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April 10, 2013

"If the news media hadn’t told you how brilliant Barack Obama was every day for the last six years, you might have your doubts. [Bumped]

"Ours is a government of thieving hedonists. And the leader of that government is invoking shame over the fact that only 41 laws prohibited Adam Lanza from shooting up an elementary school?

Whether Republican leaders realize it or not, Barack Obama just pulled his goalie. He opened a door to Republican victory and a conservative resurgence that could define the next 10 election cycles. By invoking shame, Obama started a conversation that he never intended to start. Obama the Shameless | The Daily Caller

Posted by gerardvanderleun at April 10, 2013 4:42 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Ridiculously optimistic. The number of people capable of and interested in applying critical and logical thought to politics gets fewer every year.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 9, 2013 6:45 PM

Republican victory and a conservative resurgence that could define the next 10 election cycles

The republicans will continue to run candidates like McCain and Romney and they will continue to lose.

Posted by: Potsie at April 9, 2013 7:30 PM

As Obama just proved, there are a whole lot of stupid people in this country who get to vote. I think, though, I could give a rip about Republican victories or conservative resurgence -- beyond the not-trivial point that it might be marginally less heinous than what the Democrats have in mind for us.

What I want is an end to a federal government that has the resources, scope and power to even enter into this conversation. Who needs all this? If 90% of the federal employees were laid off and most of the departments shut down tomorrow, my life and the lives of most of the people I know would go on without a hitch.

Posted by: mushroom at April 9, 2013 7:58 PM

@ Christopher


You're right, and even worse that number was never very high to start with.

Posted by: Tom at April 10, 2013 1:57 AM

Ask yourself what good has all of the talk radio and conservative magazines brought to America? Because they like to feel justified in their positions, positions they had before they found the supporting facts, they just talk to each other over and over, round and round, but never toward anything beyond talk.

Remember when being forced into gov't healthcare was going to spark a revolution? Before that it was sex-ed in schools, before that it was busing to integrate schools. We're soon to have same-sex marriage, and your worst fear isn't even a down-payment and what comes later. Are we waiting until every single person that recognizes the name Rush Limbaugh knows every single point in every single argument against every single liberal idea before we do something? The GOP is getting worse and the majority of angry Republican voters, which is a minority of a minority, are still waiting to see IF the GOP sells out on illegal immigration.

Why should anyone in the country give half darn what conservatives want or whether our ideas work? We're too busy looking for a gated-community to flee to once our current gated-community is infiltrated.

Liberal tactics worked to takeover this country. Conservative tactics dd not work to prevent that takeover. Going to bed each night that you didn't offend one person or violate one rule of etiquette is exactly how we have gotten to this point. Why can't we stage a sit-in and then swamp the local jails if those protestors are arrested? Why can't we set up picket lines to harass liberal media outlets? I'll tell you, because our side would rather set itself on fire with gasoline and matches than have some stranger notice we have fallen short of the Mayberry Code of Conduct even while we are in a fight for our way of life. Where is our civil disobedience? How much attention were a couple of Buddhist monks with a can of gasoline able to bring to their point of view about Vietnam? We won't even tie up phone lines for more than one day.

Posted by: Scott M at April 10, 2013 2:48 AM

@ Scott

It's hard to choose to set yourself on fire when you're rich. Americans are rich. Most conservatives lives consist of living in a nice home, driving a nice car , having a nice husband or wife and nice children, BBQs with friends and family on weekends, big sceen TV, internet and smart phones. Life is too good for a gasoline bath. Just saying.

Posted by: Bobbye at April 10, 2013 5:50 AM

This isn't liberal vs conservative as much as big government vs small government. This government is a multiheaded monster sorely in need of a garrote. When pruned to proper size it doesn't matter what the government thinks of us as long as the ruling elite fears us.

