GOPMOM Note: Obama Budget Boondoggle Continues
While Barack is off in Europe with his queen, auditioning for King of the World and eating cake, we’re watching the nuts in the Senate debate the proposed budget. Because somehow, if they can skim the curdled cream off the top, it might become more palatable?
From Resistnet:
The liberal/socialists can’t help but have their worldview leak out all over the place. Here’s an example from yesterday when Barbara Boxer responded to growing opposition to the Obama budget with these words:
“We would never, ever, ever take our kids in an automobile and park in the sunlight next to a supermarket and lock all the windows and go inside and leave them alone,” Boxer said. “Well, as legislators, we can’t do that to our constituents.”
In the liberal/socialist’s mind, we constituents are nothing more than helpless children who are locked in a car in the heat of the day. The bad economy will literally bake us to death because we, as helpless children, are not smart enough to unlock the doors and step outside.
Thank goodness Grassfire is delivering 220,000 Stop the Spending petitions today.
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Unsurprising. We are serfs after all to them.
We have no right to complain or resist.
In one of my favorite TV shows, Star Trek The Next Generation, an alien species who had achieved the ultimate in collectivism called the Borg attacked the free people of the Federation (and others). They had successfully created a society which had a central computer core linked to the ONLY individual of their species. Everyone else was a ‘drone’ controlled by this central will. They all served equally and without any individuality.
Sound familiar? LOL
Oh yes, and the point of all this… one of their most famous lines, spoken in a metallic voice of the collective:
“Resistance is futile.”
We must resist, before things go too far. We MUST resist before we are reduced to 21st century equivalent of DRONES… because the DRONES were SLAVES to the collective (state).
“RESISTANCE IS NOT FUTILE.”
(Amazing how many parallels one can draw between things in Star Trek thru the years to our real world…)
Jimmy Carter gave us Ronald Reagan and, ultimately, a somewhat conservative Congress. If I had to vote today, it would be for SC Governor Sanford, since he may be one of the few Republicans left who will stand up to BO. The Obamas are dangerous people, and both are well in over their heads. And, when it’s all over, I doubt we’ll see Barry and Michelle picking up hammers to build houses for the homeless.
Don’t forget Michelle Bachmann… the woman has it together.
The Jimmy Carter analogy is off – he came at the tail end of a liberal era that had started 40 years earlier. Carter was to liberalism what Bush II was to conservatism – the last leader in an intellectual movement that had run its course. Conservatism is done for the time-being… expect any Republican that is nationally viable to sound more like a conservative Democrat than a Republican (the same way Clinton campaigned on things like free trade and welfare reform because the national discourse at the time was dominated by conservative ideas), and expect any Republican who runs as a conservative (like Sanford) to get trounced in a general election. This will be the reality for the next 15-20 years at least.
ATG, I truly hope you are wrong.
Because by then there won’t be an America that we recognize left.
I’m actually hoping (and, I’d say I’m 80% sure) that I’m right. American politics has always had that sort of cyclical nature to it. Reagan’s ideas dominated the American political landscape for decades, but the portion of America that still thinks that things like free markets/deregulation, aggressive foreign policy, and social conservatism are the most important (and most correct) American values has dwindled to much less than half the population (and those three groups disagree about a lot amongst themselves these days).
The Republican party is going to have to choose between irrelevant opposition or governing while largely accepting the liberal agenda until it can forge a new, tenable coalition of voters, and that will take time.
ATG, Are you living at Guantanamo, by any chance?
“largely accepting the liberal”
You have, what, not even three months to go whole hog on the liberal agenda and America is already fed up.
Notice how few Republicans these days still question the existence of climate change. Notice how important Republicans now think that “making health care affordable for every American” is a priority. Notice how at times, they sound more like raging populists than the Democrats. Notice how few Republicans these days say we should be “staying the course” in Iraq. Notice how many Republicans aren’t afraid to say that they back civil unions.
All these positions have tempered remarkably from the views Republicans would have held even 4 years ago. The party has been forced to moderate itself because it has lost the American center and because demographics are working against it and making it more and more difficult for the party to be electorally viable. When the center shifts, it isn’t won back overnight, and in the meantime the party that’s out of power has a rough go of it.
Even though Obama’s ratings have dipped since his election (but are still very high), the swing towards liberalism in American politics has just begun, and the American people aren’t going to give liberalism the boot so soon.
