Kyle-Anne Shiver says that the Democrats sealed their fate in March:
All the other power-grabs — taking over auto companies and banks and insurance companies — might have left the Democrats out of the electoral tsunami zone, but the health care power grab sealed their coming fate.
The health care bill, foisted upon an unwilling American public, has become this era’s Intolerable Act. Just as King George and his elitist parliament pushed our ancestors beyond their breaking point, so has the modern Democrat cabal of Obama, Pelosi, and Reid. These are names that will live in American infamy.
No Mount Rushmore for them.
I’m still worried about what sort of hissy fit theyll manage as lame ducks. Passing a bill ordering the carving of Obama’s face into Rushmore seems like the sort of in-your-face cheap stunt the clown caucus would adore.
Al, we can only hope that this entire nation isn’t on Flight 93 right now. When the Flight 93 hijackers saw that an uprising by the passengers would prevent them from ever reaching Washington DC they purposely maneuvered the plane in such a way that it would break up in mid-air and crash. My fear is that Obama, Reid, Pelosi and crew will react the same way when the electorate uprising occurs on November 2nd and they go “Flight 93” on us all before their wings are clipped.
Given the condition of the mountain, they could only do it by rearranging one of the existing faces.
Would it be Washington? Replacing the first white President with the first black one? That might very well appeal to the Obamarrhoids. Plus George holds the most prominent position, which he should be willing to surrender for Teh Won.
How about Jefferson? Until 2009 Jefferson was (according to some) the only President “known” to have sired black offspring. That might require he be left unmolested.
T.R.? Although he is tainted with the despicable “R” after his name, he also claimed to be a Progressive (though the name meant something very different 100 years ago). He might get a pass too.
Lincoln? He should be exempt because he freed the slaves, but Obama has no ancestors who were ever slaves in America; his only slave-era heritage, if any, comes from his mother’s side.
I’d say it’s Washington on points over Lincoln — and besides, Mount Rushmore don’t need no stinking “George W.” trashing up the place.
mpthompson, I know you are just making an analogy, but your Flight 93 analogy would be more evocative and powerful if the commander-in-chief (with congressional oversight and approval) wasn’t pursuing such aggressive hunting and killing of terrorists.
…if by aggressive you mean limp wristed and ineffectual.
Asking permission to take pot shots at badguys operating out of failed states is not aggressive. Ignoring the worlds largest exporter of anti-civilization terrorism while plinking at the individual terrorists it places in other countries is not aggressive.
To revisit mpthompson’s analogy though, I’m thinking Obamacare may well have been the ‘Allahu Akbar’ moment. Any dems interested in preserving their livelihoods are bailling from the plane.
Aren’t we getting a little ahead of ourselves? Republicans can still screw this up a good deal(as the mess in Delaware, Boener land, and virtually every strategic decision Cornyn makes, shows). And a 30 vote majority in the house and a split senate aren’t exactly filibuster and veto-proof block votes.
Well, as Afghanistan watches in horror, Hamid Karzai is seeking a negotiated peace with “his brothers” in the Taliban. I haven’t heard a word of protest from the Administration. Some aggressive war, huh?
if the commander-in-chief (with congressional oversight and approval) wasn’t pursuing such aggressive hunting and killing of terrorists.
Right, if you say so.
I agree with Tom. It’s not going to be a huge mandate for the Republicans even in the best case. They simply can’t get that good of control of Congress to ignore the President. And the Republicans have messed up this sort of thing before in 1994.
What I see now is a more limited political goal, namely, halting the excesses of the Obama administration and setting things up for a correction in 2012.
I expect Obama to campaign in ’12 on how he’s been blocked from implementing his rainbow-hued unicorn fart programs by the evil pachyderms, to have his water carried for him by the DNC public relations media, again, and for vote fraud R us, aka Acorn under whatever name to ‘bring out your dead (votes)’.
But the Tea Party is busy undoing the shift in favorable of the Republicans. It looks like the Tea Party’s win in Delaware will just about ensure a Democratic Senate in the Fall…
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-15/tea-party-success-in-delaware-senate-race-increases-chance-of-democrat-win.html
[[[Delaware Republican Chairman Tom Ross said in an interview before yesterday’s vote that an O’Donnell win would be a “complete train wreck” for the party.]]]
[[[“This is an instant game changer,” said Nathan Gonzales of the nonpartisan Rothenberg Political Report. “This is a clear case where a Tea Party victory has hurt Republican chances in the general election.” He said O’Donnell’s win “just took Delaware almost off the map at a time when Republicans need every Senate seat possible in play” to gain a Senate majority. ]]]
[[[Endorsed last week by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, O’Donnell beat U.S. Representative Mike Castle in yesterday’s primary, 53 percent to 47 percent. ]]]
Sarah Palin, the gift to the democrats that just keep on giving 🙂
Cool beans. Better an honest enemy, Thomas…
Thomas, this does bring up a good point. It looks to me like there’s a lot of parasites riding the Tea Party bandwagon. Voters will need to do some homework or we’ll end up with more candidates like Chrstine O’Donnell:
O’Donnell has no steady income or savings and owns no property, the Wilmington News Journal reported, citing public records. In 2009, she reported income of $5,800, the paper said.
