His popularity polls have fallen drastically from the lofty 70% he experienced right after his Inauguration to 49% only six months into his Presidency. He went from the heights of having the ability to force through the single largest spending bill in American history that to date has only stimulated his fellow liberals with glee, to the status of almost a lame duck President who is having to plead with his own party to get the center piece of his socialist agenda, the health care bill, to even make it out of committee for a vote.
In the six months which have passed since Obama took office Americans have watched in shock as soclialistic ideals have been forced down our throats, spending and deficits have sky rocketed to heights that surpass any previous administration, in fact more than all previous administrations combined. We witnessed the supposed representative of our country use every opportunity when before a foreign audience to apologize for American greatness and sell us out for personal popularity with foreign leaders.
We have watched as Obama has tried to make terrorism a crime again rather than an act of war even eliminating terrorism as a description of the despicable acts perpetrated by this evil to the world. He has claimed that HIS objective in the war against this evil in not victory. A word and goal he is obviously afraid of. Which distances him from those who he Constitutionally commands, since every soldier who is daily defending freedom fighting for this country has as his or her objective TOTAL and COMPLETE victory over our enemies.
Following his latest apology tour overseas Obama returned home and arrogantly took his favorite position in front of the cameras behind his beloved TelePrompter and told the American people that he was going to once again force socialism down our throats whether we liked it or not through his health care take over. This time before August first. Finally the American people have said enough is enough and fortunately there are still many in Congress that are more interested in their political hides than kissing the back side of a President and as a result the center piece of Obama’s agenda is in danger of failing.
This now places our country on the brink of the Obama abyss and we are facing a turning point in preventing his march to socialism from becoming reality in our country. We also are facing a dilemma which has plagued conservative for years in the political arena. We have a history of winning battles but failing to continue to fight until we win the war.
Let me explain by using an example of a victory achieved during the Bush administration. In 2007 Congress and the President were pushing a bill that would essentially provide amnesty for the 12 to 20 million illegal aliens who infest our Nation. In fact President Bush was asked by a reporter about the opposition to the bill and told that reporter that he was so confident that it would pass that she should, “watch in two weeks when I sign it.”
The anger and disgust for the bill among the American people flooded the White House and Congress to the point that within that two week time frame the bill not only fell to defeat but the Senate could not even garner enough votes to get the bill to the floor for a vote. We prevailed, Washington lost and the true authority of this country won the victory as the voice of the people was heard.
Then we did as we conservative as a whole always do. While a hand full continued the fight most went back into obscurity and those in Washington did as they always do and went back to ignoring the people. Before we knew what was happening our combined silence allowed the unthinkable to take place and Barack Obama became the 44th President of The United States. Our combined consciousness refused to believe that he would do what he said he would during his campaign and as he began his quest for socialism we watched in horror as he spent us into near bankruptcy and insulted our Nation with his rhetoric.
Finally after months of this Obama practice Americans woke up and his numbers came crashing down and once again we are facing a victory in defeating the health care bill. So what do we do ? Do we do as we have in the past and push until this bill that will destroy the best health care system the world, falls into oblivion and then drift back into the shadows allowing Obama to rise and continue his march to socialism ? Or do we stand and fight for our country and freedom until the war is over.
Liberals are relentless. They will suffer defeat and rather than stopping to lick their wounds, they quickly being the campaign for the next battle and before anyone realizes what is happening they spin their recent loss into a perceived victory and while we shake our heads wondering what has happened their deceptive PR campaign has Americans who pay little or no attention believing that liberals have all the answers and government will help their plight.
Our collective voices have brought Obama’s numbers down, caused the Congress to pause in the march to socialism and the passing of the health care take over. The August recess is nearly upon us. The Senate will not do anything until at least September. The House may force through something before August but even that is highly questionable.
So we find ourselves on the brink of the Obama abyss and facing the dilemma we have always faced when the liberal agenda is being forced down our throats. Do we fight until we win this battle and then sit back on out laurels ? Or do we garner this victory into a strategy for defeating the entire agenda and force Congress to tie the hands of Obama and continue to listen to the authority of the American people.
We cannot stop the pressure. We must continue as a collective of angry Americans to force Washington to listen. This delay in the health care vote is only temporary. During the August recess it is our duty to continue the pressure until those in Congress fear the people to the point that when they return in September they will consider it political suicide to even talk of the health care bill much less vote for it.
Then we move to keeping the pressure on for Cap and Trade, deficit spending, closing Gitmo, defeating terrorism, and the rest of the Obama agenda. We continue to pressure so that Obama himself will do as he has done in the last few weeks and show who and what he truly is which is why his numbers are crashing and his coat tails have dried up causing the Congress to listen to the people rather than Obama.
If we believe in freedom we will continue the fight. If we believe in liberty we will continue the fight. If we believe in the America of our fore fathers we will continue the fight. If we believe that Obama is taking this Nation in the wrong direction we will continue the fight. Now more than any other time in our history we cannot sit back on our laurels and allow Washington to prevail.
