The Top 40

She's right. She's right about all of it.

Naturally, America's "conservatives" will turn on her.

I don't know Miss Barnhardt, and therefore I can't speak to her character. I can say that she's never written a word or made a video with which I didn't agree.

I'm not sure what words I could use to adequately describe a person who truly believes that the election of Mitt Romney to the presidency is going to fix things. Naive? Stupid? Or simply willing to vote faut de mieux for the Republican?

There's no fixing a house with a bad foundation. You have to knock it down and build afresh.

I've said it once, so I'll say it s'more:

Our government: Too big to save.

As if a grass roots movement still in it's infancy is supposed to have the same kind of clout as the entrenched ones we have now?

That should read "grass roots movement devoted to maintaining the status quo".

The Tea Party doesn't go far enough. Not nearly far enough. We need an American Jobbik, a "principled, conservative and radically patriotic Christian party whose fundamental purpose is the protection of European-American values and interests".

Anything less might as well be a high school chess club for all the difference it will make.

I love Ann, but give me a break. Progressives have owned most of the government for the last 75 years. The tea party wins 60 or 70 seats in the last election and they are supposed to turn it around all by themselves? It would be about the same thing to tell your 2 year old to bench 200 lbs or he is a failure. This kind of talk encourages giving up, just when efforts need to be increased.

She's bitching about TEA party MC's after just two years, as if she has a wet clue how easy or hard it might be to find your bearings upon being sent to the belly of the Beast. She couldn't win an election if she overthrew the government with the help of aliens in hovertanks.

Fuck Anne Barnhardt. I'll stop saying "Fuck Anne Barnhardt the day Anne Barnhardt can offer up something more helpful than her customary impotent complaining. That she might have a valid point or two is not worth putting up with that easy, annoying, useless horseshit she spouts so effortlessly.

Her kibitzing will studied in universities hundreds of years from now--the mightiest sidewalk supervisor in all Christendom.

Do the Romney voters think, really think, that President Romney will nominate a hard-core conservative judge for SCOTUS that will withstand the liberal environment of DC? Romney is overly careful to avoid being called conservative in mixed groups. If that doesn't guarantee another Souter I'll eat my hat.

Maybe John Roberts deployed some Machiavellian plot that will become a political IED and reverse the creeping if not rampant, socialism. Or, maybe for the first time in 14 seconds in DC another putative conservative switched sides so he will get better invitations from the DC social circuit. Until proven otherwise one of those must be assumed as true.

Guess who the GOP elected as Chairman of the House Committee on Energy & Commerce? That's right, after the earth shattering TEA Party election of 2010 the GOP quickly elected Fred Upton. The same Fred Upton that helped the DNC pass the "ban the bulb" regulation to get rid of conventional light bulbs.

Now you can't put this travesty at the feet of the TEA Party Members and voters, Boehner and the Ruling Class were quick to make this happen before the TEA Party could exert influence. Boehner was crafty, not in defeating and thwarting Democrats, but in spreading out his staff flunkies to "help" the newly arrived TEA Party Members learn where the restrooms and mailboxes were located.

The House Majority could attach defunding amendments to every critical piece of legislation and then bargain them away for commielib concessions. Instead the GOP opening position is half-way to the commielid wetdream position and then moves farther left during negotiations.

If your member isn't fire-breathing he is almost assuredly a RINO in waiting. What has happened in this country at the hands of the commielibs and the bureaucrats is outrageous. Playing by the Mayberry Rules is part of the problem.

Don't miss the video of her reading Patrick Henry's 1775 speech.

I'm there now. Let it come. I think we're past the point of being able to fix this by voting.

So then, what exactly should we do, if not vote it better politicians?

Spain, July 1936.

You really REALLY want a civil war? Take just a minute to think about that.

Barnhardt serves a useful purpose but her hyperbole does strike me as something that comes out of the mouth of an attention whore. She should run for public office, put her skin in the game, if she really wants to make a difference. My personal experience with the "TEA" party and with conservatives in general is they don't really have the courage of their convictions and as Scott M has said here many times will eventually supervise the loading of themselves in the cattle cars to be carted off to "reeducation" camps, metaphorically, of course.

There are worse things than war. Much worse. Take just a minute to think about that.

Obama's great gift is the ability to discern traditions which he need not obey, because they have died in the hearts of their makers. His actions accurately reflect the will of the American people, of at least of the people who count: actors, politicians, intellectuals, journalists,and a few others I can't mention.

In this he reminds me of another famous politicians, also elected, who boldly changed his country by fiat and without permission, to its everlasting shame.