Should we be led by elites or proles?
This is seemingly a very important question in America today. The Presidency is indisputably held by an elitist, and most Congressional seats are as well. This isn’t so much a partisan issue, although the two champions of elitism vs. grassroots are President Obama and Sarah Palin, respectively.
The battle is age-old, as politicians of all stripes battle for the everyman mantle, or battle to look more intelligent than their opponents. The question still boils down to who people want to represent them. Should your leaders be one with you, or one you trust to make the best decision according to his own special knowledge gained from an Ivy League institution? I’m not sure what the answer will be down the road in American politics, but the battle is certainly on these days.
On one hand, Barack Obama represents the creme-de-la-creme of the Ivies. He chaired the Harvard Law Review, led the masses in Hyde Park as gentle shepherd, and rode the intellectual superhighway to the Presidency. He is presented as a thinker, a concerned councilor, and a brooding genius.
On the other, Sarah Palin is about as meat and potatoes as you can get. Six different colleges, life in rural Alaska, caribou hunter, and she speaks with a Northerly accent that reminds everyone in Minnesota/North Dakota/Wisconsin of their grandmother. The goshes and winks during conversation, as well as her blunt manner suggest a life of rough candor far removed from any of the sensibilities of high living.
The media has made their choice, and they are making it loudly. The media has chosen President Obama, and the elitist background he represents. The tea parties are choosing Sarah Palin as loudly as possible, as well. It appears as if both major parties are choosing elitism so far, but politics are fluid, and the GOP may be teetering toward the latter due to the synergy between the tea parties and the conservative Right.
This represents a huge battle going on in current politics, and one that will determine the fates of both parties very soon.
Eyes on the prize, fellas.
There’s a lot of noise out there regarding “conservative violence” and “tea party terrorism”, both of which have been propagated in the punditocracy and those political enemies who know that if they shift the debate to make their foes look crazy and out of control, they will have successfully papered over their own deeds.
This cannot be allowed to happen. James Clyburn’s assistant said he thought he heard a racist remark, and suddenly everyone is a racist? People threaten violence (a daily occurrence in DC, sadly) and suddenly the conservatives are violent? When was that, exactly? I recall liberal violence for decades going back, but not conservatives or tea party types.
Of course, the posterboy is McVeigh, but he was a kook, and hardly representative of any mainstream when he’s still pointed back to as the “Well, you remember…” guy. The guy who flew into the IRS building wrote ended his manifesto with a pro-communist statement, which hardly jives with, you know, the entire tea party gig. You get what I mean, anyway.
Do not let the debate shift, guys. The goal is to remove this bill from the soul of our country, and enact some actual reform, rather than install the insurance companies and their government overseers as our masters. Liberals wanted single-payer, but then dropped their morals just to get something passed. Bart Stupak took a gallant stand against weak anti-abortion language, but then backed it in turn for a hollow executive order that won’t stand as law unless specifically upheld by Congress. This Congress failed its people by failing to stand up for what they believed in in favor of what they could get enough votes to force on us.
Coburn already went soft on us, but Boehner and DeMint and Cantor and Paul Ryan have it correct. You repeal this bill, and you don’t accept for an instant that the REAL debate is whether some crazies will be crazy. That answer is and always has been yes, and it doesn’t have a damn thing to do with this issue. The GOP has an enormous winning issue here, and its time they step up to the fucking plate for once in their lives. No more pansy-asses. Fight for your principles, and don’t apologize.
An honest statement on climate change.
Ladies and gentlemen, Tom Friedman!
“What I say is if climate change is a hoax, it’s the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the United States of America. Because everything we would do to get ready for climate change, to build this new green industry, would make us more respected, more entrepreneurial, more competitive, more healthy as a country.”
There you go. Brutal honesty. It doesn’t matter if climate change is a hoax because even if its fake, we’ll be better for it. So what if energy prices soar and we shift to socialism? We’ll be better!
Remember when the scientific debate was over? Now it that it crumbles, it never really mattered in the first place.
Damn teabaggers won’t even invade Iran!
I guess when you’re having a hard time in your campaign, and may or may not have any principles at all, anything is game.
Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, D, who is running to succeed appointed Sen. Roland Burris, D, in Barack Obama’s old senate seat, attacked his Republican opponent earlier this week for…opposing an invasion of Iran. From Giannoulias’s website: “Today Mark Kirk (R) took the irresponsible step of saying that he opposes a military option in dealing with Iran. While saying that he believes Iran is in the midst of a “nuclear breakout,” he removed a critical instrument in the U.S. foreign policy toolbox.”
There are a few surprising things here:
1) Giannoulias is ready to INVADE Iran? Look, I’ve been arguing we will need to soon for some time, but I’m just a blogger. We can’t have candidates running around using an invasion of another country we’re not at war with as a realistic issue. Wanna get Iran all fired up and dangerous? This would be one way (electing leaders who campaign on it).
