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Sen. Whitehouse: There Will Be A Reckoning For GOPs Desperate, No-Holds-Barred Mission Of Propaganda
tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com ^ | December 21, 2009 | Jillian Rayfield

Posted on 12/21/2009 11:12:46 AM PST by lowbridge

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To: lowbridge


Senator Winehouse?
21 posted on 12/21/2009 11:22:11 AM PST by Rodebrecht (Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.)
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To: lowbridge
Democrat Momentum!!!!


22 posted on 12/21/2009 11:22:21 AM PST by freespirited (People talk about "too big to fail." Our government is too big to succeed. --Chris Chocola)
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To: lowbridge

Yeah, that reckoning will be Nov. 2010. Bank on it.


23 posted on 12/21/2009 11:23:03 AM PST by rintense (You do not advance conservatism by becoming more liberal. ~ rintense, 2006)
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To: lowbridge

Whitehouse sounds like he’s trying to get his Alan Grayson approved “Rusty Trombone” Obamassiah Merit Badge.


24 posted on 12/21/2009 11:23:05 AM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: rightwingextremist1776

We live in a lawless nation.

The reckoning is coming, it won’t come soon enough for Whitehouse.


25 posted on 12/21/2009 11:26:23 AM PST by incredulous joe ("I like smiling! Smiling is my favorite!!")
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To: wny
I truly believe some of these demholes are mentally ill.

True enough.
In fact,I dedicate the following little ditty to all of them,their lefty friends and their ardent supporters,past and present:
Bong hits and acid trips and beads and bright flowers,
Gazing at navels for hours and hours,
Free love and communes and smiley-face blings....
these are a few of their favorite things!!
26 posted on 12/21/2009 11:26:45 AM PST by gimme1ibertee ("In a time of universal deceit,telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act"-George Orwell)
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To: Rodebrecht

AAACCCKK!!!! How about a hurl-girl alert??


27 posted on 12/21/2009 11:27:34 AM PST by gimme1ibertee ("In a time of universal deceit,telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act"-George Orwell)
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To: lowbridge

This moron forgets one little thing:

They tax us a ton more in a mere 12 days.

We get nothing for that tax.

And then comes November 2010.

Reckoning, indeed.


28 posted on 12/21/2009 11:29:15 AM PST by Lazamataz (DEFINITION: rac-ist (rA'sis't) 1. Anyone who disagrees with a liberal about any topic.)
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To: lowbridge

YAAASSS, Senator S—thouse; and YOUR ‘momentum’ will be maximized next Fall.


29 posted on 12/21/2009 11:32:12 AM PST by catchem (Never underestimate the stupidity of the American voter.)
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To: catchem

Wait til the voters apply some electoral chin music to Sen. Whitehouse and he wakes up in the minority.


30 posted on 12/21/2009 11:34:03 AM PST by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: lowbridge

There will be a reckoning all right. All socialist Dems and RINOs get the boot!!

Just vote them out in 2010!!

Starting in Searchlight Nevada:

http://www.teapartyexpress.org/home/


31 posted on 12/21/2009 11:36:06 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Join the TEA Party Rebellion!! May God and TEA save the Republic!!)
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To: caver

Welcome to Bizarro World.


32 posted on 12/21/2009 11:40:51 AM PST by Overtaxed Patriot (Lock and load.)
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To: From The Deer Stand

“More proof of the need for mental health counseling.”

That’s exactly what I thought when Nebraska’s Senator Crazy Horse said being the 60th vote was like being bit (sic) by Fido.

I’m sure the Honorable Senator from Minnesota would be happy to put on a pair of Pampers and mediate these issues for his colleagues with the help of his stuffed animals.


33 posted on 12/21/2009 11:41:08 AM PST by tumblindice (The United States Senate (AKA The National Laughing Academy))
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To: caver

RI, where all the asshole Congressmen and Senators come from. (Jack Reed, Patches Kennedy, Langevin) Only good thing we have here is our Gov. Carcieri Whitehouse is also pro-choice, antigun just to name a few.


34 posted on 12/21/2009 11:41:45 AM PST by LilRhody
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To: Reagan69

[ELECTORAL] BLOODBATH, NOVEMBER 2010

or, prepare for a real one in the foreseeable future.


35 posted on 12/21/2009 11:42:37 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: lowbridge

I’ve been seeing Senator Whitehouse quite a bit on MSNBC, and I must say, he’s impressed me as quite a D-bag.


36 posted on 12/21/2009 11:45:54 AM PST by ozzymandus
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To: lowbridge

“...no bureaucrat between you and your doctor...”

