Back when I was a kid, we used to assume the Republicans were the party of the rich. It was a given — all those plutocrats with chauffeurs shuttling them between the penthouse in Sutton Place and the weekend manse in Southampton.
Of course that was pretty idiotic then (a Kennedy was in the White House), but it’s outright moronic now.
We live in an era — the worst economically since the Depression — when the daughter of the first couple of the Democratic Party has a multi-million dollar, Marie Antoinette-style wedding with port-a-potties almost as luxurious as a toilette in Baden Baden; its self-proclaimed environmental leader, the first global warming billionaire, sprouts “green” McMansions from Nashville to Montecito; and its already multi-billionaire senator from Massachusetts moors his yacht in another state to escape taxes we hoi polloi could only dream of paying.
But wait, as they say, there’s more. At this moment, two of their leaders from a supposedly disadvantaged minority are about to be tried for ethical transgressions (read: thievery) even Congress couldn’t sweep under the rug. Never mind that these transgressions mostly exploit the very minority these people purport to represent. It’s part of the game. Convince minorities they should act like victims. Extort guilt payments from the majority and keep the change. Meanwhile, nothing improves for the minority because it would interrupt the system.
This all occurs during the administration of a president who once trumpeted “transparency” and “change,” pronouncements that seem to have been made so long ago now you can’t remember if it happened before or after the fall of the Roman Empire. This same Democratic president, however, continues to collect big royalties from books he may or may not have written. He’s certainly not the first.
Furthermore, in recent days, some Grub Street drones have been revealed to be enablers, or perhaps cheerleaders, of all the above. Particularly clueless, this crowd does the low-paying grunt work for their truly plutocratic Democrat employers from Huffington to Sulzberger. At least the Dems’ Hollywood supporters are making some decent money off their useful idiocy.
Talk about a confederacy of dunces.
What to say. I could say a “me too”, but that would not suffice. What Roger points out in this piece is that our elites have once again exposed themselves as the posturing bastards they are. Arrogant, ignorant posturing bastards with no understanding, no empathy, no sympathy for the people they say they’re concerned about.
Like Hell. The only thing these sons of bitches are concerned about is their own standing in their own little world, and damn be the little guy.
One thing I’ve learned in my life is that you give a damn. When you don’t give a damn is when your life goes belly up and starts to attract metaphysical bot flies. Our self labeled leaders have gone beyond aggrandizement and achieved the state of mind once reserved for those with delusions of grandeur.
People matter. Listening to people matters. I must confess to being overly uncomfortable around black people. My failing. So I compensate by listening, by treating each black person I meet as an individual, worthy of my consideration and attention. I do this for everyone I meet, for I would hate to be treated as a cipher, a cog in the great machine. Can people like Kerry and Gore do the same? I can’t say as I see them acting as I do. The people are a great mass to be coerced and bamboozled into doing what some pundit thinks is right.
Our leaders are too good for us, and we should praise the Lord Above we have them. That is our leadership’s creed, and I say it’s a load of crap.
(Cross posted at Mythusmage Opines.
I get your point, but the Clintons couldn’t invite both the father-in-law to be and a sitting president whoever he may be. Daddy of the groom is serving federal probation so had a president been invited (or vice-president, or member of the first family, etc) he would have had to leave prior to their arrival or be taken into custody for violation of his federal parole. At least that’s my understanding of the rules of federal probation. Could be, of course, that those rules only apply to those who are guilty of violent crimes rather than minor things like the theft of millions.
Regards
The so called “Democratic Party” is as much a party of people as those “democratic” and “people’s” parties in the communist “worker’s paradise” have been.
It certainly is a party of PARASITISM, party of waste, thievery, barbarism, treason, party of strategic and tactical lie, party of distortion, party of totalitarian collectivism.
And if they win and entrench themselves in power, it shall also become party of MURDER.
I know, I’ve lived through all that…
All you say is true. Many of us were saying the same before the 2008 elections and still believe it.
I spent a day in the Hamptons the summer before the 2008 election. One of the shops in East Hampton was running its own poll by asking its customers whether they wanted their beverage in an Obama or a McCain cup, and had a running tally posted in the front window. When I was there two-thirds of the customers had “voted” Obama.
A recent WSJ article described East Hampton as “money run amuck,” and the overwhelming majority of it is liberal Democratic money. The Alec Baldwins of the world, rich celebrities with waterfront mansions who can’t resist spouting their far-left political opinions. And the obscenely wealthy Wall Streeters who forked over huge money to the Democrats in the last election.
That latter group is no doubt rethinking its Obama love, since it’s now clear that the affection is not mutual. The former group is either too stupid to know or too ideological to care that its wealth is also in the crosshairs of this administration. But the politicians are another matter entirely. They don’t realize that perception is reality? Average people can’t identify with $3 million weddings and $7 million yachts, especially in the midst of a recession, and will soon start to laugh at the long-standing claim that the Dems are the “party of the people.” If they aren’t laughing already, that is.
No they won’t. Even the wacko leftists aren’t enough to make most democrats vote republican.
The GOP will continue to damage its standing by standing for nothing- except opposing Democrats– leaving lots of people with no perceived choice.
One of the biggest issues in the GOP? The death tax starting at an amount that few poor people can relate to. A millionaire’s tax that captures the imagination only of rich people. Poor and middle class people hear this and it cements their view that the GOP is rich person’s party.
Immigration enforcement? The GOP has been a no show on constructive action for decades. Its trying to ride the issue but it has no comitment to it as we all know. It did almost zero to control the border.
Pension reform? The GOP is a latecomer here too. Its actually snuggled up the the trough with all the other officeholders: find me the GOP pension reformer a few years ago.
Abortion? 70 percent or more of people in California want the uneasy truce imposed by the Supreme Court left alone. The GOP choses religious zealots over what most people find acceptable.
Gay marriage? The GOP will continue to oppsoe it, even though most younger republicans couldn’t care less: in the process, the GOP seeks to impose the personal religious views of its members or personal dislike of gay marriage on the voters.
Schools? The GOP has virtually conceded the issue of education to the democrats: No Child Left Behind was a poor substitute for vouchers, for teacher tenure reform etc. The GOP has avoided the scut work needed for real educational reform.
The GOP has lost its reason for existence, other than sipping drinks, whining about Obama and not being democrats. That’s a pretty poor basis for voting for anyone, although it will proably win this year.
But its not enough. The GOP is losing because it stands for almost nothing. Even its fiscal reputation is in tatters. Even if the GOP captures Congress, it’ll only take them a year or two to become the cozy politicians paying no attention to the country and like 2006, they’ll be back to being a minority party.
They COULD stand up: For pension reform. Vouchers. Teacher tenure reform. Immigration reform and enforcement. Oppose pork. But that is ahrd work. So they’ll just be out there with a wet finger in the wind.
Aw, Shith!
“Immigration enforcement? The GOP has been a no show on constructive action for decades. Its trying to ride the issue but it has no comitment to it as we all know. It did almost zero to control the border.” BUT NUM NUNS, YOUR ARGUMENT IS ALWAYS THE SAME. WHAT BUSH DID WAS BAD. DEMS NOW DO THE SAME. ERGO, WHAT DEMS ARE DOING IS GOOD BECAUSE THE GOP DID IT FIRST. MR. SPOCK WOULD HAVE TROUBLE WITH THIS LOGIC. HIS EARS WOULD FLY OFF.
