It’s Not a GOP Tsunami — It’s Bigger Than That
The three weeks left until the midterm elections appears an eerily quiet calm before the storm. And quiet though it may be, it presages a coming asteroid strike that Washington’s beltway elites are doing their level best to ignore.
For those who care to look, the danger is obvious, yet the present calm creates the illusion that safety for Democrats is possible. Unfortunately, the damage coming is not like anything seen by the left or the right in generations. The damage promises to be so severe that existing labels of severity won’t suffice.
Right now, well before the coming Election Day cataclysm, there are 10 Senate races where Republican challengers are polling ahead of the Democrat incumbent. There are at least four other races where incumbent Democrats are at or below 50% support. There are 80 House races where the Democrats are polling below 50%, and in nearly half of those the Republican is ahead. Presently Democrats hold 26 governorships, yet according to existing polls, they lead outside the margin of error sufficiently to retain only 16 mansions.
Devastating numbers like these should be viewed by the party as an existential crisis.
It is ironic that this is the current state of affairs, as the Democrats have had quite a bit of time to prepare. Rather than acknowledge that their errors caused the political calamity, Democrats in Congress and their enablers in the White House have stubbornly announced that they can ride this out. Their willful refusal to accept the reality of the impending danger they face approaches suicidal. Their efforts to go on offense, including the “blame Bush,” “foreign donors,” or “extremist/racist” themes, are not only ineffective, they are rallying an already energetic GOP and independent electorate.
The warning signs have been steady, a long time in the making. The political Doppler system issued its first alert with the creation of the “Tea Party” movement, which spontaneously grew out of CNBC correspondent Rick Santelli’s rant on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on February 19, 2009. The next sign was the surprisingly large number of “Tea Party” participants at an anti-tax rally on April 15 — media accounts reported over half a million participants nationwide. This was followed by a series of disruptive and boisterous town hall meetings through the summer of 2009 over the pending ObamaCare effort.
At the same time, President Obama’s approval ratings began their dramatic descent, a steady downward trend that would erase nearly 35 points of his public support and put him among the least popular presidents heading into a first midterm in 40 years. If you can imagine, the ratings of Congress plummeted even faster — first mirroring, then coveting the ratings of British Petroleum.
By the time of the sizable GOP victories last year in Virginia and New Jersey (states that Obama had carried in 2008) and the upset election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts this year, the die had been cast.
If the Dems lose as badly as the author predicts, the mainstream media will simply report (1) that it didn’t happen; and if and when that fails, (2) that Israel is to blame. Reality, meanwhile, marches on…
…and on and on….
But it’s still a good idea to get out on Nov 2 and VOTE!
Vote like there’s no tomorrow.
…and early … and often.
Just like the democrats do.
Michael,
We’ve seen what the media will do…
Remember the Gingrich that Stole Christmas?
What incredible arrogance.
We do not know what the results will be until AFTER the election – and rather than continuously celebrating it is important to continue to press the Democrats at every opportunity. It is important to keep convincing more people to vote against the current leadership.
There is no fat lady singing yet, so will you please stop crowing.
yep.
i see a lot of eggs, but no chickens yet.
So, what will the coming GOP Tsunami prove..?
That Obama, Pelosi and Reid Inc. royally whizzed the voters off?
How long will 50+ million conquered Dems lick their wounds?
Folgers coffee cost $10.00 a can and rising.
Gasoline is back over $3.00 a gallon and rising.
Properly feeding a family of four is a minimum $1100 to $1200 per month, no ROI investment..
Everything the USA has is made in China.
All heartland of America domestic jobs are taken by illegal Hispanics.
While the USA chases wild monkeys through thousands of caves in Afghanistan, China and Russia have combined forces with Iran to destroy Israel, allied their resources to infiltrate and undermine our strategic and tactical structures in Pakistan, slapped Taiwan flat on it’s back, served notice as to who will be the boss in North Korea, paralyzed Europe with fear and galvanized extremist Islamic terrorists into an organized world wide strike force with nuclear capability.
Hello GOP..?
Where are you..?
Anyone home……?
The GOP will do what it always does when the nation faces its seemingly endless string of crises: they will debate flag burning, homosexuality, compulsory voluntary prayer in schools, homosexuality, federal oversight of what constitutes marriage, and, homosexuality.
Taxes will continue rising, there will be more regulation of the light bulbs you choose (Bush signed the act that contains that rule), how much water flows from your taps, the size of car you drive, and all the other things Democrats want. The GOP will reach across the aisle.
In short: same old GOP.
Hello!?
Wake up good buddy. The GOP have been out of town since 2006. The last 4 years are on the Dums.
Goodbye!
To mudboss: “Hello!?” Yourself — there were still enough of the Republican rascals left to gum up getting anything done, and let’s not the F*ck-up-In-Chief who was at the helm up until the beginning of last year.
So far this year’ GOP candidates, Tea Party supported or not, look and smell like the same old clueless and/or malicious do-badders from earlier.
Examples and reasons? Or just empty claims?
BC never provides evidence. He just makes wild claims then spins and spins and spins.
Thanks, BC. Good to have the blog’s resident delusional twerp give us the weekend BDS bleat from the progressive sheep cot early and get it out of the way.
BC, you should move to canada and bunk with David Lincoln since the country is now going back to its conservative roots. you two are peas in a pod!
It does not cost $1100-$1200/month to feed a family of four. $800/month is much more reasonable.
Try Kosher food, a family of four equals $2000 per month.
It depends on what you are eating. Meat three time a day, once a day? Once a week? How about cornbread and beans six days a week. Or potatos and cabbage? No prepared, packaged foods. You can eat reasonably well, by world standards, on $100 a week. We are still taking affluence for granted.
I figure I’m an adult man who can eat well on $200/month. Multiply that by four to give a reasonable budget of $800/month for a family of 4 whose kids are old enough to eat solid food.
The one thing that shows that a sea change is really coming is the way political, go-along-to-get-along Republicans are going down.
IIRC, something similar happened to Democrats in the early 70s. Fairly conservative ones fell to new lefty hippie types resulting in a whole lot of new intrusive “progressive” laws.
You are now putting into fair argument what I have been predicting all along. It will be a slaughter.
It had better be.
I remember you saying the same thing about the 08 election … “it will be a slaughter”. Look how that turned out.
The Alinsky playbook demands a controlled message. Alt media here in the US has denied the left that advantage. You can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
Radicals have the same institutional problems as others. Any change from the stated goal, or modification thereof, will expose their leaders to the ambitions of those under them. They become vulnerable to accusations of ‘selling out’.
Also, for the most part, these people are none too bright. They’ll continue to do the same thing over and over even though no different results are achieved simply because it is the only ything they know how to do.
The Republican party has similar problems. The current leadership wil have to step aside or cooperate with the new wave. And the new wave better not allow itsself to be co-opted, like it was the last time.
Don’t count the Dems out too soon. See John Fund’s book: Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy. I was born and raised and work in our President’s (current) home state of Illinois, where even death does not result in disenfranchisement. Of course, Illinois, like many other states, is apparently guilty of violating the MOVE Act by not sending out military ballots in a timely way, so that some of our soldiers’ votes will come in too late to be counted.
Do as I have done. Phone, FAX or e-mail your Congressperson(s) and demand that he/she/they see to it that the Illinois and the New York absentee ballots are mailed at once to our military, and that NO results be final until they have been returned and counted.
Americans are angry. They are angry because the elites in Washington and that socialist in the White House all think that they have the right to do whatever they want to in Washington. They consider the voters a “distraction,” people to be humored like brain damaged idiots. When the Tea Parties began, we were called “Un-American” by that weasel Nancy Pelosi. Un-American. Think about that. For the first time in a few generations a real, un-funded, non-union, grass-roots movement grew out of nothing and the leaders in Washington were determined to crush it. Obama made fun of it with his “tea bag” comments, Pelosi called us a danger to the country and was afraid of violence, Harry Reid ignored us, and the far-left and the main stream media called us everything from racists to Nazis.
But we’re still here. We endured the abuse, the name calling, and the insults thrown at us, especially by the people on TV. Grandmothers with lawn chairs, dads carrying their kids, moms holding up home-made signs, all came together for one thing, to stop the growth of our government. Stop the spending, stop the bloated bureaucracy in Washington from getting bigger, stop the taxes, and stop the regulations and intrusions into our businesses and our daily lives. Most Americans agree with these beliefs, which is why the Tea Parties kept growing in size and their membership kept going up and not down.
The Democrats and a lot of long-time Republicans in Washington feel as if their “entitled” to do whatever they want simply because they were elected. Now they are being reminded that they DO have to answer to someone, and that’s the people of the United States. They can’t ram through anything they like in Congress and not expect the American people to have anything to say about it. It’s a simple lesson that seems to have gotten lost over the years, but we’re here to remind them.
So, on November 2nd, a wave will hit and a new Republican Party will be born, one that represents true conservative values. And if the Republicans have not learned from the past, if they go back to their old ways, then they will force the creation of a Third Party, because the Tea Party Activists are NOT going away. We are not taking back the country, we are here to defend the Constitution and the Republic that was given to us and now is in danger of flying off a cliff. We have a responsibility to do this, not only for our kids and their grandkids, but because so many gave so much to us in the past to insure that this Republic would endure. We don’t have the right to toss all of that away and the people in Washington had better get used to that.
