Conservatives need to move past the first 4 stages of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’ 5 stages from “On Death and Dying”, and realize that the patient, America, is not terminal, yet. The Conservatives can take the rage and disgust that they and the American people feel over the entire Health Care Reform process and turn it into a positive force for a return to freedom. With a plan and tenacity, Conservatives can ensure that our kids and grand kids have a bright future in a renewed, freer America.
In her seminal work “On Death And Dying” (published in 1969), Elisabeth Kübler-Ross takes us through the 5-stages of grief that human beings experience when they are told that they have a terminal condition (or even when a loved one is given that news). These five stages are famous now, they proceed thusly: First: DENIAL of the facts, Second: ANGER at our self or others, Third: BARGAINING with God or with one’s self, Fourth: DEPRESSION as preparatory grieving, and Fifth: ACCEPTANCE of the situation with some detachment and objectivity. In this whole march toward, and finalizing of Obama Care, I have watched my fellow Conservatives shroud themselves in one or more of the the first four of Kübler-Ross’ stages: denial, anger, bargaining, and depression. Frankly, after 72 hours of Sunday’s vote in the House, I have watched enough misery and depression on the right. Pull yourselves together and lets get a plan. This Health Care Reform is a call to action, not a death of America to be mourned! I have a plan.
The Conservatives need to move rapidly to ACCEPTANCE, to stage 5. Accept the fact that this Obama Care will be law. Do Not make the mistake of hanging your hopes on a law suit or Supreme Court decision down the road. Stop arguing with your fellow conservatives over minutia, get out and continuously spread the word of how awful the reality of HCR is. Become relentless in message. We have to be united in one short term goal: take back the Congress in 2010. When that occurs through all of our efforts, Congress can then refuse to fund, or de-fund all aspects of HCR. This means getting into a budget battle with a terribly unpopular President over a very unpopular program and, if need be, shutting down the federal government; this is a very winnable fight. Be relentless in the message of why the government is shut down. It is closed for business to protect freedoms granted by the Constitution and to protect the American dream for our kids and grand kids. Do not compromise, what is at stake it too valuable to play politics as usual. There can be no more RINOs and no more Blue Dogs; there can be only Right and Wrong. Use the Alinsky rules of political war against the progressives. Isolate them, define them, and then scorn and ridicule them loudly in public at every turn. Be relentless and on message constantly under a united goal to destroy HCR.
The Second Goal is to retake the Senate and the Presidency in 2012. Again, it will require a relentless message that destroys the left and tells the truth about the Democrat Party and President Obama. And, for every negative statement about the left, supply a positive about the right, take back the history of this nation. The United States is a center-right polity, unabashedly reclaim it and then repeal HCR, use Deem and Pass if needed. Get nasty, use the Pelosi/Slaughter tricks that they used to pass HCR. No holds should be barred in this fight. Replace this HCR mess with one or two little gems for now: Massive Tort Reform and allow the insurance companies to sell across state lines.
The Third goal is to destroy the Progressives for generations to come in one mighty blow for individual freedom. End the current tax structure, use the Deem and Pass if necessary, again, use every trick and forceful measure in the book. Be relentless in message and goal. The Progressives love to use the tax code as a way to direct society like a puppet master makes a marionette dance. The tax codes are the strings, an we are the puppets. A tax break makes people act to get the break, a tax increase puts the brakes on an activity. Destroy the entire system; replace the federal tax code with a flat wage tax or a national sales tax , either will do. This destroys Progressive control of American Society. Then, if I may be allowed a fourth goal: cut the federal work force by 20%, get rid of the myth of the permanent government job. Maybe disband the Department of Education, the Department of Energy, and maybe even the Department of the Interior and hand all that accumulated bureaucratic power back to the states where it belongs.
The rage that the American public feels right now over the passage of HCR should not be seen in the lens of the first four stages of Kübler-Ross’ Five Stages of Death and Dying. We need to see it as an awakening of the populace to take back our Constitution and destroy this Progressive movement that is bent on destruction and remaking of the United States as we know it. If we hold fast and still fail, so be it. I would rather that we be rejected by the people, and then be taken away kicking and screaming, than to walk away from this fight in shame knowing that we could have done more.