Abortion? “70 percent or more of people in California want the uneasy truce imposed by the Supreme Court left alone. The GOP choses religious zealots over what most people find acceptable.” SINCE WHEN DO THE DEMS CARE ABOUT WHAT THE MAJORITY THINKS? THE MAJORITY HAS OPPOSED EVERY MAJOR OBAMA/DEM EFFORT: SICK CARE “REFORM”, $ FOR CLUNKERS, AMD ALL THE REST. WHY, MY DEAR FRIEND SHITH, DO YOU THINK THE DEM POLLS ARE ON A SKI SLOPE TO THE BOTTOM?
Gay marriage? “The GOP will continue to oppsoe it…the GOP seeks to impose the personal religious views of its members or personal dislike of gay marriage on the voters.” NO, NOT THE RELIGIOUS VIEWS OF ITS MEMBERS. THE SOCIETAL VIEWS OF ABOUT 3000 YEARS OF HUMAN HISTORY, NOT TO METION EVERY SINGLE INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGE. I’M NOT SURE ABOUT BASQUE.
Schools? “The GOP has virtually conceded the issue of education to the democrats:…”
NO. THE DEMS HAVE CONCEDED THE ISSUE TO THE TEACHERS’ UNIONS AND THEY ARE USING THE DEPT. OF EDUCATION TO EMPLOY THE NEWLY COLLEGE EDUCATED WHO HAVE NO MARKETABLE SKILLS. THE FED EDUCATION OPERATION SHOULD BE COMPLETELY ABANDONED. IT COSTS TOO MUCH FOR WHAT IT DOES, IE, BASICALLY NOTHING.
“They [GOP]COULD stand up: For pension reform. Vouchers. Teacher tenure reform. Immigration reform and enforcement. Oppose pork. But that is ahrd work. So they’ll just be out there with a wet finger in the wind.” AW SHITH! QUIT EARLY MUCH? TAKE YOUR BALL AND GO HOME BEFORE THE FIRST INNING?
WE’VE SEEN THE DAMAGE THIS DEM CROWD HAS DONE. THANKS, I’LL TAKE RASPBERRY.
Sir:
I facinated by people like you: so anxious to fight, talk, emote, to argue without a purpose. But you cannot think-even for a minute. You can be lead by the nose so easily that the democrats and GOP do it to voters like you every few years, and you go on thinking that you’ve made a difference.
Let me try to set you straight. I voted for Bush BOTH times–I could not vote for Gore or Kerry if my life depended on it. I voted for Reagan BOTH times. But I can see what you evidently cannot.
If the GOP wants to stay in as the governing party, it MUST do more than throw red meat every 4 years to people like you. I bet even you can figure out why that would be a good idea.
What you don’t seem to grasp–in your reflexive rush to fight instead of think–is that the GOP lost its edge among independents in 2006 and 2008.
Think for a minute: did the GOP do anythign you can think of to make schools better? No: it leaves that to the teacher’s unions (did it do a thing during 2000-206 to control those unions? No.).
This is not a matter of slamming Bush for fun–its slamming the entire GOP as betrayers of the trust people placed in it–and the hope that it might recapture some of that trust by adhering to principles– not wedge issues developed only to win elections.
In their rush to be corrupt, and in their incompetence, the GOP lost congress: then it caused the loss of the Presidency: we are all paying for that now. Do we want the current congress to continue? Do we want a change? yes we do. but whatever we get won’t last if the GOP’s only claim to votes is “I’m not him.”
get it now?
The GOP MUST get back to some core principles to attract independents and prevent this from ever happening again.
Mr/Ms Shith asks: “get it now?”
Well no, I don’t get it. And since, as you say, I “cannot think even for a minute” I don’t even understand why you might think I would ever get it. What we have now is a Repub party, a Dem party, and a few never-won never-will-win parties [see Nader et al]. And you will now vote for whom? To put it another way, for whom will you vote now?
You sound like a romantic. The lack of perfection in reality and your fellow man, including me of course, appalls you. Ah, Marlon, if only the world could be just you and I and Tahiti at sunset!
“In their rush to be corrupt, and in their incompetence, the GOP lost congress: then it caused the loss of the Presidency:…”
Two additional problems caused the Repubs to lose the majority. The partisans of the MFSM and Repub voters who put them in power and then left them to their own divices. “My wife and my daughters were wilful too. They tried to defy me. I had to corrrrect them.” [See the bathroom scene from "The Shining."] You voted for them, but you didn’t attend to them, did you? If they went astray, did you corrrrect them? Did you try that? Perpetual tea party, if you will.
What I don’t get, though, in a big way is what is the point of your comment beides woe is me and a pox on them all. But perhaps you feel that is all there is to say on the matter.
The economic doctrines of Hayek and Von Mises are best in creating wealth for the masses. But what if you are an “elite” and wish to game the system? In that case, Keynesianism might be your preferred option. It provides an excuse to justify crony capitalism. A large corporation executive will be able to arrange meetings with “public servants” who also graduated from the top universities. The regulated often place the regulators under their thumb. Together they can stick it good and hard to smaller companies.
John Kerry and other so-called wealthy Progressive know that they can hire expensive accountants and tax attorneys to help them avoid paying the new taxes. Poorer business owners cannot afford this luxury. Guys and gals like Kerry also have contacts with elected officials and government bureaucrats that can provide them with a high degree of protection.
Look at George Soros and Bernie Made off with Millions, two of the best examples of gaming the system. Even John Skerry, a “man” who has never made his own money, but has married rich widows who have inherited there money from the wealthy first husband(IE Tereza and Se John Heinz, heir to the ketchup family fortune-Heinz has since bought off Tereza to get her away from them.) Soros makes money by gambling on losers losing, by destroying wealth rather than creating it. Madoff was the same way, which is why his scheme(ala SSI) eventually fell apart. Soros financial empire will fall apart eventually, it just takes some media glare to do it.
I think you are being slightly flippant about Soros and his financial empire falling apart eventually, when it is likely that his funding of certain progressive/socialist groups may well bring about the “falling apart” of the Republic before his empire bites the dust.
He helped expropriate Jewish property during WW11 and now it looks like he is planning the expropriation of American’s.
Cynic, you’re 1000 percent correct. Soros is a ghoul. According to the dictionary, a ghoul is “an evil spirit or demon in Moslem folklore believed to plunder graves and feed on corpses.” In my book he is a Nosferatu,who sucks the life out of everything it bites.
Don’t you understand Mr. Simon they do everything for the little people.
Call it shadenfreude but it would be wonderful to see these people suffer from their own policies.
Amen Pedro. Let’s see if we can make it happen y moving the givemint to chaneg the laws to a point where their fortunes can be used to cut the deficit they illegally caused.
The Democratic Party is the biggest scam in America and also one of its most significant evils.
No its not.
