Posted on 08/25/2009 8:23:11 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
RUSH: No! Tell me it isn't true! Tell me I'm not seeing what I'm watching. Oh, no! Oh. Oh, no. (big sigh) Greetings, my friends, and welcome. Yip yip yip -- we're about to witness the snatching of victory from the jaws of defeat. Senator McCain is in Sun City, Arizona, doing a town hall meeting. He's up for reelection, of course, and he's going all Republican all the time, supposedly, but it was big news last week, Senator McCain actually supporting the Republicans, it was the bulletin out there. Senator McCain told Obama, look, get rid of the public option, it ain't going to fly, it isn't going to happen, you need to work with Republicans and Democrats to get a bill passed that will have -- no! No! Stay away from it, let the Democrats own it! I'm thinking Gang of 14 here. Dawn's out there shouting, "But he's great at town halls!" it's the problem. I know he's good at town halls. 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program, folks. Phone number, e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com.
Oh, this is just -- oh, God. I can't tell you. Here we are, the American people are taking care of this, we don't need the Republicans to get in bed with Obama right now to come up with a bipartisan plan. We don't need bipartisan! We let the Democrats own this! Senator, please, let the Democrats go down in flames once when they're in the process of doing it, don't bail 'em out! Oh, this silly misguided notion what the American people want is bipartisanship. He's throwing a lifeline to Obama. Senator McCain is throwing a lifeline to Obama. I just hope Obama rejects it. I hope these people up there say, "Get outta here, old man, we're not interested, we beat you last fall, go back to the party and shut up." I can dream. Really -- I just don't -- pardon me, folks. I am so proud of everything every one of you have done out there showing up at these town halls, inspiring others to show up at the town halls, and now here comes somebody who: (imitating McCain) "Let's get rid of public option and let's work with the Republicans and Democrats together and let's put a bill together that both of us can stand behind." No. Let 'em go down in flames on this. Why is it that we have people on our side that can't bear the Democrat Party losing? I know that's what he's going to talk about. I'm not listening to it obviously, he proposed it last Friday and I'm sure that that's what the town hall meeting is all about.
YO Poopeye McLAME...When the opposition is about to Hang themselves... Get OUT OF THE WAY...and Keep your mouth SHUT!!
No one asked for your help, so STFU, Go Home and LIve a long life ...in OBSCURITY!!!
I swear if McCain pulls another reach across the isle and helps get health care passed I will never vote for a major party candidate again...and that includes Sarah if she’s running on the GOP ticket.
Let's just remind ourselves and our fellow citizens of James Madison's words from THE FEDERALIST, the Framers' authoritative explanation of their Constitution, and directed by the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia in 1825 to be used as the text for its law school in its studies of "the general principles of liberty and the rights of man," and said by Jefferson to "constitute 'the general opinion of those who framed, and of those who accepted the Constitution of the U.S., on questions as to its genuine meaning.'":
"The house of representatives... can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as the great mass of society. This has always been deemed one of the strongest bonds by which human policy can connect the rulers and the people together. It creates between them that communion of interest, and sympathy of sentiments, of which few governments have furnished examples; but without which every government degenerates into tyranny." - Federalist Papers, No. 57, February 19, 1788
"The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust." - Federalist Papers, No. 57, February 19, 1788
"Such will be the relation between the House of Representatives and their constituents. Duty gratitude, interest, ambition itself, are the cords by which they will be bound to fidelity and sympathy with the great mass of the people." - Federalist Papers, No. 57, February 19, 1788
"If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of the society? I answer, the genius of the whole system, the nature of just and constitutional laws, and above all the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America, a spirit which nourishes freedom, and in return is nourished by it." - Federalist Papers, No. 57, February 19, 1788
"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among the several bodies of magistracy as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others." - Federalist Papers, No. 58, 1788
"This power over the purse may, in fact, be regarded as the most complete and effectual weapon with which any constitution can arm the immediate representatives of the people, for obtaining a redress of every grievance, and for carrying into effect every just and salutary measure." - Federalist Papers, No. 58, 1788
"The propensity of all single and numerous assemblies (is) to yield to the impulse of sudden and violent passions, and to be seduced by factious leaders into intemperate and pernicious resolutions." - Federalist Papers, No. 62, February 27, 1788
"Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to those who watch the change and can trace its consequences; a harvest reared not by themselves but by the toils and cares of the great body of their fellow citizens. This is a state of things in which it may be said with some truth that laws are made for the few not for the many." - Federalist Papers, No. 62, February 27, 1788
"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow." - Federalist Papers, No. 62, February 27, 1788
Note particularly the following words of wisdom from Federalist No. 63, and take heart, dear citizens, you are doing what you were meant to do:
"As the cool and deliberate sense of the community ought, in all governments, and actually will, in all free governments, ultimately prevail over the views of its rulers; so there are particular moments in public affairs when the people, stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn. In these critical moments, how salutary will be the interference of some temperate and respectable body of citizens, in order to check the misguided career, and to suspend the blow meditated by the people against themselves, until reason, justice, and truth can regain their authority over the public mind?" - Federalist Papers, No. 63, 1788
Look, apparently his time in Hanoi affected McCain and he’s always wanting to be conciliatory with the enemy “for the good of all”. But don’t tar Sarah for that!
