Political Death Ground
American Thinker has a good article about the conservative movement in the age of aggressive leftism:
In enacting their focused agenda, the liberal majority that was granted power over Congress and the White House is now quite determined not to sit on their laurels as the Republicans did with the Contract with America. The liberals have learned the lesson of the 1994 election, and before they are forced to face the electorate again in 2010, they have launched full-force the juggernaut that is their socialist platform without regard to the impotent pockets of Republican opposition within their ranks. And rest assured; there will be no “compassionate liberalism” extended to their opponents.
In the face of such aggressive liberal grasps for American liberties, the majority conservative base is now starting to wake up and jump off the fence. People who once rebuked the Minuteman protesters for going to the US/Mexican border to protest lax immigration enforcement in 2004 are now themselves going to town halls and organizing Tea Party protests of their own, and public opinion polls are now taking decided shifts into traditionally conservative directions.
In short, the American conservative base has been marshaled onto the political equivalent of Sun Tzu’s death ground, and the ideological pawns are finding fewer paths of retreat from the advancing onslaught of the liberal agenda. Let us hope that this death ground empowers conservatives from both political parties to once again become focused in their resolve not to be left out of the process.
As I write these words, we definitely find ourselves deep within the ranks of the liberal stronghold. There is no compromise now. The concept of common ground is a luxury we can no longer afford. The die has been cast and the premise is being dictated to us now. This is death ground that only the force of will can return us from. It is time for the silent majority among us to stand and make their voices heard, because if we have learned nothing else from the past 15 years, it should be that silence is considered to be tacit approval by those in power, be they Democrat or Republican alike.
There is no compromise. As Rush would say, any political belief system that is not self-conscientiously and consistently conservative will over time become liberal.
McDonnell Is Right
The thing about Democrats running for office is that they seldom tell you what they believe in. Take Creigh Deeds for instance. He’s changed his position on so many issues it’s hard to tell what he would do as governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
His Republican opponent Bob McDonnell has stayed consistently conservative throughout his years in public life.
McDonnell caught a lot of crap today over a paper he wrote in college in which he said that working women were hard on families. Now he’s in hot water, having insulted the women of Virginia.
From Politico reporting on a WaPo story:
Bob McDonnell, the Republican nominee for governor in Virginia, defended himself Monday after the Washington Post reported that his 1989 master’s degree thesis advocated a number of controversial, socially conservative positions.
The Post reported Sunday that he described working women and feminists as “detrimental” to the family and said government policy should favor married couples over “cohabitators, homosexuals or fornicators.”
Well, he happens to be right. Two parent working households are detrimental to children. Where both mom and dad work full time outside the home, the children are neglected. Oh sure, they’ll get tossed into day care, kindergarten, public school, etc., etc., etc., so there’ll be some adult looking after them. But nobody loves you like your own parents. Nobody has the commitment to a child’s welfare more so than the child’s own parents.
So McDonnell has written that he believes families do better with moms at home. Wow, what an outrageous position. Nothing normal like fathers sucking on their toddler boy’s ding dongs that Jim Webb wrote about before he ascended to the U.S. Senate.
The only controversy here is a contrived one by liberals who consider any “conservative” position to be beyond the pale of reasonable public discourse. I reject that whole notion and so should Bob McDonnell. Families are forced to have both parents working because of the high taxes and lousy economy imposed on us by Democrats. Don’t forget that. Most families could live pretty well if they got to keep the 30 to 40% confiscated by the government at all levels from their paychecks.
And, don’t forget the current recesssion — complete with an ongoing housing collapse, manufacturing collapse, coming commercial real estate collapse, auto and financial industry collapse, nearly 10% unemployment (with real unemployment probably closer to 16%) — was caused by corrupt Democrat politicians and their disasterous social and economic policies.
McDonnell should stop apologizing for what he said decades ago. What he said was true, move on. Some are calling this McDonnell’s macaca moment. But George Allen’s big problem wasn’t that he called a creep Democrat plant macaca, but that he apologized for saying it and kept apologizing, giving credence to the bogus charges leveled by a biased press and his political enemies.
Conservatives should stand up for McDonnell and McDonnell should stand up for himself.
Creigh Deeds is a loathsome worm and like all Democrats would rather bring up bogus issues than address the real problems confronting the nation and the state of Virginia.
