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| 2010-10-22 |
| The Democrats are about to be beaten by something they do not in their heart of hearts think exists - a huge national majority. At this late hour, with the storm clouds gathering and the livestock getting restless, they see only sunshine. Yes, there is "foreign money" out there. Yes, the media have bungled broadcasting the purity of the Democratic message. And naturally, angry voices can be heard. Yet surely there is no majority gathering to unseat the party of decency and good deeds. Well, there is, and it is nothing like the Democrats describe it. That majority is amiable, sensible and believes in limited government. It is convinced that we face a catastrophic budget crisis and that measures must be taken against the spending and on behalf of growth. Furthermore, many of these friendly Americans would be delighted to give our president a ride home if they found him on a street corner, though they would be a lot happier if he did not live at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. They doubt he would ask them in for a drink. After all, to him they do not exist. Many of these people are Tea Partiers. They certainly do exist. Yet they are nothing like the Democrats believe them to be. They are not angry and warlike. They are concerned about what the Democrats have done these past months, but they will retire them the old-fashioned way - through the ballot box. Our president has a difficult time conceiving of this growing majority that opposes him. Apparently, in May, President B.O. invited a group of presidential historians to the White House to discuss history and inform him of any historic movements comparable to the Tea Party movement in all of American history. The historians told him what he wanted to hear. As Peter Baker wrote in the New York Times Magazine, the president wanted to know whether there were "precedents for this sort of backlash against the establishment. What sparked them and how did they shape American politics." Reportedly, the historians spoke of the Know-Nothings of the 1850s, the Populists of the 1890s and the Coughlinites of the 1930s. Thus our president was reassured. They were racists and fruitcakes. He heard nothing to challenge his smug sense of history. There were a few other incidents and people they could have talked about if they hadn't been wearing their blinders. There were the Abolitionists, for example. They simply wouldn't shut up about freeing those damned slaves. There was the Whiskey Rebellion, back in President Washington's time. And there were those Texans, holed up in their Alamo. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #17 free universal education with university entrance determined by SAT scores How...German of you. Why so late, just start it at age 13, I think that's when they start, don't they? |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2010-10-22 22:10 |
| #16 No cosmetic surgery, you want breast implants you pay for them yourself Hollyweird gets a tax deduction/write off, don't they? for business? |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2010-10-22 22:09 |
| #15 Government healthcare has worked terrifically in Australia and Britain. Who underwrites their defense again? |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2010-10-22 22:08 |
| #14 LOL i love it. Foreign aid money redistributed as foreign travelling allowance for ordinary taxpayers (only people who actually ever paid tax) |
| Posted by: anon1 2010-10-22 21:50 |
| #13 I don't think we should end foriegn subsidies. We should limit them to subsidised vacations for American taxpayers. Not earned income taxpayers gettin a check, real live taxpayers. Give them a thousand bucks spending money if they stay in a large resort setting, five K if they stay in a SMALL privatly owned place. Most countrys we give money to have demonstrated just how well the peoples lives are improved by our money. Not at all. Give the money to the people and let the governments get what they can through taxes. Countrys not safe for Americans? Might want to work on that. |
| Posted by: notascrename 2010-10-22 20:59 |
| #12 Incorrect, Bright Pebbles A healthy economy needs a healthy stable workforce to succeed. A population where many people are running about with undiagnosed mental illnesses or who are otherwise incapacitated because they can't pay for basic healthcare does not lay a stable workforce for industry. It could easily be paid for just by the US taxes that are now being given away to the rest of the world. Remember "no taxation without representation"? When was the last time YOU got to vote at the UN? Or in Kenya? So why should you be forced to pay tax to those entities? Anybody wants to give money to the next Haitian earthquake, they can do it VOLUNTARILY through charity - Government has no right at all to throw away your taxes. It seems quite simple to me, spend US taxes on US citizens and the country will be a lot happier. It won't cost a dime - simply what you save. Government healthcare has worked terrifically in Australia and Britain. |
| Posted by: anon1 2010-10-22 19:32 |
