Posted on 10/07/2009 7:33:55 AM PDT by Rummyfan
>McCain vs Obama is not the choice many of us would have liked in an ideal world.<
amen.
mccain’s a dud.
BTTT
Of course, to be the American electorate last fall is to have said, “Ooh, I’ve never tried s**t with broken glass before! Let’s try that!”
Memo to David Sedaris: we’ve seen BO in action over the past 9 months, and I think we can say without any fear of contradiction: he’s not the chicken selection on the airline dinner menu.
“King Barack the Benign”
He’ll be lucky to be known as Barack the Bungler.
Except that he expected to find King Barack the Benign, and we are finding a Communist who wants to dismantle every institution that identifies American independence and exceptionalism.
“People get the government they deserve” Joseph D’Maistre
Gang, we HAD a shot at cleaning these places out this last election and, to borrow a phrase from the klintoon White House, WE BLEW IT!!!
While I, like many of you, am saddened that McCain and Palin couldnt keep the Marxist Obamessiah out of the White House, lets try to keep things in some kind of rational perspective: ACORN elected a president and vice-president, NOT a monarch.
For years, Ive been amazed at this idiotic quadrennial fascination with the beauty contest known as the (cue the trumpet fanfare) PRESIDENTIAL RACE. Our inattention and/or apparent desire for a king or a strong man dictatorship has allowed our system to morph to the present quasi-monarchy from its original foundations as a representative REPUBLIC.
People, the most important thing we can remember about all of this is that the Founders constructed the system to put AND KEEP — the KEYS TO THE FEDERAL CASH REGISTER IN CONGRESS and the current Gang of 535 could bring this out-of-control government spending and the steady usurpation of our freedoms to a screeching halt tomorrow at noon — IF THEY WANTED TO. Attila the Hun could occupy the White House and without the dough to hire the bureaucrats, buy the desks and computers, etc., etc. ad nauseum, Mr. Hun would be hamstrung. (See Article 1, Section 7 of the now largely moribund Constitution for details.)
But they DON’T — for a number of reasons: (And I cite the tax situation as but one example of the problem. Dont get me started on the ENERGY and Algores gloBULL warming scam!)
1. They understand the need to vacuum the excess FRAUDS (Federal Reserve Accounting Unit Denominators) — there are no “dollars” circulating now! — out of circulation BEFORE the bulk of the dumb masses (say it really fast for maximum effect) catch on to the resultant inflation. If you question that statement, ask yourself why else would a criminal enterprise (the federal government) having the power to “create” “money” with the stroke of a pen NEED YOURS every April 15th?
2. The current Gang of 535 understands the need for the massive tax code (so-called because it is written in code by gnomes chained to posts in the cellars of K Street lobbying firms and understood only by their keepers) to reward their friends, punish their enemies and keep the rest of us under their thumbs with threats of draconian punishments should we run afoul of it. It is impossible to NOT run afoul of it.
3. While the dumb masses rant about the abusive practices of this top criminal enterprise’s subsidiary criminal enterprise (the IRS), members of the Gang can pose and posture for the cameras from time to time and declare that “something MUST be done to reign in the abuses of the IRS,” NOTHING WILL BE DONE until we clean house on Capitol Hill and get back to the HONEST, CONSTITUTIONAL MONEY called for at Art.1, Sect. 10. Theyve been playing a rigged game of 3 card-Monte with us for so long and getting away with it that, as Herman Cains book title declares They Think Youre STUPID. And, hell, for MOST of the dumb masses, theyre right.
And THAT process starts in YOUR STATE and CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT by finding and supporting decent candidates — at ALL levels — who will go to YOUR state capitol and Malfunction Junction and do that house cleaning. Not marching on Washington (unless MILLIONS of pitchfork wielding folk crowd the Mall, the elites are amused by these things and the only folks who benefit from the finite patriot resources devoted to them are the airlines, hotels and restaurants in D.C.)...not sending “money” to the RNC (LOL!)...not writing poison pen letters to these current jerks...but THROWING OUT THE CURRENT JERKS you have identified as NOT having the countrys interests at heart and doing it as many times as necessary to get it done. And then watching the NEW GUYS like a hawk to make certain THEY dont go bad from imbibing too much of that power Kool-Aid so popular in Disneyland on The Potomac.
