Then There’s John’s Room
There was a time when blow-dried John Edwards gripped the nation with psychodrama interviews with the network anchors about his heroic ordeals and triumphs. And now? Only John’s room remains. Strike that — he does not even get to play in John’s room anymore. John Edwards did the impossible: he turned the National Enquirer into a premier American newspaper, whose reporters had more integrity (albeit a weird sort of prurient profit-driven integrity) than did all those Columbia Journalism School graduates at the Los Angeles Times or Washington Post).
The Problem With Spandex
I used to think in 2004 that John Kerry was trying to lose the election. Why windsurf or bike in spandex when you’re trying to prove Bush an out-of-touch elitist, insensitive to a “jobless recovery” of 5.7 percent unemployment (those were the days)? But what now are we to make of buying a $7 million yacht, and weaseling out on high-tax state Massachusetts’s $500,000 bite (he used to call those who did that “Benedict Arnolds”). That’s a new one: a populist Democrat skipping the yacht tax in times of recession even amid liberal calls for even more taxes and the president’s warning for all of us to “have skin in the game.” (Michelle showed a lot of skin with a one-strap designer blouse in Marbella the last week, perched over the Costa del Sol, recharging her batteries for Martha’s Vineyard, after all of us downright mean people raised the bar on her.)
In reviewing how the once mighty have fallen hard, I am not being partisan here. The Gingrich Republicans, likewise drunk on praise and power, imploded in 1996. After 2002, the new “permanent” Republican majority was gone by 2006 as Duke Cunningham et al. proved a precursor to Rangel, Dodd, and Waters.
The only difference? Just as the traditional-values right suffers the additional charge of hypocrisy when its luminaries get caught on massage tables or in airport bathroom stalls, so too blue-collar Democrats, who spread around other people’s money, should not prefer Marbella to Pismo Beach or spandex to shorts and a T-shirt. I don’t think I have ever seen the country so mad; and the furor will explode at the ballot box in November in ways even the Democrats’ depressing polls underestimate.
And that’s that.
the legislation and attitudes displayed by the Democrates in 2009/2010 will be their political Pearl Harbor … November will be their Midway and Nov 2012 will be their final surrender … they have awakened a sleeping giant and its is hungry for freedom again and will not be satisfied with a few Congressional morsels …
“… “blackberrying” all day long!”
Well, F-them and the fingers they texted in on.
He has been measured and found wanting. The wrath of the people will be a terrible and wonderful thing to behold this November. It will shake the Old Order to the core in a way even ’94 won’t compare. I imagine a good three days off, with popcorn and beer on hand, to revel in the glory of watching this self-entitled egotist and his camp followers sputter in disbelief and petulance… and the MSM trying vainly to spin, spin, spin it all away in some academic compartmentalized box labeled…”racist”, “xtian”, “nativist”, etc…
Bring it on.
VDH says ” —furor will explode at the ballot box in November”
You say “The wrath of the people will be a terrible and wonderful thing—”
Both of you underestimate the stupidity of the American public and the immorality of the Demogoguic Party. The 2010 election will be half stolen, producing a wimper instead of a mass rejection. The 2012 election will be wholly stolen, producing a USSR of America.
“Both of you underestimate the stupidity of the American public and the immorality of the Demogoguic Party. The 2010 election will be half stolen, producing a wimper instead of a mass rejection. The 2012 election will be wholly stolen, producing a USSR of America.”
I think the last sentence will come later rather than sooner but as to the rest, I fear you’re right. I’ve believed for some time the Left’s unprecedented arrogance is for a reason: they know something we don’t. Unprecedented vote fraud will happen, and will likely be reported, but little will be done about it by authorities. Here’s hoping we’re wrong, though!
I’m beginning to suspect you’re an enemy agent, sent by George Soros to break our wills.
Even the stupid get angry, and anger will drive them to turn on those they supported.
They have the last laugh. They’ll all still be living on your dime.
If they really are fired, laid off, voted out, whatever, as ex-public servants they have generous inflation indexed pensions for the rest of their lives. Plus- on your dime- elite medical insurance and other expenses.
They’re mostly lawyers like John Edwards, John Kerry, Jerry Brown,the Clintons, Pelosi, Reid, all the “Democrats” AND the “Republicans who have been stealing you blind and paying off/ bribing their client populations that have kept them in power with their votes – for your benefit – for the past half-century ON YOUR DIME.
And the POTUS and the FLOTUS will still be able to swan around as royals on the pensions and expenses ON YOUR DIME. And have the jet-set and euro-trash and their trains bowing and scraping. And THEY CALL THIS JUSTICE.
So there, all those who voted for this psychopath and his gang of thugs, Democrat and RINO.All of whom insist on their Rights as Americans, while limiting and destroying yours ON YOUR DIME.
Sure, mad.
But even the closest thing to an actual idea of what to do, Rep. Paul Ryan’s Roadmap, hasn’t got much traction. Arguably, no on wants to endorse it too heavily, when:
(a) the GOP is still in the minority, and
(b) the stomach within the electorate to make it work is unknown.
Sure, mad: but unless we’re serious about altering the course of the ship of state towards deeper water, all this passion amounts to a sideshow.
We need to be pissed with purpose.
right you are!
Bravo, Smitty!
Dr. Hanson:
“And that’s that.” I certainly hope not, the story isn’t over yet.
You can still anounce for the presidency in 2012. Run on a platform of “hope and change.” If ONE could do it, and win, so can you.
Dr. Hanson:
“And that’s that.”
I certainly hope not, the story isn’t over yet. A lot of things need fixing now and more will be broken between now and 2012.
You can still anounce for the presidency. Run on a platform of “hope and change.” If ONE could do it, and win, so can you. And I’ll bet you would deliver.
I wrote letter after letter to Claire McCaskill my senator and recieved the same form letters saying how much better coverage will be and how great the savings will be with Obamacare.
I want to tell her about other things but I don’t think she thinks straight. I don’t know what she’s thinking.
T. Boone Pickens has a million dollar reward still for anyone who can prove his swiftboat commercials wrong. Brietbart has a hundred grand out there. The left sticks with crazy thinking and can’t collect. The Valery Plame affair with Richard Armitage being the villian and Scooter paying the price. That made me angry too.
But mostly I’m mad as hell about being called a racist. Day in and day out. They don’t know me and they call me a racist with ugly conceit and a smirk that provokes more anger.
I want to tell her about other things but I don’t think she thinks straight. I don’t know what she’s thinking.
She’s thinking (still) about how she didn’t get tapped for a cabinet post like Sibelius, Napolitano, Clinton and Solis. She’s thinking that sitting at a big desk telling underlings to make it so is a far superior gig to the one she has now where she’s required to pay lip service to (ugh) constituents. She’s thinking that if she’s a very good girl and continues to support the president without qualification, maybe, just maybe, when one of the others flames out, she will finally get that nod. Anyhow, that’s what I think she’s thinking.
And you’re not just a racist, you know. You’re also xenophobic, homophobic, probably a sexist and most likely hate Muslims. You may even be clinging to your guns and religion.
It’s okay to get mad as long as it doesn’t interfere with getting even.
The word only has power if you let it.
I was called a racist way back in 2008 just because I refused to swoon in worship to his One-fulness, who I refused to support because of his background and policies, not his skin color.
Just let the word roll off your back like water off a duck. It has gotten to a point where it means nothing anyway, so don’t let it bother you any.
Racist: someone that opposes tax increases to fund government controlled healthcare.
Ever notice that if you repeat a word over and over and over, it not only ceases to have meaning but it just sounds goofy? That’s what they have done with the heretofore-powerful term “racist”. Anymore, I just shrug and say, “So about the argument we were having, can you defend this position?” Ignore and redirect.
Honestly, I don’t think those who generally employ the term know what it means anymore.
Actually “racist” as it’s being used these days has five “a”s in it: raaaaacist! I read it on the internet, so I know it’s so.
“But mostly I’m mad as hell about being called a racist. Day in and day out. They don’t know me and they call me a racist with ugly conceit and a smirk that provokes more anger.”
That smirk is because they don’t really believe it themselves – they know the vast majority of Americans have moved beyond race. They also know the vast majority of racism left in this nation has been institutionalized among the Left, and still gives political clout and big paychecks to many. They know it and we know it. It’s just that no one outside of conservative blog readers and talk radio listeners will ever hear it uttered.
For the vast voting majority, the Left still owns information, and to own information is to own the thought and choices of the masses.
That’s why they smirk.
That’s pretty much the way it looks from my side of the hill, too. He must have decided not to run for a second term.
If he runs he will get pounded on like you have never seen.
“I don’t think I have ever seen the country so mad . .”
I was brought up praying to Mary, meek and mild.
I take flies outside to release them. Same with spiders.
As hopeless morons we pasted peace stickers on our Volkswagen and army post door when my husband did his internship and residency during the Vietnam war at Fitzsimons Army Hospital.
Now we fly the Gadsden flag.
I fired a gun for the first time this year.
The blood pressure medications are just holding the line.
You bet I’m mad.
Yeah. That’s that.
Catherine, YOU ROCK!!!
Ooooh, I like it!
Excellent.
And I bet those blood pressure medicines and your healthcare are paid for by that socialist program Medicare right? You people don’t know what your mad about. What ever fuels the false fires of your overheated minds I suppose. Kinda sad, really to see all the “mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore” teabaggers rail against many of the things they depend on. When your BP medicines stop working who do you think will pay for that oxygen tank your going to carry around (on the motorized wheelchair). You got it! The government! You see, you people really like socialism as long as your the only one at the trough. You’re sort of like the big greedy pig pushing the little ones out of the way. All the little pigs have to do, however, is just keep nipping away at the big pigs heels and soon after he’ll just come tumbling down.
I not sure how many doors you can knock on but I bet I can knock on twice as many. Also, a not so mad vote counts just the same as a “mad as hell” vote. So the idea is simply to turn out the vote and outnumber the kooks. If you don’t think there’s a plan in place think again.