Posted by: indyjonesouthere at April 10, 2013 9:24 AM

There's an article being linked today about new EPA rules affecting farmers. It's supposedly to prevent ecoli outbreaks. They decided to apply the new regulations to fruit growers, even though there have been no ecoli outbreaks from fruit.

One of the regulations calls for sterilizing the picking bags. I'm still dumbfounded. I used to pick apples. The thought that you would somehow require farmers to sterilize those bags is beyond stupid. These are the same people insisting that we get rid of grocery bags that CAN be recycled and go with ones that you can't even wash! Farmers are talking about going out of business. Of course, the new regulations won't apply to anything coming from Mexico or China.

What we need is to rid ourselves of unelected bureaucrats. I am not sure how to do that, but it would be nice to do it in a way that does not involved bloodshed. That may not be possible.

Posted by: Teri Pittman at April 10, 2013 11:09 AM

All my friends are anti-government terrorists.

Teri reminds me, locally, government agents came in and shut down a small dairy because they were selling raw milk to people who knew what it was and wanted to buy it. Don't miss that last line. They weren't selling it as pasteurized to the ignorant. People wanted raw milk and were willing to pay a premium price to get it.

But the government didn't want them to have it because somewhere, sometime in the past, raw, mishandled, bacteria-ridden, substandard milk was sold that made people sick.

So instead of leaving customers and dairymen alone to work out their issues and hire their lawyers if something went amiss, do-gooder thugs backed by guns and court orders came in and destroyed private property on private land.

Posted by: mushroom at April 10, 2013 12:11 PM

Whatever the reason conservatives are passive, it must stop. No matter how reasonable or comfortable or pointless it is to fight back, we must fight back. I'm not saying ONLY volunteering to be set alight is the answer. I'm saying anything you can do, you must do. Make a damn phone call, daily, to your Rep and Senator. Anything. Feeling justified in continuing to do nothing isn't helping. Understanding why we sit around and do nothing isn't helping. Make people around you want to do something. Listening to the same arguments day after day, isn't helping. Trying to convince conservatives not to raise taxes or defund the military isn't helping. Tuning in to Sean Hannity or Bill O'reilly slobber over Karl Rove isn't helping. In short, anything that seems familiar and comfortable isn't what we should be doing. We've drawn closer and closer into our comfort zone and that only increases the playing field the liberals dominate. Challenge every liberal idea no matter where you are or how many of you there may be. We have to shrink the liberals' comfort zone.

Posted by: Scott M at April 10, 2013 12:24 PM

If the Pubs ran Jesus Christ, the blacks, browns and tans wouldn't vote for him. This fellow should quit writing political essays and go on the stand-up circuit.

Posted by: Lorne at April 10, 2013 4:33 PM

There is a secret,unwritten, unsaid fact..

When Race-baiters Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton ask their people take to the streets to loot,burn and destroy, they will comply, in order to commit wholesale hijacking of the middle class and corporate taxpayer.

The tail will continue to wag the dog as long as the middle class taxpayer is unwilling to follow suit with civil unrest as disruptive as the hijacker's. Corporations simply leave the country.

Complacency will not allow disruption on a large enough scale to be effective, in addition there's not enough votes to defeat a Santa Claus hustling socialist.

We find ourselves in a trap that had it's foundation installed in Chicago late 1960's. As years passed we bowed to government mandated PC while termites gnawed at the fiber of the country. All the trap needed was a shinny piece of bait. Enter.. the indoctrinated and bitter Obama.

Now the trap has been sprung. Rand Paul, Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio will not be capable of unspringing it.

It's time for a miracle or Time to lock and load.

Posted by: Rocky at April 10, 2013 5:50 PM

Its too late to fix things, I believe. Its time to just batten down the hatches and survive what comes next.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 10, 2013 6:32 PM

The reason the trap was sprung is because we've sat on our rear ends and expected one magic politician can do all of the work and save us. We didn't lose the country that way. The commielibs had their messiahs, to be sure, but far more importantly they had disciples and missionaries. Unless our side is assured of ultimate victory and universal admiration we won't even start the discussion.

