There’s a lot of kerfuffle about what republicans should do or how they should respond to the president’s thinly veiled attempt at reaching across the aisle. We all know how he and his handlers want this to go, and it won’t benefit the republicans to attend. In the damned-if-ya-do/damned-if-you-don’t slant, the republicans will look like obstructionists if they don’t go.
As much as I agree that they should be obstructionists—that’s not going to help. Sure, it’ll appease the GOP’s fringe base which is growing, but it’ll also give the liberals and democrats more fodder to say that the GOP wasn’t helpful, that they’re just the party of no and then they’ll shove their government-controlled healthcare bill down our throats.
What the republicans in congress need to do is accept the invitation with the caveat that they want to start from scratch. When BHO gets on his pulpit and starts squashing pleas of reason at every turn, the republicans then summarily walk out. However they want to cue it is up to them, but there should be some point where they look to each other, acknowledge that the “symposium” is going nowhere, and in unison, walk out on the president.
No one will be able to claim they didn’t bother to try. And it’ll send the crystal clear message that not only do we need to start from scratch with regards to healthcare, that it truly should be tabled. We should all be focusing on getting the country working again (which doesn’t mean another stimulus wrapped in phony “jobs bill” terminology) and as polls keep reminding us, healthcare is not on the top of everyone’s mind, no matter how the liberals try to spin it.
I know this administration has a mob mentality, but shotguns for the IRS? Mayhaps the reality of the budget crisis has finally set in, although I’m not sure roughing up constituents to pay their taxes is the best way to bridge the gap.
However I do commend them on their choice of firearms. I’m a proud (and registered!) owner of a Remington 870 pump-action shotgun. Although mine isn’t as tricked-out as what the IRS is requesting, it’s a fine weapon. I maintain that the sound of engaging the action is enough to stop anyone in their tracks.
UPDATE: Maybe this explains everything.
So it seems the great debate has arisen again, surprisingly during a leftist democrat administration. Let me state up front that I have nothing against gay men or lesbian women, just the same as I have nothing against white trash, blacks, Hispanics, Orientals or other races/ethnic groups, serving in the U.S. military. They are patriots and want to serve and possibly die for their country and Constitution, just like anyone else who serves. Here’s the problem—and unless you have served in a combat arms unit (in combat) you won’t completely understand my position. Let me also state that I apply my theory to women in combat as well; lots of great women serving in the military, some in combat, but those are anomalous situations and not the norm.
Combat units are built upon many things but first and foremost is trust. You must implicitly trust the Marine/soldier on your right and left. This trust is built through shared hardships (bootcamp/OCS, training, deployments) and shared mission. It’s also built on the simple fact that regardless of how good a Marine/soldier you are, if the Marine/soldier on your flank is weak or untrustworthy, you are going to focus on that weakness rather than focusing on the mission. This weakness and lack of focus on the mission multiplies and spreads, reducing combat effectiveness and increasing the risk of death and mission failure. Again, let me say my approach to the ‘gays in the military’ issue is one in the same with women in combat—no matter how good they are at their job, there is going to be some level of mistrust.
Combat has been historically fought by men against men, heterosexual men, driven by testosterone, pride, fear and patriotism or greed. Stories and anecdotes of women soldiers and gay soldiers are just that, stories and anecdotes limited to specific times and places. Combat is scary, unnatural, chaotic and fierce. Men participate in combat because they must, and they perform because of their fellow Marines/soldiers. If there is the slightest bit of mistrust between men in combat—and this mistrust can stem from stupidity, failure to adapt, criminal behavior etc., not just being gay or a woman—it can lead to catastrophe, death or worse.
The mistrust of women actually comes from jealousy, because young men and young women are naturally drawn towards one another, as mandated by God. Jealousy that another Marine/soldier might get together with the woman in the unit before me; again, call it sexist or whatever you wish, it’s real and I have witnessed this first hand in Iraq.
Then there are the possible unintended consequences, for instance when an openly gay recruit gets extra attention at bootcamp—not because he’s gay, but because he’s not performing to standard—and decides to file a complaint that he’s being discriminated against because of his sexual orientation. There are too many things to think about and worry about when you’re training to become a fighter, or when you’re entrenched in war. Dealing with political correctness shouldn’t be one of them.
