Anger Is Now Hardened into Resolve
This time last year, the biggest names in media were still openly deriding tea parties, that is, when they were bothering to pay the movement any attention whatsoever. In only one year, the tea party movement has gone from the force liberals loved to ignore, to the force they loved to mock with their own vulgar epithets. It has has now become the force they grudgingly respect in the way liberals love best: open hate.
Polls show that Americans favor the tea party movement over the establishment of both the R & the D mega-parties. Whether one is able to participate physically in a tea party isn’t even an indicator of this groundswell of support — which tells any political pulse-taker that the massive tea parties are the mere tip of an iceberg that threatens to shake the seats of power not only in D.C., but in every state house, town council, and school board across the country.
An odd army of homemakers, empty-nested moms and dads, retired fellows, businessmen who’ve lost their businesses, and various other regular folks have taken on the elitist establishment from their living rooms, using phones and laptops to produce the most viable political movement seen in this country since the civil rights movement. The exasperated anger seen at townhalls last summer has now hardened into resolve.
When did this hardening of the national will occur?
March 21, 2010.
That was the day the entirely partisan Democrat Congress gave President Obama final passage of his signature legislation. That was the day Barack and Rham high-fived it in the Oval Office and sacrificed the fortunes of an entire political party and the will of the nation on the altar of Barack’s trinity of me, myself and I. That was the day on which national anger became resolve.
The nation told the Democrats not to pass the health care bill. Americans were not fooled by any of the lying Democrat rhetoric about cutting costs, saving the economy, or making our health care delivery system better. Americans saw the health care bill as the power grab it was from nearly the beginning.
The majority of voters had taken Barack Obama at his word before the election, that the health care debate would be slow, deliberate, and open on C-SPAN for all to see. The majority put their trust in the president’s promise to conduct “transparent” government with a cautious eye towards deficits and debt. Without even bothering to read a bill that would literally take over one sixth of the entire American economy and put it into the hands of unelected bureaucrats — and out of the hands of the people — the Democrats wheeled-dealed, cheated and lied their way to the vote. It was an utter sham and the people knew it.
All the other power-grabs — taking over auto companies and banks and insurance companies — might have left the Democrats out of the electoral tsunami zone, but the health care power grab sealed their coming fate.
The health care bill, foisted upon an unwilling American public, has become this era’s Intolerable Act. Just as King George and his elitist parliament pushed our ancestors beyond their breaking point, so has the modern Democrat cabal of Obama, Pelosi, and Reid. These are names that will live in American infamy.
Exactly my own thoughts of recent days. I have been considering how best to write a modern Declaration of Independence delineating the abuses we shall no longer suffer.
“When in the course of human events….”
Put a little sugar on and March 21, 2010, Obama, Pelosi and Reid will be little more than ho-hum academic history.
Just like Bush and September 11th, 2001 they will be gone when the sting is gone.
America is now embedded more than six-decades deep into the intellectual, moral and spiritual decadence that International Liberal Socialism brings.
The Tea-Party anger turned to resolve would be fine were it focused on effective forethought, planning and solutions that would repair this damage.
It isn’t.
The Tea-Party on the left is at odds with the Tea-Party on the right, while neither one of them; plus everyone in the middle has a clue what “their guy”, if elected will do once he or she is seated in Washington, DC.
They just know that when Obama, Pelosi and Reid are gone things will better.
You are mistaken in your rant about the Tea Party. It is not a right wing bunch of crazies and there is no such thing as a left wing Tea Party. I have been to several large TP events and they are made up of all types and backgrounds. The one theme is that gov. no longer represents us and that the spending is out of control. If you think that there will be business as usual after this election then you haven’t been paying attention. The TP is sticking their platform of gov. of the people by the people and for the people down the throats of the RINOs in the GOP and there will be another round in 2012. You can resist this movement if you want but you would do better if you embraced it and encouraged it’s progress.
AMEN!
I encourage all Americans to join your local Tea Party. The RINOs are scared – the Democrats are confused – and it can only get better from here on out – but only if everyone that cares for this country and it’s Constitution and Bill Of Rights gets involved.
America is still a center-right country – and the more people learn about what Obama is up to in his tinkering with how our bureaucracies work and the laws nobody has read before passing the more people get angry with what’s going on.
Personally I’m mad as hell and I ain’t gonna take it anymore!
“The Tea-Party anger turned to resolve would be fine were it focused on effective forethought, planning and solutions that would repair this damage.”
