Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Unless there is a compelling reason to do otherwise, vote the incumbents out.
What BS. Americans aren’t upset about Gridlock. Americans aren’t mad about what is not getting done, they are upset about what is getting done...to them.
So the possibility of a third party repeat of the Perdue Hen is now raising its ugly head?
Will it assure the re-election of The Won? Yes it will, unless Sarah Palin runs 3rd party.
"Americans are completely fed up with the gridlock. They can't believe no one is willing to compromise,
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Utter BS! Compromise IS the Problem. All traitors to We the People and the U.S. Constitution MUST GO! Bye bye don't let the door hit you on the way out.
If a person can still vote for Obama, at this late date, then that person deserves to be pigeon-holed as a hopeless liberal that’s nowhere near “center,” whatever that means. It’s not a difficult test.
Gridlock? Obama and the Dems had overwhelming control over Congress for two years. They rammed down our throat Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, the Porkulus bill, increased discretionary spending by 24%, and increased our national debt by almost $5 trillion. Thank God for gridlock!!
Gridlock is shorthand for conservatives standing tall.
The media jumps into the fray and declares that the people believe that both sides are to blame and that all incumbents should be replaced.
It is intended to blunt the republican landslide. Both sides did not take the country to the brink of bankruptcy just to score political points. That is their big lie and how you know which side they are on.
In politics if your a compromiser your a loser.
“Americans are completely fed up with the gridlock. They can’t believe no one is willing to compromise,....Note that quote came from a Democrat.How can anyone compromise with poison? “I have a glass of battery acid that I’d like you to drink (DEM)” PUB: “I have a glass of spring water I’d YOU’D to drink.” DEM “Let us mix the battery acid with water, throw away half of it and drink it together” BOTH: “ OK, we compromised.” So the country can die.
Funny how it works. When A Republican is in the White House and things are not going well we hear how the Republicans are I’m big trouble. But when it is a dem, oh no, is is BOTH parties in trouble and Republicans had better compromise (read give the democrats what they want).
I also wonder if the author realizes that the discontent he waxes poetical about is the Tea Party movement? When not calling the Tea Party racist they subtly try to re-cast it as being a force that demands compromise with Obama in the name of “getting things done.”. They cast it as a force that wants to throw out the very people it sent to DC to stand up and say “enough!!”
Well, at least after having read this I have had my daily allotment of BS.
Author Zito seems to have never informed herself of the real facts or has conveniently forgotten them.
After the muslim terrorists murdered almost 3,000 innocent people it was only a matter of hours before democrats were attacking Bush for every statement and action or inaction; for overreacting, for not reacting instantaneously; for responding too slowly or responding too fast; for "hiding" in Airforce 1; for being a coward and for not flying directly back to Washington.
And it was only a matter of days before they morphed into "Truthers" and started screaming their conspiracy theories to the world;
- The Bush administration actually set the attack up so they could justify starting a war with innocent muslims
- Bush was in cahoots with the Saudi Arabians
- The Jews did it
- Haliburton did it to get government contracts
- VP Cheney did it to steal mideast oil and/or to get government contracts for Haliburton
It would be more truthful to say that patriots, conservatives and rational people united in a way few had ever seen while the left used the attack to fuel its non-stop hate machine.
It's not all that quiet, actually...
What a bunch of horseshit. Gridlock equals the feds not taking my freedoms away.
I appreciate that you post so aggressively and post all kinds of articles - I enjoy reading them. But what gives with Town Hall? This is the second BS article from that source in two days.
The efforts seem to be part of a larger strategy to silence those who disagree with the so-called "progressives'" agenda, as they try to make "compromise" a virtue. Is this part of a Soros-funded effort to neutralize opposition for the 2012 election? Watch AP "reports," columists, and even letters to the editor in local newspapers which suddenly tout the great need for "compromise."
Had the men and women of 1776 "compromised," we would have no Declaration of Independence and no freedom from British rule.
Citizens might remember that, unaccompanied by a strong determination to adhere to the Founders' ideas of liberty, then we risk damaging, rather than helping, the Republic. On questions essential to liberty, we may "compromise" away the liberty of our posterity and help to snuff out the light of liberty in the world.
In other words, if we keep doing the same things we've done already in the Congress and Senate, then we can expect the same results we've been getting--compromises that throw away the liberty of future generations.
On the other hand, if our nominees and representatives can articulate and explain the Founders' ideas as protections for liberty for all citizens, they will have planted the seeds of liberty in the hearts and minds of potential voters. Those seeds will bear fruit for the future, because once the ideas of liberty are understood, individuals may no longer voluntarily submit themselves to slavery to government. If, like the Founders, candidates and elected officials understood the ideas essential to liberty, they would sacrifice their "lives, liberty and sacred honor" rather than "compromise" on issues of limiting government, spending, taxation, etc.
Short-term gain, numbers wise, may lead to long-time loss.
Zacharias Montgomery: "If I have learned anything from the reading of history, it is that the man who, in violation of great principles, toils for temporary fame, purchases for himself either total oblivion or eternal infamy, while he who temporarily goes down battling for right principles always deserves, and generally secures, the gratitude of succeeding ages, and will carry with him the sustaining solace of a clean conscience, more precious than all the offices and honors in the gift of man."
Thomas Jefferson:
"[With the decline of society] begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia [war of all against all], which some philosophers observing to be so general in this world, have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:40
In his First Inaugural, Jefferson clearly outlined the "principles" that would guide his Administration, and added:
"These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and the blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety."
For too long, our public discourse has been based on "issues" and short-term political goals, with not enough emphasis placed on how this or that question on an issue relates to a principle essential to our very liberty as a nation. We must return to the "road" described by Jefferson as he took office if liberty is to survive the compromises and assaults by both major Parties over the past 100 years.
Americans are completely fed up with the gridlock.
I’m not fed up. I’m not opposed to the gridlock either. Considering the agenda of the one in the oval office I’d say gridlock is one way to stop him and his radical agenda. If saving our nation results in gridlock then I say let’s have more of it.
No matter what, those brilliant, really-really smart,
intensely, cosmically bright, genius Independents will sway left and vote for Mr. Obama, once again.
(They are brilliant you know; they say it all the time.)
IMHO
Makes no sense to me - take the debt limit - at the end of the day there was a compromise put in place - not everything either side wanted - a compromise. Isn't the process that lead up to the compromise what America is all about - yes, it's a convoluted and contentious process, so what?
Of course, it would be a lot easier having Obama decide as he seems to want to do.
I’m not upset about gridlock. I don’t want to reach across the aisle and compromise (cave in) to a bunch of Liberal loons. Let them reach across and cave in to the idea of restoring the constitutional republic. Otherwise let the gridlock commence.