Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 12/02/2010 4:12:04 AM PST by Scanian
Less than a month has passed since the mid-term elections and the early signs emanating from Washington don't bode well for the future of our freedom. The ruling class is still firmly entrenched and is seemingly oblivious to the message sent by the people on November 2. Corrupted by power, the two parties comprising the ruling class apparently still differ only in "the rates at which they are willing to usurp additional power."
Yesterday, fifteen Republican senators joined every Democrat in voting for passage of S. 510, the "FDA Food Safety Modernization Act", described on these pages as a "power grab" of a bill that "reaches too far and too wide and embraces too much with a one-size-fits-all worldview." Sen. Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) said the bill:
"will grow the government, increase food prices, and drive small producers out of business without making our food any safer. America has the safest food supply in the world - and it has been getting safer - because the free market and consumers have held bad actors accountable. This bill destroys that balance and replaces common sense with the heavy hand of government."
On another front, yesterday eight Republican senators "broke with their leadership" and voted against a GOP-proposed mandatory ban on earmarks. The proposal was defeated by a 56-39 vote. Seven Democrats voted to ban these lawmaker-directed funds. Supposedly, this issue is likely to be revisited by the Senate in the new session in 2011 and "might even arise again during this lame-duck session during debate over pending spending bills." I'm not holding my breath, at least with respect to a different outcome. The GOP's voluntary earmark ban, while admirable, hardly merits any mention here as just days after it was announced Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) added a $200 million earmark "for an Indian tribe in his state into a bill designed to settle legal complaints against the Department of Agriculture by black farmers."
House whip Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) spent the latter part of the day on Tuesday backing away from reports that he favored preserving certain provisions of ObamaCare. The gist of his clarified position is he currently favors full repeal of ObamaCare and replacing it with a GOP alternative, one American Spectator describes as being "not very ambitious" and "not a true free market alternative." Last night, Cantor reportedly told a college audience
"We too don't want to accept any insurance company's denial of someone and coverage for that person because he or she might have a pre-existing condition."
Call it whatever you want, but what Rep. Cantor describes is not insurance in any traditional use of the word.
Lastly, commenting on Congressional leaders' meeting yesterday with President Obama regarding the Bush-era tax rates set to expire in January, Mark Levin said it well on his radio program last evening:
"...[the meeting] was a mistake and I'll tell you why...Is there compromise or negotiations over the EPA's efforts to impose "cap and trade" on this nation? [No.] Is there compromise or negotiation over the ObamaCare legislation going on today? No. How about over the progressive income tax, which is [straight] out of the Communist Manifesto? No, no discussion on that. How about the elimination of a single federal agency or department? No. [Instead] we're negotiating on tax increases...but what's to negotiate?...We have already allowed the statists to set the priorities. Why are we negotiating with a defeated president and a defeated party, defeated in a massive landslide, a historic election? Why of we negotiating on their terms on our issues...rather than on our terms?..."
The newly elected Senators and Representatives can't be seated soon enough. But whether it will make any meaningful difference remains to be seen.
(1) Half (or more) of the voting population are now net takers from the federal system in some form or another, and will not vote against their own interests;
(2) a hard reset won't happen without a revolution, and as long as people have their iPhones and flat-screen TVs, they'll be comfortably sedated for the duration of their lifelong abuse.
IMO, we're in for 50 to 100 years of feudal poverty and debt slavery to a global political tyranny. I've pretty much lost hope that anything is going to get any better during my lifetime.
Names of the “15”. They need to be outed clearly. Targeted for the next election. The Tea Party just might be strong enough to run independently in 2012...
Reagan said, “...the first step into a thousand years of darkness.”
I keep saying the count down to midnight on the Rev II clock is getting closer to midnight. I am an optimist with that. In actuality, I don’t believe the brain dead public we have here, exhibit 1 they voted for (o)bama, has the fortitude to say ENOUGH, we are turning your lights out and starting with a new day. Maybe when they wake up to the fact elections don’t matter, things will change.
