Gerald Ford gave us John Paul Stevens. Ronald Reagan gave us Sandra Day O’Connor. George Bush 41 gave us David Souter. George Bush 43 gave us John Roberts. A short retrospective of the more conservative candidate leaving us with the sick disappointed feeling of ultimate betrayal with a crucial decision from the Supreme Court. Summing up my thoughts about Thursday’s decision has been difficult. I’ll give it a shot anyhow.
First, the next time someone from what our side claims itself to be is nominated, the discussion had better include whether or not said nominee is a person possessing a little thing called integrity, has a back bone which will stand up to the pressures of a relentless and unscrupulous political left, or if said nominee is in reality a jellyfish, such as is the case apparently of one John Roberts, our current Supreme Court’s Chief Justice. As a matter of fact, his new nick name on my personal blog will henceforth be John, “Jellyfish,” Roberts.
For those of you who have found a silver lining in the decision which somehow includes the Jellyfish’s opining that the Commerce Clause has indeed been tortured out of all recognizable sanity for some sort of Pyrrhic victory, that the Jellyfish was really somehow, “preserving the good standing of the court,” while limiting the naked power grab by a federal behemoth which regards us mere mortal citizens as little pieces of filth to be tweaked into compliance with their caviar dreams and jet set wishes, I have this to say. You are full of baloney. This merely serves as a further blue print on how the self anointed are to proceed with each future erosion of their unfettered march to remove our individual freedoms. Lie all you want when pitching your new intrusions into private lives, just be sure to call it a tax, and if you don’t, it’s all good, the Jellyfish will find suitable language to set your growing behemoth straight.
How on Earth did we ever allow the group of people known as lawyers to become the self anointed guardians of how the Constitution was to be interpreted anyhow? As far as I know, the document was written for the benefit of every American Citizen, and lawyers can spin anything to the point of Twilight Zone material. We let them take charge of this one simple task, and now our Constitution has been reduced in meaning to nothing more than an eloquent statement that tells us that if they want to, our Legislators and President can do anything to us that they wish, as long as they word it properly. The Jellyfish you see has just decided that there are absolutely no restrictions upon our federal government and its dealings with we the people. They can do anything to us that they wish to do, and you can bet your bottom dollar, if you still have it, that at some point in the future, they will.
I have read some reports that the Jellyfish caved into some pressure from the press clippings that he’d been reading lately. If that’s so, (and I realize that those stories are without source, verification, and based solely on the flimsiest of conjecture, but still represent the best explanation to date of why such a perversion in judicial decision making seemed like a good idea to the Jellyfish,) what a shame it is indeed. He has turned the Highest court into the whipping boy and tool of those people who wish to destroy our nation. All is not lost however, and we can still reverse this damage. The Jellyfish has still not caved to the pressure to suspend future elections in order to keep the current group of Marxist representatives from America’s minority in place. (Governor Beverly Perdue (D), North Carolina, has indeed made the previous proposal as a means to mitigating the economic crisis.)
We have an election coming up in November of this year which is crucial, as they will be for as long as the Supreme Court includes the likes of the Jellyfish, who has now aligned himself with a woman who believes that our Constitution should be scrapped entirely. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of the nine people tasked with interpreting our Constitution, took the extraordinary step of traveling to lawless Egypt, and advised them to not use our Constitution as a model for their own. She told them that the document went too far in limiting the federal government’s authority over its citizenry, which means us. That, by the way was the entire point.)
Those of you by the way who made protest votes or simply didn’t vote in 2008, I blame you every bit as much as those idiots who voted for Barack Obama. You were the goofy few running around proclaiming that it really doesn’t matter who is in charge anyhow, and how has that worked out for you so far? In his wildest nightmares filled with endless V.C. torturing him if he didn’t inflict us with society killing legislation, John McCain could not have come up with Zerocare and Dodd/Frank. We all need to dig in, work hard, and make certain that we send not only Mitt Romney, but even GOP Dog Catchers on to victory in order to have any shot to roll back the damage done to our society.
There are two major silver linings in all of this though. Maybe for the first time since the Carter Presidency, the American People seem to realize that elections have consequences. The mobilization of my brethren Tea Partiers and such has been astounding. Not only has Mitt Romney received an astounding boon for his cash raising efforts, but the down ticket folks have also been blowing the doors off of their fund raising results. While team Zero has been keeping a chipper face, claiming that they have received a boost from the decision, their actions speak otherwise. There is a recording floating around of Barack Obama whining to Union Leaders that their lack of forthcoming financing will cause him the election, and the Obama Chief of Staff has declared the entire debate over, even though we all know that it will be a major GOP campaign platform issue. Small wonder that Jack Lew wishes to move on from this issue. In 2010, the promise to repeal Obamacare netted the GOP 63 House Seats, 7 Senate Seats, 11 Governor’s Mansions, and a cool 700 State Legislature Seats.
