Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott made an unnecessarily obnoxious comment over the summer.
"We don’t need a lot of Jim DeMint disciples. As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them", he told the Washington Post.
Former Senator turned power broker lobbyist... what we don't need is a lot more of you and your lack of ideas. Shut up.
You held the leadership for critical years: years when we held the White House, the House and the Senate and we could have, should have, implemented a strategy to destroy the American leftists. We could have privatized much of government. We could have slashed spending; we could have reduced the size of the federal government by 20-30%; we could have reformed the tax code, social security, healthcare. We could have imploded the Department of Education, the EPA, the NEA. We could have given people back 20% of their hard-earned money, taken burdens off of small business, harnessed our own oil and shale and coal production.
We could have done that with a lot of Jim DeMint disciples. Instead, man who sucked at the teet of Government for 35 years, what did we get? What did we get??
Barack Obama.
Bill Clinton.
How did these candidates emerge? Their ideas are proven fallacies, their beliefs are categorically opposed to the American dreams. But they were seen as an alternative to failed leadership. They filled a vacuum of ideas.
You are that vacuum of ideas. Republicans worked so hard to protect their majorities with the likes of you and Arlen Specter and Olympia Snow that they did nothing with their majorities. Actually- not true. They did a great job at damaging the Republican party.
It took Barack Obama's socialist overreach to bring us back into the spotlight. Now we have the chance to present our ideas to the American people, not just as a counter to Barack Obama's recycled Carter Stagflation, but as a truth. Only dedicated and true-blooded Republicans will present these ideas boldly and without compromise.
Like a Senate full of Jim DeMints.
Tomorrow Mike Castle can win the Delaware primary. He's the GOP favorite. And I bet he's your choice, too. Only problem is that he's not a Republican. Well, maybe your kind of Republican. Christine O'Donnell is winning in the polls and the GOP is trying hard to destroy her because she's a Jim DeMint Republican.
And Lisa Murkowski in Alaska is thinking of running as an Independent. Like Charlie Crist. Two more loser Republicans that the voters were smart enough to reject but who are fighting hard to stay alive. For the party? Ha! Yeah. For the party. Same reason you Trent made those unneeded comments about us "Jim DeMint" Republicans.
Don't forget Reagan's 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Talk Ill About Another Republican. That includes you, Senator. Sorry we aren't welcomed in your big tent, Trent. But your days are over. You had your year... your 35 years. Now it's our time.
Long live the Conservative Movement. To Marco and Joe and Christine: Godspeed.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Overkill
There's been a lot of talk recently- so I haven't done a lot of writing. We are in overkill.
Ever catch someone by surprise- maybe doing something they shouldn't be doing? Often the respond with words... lots and lots of words. They try to talk their way into control. They try to talk their way into logic.
And it's not possible. What you do is just talk your way into a bigger hole.
Barack Obama hasn't learned that lesson. He thinks his golden tongue (well, his teleprompter and recycled scripts) will be the serpent raised in the desert. The more he talks, it seems the worse it gets. Remember the Cambridge Police who acted "stupidly" accordin to the President? Having admitted ... though he didn't have all the facts, the orator in chief was sure his words would put to rest any need for further discussion about the issue. And rather than placate or alleviate all POTUS did was make it worse.
And so the Ground Zero victory tower...er...mosque. He would not comment on the mosque. It was a local issue. For weeks he skirted the issue until the iftar celebration at the White House when, before the right audience (of his choosing...) he comes out in favor of the mosque... though not the wisdom of the mosque... but it was a local issue... what??
I'm against the mosque because it doesn't have to be THERE. It could be anywhere else- it could be moved. And that is what we do in a tolerant society. We accommodate.
We don't put our nativity scenes out less it "offend" other religions.
We don't allow crosses to be used in monuments less it "offend" other religions.
And we don't put mosques where islam killed 3000 people less is "offend" other religions.
But this has all been said and re-said and said again. And we try to talk ourselves into logic: the Constitution guarantees the rights of religious freedom. Congress shall make no law against it. It seems logical.
But this isn't Congress. And this isn't prohibting anyone's religious freedom. It's protecting a pluarlistic society where religious sentiments need to coexist. So why wouldn't the Christmas tree scrooges be more sympathetic to those who want the mosque moved.
They try to talk themselves into logic. And instead they make the reasoning more difficult and the understanding more muddled.
As for koran burning... just as insensitive as the mosque. Funny how it stings both ways.
Ever catch someone by surprise- maybe doing something they shouldn't be doing? Often the respond with words... lots and lots of words. They try to talk their way into control. They try to talk their way into logic.
And it's not possible. What you do is just talk your way into a bigger hole.
Barack Obama hasn't learned that lesson. He thinks his golden tongue (well, his teleprompter and recycled scripts) will be the serpent raised in the desert. The more he talks, it seems the worse it gets. Remember the Cambridge Police who acted "stupidly" accordin to the President? Having admitted ... though he didn't have all the facts, the orator in chief was sure his words would put to rest any need for further discussion about the issue. And rather than placate or alleviate all POTUS did was make it worse.