A new day is coming and both parties in Washington still don’t seem to have a clue as to what’s about to happen.
“A new day is coming and both parties in Washington still don’t seem to have a clue as to what’s about to happen.”
I hate to say it, but I have a feeling that on November 4th they still won’t have a clue.
(And yes I meant to say fourth, two days later.)
A new day? Perhaps. But do not underestimate those whose goal of absolute power is almost within their grasp. The anti-civilizational forces of Islam (yes, Islam entire, not just the ‘radicals’) and the death worshipping cults of serial nihilists, power-lusters and looters that comprise the ‘progressive’ Left are all aiming at the same result: the destruction of Western civilization. The Left believes in a twisted millennial utopianism; their motto is “Burn the old world to reveal the new one.” Islam strives for the conversion, enslavement or death of all who do not conform to its sadistic and cruel vision of Mankind. These two dark forces will struggle for dominance in a world lit only by fire if we allow them to succeed.
Here’s the thing: there is absolutely no reason to suppose that the enemies of civilization are simply going to shrug their shoulders and walk away saying, “Oh, well, we lost…” As a friend of mine has put it, “If anyone thinks that a big loss in November will make one iota of difference in Obama and the ‘DemonRATs’ leftist agenda, you need to seek professional help immediately, because I assure you that the sounds you will hear coming from them after such a lost will not be the ‘wailing and gnashing of teeth’ it will be the notes of El Degüello.”
Expect the gloves to come off and the masks to be cast aside once the reality of the dark forces’ loss becomes apparent. Ready or not, I expect them to go all in with a truly repressive program – with absolute power so nearly withinn their grasp, they can do no other. The downside for them is – many of us are awake and prepared for that eventuality.
If we wish to remain free, then terrible, terrible deeds are called for. Again, the enemies of civilization aren’t simply going to shrug and walk away if we here in America happen to flip a few seats in a governing, no, RULING apparatus that is now clearly out of control.
It is likely that:
In America, we will face something analogous to South America’s ‘dirty wars’. The battle lines will occur anywhere, anytime and will be drawn right through family living rooms. The fighitng will be savage and without compromise.
Europe will dissolve into a paroxysm of ruin and slaughter (its standard response to its own problems and the outcomes of its very bad ideas over the last 150 years or so) as it move to rid itself of its Islamic population.
Some long standing grudges will be fought with nuclear weapons. There are too many out there, control and oversight of which was lost long ago.
The consequences of all three scenarios combined are unguessable. Should Europe prevail over the Islamic cancer, it will spend another century or two struggling with its conscience over what it had to do. As will we over what we must do to preserve freedom for our descendants.
As will we.
We were not vigilent enough. Life was good. We forgot that freedom isn’t free.
We have already paid an unimaginable price, but haven’t even begun to see the horror created up to just this this moment.
And as you say, it is more likely to get much worse before it gets much better.
At some point, people of good conscience will have to say that enough is enough.
Grants, Shermans and Lemays live quietly within our ranks, unknowingly waiting for their moment, unaware that they are who they are.
We were not vigilent enough. Life was good. We forgot that freedom isn’t free.
This is precisely the point of Lee Harris’ Civilization and Its Enemies. Harris concludes his work with this:
I know the answer to that question. The memory of how we got here, how we achieved our freedom and at what cost has been systematically purged from the American general consciousness. Not necessarily from ours, but from that of many of our countrymen. We’re on the verge of throwing our own civilization away. This is one of history’s great watershed moments. And as Harris points out, it is the decisions – or lack of them – made by individual men that determine the rise and fall of of cultures and civilizations.
In the preface to this landmark work, Harris says,
In other words, it is up to us – it always was.
Western civilization has spent since WWII beating ourselves up over the atrocities that were necessary and those we failed to prevent. While we are busy wrestling with our collective conscience, berating ourselves, and being berated by the bleeding hearts among us, another, far more terrible and determined, enemy grows stronger. Like a squabbling pack of dogs, we are so busy fighting each other that we are incapable of recognizing the existential threat they represent and mobilizing to fight it. We are in grave danger, yet so many among us cannot even identify and name the threat.
You might enjoy this short story. Then again, it may hit too close to reality for you. http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm
Thanks for reminding me of this one. I’ve been a fan of Simmons’ writing for some time, now. And yes, it makes for damned uncomfortable reading. Because so much of it is true. Absolutely true.
So yes, you are correct – this story is going to hit way too close to home for many who take the time to read it. I fear that, to use Huntington’s term, much of the West has lost its civilizational will – the will to survive, to persist, to live, to triumph over its enemies. For we do have enemies, and they mean to destroy or enslave us.
The great irony is that those in our culture who seek to ‘burn the old world to reveal the new one’ will in the end be immolated by their own folly. Their actions will ultimately enable the triumph of the cruel and murderous Caliphate. And they will not even begin understand what’s happening to them, even while it is happening.
Stirring words that you communicated, “…to stop the growth of our government. Stop the spending, stop the bloated bureaucracy in Washington from getting bigger, stop the taxes, and stop the regulations and intrusions into our businesses and our daily lives. Most Americans agree with these beliefs, which is why the Tea Parties kept growing in size and their membership kept going up and not down.”
My question, as a Canadian, is this: how many sacred cows are there in the Tea Party herd? For where will the cutting begin, and where will it end?
Thank you.
As a canadian, you should read the constitution of the United States. It will answer your question. (if you really are a canadian and not a liberal troll).
Yes, I have read the Constitution, and I am one of the people who shake my head in dismay at the Americans who think that igloos are where people live, and it is winter practically all of the year.
Know this, Canadian hockey players like Gordie Howe have been playing hockey in the NHL for decades. Wayne Gretzky started his professional hockey career with the Indianapolis Racers of the World Hockey Association, which ran from 1972 – 1979. The league started with a splash when Bobby Hull left the Chicago Black Hawks to sign with the Winnipeg Jets. Because of that, he was not on the Team Canada which took on the Soviet Union in 1972. Four games were played in Canada. (Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg and Vancouver) and then four games were played at Luzhniki Arena in Moscow (and that is where Paul Henderson wrote himself into the Canadian history books).
So, because I started keeping my eye on political events in 1977, I have seen
a lot of words used. So, until the ballots are counted, and then the legislation drafted and then voted on, I hope for the best but time will tell.
(As an aside, Bobby Orr was not on the 1972 Team Canada, because of his bad knees, but he played on the first Team Canada for the Canada Cup, which was won by Canada over Czechoslovakia, when Darryl Sittler decked Vladimir Dzurilla).
and because Canadians have been playing in the NHL gives you the right to have a say in American politics? is that the argument being made now?
my standard’s a bit higher than that, since I was once part of the US military that was actually obligated to defend Canada in case it needs defending, I think I have a bigger right to question Canadian politics or whatever else it is I see fit to question, YET I don’t do it since it would be futile. it is as futile as other Canadians have felt and left Canada due to the high taxes, bad health care system, etc. can you say “Canadian Brain Drain?” That’s been going on for at least a couple of generations, I don’t think there’s much brain power left up north.
Providing that the GOP wins in November, it’s sure as rain that The Tea Party will disappear into the dustbin of history because it will have outgrown its usefulness to the billionaires like Dick Armey, the Koch Bros , Halliburton,
Rupert Murdoch and their oil friends in Saudi Arabia.
The Tea Party was created and funded by big business establish Republicans to rebrand the GOP after its spectacular failure in 2006 and 2008. The wealthiest of the right wing understood that to keep their taxes low and keep federal regulators from looking into their accounts, they needed to get the GOP back in power. But this would be very difficult because of the stink attached to the GOP brand. So they did what any slick media guys do – they created a “New Coke” – a new spin on the GOP that kept the same failed policies of the GOP – spending with not plan to pay for the spending – that got the bums thrown out in 2006 and 2008, yet they now had some slick new slogans and flags to fool everyone into thinking that they’re really seriously for real conservative this time. All style, no substance. They paid for a lot of advertising and paid to bus people in to town hall meeting to bitch about their taxes and Medicaid (despite that their Medicaid is secure and that their taxes actually went down). And the right wing, completely cognizant of the fact that the GOP doesn’t give a fig about small government and never really did, eats this crap up with a spoon.
You’ve been hoodwinked. You think you’re voting for small government, but actually what you’re voting for is limited government assistance for individuals so that the beast can be starved and cut into edible pieces for consumption by corporations. You’re voting for Saudi, Chinese, Indian and Russian companies that want American businesses to move their companies overseas and are willing to put big bucks in Karl Rove’s piggybank to do it.
And once the election is over and the corporations are happy with the result, they will stop funding the Tea Party and it will die. And we’ll be back to the same policies that we had under Bush – endless spending on pet projects and pork, deregulation of the economy, a continuing loss of jobs and a generally decreasing standard of life for all Americans save for the tiny minority of wealthy people who successfully orchestrated this whole thing and successfully manipulated you.
If the Tea Party movement truly is grassroots, and truly cares about government spending, then why did it not spring into action as soon as Dick Cheney uttered those words that “deficits don’t matter?” Where was this movement when we were spending billions on two wars? Where was this movement when we decided to spend billions on No Child Left Behind? It was nowhere.
wow, new liberal propaganda against the tea party. not gonna work though.