The second silver lining is that the individual states have the ability to opt out of the Medicare Penalty inflicted by non participation in the double counting scheme. That is to say, one major source of supposed funding was the Obamacare direction that states utilize the bulk of their Medicare funding for Obamacare instead, and make up the difference themselves. That won’t happen now, and which Governor in his or her right mind will pass up the opportunity to drop that political hot potato? The funding for this nonsense will cause major league budgetary problems much sooner than expected, even if it survives November’s cease and desist order.
Please enjoy a couple of videos. The first is Bill Whittle’s take on the decision, and well worth 5 minutes of your time. The second is Jack Lew telling us a tax is in fact not a tax when it comes to what people should be told during the campaign season, or something. He at least admits that lawyers are prone to lying flat out in order to twist the Constitution to fit their wishes.
Cross Posted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.
QUAAAAACK!
From reading in the paper the letters to the editor…people are not happy with the Supreme Court ruling and some have even expressed fear of this ruling.
Lily wrote:
I am predicting a huge backlash in November
It really has made voting simple this time around…
@ brookly red:
One can only hope. With this election I’m not sure of anything.
Although I have noticed no fainting over obama, nor have I seen any pro-obama signs anywhere.
Many people were sure that the Supreme Court would strike down this obamacare and were shocked it wasn’t….it’s a tax.
Not to mention one person equated the new healthcare law being on the same lines as when the Federal government got their hands on the schools and now we have failing schools and people wanting vouchers and people putting their chilren in private schools. How many of these fools have put their children in public schools? Zero. Just imagine it along that line..how awful our healthcare will be run if they run it like the post office and the schools. Will we eventually come to the point were people are wanting vouchers to get out from under this beast???
Already I want a voucher…I don’t want the government telling my doctor how to treat me. Period.
brookly red wrote:
You would think so. But many are equating Romney as the same as Obama!
Really???
My local McTimes newspaper has an story titled “Candidates offer a study in contrasts”. Seems like a fair observation, except the article was not about policy, it was about a hit piece on Romney. There were two photos, one of Romney driving a large speedboat, another of Obango shaking hands with seniors in a nursing home.
No doubt, many low information voters glance at a story like this and think “I want Obama to win because he is a common person like me”. This sort of blatant advocacy of Democrats disguised as objective news is starting to drive me crazy.
Then we have this crazy crap…it is taking November a long time to get here….and even then I don’t know if we will be crying and celebrating.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s former spiritual adviser spoke just a few miles from the White House on Sunday, and politics and controversy weren’t far from what Rev. Jeremiah Wright had to say.
“As we celebrate the foundations of our future, this is not a time to romanticize because we have the first African-descended president in the White House,” Wright said in a fiery sermon that lasted close to an hour. “You see what the tea party is trying to do.”
Speaking at Washington’s Florida Avenue Baptist Church, which marks its 100th anniversary this week, Wright urged parishioners to teach their children true African-American history and not to cede their educations to “our enemies” who teach “his story,” one that “distorts our story, disses our story.”
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/07/08/jeremiah-wright-says-the-tea-party-is-out-to-get-blacks/
@ tunnelrat:
They are FULL ON OUT IN THE OPEN with this..they aren’t even trying to hide it. What we have is propaganda…
tunnelrat wrote:
We have passed the point people rationalizing their votes, when times are bad people vote their pocketbooks.
@ Lily:
Agreed. Thank goodness the old media is losing it’s monopoly on the news! Newspaper subscriptions are plummeting all across the country, and very few people watch network news broadcasts anymore. They are losing influence and it pisses them off!
@ tunnelrat:
Yet they keep on doubling down on the leftist points..instead of actually reporting the news without such an extreme bias and slanting it. They think people aren’t noticing???
I prefer my Supreme court decisions to have some simple clarity to them. When both sides declare victory based on slicing the decision, I think something is wrong. Too many laws. Too much government interference.
I walked by a farmers market today and the people unloading boxes from the trucks were all wearing hardhats and neon safety vests. All the civilians there were in regular clothes. This was on a lefty college campus so I assumed that these people might actually be union members. One guy had his cart named Dolly Parton.
Romney needs to bust a move or two here, like a Gingrich or a Trump would. He is getting frames by the leftist narrative already. He needs to chew up and spit out a few big news reporters. He needs to go hunting for them. Set them up for all to see, and deliver the punch with some good rehearsed planning and timing.
But yet people think it is the Christians who want to take over the world. In comments if this religion is EVEN critiqued..you see so many comments about how bad the Christian religion is.
A Muslim group has released its plan to “wipe Christianity from the face of the earth,” Islamize the West and establish an Islamic system of world government – placing those who resist “under a police state.”
The 23-page booklet, “The Global Islamic Civilization: The Power of a Nation Revived,” is the brainchild of the United Muslim Nations International, a group led by Sheik Farook al-Mohammedi. The document outlines a plan for Muslim world domination and the re-establishment of the Caliphate.
Al-Mohammedi leaves no doubt about his view of Christianity.
“Christianity should be destroyed and wiped from the face of the earth,” al-Mohammedi said. “It is an evil demonic and Anti-Christ system, all Christians are in complete Ignorance.”
