Scott
"What's Up With That?"
Scott Brown is not a member of the Confederacy Lite; he is not a right wing conservative who follows the burlesque talking points. He comes from a simple Massachusetts family background, close to working class, close to anti-elitist. Not Harvard. Boston College. Not trendy. Roman Catholic. A Scott Brown Republican. "I'm hopeful that the Senate will seat me..." "...very important issues facing our country..." "I think the message.... the number one thing I've heard is that people are tired of business as usual...Nebraska... just drives people crazy...transparency matter..." ".. they want good government back..." "The one size fits all plan that is being pushed nationally just doesn't work..." "Let the states tell the Federal government..." "We need to look out for Massachusetts first..." "...bottom line ...I'm going to be a Scott Brown Republican...whose not beholden to the special interest and the party..." "We have terrorists who are trying to blow up our planes..." "What's up with that?" "I had some issues growing up.. a guy for Grantham..." "It's not only overwhelming..." "I'm from a Big Tent philosophy..." "I had a great conversation with the President..." "Do you want me to bring the truck?..." "You have to have a sense of humor about politics..." And this is bad news for POTUS and Congress?
The World Turned Upside Down @1:20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6TiooNqPmE&feature=related
John, can we look forward to a discussion of this intriguing tidbit about Tunisia and the Arafat archive?
"That was until August, 2009, when the Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas prevailed on him to accept the appointment of senior deputy to the PA chairman and his heir apparent. The archive manager's move to Ramallah gave Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali his chance. As soon as the Palestinian had gone, Ben Ali sent his secret service to seize the priceless Arafat archive and bar access to any Palestinian official or visitor."
We seem to elect people for what they are not. Obama was not Bush. Already I hear speculation about Scott Brown running for President. But what do we really know about him? Well, he's electable; and he's not Obama.
This is how it works: Because we hated Bush so much, we got Obama. Now, by all accounts, we're in a fix. Does anyone honestly believe that all our problems would just go away if we were to elect someone who is not Obama?
No. We need to walk this monkey back. We needed to do something way before anyone ever heard the names Bush and Obama. We needed to pay more attention to what our kids were learning at school. We needed to hold our politicians to account. We needed to cancel our newspaper and cable subscriptions much sooner. We needed to take more of an interest in our local civic affairs. We needed to protest against clear double standards. We needed to uphold the law. We needed to be moral. We needed to be more selective in what we were reading. We needed to defend people we agree with when they came under attack. We needed to read and understand our history and our Constitution.
There are so many things we might have done, but failed to do. In the meantime, incrementally, things have suddenly reached a tipping point. We all can feel it. Now we can no longer avail ourselves of the usual quick fix. (Throw money at it.) Multiple fires are raging throughout the house. It already threatens the children’s rooms. We'll need to incrementally walk the monkey back from the brink. And that may yet take a hell of a long time.
http://peterkoelliker.blogspot.com/
With apologies to Geico, this whole election was so easy even a caveman could understand it. Everyone, left and right alike, is making it way to complicated, IMO.
A majority of people in Massachusetts were terrified of Reid-Pelosi, so they voted for somebody who pledged to vote against it. They did, he won, and it seems to be working.
As to burlesque points, one man's serious platform is another man's burlesque point, I guess. It would take somebody so far to the right that they started wearing storm trooper boots before it started worrying me. Lefties have to be taught a very serious lesson, to never, EVER try this crap again.
I wouldn't mind digging up Joe McCarthy and letting him have his way for 18 months or so. It would do this country some good at this point. Just to restore some semblance of balance.
Lou--you've got your history wrong--storm troopers were the henchmen of lefties/socialists. other than that, I agree with you completely. I can do without McCarthy however. There are better ways to educate the populace on what liberals, socialists and "modern progressives" are about. I think history will show the BHO/Pelosi/Reid syndicate to be a case of American's staring their destruction in the face and saving themselves at the very last second.
It is hindsight now but I suspect they could have pulled it off if they could have paced their scheme; but they couldn't save themselves from their own over-reaching, hell-bent race to transforming the world.
I don't really want to educate. I want to punish. I've got a fair amount of bitterness built up inside me against having to live forever under this shadow of government takeover and people voting themselves free lunches with the pretense of having the moral high ground. I want to see them burn in hell. Except being an atheist, I don't believe in hell, so I'd like to make them suffer here the way they've made me suffer. I want them to live out their lives in a constant dark shadow of fear. I want Harry Reid to die a broken man.
There is a difference between blind revenge and (blind) justice. Why aren't Reid, Pelosi, Dodd, Rangel, Schumer and Frank in jail? Oh, I know, I've left out a few; but you get the idea.
Lou, Peter--
I feel your pain :) My anger is directed more to the type of pol who would offer people free lunches to those who, sometimes willfully ignorant, think lunch can be delivered that way. So to me the politics of a country come down to the enlightened (ie, generally, 1)favoring conservative constitutional adherence, free markets, little government involvement in anything and 2) walking the talk of self-responsibility, blame oneself first and only for success or failure, "internal locus of control".)
As for the dumbos making up far too much of the electorate we can only hope practically to educate them and empower them along the lines Jack Kemp would advocate (to little avail I must admit).
Another strategy is to limit the number of people who are predisposed to the dole. We import poverty that all too often is in the same package with a not-so-great brain and poorly developed self-sufficiency ethic--made in heaven for the free lunch politician obviously.
Other dole recipients include public employees of all stripes. they have a vested interest in more and more government presence and profligacy. Not all clearly--but they will certainly lean into the big government promise as is only rational for them. It is also rational for the poor to want a free lunch. Unfortunately it is at my and your expense.
"Another strategy is to limit the number of people who are predisposed to the dole. We import poverty that all too often is in the same package with a not-so-great brain and poorly developed self-sufficiency ethic--made in heaven for the free lunch politician obviously."
You are a man after my own black heart. Too bad that the Republican establishment--the polar opposite of what the usually inventive Mr. Batchelor repetetively and wearisomely refers to as the Confederacy Lite, which is to say the conservative descendants of those Southerners who escaped slaughter during Mr. Lincoln's consolidation of Federal power--does not share your good sense.
For instance, chucklehead Elliot Abrams, Norman Podhoretz's son-in law and therefore eminently suited to be a participant in every Neocon screwup from from the Salvodoran death squads to Iran-Contra to the abortive 2002 Venezuelan coup to our ruinous invasion of Iraq, now urges in the pages of the Washington Post that we take in millions of wretched Haitian immigrants (http://tinyurl.com/ygexflr), presumably on the theory that the fewer Haitians there are living in Haiti, the better off that hellhole will be.
And the Wall Street Journal now urges a similiar policy (http://tinyurl.com/ycmjhad), hilariously contending that "Haitian immigrants as a group are among America's most successful." They neglect to mention that Haitian immigrants have a poverty rate of 16.1% versus a rate of 6.2% for white Americans; receive food stamps at a rate of 11.3% versus 5.6% for white Americans; get a high school dipoloma at a rate of 26.1% versus 10.6% for white Americans; and lag in every other metric behind not only white Americans but Hispanic immigrants, whom the Wall Street Journal also favors since their numbers keep down the wages that our corporate overlords must pay ordinary working Americans.
Mr. Batchelor likes to speak of "burlesque." Well, there's some real burlesque for you.