It is “You’re” not “your.” And “whatever” not “what ever.” I mostly discount the ravings of anyone who can’t spell or put words together in a coherent sentence. See you and your fellow Trotsky-ites at the polls this November.
Thank you for taking the time. Pretty sad isn’t it?
Actually, we really DON’T like socialism…. that’s the point!! That’s why most of us are angry. “It’s the socialism, stupid.” We’re willing to bite the bullet in the short term because we know it will drive down costs and help get us on a sustainable path. But, if we keep doing what we’re doing now and double down with Obamacare, the whole thing will come tumbling down and there won’t be any Soc Security or Medicare for anyone. We’ve seen it before – socialism doesn’t work!
And we know there’s a plan in place for the Dems / Libs / Socialists / Marxists. It’s a scorched earth policy; lie, cheat, steal, or whatever to win at all costs; and then if that doesn’t work lame duck session.
Yo, Self-Nominated Hero of the Proletariat: It won’t be door-knocking that makes the difference. We’ll be happy to see you out there, wearing out your sneakers and going hoarse trying to convince people that black is white and slavery is freedom. But who knows? Maybe you’ll be able to get a follow-on gig from the Jehovah’s Witnesses.
> who do you think will pay for that oxygen tank your going to carry
> around (on the motorized wheelchair). You got it! The government!
The “government” gets all its money from US! You seem to think that it just magically grows money on money trees fertilized by unicorn skittle poop. So when the “government” pays for stuff, it has to tax US for it. The TEA in TEA party stands for Taxed Enough Already.
So STFU.
You might want to check your presumptions against reality. DH and I have chosen not to enroll in the prescription medicare program because it’s taxpayer money. And yes, we have expensive perscriptions: one of them is close to $200 (at Walmart) each time it is filled. And our before-tax income is around $36,000 a year.
We’ve already told our doctors to let us know when they’re ready to drop medicare: then we’ll drop our supplemental care with State Farm, and start paying cash for fee-for-service care. It’ll be nice to save $500 a month in insurance premiums.
So check your assumptions and stop making accusations against groups of people. (Are you a racist, too?)
Hey Praetorian,
I hope you enjoy the tar and feathers you will definitley be getting when going from door to door supporting the Socialist in Chief! Not a single thinking American can support this corrupt and inept crew which is destroying America with a sledgehammer. It is going to be very lonely for folks supporting BHO. The veneer has come off and people have finally woken up that being a minor community organizer and voting present does not make you presidential material. The man is a baffoon and deep down inside, I am sure you know it. Good luck knocking on door!
Who are these “big pigs” to whom you refer? People who work for a living?
In the early 20th century millions of poor people emigrated to America and bosses were mean to them making overwhelming demands on their time and bodies. They organized and struck and gained rights. But labor went too far and now the big 3 auto companies are struggling with bloated labor costs.
Same with municipalities and the federal government. Good programs were passed but more and more programs are getting too much. If you understand personal debt you’ll understand community and national debt.
When you owe too much, you have to curtail spending and that means more and more services that may fix somebody’s personal problems have to be curtailed or not enacted.
Only when people who are serious about these type of common sense concepts get in control will the nation be strong again and able to really help those who need help by supplying jobs and benefits.
And your name calling doesn’t help.
No you maroon, it’s not. It’s paid for by my hard work and my insurance that I PAY FOR. With sweat and tears. Don’t make it blood because you will be sorry.
Ptorian: You must be from the army of the devil because you can’t stand the truth. Someone is honest about how they feel and you attack like a drooling dog, how undisciplined for a soldier. Just because the government pays for all of your medication does not mean that it pays for everyone else’s. One more point for the ignorant; the government gets its money from me and a (shrinking pool) few million others like me. So I pay for your meds, pray that I continue to be so benevolent.
I have no doubt there is a plan. But it remains to be seen if we will be able to overcome your parties margin of fraud.
“Kinda sad, really to see all the “mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore” teabaggers rail against many of the things they depend on.”
you forgot the most important point…
“many of the things they depend on”…..and PAID FOR
but idiot like you will never get it, because you pay for nothing.
Can we assume from your chosen name that you are second to The One who rules our republic?
Your use of the term “teabaggers” renders you instantly and infinitely stupid and ignorable.
Yet I will say that those who are now enjoying the benefits of Medicare have mostly spent a lifetime paying a Medicare tax, on the promise that their medical costs will be paid upon their reaching the age of 65. It might well have been thought of as an insurance contract (especially. since its name is FICA, “Federal Insurance Contributions Act”), with no benefits to be collected for many, many years.
Can you say the same of those who collect any of the other welfare payments, such as food stamps, aid to mothers with dependent children, housing subsidies, etcetera ad nauseam?
If Congress has spent Medicare, as well as Social Security, funds on other programs, should those who have finally reached the age where they can begin collecting on their “investment” forego the benefits? Shall those two programs become just two more redistributionist welfare programs? If so, let the Redistributionist party announce it now, before the mid-term elections, so that the populace can express their happiness with the new purpose of the +/-15% tax on their income that they’ve paid for half a century.
Meanwhile, try to keep in mind that the Earned Income Tax Credit was designed to give back to the poor any FICA taxes they’ve had to pay, so the poor will indeed get even more something-for-nothing when they reach their retirement age. For some, it’s already just another welfare program; for others, they’ve paid for it and they don’t mind finally receiving the benefits.
Let me know how many of those doors get slammed in your face. Come to think about it, that might be your best case scenario in this political environment.
So, Pretender–how much does George Soros pay you to troll conservative blogs?
I do not depend on the government for anything. It could all blow away and I would be fine.
Praetorian, it’s true that stupid can’t be fixed. I’ll pray for you instead. It’s your only hope despite your hallucination that Barry O is.
You say that as if the government has its own money. Are you that hopeless? The only money the government has is what it steals from us “ASTROTURFERS,” most of which is squandered for the purpose of re-electing the very cause of our plague. The Democrat party has ruled because they divide Americans into classes, knowing that they alone will be the elitist class. The theory always fails because they produce nothing. Failure will come early this time around because the till is empty and the cash-flow is negative. Who will you buy with good intentions? The first lesson in life is you can’t eat good intentions and since you are into wealth re-distribution the desire to be productive is merely a fantasy. So live on your fantasy because the strong of the species always survive.
That says a lot.
Catherine–
First thank you for the “Hopeless morons” label. I would be kinder to the dupes who were encouraging the VC to kill my husband while I was at home having our first child–some, like you, simply hated war and wanted peace (well, don’t we all!). What we went to Viet Nam for was worth fighting for–wish our military had been allowed to win the battle.
Now let’s not lose this one. I’m totally with you, Sis.
Thank you. From my heart.
And there will be little change – yet again. Here we go ’round the mulberry bush. The ‘vote the bums out’ strategy has begat – what exactly. The steady eroding of our sovereignity and freedoms has continued, unabated since the beginning of the Fed, and is reaching the breaking pt. Read through the Patriot Act, look at the legislation over the past few years under both parties, the Bush and Obama spending, the erosion of neighborhood banks, the emergence of the Too Bigs. “Financial Reform Bill” – under a Dem administration friendly to the TOO BIG corporations – who thought we’d see the day. There is little difference between the two parties – just look at Scott Brown in MA – and people here were brazenly campaigning for him. Did you see him slobber all over Elena Kagan? The International Socialists are winning.
Good places to start – they really opened my eyes and provided meticulous research:
The Creature From Jekyll Island – G. Edward Griffin
Behold a Pale Horse – William Cooper
Anything by Edwin Vieira, particularly Pieces of EIght.
Party change in Nov. will mean nothing.
438, We’ve already seen some big changes. The GOP went from sulking in the corner to defying the march to socialist utopia after the Tea Party handed them a backbone. It will take more two elections to sort out the corrupt Senate, but this November is a very good start.
438..
We have to start sometime, somewhere. Why not This November, At the polls???
~~there are so many great posts today [as is always the case with VDH columns] it’s hard to chose which to answer; however, in respectful response to 438miler:
I have been fortunate to have been friends with both Ed Griffin and Rose Martin, another important writer. I was introduced to Rose by Fr. Daniel J. Lyons, a great Compatriot, during the turbulent years of the 60′s. Both Fr. Dan and Rose were guests in our home on many occasions. Rose’s book, Fabian Freeway, is one of my prized possessions. It is amazing that, 34 years ago, Rose predicted the situation we now face. I recommend her book.
In the event this is posted, I hope my link to describe her book will be allowed.. h
Click here: FABIAN FREEWAY
Thank you for the information – I’ll look for it, and I believe that her book is in the bibliography of Griffin’s “The Creature From Jekyll Island” as well. That bibliography alone is worth the price of the book. Thanks again.
So what are your solutions Dr VDH besides getting to the voting booths in November ? Do we vote for the corrupt or the incompetent ? How would we tell the difference ? Perhaps throwing your hat into the ring would be a start. Silly me. Why would such an intelligent, honorable citizen choose to wade in the muck. Enjoy your grapes and keep stirring up the masses. Tis easier to write than to do.
FYI the pen is mightier than the sword, especially as wielded by VDH. And if that last line is the shot it sounds like, here’s back at you KRC.
Yes but is the pen mightier than a gym sock full of horse manure ? Certainly in close quarters. And by the way many pens are flowing horse manure – grand ideas to get others to do the heavy lifting. Stop writing and start running for office VDH. You get my vote..
Articulating the feelings, mood and concerns of the masses isn’t honorable? Wading in the muck of the good earth is far preferable to the feces laden cesspool that is national politics. Very few, stay clean along the way.
What is the price of the soul?
I, among many, would be thrilled with a VDH candidacy into congress. That’s a personal decision that no one can fault, except him. I guess the answer is: What would you be willing to do and how much of yourself would you be willing to sell, to get elected. Someone has to keep the masses informed. I also get the immense satisfaction that, what I have seen and thought for a long, long time, has been pretty accurate all along.
