Let’s save America instead
In short, Rush was right, for if conservatives and Republicans are to conserve enough of the City on a Hill to keep it Shining, President Barack Obama and liberal mainstream of the Democratic party must fail in their efforts to enact their dreams of fundamental change into law.
Presidencies come and go. The Flag must always be defended and preserved by We the People.

Yet, too many of our conservative beltway pundits feel the need, much too often, to offer advice to ObamaDems on how they could succeed in implementing their goals by going it slow or some such other obfuscating strategy. They seem to offer this insidious advice either out of a confusion between the success of America and that of the “presidency”; or due to pure intellectual pride.
I was reminded of some recent conservative offers of such bilge when I ran across a New Republic column entitled: Job One: The only way Obama can pull his presidency back from the brink.
I was not taken aback to read such advice from a senior editor of the one of the preeminent liberal political publications in America. They believe that a sussessful Obama Presidency equals a successful America since they share his policy goals and world view.
But what is quite ironic about John Judis’ Job One column is that he fears the passage of a major health care reform bill will destroy Obama’s presidency and ultimately backfire on ObamaDems and end up wiping out the party and their legislative achievements.
Why ironic?
Because some of conservative pundit superstars have given Obama advice akin to Judis that would have ObamaDems treat the American people like lobsters calmly awaiting their deaths in lukewarm water. Consider:
Rich Lowry of National Review:
The Obama team is fiddling with his health-care talking points. But the verbiage is beside the point. What Obama needs is a little modesty. It’s easy to imagine an alternative history of a more cautious Obama administration that wouldn’t have stoked a voter backlash in all of six months.
No, Rich heir to Buckley’s perch, what Obama needs is to have his world view and proven failed policies utterly rejected. We don’t need any alternative histories where the liberal big government stew grows larger and hotter my small degrees over time.
We should thank God for the overreach that caused the LobsterAmericans to leap from the socialist pot of boiling water.
We don’t want “modest” liberals that are competent in advancing the big government ball.
Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal:
A final factor contributed to the mess of the health-care debate, and that the White House might ponder it. Looking back, what a lucky man President Clinton was to have—to help bring about after his own health-care fiasco—a Congress controlled by the opposite party. What a great and historic team Mr. Clinton and Newt Gingrich were, a popular Democratic president and a determined GOP leader with a solid majority. Welfare reform, a balanced budget, and a sense the public could have that not much crazy would happen and some serious progress might be made. If Mr. Clinton pressed too hard, Mr. Gingrich would push back. If Mr. Gingrich pressed too hard Mr. Clinton pushed back. Two gifted, often perplexing and always controversial Boomers who didn’t even like each other, and yet you look back now and realize: Good things happened there.
Right now Mr. Obama’s gift is his curse, a Congress dominated by his party. While the country worries about the economy and two wars, the Democrats of Congress are preoccupied with the idea that this is their moment, now is their time, health care now, “Never let a good crisis go to waste,” the only blazingly memorable phrase to be uttered in the new era.
No, former Reagan speechwriter (and exhibit A for how much more important is the employer than the employee in that occupation), it is a gift to America that we have the clarity necessary for the re-education of America in the failures and foibles of modern day liberalism that only one-party domination can afford.
Obama is no Bill Clinton.
Obama is a first-class power-craved Marxist ideologue who wants to fundamentally change America. Bill Clinton’s vision of America, while liberal in many ways, included self-empowered entrepreneurs that didn’t have to crawl to Washington for a piece of Obama’s action lest pitchforks be unleashed to squash them.
And finally, Charles Krauthammer:
Obamacare Version 1.0 is dead. The 1,000-page monstrosity that emerged in various editions from Congress was done in by widespread national revulsion not just at its expense and intrusiveness but at the mendacity with which it is being sold. You don’t need a Ph.D. to see that the promise to expand coverage and reduce costs is a crude deception, or that cutting $500 billion from Medicare without affecting care is a fiction.
But there is an exit strategy. And a politically clever one, if the Democrats are smart enough to seize it.
I am not going to repeat the insidiously wicked advice that the man I dubbed “The Master” when I discovered his great wisdom and intellect many years ago. His “politically clever” advice reminds of Screwtape’s whisperings to Wormwood in trying to advance the scope of Hades.