I’ll say hi for you to Fabian_Solutions who comments over at the telegraph. What she communicates is very much like yours, and my compliments to the teams who come up with the stuff.
A group, masquerading as an individual is the lowest form of life, until something else comes along.
LOL! waaaaay out of left field. I think many of you leftists are in denial that conservatives are now taking back the center-right country hijacked by a president that campaigned as a moderate.
Let them have it right between the eyes, Folks.
Shh…it is fine if the D-party does not hear the warnings, can’t wait to hear their spin and excuses on November 3 and beyond.
As a Reagan/Clinton Democrat, I never thought there would be a set of circumstances that would propel me to vote R down the ballot. Will the D party admit what a liability Obama is after the mid-terms or will they continue to make excuses for him and crank up cries of racism? (Psst, it’s his economic policies/class warfare and lukewarm patriotism we hate, not his skin color)
Have to agree here. Skin color has nothing to do with whether or not he sucks as our president. I said over 4 years ago to anyone who would listen that I’d vote for Condi Rice if she’d run. I still would. Bobby Jindle would also be good. I wish I could think of someone from my state who would be good but it’s hard to even think of a halfway good representative here although Tom McClintock has always been one of my favorites. Seems to take his oath to defend the constitution seriously. Thomas Sowel would be good although he’s probably smart enough not to run. Same for Walter Williams. I like Fred Thompson too. His radio show is very constitutionally oriented. To bad he did such a bad job of campaigning. There is a constitution party but right now it’s smaller than the Libertarians. If we have to make a new party, perhaps 30 or 40 million folks signing up for the constitutional party would shock folks good. Every TEA party person I’ve met would fit right in. There view is that if it’s not in the constitution the government can’t do it. And that’s what every person in office should follow.
Pssst….Obama’s policies are practically identical to Clinton’s and many of Reagan’s. And then you have to go and clarify that the reason you don’t like him is not because of his skin tone. So what am I supposed to believe? That you don’t have a real clue of what Obama’s policies actually are? Or that you don’t like a having a black guy in the white house? Help me out here.
I can see how Obama’s policies are similar to Clinton’s, but to say that Obama’s policies are similar to Reagan??? you obviously were not around when Reagan was president.
This article is a specimen of “conservative happy talk.” It’s highly unlikely to be that easy. These dreamy fantasies of a bloodless conservative revolution might even be harmful, in that they could soothe us away from the vigilance and effort that will be required actually to win the elections.
Be mindful.
Of course. We need to clean their clocks this November and then point at all the RINOs and Democrats up for election in 2012 and say, “You’re next.”
Don’t count your chickens before they come home to roost.
Sorry but there are several indicators that say this will be more like 1894 than 1994. The Democrats are going to take a huge loss, they know it too! Even Obama is acknowledging the upcoming change of guard in the House and possibly the Senate, and went so far as to state that the Republicans when in charge should have to get used to doing what he wants…???
This is complete insanity as I have never seen on display in my life, I used to think that liberal were nutty but now realize that they are certifiably insane and should not be outside a mental institution!
“Calling their benefactors in the media, they explained that things weren’t as bad as they seemed. The new storyline was that the situation of Democrats was improving. Allegedly as more Americans paid attention to the upcoming election and realized just how out of the mainstream the GOP challengers were — the tantalizing message the White House suggested — voters resolved to vote for the Democrats. Combined with a newly resurgent left, suddenly Democrats were back in the game. None of this was true.”
And even if it WERE true, it would only do what the lie is now doing: galvanizing p*ssed-off Americans to work that much harder to banish the thieves once and for all.
Smooth move, Statists.
The Democrat Party has found a way to legalize organized crime. Remember in November!
I hope all this is true but I believe the Dems and their ground machine will commit fraud and flood the polling places. The criminal disdain they have for government and the Constitution is disgusting.
That’s my fear, too. Take cell phones to the polls, because you might need video evidence of the fraud that WILL occur (some already occurring since early voting has begun in some places)
There is nothing new with that idea – even the first lady breaks election laws and nobody seems to care.
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash2.htm
Just under two ago, democrats were gleefully declaring the death of the Republican party. now, republicans are stating the same.
While I am glad that it will be a rout this coming midterm elections, conservatives should never lay down their guard. Conservatives did so after Ronald Reagan’s presidency and what happened? The GOP was taken over by RINOs and became Democrat Lite! Conservatives should not allow that to happen again.
another warning is that when conservatives take over Congress again, the economy might improve, and the same Bill Clinton, Obama will (oh yes he will) claim that it’s his policies that is causing the improvement. The GOP failed to take credit for the prosperity experienced during Clinton’s presidency. It was the GOP that forced Clinton to balance the budget, reform welfare, cut spending, and yet, it was Clinton who gained favorable public approval and the ultimate credit for that surplus. No Republican has had the balls to counter that in front of cameras. Every time the liberal media, the democrats (especially Pelosi and Reid) claim that Clinton left the country a surplus and that the GOP squandered it, Republicans turn tail and run and fail to point out that if it weren’t for Newt and the ’94 GOP congressional win, Clinton would’ve amassed massive deficits as well.
This coming GOP victory in Congress will only be good for the GOP if the Republicans that will be coming into the next Congress will have the balls to fight tooth and nail with democrats instead of playing the “working across the aisle” idiocy that RINOs have practiced these past few years. Democrats doesn’t work across the aisle, it’s either you give in to their position or you go home. Republicans need to play the same way and use the media effectively, instead of allowing democrats to dominate the airwaves and push around Republican talking points (look for Eric Cantor’s appearance on Jon Stewart as an example – a bad move, Cantor got pushed around by Jon Stewart. Cantor should never have appeared on that show – he had nothing to gain and got lead by the nose to agree with Jon Stewart’s liberal talking points).
Wise up GOP, if you don’t, Obama will win another term. That in itself should be scary enough to get Republicans to man up (I only see the women of the GOP possessing the balls as of these past few months).
oops! that should say “just under 2 years ago…”
Ed do not worry my dear friend, the newest elected as well as those incumbents that return to Washington are just as mad especially after the horrid treatment they have endured over this Bad-ministration and congress.
They are fighting mad and have and will take the gloves off and there will be more bloodshed when they hold Congressional hearings over the past four years with such miscreants as Franks, Dodd, Waters and many more democrats!
They have a chance to not only neuter Obama and his Marxist policies but to stop him in his tracks and more than reducing him to a lame duck president but a dead duck president.
It will be a glorious day for Republicans to stop the insanity that has been going on in the federal government and place it in a cage they can not get out of to do further damage to our nation!
Hope you have a Blessed day my friend,
Steve DeMarcus
Steve,
I certainly hope it would be as you’ve said! I’m keeping my fingers crossed!
The GOP can be counted on to screw it up! They will either snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, or they will go “Democrat-light” after the election. Just look what happened the last time. And has anyone been paying any attention to what the Republican leadership has been saying? Talk about clueless…
The Republican party is owned and operated by RINOs! A Republican landslide in the mid-terms could lead to a second Obama term! This is an historic opportunity that we can only take advantage of if there is wholesale change in the Republican leadership. Anybody think THAT’s going to happen? Me neither…
After the 2nd, the pure HATE on television you see on television today will seem like a cozy, chummy, friendly bygone era, as what you THINK is as hateful as they can be is replaced by agitprop unseen since that against the Jews in pre-WW2 Germany.
After the 2nd, American television will resemble Palestinian television for kids — way moreso than it already does.
They already have the formula – a la the Bush years of steady pessimism. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING was ever good news for our loathsome media!
“The hen is the wisest of the animal creation, for she never cackles until after the egg is laid.” Abraham Lincoln.
So let’s not get cocky here, folks, or we may face a rerun of the 1948 election: everyone was so sure that Dewey was going to beat the pants off of Truman that they didn’t bother to go out and actually vote for Dewey. Remember, don’t count on everyone else to get the job done; get out and vote!
No problem here I am mad as hell and have my voter registration card at the ready and can vote early which I might just try this week, but I have to find out when and where I can do so…mind already made up vote against any Democrat at any lever for anything at all!
OK then, how long will we have to wait for conservatives to fix what’s wrong with the economy, healthcare, Afghanistan, immigration, Wall St, housing, and unemployment?
tick tick tick . . . come on, what’s the hold up? Here, I’ll get you started . . . “The other guys left us a mess, and the Democrats aren’t being bipartisan.”
Good, now, how about a bowl of Lucky Charms for you? Does that sound good?Does that sound good? Yes it does. Oh, yes it does.
Subtract Obama from the Oval Office, and a conservative Congress could get it done in a jiffy. But you wouldn’t be willing to do that, would you? He’s the icon for all you hold dear: social fascism, racial particularism, and obsequiousness toward America’s enemies.
As matters stand, a conservative Congress will have to strain to “hold the line,” with the grudging (at best) cooperation of its more pusillanimous Republican-In-Name-Only members. But 2012 isn’t that far away…and America has a bit more resilience than you Obamunists think!
Good rejoinder, Mr. Porretto.
The thing to do is make BO veto as many items as we can. Make him the party of “no”.
How about we start by deporting death-loving, twisted millennial utopianists like yourself to one of your worker’s paradises like, oh, say the PRK. Let’s see how it goes for you.