Tags: conservatives, Health Care
…but the polonium IV is hooked up.
We are not dead yet but we better snap out of that funking coma pronto.
I’m guessing you wrote this because you are tired of the defeatist attitudes? ood job!
It’s just pining for the fjords…
This is a really powerful essay. An unpopular president with an even less popular Democrat Congress rammed through a Bill that the country loudly told them not to.
They used a Reconcilliation Procdure that was never meant to be used this way.
Make em pay, throw them out of offioe & reverse this abomination
yes I was ready to take a sabbatical from the innertubes
because of the’negative waves man”
I allways loved that line in the movie.lol
Which will require a constitutional amendment. Frankly, the Obamites have done so much damage, I don’t see a way out that doesn’t involve amending the constitution (see thread later this evening on said subject).
Well stated and all excellent points coldwarrior.
mawskrat wrote:
What a great post coldwarrior. I’m going to bookmark it and read when I go all wobbly. LOL
Not that it happens that often to ME.
It may not be dead, but the experiment in determining exactly how much socialism is fatal is progressing apace.
That is the most unusual use of Kubler Ross I have ever seen.:D Still in the depression phase but it has not stopped me from informing and networking with a few folks.Good plan CW,how about sending it out to some of the Rs?
Testing
@ snork:
Restructuring the tax code doesn’te require a Constitutional amendment.
The existing tax code is nothing more than ordinary federal law.
All the 16th Amendment did was authorize them to collect a income tax. It didn’t set up the system.
@ The Osprey:
lovin it.lol
Of some note:
No one else is in fear of these dumb ass lazy commie Democrat tax and spend fools why in the hell sould “We the People” fear them one dam moment.
Taxfreekiller does not for one moment.
I do fear to live in a country that does fear them.
Hapless Hopeless Tax and Spend , John F. Kerry/Chuck Schummer/ Dickless Durbin/ Barney Frank/ etal,,, hell the only ones of them
that know how to fight are the women like Boxer and Pelosi and all they know is back stabing…..
It’s hard to have negative waves when you have a paint shooting sherman.
@ lobo91:
That’s the only way you’re going to get a VAT and keep them from keeping the income tax. Otherwise, you’ll get both. That’s how it’s worked in every state that added an income tax to a sales tax.
testying
Preach it, CW!
Then you’ll like this,
Thomas Jefferson When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty
OT -- Donkeys gone wild.
taxfreekiller wrote:
Well said.
Somebody needs to post the “I’m not dead” plague scene video from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.”
Speranza wrote:
Got that right!
I was speaking with a fellow Taxed Enough Already Person on the way back from walking the kids to school. She was distraught over the new legislation. She was in DC for the weekend freedom ralleys. Her and her husband have been active and traveling all year for the Cause and has always cheerful and excited about the work they were doing. She was near tears as she gave me the its over what are we going to do now talk. I felt like hugging her, (not my place but she looked beaten) she seemed in absolute grief, as if indeed a death in her family had occured. She went on about how pissed she was over the MSM hyping the agitprop about racism on the right etc. I asked if she had spoken to many others and what their dispositionn was. She replied no, to busy (sole bread winner, husband disabilty from auto wreck) I started telling here about the links I have been sending out to refute the lies being told by the MSM (ministry of truth), about cantor’s office, the money I was throwing weekly to the Party of No and Self Reliance and Accoutability.
She had to leave to get on a business trip, but left agreeing that we needed to talk and that both of our families needed to start to sort out our neighborhood, and get everyone else of like mind on board for the Summer offensive and Fall victory. In all I think she left in better spirits from knowing she was not alone, and others were just as pissed, but not feeling down for it, and are willing to give it all.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
all is not lost U2 flies again
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buzzsawmonkey wrote:
‘Yes you are. You’ll be stone dead in a moment.’
@ mawskrat:
Another of Kelly Johnson’s incredible works. Too bad they won’t bring the Blackbird back.
Scott Madsen wrote:
Yes. That’s it. What we all need to know.
CW makes a really strong point here. As I see it the Libs fear two thngs. One is that we will stop paying for their silly ideas.
The second & think most important is that they fear mockery.
To ridicule & mock what their inflated egos tell them is a superior intellect is heinous to them.
