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  • The Left Has No Humanity

    08/09/2011 12:49:41 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 15 replies
    The American Spectator ^ | August 9, 2011 | Aaron Goldstein
    When one considers the casualness with which left-wing politicians and media figures use words like "terrorist," "jihad" and "Wahhabis" to describe the Tea Party, one cannot help but wonder what shapes such attitudes in the first place. In order to satisfy such curiosity, it is necessary to spend time among liberals, socialists, communists and self-described progressives. I realize this is not the way a lot of conservatives would want to spend their morning -- much less their afternoon or evening. Yet when in a political conflict, especially one that is likely to shape the very future of this country, it...
  • Pollster: Americans Are “Pre-Revolutionary”

    08/08/2011 11:51:03 AM PDT · by maddog55 · 104 replies
    Vision To America ^ | Monday, August 8, 2011 | unknown
    Amidst riots in central Europe that have now spread to London and a debt downgrade that threatens to plunge the United States into a double-dip recession, Americans’ lack of confidence in their leadership is so crippled that they are now “pre-revolutionary,” according to pollster Pat Caddell. A new Rasmussen poll shows that just 17 per cent of Americans believe that the U.S. government has the consent of the governed, an all time low. This dovetails with a record low for Congress’ approval rating, which stands at a paltry 6 per cent, while 46 per cent of Americans think most members...
  • What if my daughter grows up to be Republican?

    08/07/2011 12:25:23 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 85 replies
    Salon ^ | August 7, 2011 | Sue Sanders
    At 12, Lizzie is a liberal like me. But what if one day she embraces the Tea Party, like her grandparents? My parents are Tea Party. I'm a liberal. My husband is to the left of your average communist. Dinners together walk a tightrope of small talk -- none of us wanting to veer too far in either direction, frightened we'll go careening into a political abyss. Our daughter, Lizzie, is always a safe topic. She's our Switzerland. But I'm not sure how much longer that will last. Lizzie, at 12, is becoming politically aware. She's always been well informed....
  • The Incredible Shrinking Tea Party [But S&P Confirms Tea-Party Agenda!]

    08/05/2011 10:31:54 PM PDT · by Steelfish · 43 replies
    Washington Post ^ | August 05, 2011 | Greg Sargent
    The Incredible Shrinking Tea Party By Greg Sargent I f there’s one thing the debt ceiling battle revealed, it’s that the Tea Party continues to enjoy outsized influence in Washington in general and over the GOP in particular. So it’s interesting to note that according to the internals of today’s New York Times poll, the Tea Party is rapidly shrinking before our very eyes, and is hemorraging supporters at a surprising rate: Do you consider yourself to be a supporter of the Tea Party movement, or not? Yes 18 No 73 The 18 percent who self-identify as Tea Party supporters...
  • Bill Maher To Panel: Are Liberals Having ‘Buyer’s Remorse’ About Obama?

    08/05/2011 9:10:42 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 20 replies
    Mediaite ^ | August 5, 2011 | Josh Feldman
    Following his comments Wednesday on The Ed Show that a Republican could beat President Obama in 2012 because of the grim economy, Bill Maher reiterated his point that “the magic is gone” and asked his panel if liberals were starting to have “buyer’s remorse” about President Obama. Maher began by clarifying that he still likes Obama, as do many liberals, but he compared their relationship to one “where there is a giant fight and you said so many nasty things that you know you’re never really going to get it back together,” but will ultimately stay together because “who are...
  • Moderate Republicans Lament GOP Shift Further Right

    08/05/2011 7:20:45 PM PDT · by rabscuttle385 · 70 replies
    Newsmax / The Boston Globe ^ | 2011-07-27 | Caroline Rawls
    Polls indicating that the Republican Party is moving further to the right are leaving a large faction of moderate Republicans feeling disenchanted with the party’s conservative drift, reports The Boston Globe. In 2010, some of the GOP’s most outspoken leaders helped propel Republican candidates into power in the House. The tea party movement was influential in securing this takeover. But Gallup poll findings to be released Friday indicate that the GOP’s conservative shift is isolating its moderate wing, the Globe reported. Self-described moderates made up almost one-third of the Republican Party just 10 years ago. Now, that fraction has dropped...
  • We cannot win the war with wimpy RINO reps like mine (Jeff Denham, R-CA)