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/07/08/islamist-group-vows-to-wipe-christianity-from-face-of-the-earth/
darkwords wrote:
Timing is the key point in your comment. To actually win this election timing is going to be key and too soon would be bad. Right now Romney is doing a good job..better than many have thought. But timing is very key to a win….
@ Lily:
@ tunnelrat:
@ brookly red:
Here’s an interesting read:
With little to say, Obama eats grits in Rust Belt
Lily wrote:
they know people are noticing (they have marketing departments after all)hence the doubling down… they know this is their last chance to grab what they can while the grabbing is good.
The swatting incidences of recent are a game changer, trying to suppress opposing views by force is how it starts. Once you go down that road your only option is more force, which then triggers resistance.
Sooner or later someone will cast a stone or light a fire and there will be hell to pay.
@ huckfunn:
Huh. He is at war with the American people and he expects to wow the people! The only thing he has to go on is the color of his skin..which he uses as much as he can. He can’t run on his past 3 1/2 years..there is so much wrong he has done. He has really done a number to our economy and he continues to give OUR MONEY away to countries like Africa for Green energy..windmills and solar panels!
We don’t have the money to be giving away to other countries. He disses our military, he wages war with Christians, he is destroying our ablitiy to create jobs and wants to slash our plants that create energy.
brookly red wrote:
Apparently they think we are Europeons. Sorry. We are Americans, sure we will put up with a lot…but we are at a tipping point. People aren’t happy with what is going on with this country. The PC crap has floated to the top and people are sick and tired of it.
R.I.P. Ernest Borgnine at 95.
Lily wrote:
fify
That is our history we don’t act till we are forced to… then all bets are off.
@ brookly red:
Lily and I have been saying that for quite sometime. Sometimes there are too many Gloomy Guses on here though.
@ NoThreat2U:
Yep. Sorry but I don’t think Romney is anywhere near Obama and neither do you {NT2U}…..we need to stand together behind him.
Instead of wishing for the Reagan years.
NoThreat2U wrote:
I think this is a great and exciting time! I have often posted that we are coming out of what I call our 40 years in the (liberal) wilderness… this is the last go round for the Soro’s and Pelosie’s. they are old they are not going to be here much longer.
@ brookly red:
It is interesting times. But just like with the Supreme Courts ruling..I have no idea how this will turn out. I am hoping for the best until the fat lady sings and will not give up that hope either.
Lily wrote:
I’m not one of those. Romney has much nicer hair than Obama.
Good evening, all.
Brick wrote:
/now THAT is raaaacist!
Good grief! How in the world can they defend obama on the economy???
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/08/democratic-rep-schultz-defends-obama-on-economy-confident-about-black-latino/#ixzz204ZAviEP
pretty cool stuff going on here
2012 World Choir Games in Cincinnati USA
@ Brick:
No you aren’t. But some are. Which has me baffled really.
Lily wrote:
Have to agree. When foreign news sources have more objective coverage than domestic sources…things are amiss.
Lily wrote:
it’s easy, we work and he gives them our pay checks…
@ Brick:
Yep oversea’s vetting of obama has been better than our own. They even wonder what the hell is going on with our news here.
Lily wrote:
I think some could argue that Romney’s a distinction without a difference. After all -- the blueprint for the ACA was Romneycare in Massachusetts. When Team Zero revs up, Romney won’t be able to stake out a position that mandatory coverage was somehow good for Mass citizens, but is NOT good for everyone else.
Lesser of two globalists and all that.
@ Brick:
the media and lobbyists rule the country…not Congress and the electorate…start from there and it becomes clear
brookly red wrote:
I find after just a bit of careful tailoring, that label fits me just fine.
I really love that all of the Dems have got the
same talking points about the PPACA, “Let’s move on,
it’s been litigated, it passed muster in the Exec Branch,
the Congress & the Courts” & my favorite “We need to
concentrate on jobs, this is a distraction”
This is bad law passed by bribery & slight of hand.
And where were the Dems on jobs while Obama just
raided the Treasury & pushed ObamaCare?”
heysoos wrote:
The influence of the professional media is really on the wane -- especially as it pertains to traditional delivery means. Ad revenues, viewerships, and readerships are down in print and telly.
They’re losing their grip as kingmakers and are simply allying themselves with those who they think will continue to allow them a seat at the table.
@ RIX:
Saying Republicans are extremists and racists.
did any one have any fun today?
really it’s what you make it
RIX wrote:
It’s like the perp saying to the victim -- forget that I raped you, let’s move forward and focus on important issues, like what you’re going to make me for lunch!
Lily wrote:
as opposed to thieves and baby-killers…
Lily wrote:
Over & over.
@ mawskrat:
Nope had a bad week-end. But I’m trying not to let it get me down.
/plus the issues were out of my hands on it being a bad week-end.
what does BO plan with regard to the staff to treat 35m new patients?…where are these doctors and nurses coming from?…and how does this law prevent epic fraud at the taxpayers expense?….OCare is a monster, that no govt will be able to control, since the feds themselves are corrupt
@ Lily:
Romney is a Progressives. He supports the Muslim Brotherhood. That’s why I don’t see them all that different. The only difference is that Obama hates America and Romney likes this country. Other than that, they really don’t disagree on much.
