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Do we actually live in a democracy, Donna? I thought this was a republic.
1 posted on 05/20/2013 7:48:30 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Donna, I can sum up your argument just fine:

“How dare anyone question the authority of the government of the United States?” She said we have two alternatives as we go down this road: anarchy or authoritarianism. It’s pretty clear which one she picked.


2 posted on 05/20/2013 7:52:14 AM PDT by henkster (I have one more cow than my neighbor. I am a kulak.)
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This is what they have been aiming for all along. I think they just got a glimpse of what it will look like when it happens. I have no dobut the American people will come together when the time comes, it will be a war of the takers vs the makers and the makers will win.


3 posted on 05/20/2013 7:52:21 AM PDT by McGavin999
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When one looks at the left ... one sees ignorance on display with a desire to place those who disagree on a train.


4 posted on 05/20/2013 7:52:49 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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The rise of the Alinskyites is what has polarized the country, Ms. Alinsky.

The purpose of Rules for Radicals is polarization, marginalization and extermination of those you disagree with.

5 posted on 05/20/2013 7:52:55 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("“Somebody has to be courageous enough to stand up to the bullies." Dr. Ben Carson)
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I heard this am on am radio that 43% of Americans think the IRS targeting of conservative groups is all A-OK.

How is THAT for “civility”?


6 posted on 05/20/2013 7:54:34 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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Hey, donna, your american idol, barrack hussein obama, has already turned it into an autocratic, race baiting government with chief us attorney backing him at every corner.


7 posted on 05/20/2013 7:55:16 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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"A government of, by, and for the people requires that people talk to people, that we can agree to disagree but do so in civility."

I'm so done with that, Donna. All chance of talking ended when your boy issued his "I want you to get in their faces" directive back in 2008. You crossed the Rubicon long ago.
9 posted on 05/20/2013 7:56:10 AM PDT by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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Because two "scandals" -- the IRS tax-exempt inquiries and the Department of Justice's tapping of reporters' phones -- have become lynch parties.

Not yet Donna, but we're working on it.

5.56mm

10 posted on 05/20/2013 7:58:26 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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Evil people who wish to empower themselves by doing me harm have always been extremely “partisan.” They have always found a home in the Democrat party and they have always hated everyone who does not partake in their evil. Now these same people are becoming unmasked and are upset that the vitims of their evil have begun to hate them back.


11 posted on 05/20/2013 7:59:37 AM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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Let's see what else Abe had to say in that speech.

It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them. The question then, is, can that gratification be found in supporting and maintaining an edifice that has been erected by others? Most certainly it cannot.... It thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves, or enslaving freemen.

The question is whether it is possible to seek "truth springing from argument amongst friends" when those friends are nothing of the kind, but people who openly proclaim their intention to "fundamentally change" America. Whether their doing so really constitutes "enslaving free men" can be debated, but if that is indeed their goal then they aren't really friends at all.

Back to Lincoln: Is it unreasonable then to expect, that some man possessed of the loftiest genius, coupled with ambition sufficient to push it to its utmost stretch, will at some time, spring up among us? And when such a one does, it will require the people to be united with each other, attached to the government and laws, and generally intelligent, to successfully frustrate his designs.

We're not dealing here, to be sure, with a Bonaparte, which seemed to be Lincoln's concern, but with a class or group that is convinced it is right and proper for them to tyrannize over the rest of us.

Yet the author of this piece believes we should treat them as friends equally seeking only the good of all. Abe thought the rest of us needed to band together to fight them, not pretend they aren't determined to destroy our system.

12 posted on 05/20/2013 7:59:51 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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The IRS scandal should result in the repeal of the income tax, the dissolution of the IRS, and the abolition of government employee unions.


13 posted on 05/20/2013 8:01:16 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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Our democracy is endangered.

She’s right...with that one simple statement. We’re not a democracy. We’re a Constitutional Republic.

The Left keeps throwing the word democracy out there in hopes of convincing people, and I think they’ve done a decent job on this, that we’re a democracy...not a Republic.


15 posted on 05/20/2013 8:02:02 AM PDT by ealgeone (obama, border)
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Donna can BREAK this terrible (so-called) partisanship by calling for Obama’s resignation.


16 posted on 05/20/2013 8:02:12 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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Even Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein says he doubts very much that Obama was involved

I'm sure he isn't.

He is the face of a parallel government. He is a cardboard cutout.

18 posted on 05/20/2013 8:05:40 AM PDT by marron
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Translation: Lack of civility = criticizing the anointed one.
19 posted on 05/20/2013 8:06:08 AM PDT by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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Our democracy is endangered

Good. Democracy is evil.

21 posted on 05/20/2013 8:06:25 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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They are giddy over the Bush appointee..


22 posted on 05/20/2013 8:09:08 AM PDT by cardinal4 (Skip impeachment and move straight to deportation..)
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This is the end game of Democrats for any who dare challenge their divine appointment to rule over all of us.

23 posted on 05/20/2013 8:13:12 AM PDT by Obadiah (High speed, low drag.)
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A summary of Donna Brazile’s article:

Accept the end of America, otherwise it’ll end America.


24 posted on 05/20/2013 8:15:01 AM PDT by kidd
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When a moderate Republican administration is in office, the left foams at the mouth. It is like watching a pack a rabid dogs tearing away at a lamb. All of the mainstream, “leftwing” media go at it with a vengeance, their excuse being that questioning government is their job. But let a leftwing radical get in office, and watch the corruption roll, while the leftwing media does all it can to help.

Screw sitting quietly by while the leftist media fails to do its job. Obama’s imperial government sucks, and it needs to be run out of town.


28 posted on 05/20/2013 8:19:36 AM PDT by pallis
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