Posted on 01/15/2014 12:35:59 AM PST by onyx
Sarah Palin’s brother, Chuck Heath Jr., posted this note on Facebook on January 11, 2014:
My father, who worked multiple jobs and faithfully and honestly paid his taxes for fifty years, had never heard a word from the IRS. In 2008, his daughter was tapped to run for vice president of the United States. Since that time, he has been, in his words “horribly harassed” six times by the agency. They’ve tried to dig up something on him but he’s always operated above board.
Government and politics are ugly. Kudos to the few that are trying to clean it up.
Coincidence? You decide.
Actually, it seems pretty unlikely that this is coincidence because conservative after conservative have been targeted by the IRS and not only has Obama done nothing about it, he’s actually trying to change the law to make it legal to target his political enemies. This is a lawless administration run by a man who believes the ends justify the means.
Now, here’s the real question: What are the Republicans in D.C. going to do about it?
I like feisty!
Yes, and arrogant. They don’t even care if anyone notices.
None feistier......
And... you can bet your bottom dollar the the NSA probably has a whole section dedicated to monitoring Sarah and all her family trying to collect some sort of dirt they can use against her. The sad part is, the GOP is probably fully aware of these actions, and is quietly sanctioning them because of the threat she poses to their way of life.
Man. Even the Mob tries to avoid going after families and kids.
bkmk
Excellent point and the absolute truth!
I hadn't even given thought to the NSA with regard to Sarah Palin, but I'll wager you're right.
The Marxist would put her atop his enemy list.
Orwell had them pegged big time.
And So are you!
You both deserve his blessings!
That is what F.R. is for!
Onyx even TOLD Sarah in person about us.
She knows us and she knows we are here for her!
I do believe that when we get back into power... we just might have to seek revenge against those that would destroy us. Just enough to let them know that they NEVER want to try that crap again. I do not want to hear about how we are the good guys and never do those things... this is war and war is hell. We will be nice again when there is peace.
Amen!
I looked up "hegemony" and found this definition: -- control or dominating influence by one person or group, especially by one political group over society or one nation over others.
RKBA, may I?
jonrick, the Republican nominee for President in 2012 was on board philosophically with everything Obama was on board with, though in a different manner. But Romney was all for Obamacare in principle. He was all for global warming environmentalist hokum, and the great need for government regulation it would entail. He was all for the same gay agenda as the left, down to the "right" to punish the Boy Scouts for refusing to embrace openly gay Scouts and Scout leaders. Romney is philosophically on board with the whole gay agenda. Abortion, gun control, judicial activism -- Romney is philosophically rooted in the same ground as Obama or any other Democrat -- that is, liberal, un-Constitutional use of government to force people to be "moral" the left's way, and honor homosexual marriage, and to go along with total government control of your health care, and the morality of forcing severe eco-friendly regulation on American food and energy production and use. Romney was for as much government there as any Democrat.
And Romney was put there by the GOP, the "Republican" brand, with their full support and blessing.
That's one small way that I would describe what I think RKBA means when he talks about the Uniparty hegemony.
There are millions of Americans who want to vote for the guy who is going to shrink government, reduce the Federal scope, go the opposite direction. What party, what candidate, offers that option?
You have written a very insightful response, which is what I hoped you would do. I see this hegemony as a system of economic rewards given to those who give economic support to a politician’s reelection campaign. It is a cycle of rewards that requires that government grows bigger and bigger. In the hands of the Left, Big Government wants to instigate hard Communism. In the hands of the Republicans, we have Big Government Marxism Light. Both parties are involved in it.
To increase the stakes of the rewards, they create legislation that drives potential campaign contributors to contribute in order to lessen the impact of the legislation on themselves. It is all a money game, with the citizen caught in the corruption of the body politics with loss of freedom.
That was a good reply Finny. I was using the dictionary definition of hegemony. I find it unfortunate that we’re stuck with what is in effect a one party system of government.
While the two factions of the uniparty spend a lot of time and resources yelling and screaming at each other, you notice that the policies of the factions just aren’t all that different. If your underlying belief is that the scope and role of government should be expanded, this isn’t going to bother you much. If you believe the opposite, then you’re pretty much shut out.