Ironically, military leaders will deal with whatever the civilian leadership decides. That is the basis of the military system in the United States. They decide, we execute. It won’t be pretty or easy but we’ll do it. I must warn that there will be acts of violence against openly gay Marines/soldiers, just because young hetero men will do that. Testosterone is a vexing yet simplistic thing. They will be prosecuted and life will go on. In the end, this may not be a huge shift for the military to make. But in the midst of two wars, maybe this isn’t the right time.
Mr. Seeley, I think we need an intervention.
The spoofy spectacle of the President of the United States relying on a teleprompter (aka TOTUS) to talk to sixth graders was pitiful enough. So pitiful that it was even mocked by Jon Stewart. But now he can’t even kick off a small gathering without TOTUS? My kingdom for a notecard user…
An intervention is indeed in order. And I wonder when people will finally stop talking about what a great speaker he is, and just admit that he’s simply a good reader—and often not even good at that. Although we know what can happen when he doesn’t have his TOTUS blanky.
Nonsense. That’s the kind of rhetorical, empty foolishness that continues to dribble—unprotested by his interviewers—from this president’s mouth. Yesterday, when asked by Diane Sawyer about his presidency, BHO said:
“I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president,”
That was uttered, by the way, after an awkward, nervous laugh that went on just a little too long (watch the video if you can). Now just what the hell does it mean? If you’re a good one-term president, isn’t it likely that you’d get voted in for a second term? How can you be a “good” one-term president, when the fact that you’re only serving one term likely means that you’re not so good? Unless he’s now declaring that he doesn’t plan to run again. But someone so steeped in denial with an overblown ego such as BHO would never be satisfied with one term, this I know.
What the statement means to me is that he knows he’s not popular right now, and this is his “fluff” so that we think it doesn’t bother him. You know, the same kind of fluff that makes him think that a republican took Kennedy’s Massachusetts senate seat for the same reasons he was voted president of the United States. Liberal Logic.
But my bet is that it keeps him up at night.
Or at least a few important ones that I can think of.
Even the most cocksure GOPer had to be surprised by Brown’s win yesterday. I certainly was; a good friend of mine who lives in Boston and voted for Brown was as well. We hoped he would win, but assumed there would be some sort of fraud or other liberal tactic employed to drag it out a la the Franken/Coleman race in Minnesota.
Is Teddy rolling over in his grave? Is Mary Jo Kopechne smiling somewhere?
Naturally, this is no time to rest. But boy is it a huge sign when the bluest of the blue states replaces the Lion of the Senate with a good ol’ boy. Yes, there are extreme liberals and progressives out there, but the majority of America does not march in step with those loons.
I heard some conjecture on our local talk show this morning, wondering if Obama et al will now float a little more centrist, just like Clinton did when Hillarycare went down in a blaze of non-glory. Many thought he would or congress would to save their hides. I say no. These are radicals, folks. They don’t care how long they’ll be around, they’ve got their eye on the prize: bringing down Captialism and the American way of life. There ain’t much difference between them an al qaeda. I think the only difference is one group is armed with degrees from Ivy League schools and the other with artillery. But they’re both weapons of mass destruction.
I watched the Glenn Beck/Sarah Palin interview yesterday. It was a yawner. I’ve been a fan of Glenn’s show for the past year, but he’s getting a little too ethereal and preachy for me. Let’s just stick to business. But as many others like me where probably doing, I watched with a slight cringe at every word, only because I know of the liberal opportunists lying in wait. So very ready to pounce on any misstep, misinterpretation, mispronunciation or as most in the mainstream media like to do, creatively edit and make stuff up.
So it gives me a little cheer to see Mika Brzchznskzyncszksnky do the fouling up for us. Lincoln was just as much a Founding Father as Ronald Reagan was. They may have caused a different type of founding with their groundbreaking actions, but take part in the founding of our fine country, they did not.
In case you don’t subject yourself to Morning Joe, Mika is the liberal sidekick to Joe Scarborough’s allegedly conservative principles. For a brief period recently, our regional AM talk station dropped a local favorite, Chris Plante, for the Joe Scarborough Show. I tried to listen to Joe, only to find him a farce and a RINO. Thankfully, WMAL came to their senses and heeded the hue and cry of the people and brought Chris Plante back.
I had a brief post on the movie Avatar, simply citing that I’m not surprised that it’s got a major leftist slant. Frankly, it’s hard to find a movie these days that doesn’t, but apparently this one goes into overdrive. I haven’t seen the movie, which has nothing to do with my distaste for what I’ve heard. In recent years, I stopped enjoying the theater experience. People may keep their cell phones silent, but they’re constantly checking them so my eyes go to all the little flashes of light around me. I also don’t enjoy the outbursts and cheering that goes on—do you think the movie characters can hear you? It just ain’t civilized. Besides, when you have a big screen at home and Netflix, suddenly those surroundings are more appealing than the overpriced theater.