    08/04/2011 1:52:39 PM PDT · by Jim Robinson · 100 replies
    Exchange of email letters with my congressional rep | Aug 4 2011 | Jim Robinson
    August 4, 2011 Dear Mr. Robinson, Thank you for contacting me regarding our mutual desire to see the debt limit standoff resolved so that America will not default on its loans and that our government can continue to provide the services that our seniors and veterans depend on and deserve. I appreciate hearing your thoughts about how to resolve the debt crisis. I assure you that I took the views of my constituents very seriously as I cast my vote throughout the entire debt limit crisis. While the legislation that was signed into law is not perfect, it is an...
  • Obama's 50th Birthday Wish: More Patience Please

    08/04/2011 11:37:43 AM PDT · by GodGunsGuts · 10 replies
    Californians4Palin ^ | August 4, 2011 | Joel Schwartz
    Revolutionaries are never happy. But they become even more unhappy if their leader makes compromises with the enemy. Such was the scene at Obama's multimillion dollar 50th birthday/fundraising shakedown in Chicagoland last night. One can imagine what these legalized Chicago crime bosses were thinking as Barack and Michelle slowly twirled across the dance floor...
  • Government Amateurs Vs Government Professionals (Octopus won't commit suicide)[Read this!]

    08/03/2011 11:13:22 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 33 replies · 1+ views
    Eurasia Review ^ | August 3, 2011 | Daniel Greenfield
    In the budget debate, government amateurs took on government professionals. And the professionals won. This is only to be expected. Professionals usually have the inside track in whatever field they’re in. Not only do they hold the higher ground, but they know all the loopholes and how to shape the dialogue. In most fields, the only way that amateurs can beat professionals is by undercutting them. Which is why professionals create guilds which set certain standards of training and apprenticeship for anyone who wants to enter the field. And they also set prices to avoid being undercut. In the budget...
  • "The Undefeated" Opens in Palm Desert, CA Fri. 8/5

    08/03/2011 5:16:28 PM PDT · by GodGunsGuts · 12 replies
    Californians4Palin ^ | August 3, 2011 | Joel Schwartz
    If you're near Palm Desert, what are you waiting for, get out there and see it!...
  • Tea Party Is the Punk Rock Movement of Politics

    08/01/2011 7:04:35 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 34 replies
    Big Hollywood ^ | August 1, 2011 | Greg Gutfeld
    So remember the Coffee Party – the liberal, media-generated answer to the Tea Party? CNN covered it, so did the New York Times. And around the same time, Jon Stewart organized his rally to Restore Sanity, as a reaction to, again, the Tea Party. Neither the party or that rally meant squat. In fact they were lagging indicators of a dead world – a group of shiny, happy people who didn’t see the train heading their way. The tea party and the health care protests were the train – future predictors that saw the road ahead – and all signs...
  • Britain must resist Tea Party thinking (We have always been at war with with Eastasia)

    08/01/2011 5:39:59 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 34 replies
    The London Guardian ^ | August 1, 2011 | Polly Toynbee
    As unreason triumphs in the US, a similar paranoia and refusal to accept scientific fact threaten to invade British politics. Tea Party madness has brought the US to the brink of economic mayhem, risking taking much of the world with it. In the face of obdurate unreason, the president of hyper-reasonableness was forced to surrender. The economic credibility of the country that holds the global reserve currency has wobbled. The political credibility of the world's beacon of democracy has failed in the face of an insurgency of unreason. Facts, evidence, probability, possibility – none of that matters to a movement...
  • Worth Repeating: Sarah Palin's Advice/Warning to GOP Freshmen

    08/01/2011 3:24:51 PM PDT · by GodGunsGuts · 12 replies
    Californians4Palin ^ | August 1, 2010 | Joel Schwartz
    Sarah Palin On the Record with Greta Van Sustren (emphasis mine)...
  • Hard to Tell Where Palin Where Palin Ends and the Tea Party Begins (and Vice Versa)