We can only prevent falling into the Obama abyss by fighting his agenda with our opposition to each and every aspect of it as he tries to push it through. If we do not keep the pressure on and his numbers start to rise as he puts on the face of the man of the people like he did during his campaign, Congress will once again stop listening to us and grasp onto his popularity coat tails and before we know what has happened his agenda will pass and we will find ourselves in the abyss.
The momentum is ours and it is up to us to keep that momentum. We must be as relentless for our freedoms as liberals are in trying to destroy them. In fact if we are to achieve victory for us and the generations that follow we must be even more relentless then liberals. We must take the principled stand for our Nation so that future generations can experience the liberties and freedoms our Founders fought for and gave birth to through our Constitution. We must fight and we must prevail.
We must take to heart the lesson stated by Winston Churchill to achieve complete victory for the sake of freedom, ” Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never–in nothing, great or small, large or petty–never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
Ken Taylor The Liberal Lie, The Conservative Truth
Steve Maley
Neil Stevens
Daniel Horowitz
amen KT - nt
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Sunday, July 26th at 10:12AM EST (link)Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
awesome diary Ken! highly recommended
pilgrim (Diary) Sunday, July 26th at 10:29AM EST (link)One important thing to remember when we fight is that we do not have to take the position that Obama and all of his minions in the media and government are describing that we take. They make a straw man argument that the country has only two choices-the Obama plan or do nothing. Every time the opportunity presents itself we need to smack down this lie.
Pilgrim- I hope the Republicans
Scope (Diary) Sunday, July 26th at 12:43PM EST (link)do come out with a more rational Healthcare reform bill. They have been promising it for awhile now. It’s time to walk the walk. If we don’t have an alternative plan, then we deserve the Obama tactics of “I won” and it’s my way or no way.
Take off your shoes Scope
mbecker908 (Diary) Sunday, July 26th at 1:25PM EST (link)so you can do the math.
1. Obama won.
2. The Dems have 60 seats in the Senate and can get any piece of legislation they have the discipline to shove through.
3. The Dems hold a solid majority in the House and, like the Senate, can pass any piece of legislation they decide to.
At this point we don’t need a “more rational Healthcare reform bill”, and it would likely be VERY counterproductive because our leadership would likely feel compelled to do something that involves more regulation and more “free” stuff.
What we NEED is to point out that what’s being proposed is worse than what we’ve got and stop the “reform” cold. This is vital because what really should happen is for less government interference across the board – including Medicare – and that won’t happen with the current regime in place. So, our best option is simply killing the beast.
people should be able to count and talk at the same time
pilgrim (Diary) Sunday, July 26th at 1:34PM EST (link)I agree with your counting up the votes. I just don’t think that every single blessed time Obama or one of his puppets says that the choice is only between his plan and keeping everything in the status quo in place we should just shut up and accept that assertion. There is not going to be any good reform legislation from anything Obama is trying to ram through. But, that is not the same as saying that we never ever want to tweak the current system.
I didn't say we should "shut up".
mbecker908 (Diary) Sunday, July 26th at 1:39PM EST (link)We certainly should NOT do that.
As far as “tweaking” the current system, do you actually think any conservative principles will be upheld given who the tweakers will be?
A fundamental rule of thumb, and especially when the deck is stacked as it currently is, is that any change will be bad. I’d be happy to entertain a good outcome from any tweaking done at any time the Ds held the WH, Senate and House.
Yeah, I'm with becker on this one. There's no
janis (Diary) Sunday, July 26th at 1:44PM EST (link)upside in just “tweaking” a Dem proposal. There’s plenty of upside in seeing it crash and burn. Along with the careers of champion tweakers such as Lamar Alexander. I’m hoping that 2008 was my last time for having to hold my nose and vote for the man.
There's NEVER an upside to bargaining off the other guy's proposal.
Achance (Diary) Sunday, July 26th at 1:49PM EST (link)In labor negotiations, I always figured I’d won when I got them on my piece of paper.
In Vino Veritas
Bingo Art. nt
mbecker908 (Diary) Sunday, July 26th at 1:53PM EST (link)I completely agree with you
pilgrim (Diary) Sunday, July 26th at 2:00PM EST (link)Perhaps I did not make myself clear. I just said that it is not a good idea to let your opponent define what your position is. Right now they are asserting that we never ever want to make any changes to the current system. We should come back to that argument and say that we do not want to destroy the current system which is what is currently being proposed.
And that statement works just fine for me, pil. nt
mbecker908 (Diary) Sunday, July 26th at 2:43PM EST (link)I agree with you, pilgrim. A guy I got into a
janis (Diary) Sunday, July 26th at 1:40PM EST (link)discussion with at WalMart kept harping on the “fact” that the R’s never had an alternative plan for health care or insurance reform. That’s not true, as they have made many recommendations or proposals, but there was no convincing the guy. Since I was looking for help with how to connect a second TV to the digital antennae we had, I wasn’t of a mind to smack him around too much until I saw whether or not his advice would work.
Although I could have pointed out to him that his extra 80 pounds or so of weight would make him somewhere at the top of the list for “Bad lifestyle choices so let him die” on the Obama plan.
