Posted on 07/11/2009 4:07:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
Frankly, I’m beginning to feel a lot like Howard Beale, the character portrayed by Peter Finch in the 1976 release, “Network.” He insisted that people get up right now and go to the window, open it, stick their heads out and yell, “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!”
I’ve always heard that misery loves company. If true, misery in America has more company these days than it knows what do with.
I realize that conservatives have felt this way ever since the Democrats nominated the Chicago crony of Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezko, Rod Blagojevich and the assorted felons at ACORN, to be our president, but why aren’t millions of honest, decent, hard-working Democrats up in arms? I can guarantee that if a Republican president had done half the things that Obama has pulled off in his first half year, most of us on the right would be calling for his head. At the very least, none of us would be kissing his heinie.
Even before grabbing up car companies and banks, he got the ball rolling with a trillion dollar, 1100-page pork-filled stimulus package that had to be passed, he insisted, within a few short hours or America was going to be turned into a pumpkin. Well, without anyone having had time to read anything but the price tag, it was passed into law. Obama then took his own sweet time signing it. In the months since its passage, the unemployment rate has soared, entire states are going belly up and, apparently, nobody seems to know what happened to the money.
Then there’s the Waxman-Markey cap and trade bill, which started out in life at a thousand pages, and then had a 300-page amendment tacked on to it in the dead of night. It was as if Dr. Frankenstein, after carefully inspecting his nightmarish creation, decided that what the monster really needed was a second head and a hunchback. Again, nobody had time to read the bill, but that didn’t prevent 219 congressmen, including eight Republicans who scurried out from under a rock just long enough to make certain that Christmas, or perhaps I mean Ramadan, would come early for the President.
As I recall, when he was a candidate, Obama assured us that taxes would be decreased for 95% of all Americans. Inasmuch as the Heritage Foundation estimates that the cap and trade bill will wind up costing the average middle class taxpayer nearly $3,000 in additional energy costs, I guess a tax isn’t a tax if you don’t call it one. Of course Obama and Al Gore and their liberal lackeys don’t mention the jobs that people in the oil and coal industries will lose while we’re busily building windmills. Perhaps those folks who were formerly occupied supplying the wherewithal so that America could continue to be a major industrial nation can be hired to stand around and generate energy by blowing at the windmills.
Maybe what Obama meant when he claimed we’d be paying less in taxes was that we’d all be on the dole before the next election rolled around.
During the campaign, when Obama vowed, if elected, he would create or save four million jobs, I speculated that he meant that if at some point there were four million Americans who were still working, he could say he’d kept his campaign promise. I swear I meant it as a joke.
Inasmuch as Obama seems to be doing all he can to turn America into a left-wing third world nation, it stands to reason that he was far more perturbed by a military coup in Honduras than by innocent blood being spilled in the streets after a rigged election in Iran.
It’s amazing, if you stop and think about it, that George H.W. Bush lost his bid for re-election because he was goofy enough to say, “Read my lips…no new taxes,” but Obama does his level best to bankrupt America and destroy the middle class, and yet continues to ride nearly as high in the popularity polls as Michael Jackson. Imagine if the man could moon walk.
But, I guess a lot of us who find ourselves going down the financial drain don’t really mind so long as we can watch Prince Obama and his princess holding hands on their $250,000 date night in New York City.
It’s almost enough to make a person pity Bernard Madoff. That poor shmuck got a 150-year prison sentence, and he only screwed Americans out of about 65 billion dollars.
We need to turn the anger into something else resembling a resolve to correct, or at least start to correct the problem...
Starting in the local elections this year...Then carry it on to the November 2010 election...
Hopefully by that time, we will be in better shape for the apocalypse that will be unleashed in 2012...Mayan calendar predictions excluded...;-)
Good suggestion. Local elections are overlooked and the turnout is small. If every Democrat lost locally, the Democrats on the state and national level would feel the tremors. They might even find a backbone and wouldn’t continue their shameful silence while BO destroys the nation under their banner.
“... was far more perturbed by a military coup in Honduras ...”
It wasn’t a “military coup”. It was actually a legal transition of power as outlined by their constitution...
You nailed it!!!
Now do like me...Make everyone mad...Don’t worry about who and how many will hate you for it...I certainly do not...
Rub everyones noses in it, make them prove you wrong!!! They show us!!! Won’t they...
Its ok to be hated, some may even tell you you are in good company...
Voter apathy and intellectual lazyness needs to be countered with making people more angry, it is a base emotion...And it needs to spread...And it can be channeled if it is played right...
Just my opinion...
I have been pissed since those Poltroons and highbinders took over DC.
If we continue to whine and sit on or collectives a$$es, there won’t be anything left of America by 2012.
Sounds like Burt might make a good conservative when his understanding deepens in 20 or 30 more years. Conservatives were mad as hell in 1976 when this movie came out - many of us grabbed the line then as an exclamation point. What goes on today is simply the end game in a struggle going on for nearly 70 years. Welcome to the club, Burt.
This brave little Russian refugee lady has put her life on hold to try to bring Obama down. See Cook v Good et al (Military Officer Seeks Stay Of Deployment To Determine Obama's Eligibilty) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2290026/posts She is working harder and doing more than anyone to accomplish this. She needs donations also researchers and lawyers. Please go to her website and do what you can to help her. PayPal: http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/blog1/ .
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Dr. Orly’s website:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2290026/posts
This could be a great campaign ad. The face of Obama could be mouthing the words, “No new taxes!”, in the voice of George H.W. Bush.
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