A lot of its leaders are, and a lot of its voters are without an intellectual anchor in a 6 inch pond. But millions of its voters are good, decent people, and a lot of them voted for Reagan.
A lot of them might be induced to vote republican too, if the GOP only stood for something other than “its my turn to play pork meister.”
Imagine what the GOP would be today if it had maintained some fiscal control under George Bush? If it passed legislation pushing for more DNA testing of criminals, union pension control, for an Amtrack that works, for control of college tuition, for fixing all those bridges that need fixing (instead of bridges to nowhere), and if they had controlled the border? Wouldn’t you be proud of a GOP like that? Wouldn’t a lot of people vote for that GOP based on trust?
What the democrats are doing now is horrific, but a lot of people feel they have no home at the GOP. That the GOP is simply a way of paying favors to corporations instead of unions. Of lowering capital gains taxes even more while raing income taxes on middle class people by cutting the child tax credit or leaving renters with no deductions at all. Lots of people think that the GOP is happy to favor corporations that move offshore to pay no taxes. Too abd the GOP has done nothign to modify those perceptions.
Bubba is back seat grope white trash. Flashy style, devoid of even a hint of class. But at least he didn’t have to pay for a quickie, like Gore; only the cigars. Gore is the reincarnation of Elmer Gantry. Same motivation, different God. It’s all about the money. Kerry is a cartoon character, a two dimensional wannabee Prince John. That the good people of Massachusets can’t see beyond his coiffure is astonishing. Time to clean house.
Power corrupts. Absolut power is a cocktail made up of one part Vodka, six parts Kool-Aid.
The Democratic Party has a bevy of Marxists, Leninists, anarchists, Maoists, Euro-”soft”Socialists, black nationalist/liberation theologists, and a smattering of other leftist, statist, collectivist, “redistributionist” splinters.
They all come together decked out in full regalia, wearing the costumes and colors of their particular aggrievement. Keeping the victimhood “alive” is the end game. Real or imagined slights, no matter. Sell by date on any particular grievance will outlast a Twinkie or beef jerky by a factor of hundreds of years.
In fact, adopting the language and “coding” of victimhood for groups that need victimhood street cred, is de rigueur. That is, if you want to become a member of the Whine Club of the Month, it helps to borrow the platforms and slogans of existing members.
The reason this cocktail is so potent, is because the helmsmen seized pop culture and any/every semblance of honor within the mass market “news” apparatus, academia, and entertainment. Where opinions get “formed” …was sure to be “controlled”.
If ever there was a recipe for corruption, it is in the seats of unchecked power. Not only did the leftists betray the American people by abandoning their posts as the “eyes and ears” watching for venal excesses…they conspired to assist those excesses. They covered up corruption, graft, lying, stealing and cheating…moreover, they took part in it.
JournoKlan members went a little further in the furtherance of the conspiracy. They conspired to attack anyone not invited to the party…with true or untrue allegations…little matter in the difference. Only the result was important.
One party, one side…gets this protection. One party, gets the privilege of lying to the American people with impunity.
And, DARE to unveil the sinister conspiracy as a news outlet, an institution of higher learning, a member of entertainment…and you will be blackballed, attacked repeatedly and viciously and you will be called every filthy, vile name, you will have every filthy, vile slander heaped upon you. There is an open and naked conspiracy to do so.
Tea Party grass roots citizens, fighting back against having this land of ours ripped from their pockets and purses by the “redistributionists” are on the receiving end of this conspiracy as we speak.
It is the right thing to press on against this well schemed assault, it is the fair thing to expose this plot…and by God it is time to stand and be counted against it.
“The Democratic Party has a bevy of Marxists, Leninists, anarchists, Maoists, Euro-”soft”Socialists, black nationalist/liberation theologists, and a smattering of other leftist, statist, collectivist, “redistributionist” splinters.”
You need to add one more thing to your list: the Democrats also ideologically believe in crony capitalism! It provides the opportunity of wealthy elites to game the system in their favor. John Maynard Kenynes implicitly advocated the close cooperation between elites in both the public and private sectors. They were supposedly to do so on behalf of the unwashed masses. The reality is that the elites, in the real world, ended up taking care of each other.
Republicans can often behave hypocritically—but they no not explicitly adhere to the doctrine of crony capitalism. They are usually aware when falling into economic sin and debauchery.
David, to add to the thrust of your comments, I would point out that the reason that major corporations so often do not oppose onerous regulatory regimes and/or legislative tax/regulative proposals, the sort of which often serve to strangle small businesses, is that they calculate that to actively oppose such things will only serve to anger legislators who will out of spite enact even MORE onerous regulations; thus they simply add the reguisite tax attnys/accountants/computer-power to their overhead and pass the costs on to the customer in the form of dollars or cents/widget. By contrast most small business have neither the cash-flow to absorb/fund the added costs nor the unfettered ability to easily pass such costs on to their consumers. (And of course an added bonus for already well est.big business is that such regulatory/tax burdens drive out/keep out the competition)
“By contrast most small business have neither the cash-flow to absorb/fund the added costs nor the unfettered ability to easily pass such costs on to their consumers.”
Sarbanes Oxley
Most people don’t understand that SARBOX doesn’t address those off balance sheet items that made the Enron fiasco possible, but it defintiley hurts small-medium US businesses.
The Democratic Party has a bevy of Marxists, Leninists, anarchists, Maoists, Euro-”soft”Socialists, black nationalist/liberation theologists, and a smattering of other leftist, statist, collectivist, “redistributionist” splinters.
Following WWII and through the Cold War, if you didn’t know whether a country was communist, all you had to do is look at the country’s name. If the name included the words “people” or “democratic”, without fail it was a communist country. It looks like that applies to certain political parties as well.
I agree, cf, that the democrats are professional victims. The status of victimhood also comes with the necessity of needing a villain, the antagonist upon whom all blame can be laid. Without the villain, the victim has no one to blame but himself and that cannot be allowed in the church of liberalism, so what we get is the constant drumbeat of “racism” aimed at anyone who fails to appreciate the victimization of the oppressed liberal.
That is correct Roger. “Power to the People” Speaker Pelosi said as she flounced off her to private jet.
“At this moment, two of their leaders from a supposedly disadvantaged minority are about to be tried for ethical transgressions (read: thievery) even Congress couldn’t sweep under the rug. Never mind that these transgressions mostly exploit the very minority these people purport to represent.”
That is so very true, not that you would ever get the mainstream media to ever recgonize that. Think about it. Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters, the supposed champions of the poor in their districts, probably did more to take advantage of their own constituents than any other member of Congress, and that’s saying a lot! Jack Murtha, and William Jefferson of Louisiana (the “money in the freezer” guy) would have been proud of them. Problem is, they were taking advantage of the people who could least afford it, which makes them truly despicable people.
But what never ceases to amaze me is that the biggest Socialists in the Democratic Party are usually the richest people around. I don’t really see Nancy Pelosi clipping supermarket coupons or John Kerry taking mass transit these days, do you? And when Mr. Obama plays golf at an “exclusive” (probably restricted) club, I wonder how many of his pals from “Reverand” Wright’s church play there too (that is, of course, EXCEPT the good “Reverand” himself, who never seems to be at a loss for cash)? You think Joe Biden is going to buy a Chevy Volt? And I doubt you’d see any of the Kennedy’s ever staying at a Holiday Inn or having to struggle with some moron at an insurance company over an improperly filed medical claim. Could you IMAGINE what Teddy’s medical bill was? And he DIED!.
