefully the people of this country will remember the last 2 years of horrible decision making and never let the extreme liberals get control again.
Like I said, it had to happen sooner or later. Now that their reign is over and we understand our mistakes, it's time to take this bull (our present crisis) by the horns and turn it around!
Danby| 11.6.10 @ 11:03PM
If you want to make some real money invest in moving and storage companies in the DC area before January.
John Bailo | 11.7.10 @ 12:54PM
Liberals have this idea that somehow prosperity has come to most Americans, and that everyone should thankfully pay more taxes in tribute to their system. The reality is they are the very few who are tapped into the system of Paper Hanging that shovels mounds of funny money into their bank accounts each day while they do little or no work of value. Meanwhile, all the people who should be blissfully wealthy are getting kicked out of their homes, or still going into debt to buy the necessities for them and their kids.
Larry| 11.7.10 @ 8:33PM
Love the latin references like 'ipse dixit' Bob, you rule.
The left has been playing make believe for decades, and now their house of cards is folding. They did a lot of damage in the last 18 months, but the long term prognosis for their Socialism is very poor. They may hold on here and there, like Harry Reid and Patty Murray, but overall, their ideology has been disproven and is on the decline. Good riddance. Let's bring back America's greatness: Entrepreneural prosperity and values-based governing.
simon templar| 11.8.10 @ 3:37PM
the author writes, "Democrats think history is with them, and that the whole world is going their way..."
My freind..that is because it is! The last century is a gigantic testimony to this fact. Despite the continual failure and destructive consequences of socialist liberalism..it lives another day, continues to conquer another societal institution, branch of government, and generation. We need to ask ourselves WHY? We need to take good look at ourselves as conservatives as well as, yes, these true enemies of liberty and self government.
Anyone out there dare to ask why? There lies the key.....
simon templar| 11.8.10 @ 3:49PM
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order blocking a state constitutional amendment that prohibits state courts from considering international or Islamic law when deciding cases.
I rest my case......the legislature in a constitutional federalist republic was given the power by the founding fathers to discipline, impeach, and have the last say in all matters regarding the other two branches as it represented the will of the people. Do we have that republic or something else...who won the war? How did we get to this point?
REB| 11.8.10 @ 9:06PM
Time to get out the tar and feathers...run these traitorous judges and globalist scum out of town and do the same to these pig headed muslims,this is America,not a mid-east latrine,their so called laws do not hold any sway here,NEVER WILL...throw them out, quit extending grace to graceless idiots! America is for those who love and embrace her,shes not for everyone...especially those who want to use her for their own ends at her expense!
wholesale beads | 3.30.11 @ 4:49AM
good read
weddingdress | 7.15.11 @ 5:14AM
I rest my case......the legislature in a constitutional federalist republic was given the power by the founding fathers to discipline, impeach, and have the last say in all matters regarding the other two branches as it represented the will of the people. Do we have that republic or something else...who won the war? How did we get to this point?