Live and let live is a fine thing, and we Americans are pretty good at it for the most part. But we’re getting mighty tired of loons who persist in drilling holes in the boat. We asked you to stop, nicely. You won’t. Guess what comes next.
Daffy David Corn? Is that you?
I believe the upcoming election can be described as either a Republican Shockwave or Democrat Holocaust; it is that big & ominous for the Obama Democrats as freedom unfurls from the weight of Socialism rammed through the Obama Democrat Congress. “Democrat” has become a dirty word much earlier than I thought given virtually Obama Democrats are running like Blue Dog Dems with no “Democrat” in their advertisements. They are still blind & will remain blind in the aftermath. Only after a month or two afterward, the Obama Democrats will know the truth. To survive, President Obama & his Communist allies must be purged from the party or the Democrat Party will remain destroyed for the near future.
It’s nice, it’s good. Keep in mind, though, that the politics of most posters here are much more conservative than the average Republican. I think of Gingrich, so proud of his affectionate relationship with the Clintons. Many will celebrate after the election. Wait and see which Republican Party ‘governs’….
You just revealed a certain ignorance and lack of sophistication, Larry. Nobody, but nobody is more conservtive than Newty is. And oh, because he remains friendly with Democrats like the Clintons, oh heaven forbid, that disqualifies him from being a good conservative in your opinion???
I got news for you, bud. Democrats are Americans, too. It’s a credit to Newty that he is still as admired (and feared) and respected by Democrats as he ever was. He was and still is one of the most effective advocates for conservatism that the Republican Party has ever had …, and by his very nature, he is a friendly and very likeable guy, as is Bill Clinton, also, and so it seems quite natural that they are still remain friendly with each other, while remaining worthy adversaries of each other, also. Sometimes in life, our adversaries are more admirable than our friends are.
I think, feel, and pray that this election heralds a CONSERVATIVE (I’m looking at you, RINO’s) ascendancy that will last for at least a generation, which is probably about how long it will take to reverse the course of the past 75 years.
Obama has done one thing right, and that is to awaken the American people to the dangers of big government liberalism/statism and to rekindle an interest in learning our true history and how our government is supposed to function. The price paid over the past 20 months has been unbearable, but with resolve and an embracing of the fundamentals of individualism and drive that made us the greatest society the world has ever seen, we shall overcome (heh).
Long live our wonderful American republic. May liberalism finally be tossed into the ash heap of history, or at the very least marginalized and vilified for the cancer that it is.
Until the ballots are counted, there is no win in any race.
Any accomplished athlete can tell you, if you start preparing your victory speech in the fourth quarter, karma will kick your ass.
This is bad luck and bad form. Don’t get cocky, kid.
Secondly, “wow, really” is on to something. Yeah, yeah…I know…he’s a guy who wakes up in the morning to come jab a finger in the eye of people and generally be a pain. No, I don’t understand the mentality of someone who does that or the personality disorder it takes to do it daily…but, he has a point this time.
Not THE point, but close to it. The Republicans will have to fix this mess that Pelosi/Reid/Frank/Obama team have lain at their doorstep, if they take the House, Senate and dozens of governerships. It is not likely that they will take the Senate.
They still won’t have the White House, the ability to annoint “czars” and circumvent the will of the people, the veto pen, the stacking of Federal courts, the Department of Justice’s ability to ignore the laws, the ability to shred the Constitution.
They cannot appoint a Donilon to effectively dismantle the military in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
They won’t have the Pocket Media to cover for their misdeeds, malfeasance, and mendacious lies.
AND…the Republicans and ONLY the Republicans will be held to account for the failure to cure what the Democrats have wrought since January 1, 2007.
Book it, expect it…and learn to understand it. The CREDIT will be given to Obama and Company, for ANY turnaround. The BLAME will be lain where it is always placed. At the feet of the Republicans.
Just as the DAY Reagan took over the White House, stories about homeless people cropped up like weeds in a desolate prairie, expect the stories to be tilted immediately to sell the BS against the Republicans. It’s what the enemies of America like “wow, really” do. They lie with impunity.
Your prolixity is exceeded only by your self destruction.
“They still won’t have the White House, the ability to annoint “czars” and circumvent the will of the people, the veto pen, the stacking of Federal courts, the Department of Justice’s ability to ignore the laws, the ability to shred the Constitution.”
Sounds like the Democrats in 2006, so I guess you can’t blame them for the economy sliding off the cliff in 2008.
Wait, there’s more.
“Book it, expect it…and learn to understand it. The CREDIT will be given to Obama and Company, for ANY turnaround. The BLAME will be lain where it is always placed. At the feet of the Republicans.”
Two things. First, when the economy started stabilizing, and the stock market shoed some ongoing momentum, what did we hear from the right? “Bush did it!” (re: Dana Perino, the twinkly-eyed starlet who also said there wasn’t a terror attack during Bush’s presidency. Gotta love her.)
Second, considering that the Republicans have promised non-stop subpoenas and investigations, they won’t be doing much governing. And if they do put forth legislation, they can’t expect Democrats to cooperate after four years of record filibusters and “hell no” and “You lie!” from the right. So, ANY turnaround WILL be to the credit of the Administration.
Wait, there’s more.
“…Republicans and ONLY the Republicans will be held to account for the failure to cure what the Democrats have wrought . . . ”
This is the most telling of all. You’re already blaming some mysterious “they” for blaming the Republicans for what will be their certain failure. You hold accountability in the same esteem you hold small government . . . something to be defended or ignored depending on your personal agenda.
So, Republicans will/can’t fix our problems. They do/don’t deserve credit/blame. Way to cover your bases. If I was a complete dumb ass I’d think that was pretty clever. Kind of like Limbaugh who say everything once just so he can return to it later and say, “I told you so.”
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying it’s ineffective. I’m saying it’s childish and pathetic.
Katrina vanden Hueval? Is that you? Your loony, tedious drivel is so familiar.
Gee, good one.
I hope that other people and especially the voters in Delaware became as incensed as I did, while watching the debate between Republican candidate O’Donnell and Democrat candidate Coons.
I’m not an O’Donnell fan (yet) for a variety of reasons. But throughout that debate, Coons was extremely rude, arrogant, smug, misogynistic, extremely condescending and noticeably contemptuous with O’Donnell. In fact, his snotty attitude was despicable.
Democrats say that their representatives in Congress are more like ordinary people who can empathize with ordinary people, consistent with their other loony assertions, and yet consistently, also, gullible and easily manipulated Democrats favor street hustlers and they choose candidates like Coons, who smugly consider themselves to be elitists, and who actually look down on the very people who put them into office.
Coons was so arrogant, smug, obnoxious and condescending during that debate that hee should have turned off every woman who watched it.
BTW, I was pleasantly surprised by the professional way that O’Donnell handled herself. She is still a little rough around the edges. But she appears to be a viable candidate, who could quite conceivably win if she plays it right. like, for example, by showing Coons’ condescending snottiness and snobbery with her. She is more a candidate of and by and for the people than that smag and arrogant jackass, Coons, is.
It should be blatently obvious even to Democrats that Christine O’Donnell is a candidate of the ordinary citizen who will act in the best interests of her constituents and in the best interests of all Americans, and it should be just as obvious that her smug and arrogant opponent, Coons, is just another parasitic bureaucrat who wants to join the clique of elitists in Washington, and who just wants all of the perks which come with being a Senator. A Democrat would have to be a fool to vote for Coons. He is not one of them.
If you listened to Joe Biden’s comments about that debate, clearly he disapproved of the condescending way that Coons talked to O’Donnell. Joe Biden might be a putz in some ways, but he is a man of the people. Clearly, Coons is not.
The choice is simple: would you rather have an unapologetic, unabashed big government Marxist or by all appearances a decent, upright woman with personal idiosyncrasies who will vote CONSERVATIVE down the line (and Mike Castle did not and would not)?
Choose wisely Delaware.
Media spin predictions:
1) The Republicans failed to pick up 70 (80, 90) seats in the House, gaining only 60 (70, 80). Republicans failed to gain control/ a filibuster-proof majority/ a veto-proof majority of the Senate. This is a ringing repudiation of the GOP’s neo-feudal policies and an endorsement of Obama’s wise guidance.
2) Unlike the sweeping popular mandate the voters gave Obama and the Democrats in 2008, this is a temper tantrum by ignorant hicks who are incapable of appreciating all the Democrats have done for them.
In fact, we need buzz-word bingo cards printed up for election night et seq, for all the times the LSM uses terms like “tantrum,” “two-year-olds,” “ignorant,” “impatient,” “angry,” “panicked,” etctera.
Its too bad really, but with a little more time and a little more brainwashing, the likes of Obama/Pelosi/Reid could have brazely crushed the tea party uprising like a bug… you know, like the sort of stuff that happens in CHina and happened in the old Soviet Union. The absolute reaction of any real American who values liberty and freedome should be ‘how dare they?’ These phony powerdrunk loonies who would laugh at us lowly American underlings when we complain about being taxed and regulated too much! How disgusting is that, really?– that power drunk lunatics who are really supposed to be defending our rights, would call anyone who dared to challenge them crazy fringe elements? This extreme liberalism is clearly nearing its end, as normal Americans — no longer being spoon fed by the lapdog media, is much more aware, educated, and empowered by an infinite amount of information that actually reports the truth!