What an idiot.
Great Re-Election Strategy:
Have your constituents arrested.
Nice!
From Hotair:
In four short years Carol Shea-Porter has evolved from a rabble-rousing, town hall disrupting anti-war activist who once had to be forcibly removed from a President George Bush event in Portsmouth to a Member of Congress who instructed armed security guards to remove a frustrated voter from her own town hall event in Manchester on Saturday.
In the appended video, Shea-Porter can be seen instructing security to remove a man for standing to ask a question without a ticket. Shea-Porter previously held a lottery to determine who could ask questions. She can also be heard taunting the man on his way out by saying, “I do hope the movie theater can be a little quieter for you.”
Throw the Bums Out!
Vote ‘em all out!
Look like a growing majority is rallying around the knuckleheadidjitgaloot 2010 battle cry.
From Rasmussen:
If they could vote to keep or replace the entire Congress, just 25% of voters nationwide would keep the current batch of legislators.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% would vote to replace the entire Congress and start all over again. Eighteen percent (18%) are not sure how they would vote.
Overall, these numbers are little changed since last October. When Congress was passing the unpopular $700-billion bailout plan in the heat of a presidential campaign and a seeming financial industry meltdown, 59% wanted to throw them all out. At that time, just 17% wanted to keep them.
There has been a bit of a partisan shift since last fall. With Democrats controlling both chambers of Congress, it’s not surprising to find that the number of Democrats who would vote to keep the entire Congress has grown from 25% last fall to 43% today. In fact, a modest plurality of Democrats would now vote to keep the legislators. Last fall, a plurality of Democrats were ready to throw them all out.
While Democrats have become more supportive of the legislators, voters not affiliated with either major party have moved in the opposite direction. Today, 70% of those not affiliated with either major party would vote to replace all of the elected politicians in the House and Senate. That’s up from 62% last year.
Republicans, not surprisingly, overwhelmingly support replacing everyone in the Congress. Their views have not changed. But Republican voters are disenchanted with their team as much as the Congress itself: 69% of GOP Voters say Republicans in Congress are out of touch with the party base.
Vote “none of the above.”
More Impolite Conservatives…
Taking on out-of-district union thugs at a New York town hall.
Here’s another view of the same event:
I’m all for rabble rousing, but the real test comes on election day, when everyone in that room and at every other town hall, not wearing the union label, shows up on election day and votes against the incumbent.
Check out the report on the meeting at Gathering of Eagles.
More on the Moran Town Hall
Apparently the conservative rabble rousers attending Rep. Jim Moran’s town hall meeting the other day upset the delicate sensibilities of an American Spectator columnist Quin Hillyer.
Even in a reliably liberal district, though, it was a poor reflection on conservative organizations, especially so close to D.C. where cable networks were sure to cover the event, that conservatives were so badly outnumbered and out-organized. Where were all the D.C.-headquartered national “grassroots” groups? What was the Republican Party of Virginia doing? Where were the area College Republicans? Conservatives need not be regimented into blue-shirt cadres for there to be some sort of phone-banking or e-mail efforts to get them out to such an important event.
On the other hand, what the conservatives lacked in numbers, many of them made up in sheer rudeness. I even heard one very thoughtful-sounding caller to Rush Limbaugh the next day boasting about how at one point they had effectively shouted down Howard Dean so he couldn’t speak — and she clearly was proud of herself. What she doesn’t realize is that she wasn’t merely infringing on speech rights of a wild-eyed former political candidate; she was infringing on the rights of everybody else who actually was at the event to listen and try to learn. And there were indeed a number of such people. They were turned off by the rudeness. The rudeness hurt, not helped, the conservatives’ cause. I was there; I saw it; I saw the looks on the faces of people who clearly were not partisans or ideologues.
There is a time and place for venting. A town hall meeting is definitely one of those times. Nothing is wrong with loudly expressing displeasure. Nothing is wrong with giving a little hell to mendacious politicians. But a little hell can go a long way in rattling the pols enough that they make fools of themselves. Too much hell, on the other hand, makes the hellions look bad.
Hillyer notes earlier in the piece that Obamacare opponents were outnumbered about 70 to 30 by astroturf supporters.