Brick wrote:
don’t worry it will be served cold…
@ brookly red:
Well apparently that’s all they got …. Repulicans are extremist and racist.
Like Rix said…this is being said over and over and over.
@ Lily:
so sad to hear that….I’m harvesting
a lot of good stuff out of my gardens
heysoos wrote:
Yup. There is definitely a foreign (Saudi/Muslim Brotherhood) influence on our government as well.
mawskrat wrote:
Fun? What is this word fun you speak of?
@ Brick:
That is a good analogy, “Hey we’re past that!”
Lily wrote:
yes same as it ever was… but it sounds different when your outta work
Rodan wrote:
All I can say is agree to dis-agree here. We both know each other’s postitions here.
If the Obama is reelected, they will come for your guns.
He wants your stuff to give to someone who didn’t earn it
& does not deserve it.
To do that they have to come for the guns.
@ mawskrat:
Glad to hear your gardening is going well.
Rodan wrote:
Romney is an elite, corporate hair doo…this guy scares me…I’m not predicting his effectiveness but if he is the best the GOP has, then they are in trouble…BO can and probably will win this election and if so the GOP has nobody to blame but themselves…it’s there for the taking…a crazy huge event, either way it turns…one thing for certain, we field a really shitty govt, R or D…shitty
I posted this earlier but it’s worth repeating…
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/07/07/Unemployment-Rate-Dropped-In-Every-State-That-Elected-A-Republican-Gov-In-2010
heysoos wrote:
Too easy. Where will they come from? 3 letters. FMG.
(Foreign Medical Graduates) My spidey senses predict some new fed programs to entice furriners to come here to set up shop -- when not enough qualified US grads can be found. (More jobs Americans won’t do and stuff.)
RIX wrote:
funny you should say that…
http://www.infowars.com/soros-promotes-un-control-over-gun-ownership/
@ heysoos:
Romney scares you but obama doesn’t. Good grief.
Lily wrote:
Think DMV. That is what your healthcare will be like. Already, patients’ time is not worth anything, thus the long waiting times in the waiting room. When government controls healthcare, patients’ time will become even less valuable.
@ heysoos:
Romney if he wins will be a one termer. In 2016, One of the class of 2010, will defeat him in the primaries.
AZfederalist wrote:
sheeesh, Mohammad Attat would be able to get 5 hip replacements…
@ Brick:
Pakistan. This is the backdoor way to flood the country with Muzzies.
Lily wrote:
did I say that?…it’s a blog, not a mind reading party
Rodan wrote:
I can think of several contenders…
AZfederalist wrote:
Already we wait enough….think of trying to get an appointment. By the time you get to the doc…your cold could have gone to pneumonia.
Suggested reading:
‘The Bill of Rights Exposed’, by William H Huff
‘New Views of the Constitution of the United States’ by John Taylor
@ Lily:
Romney needs to attack Obama the cultural symbol and offer a positive vision for the future.
@ Rodan:
What goes unsaid is that Obama was a Muslim.
He was registered in public school as a Muslim
in Indonesia. He took Koranic studies which is
advanced (The school Head Master confirmed it
on ABC.
He spent time in Mosque with Step dad Lolo, where I’m
ptetty sure he recited the Shahada.
He is a Christian convert & is therefore an Apostate
who still digs Islam.
@ brookly red:
Same here. I despise Romney. I’m not voting for him, but against Onbama. I will not support his Presidency unless he governs as a Fiscal/Economic Conservative.
heysoos wrote:
Yes you did…THIS GUY SCARES ME….remember that??? I didn’t mind read you. REMEMBER WHAT THE HELL YOU POST!!!!!!!!!!
heysoos wrote:
Unfortunately, Romney isn’t the best the GOP can do, he is however the best the media will allow. There were several much better candidates. They however were deemed “unacceptable” to the status quo for one reason or another. The media got their orders and they were each given the Joe the Plumber treatment to such a degree -- they became dare I type it…unelectable.
Rodan wrote:
its barely july.
the fun doesnt start till late august. all romney has to do right now is exactly what he is doing now, staying out of the way with mouth shut while the economy collapses.
it is pointless to ‘attack’ anything right now. too early.
@ RIX:
Obama’s past is hidden on purpose.
Rodan wrote:
I can’t say…but it does seem like the GOP has not been grooming young effective future stars…the nomination gig was an absurd joke because of the runners…gimme a break, the GOP is hurtin for certain, maybe even mortal…if BO can get elected any GOP bot can too…dress him up and toss him out there….Romney is a bust
Brick wrote:
figured out a long time ago life is what
you make of it. my neurosurgeon told me years
ago I could have been a parapelegic. I rejoice
every day when I get up and walk.>LOL
Rodan wrote:
/so I was feeling sick and called a cab to go to the hospital… when we got there the driver told me to go into the second door on the left and he would be with me shortly.