Almost all of the members of Congress (notice I said “almost,” since there really are several people who actually do seem to want to represent their constituents)are a bunch of hucksters, harpies, and whores. To them it’s all about perks and power and how much of the two they can amass in Congress before they “retire” to a lucrative career as a lobbyist. It’s enough to make you want to puke.
Throw them out in November. Make them all look for real jobs. Take a look at term limits (that will be the day when Congress votes to end their own gravy train). Shine a spotlight on every major lobbyist in Washington and show how much money they’re shelling out and to who (not that the mainstream media would be interested in that; they are too busy covering Clinton’s wedding).
I think it was Harry Truman who once said that any politician who left office richer than when he went in had to be a crook. Problem today is, they go in very rich, come out richer, and than get richer still as a lobbyist. Anybody our there besides me see anything wrong with that?
As who says?
Always credit the geniuses of our age when credit is due them!
(And remember: It’s not sold in any store!)
“…This same Democratic president, however, continues to collect big royalties from books he may or may not have written…”
Ongoing political payola from a dominant foreign publisher hampered in its American operations by federal laws.
Time to do a bit of pruning in this country French Style OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!!!
First, props must be bestowed upon Mr. Simon for this post. Aside from insights that dissect today’s Democratic party like a frog in a 7th grade science class, the post reads like music. It’s got rhythm and pulse. It’s meaty and breezy at the same time; it ebbs and flows like Coltrane circa ’57, Rakim on “Microphone Fiend” (1988), or early Eminem (when his flow & his subject matter shook up the stagnant late 90′s hip hop scene). Sure, Mr. Simon is a writer by trade, so it stands to reason that he should write well. But this post still stands out. It makes significant points that leave preening liberals’ souls exposed like Mel Gibson on caught on tape after knocking back one too many Foster’s, but it does so in an almost jovial, artful manner. And as Martha Stewart always used to say, “that’s a good thing,” since there aren’t enough artful conservative writers (the Left has most of the artistic firepower, after all). Well done.
As for the points made in the post, the beat does, indeed, go on. And it’s not going to stop any time soon. Conservatives have lost the culture. America used to be an proudly Middle class nation. Now nobody wants to be associated with anything even remotely connected to middle class-ness. It’s too bourgeois. We’re now a nation of vulgar social climbers. And nobody wants to be reminded that his or her origins aren’t particularly patrician.
Most of our current rulers’ ancestors fled meager existences in their places of origin (primarily Europe), where they were locked — by birth — into low-status stations in their countries’ caste systems, in hopes of building better lives in the American meritocracy. European aristocrats didn’t flock to America’s shores … peasants did. But we now have an entire ruling class made of people who, once they wrestled their way into money and power, attempted to install themselves as America’s de facto aristocrats.
Unfortunately, they’ve largely succeeded. And the academic/media/entertainment culture that used to at least pay lip service to the idea of a noble, virtuous, American dream-pursuing middle class that was rooted in common sense and some semblance of the Protestant work ethic, now openly sneers at bourgeois values and divides the country into bien pensant coastal sophisticates who are loyal Progressive Democrats, underclass victims who are also loyal Democrats, and Fox News-watching, slack-jawed rednecks who are “low information” RethugliKKKlansmen.
So anyone who cares what others think of him/her, and who hopes to achieve and maintain any sort of social standing, has strong incentive to identify with the Democratic party. It’s the party of the educated, glamorous smart people. And it does really good things for America’s little people, insofar as it fights to prevent the “righ-twing axis-of-evil” comprised of Wall Street rich guys, evil corporations and knuckle-dragging, inbred RethugliKKKan oppressors from oppressing/victimizing women, gays and people of color.
Unfortunately, this is how it now stands in our culture. And that won’t change overnight, even if Republicans recapture the House, Senate & White House. In fact, it’s only going to get worse as older generations pass (with a little nudge from ObamaCare). So the challenge for Conservatives can’t be understated: we have to start winning hearts and minds — not just so that we can elect right-of-center politicians, but also so that we can restore traditional American values.
T.S.@15/
Agree with all you say–and there are lots of us out here/there who think likewise. I’m stealing the phrase “bien pensant coastal sophisticates.” Forty years ago I began using the term “Atlantic Coast Provincials” to describe that same intellectually inter-bred crowd of “sophisticats”–our more “cosmopolitan” “bettors”–but it’s FAR, FAR too geographically limiting–now I have a new, better one…
The Clintons, Obamas, Kerrys, Kennedys ad infinitum display all the attribute of the arisotcratic elite in the ancient regime in France. Their self indulgences, arrogance, faked moral superiority et al are repulsive. To see the Princess Royal walking down the aisle in her million dollar wedding ceremony is a throwback to Versailles. However as Louis XIV the predecessor of Bill Clinton once declared : “apres moi la deluge”.
The Sun King had far more dignity than Mr. Clinton, Louis would graciously thank his Monica for services rendered and procede to move on to other matters.
Don’t forget John Edwards, another fraud. Doesn’t he own a multi-million dollar mansion?
As T.S. says in #15, Roger, you’ve hit your stride.
Wonderful imagery, excellent metaphors — AND you attack their underlying precepts instead of, as in the past, the rotten fruits thereof.
In short, you’re angry. Finally. Finally!
Stay there.
BTW: “A Confederacy of Dunces” was perhaps the finest novel ever written for its genuine dialog.
The Ruling Class offers up (sorta kinda) a couple more in an attempt to mollify the lumpen Others. Their (ruling class’s) policies, ostensibly meant to help the aggrieved and the underdog, merely serve to keep them on the plantation (?reservation?)…has any of them ever, EVER repudiated that snake, the good Reverend Al? (who, come to think of it, is really just another mob boss, figuratively and literally – maybe that’s why he is such a “success”.)
It is ironic, but telling, that the current pair in trouble are members of a so-called “disadvantaged class”, and yes, their transgressions exploit the very minority they supposedly represent.
Don’t forget Rev Wright in his million + home in the Chicago area.. They are all FRAUDS
If the confederacy of dunces is the Democrat elite, well, they’re not, are they?
They are making a very cool and luxurious living out of all this.
Now that’s not “dunce”, is it?
And further they are only participating in their pet theory of “zero sum game”, and making sure they are not the zero.
It takes folk with a bit more honesty to realise there can be win/win games (if one can get rid of the political, parasite class!)
John B, by the Conderacy of Dunces I was referring to the JournoList crew, not Clinton, et al, who, as I’m sure most would agree, are laughing all the way to the bank.
What? No trolls with a Tu Quoque rebuttal? This is even too stinky for them? Move away? Nothing to see here?
I read somewhere that the median income of Obama voters was a tad higher than that of McCain voters. Unfortunately I can’t locate the reference. If anyone can please post it.