And you KNOW something’s happening here, but you don’t know what it is
Do you, Mr. Jones?
– Little Bobby Zimmerman
I agree with those above who point out that predictions and hopeful projections mean nothing and that only the final tally of votes cast hold any weight.
This isn’t won yet.
I also agree that no matter how big the win (if there is a win) once the shock has worn off the leftists will dig in and fight tooth and nail to discredit the result and smear those who won. In the last decade the leftist media has largely dropped any pretense of objectivity and if the rats lose this year they will go in to full attack mode with no holds barred. 2010 has been one of the nastiest election cycles in my lifetime (and I clearly recall Eisenhower) but I suspect that the campaign for 2012 will get started in earnest no later than 11/9/10 and will be brutal.
And no matter how big a win the GOP may gain it will mean nothing if the people do not remain engaged and demand that their representatives restore this constitutional republic. It will take years to accomplish if it can be accomplished at all but nothing will change if the people don’t force change.
I don’t buy that these people are stupid. There must be some other game that they intend to play. Perhaps even to lose now with a view to later gains because of something I can’t even imagine.
Keep your power dry and campaign like there’s no tomorrow, indeed.
Be careful.
Yep, keep your powder dry, or it’ll spoil your make up.
Horace, you miss one key point here. The dems have a Plan B; if all else fails, cheat! There will be massive fraud. There is little risk because they know the media won’t cover most of it and the crooked Holder DoJ won’t investigate the balance.
The dems have nothing to lose! If it is disaster, than any crooked tactic is worth it. Look at Houston, Texas. The dems burned the voting machines and at least one dem was found to have registered 25,000 fraudulent voters. Go to Philadelphia, Trenton, New Orleans and most other big cities. By how much do the dems have to stuff the ballot boxes to win (they know by district)?
The Democrats cannot cheat the winner wins by a large margin; furthermore, the Democrats are also taken aback by the campaign infusions in normally safe, bluest of blue districts. The Obama Democrats are literally falling apart as the voters reject them outright. Why is Obama campaigning in Delaware? Obama continues to campaign in Michigan, Ohio, California, Washington, etc al. Aside from Ohio, the other states are solid blue for Democrats.
Washington State is not totally blue this cycle. Yes – I know this is a huge shock to many – including me. The voters are (glacially slowly) beginning to see that the state leaders will not willingly change their tax and spend habits. The proof to even the densest of voters is that the legislature’s first order of business each session is to throw a monkey wrench into the latest voter referendum that tried to implement constraint on state taxing and spending. These clowns are getting very good at doing an end run around referendum enacted constraints. They are for the most part lawyers after all.
Dino Rossi has pulled ahead of the Patty Murray by 1 point 48-47 – and may actually be increasing that margin. Murray looks like a deer in the headlights – this has never happened to her before. Any incumbent that polls less than 50% is very often in trouble – and Murray has not polled above 49% that I can recall.
Rossi needs to win by 2+ percentage points or the King County (Seattle) elections officials will just print more ballots and punch them for Murray. Just like they did in that razor thin loss in 2004 that gave the governor’s crown to “Queen” Chrissy Gregoire. Twice King County ‘found’ ballots that were ‘lost’ – just enough to give Gregoire the win. Imagine the surprise!
Fraud happens – and I have no doubt they’ll ‘find’ enough ballots to push Murray over the line if it’s anywhere near close. Liberals and progressives see nothing wrong with cheating – the ends justify the means.
Ha! The Republicans will find some way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, and even if they don’t they won’t make any substantial change. The average Republican/leading Conservative is a just a pro-business Liberal (it’s a class thing, you wouldn’t understand), and since Nixon their actual political position is simply that they’ll run Liberalism more efficiently.
I had lunch with a former Obama-supporter this week. I hadn’t talked with her in a couple of months, but we found ourselves discussing the economy (but not Obama by name). She works for one of the very large banks still in business. She said there *had* been lay-offs in her office the past 6 to 9 months, and then she sort of whispered, “I think it’s worse this year than it was last year.” To which I agreed.
My comment was that things are so bad, people aren’t even declaring bankruptcy any more, that everyone is “just waiting”. She agreed, and left unsaid was what everyone is waiting for.
I was thinking to myself later that everyone is waiting for what? For Obama to be impeached or assassinated? But then I read something somewhere the last day or two, that everyone is waiting for the Democrats to be voted out enmasse across the country, and Obama’s plans to be emasculated that way.
How much more civilized than being assasinated. And it’s one of those mass mutual agreements like shunning OJ Simpson after he was acquitted that everyone comes to the same conclusion at the same time and then moves to implement.
Are y’all ready for the whining about absolute power and a dictatorship?
The Republican party owes Obama an enormous debt of gratitude. His regime has served as the enema the American people needed to defecate the demtard turds out of the body politic.
At the mention of a ‘Political Doppler System’ I am hearkened to what I believe may be the Political Richter scale. I’ve been around a few years, and I’ve never seen anything like the buildup of pressure. I agree with those here (Bertram in #11) who would like you not to count your chickens before ‘they come home to roost’. And I would warn those brewing this monster Local Magnitude to not let up that pressure, even AFTER the elections.
I don’t like predictions, and I’m not a gambler. I do know that something is happening that has not happened in a long, long time. As the member of five separate Tea Party groups (in California I might add…) I can tell you these folks are not angry white men, they’re frustrated Americans. Patriots if you like. Many I know were sleeping. They were busy paying mortgages, attending Saturday morning soccer games, and sending kids off to college. They’re now watching their fellow soccer moms lose homes, receive their kids back home after college because there are no jobs, and are watching their retained earnings reverse.
Why? Because they let political hacks in Washington, ON BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE (yes I had to shout that) fritter away the carefully gathered capital they had been striving so hard to acquire.
The state of California is bankrupt. Nothing, not even NutMeg Whitman can stop the impending doom. There’s only one thing left to do. Eliminate the problem; the insanity of politicians spending (and wasting) money they didn’t earn and see as a bottomless pit. The only way to eliminate that insanity is the founding father’s amazing concept of government of the people, by the people and for the people. Er, um, that would be the collective people, not the special interest groups and their cronies (including the Unions).
That being said, as California goes, so goes the nation. When Mitch Daniels was asked how he turned his state’s massive deficit into a surplus (over the past 5 years mind you…) he snickered. “…You may want to write this down; we spent less than we took in…” What a novel concept for government.
So, with the 10 on the Richter scale pending, and no 10 has ever been recorded, everyone better batten down the hatches, stop drinking the Kool Aid, roll up your sleeves and get to work. We have a country to rebuild!
I laugh at the leftists, especially the socialists. Socialism simply doesn’t work. I was in the DDR in 1973. I guarantee that a socialist republic cannot happen here. Or anywhere for that matter. And don’t bring me your Northern European variety Parliamentary socialist examples, they will be going the way of Greece, Portugal, Spain, Ireland and the soon to follow Belgium. When either France or Germany realize their currency is being dragged down by those failing nations, the first one to pull out wins. It’s a Mexican stand off, and our currency, the almighty USD won’t be far behind.
Oh, yeah, and as Sharia driven Islamic majorities begin to infiltrate those ‘democracies’ in Europe, the good Ol’ U.S. will be bailing their whiny Euro asses out AGAIN…
I laugh at the leftists, especially the socialists. Socialism simply doesn’t work.
Yuo are correct. Then the question becomes, “Why pursue it?” It makes no sense whatsoever unless you understand that Socialism, Communism and all of the various totalitarian ‘isms’ provide nothing more than the framework for the exercise of power – absolute power. Absolute, murderous power, as history has so clearly shown.
So, no – Socialism doesn’t work, and it was never intended to ‘work’ – outside of the minds of fairy-dust wishful thinkers and coercive utopians. The ideolgies represented by the totalist ‘isms’ are nothing more than ther horse that these will-to-power drive nmonsters choose to ride on their way to dominus terra firma. We must recall that the will to power as exercised within those totalitarian frameworks is responsible for the slaughter of over 200 million people over the last 100 years or so – and the impoverishment and enslavement of hundreds of millions more.
There is no other way to make sense of the willful destruction of America at the hands of these monsters.
Let’s face it – many of the most hardened, the most cynical realists among us do not want to admit that it’s not merely the fact of slo-mo train wreck that’s happening now – it’s that we’re also riding in one of the cars.
We’re caught in a stunning contradiction – between our faith in the rule of law and the unspoken trust that underpins the social contract, and the fact that in the back of our minds, we know that that trust has been corroded to the point of vanishing. This is the trust that allows us the confidence that we can honor each other’s business AND personal transactions. From the foundation of everything from the handshake deal to the most complex of business transactions; from the trust of friendship to the bonds of marriage – all have been assaulted, battered and railed against by the reigning popular orthodoxy. From the pulpit to an evening’s worth of television, the message that we get is that our collective salvation lies in servitude and that our partners in business and love can’t be trusted. All pretty much as Gramsci envisioned. Those of us with any sense of history know the final destination of that train.
These two views are irreconcilable. We must both deny and vociferously reject the destructive anti-values and messages emanating from our pastors and our popular culture, or settle for surrender and somethign worsethan slavery. How many of us will go for the latter case is a question yet to be resolved.