I, for one, would not wish to see VDH in Congress. For his pen is truly mightier than the sword, and his influence in the classroom will have a greater impact on future generations than the current one in the hallowed halls of government. VDH’s ability to articulate thoughts through PJM will be reduced to the “slicing and dicing of soundbites” extrapolated by the MSM making cogent remarks seem bitter rantings from an aged fool. No, VDH is in the right place in our time…cultivating the next our next generation of leaders.
Since time immemorial, people have stirred the masses with well-chosen words: The Bible, Shakespeare, Karl Marx, and many others. They who see the problems, define them, and awaken the masses do not have to serve. They have done their part; it is up to us to carry the ball to victory.
Echos my own thoughts Dr. Hanson, only mine not as articulate…
“I don’t think I have ever seen the country so mad . .”
I don’t think it’s about vacations, joblessness or the wars.
I think most are worried the fabric of America is being torn apart.
The growing divisions of Americans is what worries me, whether it be income or race, and the fire is lit almost daily from those elected to represent us.
Divided we fall?
I pray for our Country, and for my fellow Americans, of all creeds and colors. Let us Stand Together for a better future for all our neighbors.
VOTE!
#9 Catherine
If that is Gadsden AL flag, I am your neighbor and right there with you. Want to organize a car pool to the polling station come Nov?
Hey, I would in a heartbeat. But the Gadsden flag we’re flying dates to the revolutionary war and now indicates disagreement with the current government.
It’s real pretty.
Nice snake coiled and ready to strike.
The words “Don’t Tread On Me” against a screaming yellow field.
And yeah, the snakes mad.
It is important that some republicans get swept out too. For too long these rinos a la John McCain and Linsey Graham have been contributors to the downfall of the Republic. Just like Arlen Spector they need to be voted out once and for all.
You’re the man John. Keep it up, the truth and some well cast votes might set us free. All the dimocrats and at least half the republicans need to go. Maybe the USA would have a chance to rebuild itself. Wouldn’t that construction job be a sight to behold?
Well said.
Absolutely! ….and to new congressman-elects:
We will be watching you very carefully.
And what a big disappointment Scott Brown has been. And how about Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe? Talk about being RINOs!
I’m pretty conservative, but I’m pretty happy with Scott Brown. This is, after all, a representative government. His constituents are in Massachusetts; he can’t be expected to vote exactly the same way as Tom Coburn.
This cabal shouldn’t be equated in any way to the Bush years or anything that came before.
The country has tolerated liberalism in many forms for decades. LBJ and Carter were booted out. Clinton survived because he became a centrist.
But this regime is beyond liberalism. It isn’t right to even use the word. Socialism is also not enough. The loony Europeans are running madly away from what this committed crew is running toward. It’s as if they can’t wait to jump in the boiling water.
But even that isn’t the problem. The problem is the overweening deceit. Most on this site knew that it was all a fraud and that the so-called moderate blank-slate was just barely below the surface a rigid, hard-core marxist who was conceived in a communist womb and raised with radical marxism served at every meal. We were right, 1000% right. Perhaps if he had just downplayed it we wouldn’t be in the rage that we are in; but no, it was an active, intricate campaign of deceit. It’s as if they investigated every snearing trick from the country’s history and packed them all into a 2-year campaign of lies not seen since the 1930′s.
But even that was not enough. It wasn’t enough to seize power by stomping on the good will of an honorable people. It wasn’t enough to destroy the lives of millions of seniors by trashing the economy. It wasn’t enough to slander the motives, capabilities, intelligence and performance of a patriot like President Bush. Barely before the thugs were in office, it was as if they were sprinting to cram their most heinous wet dreams down our throats. Gitmo, the auto industry, the $800 billion union payoff. And then the apology tours where the very essence of the country was trashed, held up to ridicule, and basically the world was told that history can now start, now that a lying corrupt thug who has never done a day’s worth of his work in his life had somehow grabbed the controls of the greatest country that has every existed.
Oh, we’re pissed off, alright. We’re “led” by a narcissistic adolescent whose mission in life seems to be punishing a country for some long-forgotten slight he endured because of his color, or his religion, or his sexuality, or who knows what. Nobody but God knows what it is, because he isn’t just a liar, his life is lie. Every word is a lie. He might occasionally say something that is not a lie, but who could ever filter a kernel of truth from a silo of lies.
And he rode in with a gang of arrogant idiots more contemptuous of the American people than we are of them, if that is possible. They aren’t just moral reprobates; they are idiots, fools and incompetents.
Look at what we have become in 18 months. 230 years of triumph. He pulled us into the sewer faster than any country has ever descended. He must be thrilled. Time for some hoops. Up yours America. Now we know how it feels, don’t we?
Oh we’re mad all right.
“It’s as if they can’t wait to jump in the boiling water.”
I’d be more than willing to help them.
Oh, wait. You meant that figuratively. Oh well.
“motives, capabilities, intelligence and performance of a patriot like President Bush”
Fellow Conservative proreason,
I am 97% in agreement with your thoughts, but I think you have one more step to go. A ‘patriot’ like Pres. Bush – that’s not quite right. A president who after 9/11 presented legislation that destroys the freedoms of CITIZENS with the PATRIOT act. The legislation isn’t against illegal alients, or seditious scum sucking communists, or even Islamic Terrorists – it’s against you and my families. You & I can be declared an ‘enemy combatant (for no reason), detained and jailed permanently – no judge, no trial, no jury – it just is. Why do you think BO kept it on the books and it was quietly renewed this past spring? Have you checked out the W spending? He broke through most of the hundreds of billions for the first time in American history – 400, 500, 600B breakthroughs were all his. Were we complaining then? I find BO offensive, arrogant and an enemy to the Constitutional Republic. Where we have failed as an electorate is looking the other way when a “Republican” is in office just as the Left looks the other way now that a “Democrat” is in office. See how they have NOT been critical of our trillion a year military budget? Gitmo? and the other things that VDH mentions often. VDH disembowels the Left routinely for their hypocrisy, but theirs is also ours.
We’ve been trained to be sheeple and ‘vote the bums out’ but the steady slow drumbeat of International Socialism has continued under both parties. It’s always about “security” under the Republicans, and “comprehensive reform” under the Democrats. btw, notice how the border opened up under GWB. Bill Cooper, on his radio broadcast on the day of 9/11, predicted the opening of the US / Mexico border, and draconian legislation affecting and limiting the rights of CITIZENS. He was right on both counts. Your freedoms are being eroded bit by bit, under both parties. Cooper was declared the ‘most dangerous radio host in America’ under Clinton, and he was entrapped and killed by gov’t in Nov. 01 under a Republican administration, with NO outcry.
Let’s be more careful and stop the hagiography of the Reagan Bush crowd.
The habit of referring to citizens as “sheeple” reveals more about the person employing that word than it conveys about voters. If you are so superior in your vision and wisdom, you need to find a leadership position. Otherwise, come off your high horse and actually speak with your fellow citizens. Or just shut up. All are preferable to your current style of whining.
Dianna,
I am in a leadership position – I run a public school with hundreds of students. What do you do?
Are you blindly following the right as the idiotic socialists follow the left? Rather than go after me, why don’t you dig a little deeper.
Good job! But I fear it is too late.
Sadly, the great experiment in democracy has failed. We should celebrate the remarkable achievements of the founding fathers and those who fought in all the great wars.
But America is doomed to a third-world future, and there is no way around that. Obama has achieved his dream, he destroyed the U.S.A.
All with a stroke of the pen on spending that will send us to the stone age.
So, it really doesn’t matter who wins or loses. What matters is if you can be self-sufficient. Totally.
Dang, I’m depressed.
The U.S. is NOT a democracy. It is a constitutional republic. A true democracy is one of the worst forms of government. Democracies always devolve into totalitarian governments. Look it up.
part of the problem, a large part, is the race factor……..
white america is so programmed to not offend blacks……….
we need to stand up and face their failures……….
whether it’s congressional black caucus, new panther party, crime statistics………..
face it or you can’t deal with it —–
it’s the 800 pound gorilla sitting in the front room
It’s gonna be a rough eight-years for you buddy. I do like Catherine (#9) and stock up on the blood pressure medicine. You’re gonna need it.
Eight years? Don’t think so. Two down and two to go. Obama is not Bill Clinton. He’ll either go the way of Jimmy Carter, or abdicate a la LBJ. The hard Left is stuck with him, the Right never wanted him and the decisive votes in the middle are lost for good. The blank slate’s been filled in and the picture ain’t pretty. Call that racism all you want, the end result is the same. The O’s a failure because of his policies and his ineptitude, and he’ll be gone in 2012.
You keep whistling there, Praetorian, any tune that comforts you, but the ghosts in the graveyard are stirring.
Praetorian,
The zest with which you defend your liege lord is impressive. You can practically smell the utopia, eh? Best wishes in your worker’s paradise. Kinda sucks being in momma’s basement, but nobody said Marxism was easy.
The power hungry despots in the Obama White House & the Obama Congress want more power; it is never enough. This is the problem with the DC elite. They don’t know when to stop. The Democrats crossed the line at their very first opportunity with Porkulus & kept making wrong moves into Socialism with ObamaCare, Crap & Tax (in the House), student loans, & the newly minted Dodd-Frank Bank Bailout law. The Democrats have reached a point of beyond overreach into their own party’s destruction. The irony is President Obama, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, & Senator Harry Reid lead their party over a cliff with no point of no return. Democrat is a dirty word & will remain for years to come. This is Obama’s legacy.
Don’t forget George Soros, John Podesta and the Center for American Progress, they have their filthy sticky fingers in this mess too..
I do believe they thought we’d all roll over and let them do this to us.. They have underestimated us BIG TIME!!
We are being led by a bunch of 60′s retards that never grew out of the pot smoking; stick it anywhere you can to get gratification generation of commies. Too bad we have to fight these fools all over again but we do and we are. This time they will not be able to go back underground, that’s the beauty of this day; the evil b@stards have been exposed like never before, boldly entering the battlefield where they will be destroyed forever along with their evil Marxist ideology. The sword of truth is the destroyer that sets them on fire and they will burn until they are no more. In this we should all rejoice.
Optimist!!