Wow, that is pretty much the way I see it too. Ever since I have been here at FR there have been people who saw this coming. They were the ones who were ridiculed with pictures of tin foil hats and such.
I have believed it ever since the elder Bush declared the NWO in a speech. He didn’t just say it for no reason at all. The truth is that this global tyranny has been planned far longer than the Bush speech.
People are waking up to it. As they do they digest it and still believe they can vote it out in 2012.
The next President will not have any real power. They can talk tough but the rollerball will continue on behind whoever that is. That is because one person cannot stop it.
We as a people are behind in the battle to stop this because we expect one person to fix it.
Many have awakened, but it is too late for conventional fixes to a worldwide scheme.
“Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) added a $200 million earmark “for an Indian tribe in his state into a bill designed to settle legal complaints against the Department of Agriculture by black farmers.”
It’s highly debatable that this could legitimately be considered an earmark.
Run for the school board. Join a local committee. Become chairman. Fight them on the ground, one memo and one vote at a time.
When a party has the majority in all branches of gov., it can push its agenda and do more much more quickly as obama, Reid and Peelousy have shown.
And what did the Bush republican majorities do with their opportunity? Not undo liberalism ala Reagan, but advance it, along with the big spending more gov control and regulations that comes with it.
And they did it to us again with the anti Food monstrosity. What ever happened to 'Just say NO!!'?
Rhinos who voted for:
Alexander (R-TN)
Brown (R-MA)
Burr (R-NC)
Collins (R-ME)
Enzi (R-WY)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Johanns (R-NE)
Kirk (R-IL)
LeMieux (R-FL)
Lugar (R-IN)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Sanders (I-VT)
Snowe (R-ME)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Dear Lord, God Almighty . . .
How about a huge sink hole with a tunnel straight to the hot place to open up right in front of the garages to the homes of these evil doer traitors at precisely the time they drive up?
Or maybe a tornado removing them forever from any hint of Kansas.
Shoot—even the fallen angel UFO critters can take them for eternal probing.
Or maybe that one way colonizing trip to Mars we’ve read about—but change it instead to Uranus.
Or maybe when the next New Orleans hurricane comes . . . use them as sandbags while filling the real thing.
Whatever, Lord, just PUHLEASE get them out of public life and preferably off the planet.
As a last resort, even shipping them to NK as fodder, would do.
No.
God has a different schedule. Check Mat 24.
There will be a hard reset.
This gives a hint of some of the process . . .
The original post here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2636091/posts
Those are the people, who, when they see such traitorous bits of human garbage traitors
would do an honorable thing to spit.
Even if they had to spit in a paper cup or tissue and hand it to them with the comment that
the spit is worth more than they are.
BUMP
He made a good point.
Thankfully, God has a different schedule.
This OP gives a good set of hints about God’s plans:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2636091/posts
LeMieux supposedly has aspirations of running against Bill Nelson in two years.
This type of voting as well as his association with “Suntan Charlie” needs to be remembered by FL GOP voters.
I’d love to see Allen West give it a shot. I know, he hasn’t even cast his first vote in the House yet. But I can’t think of any FL conservative who would consider running who could beat tired, old Spacecat Bill.
What happened rhymes with “Just Say NO.”
It was MONSANTO.
It was a rigged deal for months. It started losing support from some of the interest groups which originally backed it but not enough and too slowly.
Targeted for the next election.
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Yeah.... If voting could really change things, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
I just finished sending an email to one of my GA RHINO senators Johnny Isakson telling I was pleased that he finally saw the light and voted agains’t S.510 after initially co-sponsoring it. I also encouraged him to talk to Alan Simpson and Eskine Bowles about balancing all of their “hard choices” for the American citizens with some “hard choices” for government like closing down the TSA, EPA, Dept of Energy, Dept of Education, Dept of Homeland Security and breaking up and selling off Fannie and Freddie. I’m sure he will do that right away. Sure he will.
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