“The party of the people” line may have been true once but as Roger points out, there is no empirical evidence today to support it. It’s not as if the Republicans now carry that title, of course.
Probably – but the Obama voters by dint of demographics pay much more in taxes.
You mean supporters of Obama are “supposed to pay more taxes”. It’s only when they become highly ranked in the government they become shamed into doing so.
“Its,” Roger. Not “it’s.”
The left has been swept in on a tide that has left them thinking they need no longer hide thier excesses, but the tide is about to turn.
Not very original, but I tend to like Vonnegut when this topic comes up.
“The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people do not acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.
Both imaginary parties are bossed by Winners. When Republicans battle Democrats, this much is certain: Winners will win.
The Democrats have been the larger party in the past — because their leaders have not been as openly contemptous of Losers as the Republicans have been.
Losers can join imaginary parties. Losers can vote.
Losers have thousands of religions, often of the bleeding heart variety. The single religion of the Winners is a harsh interpretation of Darwinism, which argues that it is the will of the universe that only the fittest should survive. The most pitiless Darwinists are attracted to the Republican party.”
nice posturing, Lefty, but you seem to take the path of most Lefties – change the subject.
Those in power from the Left are elite, arrogant snobs. Take a look at all of the Lefties in the Senate – all millionaires.
Consider Harry Reid (D-NV) who has been a “public servant” since the early 1970s, yet he has amassed a fortune of multiples of millions. Invested wisely, my butt. He is a liar and thief and partner of the mob. How can he amass a fortune when he’s disallowed from participating in another line of work as a Senator – remember he admonished Coburn (R-OK) from practicing medicine when home in OK.
And the rest of them are pathetic pukes. Rockerfeller, Kerry, Durbin, Obama, all play the game of being for the people, and of course that includes themselves who they always serve first.
Consider: no social security COLI for two years while they get pay increases and bonuses for their staffs; and we seniors will have an increase in our Medicare premiums while Congress gets an increase in benefits – elite, arrogant snobs!!!!!!!
Demanding the freedom to work for our own survival, without standing in the way of others, is not “pitiless.” On the other hand, demanding that some work for the benefit of others is beyond pitiless. It is down right mean and oppressive.
“The Democrats have been the larger party in the past — because their leaders have not been as openly contemptous of Losers as the Republicans have been.”
I wonder if you were actually able to type this with a straight face. The Dems have been unabashed vocal critics of all whom oppose them for as long as I can remember – and I’m 62 years young. They have the nasty mouth to match their disposition. Jimmeny (peanut brain) Carter comes to mind. His ideas drop down from whatever he uses for a brain with no more thought given than a gum-ball dropping from a machine.
Lemme see – how many criticisms have we heard from GW Bush about Obama? Clinton likewise could not help himself and opened his pie-hole many times in criticism of Bush. What did Reagan or G.H.W. Bush ever say concerning Clinton’s actions?
Oh…none?
One of your best of many bests, Roger….
The stand-up philosopher Bob Hope once said:
“No one party can fool all of the people all of the time. That’s why we have two parties.”
Great piece. I am going to link to it at my blog. The Democrats love for bureaucracy is another thing that ought to concern us. It seems every “crisis” that Liberals must save us from requires an new bureaucracy staffed with ideological radicals and the goal is to control our lives not solve any real world problems.
…our political leaders now behave more or less like members of competing Mafia families.
It helps to keep in mind what a somewhat addled Pete Stark recently told his constituents.
The notion that we the people are, at best, useful as a function of various “identity groups” to which we can be assigned or, alternatively, ancillary to games élitists play. Our presence out here in the hinterland and the fact that we still vote is somewhat of a nuisance to DC insiders.
(You’ll notice I took a little license in expanding on Pete’s comments…)
The federal government can do most anything in this country
C’mon people … You know that some comrades are just more equal than other comrades! BO NEEDS those weekly golf outings and multiple vacations. Michelle NEEDS those $500 sneakers and multiple White House bashes.
Now hush, and go back to work to pay for all our comrades’ needs.
Our good friend Lefty does not appreciate the conservative adherence to the greatest poverty reducing program ever conceived,free-market capitalism. That’s, at least in principal, a core belief of most people who tend to vote Republican. It is also the wonderful by-product of our fundamental believe in the primacy of liberty as a political value. Accordingly those who he refers to as “losers”, stand the best chance of improving their circumstances by supporting the party of the right.
Alan wrote:
“I must confess to being overly uncomfortable around black people. My failing.”
I do too, but it’s not my failing. Unfortunately, I have come to the point where, when I see a black person, I automatically think: “There’s a 95% chance that guy voted for Obama, and about a 90% chance he supports him. So there’s a 90/95% chance he’s an idiot. So I won’t be hiring him, or trying to befriend him, or doing business with him.”
I suspect I’m not the only white (or Asian) guy who thinks this way now.
That’s natural, but dangerous. It falls into the progressive Democrats’ trap of assigning value (either a positive or a negative value) to an individual based on what group he or she belongs to or is perceived to belong to.
Notice what Alan, to his credit, went on to say: “So I compensate by listening, by treating each black person I meet as an individual, worthy of my consideration and attention. I do this for everyone I meet, for I would hate to be treated as a cipher, a cog in the great machine.”
If the Republican Party is really the party of the individual — or, more accurately, if conservative philosophy is really the philosophy of the individual — then you gotta give that guy the benefit of the doubt. Find out if maybe he’s in the 5% who saw through Obama’s fakery back in 2008, or if maybe he’s one of the few percent more who have had the scales fall from their eyes since then. I can tell you from my own experience that a lot of folks I work with, of all ethnicities and skin tones, who used to have Obama screensavers on their PCs don’t have them any more, and the number of Obama stickers in the parking lot has dwindled dramatically.
Don’t give up on that hypothetical guy. If he is the type who has the wisdom and humility to learn from experience, he may turn out to be the best friend, employee, customer, or colleague you ever had.
Bravo Mary, beautifully said. We’re not groups, like the Lefties
think we are. We are the strong, free men and women, brothers in
our country that our Founding Fathers knew we were.
Excellent piece Roger, and mostly excellent comments guys and gals. One or two trolls, with more to follow I’m sure, as the closer one gets to popping the proverbial progressive bubble, the angrier and more vitriolic the opponent’s screed.
I still contend as each day passes, that America’s path more closely parallels the decline of Rome. I’m not sure even winning at the polls in November would do much to rectify what really needs to be done. We’re perilously close to running out of time, and with the election of 2006 & 2008, the clock moved forward several clicks in a blink.
“I still contend as each day passes, that America’s path more closely parallels the decline of Rome.”
Mmm. Tex, you’re right, in many ways. However, we have one thing the plebeians didn’t have, that may make the difference between downfall and rebirth: Firearms.
We have guns its true, unlike the plebians of Rome, but without a proper understanding of morality based on Christ, we head toward a violent barbarism at best.
Comrades !
Our glorious Leaders are just trying to repeat the glorious feats that made famous the Soviet Nomenklatura and the Romanian Glorious Leaders, the Ceausescu family, with their fabulous dachas and their villas with faucets of massive gold !
Comrades !
Let’s applaud the dedication and the passion of our Great Leaders !