Everyone should be pulling for you guys in November, because we’re all in this together. November is one thing, righting the ship is another. I believe that #4 Smitty and #10 438miler are clear-eyed about November.
“I don’t think I have ever seen the country so mad”
Well, I think folks were a little more worked up in the 1960s over issues like racial discrimination and the Vietnam War than they are now, if I remember rightly (and I do).
A comment above says that people were more upset about the Vietnam War in the 1960′s. I disagree with that. Those people elected Nixon, who was the most conservative option they had. The media and the youth made a lot of noise but the people in general disagreed.
I worry that the pressures of the bad economy are muting the reaction. Many who are upset about the direction of the country are struggling to survive and so don’t have the cash to give and are working so hard that it’s hard to get involved in the races. If you can, please “hope” so that we can get “change” because it’s needed. Give if you can, volunteer if you can, and if you can’t think about changing something so that you can. About 90 days till the election.
“A comment above says that people were more upset about the Vietnam War in the 1960’s. I disagree with that.”
Think whatever amuses you. There was a lot of anger in the 1960s. Peaceful civil rights demonstrators were being sprayed with water cannons and attacked by police dogs. There were state governors carrying axe handles to keep black folks out of their restaurants. There were huge riots that lasted for days in the big cities, gigantic anti-war demonstrations that frequently turned violent, there were political groups that were shooting it out with the cops and robbing banks and preaching the overthrow of the government. People were so angry that they were willing to go to prison for refusing to be drafted into the army (how many Tea Party folks are so angry that they’re willing to quit paying taxes and go to prison?…none, that’s how many). Kids were being shot by the police and national guard, politicians and other leaders (like Martin Luther King Jr.) were getting shot on a fairly regular basis.
That’s all because people were a lot angrier then, then they are now. And, with good reason, I might add. The issues were more pressing.
And what was happening in the 1960s is a drop in the bucket compared to what was happening in the 1860s. People were really worked up then. Mad enough to revolt against the government en masse and mad enough to kill each other by the hundreds of thousands. Now, that’s what I call worked up.
And, all that’s facts, Jack.
“I think folks were a little more worked up in the 1960s ”
Hardly.
A small minority of pampered children had some understandable grievances (race, Vietnam) fanned into radicalism by a professional class of Communist agitators. The country didn’t even approach an abyss until the same professionals unleashed their propaganda arm and twisted Nixon’s campaign shenanigans into a federal case. Obama does worse before he shows up at the office at 9:30 on a day when he isn’t sleeping one off. The adults in the 60′s were busy earning a living, enjoying their well-earned peace after their heroism in the 40′s, and making sure that a nuclear cataclysm didn’t happen. I wish they had been as vigilant about what was happening inside the country as they were about defeating the external threats, but I don’t chastise them for that, I adulate them for everything they did do for us.
Today, the country is teetering on an abyss, the one created by the same radicals that were conceived in the 60′s by the subversives that our parents tolerated because they loved their children.
The difference this time is 70% of those children are wide awake. We aren’t fools and we know where the real threat lies. It is inside our country and we aren’t confused about it. Millions of us are watching the deliberate subversion of everything we and 10 prior generations worked for. And a sizable slice of us aren’t going to be satisfied with a verbal reprimand. The aging smirking nihilistic pony-tailed clown radicals think they have seized the hand of destiny.
But we will be writing the final chapter of that saga…..not them.
Thank you.!!! You have said everything I have thought.
Stay tuned, DS; Pay careful attention
to the elections in Nov. and the public
reaction to the tax and Inflation increases
scheduled for next Jan; You may change your mind.
So do I. There is huge difference between petulance and anger. The anti war crowd consisted of a few Marxist rabble rousers who manipulated a bunch of over indulged college brats. Most of the college guys I knew didn’t give a lick about the war if someone else was going to be fighting it.
There was a lot of petulance in the race riots, too. That and score settling within the black community itself. They burned down their own neighborhoods and then used the charred timbers as a club to win political concessions from fearful whites.
Yeah we’re mad as hell and we ain’t gonna take it anymore. I don’t want to even be in the same country with obamunists. A civil war would probably not be a bad thing although who do you shoot? I have absolutely ZERO confidence that the next national election will be any more meaningful or worthy than a warm cup of spit.
These twauts who haunt Washington DC cannot do what is needed. Nobody can. We are so far beyond able to repair this mess they have made that there is no ruler or comparison that has any meaning at all.
Stand by for world wide conflagration and hundreds of millions of dead people cause that’s where we are headed. After that the Red Chinese system will dominate the entire planet. No one will be able to resist them. Hell, why try? The money will just cash in as always. It’s not like there will be ( or even now is ) an America to believe in. We are a dead nation crawling.
Bravo! I’m with you brother.
You weren’t mad two years ago? If not, you have no reason to be mad now.
Sorry Mr. Hanson, methinks thou and thine are grossly underestimating the power of gerrymandering, vote buying and plain old voter fraud. Come mid-November I sadly fear you will be left wondering how all that anger and resolve dribbled away to such little effect.
I’ll vote. My wife and children will vote and you know what? It won’t do a damn bit of good. Tucked away in an obscure corner of a district so convoluted it would make a Chicago politician blush, our votes have not and never will effect an outcome. We, along with untold millions of our countrymen are every bit as disenfranchised as the lowliest Mississippi Black following reconstruction. One man, one vote? One big joke.
Don’t get me wrong, you will win a few here and there. There will be headlines about the unprecedented turnover, the pundits will pontificate. Five or six days later Olympia Snow and one or two others of the anointed “rising above politics” will announce they aren’t leaving the party, the party left them and it will be all for naught. In short, longstanding organization and plain old corruption will trump disorganization and wishful thinking every time.
Dave, as much as I would like to think you are wrong – I fear you are right. Too many people are bought and paid for with other people’s money. Government directly or indirectly influences 45% of GDP and Progressives are eager and faithful providers of wealth transfer into that segment. Too many people buy into the fiction that the Progressives are actually helping the downtrodden and can’t see the long term damage that these policies do to everyone. Too many people are afraid of the extreme religious right, the anti-gay and right-to-life movements and fear their ascendency much more than the loss of economic freedom and opportunity that comes from Democrats. Rightly or wrongly they associate these groups with Republicans.
In the end, the only thing that might work is tax and regulations revolt. I’ll keep my fingers crossed but as a backup I would like to see a grass roots organization of people ready to do battle in this manner and willing to suffer the inevitable counter-attacks from the government.
As a widow with minor dependents, I benefit from Social Security payments.
As a farmowner I benefit from USDA payments.
I would happily trade every last damn cent of it for the re-criminalization of pre-natal child-killing. We stand by and do nothing as 4,000 people a day are murdered, day in and day out.
A nation that slaughters one-third of all its babies is a nation that has lost its own soul. And a nation with no soul is an easy conquest for any evil person, party or ideology that comes along. As we are now seeing.
The suicidally-compassionate US. Helping which downtrodden in 2010, the illegal immigrants? Compassion blurs the distinctions between justice and mercy, right and wrong. Only the guilty need mercy. Charity is now entitlement by fiat, and it’s a race to see who can be the most compassionate with my money. How’d that happen?
I’m angry too. I’m especially outraged when I hear seasoned conservative lawmakers say that repealing Obamacare will be extremely difficult if not impossible, even if conservatives gain a super- majority in 2012. So, beware the lameducks, with half the Porkulus funds left to spend on community organizing, tween now and when they are removed from office; if we’re fortunate enough to prevail.
Shutting down the EPA? There are now more people studying the Gulf spill than cleaning it up, while the drillers sit idle by edict, and the rigs move elsewhere. Over $2 BILLION in lost wages! Teachers’ strikes? Half of all gov’t workers laid off?
Whatya mean this state doesn’t have a death penalty and where it does, execution dates are decades away? So Bernie Madoff gets the same sentence as the latest Muslim slasher?
The anger of the productive class better get focused. Since the free ride is over, no matter who wins the next couple elections, we must consider the consequences. How do we manage the it’s over part, without inciting riots? And if there is “civil unrest”, what’s our response? Do we allow rioters to destroy at will, or will we mete out swift justice? We know how the Left will react (see Ayers’ concentration camps, Ruby Ridge, Waco, et al).
If we have any chance at recovery, an attitudinal change must occur. It’s ludicrous to argue that the gov’t taking 20% in income taxes is okay; but 65% is not – whereby any compromise means the statists win more. If we concede that they deserve any, then they can claim more with a moral authority we gave them. All tax is redistribution, no matter the rate. Even the term redistribution obscures the fact that taxation is theft, forever leeching away private property rights.
Reinventing US is gonna be the biggest challege the nation ever faced. Saddle up.
Individual impotence against Election fraud.
True. However, comma, there are variables
which you choose to overlook:
1) The percentage of fraudulent votes;
Once plausible deniability of fraud is
lost, so is the validity of the election.
2)The number and importance of the invalid elections;
Once the effect on the balance of political power
threatens to shift significant power from the states
to the Federal government, the states will refuse
to recognize the legitimacy of the elections and
to cooperate in the enforcement of illegitimate laws.
3) The inability of the Federal government to enforce,
accent on the _force_ , illegitimate laws on states
supported by a citizenry which knows the lawmakers
stole their power by election fraud.
4) Preemptive response to your next counsel of despair:
_NO_ the US military will not intervene, short of what
they see as literal armed insurrection.
Again, the _military_ makes that decision, not the Pols.
“…men of conscious…” or men of conscience?
Gore’s recent tirade shows he’s taken the first step towards a conscious assessment of why the Left’s losing. A baby step, but it’s a start. Soon his role in their demise will begin to rest heavy on his conscience. Nah… Just kiddin’. The angry Left refuses to point fingers at themselves. Personal responsibility is not their cup of tea. Blah blah blah, blame Bush.
Krugman’s lost his mind. He’s become just another petulant little jerk of a Princeton Prof. His students must note his deer in the headlights look when he’s on-camera facing George Will. His Nobel prize means las much as Obama’s, or Gore’s for that matter, and all three represent the prototypical flim-flam men. If he worked for a legitimate newspaper, Krugman would be put on sabbatical for the way he slimed Paul Ryan. Leftists are always the first to scream the GOP has no alternative plans for recovery, because they’re, uh, racist or something.