Never forget that the stakes in this game of suicide poker with liars wild is – us.
And to what end? Orwell told us over half a century ago:
“We are the priests of power-do not forget this, Winston. Always there will be the intoxication of power…If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-forever.”
We have only just begun and the work of returning to our Republic’s roots will continue for the rest of our lives. It could get ugly, but I think not. It will depend on the level of voter fraud. With everyone’s eyes wide open, I think that voter fraud will be confined to a few areas. The most important feature of this wave will be to put the House into Republican control, so that public discussions (witch hunts, if you will) can begin on the many exceses of the executive branch. That will give us plenty of time to determine who among the republicans and democrat parties to target for the next election. It does not really matter if Obama is re-elected; frankly we have not had time to raise a new generation of Conservative Presidential candidates. Let him continue to preen and grandstand; he only displays the emptiness of socialism. And look to Europe to implode during the next decade. It will be an object lesson to us all.
I think now that the RNC and other Pub supporters must use money in House and Senate races that are razor close for TURNOUT. The Pubs need Indies,Reagan Dems, Libertarians, to turnout for down ticket Pub races as well as Congressional races. State Leg. and guv races could determine House re-districting for 2012. Where it is very close,remember, Dems will cheat ala the No Military Ballots just this week. The Dem registrars are good at cheating so watch your votes and see if they are counted. If I were the Pubs, I would have lawyers surrounding Blue States polling precincts too.
It may be a tsunami that favors the GOP but the GOP has had little to do with it. What we are seeing is a grassroots insurgency that the GOP cannot control. The GOP has had no national agenda and no national presence during this election cycle. We will owe it all to the Tea Party, rogue (non-establishment) Republicans like Palin and DeMint, and to local activists. I am sure the GOP establishment will claim credit but they have done little but suck-eggs. The heavy lifting has been left to others.
Please view this video, it’s Cedra Crenshaw, State Senator Candid for IL 43rd District. She’s only running for a State Senator slot, but it’s imperative that Illinois Republicans, and especially, Illinois conservatives, take back the home state of Ronald Reagan and Abraham Lincoln. Cedra might only be running on a state level, but she needs nationwide support from all Conservatives. She’s a rising star among conservatives and a tea party backed candidate.
if nothing else, please pass on this video to all conservatives you know. Thanks!
http://www.breitbart.tv/meet-cedra-crenshaw-the-woman-illinois-democrats-tried-to-keep-off-the-ballot/
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I was listening to the radio today when I heard Obama come on. Our deficit for this year is 1.3 Trillion dollars which he considers a success. Why is this considered a success? This is because it is smaller than last years. Yep, that’s what I heard. Here is the next one, Obama wants to give us a stimulus ala George Bush. $250 dollars back but only to the elderly and the veterans. Though I qualify for that money, I feel sick as hell about taking it. He’s trying to buy us now, that’s hubris. What about those Americans who are out of work, have they stopped existing?
A few months after Obama was elected, I predicted right here on PJM that he would: lose the Jewish vote, that the country would turn itself around and that we would kick the Dems asses in the coming election. I had very few people agree with me at the time. Guess what, we are gonna do it. Next, we are going to kick Obama’s ass out of the White House and take back America! God Bless you all. Keep up the good work.
The political events of the past year and a half, since the Once ascended the throne, have been more than a wake up call for many. For thousands the experience has been terrifying. As an average American who has voted in every election since Reagan, I took current events and what was going on very seriously over the years, but NEVER in my life time did I ever witness anything approaching the unbridled FASCISM that was indisputably a part of this whole health care shove down. Never mind that the entire bill, if you read and understood the constitution, was completely out of bounds, but the fact that the majority of the country was vehemently and obstreperously opposed proved that its cram down was undemocratic as well. There was an unusual alignment of the personalities involved. Pelosi, Reid, and Obama, each arrogant and believing themselves superior than all others fed off each others’ psychoses to produce a monster that might not have been born had the constellation of those individuals involved been differently arranged. Did anyone ever think they would witness such a breathtaking usurpation of our liberties? Our civil rights and our right to representation, and in the case of the Town Halls, our right to speak were mocked and some feared for their physical safety when the presence of goons supporting the rulers threatened to do harm, and in some cases, did. How many times have many put their lives on hold, dug deep into their pockets and financed trips to rallies, candidates, and sacrificed precious time to fight for their rights? It is as if in the past eighteen months a darkness has descended on America and we have had to confront the truth of what has been barely visible but now stands looming over us: there is a malignant portion of our society that is our enemy and they will not stop until we are conquered and brought to heel. Did any of us think we would see the day when we could begin to imagine what would happen to us should we lose America, at the hands of our fellow citizens and elected “representatives”? We could be forgiven for thinking it could not happen to us because we have been blessed, and yet? It will be a long time before I forget the look of demonic exultation on the face of Nancy Pelosi, head thrown back in a spasm of power and glory, cradling that massive gavel the day she chose to rub our faces in her victory over all of us, taunting and strutting her way through the crowds of outraged citizens shouting to be heard. As she swaggered through the crowds, she returned the pain with scorn and laughter. I think many Americans got a strong whiff of the stench of authoritarianism this year. The heat was not just turned up. We were scalded. And hopefully, we will not forget.
As Dennis Prager has said repeatedly, If we cannot muster all our passion and energy now, then we have no excuse to complain about the outcome in Nov.
Every man and woman who treasures liberty and freedom needs to spread the message and beat the drums. This may be our LAST CHANCE to turn back the socialist cancer.
Goodbye Harry !!!
Silly me, I thought it was Bush’s fault.
Angry Americans can be mostly divided into two groups:
Group 1: Dumb as rocks; have no idea what caused the financial crisis (if anything, they think it was caused by poor people getting mortgages); have no idea why health care has gotten so expensive and why they all seem to know lots of people with hospital horror stories; have no idea whatsoever where to go for good information; and are going to vote like blind monkeys this coming November.
Group 2: Not dumb as rocks; they see the financial crisis as a failure of regulation & watch-dogging, and a success for unmitigated greed — Enron behavior on a even vaster scale; have been hoping and pressing for real health care reform for many years; make a real effort to find out what’s really going on; hate the the Group 1 people for being as dumb as rocks and for chronically voting like blind monkeys; and wouldn’t touch a Republican candidate with a 10 foot pole this November.
I guess you haven’t read the boston article where Barney Frank said that he missed the warning signs about Fannie and Freddie and in hindsight should’ve seen them and done something right?
I don’t see how in the world liberals can say that no one should vote republican this november since your dear leader have over a trillion dollars in deficits these past two years, admitted that he doesn’t know what a shovel ready project is, given Obamacare waivers to corporations and groups after promising that healthcare costs would be a lot less if Obamacare was implemented, guaranteed billions in loans to Mexico and Brazil for oil drilling while demonizing the oil sector in the US, and promised green jobs while the only thing the administration did was change the definition of green jobs to include journalists, lawyers, etc as green jobs.
Well let me just run to the polls, camp out, and vote democrat in november….NOT! if that doesn’t proves that liberals are totally delusional, I don’t what would.
go home and leave the voting to the adults.
Existential Question: Do dumb people realize they are dumb?
Answer, no, they do not. This is a poster child example of a dumb person thinking that everyone else must be at their same intellectual level because you cannot comprehend how anyone else could think differently (or smarter).
Go to the head of the Dumb Line, BC. Your mother will be so proud.
You see, Democrats are ALWAYS right, even when they are wrong!
Seems to me the people are finally waking up. It’s about time. The vast majority of the people don’t pay much attention at all to the pols in Washington. When their antics start to hit people personally, particularly if it’s in the pocketbook, they begin to awaken. Like the lady said at the town hall meeting last summer, the sleeping giant that is the American people has been awakened, and is pissed off big time. WTF are you doing? We didn’t vote for this, you work for us, pull your heads out and quit savaging the people you represent. These people are not astroturf Nancy “Stretch” Pelosi. These are American citizens. They are YOUR BOSSES.
Jefferson said the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. American patriots have shed their blood regularly in countless battles with tyrants. Soon it may happen here at home, as we fight the progressive tyrants who hunger for the ability to dictate to the masses, what we eat, drink, drive, buy and everything else. Enough is enough. We want our country back. I fear the progressive elites will not go quietly into the night. Be ready for things such as bogus declarations of marshal law, canceled elections and the like if things start going too far south for the progressives. If that happens, there will no doubt be armed insurrection in the streets. I sincerely hope that is not the case. Progressive would be well advised to realize they will only be permitted to push Americans so far before the people will rise up and smite the tyrants from their thrones of inequity.
Like the founding fathers, I believe this country is guided in no small part by divine providence. The people will only be pushed so far, and we are very near to the limit. In my 60 years, I have never seen anything like it. Makes me prouder to be an American than I have been in some time. (Not the first time in my life, Michelle) The good Lord certainly has his hand in the tea party movement. I believe we will soon send a powerful message to the progressive media elites. I hope and pray they hear the message, acknowledge their defeat and go quietly, recognizing the error of their ways and resolving finally to pay attention to the will of the people.
Right on. Couldn’t have said it better.
Taqiyyotomist, I hope you register and vote. I hope you register 10 and vote. A peaceful and hopeful revelution at the ballot box would be nice. I appreciate your efforts.