I want some fried rice about now…
Rodan wrote:
I think he will but you don’t want that to happen too soon. Especially with the media all in the bag for obama and twisting the facts.
Lily wrote:
that was referring to Romney…
@ coldwarrior:
Opinions are shaped early. If you don’t respond to attacks, then an image sets in. Romney needs to start going for the jugular. We are not dealing with a normal politician, we are dealing with a cultural symbol. You need to start destroying that symbol, so Obama be viewed the failure he is.
coldwarrior wrote:
I agree timing is the big issue right now..need to catch obama off guard….
@ brookly red:
Hunnan Fried rice.
Rodan wrote:
no they arent.
Rodan wrote:
Bingo!
@ heysoos:
Yes you said Romney SCARES YOU!
Whatever ….
Rodan wrote:
and shoot all of your ammo by end of july?
no thanks.
the race hasnt even started yet.
@ Lily:
You can’t let attacks go unanswered. Romney needs to make a case for himself.
@ coldwarrior:
So just let Obama define the narrative? Can you name for me an election where by letting an opponent define narrative is a winning strategy? I’m in Florida and I am seeing the damage Obama’s ads are doing down here.
@ Rodan:
Too soon. Just my opinion. Give away your game plan too soon is not the way to go.
Rodan wrote:
actually I think he will…timing and all that and if he cops some likeability along the way he might win…I don’t doubt Romney’s ability to campaign, I don’t trust him to govern
Lily wrote:
I did..what’s that got to do with Obama?
@ Rodan:
I’m in Louisiana and have been in Texas…and I’m not seeing it. I’m seeing a slow rage towards obama.
Good grief, we need a valium dispensary around here.
/lurk
@ Lily:
Not responding to attacks is political suicide. I am seeing first hand the damage Obama’s ads are having in Florida.
Lily wrote:
Louisiana and Texas are Red States, I’m in a swing state that normally leans Red. I am seeing the first hand damage Obama
s ads are doing.
Rodan wrote:
I respectfully disagree, Romney needs to remain somewhat formless while proxies go for the jugular. Don’t commit too early, probe and find weakness… health care “reform” for instance, it is unpopular but Romney can say “hey I invented it, and O is doing it all wrong”
Gotta throw some clucker on the grill.
See ya.
Rodan wrote:
Certainly, many will come from Muslim countries -- and while many of those will not be able to complete necessary residency requirements, ECFMG certs, USMLEs etc. those that do -- would necessarily be in positions to do the most damage should they be so inclined.
Rodan wrote:
what in gods name are you talking about?
define the narrative???? damage???
its early july and the summer econ looks terrible! seriously, only geek/wonks like us are even looking at polling and opinions. you are too close to the problem. step away from the politics
the rest of the voters wont start caring until late august.
Lily wrote:
I am seeing that in NY… I can only imagine Texas
@ heysoos:
I’m going to just say Romney scares you…but you said nothing about obama. Go ahead think I WAS MIND READING YOU. I wasn’t. Remember what you post. Not in the mood for this with you this evening.
I’m out for the evening. Hope everyone has a good evening.
Job #1 is getting the Jugeared marxist and his coterie of fellow travelers out of the White House, holding the House and taking the Senate.
If we fail in getting Obama out, there is zero percent chance of repealing ObamaTax and once it is implemented, freedom becomes but a memory.
However, given the betrayal of the Constitution by Benedict Roberts, even repealing ObamaTax won’t be enough. A constitutional amendment clarifying the taxing authority of the Government will now be needed in order to repair the precedent set by Benedict Roberts’s judicial activism.
Benedict Roberts’s activism may have been the final precipitating act that will lead to a split in the country; I don’t see how freedom and liberty can be maintained in a country that uses the precedent set by Benedict Roberts’s ruling; he opened the door to allowing the federal government to do anything it wants as long as failure to do so is covered by a
penaltytax.obviously BO is severely exposed, politically…many in his own party doesn’t want to be seen with him…like ancient Roman times…
if Romney cannot see the writing on the wall and handle his strength to win, then what the hell good is he?…if the GOP does not win this election then they might as well disband in historic shame…we’ll see
Rodan wrote:
well I let one of them thar muzzies
do a Posterior Cervical Laminectomy
on me..he was great
@ coldwarrior:
ding, ding.
/lurk
AZfederalist wrote:
He really did puss out. Some say genius, I say goat.
AZfederalist wrote:
26 states won’t enforce Obamacare… while I don’t see it happening I do expect to hear the word “succession” mentioned in this election cycle…
@ brookly red:
not before the next couple of Super Bowls I hope
@ Lily:
@ heysoos:
It’s truly odd how both of you talk past each other, I easily get what both of you say and how you both miss the point of the other. At risk of being a third party meddler, both need to slow down and READ what the other is saying, little slower on the trigger.
/lurk
mawskrat wrote:
as long as my tax dollars did not pay for it
CynicalConservative wrote:
dissing one candidate is not a natural assumption of some unstated point of view of another…pretty simple
@ CynicalConservative:
Before I go … it was me that went FULL CAP. And no I don’t see you as a third party meddler. Sage advice for me.