I've argued with every teacher I've ever had that put politics in the class. At no time did I argue back and not have numerous other students sneak up later and admit they were also conservative. Those are the people that are killing us as much as the liberals. Don't ever tell me you give a phuck about this country if you won't speak up unless you are guaranteed a happy result. Sunshine Patriots are more dangerous than enemies because they give a false sense of our power. If you aren't DOING you aren't helping. Know your arguments, practice often, and take an angry response as a medal of commendation. The conservatives have too many on the Inactive Reserve. If you have a phone don't explain why your aren't calling your representatives, just call them. You can at least make a free effing phone call. I don't care if your Senator is Schumer or Satan. Make a damn call. Speak up. They hate you anyway, how about earning some of the hate? They aren't going to leave you alone just because you are quiet. You might as well make some noise.

Posted by: Scott M at April 10, 2013 11:22 PM

Scott: I admire your spirit, but argument is pointless. All the argument in the world can't change a made-up mind. Politics are also useless: the Enemy's media/political/entertainment complex defines reality for the voter, and any candidate that opposes the Revolution will be destroyed in the minds of the voters by that complex. Add to this the corrupt election process, vote fraud, and the millions of new Latino voters soon to be added to the voting public, and it becomes obvious that no one who opposes the Revolution will be permitted to win election.

I foresee three possible futures:

1. Things get worse and worse, more and more laws are passed, thought and behavior become more and more subject to Revolutionary ideology. The nation becomes a Soviet-style tyranny with a Chinese-style economy. Technological means of behavior and thought control make significant rebellion against this regime impossible. This is future is likely to last decades or centuries until it collapses due to entropy.

2. A weakening of federal control over certain states occurs, leading these states to defy, nullify, and reject federal laws. This leads to a "soft collapse" of the United States similar to the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1989-91.

3. Black Swan. The base state of the world suddenly changes; anything can happen. Examples: nuclear war, asteroid strike, EMP attack, cyber-collapse, extraterrestrial contact, novel pandemic, Second Coming.

Guessing the future is a fool's hobby. I do know this, though: that no matter what future we get, a lot of good people are going to find themselves hurt -- disenfranchised, demonized, discriminated against, dispossessed, disposable. The future is going to hurt.

That's my forecast of the future: hurt. To quote Mr T (as "Clubber Lang" in Rocky III): "My prediction? Pain."

Posted by: B Lewis at April 11, 2013 12:53 AM

Do "we" have any idea what "small(er)" government even looks like?

First off: we haven't had genuinely small federal government since Calvin Coolidge, and even then the poor schmucks were saddled with Prohibition. There is no one left alive today who has lived under small government as an adult. So how do we define "small" now?

Secondly: we don't have "big" government now, we have COLLOSSAL government. It grew to its current size thanks to Obama and his party, but it got to ENORMOUS under Bush. Prior to that it had been HUGE since LBJ. We haven't had plain old "big" government since JFK. And how would we get back to just big government since Medicare and Medicaid were a major element of making the government huge?

Just asking . . .

Posted by: Don Rodrigo at April 11, 2013 9:05 AM

Don, you have a good point. Most of us, even if we were to go back to the Eisenhower Interstate Highway model of the '50s would think we were living in primitive austerity. I remember that pretty well, and, while hardly ideal, it would not be a bad starting point.

No Medicare, no Medicaid, no AFDC, no Departments of Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs, Education, Energy, HUD, or Transportation. You'd have to go back to Truman to get rid of HHS, but, by this point you have completed eliminated the federal deficit. No more EPA. Order guns through the mail. We could go back to tying dollars to gold.

But it won't happen unless you can convince people that the government can't give you anything it didn't take from you and your neighbor.

Posted by: mushroom at April 11, 2013 6:56 PM

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