Taqiyyotomist, I appreciate your efforts. I hope you register and vote (and encourage at least 1 other, too!) I would much appreciate a peaceful (if vocal) revolution, to the alternative. Let’s also not forget that when change comes, it brings difficulties for those who haven’t prepared. Let’s remember to be kind, when we see the opportunity.
This will be a ’94 electrion, an 1894 election. The most significan factor is that the media support structure the progressives have had in place for over a hundred years is failing. I think that the collapse is occuing months or even years sooner than they expected. Suddenly we have a nearly free press again after a century.
This is unexpected because the Democrat’s relection efforts are running out of money. Stealing and laundering public money to buy elections has always been a Democratic strength but it takes time to do quietly. Three weeks to go with maybe ten days of money left they are only able to potect their most critical parts of the party. Like at the end of a terminator movie we are going to se what is under the skin that has been running our nation into the ground. At least a dozen great media organization will collapse in the year after this election never rise again.
There is a lot to sort through, and what I ask for is a succinct answer to this question: Are there things that the Tea Party would not cut?
Because I am a Canadian, and frankly the only reporting on the Tea Party that doesn’t engage axe-grinding by propagandists, is found here. So, given that a lot of words have been used about what drives the Tea Party folk, I just want a
succinct answer.
Thank you.
I don’t speak for the entire tea party revolution since the tea party is not a whole political organization per se, but given that the deficit in the past two years have been 1.4 and 1.2 trillion dollars respectively, and with nothing to show for all of that spending there is surely a lot that should be cut.
Thank you. Because when it comes to where money goes, for instance for training the military instead of keeping a plethora of military bands around, or the amount of money in health care that goes for insurance against lawsuits – priorities have to be in correct order.
And as a canadian, you should know that I’ve participated in Military exercises in the past where American lives are actually put at stake in defense of Canada. So I suggest you think twice about how much the US is spending when it comes to defense. Since you Canadians love your freedoms so much you’d have another country foot a large part of the bill in defense of your own country.
As I’ve suspected, you’re nothing but another liberal troll….I can smell you guys a mile away. If you really are canadian, I suggest you look at your own high taxes, high cost health care, high cost welfare system so your country can spend their own money when it comes to your defense.
Calling me a Liberal troll when I took heat for sticking up for Rumsfeld, Dubya, Cheney, Wolfowitz, and others who employed objective analysis in the teeth of opposition from the likes of those described in “Bias” and “Arrogance” by Bernard Goldberg, shows a knee-jerk reflex.
As for health care, why don’t Americans stop crossing the border into Canada, because we get stuck with the bill.
So, if you want less products coming into the US from Canada, we can carry out that.
Plus, why not ask Ann Coulter what she thought of her time in Calgary, as compared to Ottawa.
You ungrateful lout!
it’s funny that you should mention health care lawsuits since Tort Reform is one issue that will surely lower the cost of health care yet Obama and the democrats doesn’t want to touch it with a ten foot pole.
I’m not sure that as a Canadian you should even be allowed to play or to have an opinion on internal American politics. One of the problems with our current President is his willingness to submit *all* internal American issues to the adjudication of anyone outside America who chooses to kibitz.
Canada threw us under the bus on the issue of the Iraqi war, and you have elected officials who think that freedom of speech is a hokey America-only concept, and I haven’t noticed you cracking down on things like Muslim honor killings. You don’t pay taxes in America, so it’s really none of your business what the Tea Party is for or against, is it?
How is it then that the US seeks to influence what goes on outside of its borders?
As for Muslim honour killings, at least there is a start, what with Barbara Kay being Cassandra-like. Plus, people like Mark Steyn
are paying the price for challenging “conventional wisdom”.
I would like to know where the cuts will be, because as long as there are areas to cut, but are not being cut, how are people outside of the US supposed to take the Tea Party folk as seriously as the Tea Party folk want to be taken by folk outside the US?
Like it or not, the mess the world is in, thanks to the GFC, is too big for each country, by itself, to solve its own problems.
Nancy Pelosi said, “You can’t see what’s in the healthcare bill until is passes!”
So, I’d say, you won’t know where the cuts will be until the newly elected conservative congress goes into session.
THis is bullshit. America is the most isolationist country in the world. We are told repeatedly by the UN and Canada and France that we *must* go out and spend both American dollars and American blood to keep the rest of the world stable and healthy.
We were criticized for not entering WW2 until we had been bombed at home. We declared a war on terror and went out terror hunting AFTER we had been bombed at home. We fought the USSR to Russia’s bankruptcy AFTER Russia south to overthrow America, and Kruschev promised with pounded shoe in the UN to kill us.
WHen we say we seek to influence the rest of the world, what, exactly, are you thinking of as an example? Or are you simply pissed off that as cool and hip innovators, “the rest of the world” choose to try to emulate us, rather than dreary grey Canadians?
“America is the most isolationist country in the world.” Right, that is why if you ever set foot inside Canada, you will not see Victoria’s Secret, McDonald’s, General Motors, Ford, Apple, and other American companies in Canada (which is where I am.)
Plus, do you think that it is only the US who is sending troops to failures of US policy, like Afghanistan? Just because only China and India have larger populations does not mean the US can push anyone around, and get away with it.
As for your statement equating me with those I find reprehensible, it just goes to show that some Americans are impossible to please.
Because, there were people outside of the US who stood up for the US, such as
found here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2708877.stm
Speaking for myself, I am sick and tired of being taken for granted by people
who don’t have the greatest track record of finding any place outside of the US on a map.
So, grow up, if you want to be taken seriously.
For, at least there are Americans who do not take people for granted all the time, as seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrA4V6YF6SA
As well as here: http://dailynightly.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/02/26/4372324-leaving-behind-a-thank-you-note
As for the Iraq war, why not see who else did not send troops in the open. Plus, if you think that there were no Canadians in favour of sending Canadian troops into Iraq, then you don’t know why there is a different party governing Ottawa (which is the capital for those who think that Canada has a President) for the past 4 years and 9 months.
As for freedom of speech, pay more attention to Mark Steyn as to who took his side regarding his freedom of speech being curtailed.
Keep this in mind, what the US brings to the world which is positive is fealty
to truth and justice being rooted in what is eternal, rather than the sizing up of the situation and going with situational ethics. So, if this gets me labelled as a Liberal Troll, I am not going to hold my breath waiting for any apology.
Yes, they would not cut (and run) from Afghanistan.
The question is too broad otherwise. Are there things they would not cut, meaning what, precisely?
Bloated, pork laden, ridiculously run, overstuffed programs? What?
“Tea Party” folks want smaller government, less interference, less waste, less BS about why something that should cost “X” now costs 1000 x X.
Would they cut “defense” spending? Absolutely…IF…it was shown to be filled with pork, earmarks and wasteful spending.
Would they cut Homeland Security spending? Sure, if we are paying 649493 lazy do-nothings to do the job that 500 real workers could do.
Would they cut out waste in sacred cows like Medicaid, Social Security, Student Loan programs? Absolutely, if it can be done in a more efficient manner that doesn’t hurt innocent people.
Bureaucratic red tape designed solely for the purpose of lining the pockets of lifetime trough sloppers and hucksters priming the pump for “fealty voters” to owe their lives and livelihoods to the Party…doesn’t help anyone in this country except for the Ponzi scheme designers at the top.
Does that answer your question?
It helps a lot, because a lot is at stake.
not for you canadians.
Fine, if you want fewer things crossing the border from Canada, by all means we can comply. If you think that you will be spending less on the military, and are no longer able to look after the military responsibilities of the rest of the “free world” (which, thanks to political correctness and other reasons, has not been used that often).
I’m in favour of a revamped Commonwealth as seen here: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/story_print.html?id=3656502&sponsor=
Because I do not have enough confidence that the best efforts of the Tea Party folk will succeed.
Here’s your TEA Party. Freedom good. Tyranny bad. Socialists are tyrants, because robbers must use force to avoid hanging. We the People have the absolute right to protect our lives and property from robbers. Best to do so peacefully, through the ballot box. But when the robbers have so corrupted the political system that our own government becomes the enemy, then we can and will “alter or abolish” it by any means necessary. The process may not be pretty. Americans will not, however, sit back and allow themselves to be enslaved.
Obama, Reid, Pelosi, and their ignorant, stupid, dishonest, disloyal, unprincipled, racist lemmings in Congress and the courts, must go. If the Republicans who replace them betray us yet again, then we will get rid of them, too. Our demand for freedom, security, and equal justice under law is not difficult to understand. The Battle Cry of Freedom rings down through the ages, for the oppressors never sleep; but neither do we. Thus always to tyrants!
Horace Cooper hits the bullseye with this article like Davy Crockett in a shooting match.
The match for senator that will probably sound the Dem death knell is the O’Donnell/Coons match for senate. Here, the Dems definitely overplayed their hand. It appears Christine will get the last laugh.
SNL and the mainstream media savaged Christine O’Donnell. Now they’re experiencing savager’s remorse.
What SNL, and the mainstream media did to a nice lady named Christine O’Donnell, however, as mouthpieces for Barack Obama, borders on the indecent; was very nasty. And is obviously stupid in a political sense. It had Joe Biden and Obama flying like pixies yesterday to Delaware to rescue big government/little economy Chris Coons.
