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WHAT JUST HAPPENED?
For George Bush and defenders of The American Dynamic (of human freedom, initiative, responsibility, and self reliance), few good deeds have gone unpunished. In one fell swoop, the security of home, church, traditional moral values, and freedom of individual expression have been shown to be highly endangered.
Racism did not impede Obama from getting elected, but naivete did get him elected. I only wish a black female Independent had inspired us before Obama. I expected moral shallowness from villains, derelicts, and dopers. But, for women, Catholics, and Jews, I am ashamed. What has just occurred, if not a stupendous betrayal --- by women, Catholics, and Jews --- of American common sense?
We have disgraced the franchise, yielded to the votes of illegals and felons, surrendered any effective means for validating legality of votes, and precluded any effective means for regulating sources of political contributions. Thus have we abjectly ceded to derelicts the capacity to surrender that which our forebears nourished in blood and sweat and bequeathed to us in love.
As individual freedom of expression will now be attacked, so also will individual security be attacked. More in sorrow than in anger, we find now before us a garden of American common sense that has overgrown with vicious weeds. Yet, there abides a resilient spirit. Evil affronts to human freedom and dignity will yet be brought to atonement.
For that, we can be happy warriors. See http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/the_american_eagle_needs_two_w.html.
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WHAT JUST HAPPENED?
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"Government of the people" was just raped, having been held hostage to shameful media, financed and manipulated by international pirates.
See http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/obama_coverup_media/2008/11/03/147130.html.
11 comments:
Comment by Dlanor at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/why_mccain_lost.html:
ZEALOUS MODERATION:
Re: “you can’t bring moderation to an ideology fight”
Well, from BUSH, we will continue to inherit: broken borders and demoralization of our Border Patrol; out of control spending and entitlements; loss of factory jobs; sale off of infrastructure to foreigners; politicians selling earmarks; incoherent energy policy; and an unverifiable electorate.
Had we elected MCCAIN, most of such legacy would have continued. In addition, our lying, disloyal, obstructionist, slutty, sold out media, controlled by international masters of stirring up volatility, would have turned up: Marxist fires of international hatred; further buildup of Marxist academia; exhaustion of hospital emergency room facilities by illegal aliens; and unimpeded dispersal of WMD to jihad pirates in every corner of the world.
Having elected OBAMA, we will continue with every one of the above listed legacies from Bush, plus we will reinforce: sanctuary cities; motor voter registration; opportunities for voter fraud; political correctness gone wild; thorough infestation of Acorn and Civilian Security Armies; curtailment of freedom of speech; death of talk radio and alternative media; sex and drugs in the streets; and complete bursting of the American economic bubble.
So, as a “red ass moderate,” I don’t quite take the point, about “conservative ideology.” What are you conserving?
For actually confronting the great danger to the American dynamic, I see little that favors Bush, McCain, or Obama, or the Republican Party over the Democrat Party, or modern Conservatism over modern Liberalism. Rather, it seems to me that Bush, McCain, and Obama are mainly shadow boxing, without turning their “ideology fights” to the real danger.
So long as we only shadow box in respect of our main antagonist, what difference does it make whether our shadow boxing is zealous or moderate? The dispute between capitalistic individualism and socialistic communitarianism has always been one of moderation, not purity. Our real antagonists could care less how zealously or moderately we dispute about capitalism versus socialism. Why should they care whether they continue to rule us as socialistic nomenklatura or as international, capitalistic pirates?
If we really want “government of the people,” we will have to confront our real antagonist, i.e., the out-of-all-proportion disparity in powers of consumptive political influence.
Suppose we could gather will to confront our real ailment — what then should we do?
Recommendations: Do not tax income to redistribute wealth. Do impose death taxes and a progressive tax on individual consumption. Use such tax revenues not to redistribute wealth, but to build and maintain infrastructure and worker health.