Comrades !
Our Great Leaders are blessed with the money that they receive, thanks to their cunning strategies, from Saudi Arabia ! Let’s rejoice for our Glorious Leaders’ cleverness !
Caviar-Communists of the world, UNITE !
And allahu akbar !
Maybe the Obamas were not invited by mutual agreement because their presence would call too much attention to how the rest of the country is faring. Or was it a calculated snub with implications for 2012?
Speaking of raking it in, wait till the Obamas leave the White House. It wouldn’t surprise me if Barry outdid Algore.
While I agree in principle with what Roger has written, how exactly are Republicans any better? Being a life long conservative who cherishes his personal freedom, I have not witnessed any movement by Repubs to decrease the size and scope of government, they have had their own share of corruption and embarrasement. We have increased the size of Medicare under GWB. Government grows larger under every administration and Congress regardless of affliation, to whom do we turn?
David
David: Very true. But with GWB he was trying to cull older demographic voters with Rx coverage. We get into trouble when we try to be DemLite. But that’s the name of the game.
We have become a nation of takers-everyone wants something for nothing from the government. Too many people and now generations of people have become all too dependent upon the government-for everything. And the MSM will skewer anyone who takes a different path.
It’s as I’ve said before: the Dems have committed the three greatest acts of political charlatanism ever. They are:
1) by supporting the Civil Rights Act, they simultaneously transformed the Democratic Party from a party of racists to a party of the minority and transferred the racist guilt to Republicans because they supported the 10th Amendment (and in the process killing the concept of federalism as we know it);
2) by supporting the concept of wealth redistribution, they simultaneously covered up the fact that they were always the party of the rich (since the days of Thomas Jefferson, the spiritual Founder of the Democratic Party) and increased their support among the working class by painting themselves as standing up for the little guy and transferred the moniker of representing “Big Business” to the Republicans because most Republicans rightly recognized that wealth redistribution is outright theft;
AND
3) the Democrats has always been the party of war and supported many wars against foreign nations, even when America’s interests were not threatened. So, during the Vietnam Era is conveniently hidden from view that JFK started the war, but the brunt of the blame fell upon Richard Nixon’s shoulders (even though it was Nixon who ended the war, but let’s not get into particulars). We also forget that it was Woodrow Wilson who lied America into World War I after running on an anti-war platform. We also know that for the longest time FDR wanted us to fight in Germany, and was given proper context to go in because of Pearl Harbor (let’s not beat them over the heads with that, since the Nazis needed their butts kicked). We also know that it was Harry S. Truman who got us into the mired mess of the Korean Conflict. Finally, Bill Clinton didn’t actually use the UN to go into Kosovo. However, Bush paid the price for his wars in Afghanistan and Iraq because his steadfastly believes that the true enemy of America is Islam, and many Democrats supported this as well (pace the Iraq War Resolution which had almost 90 Dem Congressmen and 10 Dem Senators supporting it). Once the war started going south, then the Dems absolved themselves of their support by blasting Bush and swinging hard towards the anti-war rhetoric. We are still reaping what they have sowed all those years ago in 2004.
A fourth charlatanism can be added: the Party who has always had the totalitarian instinct also transferred this identity to Bush and Republican Party with talk of fascism and theocracy building. However, it took Obama to become President to reveal where the true totalitarian instinct lay bear.
“where the true totalitarian instinct lay bear.”
I think you meant “bare”, unless you are N.Z. Bear who blogs at thetruthlaidbear.com.
Thanks.
Keep in mind that the Democrats did not support the Civil Rights movement. They pretend they did.
When Democrats say they supported the Civil Rights Act I tend to agree they did. LBJ did stake his Presidency on the Act, as did many Southern Democrats who believed in it as well. Also, let’s not forget that some liberals outside of politics supported the Act (such as the purveyor of this site, David Horowitz and Ron Radosh).
Well said Roger. Underneath all of this in-your-face excess is the real story – decay. No matter how fancy their ballroom may be; when the floorboards rot underfoot, the dancers fall.
I’m not sure how this analogy translates into upcoming real events but it may not be pretty.
Being a Democratic President, is a temp job on the magical road to untold riches in the fraudulent syphonomics that is Wall Street.
Financial skimming of the public-at-large after the days of Presidential office are the real reward.
Basic salary of US President today after taxes is approx $286,492.90.
Bill Clinton would have had to work 30+ years at the top job in the US, as President, to cover the cost of Chelsea’s wedding day.
At a time when so many families are suffering putting food on the table, Chelsea Clinton is a national disgrace. Her all-human specialist Colunbia Studies is bogus, she has not the first clue about health and survival of the average family in the US.
I had the pleasure of attending a social event at my boss’s house. He was a millionaire entrepreneur/academic. The house was a rambling mansion in the hills of San Mateo County. The attendees were CEOs, VCs and other millionaires from Silicon Valley. I knew that I had fallen down the rabbit hole when the conversation turned to the lack of compassion for the “little people” and lack of diversity among the rich Republicans in Silicon Valley. All this from a bunch of rich, Caucasian Democrat elites. As Jack Nicholson is reputed to have said ““My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-b****.”
Re: the Democratic Party – As Ignatius J. would say, “Who produced this abortion?!”
While I agree in principle with what Roger has written, how exactly are Republicans any better? Being a life long conservative who cherishes his personal freedom, I have not witnessed any movement by Repubs to decrease the size and scope of government, they have had their own share of corruption and embarrasement. We have increased the size of Medicare under GWB. Government grows larger under every administration and Congress regardless of affliation, to whom do we turn?
Hear, Hear…
Since Bush…(blah blah …anything)
THEN
we keep in power a communist-filojihadist-blacksupremacist administration.
Great logic !
This is the root of my anger. Which party or president ever made a credible effort to secure our borders, reduce the size of government, rein in entitlements? Answer: Neither and not one.
gsarcs
Although it’s not as easy as falling off of a log, you better rethink that opinion by doing some research on what various presidents have wanted to do but been unable to get anyone in the House or Senate introduce due to the fact that everyone knew it would never reach a vote but would be used as propaganda against those introducing it. Just like the fact that four years running Bush warned about the impending housing crisis if Freddie and Fanny weren’t reigned in, there have been a couple of Republican presidents who wanted to halt the immigration monster and the entitlements monster. Of course, digging that up is a lot more difficult than just yelling, “they’re all the same” right along with the democrat fifth column.
Years of telling people what’s coming if there isn’t change hasn’t made a damn bit of difference because the majority of those who are now pissed off were busy going along to get along themselves, just like the RINO critters they elected when they weren’t sitting out elections to “teach them a lesson”. Now that ignoring the problems until the socialist crowd has total control of everything, it’s time to admit that “they’re all the same” is just another democrat propaganda line and that a hell of a lot of people helped the now reigning thugs spread it. Anytime the fifth column starts pumping out that sort of thing think of the “democrat, party of the working man” crap. Then think of how and why so many people were willing to fall for the democrat propaganda line and how effective it was in changing YOUR opinions exactly the way propaganda is intended to.