There is something obnoxious and robotic about the way they operate. They all clearly have marching orders. They get their pre-made signs from young women in absurdly tight-fitting tops, and most of them are in their pre-fab pro-Obamacare shirts, and they chant and applaud on cue. The one thing they don’t do, at least not inside the hall, is try to drown out the speaker — but then again, Messrs. Moran and Dean are their speakers. Their nationalizing, legislation-distorting, liberty-destroying speakers.
They gladly shout down and disrupt those with whom they disagree. We’ve seen this countless times, especially during the Bush Derangement Syndrome pandemic. Now that the left has power of course they act civil.
But is it really civil for paid, union and other political operatives to show up at a local town hall to support a national issue? Is it really civil for Moran and the organizers of the event to allow their supporters to enter the auditorium ahead of the rest of the crowd and pack the room?
Don’t know if that’s what happened, but come on – 70 to 30 in favor of Obamacare? Matching t-shirts? Pre-printed signs? Organized chanting and clapping? Sounds like the same tactics used at other town halls where “community organizers” are allowed in to stack the deck in favor of the debate.
The appalling thing about Moran’s asking to see the I.D. of a man asking a question is that probably few, if any, of the supporters of Obamacare were from Moran’s district.
But they were polite, by God.
Sorry. No polite discussions for me. No calm deliberation and debate. We’ve let the left define the terms of debate in this country for too long. When conservatives speak in public they get shouted down and attacked. But when libs speak, we conservatives are supposed to be polite and respectful.
Bullshit.
Maybe He’ll Support a Voter ID Bill Now
Rep. Jim Moron Moran (D-Va.) demanded to see the I.D. of a man questioning him during a recent town hall meeting.
Absolutely unbelieveable.
Let’s go to the video:
Vote ‘em out. Vote every one of ‘em out of office!
Another Camalot Profile
Ace of Spades provides a snippet of a 1990 GQ article about the “Lion of the Senate.”
It is after midnight and Kennedy and [Senator Chris] Dodd [D-CountryWide] are just finishing up a long dinner in a private room on the first floor of the restaurant’s annex. They are drunk. Their dates, two very young blondes, leave the table to go to the bathroom. (The dates are drunk too. “They’d always get their girls very, very drunk,” says a former Brasserie waitress.) Betty Loh, who served the foursome, also leaves the room. Raymond Campet, the co-owner of La Brasserie, tells Gaviglio the senators want to see her.
As Gaviglio enters the room, the six-foot-two, 225-plus-pound Kennedy grabs the five-foot-three, 103-pound waitress and throws her on the table. She lands on her back, scattering crystal, plates and cutlery and the lit candles. Several glasses and a crystal candlestick are broken. Kennedy then picks her up from the table and throws her on Dodd, who is sprawled in a chair. With Gaviglio on Dodd’s lap, Kennedy jumps on top and begins rubbing his genital area against hers, supporting his weight on the arms of the chair. As he is doing this, Loh enters the room. She and Gaviglio both scream, drawing one or two dishwashers. Startled, Kennedy leaps up. He laughs. Bruised, shaken and angry over what she considered a sexual assault, Gaviglio runs from the room. Kennedy, Dodd and their dates leave shortly thereafter, following a friendly argument between the senators over the check.
Eyewitness Betty Loh told me that Kennedy had “three or four” cocktails in his first half hour at the restaurant and wine with dinner. When she walked into the room after Gaviglio had gone in, she says, “what I saw was Senator Kennedy on top of Carla, who was on top of Senator Dodd’s lap, and the tablecloth was sort of slid off the table ‘cause the table was knocked over-not completely, but just on Senator Dodd’s lap a little bit, and of course the glasses and the candlesticks were totally spilled and everything. And right when I walked in, Senator Kelly jumped off…and he leaped up, composed himself and got up. And Carla jumped up and ran out of the room.”
I remember reading this article when it came out. Kennedy, Dodd, and who knows how many drunk louts roam the halls of the Senate (and House for that matter).
Here‘s a link to the original article.
I say throw the bums out. Don’t vote for any incumbent next year.
Good Riddance
One of the most evil, destructive politicians in American history died.
From Michelle Malkin:
Sen. Ted Kennedy died shortly before midnight Tuesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass., at age 77.