**Disclaimer: I am not a Republican. I tend about 65% of the time agree with the positions of the GOP, but I find that they are trouncing our beloved Constitution just as much as the Democrats are. I am a CONSERVATIVE (in the true sense) and a Constitutionalist.**
Climate change is happening.
And it’s CYCLIC. It’s NATURAL.
1,000 years ago, when the vikings discovered it, Greenland was… GREEN.
Solar cycles among other things cause the climate to change periodically. Only an extremely arrogant or extremely stupid person would contend that humans have the power to irrevocably alter the Earth’s overall environment so greatly.
Healthcare would be VERY affordable if the government would get away from it. Government overregulation has ruined it, just like it ruins everything it touches.
Liberty is the solution to the human condition, NOT government.
As for Iraq–no reason to stay the course. We’ve won it. Yes there were errors along the way, but we accomplished every goal we set before going in, thanks to our military and General Petreaus, and despite what the liberal media, congress, and the rest of them tried to do. WE WON. Get over it. Accept it. You didn’t force us to lose a war like you did with Vietnam–which by the way we were winning militarily… just that the blasted media was backstabbing our own troops… kind of like Rep Murtha and the rest of those traitors did to our boys in Iraq.
Civil Unions–there’s no reason not to back civil unions. Republicans never had a problem with them. They had a problem with “Marriage” between two same-sex people. Personally, to me it’s just semantics and both sides are being foolish. Who cares if its called civil union or marriage? Both get the same recognition and benefits.
America has, historically since its founding, been “Center-Right”. The recent trend of the swing is due to an ill informed public being swayed by an excessively Marxist media.
And for the record, as of 2 weeks ago, President Barack Hussein Obama had the LOWEST ratings of any president at that point in their presidency, since ratings were tracked for that period. That is a fact, from Rasmussen and a few of the more reliable pollsters, taken of VOTERS (because that’s all that really counts); not from the media who tends to take polls of groups that they already know the result that they’ll get.
I think you’ll find a rise in American patriotism, and people who want to go back to the roots of our nation, where liberty trumped tyranny, and where people were free AND RESPONSIBLE FOR THEMSELVES, and where taxes weren’t confiscatory just so that the earners could be forced to share with the fat lazy welfare baby-makers.
Um ATG, I was not referring to politicians. I was referring to the 110 million people who did not vote for Obama. Please keep in mind this AM’s headlines –
“Democrats pass $3.5T plans supporting the president’s agenda of higher spending on domestic programs”
Notice how it says Democrats – not good news for you. Who’s the dying breed? I’m almost convinced at this point Obama is actually a plant to turn popular support back to the conservatives – nobody can be this incompetent naturally, it must be intentional.
The last eight years have produced a huge amount of chaos and I don’t think the regular cycles of political discourse are relevant here. I think we’re seeing new things, but are they new left / right / what? I don’t know. I’m tempted to say some of all of it, and I think both left and right will be transformed into new animals in the next 10 years.
What that means for the Dems / Repubs is also up in the air. There is a conservative revolution brewing, but will it remake the Republican Party? Destroy it and create a new party (which has happened; see the Whigs for example)? Or will it somehow capture some of the Repubs, some of the Dems, and create a third party?
As I recall, after the 2004 election, the Repubs were feeling pretty good and the Dems were feeling frail. The Repubs were saying the very same things about the Democratic Party, that it might break up, that we might be witnessing the beginning of the end of the left. Now we have Obama, and the Dems are feeling pretty feisty. But both parties are actually pretty fragile, I think.
It’s also possible that all the current outrage at government will fade and nothing will really change.
I don’t know. I do think a lot depends on education and the media, and with the left holding sway over both for decades now, I think if the conservative movement is to have a future in the next decade it will have to find a way to be heard by broad swathes of the American public in a way that goes beyond blogs and the current incarnation of PJTV, etc., and in a way that makes sense and appeals to them.
I wouldn’t say either party is in danger of ceasing to exist. The Republicans, based on my observations and involvement in MA, are “evolving” back to their foundations.
The chaos you refer to – orchestrated by the Left, no?
I don’t think the Republican party will cease to exist, I think it will evolve to include a different coalition of voters than those that currently make up its base, and until that point it will either lose elections or sound not too different from the Democratic Party.
It sounds nice to say that the Republican party is evolving back to its foundations, but those foundations are a formula for irrelevance. Going back to the foundations may feel good and pure and all that, but a candidate who hews to them tightly is going to have no easier time winning an election than Barry Goldwater or Michael Dukakis did following the same formula (ideological purity at a time that their ideology was not taken seriously).
