The Democrats’ Pledge (to Lie) to America
A fortnight ago, the House Republicans published their Pledge to America. It got mixed reviews, sparked a bizarre Daily Caller attack on National Review, and also prompted our own Ed Driscoll to wonder if the Democrats had any intention of publishing their own agenda for the country. Ed rang up the DNC, and political inanity ensued:
I asked spokesman Ryan Rudominer whether, since we now have the GOP agenda, there is a similar document laying out what Democrats will do if voters return them to power in the House. There was a moment of silence on the other end of the call.
“I’m sorry, you mean, like, a current one?” Rudominer asked.
AdvertisementYes, I said.
“I don’t think we have, like, you know, a 21-page sort of infomercial-type package like this,” Rudominer said.
Well, any sort of agenda would be fine, I said.
“Look, you know, each race is going to have their own individualized message,” Rudominer answered. “So look, we’re not putting together a gimmicky package like this six weeks before the election. We’re talking about making each of these elections a choice.”
In other words, the Democrats have no interest in nationalizing the midterms. It’s not hard to see why: Their dear leader is sinking and what was supposed to be their crowning glory, ObamaCare, is a trillion-dollar albatross around their necks. Their agenda can be boiled down to one word: survive.
But quietly, the DNC actually did publish a set of national party priorities. They just didn’t brand it as such, so no one noticed. Most were too busy bashing the Republicans.
A week before the Republicans rolled out the Pledge to America, the Democrats rolled out their new web site. It looked terrible. It hit complete with an awful new logo and a slogan so devoid of meaning it could have come from Seinfeld: Change That Matters. “What kind of change? We’re not sure, but it matters, baby!”
Since taking over Congress in 2007 and the White House in 2009, the Democrats really have brought change that has mattered: Unemployment near double digits, a housing crisis that could have been avoided but for intervention from the likes of Barney Frank, a trillion-dollar stimulus that made unions richer while leaving the rest of us poorer, corporate takeovers that shut down hundreds of auto dealerships that just happened to have been owned by Republican donors, and a health care takeover passed over the objections of a majority of Americans that has politicized our relationships with our doctors to an unprecedented degree. They’re letting clowns give fake testimony in Congress while real national security goes unaddressed. The latest “change that matters” involved Democratic Sen. Harry Reid inserting something the majority of Americans oppose, using their tax dollars to pay for the children of illegal aliens to attend college at in-state tuition rates, into the defense spending bill in the middle of a war so that it had a chance of passing. The Democrats may call that “change that matters”; I call it a crime against democracy. But it is change, and it has mattered.
As for the Democrats’ new logo, it has inspired riffs and parodies that will go on until the party quietly scuttles it. Is it a target? A sign of Depression? A call to arms to fight bedbugs? A toilet? The ACORN logo sliced and rolled on its side? Who knows? It is bad design that betrays a lack of life and ideas, and that’s enough.
The DNC’s new web site also houses the party’s agenda items. Among those is a page on “Fair Elections.” It’s in the “What We Stand For” section (not listed there: weak foreign policy, higher taxes, government running everything in the country, and empowering unions at the expense of common sense). Intrigued, I wondered if the “Fair Elections” page would discuss ballot integrity, perhaps acknowledge past sins like Lyndon Baines Johnson’s infamous Box 13 or the infamous “White Primary,” and maybe address issues like ACORN’s runs at massive voter registration fraud on a national scale. Or they might address the Department of Justice’s curious approach to voter intimidation. Maybe there would be something on why LULAC is suing the Texas Democratic Party.
At least the Administration should have announced they have implemented John Boenhers suggestion to fire his staff a few weeks ago. Obama did it in slow motion but it was done.
BARACK OBAMA’S PLEDGE TO AMERICA
The Republicans have made their Pledge to America, their worn out, reactionary, disastrous plans for worsening things not fixing them. And now I Barack Obama, with all the audacity and hope in my soul, make this pledge:
America is too great for its own good, too powerful for its own good, too wealthy for its own good, too socially unjust, racist and now anti-Moslem for its own good. And I am here in this office, put here by you, to right what is wrong and make America good. To make it loved by a world that hates us for our sins: for our bullying, aggression and warmongering.