Quit reacting. Start Acting. Admit that 80% of all the clichés you know are based on democrat lies to begin with. The democrat thugs would have never regained control of the Congress if the same people who are enchanted with the “they’re all the same” BS had been thinking rather than reacting exactly the way the democrat propagandists wanted them to.
First the Democrats are the party of the Americans because they are the only party that doesn’t say ‘The poor should just work harder’ second they don’t try to disfranchise 50% of Americans because they don’t pay taxes.
Finally I agree with you they are the liberal elite and they want to rule the country unlike the Republicans who want to rule the country.
As for the Bozoette certainly they are plenty of wealthy dames who’s daddies can give them multi million dough weddings, eh?
Why pick on the Chelser?
Not to feed the troll, but:
1) The poor should work harder. Do you think that Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Jay-Z, Jessica Simpson and Michael Dell were born with silvers spoons in their mouths?
2) The poor ARE disenfranchised because they don’t have to worry about a tax bill every April 15th and feel they are entitled to others’ work. I work with them and worked for them at the Social Security Administration.
3) How can you say that the Republican Party just want to “rule the country” when the Democratic Party just passed a bill which mandates that everyone buy insurance and several Democratic pols are caught on tape saying that the federal government is without limit to its power?
I assume you come to Pajamas Media to get a different perspective. Perhaps you should read the articles that are posted and visit the links to the articles as opposed to just commenting?
Then again, maybe the poor shouldn’t work harder. Instead, maybe they should engage in “welfare arbitrage” whereby they get the majority of the benefits provided to them by the local, state and federal governments and engage in under the table work to get paid at a nontaxable wage.
Please VDH’s column today. It gives you a different look at things.
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
Thomas Jefferson
It’s time to bring it on.
Well we all couldn’t be invited to the wedding, sorry you feel bad about it. I think someone around here has a pushpop for you. Might make you feel better.
Did I hear Hillary say, “Let them eat cake!” The quote and the aftermath may be sooner than one thinks.
The other huge class misconception is that wealthy donors donate to republicans. Well, Wall Street and New Jersey and based big pharma give big-time to politicians but they are mostly democrats.
All pretenses are truly gone. When we see the Obama’s constant partying for which they spare no expense, taking their umpteenth vacation with Michelle recently reserving 30 rooms for a week in a five star European hotel at over $2,000 a night with a special plane chartered just to ferry over their dog, with the Clintons spending $5 million on their daughter’s wedding, and now with two more Democratic congresspersons caught with the hands in the cookie jar, lining their pockets, it has become apparent to everyone with any awareness that the Democrats have been accustomed to living their lives as America’s ruling class nobility, but where the tax payers ultimately have to pick up the tab. All their finger-pointing speeches about evil rich corporations ring very hollow, and all their professed compassion for the poor and disadvantaged seem totally fake and unctuous.
I’ve always found it amusing that BO/Biden (or Dem in general) bumper stickers are far more prevalent on SAABs,Volvos,or the largest SUVs made. When these hypocritical Libs start paying every penny of taxes they actually owe – rather than sheltering their wealth or taking every viable deduction for which they are eligible (generally found for them by tax lawyers and pricey accountants that the average person couldn’t afford) – and if the government won’t let them do this then they should write a check to the Treasury at the end of every year in the full amount – that’s when they can stand on their little soap box and preach to me about paying more taxes and not resisting more government spending. Until then they can shut up.
Not my Volvo. I’m a bit further to the right than Atilla the Hun. Besides…you’re stereotyping.
For me they make a good car…and since they were owned by Ford when I bought my 2007…I bought American.
this article is missing one small thing. Whos house the Clitons(Bubba/Hilldebeast) were staying at over the weekend. They were staying at the house of the daughter of GEORGE SOROS. Isnt it funny how Soros name keeps coming up no matter who it is in the demoncrap party? The going joke with Dopebama is how many times he talks to Soros on his Blackberry, even his telepropmter doesnt get that much use. How much has Soros given to the democraps since 2000? Id bet over 1 BILLION when you consider all his far left orgs. Funny how many of them have ex-Clintonistas(Podesta, AlWhore, Gorelicker) or Dopbomots(Van Jones, Anita Dumb) working for him. Soros is the real problem. He needs to be charged with treason.
I’m still wondering why the wedding of a child of some ethically suspect has-beens is news. It belongs in the wedding section of the local paper of wherever they claim to belong.
Or is she supposed to join forces with Prince Charlie and Al Gore and save the world? I’m not on the mailing list.
I’ve been saying for years that the Democrats are nothing more than Reactionary Conservative Optimates that use Populist rhetoric coupled with Bread and Circus payouts to lie their way into office. Usually whomever I’m talking to autopilots into incomprehension and blathers about about the ‘meanness’ and racism of the Repulitards and how wonderful the ‘HappyWord’ lexicon of the Dem’s sounds.
Now we have Nixon part two in a Jimmy Carter mask inhabiting the White House. This should be entertaining if nothing else.
While I have to agree that Democrats have given up the title of Party of the Common Man, the GOP has yet to take it up, and it is doubtful they will. The GOP leadership continues to support tax cuts for the rich and has yet to come out forcefully against affirmative action and illegal immigration, which harms the most vulnerable of all races. Until the GOP changes they will be leaving votes on the table but, worst of all, they will continue with the same “compassionate conservative” policies that led to our decline during the Bush Era.
” … policies that led to our decline during the Bush Era.”
Our ‘decline during the Bush Era’ came from Joe Average wanting to have his cake and eat it too economically while he lapped up every bit of democrat propaganda put in front of him. If the Republicans and Independents who bitched and still bitch about Bush had been paying some small amount of attention to what Bush was actually doing and what Congress was actually doing instead of cheering on the democrat attack machine they’d have never given Congress over to the National Socialist Democrat party.
Instead of being responsible, though, the majority of those who say they’re Republican or Independent bathed the housing credit bubble bath betting another one would come along so they could move from economic bubble to economic bubble like they’ve been doing for nearly twenty years now. All the while they pretended that the socialist left in this country wasn’t really real the same way lefties say, “it wasn’t rape, rape”. Come on, the vast majority of people bitching about Bush don’t even know what he was trying to do other than what the democrat propaganda machine said about him. Bush and every other Republican you may bitch about was still a cut above the thugs in charge now and anyone who didn’t realize that it could get a hell of a lot worse than Bush with a Republican Congress didn’t care enough to pay attention. They sure as hell didn’t care enough to read any history instead of adopting the conspiracy theory of the week as a means to ease their social interactions.
Sorry, there hasn’t been a decline. The people in this country have exactly the government they deserve because the majority of them can’t tolerate the drudgery of working long term on anything political when the democrat propaganda machine offers them a quick fix or a magic messiah as an alternative. People who sat out elections or actually voted democrat because they were mad at republicans should be looking in the mirror, not bitching about what the republican party did. The republican party did exactly what those willing to get involved and run that party wanted it to do, not what those who bitch but don’t participate wanted it to. The democrat party works the same way but the leftist socialists in this country had the dedication to take over the democrat party which is why the leftists are running everything now. They had the dedication to work long term instead of bitching that no one else was doing it for them and the conservatives in this country didn’t have that same level of dedication, not nearly.
have a nice day
This type of behavior is to be expected and will get much, much worse. Less than one of every 300 US citizens has a net worth exceeding five-million dollars. Democrat, Republican, or other, these “people” own or control nearly everything in our country today, to serve themselves. Ordinary citizens mean nothing in this context.