/my mood isn’t the greatest and I have should not have really responded to that post.
heysoos wrote:
sorry competitive events are demeaning to the proletariat and besides the skin of a swine is un-clean… sorry no football comrade.
@ heysoos:
@ Lily:
No worries, lurking observer.
now if it’s a gun-thread, I lurk less…
/lurk (anyone else need valium?)
In the weeks following Romney winning the nomination, I was pleasantly surprised at the job his campaign was doing in taking the fight to Obama. However, the past 2 weeks are starting to remind me of GWB not responding to vicious attacks. The first problem was his campaign’s response to the hellcare ruling in agreeing with Obama that it’s a penalty not a tax. Yes, I know; They walked it back quickly but the damage was done. Next was the tepid response to the “Romney is the jobs outsourcer-in-chief”. Hells bells! Obama has been outsourcing jobs to food stamps and the unemployment lines since the day he was sworn in. Obama and the dems are political street fighters. The Romney campaign had better get in the game, and quick. Tie Obamacare to the economy and don’t let up. Several pundits have said that Romney needs to stop being so risk adverse. I agree. Time to kick ass!
brookly red wrote:
well it depends if you live in Ohio
or not…but then it was workers comp
brookly red wrote:
I’m telling you the Cowboys are going to win it…and it’s not real pigskin, it’s a bunch of chemicals that taste like pork…I’m begging
@ huckfunn:
I think he will…but he wants to avoid going drone with a predictable weekly message…Romney has more ammo than any candidate I can recall and I think he will unleash the digs early this fall…right now is the time to cruise and let BO step on his dick…stay focused
heysoos wrote:
sorry comrade it will be better for you if you give up this foolish competitiveness that you have… the Obama says that no one is better than another and we are all equal to serve him, for the common good of course.
New regulations from the EPA, Department of Energy, Department of Interior, Department of Education, State Department are sweeping this country like a tsunami, killing jobs, investment and incentive. C’mon, Mitt; get in the game!
Hellcare, Fast & Furious, Intelligence leaks, rule by executive fiat, more and higher taxes, unemployment, loss of real estate value, rising energy costs. HELLO!
huckfunn wrote:
no, anyone not on the dole already knows this… let them entrench and commit… then when they are committed show no mercy.
huckfunn wrote:
your spraying the bushes…
brookly red wrote:
I’ve got a thread on that scheduled for first thing tomorrow morning.
brookly red wrote:
Think so? Well Romney needs to start pissin in BO’s petunias and right now. The anti-Romney “outsourceer-in-chief” bullshit is starting to eat into Romney’s numbers.
@ brookly red:
The ONLY way we are all Equal is in GOD‘s eyes…for we are all sinners. أوباما doesn’t know jack shit.
I, too, would like to see Romney ripping Obama a new one every day. But that would be winning battles while risking losing the war.
This week saw half the country taking a Fourth of July weekend at one end, and half at the other end. Nobody was paying close attention to news. Romney was wise to hold back. Further, if Romney hits Obama too much too soon, it will all have lost its impact by the time we rocket into election season. Sorry, it is true; we have a country populated by people who barely remember the last Tweet.
Romney is pacing himself. He wants to win—and, despite whatever sympathies he might have towards the Muslim Brotherhood (exaggerated, I believe), and despite whatever progressive leanings he might have generally, he is a businessman and can see what Obama has done to the country better than most.
If he’s spending some of the summer lassitude time crafting his blitz for late summer and fall, he’ll do all right.
@ huckfunn:
I have a post ion this in the morning. Stay tuned.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
I was, and this is starting to feel like GWB redux.
@ AZfederalist:
There are going to have to be a whole shitload of Constitutional Amendments which will have to be added.
huckfunn wrote:
I can’t wait to return from my duties feeding the beast to read it…
I am not the gun nut, I wouldn’t know an Uzi from a Special-K, but I do think they are important… /I hope you have considered all the money we could if we disbanded all our courts and let the UN run things
@ buzzsawmonkey:
One thing I hope Romney does is attack Obama the cultural symbol. We are not dealing with a normal politician. He’s s symbol and I hope when Romney goes on the offensive, he goes after the symbol.
speaking of guns someone is popin a lot of caps not too far from here…
no sirens yet…
huckfunn wrote:
If Romney’s going to slump, now’s the time for him to do it, not later. In the meantime, there are plenty of signs of, if not panic, at least worry in the Obama camp; sometimes you have to let your adversary do your work for you.
brookly red wrote:
Actually, my thread will be up at 1130.
Just one note. “Gun nut” is a term generally used by people who are opposed to gun ownership. I think most of the people here probably own one or more firearms. I can only think of one or two who might be nuts. Just sayin.
brookly red wrote:
I don’t think secession will happen this election cycle. I do believe that it is possible within the next 3 to 6 years however. It may come down to that being the only option to preserve freedom and liberty for at least some of the states. East and left coasts, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota are all probably too far gone into the maw of Leviathan to be salvageable. The center states still have a chance to preserve the Republic that our founders bequeathed to us.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
exactly, he fucked things up for 3 years, he can’t hide it… let him grab his hammer and cycle, mount his Volt and charge the heartland.