There is ALWAYS a bureaucrat between you and your government benefits. Always. The job of the bureaucrat is to make sure people don’t get what the politicians promise. Does that mean they’ll be literally sitting in the doctor’s office? No. But they will still be there for those who have eyes to see. They’ll be there in the form of waiting lists, quotas and the threat of ‘charge backs’ for services that the bureaucrats will be free to ‘disallow’ after the fact, just like the IRS does with deductions. “We’ve decided you didn’t need that surgery after all, you could have taken medicine instead. You are hereby ordered to render $20,000 plus a $5,000 service fee for accepting unapproved treatment. If you wish to appeal this ruling here’s the number of another nameless, faceless federal bureaucrat who will jerk you around just for the fun of it.”


37 posted on 12/21/2009 11:50:21 AM PST by vigilo
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To: lowbridge

F U, Senator Whorehouse.


38 posted on 12/21/2009 11:58:24 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (A Jimmy Carter got us a Ronald Reagan.....a Barack Obama will get us a Sarah Palin)
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To: Lazamataz

“We get nothing for that tax......”

We sure do get something for that tax....screwed.

What’s made this so urgent are no revenues for “walking around money” for the elections in 2010...IOW..they can’t even begin to pay out on the so-called stimulus they passed.

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/107xx/doc10708/11-9-09MBR.pdf

So you and I are gonna pay to transport the amnesty granted illegal immigrants to the polls in November.


39 posted on 12/21/2009 12:10:25 PM PST by mo
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To: lowbridge

This Senator Whitehouse is certifiably insane.

But smart enough to use Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.

WE Conservatives MUST use the same rules for good!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2256403/posts
Posted on Friday, May 22, 2009 1:12:37 PM by JGalt2009

‘Rules’ for Conservatives

These ‘rules’ have a three-fold purpose – to illustrate the hideous and mean-spirited tactics of the Statists, have fun ridiculing them and put forward some Conservative “Stratergeries” to use back at them.

Saul ‘Lewinsky’ uses the term “enemy” in referring to their political opposition, speaking volumes on the mindset of the radical left. Instead of being fair and open-minded, with only ‘good intentions’, this is how they really see the opposition.

Numbered 1 through 13, there are really only about half that number, being just the same tired ideas repeated a few times.

Half the list drones on and on about maintaining pressure. This is very instructive in understanding the Statists. Certain species of snakes such as the Anaconda kill their prey by constriction, they do this by wrapping themselves around their prey to slowly squeeze the life of it. Statism does the same thing to Liberty, it wraps it’s slimy coils around a societies freedoms and over time squeezes the life out of them. Statism never relaxes it grip and keeps applying pressure until it crushes freedom – hence Ol’ Saul’s “Tactics” 6-12. He advocates constantly applying pressure and never giving back rights people foolishly gave up in response to a temporary crisis or two.

Tactics:

1. “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.”

This is a tacit admission that the Statist’s have to rely on deception and lies to advance their agenda. They can’t be honest about what they really want and who they represent, so they pretend to represent the ‘majority’ and that we all what Big government to care of us.

The Conservative knows that private individuals, working in their own self interest can easily do a better job than a bloated government bureaucracy

2. “Never go outside the expertise of your people”.

When Lies are your stock in trade, Going ‘outside the expertise of your people’ means being truthful and honest. Saul knows that the Statists can never attain power if they do that.

Saul’s advice is that the Statist’s need to stick to this area of expertise and never get pulled into the realm of facts and logic and instead Lie, obfuscate and deceive. Conservatives know that the truth is on their side, We conservatives have no need to go outside the truth and into the Statist’s realm of Lies, nor do we have any desire to. The Statist’s have to lie because it’s all they have.

3. “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy”.

For the Statist, this means assaulting Conservatives with Double standards and lies. It means spewing an outrageous Lie at a Conservative, and quickly following up with another big lie while the Conservative is refuting the first Lie and so on. It means overwhelming the Conservative with rhetorical BS as a way of silencing the Conservative.

We Conservatives know that with the facts and logic on our side, we can win any argument with the Statists as long as it is a fair venue. The Statists can only win if the deck is stacked in their favor and their lies aren’t challenged. They can only win when they are the Only voice or possible if it’s ratio of 5 Statists against one Conservative.

4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”

Given that Statists seemingly have no moral code, this would appear to be a good tactic for them. But in reality, they do have ‘rules’ – rules they want everyone else to live by, but not themselves – Statist’s are nothing if not hypocrites.

Therefore, we Conservatives should insist that the Statists ‘lead by example’ – live by their own set of stupid rules and admonitions.

If they favor disarming the law-abiding [gun control], they should first give up their guns and security personnel and proudly announce that they are ‘disarmed’.

They want to screw the achievers with high taxes, they should eagerly pay extra.

They want the rest of us to “go green”, fine let them give up their mansions and live in an Environmentally friendly cardboard shack somewhere first

If they want to suppress what they term “hate speech” they should be first to shut their collective pie holes.

Speaking of ‘Hate Speech’, take a look at their 5th tactic:

5. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon”.

Aren’t Statists supposed to be fair minded and only have good intentions, always whining about Social justice and other types of PC crapola? This one readily illustrates that they are just duplicitous liars.