If we really want market freedom, then we need to restore at least a stand-in for market balance. As things stand, we are addressing our real concerns and pains with neither free markets nor socialism. Rather, we are shadow boxing. But the blows being inflicted upon us by our real antagonists are quite real.
Mining revenue to fund any nation requires a dance, both delicate and rough, harmonious and conflicting, among various ideals and methods for taxing occupants.
To counter or reduce the undemocratic exercise of disproportionate wealth and political power, a progressive consumption tax is recommended. Businesses should be precluded from making political contributions. Political contributions made by individuals should be taxed to them as forms of consumption.
To counter the rise and establishment of stubborn, undemocratic aristocracies, progressive death taxes are recommended.
To facilitate governance of inducements and discouragements of various forms of production and consumption, various sales and transactions taxes are recommended, for imposition both on individuals and businesses.
To reduce temptations for black markets and tax evasion schemes, various forms of gift taxes may be recommended.
To preserve a viable, competitive nation, protect industry, reward allies, and discourage enemies, national taxes on various imports and exports may be recommended.
Comment by Dlanor, at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/gop_defeat_and_the_new_tone.html:
Bush did some good things. And, he is hardy. But he was dragon bit, by a nasty horde of Komodo dragons, infested with rotten Marxist saliva.
International pirates and Marxists used media, academia, and useful idiots at every turn to corner Bush, waiting on events to weaken him. And opportunities for those who dine on road kill came, viz:
Cheny’s hunting prowess; excessive deference to Rumsfeld’s incompetence; Katrina; gaggle of useful idiots (Code Pink, Cindy Sheehan, Murtha, Frank, Pelosi, Reid, NYT); Freakshow “News” (Olbermann insanities); monopolized media; insane promoting of democracy in Gaza; obliviousness to mortal threat to democracy from community organizers, Acorn, motor voters, illegal voters, and voter fraud; insane coddling of Hispanic illegals; over diversified melting away of the American melting pot; insane reaching out to RINO’s; foreign sale off of American infrastructure; obliviousness to widening gulfs in political and economic power between middle class and small business Americans versus international financial pirates; contrived financial meltdowns; Republican stupidity and lack of vision or appreciation for The American Dynamic (defend borders, defend values, defend American jobs and infrastructure, do not sacrifice America on a pyre of worldwide globalization); and inability to communicate a realistic American vision.
The American Dynamic is the best thing history has ever availed to humanity. But, it needs better champions.
Such champions are not found among Republican blue bloods or Ivy League elites. An articulate Ivy Leaguer, lacking in experience or capacity to appreciate the role of ordinary Americans in the American Dynamic, would have fared no better than Bush. David Brooks, in his notion of a NEW GOP, freed of the “poison” of Saracuda, can KMA!
DEFEND AMERICA:
Snippets from http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=B9E554CD-C8A4-44E1-9866-FE0747F2BE15:
Letter to the Next President
By John Bolton
Telegraph.co.uk
November 06, 2008
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Many U.S. and foreign commentators have been quick to tell us that America is in decline, and that our role in the future will not be what it once was. They will be correct only if you fall prey to their pessimism.
And if you do, rest assured that they will shortly turn critical of “American isolationism,” just as they have been critical in recent years of “American unilateralism.” You will never satisfy them. Defend America and its friends, and the rest will take care of itself.
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Snippets from http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24608173-7583,00.html:
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The left liberal caricature of America was always nonsense. The militarism of American society is vastly overstated, just as its profound willingness to make sacrifice for other people's freedom is under-appreciated. This is the fifth presidential election in a row in which the candidate with the stronger military record lost to the candidate who didn't serve, or served only in the National Guard.
The last war hero to be elected president was George H. W. Bush in 1988. The same Bush lost to the draft-dodging Bill Clinton in 1992, as did another genuine war hero, Bob Dole, in 1996. Al Gore was no war hero but he had served in Vietnam, and John Kerry famously won the Purple Heart. And they both lost.
