Posted on 12/25/2009 5:43:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
For Democrats like Harry Reid, who called them "evil-mongers," and Nancy Pelosi, who called them "unAmerican," the NBC News poll must have hit like a sucker punch at a Georgetown wine-and-cheese.
The Tea Party movement, those folks rallying against spending last spring and Obamacare in the summer town halls, are viewed more favorably than the Democratic Party.
Forty-one percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of the Tea Party movement, to 35 percent for Obama's party. Only 24 percent view Tea Party activists unfavorably, while 45 percent hold a negative view of the Democrats.
While Tea Party types played a role in the GOP's comeback -- helping take down Gov. Jon Corzine in New Jersey and turning a John McCain deficit of 6 points in the Old Dominion into a 17-point victory for Bob McDonnell -- the movement is no subsidiary of the GOP. For it played a major role in routing liberal Republican "Dede" Scozzafava in New York's 23rd and came within a point of electing a third-party conservative.
As congressional elections are 10 months off, though primaries begin in the spring, where do Tea Party types find the battles to keep them in fighting trim? Copenhagen may have provided an answer.
While Obama came home with a nothing-burger, Hillary stole the show. Without authorization of Congress, she committed the United States to lead a campaign to transfer, beginning in 2020, $100 billion a year "to address climate change needs in developing countries." The fund would start at $10 billion and grow by 1,000 percent in a decade.
The $100-billion-a-year global fund sprang from the fertile mind of Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
By 2020, U.S. citizens, whose nation is careening toward default, will be borrowing tens of billions more every year from China, if Beijing is still willing to lend to us, so we can ship those tens of billions off to the sump holes of the Third World.
The arrogance of power here astonishes.
Not only does Hillary's commitment represent a doubling of U.S. foreign aid, she declared at Copenhagen that climate change -- known as global warming before a blizzard brought Obama winging home early -- is "undeniable."
Now, undeniably, there is climate change. But we call it spring, summer, fall and winter. As for global warming and cooling, that has been going on for millennia. Not so long ago, we exited what is known as the "little ice age." Over the 20th century, the official rise in global temperature was 0.7 percent of 1 degree Celsius.
People are wailing about the "hottest decade" in history. But who would have noticed if the Chicken Littles had not told us we are all burning up and we must act now to save the planet?
How do we save the planet? By giving them power and money.
Hillary's $100 billion a year is the tip of the iceberg, and this iceberg is not melting. We are at the beginning of the biggest con in history.
Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency made an "endangerment finding" that carbon dioxide, the food of plants and trees, is a dangerous pollutant. Under the Clean Air Act of 1970, this gives EPA power to shut down the U.S. economy, though EPA head Lisa Jackson says the ruling will apply only to 10,000 utilities, refineries and large manufacturers that emit more than 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide every year.
Congress has done nothing to reverse this usurpation of power.
Strict enforcement of this finding would make America a pasture and guarantee China's future as the first industrial power, the factory for mankind. What is the purpose of this preposterous EPA finding?
It is the EPA nightstick to club into line U.S. companies that are fighting the Gore-Kerry-Obama cap-and-trade bill stalled in the Senate, which represents another huge transfer of wealth and power from the private sector to Beltway bureaucrats.
What the Obamaites are saying to industrial America is: Back off your opposition to cap-and-trade, or the EPA shuts you down.
The Tea Party irregulars have it in their power to stop the New World Order crowd cold. All they need do is stop cap-and-trade in the Senate for 10 months, until November, and block Hillary's $100 billion fund from ever seeing the light of day.
If the Tea Party activists can hold the line, they can, next fall, send Congress a message it will not soon forget about getting off this express train to globalism and getting back to putting America first.
In Europe, democracy is dead. The French and Dutch voted to kill the EU constitution. The EU rechristened it the Lisbon Treaty. The Irish voted no. They were forced to vote again. The British detest it, but Gordon Brown has denied them a vote.
