Posted on 08/12/2009 3:26:58 PM PDT by shield
It's starting to feel like 1995 all over again.
For 64 years, the Democrats possessed a monopoly of power in the House of Representatives (the two interruptions in 1946 and 1952 when the GOP eked out a tiny majority then quickly lost it don't count).
The Dems' arrogance and conviction they had a moral "divine right" to their monopoly doubled in size when the Pubs tore themselves apart in an internal power struggle, with newcomer Newt Gingrich replacing long-serving Bob "You've got to go along to get along" Michael as Minority Leader.
The Dems laughed at Newt's "Contract With America" as an amateurish and typically "stupid Republican" campaign ploy for the 1994 mid-term elections. They couldn't care less over the tidal wave of public anger building up over their arrogance - and that of the new Dem president, who was trying to ram a government seizure of health care down the throats of Americans.
They were gobsmacked when they lost 50 seats and their majority to the Pubs, and were in a state of catatonic shock when Newt became Speaker Gingrich on January 4, 1995.
The Republicans were on a roll, Big Government was to be rolled back to its Constitutional limits, our Republic was to be rescued from the miasma of liberal cultural destruction, the Democrat Party was to be dismantled like the Soviet Union.
It was all over 105 days later. On April 19, 1995, the Oklahoma City Federal Building was blown up by a man portrayed as a right-wing anti-government terrorist.
Bill Clinton, the Democrats in Congress, and the entire gang of their enablers in the media were able to smear the Gingrich Republicans and anyone advocating less government control over their lives with the brush of "right-wing terrorist" Timothy McVeigh.
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Of course it was controlled, but my point was they were hoping for some disrespect to propagandize the issue further and it just didn’t happen. Even the crowds outside were respectful.
Inside, obama was actually agitating for someone to oppose him more vigorously. No one did. They ain’t that stupid.
“You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”
Rahm Emanuel
Do you seriously believe that the hard left in this country would NOT manufacture a crisis, create an enemy, and destroy the Constitution in its wake? Because if you believe that, you have been asleep at your keyboard for far too long. They have been doing just that from day one, and before, actually.
The whole “financial meltdown” was manufactured, timed, and triggered to elect obama. That is not a conspiracy theory. It’s the truth.
Well, “The devil went down to Georgia” so I’m sure he’ll go to OK.
“What’s the difference between that and Krystallnacht?”
Absolutely nothing.
"Did you? How does anyone know that?"
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A little FRiendly FR basics:
Just place your cursor over the person's FRName at the bottom of the post. For example, yours says, "dsc Since 1998-11-25"
Clicking on that person's name takes you to their FRProfile page -- if they have created one. (Try mine -- you'll see that I'm more than a little familiar with the OKC bombing...).
But, I see you already have a FRProfile -- and I apologize for whomever acted badly... Hope you are having better luck in your quest! (BTW, putting the cursor over your flag tells me you're from Idaho...)
All the best!
TXnMA
“Just place your cursor over”
Yes, I know that.
Over the past several months, I have seen more than a few people exhibiting trollish behavior, whose accounts carried putative signup dates in 1998 and 1999. In none of those cases did I remember seeing the person’s handle over the past ten or eleven years.
This made me wonder if someone has figured out how to hack on to the server and set up user accounts with arbitrary signup dates.
Paranoid? Only if we can say that demonrats would never do such a thing.
“That is not a conspiracy theory.”
If conspiracy theories are always to be mocked, that must mean that people never conspire. Right?
Hack-ins? Hmmmmm.....
OR pull them off like clockwork.
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