Posted on 07/18/2008 11:18:04 AM PDT by Trueblackman
Excellent! You are right on!
The Congressional DemonRATS just plain aren’t getting the message. A million mad average Americans march, with tar, feathers, pitchforks and torches might be what is needed to get their attention. Nothing else seems to get across to them, not even the lowest rating of a Congress in poll taking history. They don’t even know we exist....except when election time comes. I hope the real American people revolt via the ballot box and throw out them all out on their ear in November.
would be nice if everyone that claims they are ticked off would do that. but alas as the results come in they old faces have remained.
I am continuously amazed that her constituents are so blind to this woman's total hypocrisy. She obviously sees herself as ruling over them, and they must like it that way. Fools.
Be careful what you ask for. That level of arrogance and stupidity is very dangerous.
I'll not be surprised if, eventually, they quietly allow drilling to expand, while continuing to say "No, no, no, can't, can't, can't", if they think they can get away with it. It will drop the price of gas, and they can still take credit for it.
Bump your draft. We need an artist/cartoonist to get Al Gore and Nancy Pelosi dressed as Louis and Marie—
Excellent article! Interestingly enough, I just made a similar point in a Letter to the Editor of my local paper, printed last Sunday. Unfortunately, I had to keep it under 300 words, so that really limited me. What I wrote is below. If there are any ideas in it you might be able to use for your Op-Ed, I’d be honored for you to use them.
Fletcher J
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When told that the people of France had no bread to eat and were starving, Queen Marie Antoinette was falsely accused of saying “Then let them eat cake”. The rumor eventually cost the Queen her head. Now Americans are getting the same treatment from congress over the price of fuel, but this time it’s no lie.
Solutions to this foreseeable energy crisis have been blocked by Democrats for decades. No new gasoline refineries. No drilling for oil in ANWR or off-shore. No new nuclear power plants. Nothing that would reduce fuel costs for working Americans. Even wind farms aren’t excluded; Ted Kennedy blocked one off the coast of Massachusetts, saying indignantly “That’s where I sail!”. Ted says to American workers: Let Them Eat Cake.
Elitist Democrats want high gasoline prices. High prices reduce gas usage by we commoners, and the elitists think that will save mother earth. Al Gore called for higher fuel taxes in his book “Earth in the Balance”. Meanwhile, his own home burns through twenty times the electricity of an average American home. Al Gore says to working Americans: Let Them Eat Cake.
Barack Obama was asked about the high price of gas recently, and he said: “I think that I would have preferred a gradual adjustment.” Read that quote carefully. Mr. Obama doesn’t care that gas is $4 per gallon; he just wishes we had gotten to $4 a little slower. Given this position, will he do anything about the price of gas if he’s elected President? Obama is just another elitist Democrat that wants you to save the planet by riding a bicycle to work like some third-world peasant, while he rides in the presidential limo. Obama’s message to working Americans? Let Them Eat Cake.
Sadly—this is true. Most Americans don’t look at much more than the 30 second commercials and the sound bites. They just vote for what is simplest—like keep the old people in. Its a habit we need to break if this country is to survive. Maybe Obama can teach us something.
Where are your Op-Eds published?
Didn’t someone’s head get cut off for saying the same thing a while back???
IIRC...
We’re not entirely sure who said “Let them eat cake,” but we can tell you that it wasn’t Marie Antoinette. This flippant phrase about consuming pastry is commonly attributed to the frivolous queen in the days leading up to the French Revolution. Supposedly, she spoke these words upon hearing how the peasantry had no bread to eat. But biographers and historians have found no evidence that Marie uttered these words or anything like them.
Our old pal Cecil Adams of The Straight Dope explains the quotation was first written by French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Confessions. Actually, Rousseau wrote “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche,” which essentially means “let them eat a type of egg-based bread” (not quite cake, but still a bit extravagant). Rousseau claimed that “a great princess” told the peasants to eat cake/brioche when she heard they had no bread.
But Rousseau wrote this in early 1766, when Marie Antoinette was only 10 years old, still living in her native Austria and not yet married to King Louis XVI. So it’s highly unlikely that Marie uttered the pompous phrase. Perhaps Rousseau invented them to illustrate the divide between royalty and the poor — which is certainly how the phrase has been used ever since.
However, “Let them eat brioche” isn’t quite as cold a sentiment as you might imagine. At the time, French law required bakers to sell fancy breads at the same low price as the plain breads if they ran out of the latter. The goal was to prevent bakers from making very little cheap bread and then profiting off the fancy, expensive bread. Whoever really said “Let them eat brioche” may have meant that the bakery laws should be enforced so the poor could eat the fancy bread if there wasn’t enough plain bread to go around.
A recent biographer claims that “Let them eat cake” was actually spoken by Marie-Therese, wife of France’s Louis XIV, 100 years before Marie Antoinette, but we couldn’t find anything online to corroborate this. Ultimately, we will probably never know who uttered this infamous phrase.
This is perfect, Trueblackman. I have bookmarked this.
Can I use your train of thought to relay in my weekly e-mails to Pelosi, Reid and Feinstein? Boxer is such a lost cause that my e-mails to her is: Drill Here, Drill Now...Damn It!
Good Job.
Good job, True.
Pity no one will ever read it...
I always had heard the “cake” was the burnt on residue left in the ovens after something was baked...thus what ever had bubbled over was caked on the oven floor
Yep, Drill or get off the Hill!!
i’m afraid there is much that we do not know of obama and i am not sure i want to find out more about him. what really irks me is the people that only vote along party lines no matter who the person is or what they stand for. i for one will look at the candidates and what they stand for and if the better person is in the other party i will vote for him. people just have to smarten up if like you said this country is to survive.
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