In disparaging the Founding Geniuses' vision of limited government that would protect individual liberties, Obama, Reid & Pelosi are truly out to transform America into a socialist state in which Government will intrude, by law & regulation, into every nook & cranny of our individual lives. Obamacare will turn every citizen from being free into merely a client of the State - forcing a dependence upon Government that is unneeded, unwarranted, & undesired. We are the frog; Obamacare Socialism is the slowly boiling water of a tyrannical State. It IS time to melt phone systems & clog up email servers to let our representatives know that we are in the battle, as Old Ben warned, to keep our Republic. Barry, Harry, & Nancy are trying to make "Determined Weakness" a reality. Numbers for Congress: 877-762-8762 202-224-3121 202-225-3121.
For NH Readers: Carol Shea-Nancy's BFF-Porter DC: (202) 225-5456 Manchester: (603) 641-9536 email form
]]>Paul Hodes: DC: (202) 225-5206 Concord: (603) 223-9814 email form
Progressivism is incremental socialism. You know what that means?
Yeah, that's right. Satisfying every "gimme" person until there's no money anywhere...think I'm kidding? Where's that $100 Trillion owed for S.S & Medicare coming from? Go ahead - ask that "proud" Progressive and watch them squirm....
Full Disclosure: Yes, AJS has taken out ads on the 'Grok - just like PETA did once. After all, we are capitalists in heart and spirit (although I will admit, having the PETA ad allowed us a few more jokes than normal...and paid for a GREAT Prime Rib dinner for me)
To be sure, it isn't just Democrats that steal their taxpayers money - Repubs have joined in the "stealfest" as a way of political life. However, it is this one, Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA) effectively warns us, like any addict, "we'll keep doing this until you stop us!".
(H/T: Michelle)
Bloggers Poll: Don't Follow the Leaders
Left and Right Continue To See A Setback For Senate Democrats in November
National Journal has their latest poll where Right-side and Left-side bloggers are polled on various issues. This week, Left and right partisans are precisely opposed on the president's re-election chances. And while left-leaners see health care reform passing, right-leaners see the bill's chances as little better than 50-50.
But there's one thing both groups can agree on: how little they like their national party chairmen.
As always, click on over to see all the comments (although, being in NH, I'm singling out the NH based ones here):
1. On a scale of 0 to 10, what's the likelihood that Congress will pass health care reform?
Right: 5.6
Left: 7.8
2. Is {Michael Steele | Tim Kaine} an asset or a liability as {RNC | DNC} chairman?
Right: (Michael Steele, RNC)Asset: 31.3% Liability: 68.8%Left: (Tim Kaine, DNC)Asset: 30.8% Liability: 69.2%
Me: 5.0
Comment:
Do the Dems have the chutzpah to go against a specific Constitutional clause to advance the Progressive (re:incremental socialism) and at a heavy political cost? This is a tipping point against the Founders' vision and for European style socialism - do the Dems want to be known for making America into Europe West?
2. Is Michael Steele an asset or a liability as RNC chairman?
Me: Liability
Too often, it is about Michael Steele and not about traditional Republican ideals or the platform.
Normally, I don't post the comments and asked that for the non-NH based comments that you would click through. However, this week I think that the Dems were much funnier in describing their Chair than the Repubs:
"What he knows about strategy would fill a shot glass." Susie Madrak, Suburban Guerrilla
"Yeah, I checked 'liability,' but Kaine could be an asset... you know, the way a thick, trashy novel can also be used as a doorstop." Gregg Levine, Firedoglake
Give me liberty, or give me dea ... lol just kidding. Give me entitlements
-- CalebHowe
(H/T: RightWingNews)
It just might be that time.
The free market has produced faster, cheaper, more reliable, and more service oriented alternatives, all competing aggressively for market share and creating significantly more jobs and opportunities than will be lost by the global giant that was once Blockbuster. And if Blockbuster can’t reconcile its problems with debt holders and is no more, there will be plenty of scavengers to pick up the pieces, to create new growth from the remains. But then that is what open markets do. They encourage people with little more than an idea and some energy to encourage the decline of lumbering goliaths for the mutual benefit of the consumer and the industry. It’s a process liberals bemoan, one that they work tirelessly to subvert, and since January 2009 have doubled down on.