And so the Ground Zero victory tower...er...mosque. He would not comment on the mosque. It was a local issue. For weeks he skirted the issue until the iftar celebration at the White House when, before the right audience (of his choosing...) he comes out in favor of the mosque... though not the wisdom of the mosque... but it was a local issue... what??
I'm against the mosque because it doesn't have to be THERE. It could be anywhere else- it could be moved. And that is what we do in a tolerant society. We accommodate.
We don't put our nativity scenes out less it "offend" other religions.
We don't allow crosses to be used in monuments less it "offend" other religions.
And we don't put mosques where islam killed 3000 people less is "offend" other religions.
But this has all been said and re-said and said again. And we try to talk ourselves into logic: the Constitution guarantees the rights of religious freedom. Congress shall make no law against it. It seems logical.
But this isn't Congress. And this isn't prohibting anyone's religious freedom. It's protecting a pluarlistic society where religious sentiments need to coexist. So why wouldn't the Christmas tree scrooges be more sympathetic to those who want the mosque moved.
They try to talk themselves into logic. And instead they make the reasoning more difficult and the understanding more muddled.
As for koran burning... just as insensitive as the mosque. Funny how it stings both ways.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Qu'ils mangent de la brioche
Charlie Rangel, Chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, writes the tax law that rule our land. Yet this leader did not pay his own taxes on NYC apartments and villas.
Neither did Timothy Geithner pay his taxes on time or in full. He now heads the IRS.
Several other administration officials pay their taxes- men and women who reign over the bureaucracies that rule our lives were not subject to the same laws as the ordinary folk.
Us.
Recently John Kerry tried to dock his $7 million toy in Rhode Island to avoid tens of thousands of dollars in taxes. These would be the same taxes that he we have to pay, but that he and Tim and Charlie et al want to avoid. Did avoid.
John Kerry also served in Vietnam, in case you forgot.
Then there are the hypocrites.
Al Gore. Al Gore has made a fortune- literally a fortune- dictating how we should live, how much gas and paper we should use, how big our "carbon footprint" should be. I'm assuming it should be smaller than his new $10million mansion in Malibu...
John "two-Americas" Edwards. Here is a man who made himself immensely rich by duping individuals into suing major corporations because of their own individual negligence and stupidity. Mr. Edwards owns the largest house in North Carolina yet decries the plight of the poor and wants government to bring about equitable redistributive process. Maybe we should all sue to government.
Bill and Hillary threw a multi-million dollar wedding for former first daughter Chelsea. I wish Chelsea and her husband Mark the best yet marvel that two parents who are civil servants have made so much money.
Barack Obama- spread the wealth around "there comes a time when you've made enough money" loves to vacation in $40k a week beach compounds and exclusive resorts around the nation (except the gulf coast). Barack talked a nice campaign about us not being able to drive the cars we want and keep the thermostat where we want... notice he said nothing about vacationing where we want...
And finally Michelle and her voyage to Spain where rooms cost $2500 per night according to news sources. A fun trip with 40 of her closest friends (plus about 100 secret service agents).
And all this has happened in the midst of a terrible, government made recession. This frivolity, the opulence, this esprit de versailles while Americans close business, stand in lines for food stamps and struggle. The image, the callous image sent by all of the aforementioned but most especially the first lady and the President is one of total disconnect, indifference and pure disgust for the average Americans.
Remember the arugula comments during the campaign. Remember the Hyde Park, the Harvard Yard, the Upper West Side. The Obamas hate flyover country. They despise Americans who cling bitterly to their guns and religion. They look with disdain on Joe the plumbers. "How much do they make!" Barack once snidely joked. Sure, the Obamas play the part. But when you wear $400 sneakers to ladle out food in a soup kitchen, you are telling people who you really are. Your are Sidwell Friends. You are Martha's Vineyard. You are elite.
You are the type of person the shut down traffic and airspace for hours spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to go see an August Wilson play.
And call it a "date night".
In the late 18th century, in her clueless and frivolous world, Marie Antoinette commissioned the "hameau de la reine" at enormous expense to the french treasury. There in her hamlet of rolling pastures, ponds, wildflowers, mills and barns, she donned a simple dress and played the part of a peasant. It was her retreat, her escape from the world where she could pretend she was a regular person. But she didn't clean the stalls, she didn't empty the bed pans, didn't shovel horse manure or skim the scum off the pond... she didn't do any real work. She produced nothing. She neither sewed nor reaped nor harvested. She didn't plant or till or fertilize or irrigate. She didn't sweat or blister.
She just pretended.