Books will be written about perfidiously unconscionable O. People on the Right saw through this charlatan two years ago. People on the Left who were (and still are) stuck on stupid are now stuck with stupid for another two years. We’ll see if the Democratic Party survives the sh*t storm they’ve engendered.
We’re mad. We’re taking names and we’re gettin’ even.
“We’re mad. We’re taking names and we’re gettin’ even.”
All well and good to be mad as hell. But have you seen the Republican’s in action lately? They’re feckless as a group – and as individuals few of them have had the cojones to actually stand up and voice their concern over the changes being made in government bureaucracy – like the EPA’s defacto legislation concerning CO2 – and there is more. Cultural changes within the CIA – FBI etc. Things that will take many clever minds many years to undo – if it ever gets undone.
My congressman is a republican – a rarity in Washington State – his occasional newsletters are full of promise of ‘what if’s’ and ‘just wait till November’ – we’re gonna do this – we’re gonna do that etc etc. OK Doc, thats great – but what the hell were you doing from 2000-2006? Oh – you don’t wanna talk about that? He was for every big $ piece of legislation that came down the Pike during the Bush years. He was/is an unabashed supporter of The Patriot Act. And now? He’s proudly spouting off about how incensed he is about all this spending. What’s the diff between him and his Democrat counterpart? In my eyes – not much.
His response to my queries about The Patriot Act was especially disturbing. I emailed his office many times before getting a reply to my concerns – one that probably came from a aide which said that “we just have to trust our government” that it will be able to discern the bad guy from benign citizen. When I think about whom is running this country – and the Sherlock-in-charge in Homeland Security it makes me cringe.
Is any critic of this Administration safe from those who would crush freedom in a heartbeat if given the green light from Obama? Think it can’t happen? We’ve seen a lot of things that 2 years ago we thought could never happen – but they have.
I’m sorry but I do not trust either side to hold such power over the citizen in the palm of their hands. It is much too tempting to snuff out critics and opposition all the while remaining within the comfy confines of the laws of the land. Makes you wonder how many times Obama and company has thought about locking up a Rush or a Hannity for crimes against the state.
So go ahead and get mad come November – it’ll make you feel better. But the November elections will be about revenge – just don’t expect wholesale changes in how this country is run.
Open your eyes and see how the Republican’s operate in January should they have a majority. Oh yeah – they’ll show opposition to Obama – but lets see what really happens.
The trouble with Republicans is they cringe at the thought of being called racists and homophobes – Neanderthals – insensitive to the poor- friends of big business (like that’s a sin?) etc etc. They just want the MSM to love them. How’d that work out for you John McCain? Maverick? Not really – they just suckered you into believing they really liked you – got you to go against your own party a few times too many. And you know what? You are a sucker. And come November the Republicans will have suckered enough people into believing in them once again – and once again we will be snookered. Makes me wonder how well they’ll do in Nov 2012. Will the Democrats sweep back into power in Congress? With a Republican POTUS no doubt.
And the pendulum swings. Faster with each change of direction.
And America will continue it’s not-so-slow decline with the sweep of the pendulum.
I used to have faith that this country could overcome some moron like an Obama – after all we overcame an idiot peanut farmer albeit not without collateral damage (Iran & Afghanistan).
The difference today? There is no Ronald Reagan-like figure on a white horse to ride in and save us from ourselves and show us the way out of this morass.
I fear we have lost the Republic.
Every time I read Dr. Hanson I thank God for him. He writes with such wisdom and grace, even when he is mad. I don’t want him to run for office; I want him to continue to show the country and its leadership what maturity coupled with intelligence looks like. If the Republicans are swept into power and do not behave as we are calling them to do, they will be the target of perhaps even greater anger. It is no longer about party and power. It is about the most basic integrity, the most basic goodwill to all people, the most basic allegiance to the goodness of the life God has given us. Keep writing, Dr. Hanson, and let all of us pray for a leader with wisdom. No more fools like Obama and his ilk, or the RINOS. God, give us a real leader.
Wow. Absolutely word for word, point by point and reason by reason – perfect.
Thanks.
You’ve said it all.
Let the explosions begin. The sooner the better! “Hope and Change”! Hope is gone
and change is imminent, but not the change the slogan intended to convey!
The Republicans better get their act together after the November wave, or the Americans will do it for them.
The elites need to know fear for the first time.
Two riders were approaching, and the wind began to howl.
I agree, they need to know fear. I was just thinking that the other day, after hearing yet another Democrat announce that the people mean nothing. It was, this time, Gibbs saying the vote in Missouri meant “nothing.”
I thought, you know, these people need to have some fear put into them. It’s not right that they think we work for them, and have to do whatever they say, when actually they work for us, and need to do what we say. (Within constitutional reason, of course.)
Wanted to go vote today, but must wait a bit longer. Put up my Christmas tree stocking in hopes Santa will put the Big O’s resignation letter in it. Oh no, would that mean Biden would replace him? Will we get a bunch of same old stick Repubs in November? Ok, I’ll take Sara Palin – at least she can shoot straight.
“…men of conscious…” or men of conscience?
Gore’s recent tirade shows he’s taken the first step towards a conscious assessment of why the Left’s losing. A baby step, but it’s a start. Soon his role in their demise will begin to rest heavy on his conscience. Nah… Just kiddin’. The angry Left refuses to point fingers at themselves. Personal responsibility is not their cup of tea. Blah blah blah, blame Bush.
Take Paul Krugman. He’s lost his mind, become just another petulant little jerk of a Princeton Prof. His students must note the deer in the headlights look when he’s on-camera facing George Will. That Nobel prize means about as much as Obama’s, or Gore’s for that matter. All three of them represent the prototypical flim-flam man. Con artists. If he worked for a legitimate newspaper, Krugman would be put on sabbatical for the way he slimed Paul Ryan. Leftists are always the first to scream the GOP has no alternative plans for recovery, because they’re, uh, racist or something. They get a legitimate plan they could rebut and devolve into whining and name calling.
Books will be written about the perfidiously unconscionable O. I’m waiting for Stanley Kurtz’s. People on the Right saw through this charlatan two years ago. People on the Left who were (and still are) stuck on stupid are now stuck with stupid for another two years. We’ll see if the Democratic Party survives the sh*t storm.
We’re mad. We’re taking names and we’re gettin’ even.
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Proreason…very powerfully and accurately
expressed. Thank you.
Aren’t you assuming that the Republicans are not complete idiots? Watch, they’ll run a Nazi Pedophile with no experience in 2012.
Bob, zero chance you’ll get the nomination, try the Democrats.
Note To Politicians Everywhere:
Never, ever, allow anyone to say that you are “…charismatic…” or that you exhibit “…charisma..”
Personally, I never want to hear that word again, but at the same time I wish myself Good Luck On That.
DH and I had dinner tonight with quiet spoken, business-owning, grandparents who have worked all their lives with their hands. They own and know how to use guns. Have always hunted. They expect that when the collapse comes, the cities will empty (because the infrastructure that lights and heats (or cools) the buildings will collapse and the groceries will be emptied by looters within 24 hours. So the cities will empty, the welfare-brained thugs will head for the country and “demand that somebody new take care of them.” Civil war will be the natural result. And the remaining, smelly government in DC will pretend they don’t notice. And they will blame the people who don’t submit. And the Islamists will sit in their mosques and smile.
I absolutely agree. You have one typo in this you might want to correct. “were men of conscious who were “blowing the whistle” —
I’m sure you meant conscience.
“the furor will explode at the ballot box in November in ways even the Democrats’ depressing polls underestimate.”
Too bad all that explosion and fury and its effects will be utterly useless to those of us who want to save the Republic.
Bravo, proreason, your eloquence on this is matched only by VDH in this and his immediately preceding post.
You say it all, thank you.
Very valid and emotionally satisfying points. However, it’s far too early for victory laps. There are nearly three months to go, Republicans are very capable of screwing up and these scum are quite good at stealing close elections. Otherwise, Dr. Hanson, from your lips to God’s ear.
coterminous
That is one of many reasons why I read VDH as soon as it appears.
Where else are you going to get that???
By the way VDH, I heard your radio spot today with Bill Manders in Reno. Well done.
Mad? You ain’t seen nothin’
Angry is just the beginning. Out here in the real world, we will follow the constitutional course and work to rid ourselves of this scourge. However, I suggest these ghouls should not decide to do anything extra-constitutional, violent, or plain stupid to retain power. They will find our anger transformed to cold, calculating, disciplined, focused and relentless lethality. Our military is very sophisticated, for one, and I think these tyrants would be very unhappy to find themselves on the wrong side of both civilians and military personnel prepared to uphold the constitution against their shenanigans. Let us pray this will never have to happen.
I have to confess; the eloquence with which some of you express yourselves, just takes my breath away and makes me so proud to be one of your fellow Americans.
Doc11355,
After the privilege and joy of reading Dr. Hanson’s essays comes the honor of queuing up among these patriots. To have them come to my defense against a snide mud-slinger bolsters my courage.
How can a country of such good and true citizens fail to reclaim its good senses?
In an other wise good article,I take one issue with the good professor Where is the, “fleeing press”?
To proreason
Perfect !
Never forget, the media made it possible by their refusal to do their job and check the guy out properly.
Putting the breaks on the Progressive’s state-capitalist power grab was the easy part. The real work starts on 3 November…
They told me that if I voted for McCain, bad things would happen.
They were right.
Lying. Scamming. Freeloading. Sucking up to tin pot tyrants. Demeaning your country. Ignoring the will of the electorate. Vilifying critics. Demonstrating gross incompetence. Displaying total lack of leadership. Openly revealing obsessive Socialist ideology. Sniveling and sulking. And add boring: haranguing day after day.
Does he really believe this is how to win the hearts and minds of the American voter?
Stupidity, incompetence, arrogance: what great parlay!
This isn’t about Barack Obama’s agenda.