You couldn’t be more wrong. If you were a member or had any knowledge of local Tea Party’s you would know what the forethought and strategic planning is.
Well said~!
All of those elitist bums in Washington will hear us in November. Count on it. They will see what utter contempt we have for them and we will show them what happens when you don’t listen to the will of the people. There was never any, ANY, poll that had the supporters of Obamacare in the majority. Not one. In fact, there was always a substantial majority AGAINST Obamacare from the start. But Washington didn’t care. They made all of these false and silly comparisons to the Civil Rights movement and to slavery, comparisons they should be ashamed of. We are talking about insurance here, NOT the right to buy and sell another human being and we are NOT talking about preventing people from voting. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT INSURANCE!
So now Obama has his law and now he and all of his toadies will suffer the consequences in November. I loathe, detest, and despise anyone who voted for Obamacare and all of those people should be voted out of office simply for not listening to their constituents. That alone is bad enough. But to add lieing to that, to say that Obamacare would actually bring medical costs down when they clearly saw that it would not, definitely insures them a special place in hell for trying to lie, yet again, to the American public.
Enough is enough. The American public is not a bunch of saps. We are not cattle that can be fed anything and then ignored until it is time to be led to slaughter. NO, we will not stand for this and we will continue to vote these elitist snobs out of office until they actually start listening to us. Then and only then will they keep their jobs, elected position where we, and not they, have the final say on how business should be conducted in Washington.
An interesting comparison.
The “Health-Care” Bill is reputed to have been some thousands of pages long. Too long for those who voted for it, to have even read it let alone understood what it means. DIDN’T CARE, the oldest lawyers’ trick to show the people that LAW — those who voted for this travesty are pledged to Uphold and Defend — is no more than THE FIST OF THE POWERFUL. Shades of the 18th century and earlier.
I’ve just reviewed the premier documents of the founding of this USA which has become the beacon and the model for people in the world who want divorce from obeisance to arbitrary powers and “elites”. Who want and are willing to take their chances to be responsible for their destinies, private and public.
That nation, one of the marvels of the modern age, now embroiled in a battle for survival, their enemy their own government agents and agencies in ALL the administrative offices of that government: Legislative, Judiciary, and Executive.
and these documents / the winners ARE :
1. The Declaration of Independence,
2 The Articles of Confedeation
3. The Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights.
They are made up in 29 pages. Published in the National Language of the New Nation, American English, so understandable in words and meaning to any literate person who reads them.
So who’s the jester here.
While we’re at it can we do away with our forced participation in Social Security and Medicare? Why can’t I keep MY money, the fruits of MY labor, and spend them in a manner I see fit? My Social Security takings are more than I can afford to put in my 401k. If I could keep MY money then I could triple my 401k contributions. We need to put SS and Medicare on a 30 year glide path to oblivion.
You can’t keep your own money because Obama wants to “spread it around”–it is for your own good, don’t you know?
Well, tea partiers may not in general be the sharpest pencils in the drawer, but they are still expensive fountain pens compared to the current corrupt and idiotic group making up the Republican establishment.
But don’t mix in all the supposed terrible things about “Obamacare” in all this — they are all just BS talking points made up that same corrupt and idiotic group that the tea partiers are tying to displace. You can’t have it both ways. Everybody knowing anything at all about the deteriorating health care situation in this country, knows that reform was way, WAY overdue. The Republicans shot down Bill Clinton’s attempt at fixing it, and then sat on their butts nibbling caviar during the dark 8 years of Bush while heath care costs shot upwards as quality went down (Who hasn’t heard of a medical horror story these days involving someone they know?)
Obama while running for President promised to deal with the problem and as President merely followed through. The Republicans, as usual, instead of being helpful in any way instead resorted to a massive BS campaign about it all with an eye towards the mid-terms.
As much as it sickens me to respond to you I will. Over 80% of Americans with health care approved of their health care. Of the supposed 40 million who did not have it, that number included illegals about 20 million, homeless: about 2 million, college aged about 5 million-who refused and 10 million unemployed or under employed.
Gee, I guess HC is so bad here, Americans will start going to Mexico or UK for transplants, angioplasty, cancer and other health concerns.
If you truly want to debate please provide some references for your allegations regarding deteriorating health care, why ms. clinton’s plan was soundly repudiated, and the cost up-quality down….Huff Po and Kos does not count as a reference.