A good news in the viability of this approach is that the controlled so-called national mainstream media have far less impact on these widely separated congressional races making it easier to get some good guys elected.
The bad news is that I can speak from personal experience about how the national PARTIES will survey all the contested congressional races and if they DO find a candidate they do not or think they cannot control running on their side, they’ll offer a “consultant” from headquarters to come in and ASSIST the campaign. In at least 4 cases with which I am familiar, the Republican National Committee TORPEDOED those campaigns so a good guy who might be more inclined to cling to the Constitution before toeing the party line didn’t make it to D.C.
And for you who, like a sad number of the dumb masses, THINK YOUR GUY IS OK, go to GRADEGOV at
for your guys voting record on taxes, spending or your personal hot button issues. You might be in for an unpleasant surprise.
I often get the strong sense that the American people have some sick and sophomoric yearning for a new ROYAL FAMILY or BENEVOLENT KING to make their lives what they themselves feel incapable of making them without some nanny-state sovereign. Throughout history, with few exceptions conspicuous because of their rarity, those systems nearly always become malignant and freedom founders and eventually fails. With the exception of America the IDEA, not the place most men who have walked the earth have lived as slaves.
As opportunities afford themselves (and this is one), I simply attempt to remind my fellow citizens of that history and what lies ahead if they continue in their ignorance of that history.
I could go on for volumes but you get the idea.
One final thought: With the exception of the guys who CLEARLY pass muster at GRADEGOV, RE-ELECT NOBODY!!!!!
Standing by for a record breaking flaming by the fanatics.
I'm sure peggy was being increadibly esoteric and I just don't get it.......however , every dog I have ever seen, that catches a car, becomes a grease spot.
ping
It’s simpler. Republicans politely ask you to vote for them. Democrat liberals burn your town to the ground, shoot the survivors, and then demand government disaster relief funds.
A vote for an Obama-Pelosi-Barney Frank-ACORN supermajority is a vote for a Europeanized domestic policy that is, as the eco-types like to say, unsustainable.
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“...More to the point, the only reason why Belgium has gotten away with being Belgium and Sweden Sweden and Germany Germany this long is because Americas America. The soft comfortable cocoon in which western Europe has dozed this last half-century is girded by cold hard American power. What happens when the last serious western nation votes for the same soothing beguiling siren song as its enervated allies? ...”
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exactly!
And as he has done all his life he will take the path of least resistance.
Steyn as usual nails it, bang-on!
I have long predicted that at some point the American people would get sick and tired of footing the bill to defend a bunch of ingrates who never seem to appreciate it, and cast a vote to turn inward and isolationist. I also predicted that when that day finally came there would be massive soilings of underwear amongst the elite class in Europe.
O has it absolutely d*&^ed!
He can do NO wrong.
Like the man said, once he survived the Rev. Wright flap... he was going to be bullet proof into perpetuity!
And its happening here too. Especially in the major cities. If the big fall comes and government can't feed you anymore, how many people are going to die? Simply because they have been sheep for far too long to have any survival instincts?
People that vote for Obama deny reality.
I hate to tell you, but “gradegov.com” is like “factcheck.org” it is as unreliable as the stuff it purports to “check.”
Using my rep., Kenny Marchant, as an example...
gradegov.org gives him a B- but the breakdown is Democrat F, Republican A and Independent A-
Seems to me that from a conservative point of view, his legitimate rating would be A+. An F rating from Democrats is as solid a favorable endorsement as you could ask for-even better than an A from repubs.
FWIW, I was “redistricted” from Joe Barton to Kenny Marchant. Both are good guys, but although Marchant has less senority, his voting record is slightly better.
Another plus) is that when I recently wrote him a letter, the response I got was clearly not a form letter, but clearly a response to exactly what I had asked about. That is the way it is supposed to work, but so seldom does.
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