Posted on 03/21/2010 6:24:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
I’m not crazy about congressional Democrats right now.
As I write this, Congressional Democrats are engaged in a furious partisan battle to pass their idea of healthcare reform. Alas it is an idea the majority of Americans do not share. It is in fact an idea that the majority of congressmen do not share, which is why President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are twisting arms, bribing, cajoling and threatening all manner of mischief in order to eek out a majority vote – or non vote -- on a bill the people have made clear they do not want. They may succeed.
I am not all that enamored of Congressional Republicans either. It is painful indeed to listen to the feigned outrage of so many Republicans who spent years in office redefining the meaning of concepts like “limited Government,” and “fiscal conservative”. Surely they must realize that their inept stewardship over so many years not only opened the door for the leftist now in power, but also rolled out the red carpet for them.
The contract we strike with government holds that citizens will give up certain of our rights in exchange for government protection of our liberty and property. The foundation of that bargain is trust. And that trust must be guarded jealously. Men must trust that their wishes will be respected and that government will not over step its bounds. When that trust dissipates due to the contraventions of officials within the government, the actions of government lose their legitimacy.
This view is one expressed by President Obama. In an interview with the “Concord Monitor” then candidate Obama decried the “50 plus 1 pattern of presidential politics.” It was Obama’s opinion that it made governance impossible. He was adamant that healthcare reform could not be passed with a simple majority vote. He did not mean to say that passing a healthcare bill was not possible with a one vote majority. Rather he was expressing the assured acknowledgement that passing such monumental legislation in such a manner and without the support of the minority party would rob it of its necessary legitimacy. It has become apparent that in this, as is clearly the case in so many things, Obama was merely blowing smoke.
Legitimacy can’t be had through backroom bribery, arm twisting and procedural maneuvers that corrupt and make a mockery of the spirit that enervates the principles of procedure, rule and law. Nor can it be had through default – by being the only other choice on the ballot. Legitimacy must be won the old fashioned way: it must be earned by nurturing the trust of the people.
Do Democrats truly believe that a government that rewrites the rules as they go along in order to inflict a policy on an unwilling public can be trusted not to rewrite the rules whenever it strikes their whim? Or is it, as I suspect, that they are convinced of the transcendent virtue of liberalism--that only the lefts motives are unimpeachable – that they are the good guys and in fact the only ones in government that can be trusted? They would be wrong. The passage of this healthcare bill will be a violation of that trust; it will be one more breach in a long series of abuses. I suggest it be the last.
How much longer will we be a party to promises that never come to fruition? How much longer will we listen to lies supported by evidence that has been cooked? How much longer will we allow the people’s representatives to run interference for private industry and expand the reach and power of federal bureaucracy? How much longer will we allow congressmen-for-life to mismanage the financial future of this nation- putting the security of her citizens at risk? How much more rope must we allow them before they finally hang themselves and us along with them?
If there is to be a second revolution then let it begin here and now! Let the political bloodbath begin in November followed closely by more bloodletting in 2012. No one will be safe. Neither a “D” nor an “R” following a name will be sufficient protection from the people’s blade! There is no time like now to begin the winnowing process; and there is no better reason than to dismantle a government that can’t be trusted to keep its part of the bargain.
But the teapartiers have the high moral ground....
And the teapartiers are the ones who have fought to maintain the second amendment. They are the ones who think the right to keep and bear arms has a real purpose. They vote, they pay taxes, and they have been abused....
REVOLUTION!!! That’s what I’ve been saying for the past two weeks. My concern is that in 7 months, when the Mid-Term Elections roll around, the finicky, forgiving, American Public will have “cooled off” and/or calmed down; and this crowd that raped us in March, will go back into power in November.
bttt
We have to make sure that doesn’t happen.
Actually, I think Zero will make sure of that. Next on the table: amnesty for illegal aliens.
As I understand it, IF the bill passes, many of the new and increased taxes will begin immediately. Taxpayers will be feeling the whip of those taxes for several months before the November elections.