Hypothetically, would I like for Obama’s presidency to be a “success”?
Yes, if by success we had a Clinton-Gingrich-like gridlock that basically kept the federal government from growing except for occasional midnight basketball. That scenario might even be better than the alternative we endured with a Republican George “compassionate conservative (redundancy)” Bush with small majorities in both Houses of Congress where Democrat filibuster threats kept tax cuts non-permanent.
There is also an argument to be made (and I made it soon after the Inauguration) that America needs for the world to perceive a strong Presidency for the sake of deterrence. But that argument is now out the window after numerous apology tours and abandonment of freedom-loving allies in Honduras, Iran, Ukraine, Poland and the Czech Republic.
Obama is determined to exude weakness and roll back the cause of Liberty.
I seriously wonder if We the People need to form an “American Underground” to aid and abet freedom fighters abroad?
It even appears that Obama is trying to lose the victories in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Rush Limbaugh was right to wish that Obama fails, i.e. fails to enacy his policy preferences.
Does anyone now doubt that America would be better off had Obama failed to pass the non-stimulus aka Government Growthulus, Omnibus spending, and currency-destroying budget blueprint with a first year deficit of $1.8 trillion (Bush and the GOP’s worse was just over $400 Billion) bills?
I think not.
Has anyone else noticed that the stock market began to rally just as loud voices emanated from Town Halls portending rough sledding for ObamaCare enactment and after Blue Dog senators buried the Cap & Trade energy tax in committee?
So, Charles, Rich and Peggy, get over yourselves and focus your brilliant minds on advice for the GOP to save America not just from ObamaDem expansion of the Welfare State, but also on ways to cut it back.
“Presidencies” are but a procedure engaged in producing the substance of what we call America and when we have liberals in charge of makking a Bill into a Law, we must pray for incompetence and failure on their part.
Substance people. The presidency is not a television show. Let’s focus on the need for filling peoples’ wallets at home and the need for a strong defense abroad.
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We don't need to save this presidency at all
Richard Mullins (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 11:53AM EST (link)just let go away. The only thing to save is O from being a martyr and that it. Otherwise, we should be committed to letting this admin fail.
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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.
Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
BTW, great diary Mike. nt
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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.
Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
SHUN THEM
farstar99 (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 12:57PM EST (link)I say this to all Republicans everywhere, but particularly in government.
Don’t go to their parties, don’t “overlook” their hateful speech, just shun them like the bad odor they are. Legislators, this applies to the “press” as well. They’re propagandists. Why legitimize them?
It may lose you “friends,” but if they think they can behave the way Democrats have behaved for the last decade and still have friends, do you really want them in your circle?
Eventually, even a dog can understand this simple message.
Yep, these are friends we don't need
Richard Mullins (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 5:54PM EST (link)Seriously, we have our conservative(since blue dog is a lie only Republican) congresscritters that go up and want to be friends with the other party. Worse to do is to compromise conservative values by being bipartisan all the time. It’s certainly not the way the Democrats work. They try to be bipartisan, they just bully their bills through. We don’t need to pull them closer, just push them away.
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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.
Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
Don't Shun, Engage
lukematthews (Diary) Thursday, September 24th at 8:20PM EST (link)They are human beings worthy of being wrong once and a while. They need some reminders about how ‘counseling’ this president is as useful as ‘counseling’ a sociopath. Obama has no reason to cater to individual rights when he is firmly and actively seeking to destroy them. He is bound and determined to collectivize and ‘tame’ the populace in any way he thinks he can. That’s why he uses the verbiage he does. He’s not a believer in freedom. He despises the populace except as support for his agenda. These commentators should be challenged and reminded of their belief in freedom and liberty. Obama is opposed to that. Don’t give him pointers for heaven’s sake.
No, shun them and stay out of DC unless there is a vote to oppose
Beaglescout (Diary) Friday, September 25th at 2:05AM EST (link)Secure the red states against federal encroachment. Start cutting the legs out from under the Democrats while they overreach in the nation’s eye.
“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”
They deserve to...
fjrealamericans (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 11:56AM EST (link)Fail..
America seems to have finally woke up. It’s about time.
Excellent post.