While conservative candidates had something of a good run in 2010 and 2011, I think the leadership of both factions of the uniparty are resolved to stamp out conservatism as best they can.
Well said, and true. Thanks for your kind words, as well.
I find it unfortunate that we’re stuck with what is in effect a one party system of government.
I think it's hugely and sadly naïve to think that the GOP will change enough to nominate a limited government conservative in 2016. That's about as likely as me winning $millions in the Lotto. Maybe even less likely. I am very, very sad to say it as I have voted straight Republican ticket for nearly 40 years; that ended in 2012, when I voted third party (FOR a plurality) rather than FOR making liberalism more powerful in both parties (what every vote for Romney/"against" Obama was FOR).
There is probably only ONE civil, peaceful way out of this via the ballot box, and:
1. If it happens, will happen whether we like it or not
2. It will seem far too risky for conventional thinkers, although the alternative, of voting for a Romney/Christie-type Republican for president in order to block a more liberal Democrat from taking the White House, entails absolutely ZERO risk, none whatsoever. ZERO risk, ZILCH risk, in electing a Romney/Christie -- America is guaranteed more and bigger government with opposition devastated in the only party poised to fight government expansion. Risk is the price you pay for opportunity. There is ZERO risk in running a leftist/statist Uniparty Republican, thus ZERO opportunity for restoring limited government and Christian morality to the USA.
3. The one peaceful way out of it will have the potential of uniting more Americans from across the political spectrum than anything American politics has seen in a very long time, because today's Democrats and Republicans and Independents are mostly opposed to abortion, opposed to the homosexual agenda, opposed to nationalized health care, opposed to freeloading slobs living on welfare and VOTING for more of it, opposed to government's presumption in enforcing what it views as "morality" (gay "rights" and charitable "welfare" are just two examples) and opposed to anti-2nd Amendment efforts. MOST AMERICANS, Democrats and Republicans, object to most or all of those things; they just blame the other party for exacerbating them. They vote for their own candidate not because they want him, but because they fear the other party's candidate will be worse.
We don't need a Third Party. We need a 2nd Party to represent all those Americans. Without one -- things will continue to avalanche toward tyranny regardless of which branch of the Uniparty wins the White House.
If we lack the guts to back a limited-government politician who declares so-called "third party," then we forfeit any and all opportunity to save ourselves. NO GUTS, NO GLORY.
“The one peaceful way out of it will have the potential of uniting more Americans from across the political spectrum than anything American politics has seen in a very long time....”
Well, I disagree that there is just one. I think that there are in fact several, but they don’t involve electoral politics.
But your point is a good one and I want to show you something that most FReepers haven’t seen. This is definitely a left website, just not incredibly stupid left like msnbc or DU.
Now I don’t agree with them and am not trying to spread their views. But you should note some of the titles of the articles and of the books being sold:
-Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion
-Your Rights Aren’t Worth Crap
-Deception and Double-Standards at Mandela’s Funeral
-A Eulogy for the Fourth Amendment
Seems a whole lot like topics that are part of the discussion here at FR.
Well, I disagree that there is just one. I think that there are in fact several, but they don’t involve electoral politics.
Agreed -- third party (actually, 2nd party) is the only way via the ballot box that I can think of. But ways not involving electoral politics -- it can go almost any direction.
Yep -- America is made up of Americans, some of whom have been lifelong Democrats, and some of whom have been lifelong Republicans. If my own personal experiences with friends/fellow Americans reflects what's happening across the nation --
-- then many Democrats voted for Obama, even though they thought he stunk, for EXACTLY the same reason many Republicans voted for Romney, even though they thought he stunk. People here hated Romney but voted for him saying they were actually voting "against" Obama because OMG, ANYBODY BUT OBAMA!!!!!!!! Countless Democrats hated Obama but voted for him because, OMB, ANYBODY BUT A REPUBLICAN!!!!!
Here is a simple truth that it took me almost three decades to figure out: the only thing that counts at the polls is what you are voting for. There is no such thing as voting "against," and what you vote "against" means zilch, zero, nada after the election is over. The ONLY THING that counts is what you vote FOR.
Both sides have ignored that mathematical truth, and America is paying the consequences.
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