Given what we all know about them, maybe it’s not such a work of genius to propose this as a tactic, seeing that Conservatives can easily turn this against the Statist – and have lots of fun doing it.

Lies, Double standards and deceptions are not only easy to ridicule but enjoyable to demolish. Conservatives are confident in their beliefs and in the truth. Unfortunately, we have to keep on doing this because the Statists constantly repackage their lies and ideas with different terminology – same excrement in a different bag.

6. “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.”

Lets face it, Statists can be nasty little fiends that enjoy ridiculing others to hide their own ‘Shortcomings’, hence this rule and the previous one. Clearly they would prefer not to have to contribute positively to society, that’s too hard for them, it’s too much like “Work”, better to denigrate others and have fun doing so.

They are certainly good at this “Task”, because if the Statist are good at anything besides lying, it’s spewing insults at the opposition. Or Enemy as Ol’ Saul would phrase it.

For Conservatives, there is nothing more enjoyable than eviscerating the Statist’s lying duplicity in all its many resplendent forms.

7. “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag”.

This may be a case where Ol’ Saul wasn’t just using some slang from the 60’s but really telegraphing what ‘he’ did on the weekends when all the whining and protesting was done. Maybe “Saul” became “Saniya“when ‘she’ headed off for a few ‘dress-up’ parties, hmmmm

8. “Keep the pressure on”

Just like the anaconda, squeezing the life out of its prey, Statists always have to maintain pressure to squeeze the Liberty and freedom out of a society. But an important distinction here is that Statist’s require the productive to fuel their vote buying revenue stream. Before they can seize full control of a society, Statist’s still require the good works of the very people they demonize – achievers and producers. They have to demonize the tax Payers (note the emphasis on ‘Payer’)– the people who actually contribute to society – in order to justify seizing their wealth.

This is important because it gives Conservatives a way to fight the Statists. As Statism wraps it’s slimy coils around a societies freedoms and liberties, it’s achiever’s and producers will either escape or gradually halt their efforts. This is why these systems invariably fail and are eventually replaced with free societies, but only at great human cost.

We conservatives can stop this cycle dead in it’s tracks if we advocate achiever’s and producers going on strike for short time periods as an act of ‘civil disobedience’ – as the Statist would say.

Alexander Tytler said that a democracy can only exist until people discover that they can vote to seize other’s people money. The corollary to that is that the crushing of a free society by the Statists can be halted if the achievers and producers refuse to cooperate with their very destruction.

9. “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”

This might be more than just another mention of Saul’s other life on the weekends, and what ‘she’ might look like at those Dress up parties, shudder.

This does point out the value of deterrence, as in individuals bearing arms can deter criminals and governments. All those firearms in the hands of the great unwashed, gives the Statist’s some pause in their Utopian dreams – in their deepest thought they most assuredly lament that Stalin, Hitler some of their favorite tyrants of the past didn’t have to “Deal with” ordinary citizens with guns.

10. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition”.

Isn’t this just a long-winded version of tactic number #8? Apparently, at this point in the book Ol’ Saul was running out of good ideas – as if he had any in the first place.

11. “If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside”.

Besides the idiotic new age gibberish, this tactic highlights the Statist’s head’s I win, Tails I win method of governance.

This is exemplified by the phenomena that the Statists always come out on top – even when it is their ideas that screw things up. To them, the answer is always more government, even when the problem IS the government, so they think they can’t lose.

12. “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.”

Again, another rephrasing of tactic #11, it really looks like Ol’ Saul had a thing for the number thirteen and wanted to Pad the list with any manner of BS, just to get to that number.

13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”

This seems to be the Statist’s favorite tactic – mercilessly go after individuals that oppose their collectivist aspirations. These are the people that always set themselves on a pedestal as the fairest minded, tolerant and only seeking justice, yeah, sure.

Tactic #5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon”, and this one should be an abject embarrassments to the radical left; instead, they proudly promote and teach these hideous methods.

Remember: The aggressor sets the rules, and according to Saul Alinsky, you should always attack an individual with ridicule and never let up. Something to always to remember about the Statists. Aside from the fact that they are consummate Liars, this is the most important lesson Conservatives can learn from these tactics.

Generally consumed with Hatred of individuality and individual freedoms, Statists are vicious little snotweasels (just following your lead, Saul) that couldn’t tell the truth if their life depended on it. Conservatives need to deal with them accordingly.

Please book mark
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2256403/posts so that you can have it handy. Read it often. Use it as you read ANYthing coming from the mouths or pen/computer of Liberals. If you respond to news articles online, use the “rules for conservatives” as you respond. CALL OUT LIBERALS when you can and notate which of Saul’s Rules they’re using. Some liberals [if they are liberals] just need a heads up to start thinking for themselves.

Thank you JGalt2009, where ever you are. Happy Christmas.


40 posted on 12/21/2009 12:11:42 PM PST by HighlyOpinionated (Abortion-Euthanasia kills the very people for whom Social Justice is needed.)
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