F & J Real Americans.
thx richard and fj - nt
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 12:02PM EST (link)Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
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Big BRObama Will Not Take Anyone's Advice
Ausonius (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 12:01PM EST (link)because of his arrogant ideologue’s character.
Mushy conservatives can throw him advice: so can liberals both modest and “reasonable” (whatever that is).
He believes his radical agenda is correct: from what I can glean so far, he will not compromise, he will burn every bridge, wreck every alliance, trample on every law, and ignore every poll on the wishes of the electorate, so that he can push through his agenda.
This is why he is so insidious, because his “cool” persona masks the radical underneath: it explains last year’s results in November.
It is also why we can never stop attacking him, never think that some battle has him defeated. He will be always be coming back again!
Ausonius: 310-395 A.D. Teacher, Poet, Consul, General, Farmer.
Personal Tutor to the future St. Paulinus of Nola and to young Gratian, heir to the throne during the turbulent final years of the Western Roman Empire. When his former student Gratian was assassinated, Ausonius threw up his hands and retired to his farm in Gaul. Rome was captured by barbarians 14 years after his death.
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That was a shameful spectacle at the UN!
Achance (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 12:22PM EST (link)Were there a legitimate government, Comrade Obama would be hauled before the Congress for a joint denunciation session. At least nobody who will listen to his words can honestly say that they didn’t understand what he was.
In Vino Veritas
Big BRObama Claims He Banned Torture!
Ausonius (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 12:34PM EST (link)I just heard a soundbite from the speech where he says back in January he banned America from torturing people !
Should we not be so very proud of our new president?
Ausonius: 310-395 A.D. Teacher, Poet, Consul, General, Farmer.
Personal Tutor to the future St. Paulinus of Nola and to young Gratian, heir to the throne during the turbulent final years of the Western Roman Empire. When his former student Gratian was assassinated, Ausonius threw up his hands and retired to his farm in Gaul. Rome was captured by barbarians 14 years after his death.
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Another great diary, Mike
Stephen Halsey (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 12:48PM EST (link)And perfect analysis about why Obamao MUST fail. Anyone keeping up with the comedy hour at the UN will know that more of the mask was pulled off today by Dear Leader’s speech. This is nothing more than a campaign speech for President of the World. Even Qaddafi said he wished that Obama could be President for life.
Folks….it’s getting really dangerous now.
We have a Rolodex that connects the WH with ACORN/SEIU to players inside the Bolivian and Venezuelan governments, governments which openly and pubically express contempt for freedom and liberty and capitalism on a daily basis.
We have leaders of state-sponsored terrorism wishing Obamao could be POTUS for life.
We have a POTUS that continues to apologize for America’s greatness and continues to throw trusted allies under the proverbial bus.
We have an administration that intimidates, ridicules, and lies on an hourly basis and shows continued disdain for our Constitution.
And why the so-called ‘conservatives’ in the written media cannot come to grips with the fact that this country has elected a full-blown, naked Marxist as President, someone who is wholly un-American (and no I don’t mean the birth certificate…) in thinking, in values, in actions is beyond me.
This is not your normal liberal POTUS.
This is not Jimmy Carter II.
This is all very serious and very dangerous, to our country, our freedoms, our way of life and to freedom around the world. The quicker Noonan, Frum, Brooks, Lowry and Krauthhammer get on board, the better for our side. Because, this is a conflict in which everyone will have to pick sides.
People and writers inside the Beltway, either you are with us or against us.
Hit hard. Hit fast. Hit often.
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amen and thx and what makes me happiest is that I wrote this BEFORE I even knew of the UN speech! - nt
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 2:46PM EST (link)Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
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Well done, Mike.
baserunr (Diary) Thursday, September 24th at 4:15PM EST (link)We don’t need a smaller watering can for government. We need a machete!
BHO’s ideals must not be put into practice. His policies must fail.