A couple of points janis.
mbecker908 (Diary) Sunday, July 26th at 1:49PM EST (link)1. Do not throw pearls before swine. The willfully ignorant are that way for a reason.
2. Feel free to give people like “the guy” my email address. I’ll be happy to point out that while his fat head causes obvious problems in the area of rational thought, his fat ass will – in fact – kill him. And I would consider that to be simply an application of evolution.
3. If you need help hooking up audio/video gear email me. It’s a good bet I know a lot more than he does. And if I don’t, the guys at CNET do.
Thanks for the offer, becker. The discussion
janis (Diary) Sunday, July 26th at 2:16PM EST (link)with the guy started just by an offhand remark I made about how the gov. had screwed up the digital transition and this was supposed to make us trust them with health care? Wrong guy to say it to. He was another true believer type who proudly boasted of Obama’s independent attitude and take charge behavior. As proof of both those things, he brought up the ” Obama caught the fly” episode. He claimed that other presidents would have waited to have some other person catch the fly for him.
As I was walking away, I mentioned that him catching the fly didn’t impress me, but he did catch my attention when he ate the thing on camera. Fortunately, I refrained from pointing out why flies usually show up in the first place and what they like to hang around. Also fortunately, the splitter and coax cable I bought that day have worked fairly well. The only problem is that splitting the signal has made a couple of channels not come in very well. Do I need an amplifying booster of some sort?
Translating Washingtonian into English: "Reform" = Sewage
David123 (Diary) Sunday, July 26th at 1:35PM EST (link)So-called immigration “reform” – really immigration sewage, making the problems worse.
So-called campaign finance “reform” – really campaign finance sewage, making the problems worse.
So-called healthcare “reform” – really healthcare sewage, making the problems worse.
I’ve noticed a pattern here.
David123
David123! Please post the name of the stuff you
mbecker908 (Diary) Sunday, July 26th at 1:41PM EST (link)use to clean your glasses along with the web address where it can be purchased.
Excellent points! Multiple 908Kudos. And in less than 100 words.
mbecker- I am very aware that Obama Won
Scope (Diary) Sunday, July 26th at 2:32PM EST (link)as he reminds us of that frequently. I am also aware that the Democrat majorities in the House and Senate can Rham through anything they want. I totally agree with you that the current crop of R’s in both houses can screw up a free lunch, if there is such a thing. I believe that the Healthcare Reform debate has the legs that it does because not only the Democrats/Liberals know that the spiralling costs of Insurance premiums, the issues with preexisting conditions, the multitude of unnecessary tests performed so doctors don’t get sued, and the outreageous costs for malpractice insurance are all igniting the fire. Those opposed to Obamacare are doing the job you have promoted in your comment. They are pointing to the facts of costs, increased taxes, the loss of freedoms, an ever growing and overreaching governemnt, and the fact that the number of uninsured has been dishonest at best and on and on.
The Liberals have spun the R’s as the party of no. I actually wish that were true. I see your point, and agree that we don’t need to float an alternative plan that is just a little better than the Libs plan, and, especially if it is written by the Hatches, McCains, Snowes or Collinses. Can you agree that those like the DeMint’s can and should talk loudly and frequently about ideas such as Tort Reform, optional Health Savings accounts with tax benefits, giving Health Insurance companies the ability to operate country wide rather than just in their states, and even promoting the idea that Wal Mart had in opening Health Clinics attached to their stores for non-emergency services, and charging Wal Mart prices. At least people see more than just NO.
Thanks for replying mbecker, I appreciate your ideas and opinions. And, just so you don’t think I’m trying to be your best bud, I’ll use an mbecker curse word- Palin.
Pilgrim- I hope the Republicans
Scope (Diary) Sunday, July 26th at 12:43PM EST (link)do come out with a more rational Healthcare reform bill. They have been promising it for awhile now. It’s time to walk the walk. If we don’t have an alternative plan, then we deserve the Obama tactics of “I won” and it’s my way or no way.
Excellent diary Ken
Scope (Diary) Sunday, July 26th at 12:37PM EST (link)One thing I would say, is that in August we need to not only utilize that time against Obamacare, but, against Cap and Trade also, and just as loudly. It seems that it is on the back burner right now, as most talk is about the Healthcare bill. The House already passed their version of the Cap and Trade bill, and, it will only take the Senate to make this law. The Democrats operate by stealth, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see them take up the Cap and Trade bill in the Senate, even before the Socialized Healthcare crap. I understand that the Senate is unlikely to gain the votes to pass Cap and Trade, but, we must stay vigilant on that issue as well. We are Republicans, and we can walk and chew gum at the same time. Let’s ramp up our efforts and prove that we can also juggle as well as chewing gum and walking. I’m in, and doing my part in my little corner of the world.
555555 - very good post.
David_Rasbold (Diary) Sunday, July 26th at 12:57PM EST (link)Simultaneous responsibility for base: keep pressure on own party, as well as Obama and his lib supporters in congress.
Time to realize and embrace that our jobs will never be done. This is a never ending responsibility for those that love freedom and liberty. We conservatives can never, ever go back to the way we used to be involved – only in spurts.