Posted on 02/25/2009 4:23:21 PM PST by EternalVigilance
Aficionados of the Sherlock Holmes stories know that the dog didn't bark because the supposed culprit in the night was well and favorably known to the pooch. In fact the murderer in the Silver Blaze story wasn't a wrongdoer at all but a horse, who kills its trainer in furious reaction to his attempt to nick its tendon just enough to prevent it from winning an important race the next day.
For all his phony posturing, Obama's actions seem calculated to drive the United States over the cliff of bankruptcy, while leaving us defenseless against our enemies. Just when we thought the race was over, Obama and his cronies come along to make sure we lose forever. We're headed for a day of reckoning alright, and he's been raised up to make sure we show up on time.
As he leads us to the slaughter, here comes the Republican party- the one a lot of people have been feeding with their votes at election time in hopes that it will at least bark loudly when danger threatens. Instead, the only sounds we here are the typical yaps and whimpers a dreaming watchdog makes in its sleep. Socialism is on the march. Soviet style one-party rule has already turned the corner. The Constitution is being prepared as tomorrow's trash can liner. Yet all we hear in the Republican response are the usual bleats about spending and irresponsibility, along with the quiet acknowledgement that the Republicans have no right to talk. "I guess that'll show those burgerglers."
Of course Obama's media claque would pounce if anyone whispered words like socialism, communism or despotism. No gulag yet, but they'll laugh and ridicule. They'll mention you in the same breath as (God forbid) Alan Keyes, a sure sign that the owners of the two-party system have taken you off the roster and posted you off the premises.
If you had your eye on the Republican nomination in 2012, would you risk that? Leave aside the fact that your cowardice, and that of all the Republicans like you, guarantees that the Republican nomination will be as worthless to liberty in 2012 as it was in 2008. Politics isn't about making choices that are good for the American people, just those that avoid the wrath of their now unchallenged keepers. ("There used to be a home for the brave around here somewhere, but I think it finally went back to the bank. Couldn't make the payments, I guess. Nice folks, but mortgaged way over their heads." )
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Except for the delivery being a little off in the beginning, I found no problem with Jindal’s response. A ringing affirmation of what makes America what it is is a welcome relief from al the name calling and finger pointing that passes for reasoned debate in politics. Such an optimistic approach provides the needed contrast to Obama’s recent pronouncements of gloom and doom. A foaming at the mouth frontal attack, while emotionally satisfying to true believers, would have discredited his message in the eyes of the public.
He may be right about that. They are delusional if they think Palin will be president in 2012.
Or a tremendous shock to them that there /is/ a difference between the parties, that Republicans do hold different values. Excuse me while I go crawl under the bus with Keyes, it's where most economic conservatives have been told to go sit for the past 8 years.
"Government is not the solution to the problem, Government is the problem." <--- Not foaming, rate it a 10.
"Americans can do anything....Americans can do anything....Americans can do anything....Americans can do anything....Americans can do anything...." in the same speech <---- Rate it a 3.
It won’t happen just yet, but at some point............
There will be blood.
Someone is going to have to speak plainly and honestly one day and we’re eventually going to HAVE to listen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqkMfToY9Pk
“[Barack Obama] is a radical communist…He’s going to destroy this country. We’re either going to stop him or the United States of America is going to cease to exist.”
“We’re in the midst of the greatest crisis this nation has ever seen. And if we don’t stop laughing about it, and deal with it, we’re going to find ourselves in the midst of chaos, confusion and civil war. It’s time we started acting like grownups.”
“The person you call ‘President’ Obama, and I frankly refuse to call him that. At the moment he is somebody who is kind of an alleged usurper who is alleged to be someone who is occupying that office without Constitutional warrant to do so. And he’s rushing forward with ideas like destroying our borders, an amnesty bill that will actually have the American taxpayer footing the bill for illegals to come to this country to live, to get housing and to get everything that they want. He is also somebody who has just announced a program that would essentially destroy the validity of existing mortgages and encourage everybody in the country to stop paying their mortgage because the government is going to pay it instead. This is insanity. It’s as if we have put insane children and adolescents in charge of our government.