“The day you think you know it all is the day your trouble starts.”
perfectly stated baseball man - "smaller watering can" not needed - nt
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Friday, September 25th at 8:38AM EST (link)Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
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His speech at the UN this morning was beyond embarassing
Scope (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 12:49PM EST (link)It was appalling, horendous and more than a little humiliating if you are an American patriot, and love the country. On the same day that Gadafi, Ahmadinajad, and other dictators are also speaking, his speech just gave their hate of the US more validity, because he once again appologized for how terrible the US has been, before him that is. I looked at his speech as being a plea to accept him as the one world leader. As he has thrown so many good people, and great allies and friends of the US under the bus, he too will be shown the same blacktop that he introduced others too. Can anyone imagine Gadafi or Ahmadinajad or any other dictator handing over the reins of their countries to the incompetent, impotent, failed Community Organizer of the world? This time I can’t laugh at his stupidity, I rather am ready for tears for my country. God in heaven, he’s lecturing the dictators as though they are some kind of idiot teenagers, just the same as he lectures us.
Kowalski- Great Diary Gamecock
Scope (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 12:50PM EST (link)as usual.
I am humbled by your support - nt
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Liberalism is disgusting ideology and Republicans...
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 1:24PM EST (link)ought to treat it as such. They should point out every chance they get how liberalism is destroying this beautiful country. They ought to stop acting like politicians and start acting like American citizens. There is an extremely RUDE awaking coming to the Democrat party in 2010 and those R’s who hang with them will be getting some serious blowback as well. There is no room for liberal lite in 2010. It will be an indictment on liberalism and will be rejected from sea to shining sea!
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well put gal - nt
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Friday, September 25th at 8:37AM EST (link)Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
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Excellent post Mike
Whitehorse (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 2:30PM EST (link)We do need Republican candidates who are not afraid to be authentically passionate for conservative Republican ideals & principles, & also not afraid to call right right & wrong wrong!
That horse will ride! thx WH - nt
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 6:00PM EST (link)Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
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His U.N. speech today was more of the same.
penguin2 (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 3:11PM EST (link)If there is anyone left in the DC/NY elite corridor who denies who and what this man is, then they must want the same thing. I’ve only recently realized that this man and his Leftist cohorts really do despise America and radically want to make her into something she is not.
I have wondered why our side was giving “advice.” Advice to help a man and an administration accomplish in some more palatable form their Socialist/Communist agenda. Not here.
If he succeeds, America fails. Freedom loving countries in the world recognize this. Add Israel to the abandoned ally list.
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. – Benjamin Franklin
When Good stands up to Evil, Evil blinks. – Vassar Bushmills
Conservative Education: Suggested Reading List
Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots
amen - nt
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 6:00PM EST (link)Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
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Stormer's "None Dare Call it Treason" just made #1
Achance (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 3:13PM EST (link)on my reading list; got it from Amazon today. I read at it way back when, it came out in ’64, but the few pages I’ve read so far sure seemed topical today – other than the amounts of money he’s carrying on about would be lost in the rounding errors in today’s federal budget.
In Vino Veritas
555 - nt
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 5:59PM EST (link)Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
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MONEY!
AceInTX (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 3:50PM EST (link)Simply brilliant Mike!
thx ace, your interpretation makes my day! - nt
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 5:59PM EST (link)Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
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I agree with Ace....
Susannah (Diary) Thursday, September 24th at 12:55AM EST (link)Great job GC!!
Don't worry, GC. His Cronies of Thugs will make sure he won't listen to any GOOD advice. nt
Rod_Patrick (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 6:39PM EST (link)LOL RP and thx all that recco and comment - nt
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Thursday, September 24th at 9:01AM EST (link)Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
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GC- You talk about Rich, Peggy and Charles
Scope (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 7:41PM EST (link)They write, or speak, opinions. What Republican/Conservative do we have that has any real standing? Last week we had the debate between McDonnell and Deeds, who was the moderator- David Gregory. When the primary debates happened, who moderated the debates? When we had the presidential debates, who moderated the debates? The Republicans keep putting themselves in enemy territory, why? Bret Behr, last night interviewed the Prime Minister of Isreal (can’t spell his name) and what were the most important questions, that he pushed and pushed- Will you go after Iran, and will you stop the settlements in the West Bank. Isreals leader was much more intelligent that Behr can ever hope to be. He didn’t answer questions that he should never have been asked. The Sunday morning shows all have Democrat leaning hosts. The moderators of most debates are all left leaning. Who does the Republican Party have as an asker of the hard questions? Not one person. We have those that talk about their opinion, those that write their opinion, and those that have chosen to advise the Progressive President on what he should be doing. Rush gives his knowledgeable opinion as to what is happening, Beck does alot of research on the communist movement, Hannity can’t make the first intelligent comment. Who in the media is the representative of the Republican Party that would be even considered to moderate a debate. Who in the Republican Party has any willingness or ability to even ask the Democrats the hard questions? Rush doesn’t have guests, Beck has guests that agree with his research, Hannity has contracts with all the old has beens, like McCain. There is not the first Republican version of Matthews, Olberman, Couric, Juan Williams and Mara Liason of NPR (National Progressive Party), or any of the other Liberals. I am well aware that the Progressives have control of the media, however, is there anyone who will counter the progressives in any meaningful way? Not only are the Republicans lacking any clear leader right now, we are also lacking anyone who will fight the Conservative ideas as regards to the press.