2) Since when are Democrats (or any Democrat not named McLeibermann) for a war effort? Is that you, Zell Miller? Does he represent a contingency that wants to attack Iran that lives in the Left? He must think there is one… or something.
3) Does he realize that this type of argument is the kind that can follow you around for a while? This guy just took a strong stance in favor of a possible war with Iran. Hell, even with my assertion that we have to stop them soon, I want to try all the stuff that doesn’t involve Russia screwing us behind the scenes, China calling in their debts, and our efforts to spend enough on a holy war against the Muslim world (that is where an Iranian war would take us) before we send in the marines.
4) Doesn’t this just show you where the politics of the moment are? Isn’t this an attempt to run to the RIGHT of Kirk? I think that it is, and I think that is endemic of the diseases in the Left right now. Their own members have even tried to pry the conservative mantle from their opponents in the GOP.
Weird stance from a weirder place…
Race-monger Obama to quiety deal out REPARATIONS.
Thanks to Newsmax for daring to report this story.
This is the lowest of the low. Government handouts based on race to fix racial tensions? Good fucking luck with that. I’m not going to ruminate on this issue, as most people can see this for the bullshit race-peddling it is.
Instead, what about this? Obama the deficit hawk (LOL) released a budget that cuts all kinds of “waste”, which includes our fucking space program. We’re going to have to buy rides to space from the god damn commie Russians for years? This is what you thought we should cut? The greatest achievement of science and technology in our nation’s history? Well, yes.
However, we DO have $1.25B for black farmers who were never slaves, and now live in the freest society, where they openly sell their wares. This of course also disregards the farm subsidies they receive, which are part of the biggest subsidy program in the entire nation.
This man is a menace. Congress must stop this bald attempt to drive a race wedge between citizens and to waste more money on Obama’s selected favorites. Tell him that government waste is government waste, and if we can’t afford to go to space, we can’t afford his disgusting social engineering.
Your government is angry. Stand by for sentencing.
Daddy Obama has issued his version of the health care plan. What will we do? Talk of reconciliation, ramming it through, etc. ring in our ears, despite a polling trend that Helen Keller could understand at 500 feet without aid.
Two things:
1) Obama is convinced that more him and more government is the solution. I don’t know if he is misinformed about the citizens’ stance on this, or if he truly believes the path to retaining power is this bill. Which is scarier? I have no clear idea. Think Dems are more or less likely to pass this after Evan Bayh jumps ship, Murtha’s reliable vote is gone, and Scott Brown sounded the alarm?
2) If reconciliation was an option, it would have happened already. Like I said, there is nothing of that sort readily available to the Dems. This is more posturing from them, even as air leaks from their hot air balloons (not a great metaphor).
Stand strong, conservatives. This monster is dying, whatever Obama thinks he can do to save it. Keep your representatives and senators solid, and let the others know that the revolution is coming to their doorstep. Obama is simply staking even more of his political life on this bill, which is no longer surprising, frankly.
Barack Obama is one of the single worst politicians I have ever witnessed in action. The stories of Carter ring in my ears, and they resonate loudly. See that rash of “this country is just too big to govern”? Yeah, they only say that when the President is a miserable failure. None of those articles, so prevalent in the days of Carter, were written once Reagan showed up. Turns out a sound, principled mind gets it done.
George W. Bush once said: “Freedom and fear at war, and freedom is winning.” It applies just as well to this fight as any in the Middle East. The death knell tolls for the Left, and the armies of freedom are marching. Stay firm, and come November, we can return this country to its rightful owners.
NONPOLITICAL POST: Owl City Concert
Hello, single reader! You know who you are.
Anyway, made it over to Madison, WI last night, aka the black heart of liberalism. At the Majestic Theatre within three blocks of the Capitol Building, I saw a concert by Owl City. As much of a girl this may make me, I liked some of their songs, so the gf grabbed a couple of tickets for Xmas and off we went.
Two opening bands were alright, although Lights has a techno-80s feel that’s sorta neat, if unpolished so far. Then came Owl City. I had seen snippets of live shows from them before, and I was a bit worried. Two guys in t-shirts playing with synths, all that, a bit of singing and remixing along the way. Teenage girls swooning over simple lyrics and all that, with some catchy rhythms in there. Really emo dude leading the way. Am I right?
WRONG.
Adam Young, first of all, appears to be about 6’5″ and 175 lbs maybe, making him a very Conan-like figure on the stage. A snappy three piece-suit replaced the Gap shirt squad, and there were 5 other band members, who weren’t really introduced. Some girl on keyboards/vocals, another on percussion/bells, a drummer, a violinist, and a bassist. Young had his own guitars and keyboard/synth thing, a microphone, and a PA, as well. The scene was already far more impressive than I had expected, and then the show started.