Similarly on race, the dynamic has been the opposite of the left liberal caricature of America for a long time. As Shelby Steele has argued, America has been ready for years to elect a black president. Of all the exit polls CNN conducted, perhaps the most revealing was the one that found only 20 per cent of Americans believed race was an important factor in how they voted. And a clear majority of those people voted for Obama.
Obama won nearly 100 per cent of a bigger-than-usual black vote, and it is clear his race was not a significant negative for the tens of millions of whites and Hispanics and Asian-Americans who also voted for him.
While it is historic to have an African-American president, in some ways it is almost equally historic that a northern liberal won the presidency for the Democrats. That has not happened since John F. Kennedy in 1960, and calling Kennedy a liberal is a bit of a stretch.
All of the other Democratic presidents since then -- Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton -- came from the south and sold themselves as southern conservatives. The two parties have almost reversed identities: the Republicans to a southern working class party, with the Democrats becoming the home of the liberal elites.
Snippets from http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122593259568103473.html:
NOVEMBER 6, 2008
Obama's Real Opposition
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Mr. Obama may appreciate the threat, because yesterday he offered Clinton White House veteran Rahm Emanuel a job as his chief of staff. But even that savvy, relatively sane liberal will have difficulties grappling with the fearsome committee chairmen and liberal interest groups that did so much to sabotage Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. Meet the President-elect's real opposition:
David Obey. The Appropriations Chairman wants to slash defense spending as a money grab for more social programs and entitlements. Fellow spender Barney Frank recently added that a military budget cut of 25% was about right. A military crash diet wouldn't leave the funds for the surge in Afghanistan that Mr. Obama advocates, and it's a sure way to hand the national security issue back to the GOP.
Chuck Schumer. The Senate Democrat and his friends are already threatening banks if they don't lend more money instantly under the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Other political masters want to use Tarp to nationalize large swaths of U.S. industry such as the Detroit auto makers or to bail out states like New York that are in debt. If Mr. Obama doesn't want to have to pass a Tarp II, he'll have to say no.
George Miller. Some Democrats are starting to target the tax subsidies for 401(k)s and other private retirement options. Mr. Miller, who heads the House Education and Labor Committee, calls them "a big failure" and recently held a hearing to ponder alternatives, including nationalizing pensions and replacing them with special bonds administered by Social Security. The proposal has also caught the eye of Jim McDermott, who chairs the relevant Ways and Means subcommittee. Mr. Obama won big with his promise of tax cuts for the middle class, which doesn't square with attacks on middle-class nest eggs.
John Conyers. The man running House Judiciary is cheerleading the Europeans who want to indict Bush officials for war crimes. Other Democrats are thinking about hearings and other show trials. This is far from the postpartisan reconciliation that Mr. Obama preaches.
Henry Waxman. With President Bush soon to be out of office, the Californian's team of Inspector Clouseaus at House Oversight won't have any "scandals" left to pursue. The word in Washington is that Mr. Waxman is looking to unseat John Dingell as Chairman of Energy and Commerce, in order to shove aside a global warming moderate. That could pave the way for huge new energy taxes. Voters will punish Mr. Obama if they get hammered every time they fill up the gas tank or buy groceries.
Pete Stark. The Chairman of a crucial House subcommittee dealing with health care doesn't think Mr. Obama's proposal to significantly federalize the insurance market goes far enough. He wants a single-payer system like Canada's. Mr. Obama may want to strike a deal with Senate Republicans on health care, but Mr. Stark will be pulling him left at every turn.
All of these feudal lords -- and many others -- also come with their own private armies: the interest groups that compose the money and manpower of today's Democratic Party. The American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights Watch and others on the anti-antiterror left want Mr. Obama to limit the surveillance and other tools that have prevented another terrorist attack on U.S. soil. The Natural Resources Defense Council and Environmental Defense will insist on onerous caps -- that is, taxes -- on coal and other carbon energy. Those won't help Mr. Obama carry Ohio and Indiana again in four years.