| #11 Our president has a difficult time conceiving of this growing majority that opposes him. Apparently, in May, President B.O. invited a group of presidential historians to the White House to discuss history and inform him of any historic movements comparable to the Tea Party movement in all of American history. Let's see, scratches, head, ooh, this one's a toughy. Umm, Tea Party, Tea Party, where in history have I heard that before? Didn't some unwashed rabble get a silly notion into their heads they're not serfs and rally against a King? |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2010-10-22 19:30 |
| #10 The Democrats are about to be beaten by something they do not in their heart of hearts think exists - a huge national majority Tricky Dick was RIGHT? Who'da thunk? LOLOLOLOL |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2010-10-22 19:26 |
| #9 anon1 you'd ruin the economy, even worse than the democrats. The economy runs on reciprocation , not failure reward freebies susbsidised by economy damaging extortion. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2010-10-22 19:18 |
| #8 also I forgot tarrifs on chinese imports to offset the pegged yuan that might help the ailing manufacturing sector. So: who wants to vote for me? :) |
| Posted by: anon1 2010-10-22 19:09 |
| #7 If I could be Bushitler, Obamanation and the Governator all rolled into one, with absolute control of congress, I could fix the beautiful USA to a functioning, wonderful place with a healthy economy for decades to come. this is what I would do: 1) cut all foreign aid to zero 2) remove all funding from the UN and kick them out of New York 3) bring the troops home from Afghanistan, leaving only Iraq because of the oil. Leave the Afghans to fester, under threat of nuking mecca if any more planes are flown into buildings 4) channel all the money saved from no more aid/UN/afghan war to the following (for citizens only): i) free universal (basic) healthcare. No cosmetic surgery, you want breast implants you pay for them yourself (unless you are a cancer survivor who needs to replace a missing breast eg) ii) free universal (basic) dental care. no gold teeth here, just basic dental care iii) free universal optical care. you need glasses, you get them iv) free universal education with university entrance determined by SAT scores there would be plenty of money left over for the pension liabilities then I would deport every illegal immigrant. You don't have a greencard or a visa? get out. the soldiers brought back from afghanistan can be put to work nation building and winning hearts and minds... in America! They can be repairing the roads and building infrastructure alongside a newly invigorated construction sector. All prisoners should be forced to work in chain gangs You don't work, you don't eat. You get all the water you want though. And the piece de resistance of my 5-year plane? Compulsory (temporary and reversible) sterilisation for all on welfare and in prison. If you can't afford to support yourself then you can't afford to breed. that means vasectomies for the men, and implanon implants for the women. both reversible - once you can prove you have been in a full-time job for three months. Healthcare, education, infrastructure and spending US taxes on US citizens That's how I'd fix America. |
| Posted by: anon1 2010-10-22 19:05 |
| #6 From the headline, I was expecting this to be some sort of apology/explanation from the Tyrell Corporation as to why their latest Nexus model seems to be going into failure mode. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2010-10-22 14:32 |
| #5 The problem is the career politicians believed they had the election thing figured out. They thought that gerrymandering software that's available would ensure victory no matter what they did. As the Economist magazine said several years ago: "Voters used to select their representatives. Now the politicians select their voters". Al |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2010-10-22 11:30 |
| #4 I think the biggest thing that should come out of this election is to really pound down the idea, repeated endlessly, that it is not the Democrats *as people* who were turned out by the public, but an utter, complete, and unified rejection of their "ideas". After lesser losses, the Democrats have come out to call the public "ignorant", "stupid", "foolish", "uneducated", etc., etc. And they MUST be challenged on this. It is not the public that have "failed" the ideas of the Democrats. It is the ideas of the Democrats that are failures. They are losers. The public rejects them. And the public is not stupid for doing so. The Democrat ideas are wrong and bad. Worthless and repulsive. Their philosophy is a failure. Their intellectual guides are losers. Be they Keynesians, proponents of socialized medicine, advocates of 'whole language' English and the equally despicable 'whole math", Kinsey's corrupt and perverted studies of human sexuality, etc. These ideas are villainous and deserve to be rejected and discarded. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-10-22 10:23 |
| #3 The Democrats are about to be beaten by something they do not in their heart of hearts think exists - a huge national majority. The entire MO is to pit American against American in cultural wars. They view us all as a bunch of warring tribes to be played off against each other. Why would they think there is a huge national majority? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-10-22 10:13 |
| #2 And the Bonus Army. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2010-10-22 00:37 |
| #1 Don't forget the Jacksonians. Fed up with stock jobbing bankers. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-10-22 00:17 |