Our so called Conservative opinion writers
Richard Mullins (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 7:50PM EST (link)have been so lacking as far as fighting the good fight for conservatism. They seem to have be comfortable letting the conservative bloggers do the work for them. I seem more willing than they do say the right things. I’ll let you look at what I just posted on my blog(I keep there to help me be more coherent):
http://wp.me/pzyMi-3o
Sometimes I wonder why I have to do things for them.
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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.
Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
Read your blog Richard- You are so correct
Scope (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 8:39PM EST (link)Why do the bloggers and those that comment on the problems with the Obamanation have to carry the water. I guess you agree that we really don’t have anyone that is willing to step forward in the media. Yet, we complain that the Liberal media controls the story, and, the Republican Party message.
Well thanks
Richard Mullins (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 10:45PM EST (link)It toke me awhile to get it written and posted and even disclosed that it was my opinion(had a comment on a post asking me to find things that were obvious). We should never talk about a problem with out a solution to it. With that we do have congressmen and senators that do have solutions to problems, but are pushed aside by the “Stubborn Party”. When it comes to our own party not being in a forceful message, we might to email or twitter them good posts on blogs to make them think.
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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.
Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
Freedom
jchild314 (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 11:36PM EST (link)I hope the ‘folks’ here will soon be talking about what others have said recently. We are not looking for Government Solutions…..We are looking for “Freedom”……..
God Bless
I think that what we bloggers are saying
Richard Mullins (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 11:43PM EST (link)its just that we have courage and some don’t. I don’t try to be inflammatory just right.
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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.
Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
Excellent
Cheryl (Diary) Wednesday, September 23rd at 11:47PM EST (link)Right on Mike, great diary
“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America, than the whole force of the common enemy.” –Samuel Adams
“The administrative state has inserted its big paws into our houses, from the toilet bowl to the light socket. Now if it would just stretch those paws from the one to the other at the same time, we might begin to recapture the spirit of ’76.” –Scott Johnson, Powerlineblog.com
gc humbled cheryl - nt
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Freedom
jchild314 (Diary) Thursday, September 24th at 12:25AM EST (link)Respect your view, Richard,,,, I’m just glad someone is out there saying “We’re not interested in government fixes, we’re interested in FREEDOM” !!!!!!!!!!!
God Bless
Great POST, GC!
UpLateAgain (Diary) Thursday, September 24th at 2:24AM EST (link)Carter was on the left; incompetent; and initiated ruinous leftist polices……. but he was fostering a leftist agenda within our system (policies doomed to fail, but the system remained, so it could be repaired).
Obama is a Marxist, pure and simple, and he is NOT fostering a leftist agenda within our system. He is trying to completely change the system. If he succeeds, once changed it will NOT be fixable within the system that he leaves us. To fix it will require some form of revolution. The Tea Parties are not tax protests, as the IM wants us to believe. They are an expression of the realization of that fact on levels both conscious and unconscious, and the majority of those deriding the Tea Parties are about as politically hip as a bowling ball.
Ergo, Obama MUST fail. The country doesn’t fail if he fails. The country survives.
You never never never actually need a gun, until you need a gun, and then nothing else will do.
I agree ULA - nt
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Thursday, September 24th at 8:59AM EST (link)Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
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Good job, GC
itrytobenice (Diary) Thursday, September 24th at 8:08AM EST (link)And I hope he fails.
Proper grammar saves lives.
Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.
thx Trying to be nice and succeeding! - nt
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Thursday, September 24th at 9:00AM EST (link)Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
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Wow. This needs to be on the front page
WarEagle01 (Diary) Thursday, September 24th at 9:01AM EST (link)n/t
“A wise, doughy leg with rich tingly experiences will always reach better conclusions than will a more tanned, muscular leg that hasn’t felt those thrills.” –Chris Matthews’ Leg
“The alternative to the awful extremity of abortion is the indispensable joy of introducing this flawed world to someone who might make it better.”–John Hayward (AKA Dr. Zero)
thx auburn tiger - nt
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Friday, September 25th at 8:36AM EST (link)Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
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I don't get it.
NotSoBlueStater (Diary) Thursday, September 24th at 12:18PM EST (link)When Bush tried to pass Social Security reform, the Democrats (Reid in particular) said “no” before there was even a bill. It was disgusting. Now conservatives try to come up with theories on how to get something productive but imperfect done, and you say, basically, “No! Obstruct!”
I can get that kind of analysis on Kos.
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The Conservative creed has never offered a life of ease without effort. Democracy is not for such people. Self-government is for those men and women who have learned to govern themselves. – Margaret Thatcher
Feel free to got to DKos then NotSoBlueStater. Take the exit to your left. nt
Aaron Gardner (Diary) Thursday, September 24th at 12:22PM EST (link)conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
“We’d be much better off if We The People had desired small government enough to keep it.” acat
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Nice.
NotSoBlueStater (Diary) Thursday, September 24th at 12:42PM EST (link)I actually have a point, I think. This is mirror-image behavior to what the left did to Bush.
I have gotten up into many a progressive’s grille over the past eight years — accusing them of basically taking the entire Bush Administration off and pouting like petulent children. I told them that there were pieces of common ground between what they believed and what Bush was trying to do.
They were having none of it. Apparently you’re having none of it either.
I’m not saying that the right should simply rubber stamp Obama’s agenda. That’s the last thing I want. But chopping up conservatives — including brilliant ones like Krauthammer and Lowry — not me. They simply have too much credibility for me to join in dismissing them just because they lack ideological purity in the eyes of some.
You seem pleased with your intolerance, though, so have at it, I guess.
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The Conservative creed has never offered a life of ease without effort. Democracy is not for such people. Self-government is for those men and women who have learned to govern themselves. – Margaret Thatcher
Wow, now you want to draw moral equivalences...
Aaron Gardner (Diary) Thursday, September 24th at 12:54PM EST (link)I think you need to re-read what Mike wrote. It is not simply a knee-jerk opposition that he is calling for. What he is calling for is for “conservatives” to stop telling Obama ways to get his agenda passed. We are all for real reform, but the Obama agenda is diametrically opposed to any real reform, they prefer “fundamental change”. Personally I don’t think the fundamentals of our Republic need to be changed.
It is very unfortunate that you do.
And yes I am intolerant to fascism, racism, socialism, communism and all the other failed ideologies that make up the Obama Administration.
You can take you “why can’t we be friends” philosophy and go suck an egg with
PresidentSen. McCain.Is that clear enough for you.
conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
“We’d be much better off if We The People had desired small government enough to keep it.” acat
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precisely correct - nt
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Friday, September 25th at 8:36AM EST (link)Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
well it's simple really
kyle8 (Diary) Thursday, September 24th at 1:00PM EST (link)We have one bill already, the one in the house. And it’s a pile of dung.
Unlike when Bush called for reforms and said he would be willing to look at anybody’s ideas, the left have deliberately left republicans out.
Therefore we have a very reasonable knowledge of what sort of bill will come forth, Long on socialism, short on market reforms.
So yea, we are going to oppose it. But it is not unreasonable partisanship like you make it out to be.
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle
I don't get it.
NotSoBlueStater (Diary) Thursday, September 24th at 12:18PM EST (link)When Bush tried to pass Social Security reform, the Democrats (Reid in particular) said “no” before there was even a bill. It was disgusting. Now conservatives try to come up with theories on how to get something productive but imperfect done, and you say, basically, “No! Obstruct!”
I can get that kind of analysis on Kos.
