There was a man there (he gave his name, but I honestly don’t remember) who told the story of the frogs in the pot. That was part of my inspiration for this piece.
Then, after hearing Rush yesterday telling how this had to be an opportunity for the Republicans, and no other options could work, I think he is also missing the point. 9-12-2009 wasn’t good news for the Republicans. They need to listen to the people just as much as the Democrats.
NICE!!
They are angry at being called "UnAmerican, Nazis, and Astroturf"... to which you are trying to add the epithet of "Frogs". They are angry at the Stimulus (of which Obama and friends are holding back 80% right now), Cap and Trade which will require a New Roof, Furnace, A/C, Hot-water Heater etc. in the year they try to sell it.
And being stuffed into Obama-Kennedy Care. Any change forces them into it.
Yeah, they are mad. They are mad at people like you calling them things like "Frogs"
I loathe RINOs and the GOp has mega problems. The Dems on the other hand have become criminals.
Under Bush we had 5% unemployment and they tried to stop Fannie & Freddie destroying the financial system but the Dem Congress stopped them. Bush should have pushed harder but there is no comparison.
The GOP needs to get rid of RINOs. The Democrat Party moderates refused to stand up to Obama/ACORN/SEIU criminals.
No way.
It is my wish that the GOP would explicitly emphasize state sovereignty and the nation-wide push to reclaim the 10th Amendment. The GOP should come right out and try to weaken the federal government. We need a strong military -- other than that, what do I want the federal government to do? Not much. This would be the right thing to do for the country, and I think it would be a winning platform.
But Democrat-lite policies and RINOs won't get me to the polls anymore.
In 1776, George Washington needed the full support and backing of the people to get the job done. And they sacrificed their wealth, and their very lives, to obtain a successful result.
Those of us not willing to take the same level of personal responsibility, and make (if necessary) the same sacrifices, have no right to blame leaders, politicians or political parties for our own failures.
There's a reason we only have two political parties that matter, and the reason is mathematical: In a winner-take-all electoral system, there can only be two parties of any consequence. And in the 235 years of our history, there is only one instance where a new party replaced one of those two (the Republicans replaced the Whigs.) The important word there is replaced. There will still just two parties of any consequence.
What has happened much more frequently is for one or the other party to be taken over from the inside by activists with a new philosophy, vision and agenda. That strategy is much more likely to succeed than attempting to replace one of the parties with a new one.
Don't sit there at your computer bitching. Go do what needs to be done.
Obama took over the auto companies.
George W. Bush, in December of 2008, started this takeover by authorizing funds from the TARP program to be loaned to GM and Chrysler. Obama just picked up where George Bush left off, continuing the takeover, firing the CEO of GM and “investing” even more taxpayer money into both GM and Chrysler.
Obama threw a fit when he met with President Bush. Something that was forgotten. And Obama has supported the decision. He just says “I didn’t START this changeover”.
Also Paulson had HORRIBLE ideas.
Just because Boosh supported it doesn’t mean that conservatives supported it. Kind of hard to vote him out of office in December 2008.
And McCain was no sweetheart. But he wasn’t a foreign schooled Marxist.
Yes, Rush was on this theme yesterday that the Tea Protesters were only mad at democrats, not republicans. No, we are mad because both parties are out to screw us.
I get pings from the revisers every day." GWB got a bad economy in 2001, saved it with tax cuts but Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and Jimmy Carter and Clinton wrecked the golden Bush economy. " also " The Bush tax cuts paid for themselves, and the two wars and Iraq reconstruction too. All the debt was democrats fault, democrats and a few RINOs maybe but not real republicans. ". We didnt even need the Iraq oil to pay for Iraq like Cheney promised us on NBC, tax cuts paid for all the wars and homeland security too(and Obama-care will pay for itself too when no one gets sick anymore LOL.) .
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I think my in-laws were there... that's a good turnout for such a small town, isn't it?
Did the frogs who were being cooked go out and send gun and ammo sales through the roof? There is a difference between frogs and patriots.
Been my contention all along ...the RINO’s would cram this “healthcare” bill down our throats in a New York minute....’cept none of them have the stones...
The Republicans and Democrats are really the “Republicrats”. There’s very little difference. Both parties have been compromised beyond repair.
They should scrap the whole thing and have a Conservative Party for people like DeMint and Joe Wilson,a Liberal Party for Boxer, Chuckie Schumer and the rest, and a Moderate Party for McCain, Evan Bayh, Specter and the rest of the middle-of-the-roaders.
I can do that and know my children are pissed!
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I thought the general message is that this is an opportunity for the Republicans...to become a party of smaller government, etc.
I suspect that part of the reason the Dems won is because Republicans are angry about all the out of control spending of the last XX years. The frogs already started to jump out of the pot, and they didn’t vote Republican.