Oh and how has Obmamcare been working, eh?
Ummm, do you guys genuinely don’t know that blue links like this are meant to be clicked on?
Socialism is ALWAYS a very bad idea.
Republicans had many ideas that were roundly ignored and not welcome. Often Republicans were not even allowed in the rooms were this Health Care abortion was performed amoung many other fiscal disasters.
Oh, and the “not in general be the sharpest pencils in the drawer” can feel abject failure when it steps on their necks.
We want CHANGE! We demand CHANGE! We deserve CHANGE!
BC, just a little background check here on the Tea Party. I am part of this as well as many others who are
BC, just a little background check here on the Tea Party. I am part of this as well as many others who are EDUCATED. Your opinion is your opinion. The government broke the health care system with all the free hand outs. How many people are generation welfare? How many were taught not to find jobs but live off the government and the money we tax payers put into it? Are you aware many who pay little or no taxes get money back from the government? When the politicians decided they knew what was best for me and my family that is when I started taking action. Now we will do what is best for the country.
“The majority of voters had taken Barack Obama at his word before the election…”
With all due respect for MS. Shiver and other posters, but the very same voters still support Dear Leader now. Nothing has changed.
The MSM, Wall Street, academia and all levels of government still support him. From blacks, and white progressives to the dim-witted whites who believed him or voted out of guilt, they still make up the majority of voters. Not Americans but voters. And do you think that has changed? Do you think many more white Americans previously disaffected by the electoral process or those apathetic to democracy have registered to vote?
“That was the day the entirely partisan Democrat Congress gave President Obama final passage of his signature legislation.”
And there you have it. If the Dems believed in the Constitution and American values would they have done it? Do you not think that the progressives will use every illegal trick and fraud to run roughshod over the next two elections?
We can jump around, root for the Tea Party and hope for an electoral victory in November but until we repudiate and eliminate the left, we are just whistling past the graveyard.
The Tea Party movement was invented by the greedy billionaire Koch brothers so they wouldn’t have to share any of their ill-gotten billions with the people they and their ilk continue to impoverish. Their propaganda has convinced the Tea Partiers the money that sits in their trust funds has really been taken by Blacks, Hispanics and Muslims. Corporate propaganda convinces ordinary White people to hate nurturing and caring becuase a nurturing and caring society would care for the People of Color the same propaganda tells them to hate.
The hysterical fear of health care reform among the greedy overlords is not that it will hurt them by itself. It is the fear that once the warm glow of compassion is introduced in a society that has had hitherto nothing but hate and greed, the people will rise up and demand more. First, we would a right to health care, and then a right to food, and then to housing until a society completely based on love is established, which would have no use for greedy corporate overlords.
Thank you for your comments.
However, you only gave statements of what you think, no proof.
Proof please.
Go to this article:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer
What are you smoking?
Dude, turn off the John Lennon and put the bong down! You need to get out of your dorm room more.
Actually, I’m copying your addle-pated post as a sterling example of what passes for socioeconomic “thought” among the hippie-dippy Left.
speaking of the hippy dippy left…\
DID ANYONE WATCH BILL O’REILEY ON GMA THIS MORNING?
The man is a disgrace to all conservatives. He can’t even claim the middle ground anymore. Fair and balanced by sweet bippy.
Just wow. That post was so perfectly stupid that it HAD to be a fake.
Sorry to say that there are actually those people out there, and one has just landed here to pester others with their insanity.
Sometimes a tunnel of light coming down the road actually is a truck moving at high speed….and you must might want to consider stepping out of the road instead of standing there making fun of the oncoming tunnel of light.
About one year ago, DH and I went to our first ever public political rally when a Tea Party event was held in our small country town. The majority of others there were like us (750 in all), ranging from their 20′s to their 80′s. Working people, a little nervous at publicly taking a stand on political/national issues. Talking quietly among themselves. A woman next to us in her lawn chair nervously confided to me that she and her husband had never done anything like this in their lives, but they were there with neighbors because they just couldn’t take it any more.
They were not there because anyone told them to be there. People who instinctively show up at Tea Party events laugh at you (when they notice you). You’re a fool. You think you know us? You don’t know us. You’ve never walked in our shoes, thought our thoughts, lived our quietness, sweated our days, turned off the news in our living rooms, felt the fury in our hearts when we know we’re being lied to and the liars keep on lying as they look down their noses at us. You are a fool. You don’t know us.
