Posted on 08/27/2013 5:44:39 AM PDT by Zakeet
We noted last month than Congress is less popular than North Korea, cockroaches, lice, root canals, colonoscopies, traffic jams, used car salesmen, Genghis Khan, Communism, BP during the Gulf oil spill, Nixon during Watergate or King George during the American Revolution.
The Washington Post notes today that a Syria intervention is less popular than Congress. So that means that the American people would much rather get a root canal or a colonoscopy than bomb Syria.
Indeed, while John Kerry announced today that the Syrian government used chemical weapons, Reuters noted:
The polls suggest that so far, the growing crisis in Syria, and the emotionally wrenching pictures from an alleged chemical attack in a Damascus suburb this week, may actually be hardening many Americans’ resolve not to get involved in another conflict in the Middle East.
The bottom line is that Americans are sick of war.
Obama needs to shore-up his manhood.
Speak for yourself jackass!!!
I’m finishing the clean out drink this morning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Or watch Miley Cyrus "twerk".
And yet all those things are much preferred to whittling down one's lifestyle and income in order to force the government to behave as it should.
Especially the King George thing. It appears that even conservatives, today, would tolerate his reign, indeed support it gratefully. Because what the government is doing today is far, far worse, and nearly every professing conservative is consistently sending his hard-earned money to it.
If you did that in Revolutionary days -- if you sent a large part of your income to the tyrant king, and fed his locusts -- you'd have been shot. The other George (Father of His Country) would have endorsed your execution and spit on your grave.
Starve the beast. It's the right thing to do.
Hello WWIII
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