And I think we need to ask simple questions. A couple of years ago we arguing over every penny in the United States budget, and it was quite clear we didn’t have enough money to go around. Will somebody tell me where we came up with two trillion dollars in the course of the last six months? Did we wish for it out of the air? Have people gone mad in this country? You don’t have that money. We are claiming that a bankrupt government can save a bankrupt banking system. Explain to me how that happens, because I think that’s impossible.
And the fact that we have just elected an individual who may or may not be qualified, and he presents silly ideas like this and says, ‘Let’s move forward now.’ And we’re all acting like the laws of economics have been repealed, and we can actually afford to foot the bill with money nobody’s got. This is insane. It’s got to lead to the collapse of our economy, and it’s going to.”
Alan Keyes
but, who will organize the blood-letters?
Is the Republican Party ever going to bring some adults to this fight or not? Jindal is about as impressive as the guy who ran for president of the student council in my high school. Not only the endless repetition “Americans can do anything” you mentioned but the whole thing sounded like it was geared to a kindergarden class. He and his “dad” shopping in the grocery store; his dad borrowing money so his “mom” could deliver him. Wgo cares? Not only is the guy skinny and funny looking, but he was so callow and juvenile in his approach to Obama’s speech, he’s probably torpedoed any future hopes for higher office. The delivery was singsong and stilted, the setting was amateurish—the whole thing is a clear demonstration of why the Republicans are in the wilderness. Put out a minority to show you’re broadminded; sound earnest, apologize, beg, and don’t alienate anybody. Bring a knife to a gunfight and you’re going to lose every time. This approach will never defeat a slick, cunning street fighter like Obama. He beat the Clinton machine handily, remember?
And Eric Cantor in his interview with Hannity after the speech wasn’t much better. He apparently isn’t going to fight Obama either. No pledge to work to eliminate pork in any bill, no real fight, no commitment, no outrage, nothing. What a wuss. The conservative movement is lost if these are the best leaders they can come up with.
Incredibly accurate impassioned speech. Alan is quite capable of that. He has better delivery than Obozo, and it carries content as opposed to nothing but meaningless words from BHO.
I am afraid to get on a Train and not know where it is going.
But that is what is going to happen. I agree at some point this will be bloody. And it is out of character for the U.S.
“Welcome to New Kenya, Where the law of the jungle has replaced the Law of the Land.”
With each passing day I see more and more sense in supporting Keyes, and if he is an extremist, so much the better. While I think I understand the political utility of Jindal’s mildness and the lack of fire in the rest of the GOP, I am not patient. There seems to be a policy of “Give 0bama a rope and let him hang himself.” But it’s the US that will be strangled.
People focus too much on Keyes’ style. He’s blunt, he talks fast, he puts his opponent quickly on the ropes and hammers away. So rude! So unlike the silken and satanic soetoro.
But what Keyes is saying is true and right, and when the nation is in mortal peril, perhaps the time to whisper is past.
That’s how it worked for Churchill. He was relegated to the back bench until the crisis came and people finally woke up to the fact that the was the only one telling them the whole truth all along.
"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force."
~Ayn Rand
We need to take steps that will make sure it doesn’t come to that. Now.
Exactly. If Keyes is a nut, so am I, and if enough people get behind the nut, the country might start taking him seriously.
Again, I respect Jindal and understand why he might want to hold his fire, but I don’t think we can afford to keep pussyfooting around while 0bama loots the treasury and shreds the Constitution.
Keyes says, “This is insane.” He is saying, basically, the emperor is naked. Until someone says that, nobody wants to look stupid or unfit — so they’re discreetly silent and the farce continues.
I hear ya. Actually, Alan was an admirer and supporter of Jindal’s as well. He even went down there and did events for him.
A lot has changed in the last two years, though. These are not normal times. Weak men are going to be crushed.
If Gov. Palin had been chosen to give the rebuttal, you can bet she would have outdrawn The One in viewers.
Of course all the republican "frogs-in-the-pot" will just shake their heads and say we need to be civilized....no need to sound any alarms....everything is just peachy.
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