Posted on 01/30/2009 3:13:15 AM PST by flitton
"Include me out!" Sam Goldwyn's dictum was the message sent by all 177 Republican congressmen to Barack Obama when they voted against his so-called stimulus package. The GOP got this one right, for two reasons. The first is that the Republicans have avoided the taint of complicity. When this Raw Deal goes belly-up, they can look their constituents in the eye and remind them: "We voted against it."
It was also crucially important to say "No" to Obama - so few people do these days. The royal visit with which the Man of Destiny honoured his congressional opponents, in an effort to coax them into complicity without making concessions, showed how badly he wanted this big present to himself wrapped in a bi-partisan ribbon. It is a useful rule of thumb for Republicans that anything Obama wants that they have the power to deny, should be denied.
To see the greatest pluralist democracy on earth being herded by its media into a cultish adoration of a man who is determinedly converting it into the successor state of the Soviet Union is thoroughly alarming. As America goes, so goes the world. In that sense, the battered Republican Party is fighting for all of us across the globe who reject socialism. Obama wanted Republican support because totalitarians cannot brook opposition: it offends them morally and even aesthetically.
It is the GOP's responsibility to deny him the one-party state he seeks in the name of consensus. A properly ordered congress would display the unanimity of the Supreme Soviet. Freeborn American citizens, thanks to their media, are as wary of voicing public dissent from the Obama cult as people were of being the first to stop applauding Stalin during one of his 10-minute ovations.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
Yes! Even if we have little to impact on the legislation, starting to say "No" right now - and continuing to say it until the Great Leader is out of office - may save our country.
I’d bet ninety percent of The Great Spreader’s adoring masses have no clue as to what’s going on. I’m sure if they’re thinking anything it’s whatever The Grand Distributor wants, he must be allowed to have.
Bingo....they all mimick the MSM these days: “Why won’t you give him a chance?” They’ll be using that line for years to come.
Well it has taken the Republicans how many years to show some back bone. The Republican Party had better all its ducks in a row if any of them wont to stay in office because of one I am tired of them doing nothing. I am from North Carolina and we all ready have sent one of ours home. Mr. Burr knows better and he should be one leading the way in Washington. I see very little of him on c-span so he needs to get a move on. We are looking!
The last paragaph sends chills down my spine. Why is it that the foreign media seems to get it, but ours are still experiencing the big “O”.....
That’s not a program I’ve seen: who are those idiotic hosts?
Maybe because the foreign media includes both supporters and opponents, while the MSM in the US is mostly composed of active collaborators who want to hide the real Obama in order to push through a liberal agenda.
I always wonder how it is that the Dems have rule changes, obscure parliamentary procedures, scottish law and dirty tricks and the Repubs just sit and whine that they are being bullied? Dust off the house rules and find the loopholes you scrotumless lawyers!
Ah jeez, wrong thread. Great column, btw.
You’re right, of course. For a moment I forgot about our media being an auxilliary to the DNC.
I think it’s because for many of them the effects of war and oppression are still very visible. They can travel to countries very easily where they can see the effects the Soviet Union had on the people. They are not so removed from these things, and their parents and elders have passed on the lessons to their children... Here in the U.S. we’ve never faced first hand the type of oppression that they have seen over the centuries in Europe. Well, that’s my theory anyway...
I think most of America is destined to learn these lessons “the hard way”. Think of it as ‘tough love’. While it really stinks for the rest of us, it’s sorely needed by the Obots who basically elected a messiah and in whom they have put ALL their hope and desires. It’s scary, really...
I could list all the plans Obama has for this country right now, plans that would freak everyone out if put all in one list, but plans that have all been posted here at FR over the last few weeks... Obama is definitely pushing for some type of dictatorship, and NOT a Constitutional Republic any longer. Heck there is even talk of changing the Military Oath to be loyal to the PRESIDENT and not the CONSTITUTION! (I’m waiting for a reference/link from another Freeper on that one, but it’s frightening if true).
I don’t know if we have enough power in Washington to stop Obama, but we had better not “go quietly into that dark night” of oppression. If we don’t speak up, we won’t have the chance to disagree pretty soon, IMHO.
Thanks for posting this... It helps to know there are SOME out there who are still seeing things clearly — even if they are “across the pond”.
Excellent. This piece should be printed up by the droves and dropped out of airplanes nationwide.
I have no problems with Republicans supporting Obama when he makes sense, but this bill is a boondoggle.
It’s a mish mash of pork, Green spending, and just crazy ideas that are ridiculous. Add to it the fact that it’s just too damned much money to lay out there without strict surpervision by honest men.
This last two words are something hard to find in government.
Just so everyone knows I just sent this to my Sentor Richard Burr of North Carolina. Hope everyone of you send yours some of the same.
Dear Mr. Burr
Well it’s about time you and your fellow republicans stood up together. It was great to see. You need to do more! Why haven’t you did more of this in the time you have been there?
I posted this about you on Free Republic today.
“Well it has taken the Republicans how many years to show some back bone. The Republican Party had better all its ducks in a row if any of them wont to stay in office because of one I am tired of them doing nothing. I am from North Carolina and we all ready have sent one of ours home. Mr. Burr knows better and he should be one leading the way in Washington. I see very little of him on c-span so he needs to get a move on. We are looking!”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2174822/posts?page=1
You need to read this and understand its not a time for you are any republican to cave-in. We are looking! You need to get down to the floor and do what we sent you there to do are you are going to be like (the other person we sent home).
Bump
And, sadly....the American people are deluded. They have bought his newspeak.
At least Richard Burr has said this:
http://www.thehopeforamerica.com/play.php?id=269
It’s a start but I wont to see him with somthing in hand to put forth a real change for the people of this country.
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