Comments on: Vitter, DeMint, et al: time to go Patrick Henry on Obama’s assault on conservatives

By: E Pluribus Unum

E Pluribus Unum — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:30:59 +0000

we got 38 out of 41 to vote against Porkulus. The 3 that did not have been paying the price. Every single Senator knows what happened in about 500 Tea Parties on the 15th.

But you, along with the establishment Republicans, will allow for no courage, no new spark set off by the tea parties, the nation-wide revolt over porkulus, the more and more evident lack of leadership qualities shown by Obama.

No, nothing can change. There’s no hope, no point in even trying to stir up something.

Do you know the context of Patrick Henry’s speech? Do you? The VA legislature was trying to figure out yet newer ways to kowtow to increasingly oppressive British demands. While Massachusetts was in full rebellion, VA was shirking any hard choices. They even met in Williamsburg in order to not draw negative attention from the Brits. Henry had had enough, so he made his speech. In the audience were Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, who sat in stunned silence when he was done.

He made a difference. It required SOMEBODY to make a stand.

Poo hoo it all you want. I’d rather die than surrender.

By: ColdWarrior

ColdWarrior — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:18:06 +0000

To all of you pathetic, wimpy, cowardly, stand-for-nothing Republican Senators (you know who you are):
I am sending to you the following letter, which was posted at:
http://www.redstate.com/e_pluribus_unum/2009/04/17/vitter-demint-et-al-time-to-go-patrick-henry/
Go read it there, too.
Then, try “growing a pair” and DO SOMETHING. SOMETHING REAL AND MEANINGFUL. For example, Teleprompter Boy said this morning he was going to request his cabinet come up with $100 M in spending cuts. Some reporter did the math and said on the radio that this was less than two-thousandths of a per cent of the entire spending Teleprompter Boy has proposed and you clowns will allow him to pass.
Want to grow the Republican Party? Then resurrect the Reagan Era principles. Gee, he only won in landslides. Wise up. Questions? Call me. My number’s below. If I don’t pick up, I’m working for a living. Leave a message, I’ll call you back.
Here’s the post, entitled “Vitter, DeMint, et al.: Time to go Patrick Henry on Obama’s Assault on Conservatives.”
>>>>>

By: Brad Smith

Brad Smith — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:23:38 +0000

Except for the fact that this proposed letter would just be an empty threat. There aren’t 41 senators who would do that.

But maybe we can vote all the “moderates” out (probably about 30 GOP Senators who would not sign this). Then we’d have the Democrats right we want them – with about 75 seats in the Senate.

You see, the problem is not that our Senators lack backbone. The problem is that we lack Senators, and we lack voters. Until more people want Republicans to win, this type of gesture is futile.

By: RedWhite_and_Truth

RedWhite_and_Truth — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:54:17 +0000

Outstanding post! These namby-pambys have got to go! 2010 can’t here fast enough for me.

By: realityunwound

realityunwound — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:29:41 +0000

http://capwiz.com/humanevents/home/

One stop shopping for all your legislative contacting needs.

By: amr

amr — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:44:51 +0000

Being one of those extremists in multiple ways as defined by DHS, I have been pushing at the 912ers meetings and website postings, tea party organizational meetings, and even hinted in my one tea party speech that if the tea party grass roots rallies do not move congress, and they apparently haven’t yet by recent votes since the tea parties started on February 16th, then following MLK’s civil rights movement tactics, picketing of local congressional offices of the politicians voting for spend and tax should commence. If that doesn’t work, then it would be on to civil disobedience with sit-ins. Of course this was the type of tactics that Shays’ people utilized in 1786 that led to the rebellion when the state government ignored their more civil actions. Hopefully congress is more astute than was the Massachusetts government in Shays time or Southern Democrats were during the civil rights movement.

The Greatest Generation saved our nation from Fascism so we owe future generations a serious effort to return to the economic and personal freedom they fought so bravely to retain. As I expected I have convinced few people of the necessity of such actions; therefore I may have go it alone.

