Did you see the ratings — Hah. Compare to Clinton it was like 60% of Clintons first press conference. Obammunism is not a big seller in America. Might work fine in Kenya or Indonesia, but America will take a pass.

An armed revolution wont be necessary. Socialism destroys itself. In the case of the US it will be by destruction of the currency. The trick is to survive the collapse. The constitution recommends God, guns and gold as requisites to a free society, so make sure you have enough.

Okay, so it’s not nice to make fun of old ladies, or old men, for that matter, but when the old lady is Helen Thomas, a D.C. fixture for almost 50 years, exceptions could and should be made.
Thomas is seen here with Gerald Ford in 1975 while still in her, relative, prime:

Fox News Channel talk show host Bill O’Reilly and writer/commentator Bernie Goldberg have been raked over the coals for criticizing and ridiculing Thomas for cackling at Obama’s press conference Monday. See the one-sided story and video here: http://www.asylum.com/2009/02/11/oreilly-caws-like-a-crow-and-other-moments-in-punditry/?icid=200100397×1219027621×1201241210.

This is admittedly extremely rude, sort of Helen-Thomas-like, but she has never been a “looker,” which is an unfortunate fact of life which often accounts for biddies and/or frustrated reporter-ettes evolving into shrieking, cackling, angry harridans, a profile which could have been written for Ms. Thomas.

It’s important to realize that Thomas is not just your average old lady, not a grand- and great-grandmotherly type who forgets her keys and maybe even where she lives. She seems far from that stage. When she gets down in the political trenches, which is her usual venue, she need not be accorded any more deference than any other political maven or maven-ette.

Simply because she happens to be twice Katie Couric’s age and more, like Couric, when she exceeds the bounds of civil political reporting and questioning, she deserves to get her comeuppance. If she can’t stand the heat Good Ol’ Helen should vacate the political kitchen, a scenario which is as likely as Couric’s wising up and retreating to limited appearances on The View.

Of course, with Obama, for whom she carries on as she might have as a young girl with Rudolph Valentino, Thomas isn’t likely to get overly pushy or downright rude as she has in the past with Republican presidents. She did ask one pertinent, and absurd, question of the new president when she referred to “these so-called terrorists” in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

As they say, Helen is Helen and she has a history.

Six years ago, speaking before an expectedly enthused audience at an MIT Communications Forum, she took the gloves off her gnarled hands and said, “I censored myself for 50 years when I was a reporter. Now I wake up and ask myself, ‘Who do I hate today?’ “

Now, isn’t that just special! For years assigned a front row seat at presidential briefings and news conferences, Ms. Thomas starts her day with determining the source of her venom….

(Read the rest of this article at http://genelalor.com/.)

Name one.
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Jerome Corsi?

I can do the same thing Eric is doing if it comes to that. If I have to go to one income because the tax burden is too onerous for both of our incomes, then I will. My choice will always be to look out for my family first. You will not be able to count on my hard work to pay for Obama’s socialist agenda.
Obama has not shown the intention to raise my taxes to those levels yet, but he should be aware that he won’t have to push taxes very far before you collectivists get hung out to dry.
This has never been a discussion about patriotism, but it has become a problem for liberty.

Name one. And how is that you and Nancy Pelosi are the only people in America who get to “legitimate” it? First principles, Einstein.

I’ll tell you something else for nothing, the overuse of time-worn adjectives is a time-tested signature of empty arguments. And you might try being civil first sometime. Frankly you’re out of your league with mongoose, and you tried to posture your way out of it. For what it’s worth, when I read your posts, I hear Joan Crawford’s voice. Figuratively speaking, of course.

Besides, his solution is the natural response to Obama’s stated campaign goal of raising taxes on the wealthy. Those making his family’s combined income would get hit hard. He’s taking Obama at his word. How can you complain? If you disincentivize wealth, then people will not seek it. It’s more work than it’s worth. This is the natural result. You can now see it in action.

Small businessmen are doing the same thing. That’s why the huge job loss numbers since Obama’s election. They continue apace. It’s not the economy. It’s people’s reaction to the Dems’ actions. But, I guess you think Eric’s actions are just unpatriotic, because paying taxes is patriotic.