Back to Avatar, it says here that people have “experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film because they long to enjoy the beauty of the alien world Pandora.” Delightful. So you’re telling me that the type of people who have more interest in preserving smelt than human life want to off themselves after watching this movie? Somebody might think that’s tragic, I see it as thinning the herd. In fact, let’s give a free movie pass to all liberals/progressives in major U.S. cities. That might help with the next election cycle.
Naturally I speak in jest, but give me a break (although you Avatar fans may not be able to discern my facetiousness). These type of people are not steeped in reality or the real world. If you have to be told to “relate to other people outside the virtual realm and to seek out positive and constructive activities” so you don’t kill yourself because the plight of the blue people made you sad, then maybe you should contemplate what value your life really is, or at the very least get your voter’s registration revoked. They clearly have no idea of facts and history (the real kind, not revisionist) and rather stay in their la-la land or on their college campuses and dream of a blue planet.
Real life and truth is often ugly, but it shall set you free.
Ever find yourself making snarky comments at the TV? This happened to me moments ago, when I had the local news on (mind you, local news to me is a DC-based program) and the person reporting about the departures of Dodd and Dorgan et al seemed flummoxed. Not only that, but they alluded to the fact that this is bad news for the democrats. I think I yelled something like, “No it’s not, ya dummy!”
I have several reasons for thinking this, and I know I’m not alone. But why not combine them all in one place?
My first thought when having coffee with the spouse this morning and hearing of Dodd’s impending news, is that those who are voluntarily leaving public office, can more easily not vote along party lines. This is assuming they have a conscience and truly dislike the current admin’s agenda. So instead of the Dems having a guaranteed 60 votes (which is already a struggle with their extreme liberal policies), those that normally would just toe the line can suddenly break with the party. What have they got to lose? The typical threats and/or bribes won’t hold water.
Of course the popular theory is that they got roughed up and pushed out once BHO and his thugs realized that these horse’s arses have no chance at a win in November. Let’s get rid of them, then push the fresh, new candidate (hope and change!) that will roll over the GOP and maintain the democratic majority in congress. Not so fast, I say. But then again, they’re not above using voter fraud to get their guy in the door. Al Franken ring a bell?
I was listening to Rush Limbaugh today (thank heavens he’s back and in good health), and he made a good point—as always. The dems didn’t easily or handily get the majority. It’s highly unlikely that Franken won his seat fair and square. Then you have the likes of Burris and Gillibrand who fell into their seat, with no voter input or assistance. In other words, those in the majority are scared. It’s also doubtful that Reid would get re-elected. If he did, then I’d have no choice but to assume the majority of Nevadans are mooks.
To go along with my goal to try to see a half-full glass this year, while also keeping my head on a swivel, I truly hope that this is part of a bigger tide that’s turning. Sure, these retirements and departures no doubt have some thuggery behind them. That’s the Chicago way. But good will triumph over evil. We conservatives need to seize these opportunities and ride the wave.
Back in the day, there was this thing called ‘pride of country.’ When we were proud to be Americans (many of us still are) and we embraced our culture. Contrary to what liberals want you to believe, we do have a culture. It is one of freedom, but also a sense of pride for being conquerors. To the victor go the spoils, and we rightfully fought hard and won this territory. Above all we have a culture of fighting for liberty against tyrants; the toil our Founder Fathers endured in order to give us a more perfect union. A union, by the way, founded on Christian principles.
The Italians are proud to be Italian, and have every right to shout that from the hilltops. It’s not considered racist or xenophobic. The Chinese know they’re Chinese and embrace and celebrate their culture. So why is it that we aren’t supposed to be proud to be American and celebrate the culture on which we were founded? Once we were a melting pot, but at the turn of the last century, those who hopped into the pot did so fully embracing their new title of “American.” It is most unfortunate that now, when you hop into the pot, the pot allows you to build a fiefdom that is essentially a replica of whatever craphole country you fled.
The shift came in the 60’s with the counterculture. These people (stinkin’ hippies) saw our rise to superiority not as their good fortune, but instead as something we gained only by oppression. This was likely caused by their parents—who had struggled to get to a comfortable place in life, something that builds character and appreciation—and who did not want their precious offspring to know that struggle. They wanted them to know peace (and love and granola). So their children were cushioned from hardship, and therefore have no appreciation for what it truly takes to work hard and fight for freedom. War is bad, orgies are good.