By: whitman4562001

whitman4562001 — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:38:09 +0000

Let’s stop basing our decisions on a fear of what the other side might do inorder to retaliate.

By: itrytobenice

itrytobenice — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:05:55 +0000

Excellent!!

By: sarajean

sarajean — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:38:57 +0000

Please DO it (to all 41 and to your radio personalities!) and then, send it around (to your network)!

(Surely by now, any thinking person realizes that we have seen enough!…..)

By: djemi

djemi — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:59:21 +0000

By: Moe Lane

Moe Lane — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:13:55 +0000

I let it go last time because I was busy and you never came back.

But then you came back.

http://www.activistsandiego.org/wwwboard/viewtopic.php?t=18389

Blam.

By: Steph C

Steph C — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:12:37 +0000

and skip over the rest?

Does it concern you at all that all returning veterans are being investigated? Does it concern you at all that even the NYT said that people’s emails and other communications are being monitored, without due cause?

You’re full of it.

By: graystate

graystate — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:59:13 +0000

I’m sorry to dissent, but the report doesn’t express concern for conservatism; it’s about extremism, clearly about terrorist behavior like “the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and disrupted plots.”

This is like a Muslim community blog objecting to the “Bin Laden determined to strike in US” briefing.

Unless this emotional appeal is built on a faulty premise, it seems to imply that the author sees a link between conservative ideals and a penchant to subvert a democratically elected government. If there is such a link, then you are proving the very concerns of the DHS document.

Incidentally, we have seen such incitement here (and reposted on dozens of conservative blogs):
http://www.redstate.com/warner_todd_huston/2009/04/16/those-dangerous-tea-parties-are-you-the-threat-weve-been-waiting-for/

I hate to see such abandonment of rationality in favor of emotion. It’s as bad as liberal victimization, so let’s practice some restraint and rely on reason.

By: 6eorge Jetson

6eorge Jetson — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:26:27 +0000

By: TNJim

TNJim — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:55:19 +0000

It’d be command (Apple Symbol) c Follow praying’s step 2 , then command v for paste. Then praying’s final 3 steps.

By: Praying

Praying — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:49:09 +0000

(http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm). Sort by party, and start with the first (R) name. Click on web link at bottom of entry.
3. Find the “message” box. Position cursor in the box. Paste (control v).
4. Fill out personal contact information.
5. Press send
6. Return to senate page, scroll down to the next senator, repeat.

You can make a game of it. I’ve gotten through all 41 in just over 40 minutes. I think I’ll play this game myself tomorrow. Thanks for the inspiration!

By: scrapiron

scrapiron — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:55:35 +0000

I would stand alongside of you on the frontlines of this battle, if it comes to that.

I’m a 53 y/o Marine Corps Veteran and I am still in good enough shape to open up some whup-ass on any two 20 something marshmello Obots.

I am so sick of Minnesota that I took a job for less money in Tennessee, just in case the Nation fractures. I never though i would see the day that an American President would bow to an Arab and cover up the symbol of Christ.

July 4th Tea Party….I’ll be there.

Call me when you are ready to form the resistance.

By: Steph C

Steph C — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:39:30 +0000

rofl

I don’t think you could be that bad. I used to be the worst cook in the world. I’m not joking. My mother tried to teach me and, being a hillbilly and in spite of the surreality of the Beverly Hillbillies, I was Ellie Mae Clampett.

Now, I learn to cook by taste. I taste something in a restaurant that I really like, I can go home and make it provided I have the ingredients available. Hubby, being from MS and living a lot of his early life in LA simply told me what went into gumbo and now, he can’t eat anyone else’s.

Except fish. I can’t ever seem to do a good fish fry. I can blacken it, grill it, etc. but not fry it and have it come out right.

If I can learn, anybody can.

By: Brian Simpson

Brian Simpson — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:37:48 +0000

By: mom2oneson

mom2oneson — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:51:37 +0000

I was just joining in the effort. I can put socks in the dryer without burning them! LOL