Death Panels?
March 9th, 2010 by ELCore
Why would anybody think that statists might decide that death panels will be necessary?
“Democrat-Media Complex Accuses Tea Partiers of Being On… the Other Side”
March 8th, 2010 by ELCore
An article at Big Journalism, Mar. 6 (emphasis in original):
….. The Tea Party is validated and emboldened when the MSM whines about their rallies and demands. They are enjoying their own sport of watching the MSM frantically rushing to resuscitate a dying agenda of one-world government, socialized medicine, and elimination of state and national sovereignty. Their shrill protestations embolden Tea Partiers to fight another day, while confirming their worst suspicions about the MSM’s true agenda. The fierce individualist American Spirit has awoken from its nap and is ready for action! The MSM might be dismayed to learn that they are the very noise that awakened the giant. They dared Conservatives to show their faces, and they did!…
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“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.” (Ford)
The View from the Other Side of the Universe
March 8th, 2010 by ELCore
First, an essay by By Chris Hedges, Mar. 1st, at Truthdig:
…. Obama lies as cravenly, if not as crudely, as George W. Bush. He promised us that the transfer of $12.8 trillion in taxpayer money to Wall Street would open up credit and lending to the average consumer. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), however, admitted last week that banks have reduced lending at the sharpest pace since 1942. As a senator, Obama promised he would filibuster amendments to the FISA Reform Act that retroactively made legal the wiretapping and monitoring of millions of American citizens without warrant; instead he supported passage of the loathsome legislation. He told us he would withdraw American troops from Iraq, close the detention facility at Guantánamo, end torture, restore civil liberties such as habeas corpus and create new jobs. None of this has happened.
He is shoving a health care bill down our throats that would give hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to the private health insurance industry in the form of subsidies, and force millions of uninsured Americans to buy insurers’ defective products. These policies would come with ever-rising co-pays, deductibles and premiums and see most of the seriously ill left bankrupt and unable to afford medical care. Obama did nothing to halt the collapse of the Copenhagen climate conference, after promising meaningful environmental reform, and has left us at the mercy of corporations such as ExxonMobil. He empowers Israel’s brutal apartheid state. He has expanded the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where hundreds of civilians, including entire families, have been slaughtered by sophisticated weapons systems such as the Hellfire missile, which sucks the air out of victims’ lungs. And he is delivering war and death to Yemen, Somalia and perhaps Iran….
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Second, ACLU Ad: What Will it Be, Mr. President?:
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Obama Used to Say Healthcare Reform Would Need More Than a “50-plus-1 Majority”
March 4th, 2010 by ELCore
Best of the Web Today, yesterday, has a transcript:
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St. Louis Newspaper Profiles Dana Loesch
March 4th, 2010 by ELCore
…. At age 31, Loesch is a homeschooling mom blogger with a national following, a co-founder of the St. Louis Tea Party and a fast-rising star in the conservative commentators’ universe. A self-described smart aleck with a saucy delivery in print and on air, she subscribes to the last-word-wins-the-argument theory and commences many a sentence with the disclaimer, “Now I know this is going to make a lot of people mad, but…” ….
“America’s coming for you, Congress!”
March 3rd, 2010 by ELCore
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“Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.” (Roosevelt)
Mainstream Media’s Number Two Rule
March 1st, 2010 by ELCore
Help the Democrats, hurt the Republicans.
Yes, I do think it’s as simple as that.
At Power Line Blog, yesterday, John Hinderaker skewers a column, also yesterday, by New York Times columnist Frank Rich.
Ain’t the Internet grand? A blogger can dissect a column, refuting it point by point, the very day it’s published, and have the dissection read by (probably) as many people as had read the original column. The very same day! Before the Internet, it would have taken weeks for a written rebuttal to appear in print, somewhere, if it would ever get printed at all.
But I want to take a closer look at another article, also yesterday, by Michael Calderone at Politico, discussing mainstream media’s failure to report Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards’s adultery:
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“Today We Are One”
February 28th, 2010 by ELCore
Pajamas Media presents “Photos from the Tea Party’s One-Year Anniversary”.
Tea Party Movement – 1 Year & Still Growing
Tea Partying Really Got Going a Year Ago [Updated]
February 28th, 2010 by ELCore
An article in, of all places, the New York Times, yesterday:
…. A year ago, frustrated that every time she called her senators to urge them to vote against the $787 billion stimulus bill their mailboxes were full, and tired of wearing out the ear of her Obama-voting fiancé, [Keli] Carender decided to hold a protest against what she called the “porkulus.”
“I basically thought to myself: ‘I have two courses. I can give up, go home, crawl into bed and be really depressed and let it happen,’ ” she said this month while driving home from a protest at the State Capitol in Olympia. “Or I can do something different, and I can find a new avenue to have my voice get out.”
This weekend, as Tea Party members observe the anniversary of the first mass protests nationwide, Ms. Carender’s path to activism offers a lens into how the movement has grown, taking many people who were not politically active — it is not uncommon to meet Tea Party advocates who say they have never voted — and turning them into a force that is rattling both parties as they look toward the midterm elections in the fall….
Keli Carender resists the idea of a Tea Party leader — “there are a thousand leaders,” she says. But she has become a leader, and a celebrity. Ms. Carender at a recent rally in Olympia, Wash.
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BTW, the reporter, Kate Zernike, stands accused of character assassination. See also Breitbart to NY Times Reporter for Alleging Racial Tones at CPAC: “You’re a Despicable Human Being”.
Update: Moe Lane makes some good observations.
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“What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?” (Jefferson)
National Journal Interviews Charlie Cook
February 26th, 2010 by ELCore
And James Taranto offers some observations on the interview.
From an article by Theresa Poulson, Feb. 18th (embedded ellipsis in original):
…. I think in politics in general and particularly in midterm elections, intensity matters. And whether a movement is constituted by tens of millions or hundreds of millions of people or not, if it’s a sizable enough group with enough intensity, they can make a huge impact.
And I think back in July and August during the town meetings, there was an enormous amount of intensity and it was really sort of the early warning signal that something was going horribly wrong for the president and Democrats in Congress, to build up that kind of intensity of opposition so early on and creating a political environment which a lot of Democratic members of Congress had to be looking at their $173,000 a year pay stubs and thinking, “Gosh, this isn’t nearly enough money to put up with this kind of abuse.” And they did have abused heaped on them.
But I think the Democratic problems and the president’s problems, they, by a factor of a hundred, go beyond the Tea Party movement, but the Tea Party movement is sort of the tip of the sword….
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