Rodan wrote:
Sadly, it seems that Romney’s campaign has not—yet, at least—adopted the “Repeal” with the Romney “R” that Zombie and I came up with. It was featured at Gateway Pundit and Instapundit, and some may recall that I linked to the image here when it was up at C2.
I intend to spend as much time as I can spare during what remains of this month to come up with ways that the campaign can be helped, whether it wants my help or not—and try and figure out ways that the blogosphere can spread ‘em around.
I do not want the coup to solidify itself.
AZfederalist wrote:
the fact we are even discussing it is damning.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
wanna buy a t-shirt?
got
milkwork?@ buzzsawmonkey:
Check my morning thread tomorrow.
I am going to email the Romney campaign with some ideas.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
That’s true and there are more signs every day. I just happen to be of the school of thought that wants to kick ‘em in the teeth every time they’re down.
brookly red wrote:
I have designed T-shirts in my time. I do not wear them.
huckfunn wrote:
Oh, I sympathize with that. But I think that letting Obama and Co. flail a little is an effective tactic.
huckfunn wrote:
ah yes but they are not down… yet, be patient grasshopper. there is a time to serve tea and there is a time to stomp face.
Let’s put it this way: good design requires “white space” so that you don’t have so much visual clutter that the message is obscured. That level of clutter is why cheapie ads, like supermarket inserts in the paper, are so hard to read—you can’t see anything because it’s all coming at you.
Letting Obama flail a little is “white space,” politically speaking; allowing him to flap around a little like a fish on a dock makes him look far less “presidential,” and undercuts his image of invincibility the way directly attacking him constantly does not; he can rally against an attack, but when he’s pushing against a vacuum he falls flat on his face. Romney’s letting him do that a little now.
brookly red wrote:
That is not a statement I make lightly by the way and I am not jumping up and down in eager anticipation of such an event. However, I just don’t see how our liberties will be preserved given the absolutely awful precedent that Benedict Roberts’s ruling sets. His precedent leaves absolutely no limits on what the federal government can do with, maybe, some limits preserved by the Bill of Rights (but I would expect further encroachment upon them through the ruling’s mechanism as well). We now have in place:
Via wickard vs. filburn: the declaration that a person performing some action on his own land is engaged in interstate commerce if that same action is performed in another state and thus, the action performed on the first person’s private land for his own use is interfering with interstate commerce.
Via Kelo, the government can seize your property by eminent domain and then give that land to another private citizen or corporation if the government deems such a forced transaction to be for the “greater good” (i.e, will result in more tax revenue)
Now, via the latest ruling, the government can identify an activity that it desires citizens to engage in and then assess a tax if they do not engage in that activity.
Pretty much game, set, match at this point. No limits on government at all.
Macker wrote:
How about one that says presidential primaries will be held the same day for ALL states. If states want to have 30 different primaries for other offices, fine.
This will prevent media manipulation. They can’t squelch everyone they deem unacceptable, everywhere, at the same time.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Kind of like this picture?
Does that look presidential or what?
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
grasp the sparrows tail?
seriously Obama is a Chicago thug, he can punch balls and kick shins with the best of them… can he stand still for the line-up? not so much… Obama is his own worst enemy, he can’t survive vetting, he reminds me of the homeless drug addict in port authority punching the air and screaming racist… let’s just sit back and let him bug out.
AZfederalist wrote:
Not true. 2nd Amendment trumps all.
AZfederalist wrote:
just say no
AZfederalist wrote:
Nothing says “presidential” like cupping your balls, right?
AZfederalist wrote:
wow it almost makes me think he is not gay.
brookly red wrote:
Fewer and fewer people are showing up to cheer at his RACECARD events—RACECARD, of course, being his alternative to NASCAR.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
hey it worked for Clinton…
brookly red wrote:
Only for one easily-influenced intern. And there is another significant difference; Clinton was in the Oval Office; Obama merely is an oval orifice.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
sad but the o-zombies in my hood were sure that O would get them high paying jobs supervising those evil educated people keeping them down… sad I say.
brookly red wrote:
The folks in the Lafayette Houses, or other people?
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Brick wrote:
brookly red wrote:
Where do you think my optimism for preserving liberty and freedom at least in a subset of states comes from?
Maybe it’s time to start referring to a certain organization as “Plantation Parenthood.”
AZfederalist wrote:
or as Sarah would say Hell NO… she is oddly silent these days.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
as much as I abhor them I must make the distinction between picking the crop and being the crop… PP is evil
We should suspend the Presidency to save the Presidency
brookly red wrote:
My point is that their “family planning services” aimed at “the disadvantaged” are a means of keeping a particular population on the Democrat plantation; this makes them involved in, effect, breeding slaves in a modern version of the antebellum South.