    08/01/2011 10:18:37 AM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 17 replies
    Big Government ^ | August 1, 2011 | AWR Hawkins
    No one in recent memory has faced the left’s vitriol like Sarah Palin (not even George W. Bush). The over-the-top, asinine attacks she’s received have been so ubiquitous they need not even be relisted here. Just suffice it to say there is a genuine hatred of Palin throughout the MSM, the leadership of the Democrat Party, and the Republican Party establishment. And don’t be fooled folks: they don’t hate her because of her convictions – although they despise her convictions – rather, they hate her because they can’t control her. Fortunately, the hatred the left holds for Palin is more...
  • How the Tea Party ‘hobbits’ won the debt fight

    07/31/2011 6:47:10 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 75 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | July 31, 2011 | Marc A. Thiessen
    The Tea Party came under fire from all sides Friday after House conservatives nearly brought down Speaker John Boehner’s debt-limit bill. John McCain went to the Senate floor to mock Tea Partyers as “hobbits,” and Democratic Rep. Chris Van Hollen said Tea Party Republicans “are unfit for governing.” What a difference a weekend makes. The reported debt-limit deal appears to be a victory for the Tea Party. It includes around $1 trillion in spending cuts and creates a special committee of Congress to recommend cuts of $1.2 trillion more. If Congress does not approve those additional cuts by year’s end,...
  • You’re a Terrorist, and Now Obama Can Control Your Property!

    07/31/2011 5:36:44 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 22 replies · 1+ views
    Yes, But, However! ^ | July 31, 2011 | John Romano
    I was putting my tinfoil hat on to protect myself from the silent black helicopters as I read two different articles sent to me by two different friends on Twitter … The first simply drew my attention to President Obama’s latest Executive Order, authorizing the blocking of property for Terrorists. The question from my friend was, “Should this raise red flags or is it normal and justified?” My initial thought was this is simply another tool that can be used to slowly erode our liberties as the ruling class decides to whom this applies and to what extent does this...
  • Annihilating Democracy with the Tea Party

    07/31/2011 6:55:26 AM PDT · by skimbell · 80 replies
    SPIEGEL ONLINE ^ | 07/29/2011 | Gregor Peter Schmitz
    America's Founding Fathers thought of everything. They wanted to establish several centers of power in Washington rather than just one. They wanted the occupant of the White House to be strong, but Congress was to have the power to check that strength. The friction between Capitol Hill and the White House -- a product of this system of checks and balances -- was to make the decisions of America's leaders cleverer, wiser and better...
  • Tea party picnic: Turnout increased at second annual rally in the park (SLIDESHOW)

    07/30/2011 6:35:02 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 7 replies
    The Northwest Florida Daily News ^ | July 30, 2011 | Lauren Sage Reinlie
    FORT WALTON BEACH — Al Kauses, chairman of the Florida Panhandle Patriots, stood over a hot grill slinging about 400 hamburgers, hot dogs and bratwurst at the second annual tea party picnic Saturday afternoon. “It’s hot, humid – a good show,” he said, as a misting fan rotated nearby. About 160 people gathered in the sweltering heat for the Reviving America Rally and picnic at Liza Jackson Park. •View a slideshow from the event. Despite the weather, Kauses said the turnout was significantly greater than last year. “We’re looking up,” he said. “A lot more people are interested in what...
  • Rush Limbaugh's Spartacus Moment

    07/30/2011 9:04:20 AM PDT · by GodGunsGuts · 44 replies
    Californians4Palin ^ | July 30, 2011 | Joel Schwartz
    El Rushbo calls it like it is. To the statists (including big government RINOs), the leftists, the socialists, the communists...we are all Sarah Palin. Just as she has been targeted for destruction, so we are targeted for destruction. Our mere existence stands in the way of their headlong drive to accumulate all power to themselves. It's time we recognized this and declare WE ARE ALL SARAH PALIN NOW!!!...
  • Obama the big spending Marxist must be put on a leash!

    07/29/2011 6:03:47 PM PDT · by Jim Robinson · 80 replies
    July 29, 2011 | Jim Robinson
    Spread-the-wealth-around Obama has already sucked and borrowed over $4 trillion out of the economy and burned it on the Altar of Marxism. And we have nothing to show for it. Obama = Epic Fail! Now that the US is bankrupt and on the brink of default, he wants to borrow and burn another $4 trillion plus. Sorry, folks, this ain't going to cut it. We either cut the government NOW or the USA will fail. Obama needs to be put on a tight leash. We don't need to raise the debt limit to avoid default. We don't need to allow...