You see, if you have a political opponent with low awareness, who’s down in the polls, you have to consider letting her campaign die a quiet death.
In the case of Christine O’Donnell, though, who was a self avowed communist….oh cripes, I got confused. It’s Coons, her opponent, who’s the self avowed communist. Let me start over.
However, in the case of Christine O’Donnell, who admitted in high school she associated with kids who dabbled in witchcraft, the mainstream media and SNL had an easy target. They just couldn’t resist taking some cheap pot shots at the woman who nobody knew. They couldn’t resist seeing how many broomstick jokes they could think up. In fact, the girls at MSNBC devoted entire shows trying to turn O’Donnell into the laughingstock of the nation (unfortunately for them, they have no ratings).
“There’s one Republican,” (as Jerry Brown’s team puts it; who won’t have a whore’s chance to win November 2). (Or was his team talking about his opponent for governor?) The more they mock, defame, sully, slander (calling a woman a “whore” is slander prima facie) and denigrate, the more confusing who the leftist speaker is.
Of course, the left savages Trig Palin, too. I’m not dismissing that. And I’m not forgetting how in 2008 Obama said putting lipstick on Palin was the equivalent of putting Revlon on a pig. If anybody detects a pattern of leftist language that savages Republican women, I’m willing to stipulate it to be true. But my habit of getting off track is not a good one. And I want to try to break it.
So where was I? Oh, yeah, I’m about to talk about the mistake the left is making with O’Donnell.
The trouble is, in savaging O’Donnell with “witch” jokes, the political party that likes to squander tax money by the trillions just might have shot themselves in the foot once again, mortally wounding Chris the self avowed Commie’s chances (and Harry Reid’s self avowed “pet”, whatever the heck Reid meant by that) of winning the race Chris Coons likens to beating a dumb “she dog” (you know what he said).
The mistake the Democrat folks made, as I see it, (besides disrespecting women) was giving O’Donnell tremendous awareness.
And if those nice folks who live in Delaware do some digging, and discover Coons is a rubber stamp vote for every runaway spending bill Obama gets stuck in his head; or tries jamming down America’s throat like “Cap and Tax” (brother of ObamaCare); or who knows what other money sucking scheme Obama and his merry men dream up, well, with Coons rubber stamp vote, we all stand to lose our shirts.
But Obama is now realizing with all the awareness Christine O’Donnell now has, and with all the awareness the people of Delaware potentially can gain; finding out, for example that, at the Grand in Wilmington, Coons and Obama were joking what a 15 trillion dollar deficit would look like, well, the leftists may be overplaying their hand. November 2 could turn out to be their Waterloo. Instead of soaking the taxpayers, Obama and Coons may get the soaking.
Now you know why Obama and Joe Biden flew like pixies into Delaware yesterday.
Now that Christine has a high awareness, they want to keep the awareness low what Coons the self avowed Communist really stands for. Big government. Tiny economy. Jobs? Only one for himself.
If the people find out that O’Donnell stands for a big economy and a little government, she wins; game, set and match. Then O’Donnell, the target of every joke on mainstream TV and SNL and the View for weeks, will win by a landslide in just a little over two weeks. Because a Coons victory would ensure a horrendous money slide from your wallets to Obama’s government coffers. Did you know that Coons raised taxes a cool 53%.
“Amidst all of the whirlwind surrounding Delaware Republican Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell, far too little attention has been paid to Chris Coons. Byron York helps fix that problem in his Examiner column:
“Coons, 47, is the top executive of New Castle County, home to a majority of Delaware’s population. From a Republican perspective, there’s one really important thing to know about his time in office: In 2004, when Coons first ran for the job, he promised not to raise taxes. Since then he has raised taxes not once, not twice, but three times.
“Coons inherited a surplus. Celebrating victory on election night in 2004, he said his “top priority would be to continue balancing the budget without increasing property taxes,” according to an account in the local News Journal. Yet in 2006, he pushed through a 5 percent increase in property taxes. In 2007, he raised property taxes 17.5 percent. In 2009, he raised them another 25 percent.”(Byron York, Sept. 17, 2010, the right wing liberal)
Doesn’t it make sense to elect the candidate who stands for big economy and little government. Who stands for not a future of food stamps, but a future of pay checks. I know I’m just Rachel Peepers. I’m just a girl, (I don’t care that the leftists like to call me nasty names; I call them bad things, too). But I really and truly think Christine O’Donnell would make a good senator. She gets it. She’s for jobs, not taxes.
Vote for Christine O’Donnell. While you can still afford the trip to the polls.
Wait, so I’m supposed to vote for a wholly unqualified candidate – who has lied about her education and hasn’t paid her taxes – because everyone is mean to her? God help you.
“Exterminating Angel” by The Creatures:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2KOFrlcXPU
The thundering doom is the unraveling of the Obama Democrats & what’s left of them in the aftermath for 2012 & President Obama’s own narcissism…
To those who are convinced that I am a Liberal Troll, check this out: http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/Our_Culture/americans.htm
If you want to end friendships, then continue to be defensive.
Furthermore, go ahead and google my name. That way you won’t only have your knee jerk reactions to base your conclusions about me.
The only reason why there’s products coming from Canada into the US is because the US Government saw fit to over regulate every industry within its borders. Go ahead and cut off all Canadian products from moving into the US. first, it will force the US to produce more within its borders, second, it will totally decimate the Canadian economy.
Also, as for your claim that americans are going into canada for health care, it is the other way around…it has been a long standing fact that canadian health care providers send a lot of patients into the US for treatment since your doctors/hospitals can not handle the sophistication of the procedure.
you say I’m an ungrateful lout, I say you’re a “proud” Canadian that is blind to the truth of your country’s system. I still say that you cannucks should start paying for your own defense, better yet, pay the US back for all of the expenditures we shouldered and have been shouldering in defense of your country. unless, of course, you want to be an ungrateful lout yourself. LOL!
There are stories from newspapers on Vancouver Island, and the area around Vancouver, about Americans not wanting to pay for surgery and coming to Canada for them. For, they are afraid of losing their house, because they can not afford the house and the treatment.
As for trade, especially when it comes to oil, go ahead and make Mahrer’s case that you are supporting terrorism, because before money came in to change oily dirt into oil, Saudi Arabia was the largest supplier of oil to the US.
So, why don’t you also bill Europe for its share of the bill of the defense of more than one continent?
As for what is sold by Canada to the US, that does not mean that Canada cannot
find other buyers. For I have taken notice of those who want NAFTA renegotiated, and I agree. Tear up the agreement, because you simply don’t accept the fact that you are exporting more today to countries you have free trade agreements with, than before you had agreements with them.
Don’t forget, just because you are an American does not make you a bearer of light like the Statue of Liberty.
those who are going to vancouver for health care are the same liberals who wish that a canadian style health care system is implemented in the US. they should just move to canada if they like your health care so much, there wouldn’t be any loss felt in the US if that happens since they are the same people who wants a socialistic style of lifetsyle anyway.
the US can produce more oil and as I’ve said, the only reason a lot of goods are coming from canada is because of regulation impose by an increasingly liberal government in the US (not for long though). I’m sure Canada can find other buyers, I hope you guys would hurry up since that seems to be the only claim you have in order to have the right to scrutinize american politics (it is still such a weak case since whatever you sell from canada to the US you are more than compensated for it and the contract doesn’t include canadians rights to question American politics).
the US should bill all countries that have asked for military assistance. none of them are willing to do it for their own country. see, that’s the difference between your mindset which thinks that you have the right to simply receive assistance and not return any form of thanks whatsoever. that’s the result of liberalism, a sense of entitlement even if it’s undeserved. those countries who relied on the US militarily SHOULD foot the bill unless of course you’re simply a freeloader.
Americans don’t pretend to be bearers of light (unless of course they are members of the Masonry LOL!) but Americans do not forget friends and allies who stick with us through thick and thin. Those who are self righteous enough to criticize American politics just simply because they “sell goods to America” are totally out of line no matter what reasoning they for an excuse.
The US is in deep trouble thanks to Mortgage backed securities, and the fiction that they were AAA rated.
However, that is small potatoes if you are indicative of the best of the US.
Unless all regions of the US sign onto what needs to be done, the result will be the break up of the union.
Three relatives of mine were in combat. One cousin was shot down over the North Sea. One was part of Operation Overlord. The other saw action in Sicily and Italy, and spent 18 months as a P.O.W.
Neither relative who returned had a chip on his shoulder.
So, if you want to continue to carry that chip on your shoulder, you deserve to be treated the same way as Obama: irrelevant to what is going on.
Because your country is in deep trouble, and there is no way for your country, by itself, to get itself out of trouble.
Which boils down to this: the amount of clout you expect to have in dealings with other countries will be noticeably less than what was the case of the first days of the current administration.
Lastly, there is this: get ahold of the most recent World Almanac & Book of facts. You will find a lot there, including legal commodities that the US imports.
One category is that stuff which cannot be found at all, anywhere in the US.
The other category is the stuff that can be found in the US, but not in sufficient quantities to satisfy the demands of the US economy.
So, keep that in mind whilst you and others try to compensate for what won’t be coming to the US.
Why not check to see if JFK aiding Lester Pearson to topple John Diefenbaker as Canadian Prime Minister is more than axe-grinding.