That should keep things fresh in the minds of voters.
In primaries there should be challenges to people who are not conservative. Republicans need to run against the dictatorship of Obama and the Democrats against Obama care in both 2010 and 2012 and just remove the bad law if it passes.
Once mandated health care enforced by the IRS goes into force coupled with reductions in the Medicare Advantage program, people being dropped from their employer based health insurance and forced into exchanges, and a sharp rise in health insurance premiums, people will be angrier not less so.
So when it passes, are they going to all go "eek!"?
“The contract we strike with government holds that citizens will give up certain of our rights in exchange for government protection of our liberty and property.”
This is typical socialist straw man argument. We give up none of our rights in exchange for anything from government. Our rights to liberty and property remain our rights and governments prime responsibility is to safeguard those rights.
And do not forget that almost every one of the losers that voted Democrat still believe in their communist takeover heart and soul and will continue to vote for all these lefty freaks.
And what will everyone do when they realize that there is no way to save the US in any constitutional way?
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
Yesterday, a number of democrats made the following accusations against the tea party protesters at the Capital building.
DEMS: PROTESTS GET UGLY, RACIST
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/03/20/2234644.aspx
Here’s what they said:
African-American Congressman John Lewis (D-GA), a protege of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who helped organize the March on Washington, went to the House floor today to tell Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) that a Tea Party protester called him a “n-——.”
Another Democratic source confirms to NBC News that openly gay Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) was called a “f—” by somebody in the Tea Party crowd.
Rep. Emanaul Cleaver (D-MO), another African-American member, was apparently spit on by a Tea Party protester.
THE BS FLAG HAS BEEN THROWN ON THIS FABRICATION...
COMPLETED REFUTED BY AN ACTUAL VIDEO OF THE MOMENT IN QUESTION...
(I guess they keep forgetting that today’s technology is not their friend when they want to make up falsehoods)
Here's the video, see for yourself....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SCs6pSE8_I&feature=player_embedded
The tea party is so strong, so right and so alive with the truth, that these progressive communists must do what every communist regime in history has done to suppress their opposition - lie, misrepresent and falsely accuse to discredit their obvious common sense opposition to this bankrupt ideology.
Checking in with CNN and MSNBC, etc., etc., this morning to see the lies of the day, the anchors have been playing up this falsehood like nothing else happened yesterday.
Makes me sick...
“If there is to be a second revolution then let it begin here and now! Let the political bloodbath begin in November followed closely by more bloodletting in 2012.”
Blah, Blah, Blah....I’m about sick to death of the hype of a ‘second’ revolution who’s action of a “political bloodbath” involves little more than waiting to vote.
I could not agree more with you. We need to start with torches and pitchforks. We need to stop traffic, and shut down the air system. We need to stop the trains. We need to bring the country to a standstill.
He wimps out. He speaks of a political blood letting. What is necessary is a real blood letting.
Nice sign, but as I said...what resistance? Our game plan is to peacefully protest. When the bill passes we will do as we’re told, won’t we?.... we will HOPE to stop 12 million illegals from becoming legal voters, we will HOPE there will be elections, we will HOPE that we can win those elections, and then we will HOPE we can change back the damage being done.
Sounds like a plan to me. /s
Once Reagan left office and the Bush family took over, the GOP reverted to what it was before Reagan.
I agree, except nobody is paying attention to the fact that primaries are going to take place in a few weeks time and will come and go without much if any change in the status quo.
Nobody is vetting candidates to challenge the sock puppets put up by the entrenched machines from either party. By the time November rolls around you will have the choice of voting for your choice of machine candidates.
Democratic congressmen and women are going to do and say anything to marginalize the tea party movement. They are scared and now kind of have an idea of what will be coming at them in the upcoming elections. But the bottom line is they aren’t listening to their constituents and they will pay for that at the polls and hopefully big time. But if republicans want to be elected, they, by God, better better be Reagan conservatives or they will also go down too.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.