But you just might want to step out of the middle of the road, because we’re that truck that’s coming down the road.
thanks!
Emma–
You live in a Matrix of corporate propaganda. All “information” you get from the newspapers, television, radio, and books is vetted by a coterie of greedy billionaires to protect their trust funds by manufacturing consent from ordinary people. Only a few rarefied geniuses of outstanding integrity like Noam Chomsky and Norm Solomon can both see through it and tell the people. The untold billions stashed away in these trust funds that poeple like the Koch brothers have stolen from you is the reason your children lack adequate food, health care, housing, and opportunities. It is not becuase the government gives money to poor Blacks, Hispanics, and Muslims. In fact, America has no safety net for the poor worthy of the name. All so-called social programs are mere window dressing. There are no provisions for the poor at all.
So very well stated! You speak for millions.
The Tea Party movement was invented by the greedy billionaire Koch brothers
Gee – kind of the inverse of Soros eh?
Your ad-homenin attack on the Tea Party – or on the Koch brothers – hard to tell from how you wrote this – contains no proof – not one whit of evidence. Not that it matters … your logic leading from the gutter to the yellow brick road – and equating government mandates to love is hysterical.
Get a clue – get a job if you can – and make sure to quit using whatever drugs you are currently imbibing – employers routinely test for all manner of them.
Understand this: We The People aren’t here to give you handouts – but we will extend a hand out to help you get along on your own – or not … the choice is yours and that is what freedom is about.
You’ve got to understand, the lefty obsession with the Koch Bros. (who no one had ever heard of before they were selected as “progressive” scapegoats) is just proof that Soros’s role in the statist attempt to destroy this country is gaining traction. They HAD to put up someone so they could say, “Oh yeah, well, you’re doing it too!” It doesn’t matter to them that it’s laughably, blatantly, provably wrong; they figure that if they scream it loud enough it’ll stick, as it often used to in the past. They don’t get it that a new day has dawned.
Throbbin Yobbin: Wow, what an load of 1920s-style Marxist rubbish. Wake up, please. This is the 21st century. Attempts to incite class warfare have been falling flat in the U.S. for decades, and I see no reason to think they’re suddenly going to start working now. Perhaps you should find another tactic — one that wasn’t obsolete when “Howdy Doody” was still on the air.
As Abi pointed out, you spout a bizarre conpiracy theory and then don’t offer the tiniest shred of evidence to support it. Are we supposed to just take you word on all of this? Get real. We’re simply going to dismiss you as a lunatic, since you sound and act exactly like one.
“Corporate propaganda convinces ordinary White people to hate nurturing and caring becuase a nurturing and caring society would care for the People of Color the same propaganda tells them to hate.”
Such condescending racism does not help your case at all. We don’t share your perception of “People of Color” as helpless, pathetic victims. They are just as self-reliant and capable as anyone else.
“First, we would a right to health care, and then a right to food, and then to housing until a society completely based on love is established, which would have no use for greedy corporate overlords.”
You believe you have a RIGHT to health care, food, and housing paid for by the rest of us? You are mistaken. The mere fact that you are breathing and have a pulse does not constitute a claim on the rest of us. We are not obligated to support you while you sit on your butt and whine that the universe owes you a living. If you are genuinely unable to work, we will help you through our support of charitable organizations. You know, the kind that we donate to voluntarily, because we want to. Not because a jumped-up revolutionary like you shoves a gun in our faces, takes our money by force, and then redistributes it the way he sees fit.
Your antiquated Marxist drivel belongs in the wreckage of the collapsed Soviet Union and the totalitarian, poverty-stricken hellholes of Cuba and North Korea. And so do you.
WOW…..very well said………
Well leftists actually believe that if they say…bwell anything no matter how absurd/b that you should take it as though it were given by a prophet of GOD! They use this tactic alot and sometime it work but more often than not it doesnt but the MSM repeats it over and over to drive the crappy point till you almost do believe even the most insane statements!
So, who is going to pay for your healthcare, food, and housing? Hmmm? THose of us with jobs, right? Why should YOU have to work? And sorry, but plenty of us teapartiers (myself included) are minorities. That libs think they can tell us how to vote is highly insulting.
You would not have to pay for any of this stuff. All we need to do is raid the trust funds of the greedy billionaires like the Koch brothers and we could easily provide health care, food, housing, and income for all. We wouldn’t have to worry about the national debt since we could just default on it since all the T-bills are owned by the same greedy billionaires who have never paid a cent in taxes. Who needs them or cares what they think? It’s that easy.