And the public- mired in poverty and depression hated her for pretending to be like them. Because their toil was real. Their sweat smelled bad and their blisters hurt. And their bellies ached and they longed for liberation. And this monster of a queen spent fortunes- more fortunes then their entire villages could amasse- to pretend.
Go to the Gulf Shore said Obama. Yet he vacationed in Maine. It's all just pretend.
Charlie, Tim, Bill & Hillary, Kerry, Edwards, Barack and Michelle all pretend. They pretend to be public servants, they pretend to be regular Americans. But they are the extreme powerful leaders that typify a corrupt democrat party. The are the oppressors of the very people they claim to champion.
Who can tell them apart from the court of Versailles or the guests at the Winter Palace? Are they us, or are they something other than us? Did we not chose them to represent us yet... who have they become? They demand we pay taxes and live soberly, conscientiously, efficiently while they live in realities of couture and private jets, often times at our expense.
"Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
Neither did Timothy Geithner pay his taxes on time or in full. He now heads the IRS.
Several other administration officials pay their taxes- men and women who reign over the bureaucracies that rule our lives were not subject to the same laws as the ordinary folk.
Us.
Recently John Kerry tried to dock his $7 million toy in Rhode Island to avoid tens of thousands of dollars in taxes. These would be the same taxes that he we have to pay, but that he and Tim and Charlie et al want to avoid. Did avoid.
John Kerry also served in Vietnam, in case you forgot.
Then there are the hypocrites.
Al Gore. Al Gore has made a fortune- literally a fortune- dictating how we should live, how much gas and paper we should use, how big our "carbon footprint" should be. I'm assuming it should be smaller than his new $10million mansion in Malibu...
John "two-Americas" Edwards. Here is a man who made himself immensely rich by duping individuals into suing major corporations because of their own individual negligence and stupidity. Mr. Edwards owns the largest house in North Carolina yet decries the plight of the poor and wants government to bring about equitable redistributive process. Maybe we should all sue to government.
Bill and Hillary threw a multi-million dollar wedding for former first daughter Chelsea. I wish Chelsea and her husband Mark the best yet marvel that two parents who are civil servants have made so much money.
Barack Obama- spread the wealth around "there comes a time when you've made enough money" loves to vacation in $40k a week beach compounds and exclusive resorts around the nation (except the gulf coast). Barack talked a nice campaign about us not being able to drive the cars we want and keep the thermostat where we want... notice he said nothing about vacationing where we want...
And finally Michelle and her voyage to Spain where rooms cost $2500 per night according to news sources. A fun trip with 40 of her closest friends (plus about 100 secret service agents).
And all this has happened in the midst of a terrible, government made recession. This frivolity, the opulence, this esprit de versailles while Americans close business, stand in lines for food stamps and struggle. The image, the callous image sent by all of the aforementioned but most especially the first lady and the President is one of total disconnect, indifference and pure disgust for the average Americans.
Remember the arugula comments during the campaign. Remember the Hyde Park, the Harvard Yard, the Upper West Side. The Obamas hate flyover country. They despise Americans who cling bitterly to their guns and religion. They look with disdain on Joe the plumbers. "How much do they make!" Barack once snidely joked. Sure, the Obamas play the part. But when you wear $400 sneakers to ladle out food in a soup kitchen, you are telling people who you really are. Your are Sidwell Friends. You are Martha's Vineyard. You are elite.
You are the type of person the shut down traffic and airspace for hours spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to go see an August Wilson play.
And call it a "date night".
In the late 18th century, in her clueless and frivolous world, Marie Antoinette commissioned the "hameau de la reine" at enormous expense to the french treasury. There in her hamlet of rolling pastures, ponds, wildflowers, mills and barns, she donned a simple dress and played the part of a peasant. It was her retreat, her escape from the world where she could pretend she was a regular person. But she didn't clean the stalls, she didn't empty the bed pans, didn't shovel horse manure or skim the scum off the pond... she didn't do any real work. She produced nothing. She neither sewed nor reaped nor harvested. She didn't plant or till or fertilize or irrigate. She didn't sweat or blister.
She just pretended.
And the public- mired in poverty and depression hated her for pretending to be like them. Because their toil was real. Their sweat smelled bad and their blisters hurt. And their bellies ached and they longed for liberation. And this monster of a queen spent fortunes- more fortunes then their entire villages could amasse- to pretend.
Go to the Gulf Shore said Obama. Yet he vacationed in Maine. It's all just pretend.
Charlie, Tim, Bill & Hillary, Kerry, Edwards, Barack and Michelle all pretend. They pretend to be public servants, they pretend to be regular Americans. But they are the extreme powerful leaders that typify a corrupt democrat party. The are the oppressors of the very people they claim to champion.
Who can tell them apart from the court of Versailles or the guests at the Winter Palace? Are they us, or are they something other than us? Did we not chose them to represent us yet... who have they become? They demand we pay taxes and live soberly, conscientiously, efficiently while they live in realities of couture and private jets, often times at our expense.
"Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
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