Every country on the globe has the same opportunities that the United States has, if they choose that path. They can rise from poverty by capitalizing and making good of the resources of their land. In order to do that, you must also evolve and must not oppress. Americans have shown over the past 200 years than not only are we good at evolving, we are the best. The hippies don’t care to evolve. The tribes in third world countries don’t care to evolve. Those who do, typically immigrate to the United States, where opportunities are limitless.
Fast-forward 40+ years and now the same hippies that preferred to eternally stay in school in lieu of working, and lived in an altered state of mind aided by drugs and hallucinogenics, are now running the government. We’ve been subjugated over decades to feel more sympathy for fish and wildlife than the preservation of human life and the culture of America. There are countless associations that ironically syphon our tax dollars and then turn around and attempt to level our way of life (ACLU, CAIR) and chastise us for being American. We are made to feel guilty for the culture we’ve worked hard to create.
Right now our country is at a crossroads. Either we embrace our founding principles and fight for them—which would include profiling, filtering and dare I say, embracing political incorrectness—or we kowtow to the special interest groups, become a group of people with no identity and essentially lose whatever pride of country we initially developed. I truly believe that American is no longer a melting pot—we’ve worked too hard to define our identity than to use a milquetoast term like that. Now it’s time to step up and defend all that is American.
It’s okay to say no. It’s okay to deny the endless building of mosques and special schools that are funded by overseas interests. Yes, you have the freedom to practice your religion, whatever that may be. But if it comes at a cost to our country, than NO. You do not. You are welcome here, but you must assimilate. You can celebrate your origins, but to thrive and live in our country, America’s values should now come before your homeland. If not, than your homeland should be where you stay.
We need a leader who understands that and enforces it. At present, we have a leader who is more comfortable at Haight-Ashbury than Pennsylvania Avenue.
We at GOP CounterCulture are embarking on a brief Christmas sabbatical, to focus on spending time with family and the true meaning of Christmas. Yes, I said Christmas. We are Christians and are people of faith. There are a few of us left!
Let’s briefly reflect on the year that was, and how perfect to cap it off with the Senate passing a craptastic bill this morning, fraught with bribes and dirty deals, without even a hint of transparency. But hey, let’s call it ‘historic’ and praise Dingy Harry as if he’s the second coming of Christ.
- I think our most important lesson learned this year, is that Barack Hussein Obama is as transparent as a puddle of mud and as honest as the majority of politicians in the current Congress. Naturally, this is no surprise to us. But it’s funny to watch the left slowly open their starry eyes. Naturally they take issue for reasons different from ours, but it’s a sham all the same.
- We’ve learned that the mainstream media is nothing more than an extension of the office of this president, and can be bought and molded and will omit info to serve what they see as the greater good, which is a leftist agenda. Again, not a surprise to us, but maybe a few new people are getting wise to it.
- In that same light, we’ve seen how political correctness—foisted upon us by liberals—is destroying our country and our culture. And putting us all in peril.
- On the positive side, we’ve learned a lot about Rules for Radicals and the teachings of the left, thanks to people like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin and countless other conservative talk show hosts. For them we give great thanks. One of us is especially thankful that our local station WMAL has brought back conservative talk show host Chris Plante.
- We’ve seen a conservative boom in the publishing industry, with great books put out by a few of the people mentioned above, as well as Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter. Without these columnists and bloggers, we would all be in the dark or having to do a ton of research with a great possibility of questionable results. We are eternally grateful for their hard work, focus and clarity.
Most importantly, we’ve learned to not give up hope. And we’re not talking about the fake hopeandchangey stuff with which BHO hoodwinked millions of sheeple. I’m talking about true hope and faith as witnessed by the thousands who showed up to Tea Parties, townhalls, and healthcare take-over protests. This has not been done in vain, for the fruits of these labors should be born during the election cycle in November of 2010.
Merry Christmas and may God bless us all.
He will receive hellfire and damnation from the liberal left and the mainstream media. That matters not. What matters is that someone in congress finally used the stall tactics that the left are all too familiar with to shine light on this healthcare power grab.
Thank you Mr. Coburn. You are a patriotic American. You’ve not only done the people of Oklahoma proud, you’ve stood up for the Republic. Let’s hope that others in Congress will follow your lead.
UPDATE: Looks like DeMint is onboard.
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