So what’s it going to take folks, for us to realize finally that our salvation does not rely on politicians? What?!

I have written about the issue until my fingers are tired and still everybody is hanging our future on repeal. I don’t give one whit who you get elected at the local level or how many of us join committee precincts, the end result is that politicians are politicians. It. Is. That. Easy.

Thomas Jefferson sums it up rather nicely: “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and for government to gain ground.”

Jeez, that sounds familiar. As government is made up of – you guessed it – politicians, Jefferson’s observation is really a rather obvious fact about human nature.

Politicians are not going to save you. Neither are the courts. You have a better chance of having the tooth fairy sweep in and rescue the day. Ain’t gonna happen.

The states are not going to save us with nullification. It is up to us. A little civil disobedience can go a long way. I have written about it. Hot Air has an article about how the IRS says while it can’t enforce the mandate, it can withhold your refund. How does the post end? By stating that you should ensure you don’t have a refund. How do you do that? By increasing your exemptions on your W-4 or paying less in quarterly taxes if you are self-employed. No employment mechanism means the insurance companies will now get behind a repeal effort. Sounds like civil disobedience to me. Does doing that scare anyone?

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/04/06/irs-you-bet-we-can-enforce-this-mandate/

Other civil disobedience measures are also possible and I have outlined some of them here in my diaries. If we don’t do it, it is not going to get done. If the men are so emasculated that a little non-violent disobedience, as opposed to what our founders and grandfathers went through, is so scary, then we are in trouble – big trouble. Man up. If is YOUR country – not theirs. The power to end this within the next month is here if we had the will, but it is starting to look like we don’t.

You get the government you deserve. When all three branches of government are against you and will continue to be even when “your” people are in power then political solutions, as they are called here, are not worth their weight in beetle dung unless backed up by an assertive and non-violent movement where the people make it clear we won’t stand for this nonsense anymore.

It’s very telling when I get more response on Tea Party sites from women than I do men by four to one. I guess I am beginning to see who owns the testicles now. The men are acting like I am calling for Armageddon or something, as if what MLK and Gandhi is somehow spooky and taboo. Jeez.

Respectfully, what you are putting on full display here is how two-faced a politician can be. I will be you a paycheck Coburn worked this strategy out in his head. Let’s get me on camera looking tough.

Now it’s back to politics as usual. These people don’t do anything that is not self-serving. It is their nature. I was very happy when I saw the above video before the vote. But I knew in the back of my mind that it was all for show. Even if he follows through with it, it is still all for show. This is no longer just jaded thinking by me, I have seen these guys in full self-interest regalia last year when I was part of a small group of people who exposed every single Senator (except DeMint) as being spineless twits. That’s 40 out of 41 Senators, and Coburn was one who was supposed to hold down the fort when DeMint had some sort of emergency he needed to take care of.

It came as no surprise that he was out of action when we needed him most. Nope, this guy is through and through a politician. Weak, two-faced, and elitist.

Anybody who had anything good to say about Nancy Pelosi is falling into the comity trap that guys like Mr. “I was a maverick but now I’m not” McCain did – and they need to have their head examined. She is an enemy of this country and everything it stands for. The only thing we get out of such nonsense is bi-partisan growth of government.

Don’t count on these guys. They will let you down every single time.

but calling them ‘friends’ or even ‘nice people’ IS off-putting.

Is Mao also a friend? How about Stalin?
Is Che a ‘nice person’?

Want to know what our problem is? The high ground is an illusion. It is created by the mind and does not exist in nature. It is a by-product of living in a civilized society where you don’t have to worry about your next meal, or disease, or being killed on a daily basis. If that society collapses, so does your conceptual creation of the term “high ground”. Go live in Somalia for awhile and get back to me on how well your “high ground” worked out for you.

It is these “creations” of the mind that weaken the leaders in our own party and leads to rather unhealthy behavior for this country. It leads to an outreach to a group of people who are enemies of liberty and freedom. It leads to wobbly approaches and excuse making along the lines of “we don’t want to be seen as the party of no”, even when evidence that a generic Tea Party candidate out-polls a Republican, and who screams “No” louder and more often than the Tea Parties?

Want to lose this country? Keep relying on that “high ground” and “we’re better than that” attitude. Keep cutting yourself off at the knees and limiting your rules of engagement with ephemeral creations of the mind while your opposition metaphorically spits in your face on a daily basis and strategizes circles around you because they know you are hypnotized by your feelings of moral superiority and love gazing at yourself in the mirror in admiration at what a great person you are. McCain does it on a daily basis and he has plenty of company.

Want to win? Get down in the mud where they are and fight as if your life depends on it – because it does.