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UNVERIFIABLE LEGALITY OF POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS:
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/obama_fundraisng/2008/11/05/148218.html?s=al&promo_code=708C-1
Comment by Dlanor, at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/time_of_death_oct_3_2008.html:
"Don't be hoodwinked," say pols on both the left and the right. Yet, they all set out to hoodwink us. Why do they do that, and why do we let them? Could a "fair and balanced Michael Moore" go after the unholy alliance of forces that is sponsoring all this hoodwinking, as well as the unholy alliance of forces that is succumbing to it? Is there an independent documentary producer, who could document scenes alternating between characterizing the "evil world" and the "stupid world"? Maybe Monty Python, in search of the hoodwinker.
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To Tom (Re: "social conservatism" and small government
conservatism are NOT compatible):
Well, do you not get this: Without some sort of social conservatism for nurturing decent civil-ity, neither representative government nor civil-ization is sustainable.
Let's see --- libertines want neither religious nor secular intrusion into the "right" of anyone to pimp, push, corrupt, and do essentially as they damn well please, whether for pleasure, recruitment of mules and addicts, or profit. Might you know of any such a society that has long been able to defend or sustain itself?
Sheep, Shepard, sheep-dog, wolf, and black sheep --- which are the libertarians and libertines?
THE BIGGEST THREAT:
Snippets from http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/opinion/14brooks.html?em:
“It is all a reminder that the biggest threat to a healthy economy is not the socialists of campaign lore. It’s C.E.O.’s. It’s politically powerful crony capitalists who use their influence to create a stagnant corporate welfare state.”
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PERSONAL COMMENTS: Close, but no cigar. The biggest threat to a healthy economy is the threat to healthy, competitive markets. But, markets cannot be competitive when they are ruled by grossly disproportionate powers, such as undemocratic, ungovernable, international cabals of pirates of opportunity, skilled in blowing and bursting financial bubbles to their own advantage and amusement.
Government imposed socialistic financial equality among individuals is torture to individual initiative, dignity, and freedom. But, government induced competitiveness for thwarting or compensating for monopolistic behavior among grossly unequal markets is vital to individual initiative, dignity, and freedom.
Government cannot perform such a role when its physical and financial boundaries are become permeable at will, by aliens, saboteurs, and financial pirates.
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“But the larger principle is over the nature of America’s political system. Is this country going to slide into progressive corporatism, a merger of corporate and federal power that will inevitably stifle competition, empower corporate and federal bureaucrats and protect entrenched interests? Or is the U.S. going to stick with its historic model: Helping workers weather the storms of a dynamic economy, but preserving the dynamism that is the core of the country’s success.”
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Compare http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/opinion/14krugman.html?em.
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PERSONAL COMMENTS:
America has elites, intelligentsia, corporate managers, legislators, and international financial pirates to thank for years of what military sergeants aptly call PPPP (piss poor prior planning), in respect of obliviousness to the:
1) need, in a dangerous world, to preserve American boundaries (physical, financial, cultural, moral);
2) effects of social mistrust and breach of good faith brought on by demise of decent moral values and basic respect for law and Constitution;
3) corruption brought on by media and academia conditioning towards mistaken definitions of intelligence and morality and towards misplaced priorities and values (gay military, gay marriage, forcible unionization, rap noise, victim pimping, Bush derangement syndrome, America bashing, Europe envy, rights entitlements, etc.);
4) need to nurture viable markets and a viable middle class;
5) effects of loss of jobs and productive capacity for durable goods; and
6) effects on environment.
In short, Americans have foolishly placed grossly disproportionate faith in elites, as opposed to fundamental American values and common sense.
High Cost of Youthful Naiveté --- see:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/waltzing_on_the_titanic_1.html.