I pledge to make America a true city on a hill, a socialist city shining for the nations, a light of peace and justice for humanity and the ages. And if I can’t do this, if I fail, if there’s no hope for change-real fundamental transformational change-then I choose to go down in flames. This is my pledge, my pledge of defiance to the end: IT’S EITHER A MORE PERFECT UNION OR NOTHING!
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This “pledge” is exactly how Obongo has attempted to govern, which is IN SPITE of the American people, their traditions and their Constitution. He has led us to the prepice of the cliff and now it’s time for him, congressional Dimocrats and Rino Republicans to jump off so the rest of us can try to put the pieces back together.
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Rough day Brian?
I think that was BrianH channeling BarneyF.
Has anyone ever gotten a performance evaluation based on promised future performance after two or four years on the job?
I’ve seen what you’ve done with two years of absolute control of the Federal Government, and nothing you say can convince me you’ll do better.
its only been two years, have they forgot so soon? the same story over and over, will Meg Whitman’s illegal nanny get to vote now? will ICE pick her up for deportation? will Gloria Allred represent her in immigration court pro bono? if not who will pay her lawyer fees?
John,
You’re on the wrong blog with this. But, to answer your question about who will pay, I’m sure that Gloria Allred is doing this Pro Bono. She’s that type of caring person.
Bill White commercials ran for about 2 weeks before I found out he was the Democrat candidate. I was at the Lewisville Western Days weekend recently and walked by the booth for White; the word Demorat was glaringly absent. I can’t help but wonder if other candidate in other states are doing something similar but I wouldnt be supprised.
We had a guy here in Pennsylvania walking door-to-door handing out literature. I looked at the literature and there was no party affiliation noted anywhere. I asked him “What party?” and he admitted to being Republican. He was anew guy, running for a local office. Yes, they are all doing it. Not just Democrats, it seems.
Does the campaign sign D’O stand for “Do over” or maybe “Dumb Orators”?
Just wondering—
the first thing that I thought of was Homer Simpson and his DOH! comment that erupts when he realizes he has made a mistake, or been caught!
Kind of like the Obama voters.
Once and for all people–especially to the authors on this site–THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS NOT A FREAK’N DEMOCRACY! Mr. Preston, I consider your article stellar in every respect but one. Imagine the horror when I read the statement “I call it a crime against democracy,” it makes me scratch my head. I then realize that I have a glimpse into the conditioning of the American mind. When are we going to get even our finest of citizens to learn what we really are as a nation and ensure that they properly re[resent it? When I see some of the best writers, supposed constitutionalists, and professors of history, who really are first class in every respect, mention our “democracy” as if they know what they’re talking about, I cringe at the thought that ignorance is running rampant through the very fabric of our society. Ignorance perpetuates itself with little difficulty even among a society with access to instant data to fact check. How can this be? Really folks–
Citizen Authority – In Vindiciam Libertatis
I, too, get irate at this misinformation. “Democracy” is one of the worst forms of government in the world, with rule by the majority quickly devolving into tyranny and oppression. For those ignorant of forms of government and our own American history, the United States of America is a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC. Our form of government is NOT a democracy. Get this into your heads once and for all.
So why was America so determined that Rhodesia, South Africa and Iraq had to have democracies?
Because the Land Of The Free is now the Home Of The Slave.
~ Eph 4:25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
~ 2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.~ KJV
How do the Democrats — and too many Republicans — stand in the light of these verses? If you are going to lie and deceive you are not doing it for my benefit. A con artist will go to great length to gain your confidence but his intent is to rob you of your property.
