Folks, many political elites scoff at Americans who were buying firearms at the beginning of Obama’s election.
that’s because they’re too stupid to see danger looming in front of them.
HR3200 is simply one of the last straws.

if you notice, HR3200 gives the IRS the ability to LEVY FINES against citizens if they don’t have “adequate” health care coverage.

wtf?? I will openly defy the government…ANY government to levy fines against me for the state of my health care coverage.
they can lie and hem and haw all they like..but the minute they attempt something that is such a blatant act of tyranny, I will advocate for armed insurrection.
I’m tired of being pushed around and by God, I’m not going to take it anymore.

And I’m a multiple gun owner and still a better than just fair to middlin’ shot, too, so I’m ready for your grandad’s solution if need be.

“there are no moderates”

You’re right, the principle of moderation went out the window along with what Vladimir Putin called “the principle of personal responsibility” — see Kowalski’s post above. When people feel no personal responsibility for what they say and do, and have no other principles to constrain them (honour, discipline, dignity, etcetera) then they feel free to be extreme as they please.

from HC Townhalls: Steny Hoyer (D-MD) edition.

(avoiding the HR3200 consequence/fact) More Govt. regulations and paperwork will DRIVE UP not reduce costs and bring us more Lawyers and Office Administrators to deal with it NOT Doctors

more and even more

This is just a shill for Single payer and always has been.

No plan will ever meet their wants and all will be rolled up into one large cluster*uck.

Eisenhour worried every second of every day in the war. He just didn’t let the worry paralyze him. Glad to have you on board the “Screw ‘em” train. Political correctness is a cancer living within the culture of this nation. And a good deal of our decline can be directly connected to it.

Sometimes a man just has to stand up and say what he thinks and tell people what the facts are, regardless if it “offends” some else.

The bad mouthing arrogant politicians of today are lucky they don’t live in my grandfather’s time. They would have suffered bloody noses at the least if they tried to push their loudmouth agendas on men like him.

The good news is that PC may be reaching its limit. People will tolerate a lot in the name of diversity, but not go broke, watch their kids suffer, or loose their nation.

Oh, they’ll try to push universal healthcare as a right, or the right thing to do, but it has not traction. That leaves simply forcing it on us. If in 2010 the system is still in place, we’ll have the chance to vote them out.

If not, well, there is always my grandad’s solution. You’d be surprised how effective it is.

I hope the Editors will look back through the archives and dig out Robert A. Hahn’s post about the Ratchet Mechanism from several years back and I hope he’ll reprise it himself in one of his classic front page tour de force posts, because it needs to be said again.

I hope Mr. Hahn will reprise that post again here, it was one of the best things that was ever written at this weblog, and it applies more than ever before at this particular moment.

You know, for a long time I was notorious on this blog and elsewhere (Caleb Howe knows) for being a miniature version of John McCain every time there was a bit of news about Republicans that could be spun negatively by the people in the press and by the Democrats themselves. I was a hand-wringer for Republican decorum who lamented Terri Schiavo, Dick Cheney and his shooting accident, and a lot of other things small and large.

Each time some event happened that I worried about liberals using against us, I sat here and whined and cried about it, and more than anything else criticized our side.

Those days are over. These are not ordinary times and we have no ordinary team of prevaricators in the Executive Branch. Joe Wilson spoke for millions of people when he stood up and said what he said, all thoughts of decorum aside. The President and his lapdogs in Congress and the press really need to understand that we’re going to continue to object to the policies of the Obama Administration vocally, on line, and with our dollars and our votes. Otherwise the Ratchet Mechanism™ that Bob Hahn so precisently wrote about on this blog is going to continue clicking left irreversably.

I find it more than ironic that Vladimir Putin himself talked about the mistakes of State control while he was in Davos. Here’s Mad Vlad Putin as free market Capitalist:

In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state’s role absolute. In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.

Nor should we turn a blind eye to the fact that the spirit of free enterprise, including the principle of personal responsibility of businesspeople, investors and shareholders for their decisions, is being eroded in the last few months. There is no reason to believe that we can achieve better results by shifting responsibility onto the state.

And yet that is precisely what the Obama Administration is trying to do.

One of our State Reps. standing up during Obama’s Biggest Snowjob and calling it out as such should be something this blog is standing up and cheering. There should be more of it, not less. The people in Congress who stand up to this President should be rewarded generously, not rebuked or chastised.

The government gets to set the rules, change it as it sees fit, and never has to score points (make money) to win the game.

The result? All the other players take their ball and go home (or rather, leave the marketplace).