And the trust funds of for example the entire Kennedy family — a lot of Kennedy trust funds and other ways to get around paying taxes they IMPOSE to succour the “poor”. The Clintons, John Edwards, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi and her millionaire family, the pension and perks of Obama paid by taxes from Americans, even the poor, for whom he is such a champion, as aforementioned mentors, that he steals them blind. Having learned the moves in the study of politics at Harvard, that mecca of the “best and brightest”.
And from any other of these elite” persons in Congress, Court and Executive. Do you really see any of this happening, when it is so much easier to just pass another bill, enact another law that binds those idiots who believe their prating “Trust Me. To bind them and and their children unto the nth generation in the shackles of government doling out of their own money expropriated with vacant promises.. You get the point, don’t you?
You Know It Ms. Shiver!
Never forget that it took only 30% of the electorate to saddle us with Obama.
The turnout was 58% of the electorate and of those, 52% voted for Obama.
If people don’t vote this time, Obama’s loyal followers could still cause much damage by their votes.
Thank you. I am SO SICK of it being said that “52% of the American people elected obama.” As you succinctly document, 52% of the American people certainly did NOT elect obama. A significant minority of unthinking people voted for him.
Lies, damn lies and statistics. Also called polls to tell the populace which way to jump.
Whatever the voting turnout in the election, however many lawfully voted For Obama, or For the other guy, those who did not vote are also responsible for the outcome. A decision not to decide, not to vote, to sit it out,IS a Decision. We all pay for electoral decisions, and their outcomes. Sometimes, as is now apparent, far more than we thought possible.
Were we gulled, or did we want for whatever reason, to vote for this man out of nowhere, whose provenance we knew nothing, presented with the adulation appropriate only for the shepherd of a new religion,by a group the DNC and the establishment media, that any informed persons KNEW to be intent,not secret, to establish a “New World Order” as culmination to their “New Age”, on the foundation of the US Republic.
We now ALL watch in dismay the end-game in the destruction of our beloved country at the hands of those we CHOSE to guard and defend her for us and our children unto the nth generation.
Sitting this election out is surrender to the enemy.
I sat out the last election for good reason. I could not bring myself to vote for an old RINO.
McCain would have taken us down a very similar road as Obama has – his need to be liked by the MSM is overpowering – he couldn’t help but sign whatever crap was slung on his desk for fear of getting raked over the coals by the MSM.
Had he been elected I doubt the Tea Party would have picked up the steam they have now. The Democrats may have been able to hold the House come November – who really knows? It’s all speculation.
Like it or not Obama may have been the best thing that could happen to this country – if we can survive. And I believe we can.
Emma, if everyone voted, the number probably would have been higher than 52%. It’s pretty well known that among people who don’t vote, the Democrats tend to be favored. That’s why so many voter registration efforts are partisan Democrat.
The real question is how many of the people who voted for Obama in 2008 have become disenchanted with their choice? Sounds like a lot of people to me.
It helps to look back sometimes.
I knew the last “Republican Revolution” was bogus in 1995.
They could not put together the will to defund the National Endowment for the Arts.
If you can’t cut such a meaningless program from the federal budget, you are nothing less than pathetic.
They are already showing signs of weakness (under the guise of being “REASONABLE”) when it comes to Obamacare.
The Establishment Republicans are going to do their level best to insure that there is a third party in 2012, I’m feeling sure.
jd
You are right. I don’t think the Republicans realize how close they are to extinction.
Hey Throbbin:
“until a society completely based on love is established, which would have no use for greedy corporate overlords”
Yeah, been there, done that. Its called The Christian West. Best Exemplified by an American Experiment that proclaims all people free to do as they wish so long as they do not harm each other. Lots of suffering to make that a reality, show me another civilization that ever cared enough to fight for someone ELSES freedom, because of PRINCIPALS.
Pretty short list, starts and ENDS with the USA.
Your idea that everyone has a “right” to someone “else” providing them with food, housing and health care is beyond ridicule.
Its the same as anouncing an “economic policy” that encourages everyone to be a bank robber….free money, and its covered by the banks insurance companies….simple, fantastic!
But who would deposit there money there, would YOU?
Obama and his wild socialist bunch wanted to transform American into some weird socialistic, daddy government state, and they set out to do it.