Take Ludwig as an example. I am sure that we all agree that he is a pompous ass.
How in the world would he react to being told, “Lud you do not work in any lab & you are not a physicist. You might teach general science
at some high school as a substitute. You are just not smart & it is hilarious that you persist in this charade.”
Do you think that he would have a rational response?
To quote kirly, “we’re doomed”.
OT:
I’m about to leave, but before I do, 2 soldiers killed stopping Terrorist from planting bomb.
snork wrote:
it’s allways darkest before the dawn
@ RIX:
Why do I picture Donald Duck going into one of his tirades?
RIX wrote:
No, but that’ll just make him and his fellow travelers double down and spend the other 24 hours every day doing political activism.
Which is something that is hard for sane people to imagine. Leftists eat, sleep and screw this stuff. It’s their entire universe. This is both a problem and an opportunity. The problem is that you’re up against people who never sleep (and have government “jobs” where they get paid to engage in political activity). The opportunity is that they’re ridiculous, and can be exposed as such.
mfhorn wrote:
Great image. Tell Donald, “You’re really not an eagle”
RIX wrote:
Tell Chunkles “you’re really not king of the blogosphere”. Same result.
@ snork:
I see your point, but I do believe that ridicule shakes them.
They are used to dishing it out.
Actually , I think that a cretin like Ludwidg could be demoraile & he just might assume the fetus position.
Yeah , but he looks good now on that fruit & water diet, don’t you think?
ok have a great one everyone:
Oh, and if I’m not on until Passover has started.
HAPPY PASSOVER!
@ RIX:
Delusions don’t work that way. When challenged, the delusional just get wackier. You can’t convince them, and you can’t defeat them. You have to disable them.
Hmmm, meaning?
@ WrathofG-d:
Happy Passover, Wrath.
@ chickadee:
Thank you. When I am smacking people with scallions this holiday, I’ll think of you all!
RIX wrote:
Just an eagle-itarian?
Scott Madsen wrote:
It is stories like that that give me the feeling that times are changing in this area. We will be red.
That’s pretty good, I wish that I would have said it.
Two Cinderllas dancing tonight in the tournament, Saint Marys & Northern Iowa.
See you later.
@ mawskrat:
We are trying to do away with negativity here.
Rodan wrote:
That’s hopeless.
We’ll see what happens this fall. We have seven months to push as hard as we possibly can. This is the most critical election in the History of the Republic. We quite litterally will stand or fall based on its outcome.
NH Dem Likes To Shoot Conservative Republicans
@ snork:
We have to try!
Mark Levin started his show this afternoon with a list of all the stuff included in the Obamacare bill, with the starting dates.
So far, it’s mostly been a list of cuts to services and increases in fees under Medicare.
Now I see why the Dems were so insistent on claiming that anyone pointing out what they were planning was trying to “scare seniors.”
@ snork:
Never happen.
@ lobo91:
The way our W2 is reported will change. Now benefits will count as income, thus raising our rates.
Unreal!
OK. Changed my mind. Eat Obama’s bumper off:
lobo91 wrote:
This is why so many seniors got up off the couch and hit the streets with the Tea Party movement.
They sensed what was coming. They knew that Zero wouldn’t do much, if anything to keep them alive.
They knew the rationing would begin with their age group. The commies do not want to give them social security or keep them going once they are no longer “productive.”
Seniors should be scared.
@ Rodan:
There’s a new requirement that the value of employer-provided medical insurance be reported on your W-2, but I haven’t seen anything saying that it’s going to be counted as taxable income.
@ chickadee:
Yes, they should.
This list looks pretty similar to what Mark was reading on his show.
@ lobo91:
Let’s see, I hope you are right because it will screw many people over.
The Army plans to pay nearly $207,000 to keep the suspected gunman in the deadly Fort Hood shootings at a central Texas jail until at least September, the San Antonio Express News reported Friday.
$207,000??????? Shit how much does just one bullet cost?
@ Nevergiveup:
All that money to keep that scum locked up.
@ Rodan:
Lots of stuff gets reported in Box 12 or Box 14 on W-2s that isn’t necessarily taxable income.
Military housing allowance used to be reported there. It’s never been taxable.