The agendas that are being implemented are those of Bill Ayers and George Soros.
The wisdom, prescience and erudition of your writings, Dr Hanson is quite breath-taking. Be aware please of how many admirers you have here in Britain.
Does any of this anger amount to anything? In 1994 the GOP rode in on a tidal wave of similar big government resentment only to find it impossible to cut much of anything, even PBS. Cancel Big Bird? What kind of monster are you?
The GOP will retake Congress next year and when they try to reform entitlements, will quickly be shown the door, paving the way for Obama’s re-election in 2012.
People get the leadership they deserve and sometimes better.
We really are heading to Argentinaville.
I will second VDH’s shout-out for PISMO BEACH. And right next to Pismo, there is amazing old school CALIFORNIA BEACH CAMPING ON OCEANO BEACH (Oceano Dunes SVRA).
It’s $10 a night, bring a tent, bring some firewood, rent an ATV if you dare. The weather should hold up through September.
Do some internet research before you go, but you’re in for an amazingly good time.
You betcha. In spades.
Have a bit of patience, will you? Things will get better as soon as the Royal Family squeezes in a Florida vacation this weekend. Time is short, though, as the Annual Getaway to Martha’s Vinyard is next week or the week after and the Queens luggage is still at the cleaner after her private vacation in Spain. I hope the family dog isn’t too stressed riding on AF-1, and if he is, it must be George Bush’s fault.
LOL!
-And i thought Victor Davis Hanson was a historian. It seems he is just a party hack.
What’s up troll? That the best you can do? Wish he was writing for your party? We’re sure glad to him in our corner.
Doggonit, Anon, put your iPod away and wash those dishes!! The dinner crowd will be here any minute.
One can only speculate as to the personal shortcomings that have led you to apologize for the current regime. Sad, really.
After studying men like Alcibiades, and the Peloponnesian war, diagnosing our times and troubles only looks like party hackery to a partisan seeking a reposte to derail the author into self-defense.
Actually, I thought Hansen made some apt observations in his book. His study of the traitor Alcibiades was certainly telling, and possibly there is a parallel with Alcibiades and Duhb’ya!
His notion of personal freedom, discipline, and organization brought to the battlefield by western armies, and their defeat of many non-western nations that were weighted down by poor government, limited funding and intolerance of free discussion certainly had a ring of truth to it. But his unabashed support of George W. Bush’s poorly thought out wars showed him for the hack he is.
And no Penny (from above), I don’t wish he writes for my side either.
Let’s see you show one example where Bush schemed against his own country in the manner of Alcibiades if you want to make cute analogies.
…. Now we will see the real Obama who hasn’t the character to persevere with soon to be 30-something% approval ratings, an angry base, a fleeing media, an organized, energized opposition — and a country so mad that its furor will explode at the ballot box in November in ways underestimated in even the Democrats’ most depressing polls.
Around fifteen months ago I predicted that Sayiid Buraq will be gone, by his own hand, (by way of his resignation, that is) by September of 2011.
Can you say, “President Biden?” (Who is, it’s true, also a thicker than two planks flaming idiot and something of a narcissist — but does not, it seems, absolutely loathe our beloved fraternal republic nor seem Hell bent on its destruction)
I’m looking forward to November. Oh yes, I’m looking very much forward to it.
Yeah the times are certainly not good; the East coast, Europe, and Russia to name three are having their hottest summer EVER; so much for global cooling. The economy stinks and the latest numbers spread more gloom. More jobs leave the country every day. So anger over lost wealth, the lack of a job, or related fears is human and normal in such times.
Things certainly seemed more chaotic during the sixties; there were HUGE demonstrations month after month, it seemed; some heads were being broken and a few Ayers types were planting bombs. (Imagine if we had had internet blather then).
Political anger merging into GOTCHA, when the other side does badly is also normal. And maybe even all the talk of the “lost golden age founding republic etc” stuff is normal, despite the evidence that things have always been screwed-up and crisis-filled to some degree. The people living in those golden times felt as stressed, died earlier and often more broke than people do now, but it the religio-psychological, semi-fantasy of getting back to the old-time religion-republic, that seems to fuel many of the you Tea Partiers, who may have a lot in common with earlier populist groups like the anti-immigrant “no nothings.”
Lefties sometimes think back to golden times when Righties are in power, but it is a less pronounced dynamic in lefties because they pride themselves in being modern, rather than traditional. But all our politics is (and always has been) such a morass of self interest, half truths, blunders left, blunders right, and surviving, or not to the next election, that you can b*tch about it if it makes you feel better, or if you simply MUST,…but, it will pass, as every political and national mood has passed and morphed in my sixty plus years.
But wait! The most important crisis in the history of the universe is right here…right now!! Hmmmmm Only if you just lost your job and now can’t make the payments on your house…or just got a terminal cancer diagnosis.
Anyway, VDH appropriately creates some context with the reference to the rise and fall of the contract with America and the fact that it will be telling how Obama reacts to having lost his sheen. Many of you hate him so much that you don’t care how he reacts, but for those of us in the center, it is important that he show he can govern from the center, which should mean not paying to much attention to some of you righty crazies, rather just make the point that you are out there, and that WE in the center have to get by somehow.
For me the golden age would be if he and a Republican congress could come up with a couple decent policies that could make a dent in our trade imbalance and stimulate job growth here, but that may make me a dreamer too.
“so much for global cooling.”
Oh I see, so if it is hot in a few places one summer then all of the fudged and inaccurate data and the pathetically deficient and biased mathematical models of the AGW alarmists are suddenly to be believed?
“ anger over lost wealth, the lack of a job, or related fears is human and normal in such times”
But a reasonable person would try to understand why this is so and demand a clear and logical explanation from non-politically aligned experts rather than excepting the platitudes and blame mongering of the current administration.
“Things certainly seemed more chaotic during the sixties”
That was a children’s crusade compared to now. A bad war is bad – but stopping a dangerous ideology from systematically dismantling a great country is a really serious cause.
“the religio-psychological, semi-fantasy of getting back to the old-time religion-republic, that seems to fuel many of the you Tea Partiers, who may have a lot in common with earlier populist groups like the anti-immigrant “no nothings.”
In the absence of any good rebuttal – try insults. Keep thinking like this and inform your progressive elite masters that there is nothing to worry about.
“Only if you just lost your job and now can’t make the payments on your house…or just got a terminal cancer diagnosis.”
Only someone expecting to be taken care of by others would have such a blithe attitude about such things.
“ Many of you hate him so much that you don’t care how he reacts, but for those of us in the center, it is important that he show he can govern from the center, “
Govern from the center? Govern from the center? Are you kidding me? There is no intrinsic hate here (but it is hard to like this guy even if he just played golf all of the time). He and the Dem elite are damaging the country in ways that will negatively affect the “center” for years to come.
“For me the golden age would be if he and a Republican congress could come up with a couple decent policies that could make a dent in our trade imbalance and stimulate job growth here, but that may make me a dreamer too.”
This Progressive talking point might be the most annoying one ever. For those who would listen, there are many very intelligent, well-considered, fair and workable proposals coming from the other side. But they clash with the ideology and therefore are ignored or shouted down with nonsensical sound bites – unfortunately eagerly consumed by people like you.
“so much for global cooling.”
Oh I see, so if it is hot in a few places one summer then all of the fudged and inaccurate data and the pathetically deficient and biased mathematical models of the AGW alarmists are suddenly to be believed?
“ anger over lost wealth, the lack of a job, or related fears is human and normal in such times”
But a reasonable person would try to understand why this is so and demand a clear and logical explanation from non-politically aligned experts rather than excepting the platitudes and blame mongering of the current administration.
“Things certainly seemed more chaotic during the sixties”
That was a children’s crusade compared to now. A bad war is bad – but stopping a dangerous ideology from systematically dismantling a great country is a really serious cause.
“the religio-psychological, semi-fantasy of getting back to the old-time religion-republic, that seems to fuel many of the you Tea Partiers, who may have a lot in common with earlier populist groups like the anti-immigrant no nothings.”
In the absence of any good rebuttal – try insults. Keep thinking like this and inform your progressive elite masters that there is nothing to worry about.
“Only if you just lost your job and now can’t make the payments on your house…or just got a terminal cancer diagnosis.”
Only someone expecting to be taken care of by others would have such a blithe attitude about such things.
“ Many of you hate him so much that you don’t care how he reacts, but for those of us in the center, it is important that he show he can govern from the center, “
Govern from the center? Govern from the center? Are you kidding me? There is no intrinsic hate here (but it is hard to like this guy even if he just played golf all of the time). He and the Dem elite are damaging the country in ways that will negatively affect the “center” for years to come.
“For me the golden age would be if he and a Republican congress could come up with a couple decent policies that could make a dent in our trade imbalance and stimulate job growth here, but that may make me a dreamer too.”
This Progressive political tactic might be the most annoying one ever. For those who would listen, there are many very intelligent, well-considered, fair and workable proposals coming from the other side. But they clash with your ideology as most logical thinking does and therefore must be ignored or shouted down with nonsensical sound bites – unfortunately eagerly consumed by people like you.
Speaking of con jobs:
Oh, my goodness. As a politically centrist American who has lived through many a crisis during my sixty odd years, I would deign to inform you plebian right wing nut jobs that the Golden Age of America quite simply never existed. Your current problems are but a pittance compared to yesteryear, and should be of no concern to you unless you are dying of terminal boredom, as am I . . .
A couple of observations here Dwitless:
Nothing I’ve read indicates you’re anything other than a garden variety Lefty liberal. You fool no one.
Your diction betrays you. You wouldn’t understand the 60′s because you weren’t alive then, and during the 90 – 00′s, when you and my kids were in school, the books glossed over that era of US history. Is Bill Ayers the only name from the 60′s that you know?
What’s “human and normal in such times” is what you’re witnessing now. Having never been there you should get used to it.
“it is a less pronounced dynamic in lefties because they [traditionally] pride themselves in being” deceptive, rather than forthright. And there you have it. This is why we don’t trust the Left.