In this form of government, the President is given a great latitude to make changes as he sees fit. And Barack proceeded to make wholesale changes that did everything from stick a dagger into our free enterprise system to run up our debt so our money has lost much of its potential value, to kill most every high tech military advancement, giving everyone else time to catch up, which puts all Americans in danger. Missile defense, for example, which could have saved countless lives you can now count among the casualties of Obama’s war on America.
Like cars sometimes have governors, there’s no such item on a President. Obama didn’t read the road signs for him to slow down. And has gone right over the cliff.
Needless to say, he won’t be running in 2012. He’ll be residing in the junk heap heap of American History.
In the 2010 elections, the leftists only hope is vote stealing, the kind that got Franken elected. The U.S. has a totally corrupt attorney general so the vote stealing will be pervasive. It’ll be like the riots in East LA in the 1960′s. Votes will looted with impunity. It’ll be enough to turn a number of elections to the Democrats. But all in all, for the Democrats, the November 2 election will be a blood bath. A well deserved one. Of course, they deserve much worse.
At the same time, Hillary is positioning herself for the 2012 Presidential run.
She’s going to claim she was against all of Obama’s so called Stimulus spending, against ObamaCare, and against calling American males cowards, against reporting Arizona to the United Nations for civil rights abuses, against going to war against Arizona, against borders as open as Michelle’s mouth every time a five thousand dollar bottle of champagne is poured into a five hundred dollar glass and raised to her lips.
Hillary’s lies about her objections to ObamaGovernment will place her number two in the Frequent Liar’s Club behind Mr. Corruption, Barack Hussein Obama. “I never wanted civilian trials in New York” she’ll say. “I’ve always been against a victory mosque at ground zero”, she’ll say.
Hillary will lie till she’s blue in the face; till somebody sticks the evidence in her face. Until the evidence proves her to be an incarnation of the worst parts of Obama And her husband, the lies will flow like the champagne in the world of Friday night Obama. They party. The rest of the country can’t find a job because Obama was content to blame Bush and poison the economy.
What Obama has done is awaken America with an alarm clock that rings as loud as Pearl Harbor. As loud as the battle of Concord. Paul Revere yelled the British are coming. Barack Obama, in his own Muslim way, screamed change loud enough that we all heard the chains being readied for our enslavement. Obama tried to lynch freedom, the ultimate get back in his Saul Alinsky molded mind.
In the wake of Obama we have much to fix.
Our money system is compromised. Our southern borders are compromised. Free enterprise is on life support. All of Obama’s regulations and fees have dealt a death blow to small business all across the country.
Cap and Trade will require a home seller to jump through governmental hoops before they can sell a home. Another blow to the economy. Homeowners will be required to buy expensive licenses for their homes. Which will amount to huge costs to the homeowner (to make homes sellable, they’ll have to be energy efficient by Obama standards; only unions will be allowed under ObamaLaw to do the work). This will put huge amounts of monies into Democratic coffers.
Because of ObamaCare, private health care companies have begun raising individual premiums thousands of dollars per individual.
If you pay $200 a month for health care, soon you’ll be paying eight hundred a month. They’re raising premiums to the sky in part to cover the cost of diagnostic procedures, from mammograms to stress echo tests to colonoscopies because under ObamaCare, private insurance companies can’t charge for them. Can’t charge for preventive care. The cost of covering slacker kids who are 26 and “living” with their parents will be astronomical.
Bottom line, Obama has made a colossal mess of things. He did it intentionally, and it was part of his wealth redistribution. It will take decades to clean it up. That’s why it’s so important that we clean out Congress.
The Democrats have done America dirt.
Obama will go down in history as the worst, most destructive President in United States history. We won’t ever be able to fix the damage Obama’s done to the Supreme Court putting two Marxists women in, one slightly more bigoted than the other; one hates white males, the other hates our military and free enterprise.
My one wish before I no longer have a thinking and a metabolizing is that I get to see Barack in all his corruptive glory led out of the White House in handcuffs. Corruption of the kind, the enormity he’s practiced cannot be allowed to stand.
Never forget that ObamaCare carries the Clinton seal; it is HillaryCare, really, which she failed to push through her Bubba proxy.
BRAVO! I could not have said this better! Now on to November and election day.
I, like millions of Americans, choose the ‘red pill’.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te6qG4yn-Ps
yes!!! bite the bullet, take that red pill and carry on!!!!