@ Rodan:
I want to carve that POS up with a chainsaw. Save the head and stick it on a pike.
@ Rodan:
Note that all I said was that I haven’t heard any plans to make it taxable (yet). I don’t think it was in the bill, because someone would have found it by now and raised hell about it.
That doesn’t mean they won’t decide to do so at some point in the future (like next year).
@ lobo91:
We’ll find out come tax time!
the left will always win because they take two steps forward and when the right is in power they only take one step back.
the left have so much energy, and we have none.
i think we are entering end times.
savage wrote:
And then feed the bits to Elmer.
The fcking msms actively deceived people abt. the sinister nature of this gov’t hell care.
They are as bad as the dems who passed it.
@ Rodan:
It may be there to track people with good insurance benefits. Over a certain level becomes taxable in 2014. This is what pissed the Unions off because Union workers typically have “cadillac” insurance programs. Of course, by 2014 there may be far fewer Union workers as a whole.
@ chickadee:
They were just doing their job, as the public relations arm of the progressive movement.
More from the department of they got nothing:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/6932017.html
@ Iron Fist:
They pushed it back to 2018, but yeah that might be what it’s for.
lobo91 wrote:
FIFY
Nevergiveup @ 66:
Bullet? there must be a piece of rope laying around somewhere they can sling over the nearest tree.
Let the carcass hang low enough so that the dogs in the video above can chew on him for a while.
@ Nevergiveup:
They should do the old Soviet liquidation action on him. Someone visits his cell in the middle of the night and bam. Finished bidness.
@ savage:
better inflating his nut sack with helium gas and then shooting a distress flair at it, but tell him what your plan is before doing it.
And any fool who thinks “it’s going to be like Christmas everyday” may be surprised to find that their gift is NOT proper treatment but only a pain pill.
@ justin case:
Hydrogen would work better. Helium doesn’t burn.
@ chickadee:
They’re getting a lump of coal.
@ lobo91:
ha ha just testing.
@ justin case:
Use hydrogen gas, not helium. Hydrogen gas is the flammable one, as you can see….
@ justin case:
it’s my standard responce after i have made a drunken prat out of my self. whatever man. fish.
justin case wrote:
It’s the domestic equivalent of the Brezhnev doctrine. He explained that all countries under Marxist rule — by which he meant under Soviet power— are permanently so, whereas all other countries are open to wars of “liberation” and subversion.
What the Left gets, it keeps. You may stop the growth temporarily, but you cannot reverse it.
OTOH, the old buzzard was wrong about Eastern Europe.
Looks like the honeymoon is over.
AT&T Joins Growing List of Firms That Say Health Care Law Will Cut Into Their Profits
@ savage:
yo say estoy dick head esta nocha.
@ wolfie:
Much like Islam.
@ Beltfed:
Cut bennies and raise customer rates. Another “unintended” consequence? HA!
@ justin case:
???
@ lobo91:
That’s what I worry about
@ justin case:
Como esta la temporada en mi Madre Patria?
lobo91 wrote:
Yes! Excellent point.
Once again we see the convergence between Leftism and Islam.
@ savage:
pissed as a fart tonight me amigo, lol
I don’t want to wreck speranzas shiny new thread so I will ask here. Anyone else think its weird that Defensemans newest blog entry blames everyone but CJ for the crap that has happened at LGF? The outing of posters real identities started with CJ. The toxic posting enviroment is what CJ has allowed it to become. Yoop is a smart dude in serious denial.
@ justin case:
have a beer!
Beltfed wrote:
Maybe a couple of weeks ago might have been a better time to say something?
@ Rodan:
spain is good but the economic situation is affecting all the people.
everybody is moaning, the prices of food are always going up,
hace dos años el menú del día era 4.50, ahora es 8.50, y el asilo de salarios; t doblado como los precios.
la situación es mala.
It’s snowing again. Third time since the official start of Spring.
And they’re still trying to claim that this was the 5th warmest winter ever…
justin case wrote:
That’s pretty evident from the next thread.
lobo91 wrote:
Ever in the 21st century.
@ snork:
I don’t think that’s even true.
It’s snowed more this year than anytime since we moved here in 2003.
@ snork:
mmmmmmmmm get your blue peter badge for that one.