JOE BIDEN'S WARNING --- COLD WAR DECEPTION --- COLD WAR NOT REALLY OVER ---
RELENTLESSLY INDIFFERENT AND CRUEL WORLDWIDE PUSH TO SOCIALISTIC DICTATORSHIP:
Regarding long term, high expenditure by Russia of resources towards reshaping American academia, students, media, etc., see: http://www.dailymotion.com – Dailymotion – Yuri Bezmenov.
Among the steps of (1) demoralization, (2) destabilization, (3) crisis, and (4) normalization (socialist emplacement), steps (1) and (2) have been going on in America for quite some time! The tipping points, at (3) and (4), are close upon us.
Against this, we cannot beat something with nothing.
And America, presently, has nothing.
First, America does not do a good job of inculcating civic appreciation of American values. Rather, “education” is geared towards impractical, feminine, pie-in-sky, everyone-play-nice values, with little admiration extended to manly defense.
Second, American institutions and academia provide virtually nothing to encourage citizens or students to turn to traditional Judeo-Christian values. Rather, traditional values are being rapidly undermined.
Again, America cannot beat something with nothing.
A line from a song by Van Zandt:
“…Stick to your guns, if you believe in something, no matter what, ‘cause it’s better to be hated for who you are than be loved for who you’re not.”
Obama — http://townhall.com/Columnists/JaniceShawCrouse/2008/11/21/emperor_obamas_clothes_are_visible_and_scary.
WHAT JUST HAPPENED?
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/what_the_heck_happened.html.
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/blagos_auction.html:
Until Republicans become willing to provide "checks that will work" against disproportionate purchases of political influence, they will remain, as Democrats (tweedledee and tweedledum), major parts of the problem --- the problem being the collapse of Western freedom.
Banish Rinos; educate Conservatives; divert libs to fantasyland; rein in unions; reestablish competitive markets; reempower the States; and sound the alarm!
A 5 alarm bell is ringing ...
BTW --- The comfort and freedom of Repubs and Dems was not purchased and is not supported by their cheap shenanigans, but by the sacrifices of real patriots, i.e., firemen, policemen, military troops. Break faith with them by institutionalizing government and corporate Ponzi scams and your children will inherit the whirlwind. Wise up!
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/blagos_auction.html:
"Power and money have never been separated in world history and never will be. "
True, McCain's porous approach, being fundamentally incoherent, could not provide a defensible perimeter against corruption. Nor can we divorce Power from Money.
But we can check against some of Power's leveraged abuses.
Honest government should be about coherent, competing checks and balances.
If we wish to live in a society of free expression and enterprise, we must find ways to prevent those who become most influential in business or politics from leveraging their power to restrict the free expression and enterprise of everyone else.
I have no problem with someone using his energies and talents to accumulate wealth.
I do have a problem with his using his accumulated wealth to restrict my free expression and enterprise --- especially by buying politicians on the cheap. (Buying influence on the cheap translates, much as insider trading, into ever more leveraging of wealth --- sort of like a legalized Ponzi scam.)
I have no problem with his making campaign contributions to politicians.
I do have a problem with politicians, who are supposed to represent a broader constituency, being reduced by exigencies of competition to cheap whores for immoral pimps.
Our existing system of checks and balances has long ago been overwhelmed.
We need to re-think some new checks and balances.
Not to purify politics or business, but to restore markets and empower more people with opportunity to compete.
One obvious way to do that is to tax political contributions (purchases of political influence and access) at very progressive rates.
Obama's election was not purely the result of masses of small contributions being made by lower classes seeking to vote raises for themselves through the political process.
Rather, such masses were orchestrated with behind the scenes credit availed from billionaire "socialist" opportunists.
If we don't check such abuses, we resign our freedom --- both of expression and of enterprise.
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/god_and_the_auto_bailout.html:
Ward P. Deaton, Jr. ("Prayer is for us to find His will"):
Good. As we approach prayer and meditation with an honest and listening heart, we become more likely to pursue that which should be meaningfully availed to us. This is do-able and to-do.
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