I am a 64 year old great grandmother. In the spring I sat in our local park, filled with tea party enthusiasts. What a wonderful and empowering feeling it was–to be sitting with many people who felt just as I do. I, who have never demonstrated in my life, a part of this wonderful new uprising. I gathered my children and grandchildren around me at that event and said, “Come, we must see this together, we are creating history and you can tell your grandchildren you were here when it started!”
God Bless America
Very beautifully said. Thank you.
I’m a 68 year old great gandmother who got up from her computer and her volunteer work as a court mediator on July 4th 2009 and stood with 100 others like myself in a parking lot in a small town in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Since then, I have participated in TEA Party events all over the UP and below the bridge, and have gone on to organize volunteers for a political campaign that gave a TEA Party candidate the GOP nomination for the seat Bart Stupak (remember him?) is relinquishing. Dan Benishek won over a carpet bagging RINO by 15 votes. The only reason the margin was so tight is that there was no Democrat primary for this seat, and we have open primaries here. Lots of Democrats voted for the RINO, and almost got to pick our candidate.
In the meantime, my husband is now disseminating political information garnered from many reliable sources on an almost daily basis to a base of over 1200 subscribers who send the message on.
We are one couple. We don’t have a TV and we can’t get cell phone reception where we live. But we’re doing our darndest to make real change happen. No more waiting for someone else to get the ball rolling. And we are definitely not alone.
I’ll close with my favorite quote from Rabbi Hillel: “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?” Think about it…
I agree that there is immense anger by the older (and some younger) middle class people who understand what has happened and is happening in the rush toward socialism/tyranny in the US.
However, I have been walking a precinct in suburban Illinois — one with large homes on large lots occupied by people whose means must equal their houses — and I would say that only a minority of those answering the door are truly aware of the magnitude of the problem in this country. Far too many wave me off because they are still committed Democrats; many others are “still deciding.”
Offsetting the aware citizenry are those undecideds and the hordes of lower class whites, blacks, Hispanics (growing daily) who are eagerly awaiting more goodies from Obama’s “stash.” Their votes, coupled with the fraud to be expected under this administration and in the blue states, could indicate that the correction we expect is not a sure thing.
I pray daily that I am wrong.
First they ignore you; then they laugh at you; then they fight you; then you win.
– Gandhi
Elections are only as good as the systems in which they take place.
ACORN was registering voters who didn’t exist, to cast votes for candidates that the mass media wouldn’t vet, to foist upon an electorate legislation that their representatives didn’t read, to impose laws that the People didn’t want, while our soldiers in uniform got denied the ballots for votes they couldn’t cast.
The Inspector General of the DOJ thinks there may be something to examine here.
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/09/13/document-drop-breaking-doj-inspector-general-will-investigate-obama-voting-rights-record/
What do you think?
Succinct, bravo. Few words, much meaning.
The Inspector General attached to DOJ is specifically excluded from investigating incidents related to the criminal or ethical conduct of DOJ employees who are attorneys. IIRC Holder is an attorney. And as you know – or should – DOJ is FULL of lawyers – all whom are excluded from such an investigation. That job would fall to The Office of Professional Responsibility – another in a big layer of bureaucracies.
Glenn Fine is the current OIG for DOJ – an Clinton appointee. Apparently Bush never saw fit to replace him.
Many people are in the US because they or their parents rejected and even escaped from the tyrannical, class based systems of Europe and Communist Asia. (And if you think Communism isn’t class- based, you don’t know your communism.)We are not about to have that foisted on us here, in what turned out to be the Promised Land for immigrants from around the world.
AMEN sister!
There is a notion that the English longbow was the first voter’s veto because it was the first time that a peasant could knock the Squire or Lord off his horse from a distance and have a fair chance of getting away by running like hell for the woods.
November 2 is a chance for the peasants to revolt using an actual voter’s veto in a civilized manner. Here’s hoping it works.
“We’ve been putting those old Europeans’ faces in the dirt for more than 200 years now. The last thing in the entire world real Americans want is to follow Europeans off the cliff of freedom’s destruction, bringing our whole economy down in the bargain.”
This kind of Nationalistic garbage is sickening. It’s also off topic. If the goal is to trumpet the success of the United States, you’re going to have a rough go trying to convince the millions of Americans who don’t have health care (most hard-working Americans) that insurance companies need more money.
