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Well, of COURSE I’d post this up – we took part of our name (“Grok”) from his Stranger in a Strange Land opus:

As one drives through the bushveldt of East Africa it is easy to spot herds of baboons grazing on the ground. But not by looking at the ground. Instead you look up and spot the lookout, an adult male posted on a limb of a tree where he has a clear view all around him – which is why you can spot him; he has to be where he can see a leopard in time to give the alarm. On the ground a leopard can catch a baboon… but if a baboon is warned in time to reach the trees, he can out-climb a leopard. The lookout is a young male assigned to that duty and there he will stay, until the bull of the herd sends up another male to relieve him. Keep your eye on that baboon; we’ll be back to him.

Today, in the United States, it is popular among self-styled ‘intellectuals’ to sneer at patriotism. They seem to think…

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Or protecting her political posterior? And flushing her campaign chest while flushing the whole idea of limited government?  After all, if Obamacare was the biggest Govt grab in the healthcare market, the out of control EPA’s Clean Power Act (“don’t breath – you’ll exhale CO2”) is worse – under the guise of Global Warming and CO2 control, the EPA is really out to take control of the energy sector just as they are transforming the relationship of patients & doctors to be under the thumb of bureaucrats thousands of miles away.

This is the vision of American that Kelly Ayotte is embracing – an all powerful Executive Branch?  She already caved on Congress’ Congressional power of the Purse (“We CAN’T shut down the Feds – I’ll have a fainting spell!”) and now she is all willing, under the guise of “working across the aisle”.

Well listen, Kelly, throwing away your Constitutional responsibility is not “bipartisanship” nor “reaching across the aisle” – this is an abdication of your responsibility to MAKE LAW – NOT what we sent you to DC to do.  Instead, with your support, you have nodded your support to the Progressive end state – rule by the Administrative State.  Congrats – you have edged that next incremental step to making Congress that much more irrelevant.  This is not, as you are wont to say “Common Sense” – this is just you trying to copy Scott Brown.  How’d that work out for him, eh?

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It isn’t just the Obama IRS that has been shafting conservatives when seeking non-profit status (and then the Obama DOJ now clearing Lois Lerner of any wrong doing – blaming it on incompetent management), or the Obama Labor department going after large Republican donor / entrepreneurs for “labor violations” or the FEC now targeting conservative advocacy groups to force them to name their donors, and now seemingly seeking retribution against Hobby Lobby who embarrassed the Obama Admin at the Supreme Court on the soul crushing abortifacient HHS mandate of Obamacare.

No, not just the present Administration – it’s also Establishment Republicans who have also decided that conservatives should not be allowed to break up their love fest with power.  I ran across this short list – a good way to keep reminding ourselves that while Republicans like Kelly Ayotte are all over “bipartisanship across the aisle” (re: working with Jeanne Shaheen among others), they hardly consider their fellow Republicans as part of the club (like Kelly Ayotte screaming at/about Ted Cruz standing up for principles).  A friendly reminder as the primary approaches:

12 Times the GOP Establishment Kicked the Conservative Base in the Teeth

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After reading, and seeing confirmed, that Paul Ryan (candidate for US Speaker of the House) is an open borders advocate, this poem by Berthold Brecht pretty much says it all (emphasis mine)

After the uprising of the 17th of June
The Secretary of the Writers’ Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?

(H/T: The Daily Brief)  The Brits have already tried this – and are declaring it a failure as they are losing their country.  We see this in Europe – and my jaw dropped when Germany’s Prime Minister, Angela Merkel, openly embraced the open borders immigration for her country with the Muslim invasion now hitting Europe with words “It will change Germany”.  Of COURSE

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Many have already said this but it bears saying again: America is turning itself into a nation from one of being of self-starters, rugged individuals, willing to take risks, looking to the future, and self-responsible citizens to being victims that demand that others care for them.  Instead of picking one’s self up after getting knocked down, this victim class demands that Government exact retribution of their enemies be they real or imaginary.  Instead of logic and grounded evidence, arbitrarily “connected” dots, emotions, and Marxist inspired class warfare is employed.

In all cases, these victims make themselves helpless sheeple who exude helplessness and an inability to take care of themselves.  This brings smiles and joy to those that are naturally born wolves – quite happy to oblige these clueless ones of what they are doing to themselves as well as to society.  In the first, these wolves will eat them, as Franklin correctly observes – what natural predator cannot resist prey that simply goes belly up for some insignificant reason (especially imagined ones).  And as one can imagine, even more wolves have been created – after all, when there is a vacuum of courage, there will arise those that will stream in to fill it.

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And yet we see THREE such Socialists running (again, counting the one already in the Oval Office) to rule this county that perports to be one where the Individual is supposed to be valued over Government.  Reformatted, emphasis mine:

“Beginning in the late nineteenth century, and especially after 1930 in the United States, the term liberalism came to be associated with a very different emphasis, particularly in economic policy. It came to be associated with a readiness to rely primarily on the state rather than on private voluntary arrangements to achieve objectives regarded as desirable.

During that same time period, we saw the rise of the Industrial Age – the Age of the Machine.  Also, we saw the rise of Socialism and Communism – a neo-view of a Monarchist / Royalty control of Society. No, no crowns, scepters, or flowing robes, but make no mistake, the end goal is the same – for The State must necessarily push Individuals aside and The State must necessarily be controlled by a few at the top of that State.

  The catchwords became welfare and equality rather than freedom.

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With the advent of the US House Republicans caving into Paul Ryan’s demands in order to just get a new Speaker to replace John Boehner

Sidenote: why is it that Republicans hate to fight ANYone for principles?

Sidenote: except, of course, when it is Establishment fight TEA Party folks – then it seems the fight is more determined than against Democrats

this may be a bit passe, but still bears note.  What if a renegade left-of-center Republican (or just Establishment trying to deny conservatives a seat at the table?) did exact that – a “compromise” with those that hate limited government, self-responsibility principles? (Emphasis mine, reformatted):

If Republicans struggle in the coming weeks to unite around a candidate to become the next speaker of the House, some GOP lawmakers are warning that Democrats may be required to elect the winner. Though many Republicans would consider that to be a nightmare scenario, some centrists view it as a political necessity if a group of conservatives choose to reject the majority’s choice for speaker.

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