Do you know anything about Boss Hague and Tammany Hall? That was a hundred years or so ago. Back about 1930-31 my Great Uncle George Couch was living with us who was born back in the late 1850s. He observed that three Democratic administration in a row would change our form of government and he was right. Each Democratic administration has taken us a step further left ever since but the Republican never truly challenged that drift. They were mostly in favor of the Socialist agenda, just didn’t like the unexpected consequences. Some thought we could fine tune the system where it would not produce those undesirable side effects. Well, if you drink enough vodka you become inebriated, or moonshine you get drunk. These side effects are unavoidable. At no time in its history known to me has the Democratic party been loyal to the truth.
To prosper our first priority is to be loyal to the truth and honest in our dealings one with another. That does not rule out some strategic maneuvering and privacy concerns but when we are honest with ourselves and our neighbors this is never a problem.
Free speech is my right to express my opinion. Civility concerns the way I present that free speech. Today we have a lot of incivility masquerading as free speech when it is not and should not be condoned as such. This is also part of the Democratic problem.
~ 1Ti 1:8 But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;~
The law is limited in its power. It sets things in order but does not set the order, which is its limitation. The law cannot demand love or compassion. The law cannot forgive. Governments are needed to preserve order and there is more in the next verse of why we have government. From the book of Daniel we find that is is the Lord who chooses our leaders and not all of them are lovable characters. We are and have been an exception,yet the Lord is able to control who gets elected. We are drawn of our own lust toward the one we elect so we cannot blame him and not ourselves, also. There is a lack of evidence that the Democrats try to use law lawfully. There is evidence that our nation has supported that disrespect of the law.
A Timely Reminder from Barack: Don’t Forget that White Guilt!
No one will ever be able to conclusively prove the extent to which white guilt played a role in Barack Hussein Obama’s election to the presidency in 2008. What is definitely known is that 43 of every 100 whites cast their ballots for Obama in that election and that he garnered 96% of the black vote.
White guilt could be defined as that bizarre, much-denied, conscious or subconscious, feeling experienced by an untold number of white Americans that it was time to give the black man a shot at the Oval Office.
After all, white guilters somehow believed, African-Americans had been enslaved for centuries in America and the least whites could do to make amends for that societal evil would be to vote for a black man to clearly demonstrate, first, that they were free of prejudice and, second, to recompense today’s blacks for the sins of our forefathers.
It’s bizarre thinking for any white American today unless he or she were at least 147 years old and former slaveholders and the recipients of that compensation were at least the same age and former slaves since Lincoln, technically, freed the slaves in 1863 with the Emancipation Proclamation.
Our president seems well aware of the white guilt phenomenon, so much so that he’s cashing in his racial chits a month ahead of the mid-term elections on November 2nd. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2058)
“No one will ever be able to conclusively prove the extent to which white guilt played a role in Barack Hussein Obama’s election to the presidency in 2008.”
Nor the advantage of having the main stream media supporting him.
When I saw the pathetic Republican “Pledge”, which was little more than pandering to subvert the Tea Party with essentially Leftist principles while giving up no power at all in Washington for taxing and regulating our lives, I was motivated to suggest (http://robbservations.blogspot.com/2010/09/new-start-for-america.html) a better Pledge founded on the one principle all Tea Partiers and real Republicans could rally around — the central founding principle of our Constitution: the delimiting of government’s purpose to the protection of individual rights. I added some concrete examples for the near term, like getting the government out of all health care, privatizing Social Security, replacing income tax with fees-for-service, but I should have add one thing: election reform.
There needs to be serious penalties for election fraud (let’s say, 4 years in prison for each count of a vote faked, changed or thrown out), and serious prosecution of offenses, because it’s gotten completely out of control. If the Republicans mean to be serious about reforming themselves, they should push to force identity verification for *every* voter in every state, and require *receipts* be given after each person votes (in case votes get “lost” you should be able to re-submit). There should be a corresponding system for voters to verify that their votes were counted (online), and election certifications should be prohibited in every state until all military votes have been counted. As a start.