Interesting read. According to Larry Kudlow, Obama’s Goose Is Cooked
waldensianspirit wrote:
With good stout… oh, never mind.
huckfunn wrote:
I will not believe the goose is cooked until I throw away the drumstick bones.
I’m hoping Obama steps on one rake after another till Nov
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Good idea. He’s a slippery goose.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Eugenics, always was always will be… but O is good with math he can see that paying people for 4 years to vote once is not efficient… hence his stance on PP. read more at:
http://www.theurbanprophet.org/obamanation.htm
I am a white man but I have taken Communion under his roof.
ooops did I kill the tread?
awwww come on
Australian Family Hit With “Carbon Tax” During Funeral…
This kind of garbage will start civil war
Can’t have free voter ID of the living but will carbon tax the dead where carbon dioxide is leaving their body through no fault of theirs?
Now there’s a way to stanch the flood of illegal immigrants; impose a carbon tax on tacos al carbon!
waldensianspirit wrote:
this will start civil war… it is a shame but these people need to be resisted forcibly
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
if you buy them with food stamps what is the point?
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “If you don’t work you die.”
—Rudyard Kipling, “The Gods of the Copybook Headings”
@ brookly red:
Thy are so smug and ineducable behind the skirts of the police and “Department of Homeland Security”
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Well played, sir.
waldensianspirit wrote:
the police are on our side and DoHS is incompetent… they are a civil union if faced with a task they will simply strike for higher wages.
I’m not sure what you want is possible. Presidents rarely know their nominees personally, and so have no real basis on which to make such a character judgment.
@ coldwarrior:
The narrative has started on the O side. It is what influences the non political person to vote for him think he is an OK person. It has never really stopped since 08, but in my area it has picked up recently. Lots of little cut stories against Romney. and lots of “I love Obama” stories.
randian wrote:
Which is of course why Obama nominated Elena Kagan, whom he knew personally.
I am not saying that Romney has to punch today? But he has to punch before the first absentee ballot is cast. And probably a few months before that. Information flows. It’s not always instant. There should be ads now everywhere by the superpacs questioning OBama. And leaving the big swings for Romney at election time.
The narrative today should be about corruption in the O admin. Holder is the perfect target.
@ Rodan:
Then Floridians are stupid. We are getting tons of Obama ads up here….in a swing state. They just piss people off more.
It is easy to promote Romney to Democrats because after all he is one
waldensianspirit wrote:
Last time around, I said to friends, family and neighbors, “I’m voting for the Democrat—John McCain.”
Maybe it’s time to dust that one off.
waldensianspirit wrote:
well I am a registered democrat and I just had to choose between Jeffries and Barron… Jeffries supports school vouchers, Barron wants to slap the closest white person… some democrats are better than others.
Weaselzippers is noting Obama works <2 hours a day as POTUS and isn't sure if that is a good or bad thing because of all the time it gives him for campaigning.
waldensianspirit wrote:
ironic in his economy even POTUS is a part time job..
@ waldensianspirit:
I think his campaigning is starting to clank, as are his incessant yammers for money. He’s digging his own hole.
Plus, I don’t think the feckless bastard has ever worked more than two hours a day at the job.
Discord at Supreme Court is deep, and personal
I wondered about this. Bitter justices all around
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
now now give the devil his due destroying the free world dose take some effort.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
And why Bush nominated Harriet Myers (at first).
brookly red wrote:
He’s merely the frontman. The actual work was done by Jarrett, Axelrod, Emanuel, Pelosi and Reid.
Obama himself is the emptiest of empty suits; ignorant, incurious, semi-literate and gloriously over-credentialed.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
All the qualities necessary for running a third world country
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
true, I yield.
I do not expect politicians to be Renaissance men. But I find it personally offensive that this preening ignoramus should be continually held up as an example of intellectual brilliance; if he were a Zippo lighter he could barely ignite a cigarette.
He has accomplished a great deal of destruction—or, rather, a great deal of destruction has been accomplished under his bovine gaze. But destruction does not require brilliance or any particular skill—it merely requires the moronic willingness to heave a wrench into the machinery and giggle stupidly at the catastrophe.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
That’s why I call him the Organ Grinder’s Monkey. All he has to do is dance to the tune that’s being played…
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
And, like an organ grinder’s monkey, dancing to a repetitious mechanical tune, he constantly has his cup out for contributions.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
From what I hear his cup is far from running over inspite of all the effort he’s putting into fund raising.
@ Da_Beerfreak:
One can hope. But he’s got the unions taking up the slack; he’s got Soros taking up the slack; he’s got the ingrained, structural fraud of his security-disabled website for contributions, of which I wish more were being made; he’s got the entire US government to manipulate in his favor, the perks of the presidency to misuse for campaign purposes, and the US Treasury to dip into.
He’s not hurting nearly enough.
@ 200 waldensianspirit: let’s see if they start accusing each other of imagined physical violence like the judges in Wisconsin did.
@ waldensianspirit:
Sideshow Barack steps on rakes
R.I.P. Ernest Borgnine
BO brings the MB to DC….WTF?
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=276688&R=R3
@ mfhorn:
Thanks for that one!