My teen-aged son came home from school one day during the 2008 election season mouthing phrases about the GOP being the “party of the rich” and the Dems being the party of the “common man.” I took him for a ride to check out campaign signs and bumper stickers.
Obama signs clearly prevailed in most of the poor, roll-up-your-window-and-lock-the-door neighborhoods, although the two trailer parks we visited were evenly divided. Moving up the socio-economic scale into the lower and mid middle class areas, we found McCain clearly a winner. It was not until we moved into upper middle class neighborhoods that Obama started making a serious comeback. Do I need to tell you that Obama was the EASY winner in the rich neighborhoods?
Hardly a scientific study, but it was interesting.
Off with their heads!!!
A secular religion of fame and power subtley demands that we worship other men and women. The mindset of royalty and special privilege was never successfully overcome by the American Revolution. This will probably be the bread and circus of the fall of the American experiment, unless they can value their own interests and powers greater than their own mortality.
There are still far too many people asleep at the switch. Far too many political and corporate elites lie, cheat and steal. The hypocrisy is unbelievable. To them, the Power Brokers, the only rule is not to get caught and even if you are caught, there are little to no consequences. And this attitude is passed down from generation to generation. Meanwhile, they play the little people against each other via political warfare DEM vs. REP, middle class vs. poor, brown vs. white, all the while paying off special interest and continuing on to the next scheme. Far too many good, decent people fall for this crap.
Shouldn’t it be all U.S. Citizens of every color and gender with honorable values and traditions with love for God, Country and their Neighbor standing together against the destroyers?
Where are the real leaders, people with principles who are willing to take a stand?
And not a damn thing will change after November.
January 20 is the start of training day, like the movie, except the veteran wins.
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Look at Tea Party darling Scott Brown.
And I am a hard core republican and Tea Party supporter. Maybe I am just overly pessimistic.
Oh, it’s not just you that is pessimistic.
hmm, I was wondering how Billy Jeff afforded such a big shindig on a government pension. Silly me.
What the Democrats have done, and rather successfully, is substitute for the lost genuine working class ethnics – Irish, Italians, Poles – and the lost Scotch-Irish Southern Whites and the lost small business owners, who were never comfortable with country club Republicans, what they have done is cobbled together a coalition of parasites: black parasites, hispanic parasites, single white mother parasites, academic parasites, homosexual parasites: all those who know, without ever admitting it, that only the state can extract/steal money from the productive and spread it around to them.
The Democrats and their constituents have a one word answer to this terrible truth: RACISSS!
But it won’t work. Productive America is finally on to the Democrat momsers.
Slaughter in November.
It’s technically not “noblesse oblige”, but rather “droit de seigneur”…
“First the Democrats are the party of the Americans because they are the only party that doesn’t say ‘The poor should just work harder’ second they don’t try to disfranchise 50% of Americans because they don’t pay taxes.”
That’s a couple of serious problems with the Dems all right.
I am with Sam Adams on this. No matter what name they go by, these people are not worthy of the idea and the ideal that is America as it was intended to be and as it is when it is at it’s best.
To the leftist moles among us, to the neo-marxists, the closet stalinists, the conmen and the charlatans, I quote Sam by saying,”If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”
And I do mean go from us. Leave these shores. I believe that, like the Loyalists and the Copperheads that came before you, you will eventually see the wisdom of leaving us.
A question you should ask first, of yourselves. Who will take you? If you read history, rather than recrafting it to fit your progressive narrative, you would know that traitors never prosper in the country for whom the treason was done. Benedict Arnold. May you live forever.
“…readers of Balzac…” HUH?!?
YOU CAN’T READ THEM, can you? Is it like reading palms?
Regardless, you should be more specific. I wouldn’t compare him to just any scrotum, but, specifically, an empty scrotum.
I always tell my friends, “Someday I hope to be rich enough to be a Democrat”.
John Kerry is an elitist, no two ways about it. I had occasion to see his treatment of one of the “little people” or commoners. In the late 90′s I was at one of the pretty state parks in Massachusetts. A sleek little black car (definitely not a ford or chevy) drove into the lot. Like the lord of the manor, Sen. John Kerry emerged, wearing a leather Vietnam veteran bomber-style jacket (sans medals; remember – he cast those away in righteous disgust). The state park worker was so pleased to see Sen. Kerry. The worker was very proud of the park, which apparently had had some recent improvements made to it. He was very eager and enthusiastic, and offered to show these upgrades to his Senator. However, in a most arrogant, dismissive, rude fashion, the Senator brushed aside the worker’s invitation, barely acknowledging his existence. Obviously the senator needed to relieve himself; otherwise why even stop at the rube’s park? It was a most revolting display of elitism , and I will never forget it. Can you imagine George W. Bush, even when he was president, conducting himself in such a reprehensible manner? Of course, Kerry didn’t think he was “on stage”, so need to sink to the level of the masses. What a despicable man.
John F. Kerry only engages the peasants when they fail to recognize him and prostrate themselves before him accordingly (well, also when they fail to whisk him past the velvet rope at bars and clubs, when they fail to open the best tables for him on the spot in booked-up restaurants, when they fail to comp him with free food and drinks, when young ladies resist his pick up attempts, etc.).
Kerry’s means of engaging such ungrateful serfs is to employ his stock-in-trade opening query: “Do you know who I am?”
But since the lowly park employee obviously did recognize the good Senator (thus exhibiting that he did, indeed, know who Senator Kerry was), and did offer the appropriate level of tribute, Kerry had no need to engage the serf with his trademark query.
Why combine wealth, power, elitism and socialism when it seems contradictory? Easy- for the godless, the state becomes the all-powerful, omniscient, omnipresent answer to all man’s ills, a cheap-but-deadly messianic substitute, not to speak of a false substitute for conscience.
“The Rich are getting Richer, The Poor are getting Poorer.” The UN has been recording this since 1965. The World Leaders acknowledge this. In 45 years this matter has not been seriously checked. It was a clear indication of System Failure. Instead of checking it the Governments of the Nations bought into it as it was an ideal system (tool) to retain wealth and Power eternally. So the Governments teamed up with the Rich against the People. We arrived at 2008 – Global Economic Collapse. Instead of Going back to Basics, the Governments decided Economic Stimulus Package. This will cause an even greater Collapse in 2 to 8 years. The Rest is History. The Future is Uncertain.
There are the people who want to be rich (Republicans) and the people who are rich (Democrats).
Republicans embrace technological change and are self-focused. They don’t “feel rich” because they eye the really rich and think, hey, I could get there. In order to get power, they try to appeal to the upper end of the Poor, and offer a vision of “you can make it too”.
Democrats are rich already. They’d like to stay rich. They fear things like new technology and inflation because it erodes their assets. In order to get votes, they appeal to the poorest of the poor and say “we’ll protect you and give you bread and circuses”.