The truth is that all of the chest thumping and braying about American exceptionalism won’t do a wit of good when America is not longer exceptional. And that time has clearly come. You people on this blog are caught in an echo-chamber. You’ve clearly been brain-washed into living miserable lifestyles for the promise of some ethereal “freedom”. Sad, really, really sad. You are all on the wrong side of the mirror. Let’s hear it for the Corporate Overlords!
“This kind of Nationalistic garbage is sickening”
Now-now…you only say that it’s sickening because it happens to be entirely factual and true.
“If the goal is to trumpet the success of the United States, you’re going to have a rough go trying to convince the millions of Americans who don’t have health care (most hard-working Americans) that insurance companies need more money.”
Tell ya what, homes…I propose an exchange. You and your uninsured can emigrate to a European country that has socialized medicine, if we can replace you with Europeans, (especially Eastern Europeans), who wish to forsake their cradle-to-grave Nanny Statism and immigrate here.
Guess which line would be longer?
“The truth is that all of the chest thumping and braying about American exceptionalism won’t do a wit of good when America is not longer exceptional. And that time has clearly come.”
Not even close. Pelosi is “finding out what’s in it”,(her walking papers), after only 4 short years as Speaker, and the Alleged Hawaiian is beginning his Lame Duckery rather early in the evolution…even for a one-termer.
So the Moonbat Left will not be in any shape to continue its policy initiatives to strip America of her exceptionalism.
Speaker “Coppertone” Boehner will be merrily uprooting Reid/Pelosi/Obammunism,(he’d BETTER be, or he gets to walk the plank right behind Little Miss Moonbat, too), and de-subsidizing all the Quangos, academia, unions and foundations that are nothing more than parasitic reservoirs of moonbat infestation.
“You people on this blog are caught in an echo-chamber.”
Perhaps so, but I’d point out that, TMK no-one has EVER been banned at PJM for their political views, while the same is NOT the case at your run-of-the-mill moonbat cyber sweat-lodges.
I myself was banned form Crooks and Liars, Little Green Footballs and The Plum Line because the Leftist cattle got all worked up when they heard a viewpoint that didn’t jibe with their hive-mind’s “Daily Thought” issued to them along with their morning kibble ration.
“You’ve clearly been brain-washed into living miserable lifestyles for the promise of some ethereal “freedom”.”
Hey, it must just suck to be YOU, because MY life, (all things considered), is pretty swell.
You consider your words civil response to reasonably thoughtful comments. No surprise that we have this mess on our hands if this is example of discourse of the team you champion.
Unfortunately this is a discussion among card-carrying adults about issues of importance to the future of the USA and by extension the entire world. Not competition as to who can be the most outrageous among the gang of amart-assed pre-adolescents.
COLLECTIVE REJECTION
Yes. I completely agree with you. The Democrats with unprecedented power made a bold gamble on the American people. They thought we won’t like it at first, but what could we do? We would just gather around singing patriotic songs, waving flags, and afterwards continue to go on our lives as usual.
Well, they were wrong. And our Republican Leaders haven’t shown us any leadership either. The people saw in state after state during the primary season, they are still playing their silly number game (calculating how many seats to grab power back). No more.
Like our VP Biden said, this is a BFD.
Nate @23:
Freedom is not an American idea, neither is ethereal, nor is it a promise. Hundreds of millions of people in democratic countries, including the USA, live as free people right now. Freedom was won over the centuries by ordinary people, not by their governments.Because governments have a natural tendency to erode freedoms, ordinary people get angry if they think too many freedoms are being taken away.
And so they should.
The USA is exceptional because it is the only country in the world that was founded on ideas – the ones in the Constitution.
Determination. We can do it, because we have to.
I know that I am sick and tired of having a choice between a RINO and a Democrat. I’d rather vote for a right wing crazy than continue the pattern of the Republican Party being run by RINOs.
It’s past time to stop calling Obama and his D-rat thugs “progressives.” Nothing is progressive about tyranny. Communism and fascism are simply lying socialist euphemisms for totalitarian collectivism, the unprincipled statist oppression by which dictators above the law justify any criminal act, including mass murder.
The U.S. Declaration of Independence and Constitution are progressive. Traitors and tyrants who slaver to subvert them are Neanderthals, club-wielding cavemen whose fondest wish is to return everyone except themselves to the Dark Ages of hopeless, static misery. These paranoid mental defectives are more than public enemies. They are enemies of humanity itself, and the sooner they are exposed and called “throwbacks,” as they are, the more free, healthy, and truly liberal our society will be.