The West is disappearing into a New World Order, and against globalism, the Tea Party folks may represent our last best hope.
Now, now. Everyone is someone!
Yeah, just what the country needs, an anti-semite goofball in the oval office.
pat, if you want to help the Tea-Party people, then stay away from them. Dont endorse them, dont go to a Tea Party event.
The biggest risk of the Right is that it lets perfection become the enemy of good.I agree. And I guess I've been guilty of that myself, in regards to Buchanan.
I wish I knew the answer. I would never vote for Pat, but he has ideas and things to offer that we really need if we are ever going to get started fixing our great country. Same with Newt. And Rudy. And so on and so forth.
Part of me is very hesitant to accept less than the ideal, but another part of me knows deep down inside that we’re never going to have perfection, at least not in this life and this world.
Even God compromises when it’s necessary. So I guess I should take my cue from that source.
He got 1.5 percent against the sainted GWB.
If PJB had brains, he wouldn’t be working for MSBHO.
PJB beat Algore in West Palm Beach County.
Are you calling President Reagan an anti-semite, too? Buchanan was good enough for him.
This is why we can’t roll back the socalist movement, people like you attack every conservative as being a racist.
You and the elite RINOs just join the Democrats in protecting the status quo using that lie.
Pat doesn’t understand. The Dems will never, ever, let a free election happen again. They have power and will do anything — including murder — to keep it. The 2010 election will show fraud, violence, and extortion on a scale so huge that 2008 will, in comparison, look squeeky clean. If “amnesty” is crammed down our throats, the next election will give the Dems 45 states. We are moving towards a Fourth Reich, with conservatives, gun owners, small business people, and the overtly religious headed for the camps.
I meant exactly as I said. Pat is a Sunday Morning Whore.
So now you don’t think Buchanan is an anti-semite.
You should watch your name calling or you will get labeled as a race baiter like the Democrats and RINOs.
That Israel hating thing comes to mind.
Are you calling President Reagan an anti-semite, too? Buchanan was good enough for him.
This is why we can’t roll back the socialist movement, people like you attack every conservative as being a racist.
You and the elite RINOs just join the Democrats in protecting the status quo using that lie.
YAWN....This is going to be a pointless arguement that leads nowhere. It is like talking to a 911 truther.
Everyone who disagrees with you is a RINO elitist swine who should be stoned and burned at the stake. Buchanan never made insulting remarks about Israel, but even if he did,Reagan liked him so that makes him Ok in your book. I get it. Every thing that I say can be twisted into what ever you desire it to be. Maybe you spent too much time on DUM or Obama website and learned a thing or two.
You are deluded by the Buchanan cult. Like being a Paulite. You are will to crash and burn to save whatever your vision of conservatism is. Good luck with getting Buchanan elected. You would be better served plowing the sea.
So far, you’ve expressed the spin of RINOs and Democrats.
You haven’t presented one fact to back up your hateful words, as always.
You know, that’s just low.
Are these marginalized groups really more extreme than the "mainstream" RINO-Lib cultural marxist elite?
“I didn’t say 99% of the military, I said my UNIT”
But you said his kids in the military can attest to your claim, so you must have meant 99% of the military in general.
The number appears to be exaggerated to an extreme.
Unless you’re right there to witness the morale of both my brothers and me, then you’ll just have to assume (and assume spells making an ASS out of you and me). My point in the rebuttal to this jerk wassn’t so much the percentage, but the attack from him/her against me after I POLITELY disagreed with him after expressing my gratitude with serving with his family members. He/she was a jerk for no reason except that I disagreed (sounds like the liberals we battle everyday, huh?). Nevertheless, morale regarding this campaign is very low. Either send us in to win or don’t send us in. Iraq was plain silly and a waste of your money and mine; if we had stayed focus on Afghanistan and had been given the rules of engagement in order to win, we’d be done by now. Now we are stuck in a winless cause that could have been won long ago.
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