Sipp: Norm Abrams is the real Reality TV
Thank you Joe Lieberman
1 in 7 taxpayers flee New York
The KrautMan on why Barack is like Brazil
The hopey-changey National Endowment for the Arts
Gingrich on 23
The new ACORN $ scandal
Robert Reich Fess…

As you seek to make sense of all this; keep your eye on the outcome of NY 23, NJ and Va. The results in these races, especially NY 23, will, I believe, reveal the future solution to many of these problems, especially the lies from the Beltway elites of both parties. Newt Gingrich is clapping his forehead because he acted too soon and endorsed the RINO in the NY 23 race. He is now desperately spinning that he really only meant to endorse the “choice of local party leadership” and not a RINO. Actually, I don’t think he can escape the consequences of his action by dissembling. But, I digress.

Connect the dots: Dot: “Poll shows that 40% of America consider themselves Conservative” – up strongly. Dot: “Poll shows 35% consider themselves Moderate”. Dot: “Polls show Moderates deserting Obama”. That is why President Obama is attacking Fox, et al – he must keep the Moderates from joining with the Conservatives to throw the bums out (or in the case of NY 23, et al, letting the bums in.)

As Conservatives and Moderates begin to rely on their principles rather than the lies of the elites, all that is missing is non-Beltway candidates who can earn their votes. Let’s see if the Progressives in the WH bunker can, by releasing their Panzers, win this “Battle of the Bulge” (current Congressional elections) and turn this thing around. If the Progressives fail, much of the damage done by President Obama can and will be reversed.

What does not get mentioned is that the insurance industry does not exist in isolation, unrelated to the other pieces of health care delivery. Those – the providers, researchers, and patients – are going to get caught in the fallout. We are the collateral damage in their war against insurance companies.

I keep hearing references to “universal health care”. Pray tell, don’t we have that now? Isn’t it possible for anybody at all to go into any American hospital anywhere and get medical services?

What we don’t have now is “universal I-don’t-think-I’m-paying-for-it-yet health care”. I’m sure lots of people would love to have their health care paid for by someone else. But somebody has to foot the bill in the end.

By the way, if you needed yet another reason to oppose The Public Option, here you go.

respectfully,
Daniel in Brookline

Count on it. I will be carrying a “Victory or bring them home” sign next tea party.

No, really. Tools. Farm implements, if you will.

Bill Clinton governed as a moderate Republican most of his presidency. The Democrat elite dropped a few elected members but still owned the media and pop culture, and went about the business of being elite.

From ’96 until Bush the Younger the Republican revolution became the Republican Elite…

Now in 2009, another hyper ambitious individual has picked the Democrats as his vehicle to his goals.

Barak Obama understands implicitly that the party of the little guy, the unions, and the poor colored folk is in reality a plantation as prim and prude as any colonnaded South Mississippi river boat landing palace, but that it was tailor made for his use.

All that populist class leveling stuff the Kennedys, Schumers, Pelosis, and their ilk reflexively spout will make it nigh on impossible for them to go on the attack when Obama finally drops all pretense about his true objective:

The destruction of the constitutional Republic.

Regulation, uncertainty, debt, politicized justice, destructive taxes, and the destruction of our manufacturing and health sectors are all competing for primacy…

… which you wouldn’t know if you watched the news…

… but you know it’s happening because you work for a living. Your neighbors who still work know it, too.

If you’ve held a job on a reasonably regular basis… if you’ve paid your taxes on time and in full… if you’ve served your nation voluntarily, or given fair service as a conscript… if you’ve raised children that earn more than they take… if you bought a house you could afford and paid or are paying for it… if you respect your fellow man’s right to a different opinion vice merely “tolerating”…

then you are at the same time the number one target of the Obama agenda and his worst nightmare. Because once he destroys you, there’s nothing left that stands in his way.

The Plan is designed to succeed or fail before the 2010 elections. I’m as certain of this as I’ve been of anything in my life.

Only in a Marxist’s mind could the destruction of the United States be remotely construed as a constructive act.

I bet “V is for Vendetta” gets watched a lot in the West Wing.

He fails to consider many things – and every time.

A deep focus on the short-to-medium term and the assumption that anything bad for the Republicans is good for them. We saw 8 years of that – no matter the damage to themselves or the country if it hurt the Republicans then it was good. It also won them their current majority so they were not exactly incorrect.

They see (and by “they” I mean 99.9% of our elected federal officials) see it as a game of who wins and all of us are pawns. As the pawns there is little we can do – right? But then turns out pawns can take a square too and of the king can not go anywhere else, well game over. Everyone understands this to some level.

It’s not really a power grab per se (even though I use the term above) but an attempt to neuter our ability to metaphorically take a square and challenge the “real” chess pieces. The distinction isn’t so much in what they are doing as to why – the power is just a nice side benefit. It is also why some moves make little sense in terms of gaining and controlling power.

This is part of the reason why the Republicans aren’t really fighting it that hard – they may currently be on the loosing side but they ultimately see themselves as the non-pawn pieces too and is why the Dems didn’t protest things like the Patriot act or the wiretapping stuff outside of mere rhetoric.

I also think they mix in enough hubris to think they can manage any fall out on their own side so the longer term consequences are irrelevant.