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The Conservative creed has never offered a life of ease without effort. Democracy is not for such people. Self-government is for those men and women who have learned to govern themselves. – Margaret Thatcher
NSB, none of the theories advanced by Lowry, Noonan and Krauthammer sought anything productive, unless
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Friday, September 25th at 8:35AM EST (link)one considers helping Obama be successful on his terms to be productive. Rather, the theories sought to describe how Obama could advance an unproductive agenda thru cynical incrementalism.
Obstruction is a good thing when what one seeks to obstruct is bad policy.
Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
16-10 -nt
OccamsRazor (Diary) Friday, September 25th at 1:35AM EST (link).
Gamecocks crow louder than Rebels yell! - nt
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Friday, September 25th at 8:29AM EST (link)Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
Big win
Jack_Savage (Diary) Friday, September 25th at 9:16AM EST (link)As much as I despise him, don’t mess with the Ol’ Ball Coach. Unless, of course, you are Mickey Andrews or Bobby Bowden.
We won despite the old ball coach in his FIFTH year, the last three of which
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Friday, September 25th at 9:30AM EST (link)he had an even better defense but couldn’t manage to come up with an evil genius offense. Our big boys are carrying the golfer from Hilton Head along for the ride.
Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
Damn The Torpedoes...
OccamsRazor (Diary) Friday, September 25th at 1:41AM EST (link)Full Steam Ahead.
No bailouts for the POTUS or the DEMS
Common_Cents (Diary) Friday, September 25th at 8:18PM EST (link)Obama should take a lesson from this guy:
Obama=Golfer in Chief, Leading from,
behind, the Back Nine.Leaders don’t create movements. Movements create leaders. Get involved. Your future depends on it.
Govt “invests” YOUR tax money for POLITICAL return rather than economic return.
I have been asking the Democratic Party that same shame question for
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Saturday, September 26th at 12:04AM EST (link)two decades
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“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
MY POLITICAL PREDICTIONS (Sept14)
reelman (Diary) Friday, September 25th at 8:31PM EST (link)MY POLITICAL PREDICTIONS…
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Sadly (and terrifyingly) the radical kook Obama surrounded by secular socialist kooks Reid and Pelosi will soon affect America in ALL the ways we (with any sense and sense of history) fear.
The moonbats and loony left know their stars will never be better aligned…heck, even Chavez wants to help Obama. The kook secular socialist angry haters of American values must strike with all force before the 2010 elections. They know voters are terrified of all this kook secular socialism…and madder by the week as the lies pile up, the excuses pile us, the denials pile up, the gov-meant hiring piles up and the debt piles up…while nearly a sixth of the country is jobless and retirement plans are still far from regaining that 30% hit.
That means a monster Health Care bill with over 50 new panels, boards and commissions (HB 3200 has them now) plus more triggers for takeovers than a pistol factory. Did I mention trillions more in debt? History teaches us the “gov-meant selling price” is always 3-9x the true cost in just a couple years. The Cap and Tax will be the next toxic enema for Uncle Sam. Talk Radio and The Net will lose freedoms.
ALL their major bills will be rammed thru…even if special rule changes or taking the 51 vote path are needed.
These radicals are not the compromising kind but the angry arrogant clueless breed that never learns or displays any common sense.
They just want the power and to heck with the results down the road. Its all rainbow dust and happy unicorns to the modern lefty.
You just don’t really really understand how wonderful their secular socialist society will be. Ask the Castro and Chavez praisers.
Voters got a sample of the congressional arrogance of the modern democrat this summer. Its only the beginning. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
The rage will rise to heights not seen in generations as the biased media struggles to change the constant dirty diapers from this group of political thugs. That is the same media that looked the other way in 2008 as a known marxist surrounded by same was allowed a free pass.
That stain is permanent.
Just as the economy starts struggling to its wobbly feet the nation will be hammered with many new taxes in 2010.
By next summer all this major mischief will come to pass and set the stage for the greatest voter turnout in history.
J. Carter Obama and his fellow travelers will have the omnipresent “ghost of economy past” haunting them for Halloween 2010.
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“Ignore what is said, watch what is done”
The problem is congress…is congress…
Secular Socialism is never the answer…
“This is where we hold them, this is where we fight”
The “reelman” in central Louisiana