]]> There will be no bail out of Blockbuster, probably because they don’t have the right kind of high powered lobbyists in Washington working to protect the movie rental industry. There are no fundraisers or parties with big names schmoozing up Senators and their wives to convince them of the economic impact of shuttering retail locations and putting all those folks out of work during a restructuring. There’s no public sector union employee jobs at stake, no UAW or SEIU ‘families’ will be affected—unless they just happened to get all their movie and game rentals from a Blockbuster that was once near them.And this is as it should be. Efficient and innovative giants and collectives survive, sometimes to become corporatist whores who then try to use government to wipe out their competitors or gain an unfair advantage. (GE, WAL-MART, AHIP, AARP, PhRMA and so on) But in an actual open market, that purchased advantage is still not enough to keep free thinking individuals from carving out a corner of the market for themselves by offer a better product or service. At least for a little while longer.
The government has already decided who the winners and losers should be in the auto industry, banking, energy, insurance, and education. And each of these markets will –in coming years--begin to suffer the pangs of control which inevitably affect quality and availability. There will be an observable decline in the ability of consumers to find alternatives. Price fixing will impact quality. Bureaucracy will impede access. And in the not too distant future—the one imagined by liberal planners with the “Hi My Name Is Utopia” sticker affixed crookedly to its lapel—the ‘winners’ chosen by the government today will be like the large inefficient Blockbusters of tomorrow except that there will be no mechanism for its improvement or replacement. Changing government was never supposed to be easy, which is why after you turn it into something bad, its twice as hard to turn back. So with no engine of renewal, no path for creative destruction, the innovative engine that was once America will die at the hands of Barack Obama and everyone who was too stupid or too ignorant to see the danger the liberal agenda presents to real liberty.
Governments cannot create liberty, or choice, or freedom, they can only take it away. It is a lesson you can only learn from history. And those who refuse to learn it are left with even fewer choices if or when they or their ancestors, decide they want it back.
Cross Posted From NH Insider
]]>Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance.
-Woodrow Wilson, President
I find my self in complete agree with the above, but find it incongruent that it passes from the first national level politician that proudly wore the label "Progressive". That movement, whose latest uber-proponent, is Barack Obama, believes not in the definition of liberty as espoused by the Founding Fathers but in a redefinition of that term as something given to the masses from a government composed of elites governing from the heights of an "enlightened" sense of a rational Science of Politics that would make all those silly decisions of government for us.
In this, President Wilson may well have been describing the TEA Party movement, as these "subjects" are now rebelling from that self same Progressive movement's attempts to "rule for us".
More info as to where this data / poll came from:
]]>Today, the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest Advance (CMPI-A), in partnership with Pajamas Media, is releasing national survey data on Americans’ views of the proposed health care reform legislation before Congress...GfK Roper completed 1,000 interviews with a nationally-representative sample of Americans ages 18 years old and over. The interviews were conducted between March 12 and March 14, 2010. The average margin of error for the total sample is ± 3 percentage points.
When: Thursday, March 18
Time: 4pm
Where: Manchester, NH - City Hall Plaza
Following his fiery speech in Rochester last night, former U.S. Senator Gordon Humphrey has called upon all Tea Party patriots and concerned citizens to join him in an emergency rally at the Manchester City Hall Plaza on, Thursday, Mar 18 at 4:00 PM. The purpose of tomorrow's rally in Manchester is to protest the attempt by left wing radicals in the Obama Administration and the Congress to take over the nations entire system.
The main attraction will be the "riding of Congress out of town on a rail." "We've gotten hold of a mannequin and dressed him like a Member of Congress -- well let's call him a dummy, since he looks like a Congressman," said Andrew Hemingway, an assistant to Senator Humphrey.
Last night at tumultuous Tea Party rally in Rochester, in a speech described by Foster's Daily Democrat as "fiery," Senator Humphrey accused the President of lying about the true cost of Obama care and lying about preserving choice of doctors. "The far left is trying to ram down our throats a massive new federal bureaucracy that will run up trillions of dollars in deficits and destroy the finest health care delivery system in the world, subjecting us all to rationing of health care, long waiting lists, and third-rate medicine," Humphrey says.
"The Tea Party movement has rallied public opinion across the nation, but some members of Congress still refuse to listen. Government that ignores the majority is a government of thugs and tyrants,," Humphrey says. "We need to go all out in the next few days to force Reid and Pelosi to back down. To that end, I implore every last concerned citizen to rally with us at the Manchester City Hall Plaza tomorrow. Following remarks, we'll mount up the dummy on a rail and ride him out of town, treating him to the same contempt with which our forbears treated the despised agents of the tyrant King George!"
Riding Congress out of town on a rail will make great television footage that can help swing the last needed votes in Washington. Be a part of history. Join us at Manchester City Hall Plaza, today, Thursday, March 18, at 4:00 PM.
If you have any "Don't Tread on Me Flags" or appropriate signs or banners, other Tea Party paraphernalia, or colonial costuming, bring 'em or wear 'em!