“1,000 years ago, when the vikings discovered it, Greenland was… GREEN.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
That was the funniest comment I have read on this looney board. Thanks Mad Patriot, too funny…
JB – I do not expect you to come back, but if you do…
Do you deny that Norse folk colonized Greenland approximately 1000 years ago?
or
Do you refute the paleoclimatology data that strongly suggests that at that time the Earth was in the midst of one of it’s cyclical warmer periods?
A warmer period that would have made Greenland GREENER! (Hence the name!)
I believe the children at that time would profess “Jord Hjertelig” but were ignored by the wise adults who knew the true nature of the world.
Hey wrench I’ve tried to relpy twice now but my comments never seem to show up.
Anyhow, you are right. Those dumb scientists are out there collecting data, observing, writing scientific reports and models to try and scientifically understand our climate past, present and future. They should just look at a globe and see “Greenland”. Problem solved! Greenland=land of green lush forests of course.
Your previous comments were caught by the anti spam system. I approved the last one, would you like them both approved?
Hmm, my last post did not make it through, here’s a shorter version…
Wrenchy, I do not deny that the Norse settled in Greenland around 985 AD that a well known fact. Its also a well known fact that Erik the Red named Greenland so to make it sound like a nicer place to go to not because it was once green.
I cannot refute or accept your claim that the “paleoclimatology data that strongly suggest that at that time the Earth was in the midst of one of it’s cyclical warmer periods” because like usual you people do not proveide and references to back anything up. No journals referenced or anything.
I mean how can one says global warming is no a big deal because Greenland was once green, hence the name. It just sounds sooo ridiculus….
Here is a real paper in a real scientific journal that suggeest Greenland may have once been covered in lush green forests close to a million years ago, well before the Norse made there way there.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sci;317/5834/111
Have you checked out “The Obama Deception” yet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw
Mainly the root of the point I’m making is that the “panic” about climate change is overstated.
And that people assuming that human beings could have a global impact of such magnitude is, to be blunt, arrogance.
The ‘models’ used to predict global warming a few years ago were just dead wrong. They fed them the data for the last century and they couldn’t even reliably predict current conditions. There is no way you can trust them, therefore, to predict anything.
Climate change IS cyclic.
In the 1500’s the world had a warm spell… temperatures were higher than today.
In the late 1700’s we had a mini-ice age. Brutal winters, and very mild summers.
Those are facts.
Sunspot activity has a dramatic effect upon the temperatures on Earth (and the other planets in our solar system). 10 years ago sunspot activity was higher than it had been in recent history… the temperature was higher. And not only here on Earth… also on Mars.
Maybe our driving SUV’s here is somehow raising the Martian temperatures as well? I think not.
It’s cyclic and natural.
That said, I think that doing our part to be environmentally friendly is important. But it doesn’t mean you engage in carbon offsets and cap-and-trade programs to punish those who are producing the most wealth in the world.
You give private organizations and individuals the liberty (freedom from over-regulation and taxation) so that they can develop these things.
Case in point: The Honda FCX Clarity. The car runs on water (hydrogen), splits it through electrolysis, powers an electric motor, and as an exhaust creates water vapor. It has less moving parts than a traditional internal combustion engine, similar to better performance, is silent, cheap to fuel, and once mass produced will be comparable in price to an equivalent gas powered automobile.
So, why don’t we have them? We need to refit our entire refueling infrastructure, and re-tool automotive plants. This will take 20 years (optimistically) to accomplish. But it would REVOLUTIONIZE the transportation industry the same way that the internal combustion engine did a little over 100 years ago. Of course, large oil companies would resist it, but in the end they’d adapt to produce other oil-based products (rubbers and plastics) and perhaps the refueling stations for the hydrogen.
Another option is vegetable oil refits. Top Gear had an episode on this recently. They produced 1 gallon of used vegetable oil and by adding a dilution component, had a gallon of fuel which would run in an UNCHANGED diesel engine for about 12 cents. Of course by the time it’s taxed that would become 30 or 40 cents because that’s what government does. But you could literally get the stuff from restaurants (how about that for recycling!), and it burns clean, and has almost no odor (the driver did say he was hungry after driving for a while from the smell of food).
Both of these options, if employed, would be good both for the environment and our economy. Maybe this is the “moon shot” for the next 10-20 years. Maybe it will be something else.
But climate change? That’s gonna happen no matter what we drive and do. So we may as well work on adapting to a changing environment, rather than punishing people for living their lives.