Your diction betrays you. You wouldn’t understand the 60’s because you weren’t alive then, and during the 90 – 00’s, when you and my kids were in school, the books glossed over that era of US history. Is Bill Ayers the only name from the 60’s that you know?”
Just jump right in over your head and be completely wrong, not to mention the fool. I graduated from college in 1967. I lived through it all, was in Talledega, Ala. (before they built the race track) in the summer of ’66 and could recite more than anyone here would want to listen to about the sixties. I remember watching the Democratic Convention is Chicago in 1968, was it, when Daley jeered at Abraham Ribikoff, for talking about Gestapo action in the streets of Chicago. My father-in-law-to-be was watching it with me, saying, “those people should be shot!” and he didn’t mean the baton-wielding police. Neither one of us had ever heard of Bill Ayers at the time. So I will just assume that you are as wrong about everything else in your analysis as you are in what you “know” about me. Your statement probably shows you to be more a fool than a knave, but it hardly matters, now, does it?
Now that’s better, and you managed to convince me. I accept at face value you are sixtyish. I had a very similar experience to the one you describe during the Dem Convention in ’68. Drop the overbearing condenscention you feel your age and experiences entitle you to and maybe some will listen to your point about how bad it was then compared to now.
Hmmm, are you admitting that you were W_R_O-N-G? Weren’t YOU the one being condescending?
I was making a point about what I remember and you had a misfire. You said that my diction betrayed me, whatever the hell that means. That I can write in complete sentences? (except for this one) I made specific points about what I remember. Are you trying to assert that it is crazier now than it was in the late 60′s? One of your righty buddies has already blown that odd assertion out of the water.
Whatever; how about responding to the substance of what I said, since your first attempt to dismiss it as fictional has not gone well?
Barry Dunham can’t govern from the center. Barry Dunham can’t govern. Barry Dunham is an affirmative action baby with barely enough competence to eat Wagyu beef in his shirtsleeves.
Dunham’s puppeteers can’t govern from the center. Dunham’s puppeteers can’t govern. Dunham’s puppeteers only know how to loot and bully.
Democrats can’t govern from the center. Democrats can’t govern.
“A civil war would probably not be a bad thing although who do you shoot?”
Well, you could do us all a favor and start with a few PJM trolls…
Anger? You ain’t seen nuttin yet!
I just read that John Kerry has introduced a bill to bring workers from Muslim countries [more of them] into the US — in the name of “engagement.”
Obama is promoting the Mosque at Ground Zero — more than “promoting” but actually spending OUR dollars on a State funded fund-raising trip (Unconstitutional re “establishment of religion”) for Mr. Rauf to the Middle East.
They continue to ignore public opinion — and rights — on every front — not to mention public and national safety.
There is no doubt in my mind that Pelosi and Reid will push through their agenda in their Lame Duck session. Not one drop of doubt.
Judge them by their previous actions.
If you think the anger is mounting now — what will happen when they do that?
Incredible but true – thanks for referring to this Kerry bill.
It calls for an exchange of ‘professionals’ like teachers, city planners, and public health workers from ‘the muslim world’. As distinct from the real world.
These people would be “21-40 years old and could also come from civil society, including journalists, leaders of religious-based organisations, or employees of nonprofit organisations.”
What civil society would that be? There aren’t any in sharia dominated muslim countries – how could there be? Thinking isn’t allowed; beheading and maiming are de rigueur. Oh yes, and more cult leaders coming to America – what joy. As for their NPOs, would they continue to exclusively support muslims and terrorist organizations, as in the past?
And just what do they presume to teach Americans? Dhimmitude, sharia, islam’s advanced thinking and contributions to the world?
Why pay to give away more knowledge of the US’s civilian infrastructure to yet more infiltrators.
Icing on the cake? They’re looking for 21-40 year olds – you know,
the same age as most islamist terrorists. The State Department is way overdue for some very close scrutiny and an audit – who knows what they’re up to?
Name of the bill is: S. 3688, The International Professional Exchange Act of 2010 – BTW it references Ozero’s Cairo speech. Very little on the net and what there is is on political blogs, not the MSM of course.
Link here to read it –
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:S.3688:
Engagement with is Islam is like hand-feeding a komodo dragon; even if you escape being devoured, one nick and you’re infected. Choice bits for later consumption.
As long as we allow Islam to be viewed as a religion, and not a totalitarian death cult, we invite destruction.
Aside from just generally observing Obama’s sleazy behavior regarding Health Care, etc., etc., refer to his statement about his preference for being a “good” one term President…what else does that mean but doing what he wants no matter how objectionable the citizens find it.
When it’s Obama’s turn to be in his Lame Duck session, we’re going to see some ugly stuff — mostly regarding Foreign Policy, where Congress has less power — there isn’t any doubt at all that he will do whatever he wants at that point. None.
What will the “anger” be like then?
Mad? “Mad” doesn’t begin to cover it. The Democrat Party has become a domestic enemy of the United States. Every move made by these people has resulted in more damage to the country. In order to prevent more knives in our collective economic chest, we must crush the Democrat Party flat. See you in November.
It is obvious that Pres. b Hussein Osama is on a mission to take America down…
but the enthustic participation of the Democrats in his project of wrecking America is just amazing.
This is not the Democratic Party of Truman or JFK.
Today’s Dems line up with everything he is doing to weaken, bankrupt and ruin America. They aren’t just mistaken or radical; they are dangerously anti-American.
After the 2004 election, David Brooks commented, “Every election year, we in the commentariat come up with a story line to explain the result and the story line has to have two features. It has to be completely wrong and it has to reassure liberals that they are morally superior to the conservatives who just defeated them.” 1988: Racism! Willie Horton! 1994: Peter Jennings described the voters as two year olds throwing a temper tantrum. 2000: Bush stole the election. 2004: The Swift Boat Veterans smeared Kerry. Homophobia. We didn’t get our message out. If the liberals lose heavily in the 2010 elections, the MSM will come up with a story line to explain the result. It will be completely wrong and it will reassure liberals that they are morally superior to the conservatives who defeated them.
Great read Doc Hanson.
Remember their slogans-
“Petraeus betrayed Us”
Is now their savior.
“Paying taxes is patriotic”
John Kerry hiding his yacht.
I would like to say one thing you probably can’t.
“Payback in November is gonna be a Bitch.”
But will Republicans man up in total opposition to socialist suicide after they win in November?
VDH
I wanted to share a story about a couple of folks, George Psalmanazar and Princess Caraboo.
They made up histories about themselves, with fantastic tales of experiences in their youth of misfortune and the evils of others. They had not been proud of their homeland all their adult lives.
Their stories mesmerized the high society types and captured the imagination, sending a thrill up the legs of those “in the know”. The origin of the name Psalm-anazar…was quite fitting…a man who could seemingly bring about Hope and Change with a mere stroke of his pen.
A whole new lexicon was created.
Princess Caraboo hailed from the island of Javasu, in the Indian Ocean. (not sure if she visited Marbella). The people from their native lands were mean, bitter, and they performed violent rituals.
When people are duped, VDH…they don’t get angry just at the hoax. They feel silly and stupid for having been conned.
One final point, VDH…the legacy media will NEVER leave the land of Hopenchange. They helped invent it. They are part of the hoax. They are part of the con.
(Obama, Biden, and Hillary sitting in judgment of Petraeus [who in just three years would now offer them a life-raft for the moment] was one of the more bizarre moments of the last twenty years.)
Watching a tentative and nervous Obama and a little-girl-like Hillary question General Petraeus was very revealing, the sheepishness of both Democrat candidates in the presence of excellence was on parade.
Obama tended to preempt General Petraeus and answer his own questions. He relaxed a bit when he used most of his time to lecture the general.
It has been tough to imagine Barack Obama as CIC since viewing that spectacle during the campaign.
For a little comic relief…
The race card is maxed out
Ya well it is personal now. Having my face rubbed in by the incredible arrogance and belligerent attitude of the rulers in that cesspool on the Potomac makes it personal, very very personal. Throw in having to pay for this insanity on my dime in order for a bunch of radical sociopaths to BS a nation in order to cover up the ugly truth about the destruction of my country and home makes it a matter of honor and pride. Then to be branded as a mouth breather and bitter racist clinger of weapons and Faith because I have the nerve to be unhappy as MY country is getting raped up the poop shoot causes me to understand a cold hard reality. These clowns and snake oil con artists are the ignorant ones. They have no idea how lucky they are to have America. This is a country of law abiding thoughtful people, if we are the unwashed savages that the ruling elite say we are, congress and the executive, along with the regulatory would be swinging from a rope by now. This IS still America, an amazing nation of good people who have forgiveness and charity in their hearts. But when the train of abuse grows long, too long, it becomes personal. Mad as hell? You bet. God protect any one who messes with the instruments of our lawful recourse and redress.
Enough
To keep the anger from reaching righteous rage, we must act to do what? Threaten’em. We must threaten them with something that makes them afraid…afraid enough to stop and reverse course. Starting today.
I know this sounds harse, but it’s intended to lessen the seemingly evermore likely probability of a nationwide lampost solution. We must DECLARE that upon achieving a majority, we intend to indict all members of both Houses who voted for bill(s) without reading it/them (I also include cap & tax, energy, student loans, financial reform et al) for theft of the public money. Only a threat of this type of televised trial can forestall the lameduck passage of even more egregious legislation on their way to retirement; ie, getting completely away with it.
What possible legitimate excuse can there be for their RICO-worthy criminal enterprise? C-Span from Gitmo. Guilty means loss of all benefits, and banishes them from dealing with US gov’ts at every level.
If we let them getawaywithit, we’re being entirely insincere to future generations. And, they won’t stop short of the gallows drop. Or, it’ll surely be us who swings all together.
I hear folks say the Republicans this and the Republicans that. The Republican representatives we have duly elected to represent our Sovereign, read The Peoples Sovereign, interests have quite honestly failed to uphold their lawful sworn oath of fealty and duty to do so. The whole point our founders sacrifice and brilliance with creating Liberty based on Republican form of Government of the people for the people by the people is the point, it has come down to the WE to redress the balance and structure of sovereign power in this great country, and it is the WE who are the Sovereign. Not the Feds, Not the President or whatever he is, not the courts, not the regulatory, not the States, not a self appointed ruling class or a sinister communist cabal or its hand maiden a progressive socialistic democratic party.