(H/T: Phyllis)
Here's their single largest problem (from a post at CNSNews on what the debt is going to do to the economy as a whole):
Ryan pointed out that the Government Accountability Office recently reported that the federal government already faces a “fiscal gap” of $76 trillion, meaning that over the next 75 years the cost of the benefits promised in federal entitlement programs exceeds the tax revenues expected to pay for those benefits by that amount. That works out to almost $250,000 for every single American and about $650,000 for every American household.
And when you question them on this, when you are unrelentingly focused on getting the question answered "and who is going to pay for all this?", Progressives have no answer. Oh sure, they prevaricate that the rich will pay for it (where the top 1% already pay 40% of all income taxes even as they only earn the 22% of the income) - even as that $76 Trillion works out to be every single penny of the entire nation's GDP (approx $14 Trillion/yr) for 5.4 years.
That ain't (and CAN'T) happen - you can tax 100% of everything away from everyone and every business and those GOVERNMENT processes (made by both clueless and power-greedy politicians) and the shortfall still can't be made up. EVAH!
Once again, what the Progressives are pitching for an end game (and make no mistake - it is complete socialism via Government control (if not direct ownership) of society) will come to a complete fall off the cliff.
Ask them this question: what are you going to say to all those people YOU have made dependent on government for their very being when the money runs out?
My take? Weaning people off government dependence is the answer and returning to what de Toqueville called America's best feature: self-responsibility and individualism. Too many things become politicized once government has touched anything and all Government money comes with strings.
The example has already been set forth: are you a Katrina victim or a Mid-West flooding survivor? self-reliance is the key - which do you choose to be? What is it that you want your family to learn?
]]>President George W. Bush still holds the record for the most debt run up on his watch: $4.9 trillion. But it took him over four years to rack up the first two trillion dollars in debt.
It has taken Mr. Obama 421 days.
When the money runs out, the end result is Banana Republic status for the USA. Obama is certainly #1 in leading the way....
]]>Note: If Hodes and Shea-Porter get the boot in November, their pensions and Health Care won’t have vested. No taxpayer-dollars-for-life if you have not put in at least five years of service in congress. If that's not an incentive what is?
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You claim you have not heard us. "We The People" have assembled across America resisting your efforts to subvert our constitution and undermine our liberty. You claim you have not seen us.
Since you have not acknowledged our message, let us here present it once more for if, as President Wilson said, a leader's ear must ring with the voices of the people, the time has come.
Our greatest treasure is freedom - the absence of restraints on our ability to think and to act. The corollary of freedom is individual responsibility. We believe in the power of the individual.
A few years ago, President Bush said, "History moves toward freedom because the desire for freedom is written in every human heart." Let us add that we will preserve it only as long as devotion to freedom is expressed in the heart of our actions.
When President Lincoln dedicated Gettysburg National Cemetery he declared, "It is for us the living...to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus so nobly advanced." That unfinished cause for which our soldiers willingly go to battle and for which so many have given their lives is a free United States of America. It has been nearly one hundred fifty years and the work President Lincoln spoke of is not finished. In fact, that work will never be finished.
Freedom is the capacity for self-determination. It is not an entity but a condition, and conditions change. Freedom can expand, yet so can it contract. You promised change when you took office, Mr. President, but subjugation is not change we wanted or will accept.
You have expanded government, violated our constitution, confounded laws, seized private industry, destroyed jobs, perverted our economy, curtailed free speech, corrupted our currency, weakened our national security, and endangered our sovereignty. By compromising our nation's cultural, legal, and economic institutions, you are ensuring that our children will never achieve the same quality of life as we enjoy today. Through generational theft you are robbing the unborn of opportunity.
This is not acceptable. Not in America. We did not become a strong nation through hope but rather through self-reliance.
No one better understands the relationship between individual achievement,dignity and strength than our armed forces. Through every war, our soldiers, have held this nation's destiny in their hands. They have not failed us. They cherish freedom enough that they are willing to die for it. Our duty to them and to ourselves is to treasure freedom enough to live up to it.
We accept the challenge, Mr. President.
That is why we are assembling across the land to deliver our message to you as often and in every way we can. Dismiss us at your political peril.
Our great nation is a Republic. We will not accept tyranny under any guise. Your policy to redistribute the fruits of our labor is Statism and will not be tolerated. By our honor, Mr. President, we vow forever to resist coercive government in America. Patriots will not stand silent as you attempt to dismantle the greatest nation on earth. "We The People" will defend our liberty, we will protect our beloved country and America's exceptionalism will prevail.
God Bless the United States of America!
Sincerely,
"We The People"