Posted on 08/10/2009 8:01:03 PM PDT by upchuck
There’s going to be some trouble if this keeps up.
A few of my friends asked me to go to some of these meetings to keep an eye on the thugs. It makes me sick to see union members attacking the people who most likely pay their salaries. My friends and I are all union members who despise the politics of the union. They never miss an opportunity to screw the working man by supporting the wrong side. Union support of illegal immigration is a perfect example of the union stabbing working Americans in the back.
Welcoming committee in DC on 9/12 ??
punks are asking for a smackdown.
They have a rude awakening coming in September. Well, maybe not Pelosi. Her brain processes are so disconnected even her skull is asking, WTF?
To paraphrase Toni Morrison, a union or ACORN thug is a softy in a toughie suit, while a patriot is a toughie in a softy suit. They are ignoramuses and don't know what they are unleashing.
PING
Amen and amen! It's not like those who are against Obamacare went to confrontation, in person, at town hall sessions as a first response. Congress critters have shown they are all but immune to less insistent methods of their constituents expressing their lack of approval for something. They had limited success with stopping amnesty, but since then it's like the Congress has taken an oath not to fall for that again. Drill here, drill now is another example of how resistant the ruling class has become to input from the peons. If you don't have lots and lots of money or other quid pro quo to offer they will have nothing to do with you. Ditto the stimulus. Ditto the car makers. Ditto TARP. Ditto anything that even smells of conservative ideals.
I think we should adopt a logo for Stop the Foolishness movement that uses a good old stop sign as its center piece. Push hard to associate the ubiquitous octagon-shaped, white text on a red back ground to represent how fed up we are with all the BS spending and borrowing and encroachment on our live, and turning nearly half the population of a once proud individualistic nation in moochers! Make the association so well known that every time someone approaches a stop sign they will be reminded of just how out of control government at every level is.
And when we express the reason for our outrage we should always be sure to include not just health care, but the whole list of things that we are protesting, spending overall, taxing, control, non-responsiveness to our input, the list goes on and on.
It's really not accurate to frame the movement as Stop the Foolishness, it goes far beyond foolishness. Foolishness is playing practical jokes on people at the office. In fact, it goes beyond even madness, approaching the level of psychotic.
I am not a creative person, but I think a good graphic design person could make a logo that would sweep the nation, much like the ribbons of various colors have. Might even include a red ribbon, as suggested by a caller to Bill Bennett's radio show suggested yesterday morning, in the logo.
Anyway, Congress has no one to blame in all of this except themselves. But like the abuser their first response to doing something stupid and damaging is to say “Look what you made me do.”
Just food for thought.
And that is why when the first punch was thrown it was said by me that we must hold the President accountable for the violence he started and encouraged.
Seems to me this has to change if we intend to take back our country and return it to the precepts that made it the greatest nation in the history of the world. The Pilgrims quickly learned that socialism doesn't work. They soon discovered that removing the penalty for failure does little more than increase the odds of failure.
A big difference between conservatives and liberals is that conservatives see “in-your-face” and public protest as a last resort. Liberals, OTOH, consider it the weapon of choice, to be deployed at the first sign of opposition. The conservative uses it with great reluctance. Liberals refrain from using it with great reluctance.
And, after the crisis has passed, the conservative goes back to life without confrontation. The liberal goes back to looking for the next opportunity to confront.
And, we have much better bumper stickers!
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