We The People are the Sovereign, every part of our “representative” governments are just that.Representative, republican party especially included. So Republicans my arse, they can come along and work with us to redress the abuses and usurpation’s, if they have the integrity principles and courage to do so, and this can be a sea change for us as a people and a Republic, but it is up to each of us as individuals to come to our rescue, for us to become again the United states. It has always been so. Mad? Whatever it is it is become unbearable and unacceptable, that is what tyranny and the tyrants who imposes. I am proud to be one of the mad, it is a badge of honor. It is Patriotism. I’ve had enough of anything less.
Well said. Your outrage is justified and comes from a good place.
I volunteered in a couple of state primaries this year, for the first time. One was an amazingly well-organized, strong-grassroots campaign–and the candidate won. The other campaign was flawed both in its organizational structure and in its messaging–and it lost.
Guess what, folks. As Karl Rove said in his new book, campaigns WORK. They follow certain rules that can be known and applied. You do the work, you win the campaign. You don’t do the work–or you do the wrong kind of work–you lose the campaign. It’s that simple.
Unless the Dems commit crimes on an historically massive and unprecedented scale, or Obama declares martial law and suspends the elections, the Rove rules DO WORK. Get busy!
I volunteered in a couple of state primaries this year, for the first time. One was an amazingly well-organized, strong-grassroots campaign–and the candidate won. The other campaign was flawed both in its organizational structure and in its messaging–and it lost.
Guess what, folks. As Karl Rove said in his new book, campaigns WORK. They follow certain rules that can be known and applied. You do the work, you win the campaign. You don’t do the work–or you do the wrong kind of work–you lose the campaign. It’s that simple.
Unless the Dems commit crimes on an historically massive and unprecedented scale, or Obama declares martial law and suspends the elections, the Rove rules DO WORK. Get busy!
The author deserves the highest medal that Journalism can produce for “killing time in preparation for a $50 million a year, Mandela-like, globe-trotting post-presidency” in the very last line of his Post.
You have it on the button good Sir, about both gentlemen that you mention. How come is it that nobody said the Truth so well before?
“I am not being partisan here.” — Sure, we have the Cultural Elite and then the rest of us and Pedro, the “fleeing press” is on their side. He who has the gold makes the rules.
The rest of us are getting madder but we still have an ample supply of Big Mac’s, cheap HDTV’s, mindless programming and numerous forms of government dole to keep us placated. Let Gen Petraeus and the kid down the street handle the hard stuff. I don’t think Obama had a clue what he was getting into. Hope and Change gave way to the real world. Democrat/Republican : Coke/Pepsi. One had the sense George W. would have been happy to got back to Crawford had Kerry not beat himself. Watch the Republican’s run Palin against him just to be sure they don’t win.
Proreason #15 — Good point. Bush & Co are not actually comparable to O & Co in any way that matters. I had significant differences with Bush, and was deeply frustrated with the GOP majority in Congress in the period 2001-7. But Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress have crossed the threshold of simply ignoring the Constitution, and arrogating to themselves powers not even FDR or Wilson laid claim to. The point isn’t that Obama is worse than Bush. The point is that Obama is more ideological than Wilson, more imperial than FDR, and more incompetent as a commander-in-chief and foreign policy leader than Carter.
I’ve been thinking for some months now that in terms of our national politics, we have already surpassed late-Republican Rome, with the corruption, the disregard of law, and the level of disdain our national politicians have for the people. Most ordinary folks who are concerned think of our main national prospect as implosion, effective “invasion,” and defeat. I’m not so sure. In the next decade, I suspect we face the real danger of becoming IMPERIAL Rome 2.0. The power-hungry we always have with us, and the obvious thing to do with America’s latent might — if you’re power-hungry — is send it out a-conquering. The American people don’t want that, of course. It wouldn’t be presented to us in those terms; as with late-Republican Rome, the reason for conquest and imperial expansion would always be self-defense and the spread of our superior form of civic order. But if we hope to avoid being dispatched by a populist, rabble-rousing dictator to fight his wars, there is no time left to get our house in order.
“The point isn’t that Obama is worse than Bush.”
The point you make here is well taken, and completely lost on the Leftists. I’d be happy to discuss the pro’s and con’s of the Bush presidency, ten years from now when someone gets us out of our current mess.
Interesting assertions, but how do you possibly quantify: “in terms of our national politics, we have already surpassed late-Republican Rome, with the corruption, the disregard of law, and the level of disdain our national politicians have for the people.” ??
I also assume that our state and local governments, for better or worse, make many of the dynamics of our situation significantly different than those in the time you cite. However, I will not dispute that terrible times lead some powerful countries to produce a Napoleon or a Hitler, and bad things happen. GWB’s critics asserted that he was doing something like that in his Iraq adventure. I would say that turned out NOT to be the case, but it was an odd assertion of American power with most of the pieces yet to fall in place regarding what was actually accomplished. Bad guys and innocents were killed, a loathesome dictator and his regime were gotten rid of, and America divided up in support or opposition. Maybe the fact that this action DIVIDED us so much is what it will be remembered for. Iraq was not the complete disaster that the left predicted, but Iraq did eventually lead to Obama, 60 Democrat senators, and our current warring camps.
Which is easier to imagine; no Iraq, or no housing collapse? Probably no Iraq, because the housing bubble fed ALL the pigs in the trough, provided job, jobs, jobs…for a while, and our culture really has no way to resist something like that. So the housing bubble would have done us in anyway, but we would, for better or worse, not be so at each others throats.
Let it be so.
Mt Top Patriot,
Nobody did nothing to us. We did it to ourselves. We insisted that they give us our cake and that we might have it and eat it too. We did not take corrupt judges who winked at corporate scofflaws out and tar and feather them. We tolerated our corrupt county sheriff’s because they did not bother us. We looked the other way as our local ‘good ol boys’ frolicked and cavorted in all sorts of corruption. We said next to nothing as our teen-aged daughters were used for recreational sex … because that’s what we did when we were young … or maybe still.
Our father’s were closed mouthed fools and we are even bigger fools. Take your lumps and know you deserve them.
Gore was a born leader but had no followers while Obama had followers but had no leadership skills and was an empty suit. Evidently the American public or at least 59% are figuring this out.
I fear the tragedy of the Obama Presidency is greater than many critics even imagine. The plagues that he has unleashed on America are even greater than those he has unleashed elsewhere, but the two unleashings are intimately tied together.
Obama has deliberately spent the United States into fiscal oblivion. This in no way excuses some of Bush’s extravagances, but this is different in scale and in feeling. It has the feeling of wanton and deliberate sabotage, aided by the Democrats in Congress (and RINOs) who don’t share his agenda fully, but aid it with abandon that may match Obama’s own.
He has brought the race genie full out of the bottle. He has shown and provoked African Americans to display their political malice in full, those that do, and incited the NBPP and the rest, and the Nation of Islam.
He has quite clearly made as a centerpiece of both domestic and foreign agendas the advancement of Islam in every way possible. Thus his open support of the GZ mosque, a position that is surely impossible by an American President who has any connection with the emotions of the average person. Thus his advocacy of zakat and sharia finance, and sharia in Kenya and the OIC, his round-about support for flotilla after flotilla, and his sincere efforts to threaten and diminish Israel; thus his support for Shiite control in Lebanon and his appeasement of Saudi whims, his insertion of Muslims into the history of America, rewriting this as if Muslims had any comparable role to, say, Jews, in the formation and progress of the US.
The list is much longer.
It should be clear to all that Leftism, liberal politics, and the Democrat party value power over everything else.
Which do you think is more important to the Democrats: the Party’s success, or America’s success?
Praetorian……..Don’t forget to wear your bullet-proof vest when you’re out knocking on those doors!!!!!
Speaking of November, I don’t think ol’ Harry did right by his homely-looking prodigy with the ‘Hispanics..’ nonsense.
How do these people get elected, let alone keep their position?
Harry Reid is the 3rd most poerful man in the USA.. now that’s depressing.
How ’bout his kid, Rory? He looks like he could fall over from the wind of a feather! This t urd’s going to take care of unemployment? Like his old man he’s NEVER had a real job himself. Oh brother.
Rory Reid makes Bill Gates the very definition of ‘tough’.
Maxine Waters, Charlie Rangel, etc etc., from both aisles – flush ‘em.
I read every word VDH writes – he’s a clear thinker and obviously loves this country, BUT, I think he and many Republican talking heads on TV are too optimistic about this Nov.
Just watched Chris Mathews Sunday show and you would think Obama has done great the first eighteen months! All four panelists (admittedly all left of center) seemed to think there would be much less damage to Dems than we conservatives think this fall.
How can both sides see this SO differently??
The lefty newspeople are hard core idealogues who envision some nirvana as reality and political reality to boot. Many of these people have not had a real (create something) or (run something) in so many years they have forgotten or misplaced reality. The newspeople do their best to keep the elites in power so they can rub elbows with them and churn out the same clap trap that keeps them from thinking, really. Americans, me included, listened to these lefties for years thinking that they are presenting an accurate picture of events because we were all working and barely had time to watch a news program. Then with the Obama American Massacre many people started paying attention and are now at odds with these newspeople for so many years of distortions and half-truths. We will overcome this attempt to bring our country to its knees. And those liars should be castigated and revulsed for the evil drones they are.
Re Dwight:
“Hmmm, are you admitting that you were W_R_O-N-G?”
[I accept at face value you are sixtyish.] What about this statement don’t you understand?
“Weren’t YOU the one being condescending?”
I don’t think you understand what that word means. “W_R_O-N-G” is condescending. You still write like a twentysomething year old whatever your age. I said I would take sixtyish at face value – meaning I won’t dispute it. Now you jump up and down like a child who thinks he won a major point in an argument. Pathetic.