Sarah has enough problems with Republicans because she went after corruption where she found it - no matter which side of the aisle. If you support an honest person who is really for the people don’t diss Sarah just because the Republican party was the only place for her to go.
I think that the poster is more worried about Palin not speaking out against a possible compromise brokered by McCain like I am. If true, then it renders her Facebook postings on the subject pretty much useless. I know that Palin is loyal to McCain for being chosen and making history, but loyalty is a two-way street. You got a new slate of Congressional candidates who are running as uncompromising conservatives in 2010. If Palin really wants to head this so-called Independent Conservative Movement then she's going to have to break her ties with McCain amicably.
Thank You so much for that compilation!
For my part, I am doing what I can to take those words (unknown to most and understood by even fewer) and start my own little virus.
Thanks again.
Voila - you said it like it needs to be said.
Well, I don’t think Sarah is responsible for everything McCain does. She was loyal during the campaign but I fully expect her to be true to herself from now on. And yes, in politics the reality is that loyalty has a place but I think Sarah would think long and hard about the end goal before she compromises anything.
I'm not sure you're understanding. Palin single-handedly changed the course of the healthcare debate and put the WH on defense. John McCain is going to do everything in his power to undermine what she has done. The people do not want a bipartisan (Read: Republicans bending over) bill. We want this killed completely! Of course, McCain will say he doesn't support the public option, but he'll support the co-ops or whatever that will lead to the public option anyway. That's what Palin should be afraid of.
Palin doesn't owe McCain a thing, and I'm not happy that her PAC donated $5,000 to his re-election. She would have served out her term and been a formidable presidential candidate ready for 2012 anyway had she not been chosen for VP. The only negative about this scenario is that the attacks would have taken a toll and knocked her out of the race, whereas now she is battle-hardened and ready to fight. But she needs to communicate with McCain privately and encourage him not to support Obamacare.
Yep that’s it. I’m just getting fed up with the GOP in general. I realize Sarah went after them in her own State, but Sarah’s “maverick” is not the same thing as McCain’s “maverick”. Sarah is on the right of the GOP and McCain is a blue dog Democrat on the GOP ticket. As long as it seems they are still tied together Sarah is going to have problems. Like you said Sarah needs to cut ties with McCain.
Well we have no idea what she is saying to him privately but in public she is against this crap.
Sarah can’t take on the whole GOP and get the nomination. Even Perot with all his millions couldn’t make an outside effort work. Sarah has to thread the needle here very carefully - get as much support as she can while still sticking to her principles. The whole damn system is so corrupt this isn’t easy to do.
Anyway, I don’t hold Sarah responsible for what McCain does,
Thanks for posting this “Rush rant”. Rush rants real well.
John McCain is a sad case. He was once a rebel. Now he’s been a U.S. Senator... forever, and he’s more concerned about the dignity of his “club” than about the fate of the republic.
McCain said today that he respects Obama. I respect a couple representatives, at least one senator, and no one in the White House. Our world will unquestionably improve as the many current residents of our White House leave it. Ah, leave our White House or...?
Thanks for posting this “Rush rant”. Rush rants real well.
John McCain is a sad case. He was once a rebel. Now he’s been a U.S. Senator... forever, and he’s more concerned about the dignity of his “club” than about the fate of the republic.
McCain said today that he respects Obama. I respect a couple representatives, at least one senator, and no one in the White House. Our world will unquestionably improve as the many current residents of our White House leave it. Ah, leave our White House or...?
On one of the videos at his townhall one women said it best “don’t sell us out.” They know him for what he is a sell out.He needs 10,000 e-mails saying don’t sell us out.
He is very much a part of the Government that got us into this mess in the first place. Now all of a sudden, he is taking what he thinks is a Conservative stand?
Sorry Juan; Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice, shame on US!
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