The man known as the “liberal lion of the Senate” had fought a more than year-long battle with brain cancer, and according to his son had lived longer with the disease than his doctors expected him to…
..A hardworking, well-liked politician who became the standard-bearer of his brothers’ liberal causes, his career was clouded by allegations of personal immorality and accusations that his family’s clout helped him avoid the consequences of an accident that left a young woman dead.
Good Riddance.
Common Sense Prevails
The Orange County, Va., Board of Supervisors okayed Walmart’s plans to open a store near the Civil War Wilderness battlefield.
The store was opposed by an assortment of leftist, no-growth nuts and Civil War buffs, including conservative writer Ben Stein. But, fortunately the Orange County supervisors saw reason and approved the store.
I’d include a clip from Yahoo News about the board’s decision, but it’s an Associated Press story and AP has gotten fussy about bloggers linking to and excerpting from AP content.
So, you’ll have to Google it.
Jokes to Play on The Obama While He’s On Vacation
From IMAO:
* Reprogram his teleprompters to automatically translate everything to Klingon.
* Replace all his spending bills with spending cuts. When he gets back he’ll be like, “What?! The deficit has gone down instead of up? Something as gone horribly wrong!”
* Replace the Democrat congressmen with people from the insane asylum and see how long it takes him to notice. “There’s Pelosi going on about people-faced spiders again. You tell those townhall protesters!”
* Schedule Biden for a primetime press conference. Don’t give him a teleprompter and tell him to speak off the cuff.
* Put rattlesnakes in all his desk drawers. He’ll be like, “Ow! A snakebite! I’ll just open this drawer to get the anti-venom… Aieee! Another snake! Enough is enough! I have had it with these wee-weed snakes on this wee-weed desk!”
* Invade a country while he’s gone. Man will he be surprised when he gets back!
* Instead of flying him back home, fly him to France and see how long it takes him to notice. “Wow, people are more accepting of my socialist positions than I thought!”
* Edit his Saul Alinksy’s Rules for Radicals book to include a rule that you should talk like a pirate.
* Don’t let him in the White House when he gets back telling him we found his Kenyan birth certificate which made McCain president who was so shocked that he immediately had a heart attack… so guess who’s president now!
Sarah Palin Was Right
Good article at American Spectator on the “death panels” that were included in the Obamacare bill, but allegedly have been removed.
We have a president who has such extreme, sickening disregard for inconvenient life that he opposed the Born Alive Infant Protection Act in Illinois, thus refusing to require hospitals to care for babies who survive an attempted abortion. And regarding the other end of life, this is the same president who told the New York Times’ David Leonhardt that because “the chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80 percent of the total health care bill out here,” therefore “I think that there is going to have to be a conversation that is guided by doctors, scientists, ethicists. And then there is going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place. It is very difficult to imagine the country making those decisions just through the normal political channels. And that’s part of why you have to have some independent group that can give you guidance. It’s not determinative, but I think has to be able to give you some guidance.”
So this president wants a “conversation” that is “guided by” supposed experts who are apart from the “normal political channels” but that is nevertheless influenced by “a very difficult democratic conversation.” Is it any wonder that some people interpreted this “independent group” as a “death panel”???
Top 10 Signs Your Employer Has Switched to Obamacare
From QandO:
(10) Your annual breast exam is done at Hooters.
(9) Directions to your doctor’s office include “Take a left when you enter
the trailer park.”
(8) The tongue depressors taste faintly of Fudgesicles.
(7) The only proctologist in the plan is “Gus” from Roto-Rooter.
(6) The only item listed under Preventative Care Coverage is “an apple a
day.”
(5) Your primary care physician is wearing the pants you gave to goodwill
last month.
(4) “The patient is responsible for 200% of out-of-network charges,” is not
a typographical error.
(3) The only expense covered 100% is, “embalming.”
(2) Your Prozac comes in different colors with little M’s on them.AND THE NUMBER ONE SIGN YOU’VE JOINED OBAMA’S HEALTH CARE PLAN
(1) You ask for Viagra, and they give you a Popsicle stick and duct tape
Ouch.
All Wee-Wee’d Up
Buyer’s Remorse
Heh:
Official I Am Sorry I Voted For Obama website.
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