The Republican hacks who engage in election fraud with the Democrats know this will lose them votes, but if that costs them a few elections — so be it. I think, however, that overall the Republicans, the Tea Party, and the entire country will be the big winners.
lotsa haters out there for sure.
well i’ve just heard some jolly good news. our benevolent leader is getting ready to drop a bombshell that will save the democratic party. just prior to the election, he is going to release for inspection by the public, his real long form birth certificate.
that’s right. my mother’s church group told her, he is single-handedly going to save the democrats from a blowout in the cold days of november. this event alone should show once and for all that he is not the liar, fake and fraud everyone has been saying.
this comes as a real game changer for me. i was sitting on the fence, so to speak. everybody kept saying that he was saving it for a time when it could be put to good use, and here it is. timing couldn’t be better. it’s now or never, if you know what i mean. can’t hardly wait. i’m really excited, guess you could tell.
anyhoo – this is really great news, he will soon be a hero for saving his party from certain terrible defeat. it is brilliant!
only wish i had thought of it.
Goodbye Harry!
…. their crowning glory, ObamaCare, is a trillion-dollar (sic) albatross around their necks ….
You kidding?
Their crowning glory, ObamaCare, is a Trillion-Dollar bloody albatross around OUR necks.
The Democrats only need a four and a half word manifesto to anchor their campaign:
“It’s all Bush’s fault!”
Inspiring words indeed.
Among all the dumb things that right wingers claim, among the dumbest is the idea that Democrats are somehow dishonest compared to Republicans. No. Comparing dishonest Democrats to dishonest Republicans is like comparing people who don’t pay their parking tickets to armored car robbers. By any sane measure, dishonest Republicans tend to be crooked on a much, much grander “Big Effin’ Lie” scale, like Bush and the “imminent threat” of Hussein, the smearing of Kerry, or the smearing of Joe Wilson (who was actually sent to Africa due to a request by Cheney, and it was Wilson’s 2nd trip there on behalf of the CIA, with his first trip still classified) along with the outing of his wife Valerie Plame (who actually was an undercover CIA “noc” agent with a fake employer in Boston while actually being an expert, ironically enough, on weapons of mass destruction.)
That’s some serious misbehavior on a scale that makes even the most fevered right wing imaginings of how terrible ACORN is look like, say, not turning in a $20 bill found on the floor in a pizza shop.
No smart, well-informed and ethical person is going to vote Republican this November. Sorry.
You need to change your logo from BC to BS. A typical conspiracy-theory motivated whack-job Leftist. Tell us again how many Democrats voted to go to war in Iraq and what those great patriots did over the course of ’03-’08 to constructively win the war for which they voted. Cat got your tongue, fool?
Stu in SDGO wrote: You need to change your logo from BC to BS. A typical conspiracy-theory motivated whack-job Leftist. Tell us again how many Democrats voted to go to war in Iraq and what those great patriots did over the course of ‘03-’08 to constructively win the war for which they voted. Cat got your tongue, fool?
You would be much better off if the cat did. Do you remember how you felt after 9/11? And how long did you feel that way to some extent? Would you have ever believed that Bush would misuse the fear and anxiety following 9/11 as a cover to execute some long-standing braindead policy wish by a nutzo neocon think tank, just because their members included many in Bush’s cabinet, as well as Cheney?
Now put yourself as a senator or congressman at that time: regardless of your political ideology, would you not have taken your President at his word, especially given all the supposed evidence he and his people were proclaiming they in regards to Hussein being a dangerous, immediate threat and tied in with al-Qaeda?
But it was all just an insanely cynical sales job meant to deceive both the public and congress. Personally I thought there were more than a few red flags in all the stated reasons for invading Iraq, especially in Colin Powell’s presentation at the UN, and I thought members of congress should have been far more curious and demanding of proof, but they were pretty much deceived as well.
You know, I’ve been accused on this site as having “BDS” when it comes to Bush, but seriously, given what we know now compared to what we were told at the time, how can any sane person not be upset Bush and his people aren’t doing time in jail, especially given all the consequences of their many lies?