How many brave American’s will die at the hands of a ruthless enemy because of poor leadership from America’s political leaders? How long will they fight an enemy abroad so that enemy can be treated as a common criminal Americas courts? How many tax payer dollars will be spent on lawyers, housing, trials, etc? How long, assuming these terrorists are convicted, will these terrorists be alive exhausting all their appeals in America’s judicial system? How many brave Americans will die abroad during the trial?
How many Americans will be beholden to the establishment running Washington because they collect a check from the government? How many of these Americans will have the wherewithal to vote against the people handing them money they didn’t work for? How many millions must we spend in the largest expansion of government power ever in the history of our nation? How many duplicate government agencies will we continue to fund?
How many people will transition from private employers to government employment? How many will quit working altogether with the belief that government will support them? How long is the road to socialism, are we there yet, will we know when we get there? How long before they run out of other peoples money? How many leaders, elected or otherwise, will stand up against the socialist tide?
How long until people of courage take back our government? Who will be the Jefferson, Adams, and Washington of the next revolution? Who in congress will put country before party? How long until the other 50% of the electorate see the similarities between our current leaders and Vladimir Lenin, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Adolf Hitler, and Hugo Chavez?
How many will die needlessly? How long will revolution take? Who will lead us from the perils of socialism?
If not you, who? If not now, when?
After 233 years haven’t we as a society reached a point where can end discrimination? Why must people be segregated based on race, religion, social status, or politics? The new head of the NFL Players Association seeks to bar a private citizen from investing his money in an NFL team for what reason? Simply because this citizen dared to exercise his first amendment right of free speech and pointed out the hypocrisy of the sports media in America and their hype of a quarterback in Philadelphia simply because of his race.
So Rush Limbaugh was asked to participate in a perspective ownership group looking to buy the St. Louis Rams. He’s a private citizen; he has made his money legally. Rush has no ties to gambling or other entities that are barred by the NFL unlike other owners whose family businesses include gambling. St. Louis gets a part owner with ties to the area, someone that has done more for the sport than most of the people in it. That’s not enough apparently, today to be an owner you have to be liberal. You have to promote the socialist policies of a President and a Congress that seeks the destruction of everything the country was founded upon.
Rush had made a comment on ESPN back in 2003 referencing the quarterback in Philadelphia that the medias interest in this quarterback was because they wanted to see a black quarterback succeed. The statement wasn’t racist, in fact it Rush was pointing out the racism by the sports media. They are overtly racist, were then, are now. That hasn’t changed. In the years since we were treated to glowing stories about Tony Dungy being the first black coach to win Super Bowl. We weren’t treated to the stories of how wonderful a coach Tony Dungy was and the masterful a job he did at not only building the Tampa Bay Buccaneers organization that went on to win a Super Bowl the year after he was shown the door, but the job he did in rebuilding the Indianapolis Colts into a Super Bowl Championship team a couple of years later. The focus was only about his race and not his skill and that is a shame.
Who did Tony Dungy owe his success to, his own hard work, his players, his staff, the ownership group that supported him, the fans. Not just those who happen to be black.
Rush has been successful in an entirely different field. Does he owe his success only to himself, only to the white members of his hard working staff, only to his white listeners? No Rush owes his success to his hard work, his hard working staff of all races and genders, and his listeners, millions of listeners who are White, Black, Latino, Asian, etc.
I have heard Tony Dungy speak about success, and race is never part of that but the media doesn’t hear that they only look at his race. I have heard Rush Limbaugh speak about success, race isn’t part of that either and again the media doesn’t hear. The media has been in the business of speaking so long that they have grown tone deaf to what the people actually think and believe.
Much like our government.
It comes as no surprise that President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. This committee of socialists has a long rich history of rewarding the intentions of socialists rather than their results. After all this is a committee that has ignored true efforts towards peace exhibited by US Presidents such as Reagan, Truman, and Bush 43 in favor of those American Presidents and Vice Presidents that have proven to make things worse, Carter, Gore, and now Obama.
Our path to peace in first nine months of the Obama administration has led us to increasing failure in Afghanistan. The Taliban has managed to gain strength; Obama has weakened the CIA more in nine months than Clinton did in his first four years. Iran has been able to accelerate its nuclear program to a point where it is now a serious threat and all Obama can do is throw away the missile defense plan for Eastern Europe. North Korea has thumbed its nose at us again knowing full well that Obama doesn’t have the stones to confront them in a serious way.
These are not paths to peace; these are paths to more severe conflicts in the future. This is a “bury your head in the sand approach to foreign policy” that will result in larger conflicts down the road. Never mind the disaster that is the Obama domestic policy, Obama hasn’t succeeded at anything other than getting elected and collecting awards based on “Hope” not results.
It’s been sixteen years since Hillary’s assault on healthcare. That assault led in part to the Republican takeover in 1994 but one has to look at the differences between today and sixteen years ago.
In 1993 Bill Clinton ran on the economy and succeeded in beating George HW Bush on that issue in spite of the fact that Bush had in fact led the country out of the recession by the election. Clinton felt he was invincible so he let his wife take on the issue of healthcare. The thing that Clinton underestimated was that the economy was already rebounding and people were positive on the economic situation. As such people didn’t see healthcare as that big a problem that required a government takeover and as such it went down to defeat.
So we move forward to the last eight years where we have had a drumbeat of Democrats, in congress and the media, telling people just how bad everything was. This in spite of the fact that for much of the George W Bush years the economy has been booming. The media succeeded in talking the economy into recession in late 2008 along with a democrat controlled congress that created the mortgage mess.
We now have the perfect storm for Democrats. They have created circumstances where we have unemployment near 10%, we have healthcare costs through the roof mostly because trial lawyers have driven the cost of malpractice insurance through the roof. We have government takeovers of the auto industry, and the banking industry. We haven’t seen misery like this since the days of Jimmy Carter.
So now there is a narrow window of opportunity for Obama and Democrats to pass socialized medicine. i call it a narrow window because the have to be careful, they have to orchestrate this takeover and spin it so it appears that they are helping everyone. If people perceive this for what it is, another power grab by liberals and Obama then they could see a backlash. People are already weary of the takeovers they’ve seen in the automotive and banking sectors.
The Democrats running congress are talking of big tax increases, the global warming bill isn’t widely supported by voters but congress is beholden to the environuts that elected them. The more they force this stuff down the throats of the American people the greater the consequences in 2010 and 2012.
So in the end it appears that Democrats have created the circumstances under which socialized medicine may be possible. Maybe they learned from 1994 but will the country be better off from the lessons learned? I doubt it.
Joe O’Biden not wanting to be outdone by the likes of amateurs like Al Franken illustrated his own stupidity today with the following statement:
People look at me and say, "What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we’ve got to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?" The answer is "Yes,"I’m tellin’ ya.
Yes folks the Vice President says you can spend money to keep from going bankrupt. Where is this in the State Run Media? No where. These are the same people that railed that Bush was an idiot, Dan Quayle was an idiot, Sarah Palin is an idiot, etc…. Every time O’Biden opens his mouth Obama must be holding his breath thinking “what is this mental midget going to say next?”
If these people weren’t so dangerous when they have power it would almost be tolerable for the entertainment value, but these people are running the Banks, the auto industry, and they’re not done yet… They have they’re eyes on healthcare next…