Young has about as much stage presence as you can have, frankly. His histrionics and machinations on stage grab your attention, and he’s a hell of an artist, as well. Each song had an alternate entrance and ending, and he dabbled around in some, muddling tracks when he felt like it. Its not a thing like the live shit I’d seen, and I came away impressed as hell. I think that guy is going places fast. His demeanor and showmanship are great, as well as his abilities as an artist.
I give Owl City an A for being surprisingly good, and I will get tickets to see them once more in Milwaukee for sure.
Quickie: Iran and Global Warming Double Feature!
Hey there! Let’s get started:
1) Iran
By the way, we’re still hurtling toward Armageddon with Iran. Iran is still building nukes, and Israel WILL attack them first. There is no way around this reality. Israel will not be struck by a weapon that can eviscerate a healthy percentage of their nation, let alone the priceless historical artifacts and structures there.
I know the Obama Admin. doesn’t want to talk about it, but they were rebuked at the sit down talks, and they’ve made no ground up since. The only difference is that Israel likes us less now then they have for decades. Will we even come to their defense if they strike Iran preemptively? We effin’ better, given the money we’ve spent keeping them together.
So, in short, we’re all gonna die in WW3 and NO ONE FUCKING CARES.
2) Global Warming!
New Report from the UN guys! Isn’t that fun? There’s even more errors! So what would be worse from the Nobel fools, Obama’s prize while prosecuting two wars or Gore et al.’s prize for a report that loses the force of truth with each passing day?
Dr Rajendra Pachauri dismissed calls for him to resign over the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change’s retraction of a prediction that Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035.
Alright then. So, the report spelled out our doom and way overstated GW? I feel like there’s an echo in here. Gee, better convert to socialist policies. More:
“I know a lot of climate sceptics are after my blood, but I’m in no mood to oblige them,” he told The Times in an interview. “It was a collective failure by a number of people,” he said. “I need to consider what action to take, but that will take several weeks. It’s best to think with a cool head, rather than shoot from the hip.”
You mean shoot from the hip as in “THE DEBATE IS OVER ON GLOBAL WARMING”, or shoot from the hip as in, “Hey guys, I think this thing is so up for debate that passing all kinds of stuff to fight it may be hasty”?
A table below says that between 1845 and 1965, the Pindari Glacier shrank by 2,840m — a rate of 135.2m a year. The actual rate is only 23.5m a year.
So, I’m in science. Biochemistry, actually. If you miss a result by a factor of 5.75, you are doing it wrong. That’s the kind of stuff that makes you publish retractions in journals. Its the kind of stuff that can get you stripped of funding and fired. Luckily, Global Warming is getting about as far from science as dog-catching is from science, so we’ll let them keep the prize.
“I was keeping quiet as I was working here,” he said. “My job is not to point out mistakes. And you know the might of the IPCC. What about all the other glaciologists around the world who did not speak out?”
What indeed? And why is there a culture of keeping mum about errors? That is not the hallmark of a good scientific community. Climatology is about self-promotion and solidarity at this point in history, and a crazed drive to get funded, even to the detriment of their own community. This period will go down in history as a shameful one, and it needs to stop.
Whew, that one wasn’t that quick. Well, batting .500 in the majors makes you the best hitter in history, so we’re doing pretty good.
Seacrest out.
Revolutionaries Rejoice!
Scott Brown is now Senator-Elect in Mass.
The Democrats have been handed a message, and its driven by ichor toward health care. The question: Will they back down? Its a hell of a tough bargain, to be honest. Two paths await you, young warriors!
A) They pull center and back off their wildest liberal dreams. They hold on to majorities in 2010, and the GOP has a longer road back.
B) They circle the wagons and try to finish the job. Massive losses smack them in 2010 and Obama becomes a reviled President by 2012. Taxes, debt, etc. The whole nine yards.
What a situation to be in! Abandon your lefty dreams or lose all your power in one fell swoop. Now, Obama has never had to back off a la Bill Clinton in Arkansas then DC, so nobody knows what he’s gonna do. This man has been told all his life how wonderful he is, and how great everything he does is. He’s also from the most Far Left crowds out there, and a true believer.
So, lots of moving pieces here. Will Congress get scurred? Will Obama give the “I have heard you” speech? Will he follow through, given his history of saying whatever he feels and doing other shit instead? Will the tea party movement lose its vigor or go away?
I will say, our chances of defeating ANY health care are greatly increased. Maybe above 50% at this time. If Senators in MA are in play, who can honestly say they’re teflon? Pelosi, Frank, Sanders, out.
America made their intentions known last night. NO MORE FUCKING LIBERALISM.