She moved to Delaware in 2003 to work for a printing company and was fired in 2004, according to the paper. The company alleged she was using its resources to run a side business, the News Journal reported. O’Donnell sued for gender discrimination and wrongful termination and later dropped the case, saying she couldn’t afford the legal fees, the paper reported.
we’ll end up with more candidates like Chrstine O’Donnell
You don’t like her. We get it. She’s poor and struggling. She’s also going to win. She is the America the elites have been looking down there nose at.
She’s the candidate the random dart in the phonebook found. She has naive social views, but this fight is about government spending. I want as many poor people as possible in charge of that. They won’t be swayed by phony arguments.
Truly a disaster for those who worry about winning control of everything Right Now.
Great thing about the future though: it doesn’t have to happen Right Now. I amazed you don’t realize that, Thomas.
He may, but it’s irrelevant to his concern troll shtick.
O’Donnell has no steady income or savings and owns no property
Joe Biden. More? ok. Joe’s finances. Even with a VPs pension he’ll be poor until the day they plant him.
ak4mc,
[[[Great thing about the future though: it doesn’t have to happen Right Now.]]]
The longer the wait, the deeper the hole we have to dig out of…
Ken,
[[[She’s the candidate the random dart in the phonebook found.]]]
No, like Sharron Angle and the others, she’s the one Republican in the state who would not be able to win against a Democrat despite the public being very upset about what the Democrats have done, as noted at the top of this thread. That is not randomness, its being clueless, which is a good description of the Tea Party’s election strategy…
Angry mobs are good at shouting slogans and shaking fists, but neither solves any problems and that is what the Tea Party is, just an angry mob. A 21st Century version of the French Revolution, and we know what a mess that made in Europe. And how long it took France to recover. Actually you could make a good argument they never did, as France never returned to the position of global power it had before the French Revolution.
Yeah, um, after today, it looks like the campaign finance gap is no longer an issue. The NRSC has been completely bypassed. Masterful.
that is what the Tea Party is, just an angry mob
How can you be so clueless???
FTFY.
And, whatever the sucesses and failures on the French Revolution, Louis XVI was still dead in 1815. Which is what John “the Beige” Comyn and you fear: that whatever happens in November 2010, or November 2012, or for many Novembers to come, the Tea Party will have successfully cut off your access to money, power, and inside-the-Beltway cocktail parties. Forever.
Ken,
[[[How can you be so clueless???]]]
OK, I’ll bite. What is their solution beyond “throw the bums out?”. They rant a lot about ending “big government” and “restoring America”, but those are just meaningless slogans until you provide specifics…
Akatsukami,
[[[the Tea Party will have successfully cut off your access to money, power, and inside-the-Beltway cocktail parties. Forever.]]]
What access? I live in Nevada. The only time I have been to Washington was to attend a couple of NSS conferences there when I was still wasting my time on space conferences.
Again, a typical example of the Tea Party mentality that will lose them the general election. Unless you agree with us you are the enemy.
Well that guess puts me with the vast majority of Americans, 81 percent according to the Poll below, who don’t support the Tea Party.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20016526-503544.html
Tea Party Supported by One in Five in New CBS News/NYT Pol
You really need to start watching something other the Fox News.
Well that guess puts = Well I guess that puts…
Titus,
[[[Yeah, um, after today, it looks like the campaign finance gap is no longer an issue. The NRSC has been completely bypassed. Masterful.]]]
All the out of state money in the world will not win her the election, the voters of Delaware know her just as the voters in Nevada know Sharron Angle.
http://messageboards.aol.com/aol/en_us/articles.php?boardId=38496&articleId=18462375&func=5&channel=News
[[[“Even the Delaware Republican Party chairman has said O’Donnell is ‘not a viable candidate for any office in the state of Delaware,’ and ‘could not be elected dogcatcher,'” DSCC chairman Sen. Robert Menendez said in a statement.]]]
[[[She garnered less than 30,000 votes in a contest in which only Republicans could cast ballots. About 293,000 Democrats are registered in Delaware, compared with about 183,000 Republicans.]]]
Who said it would? Really, if you believe your own rhetoric about the tea party being an angry mob, why do you waste your time trolling here?
Titus,
First, a troll doesn’t use their real name as I do, they hide behind a fake name like you do so they are not accountable for their posts.
Second, my posts are on topic and are supported by evidence. You don’t seem to support yours by anything but opinion.
So you have to wonder who the real troll is…
But I basically post here so the lurkers reading this blog realize there are other views beyond the chorus of yes folks that hang out here who just create a reinforcing spiral of their own views of the world, and as a result become even more extreme in them. It also, hopefully, forces you to think about your own views.
Yes, all of us benighted fools are enlightened by your bien pensant worldview which we might not otherwise encounter because we never leave this website or our basements. Amen.
Also, here’s my full name above. Sorry if it’s not white enough for you.
those are just meaningless slogans until you provide specifics
Only meaningless to the willfully ignorant (or those just pretending to be.) Stupid or deceitful, you aren’t presenting a third choice.
Debating specifics is meaningless when you can’t agree on principles, and they are principles and not just slogans.
The government is spending us into poverty. That’s not a slogan.
The government is using taxes as a class warfare club. We can no longer let them get away with that manure. That’s a principle.
You want specifics? Pelosi says you don’t need any, pass a bill to find out.
Giving you specifics is just your tactic to distract so the real issue is avoided. They are bums and we should have thrown them out long ago so they didn’t put us in our current mess.
I’ll be glad to give you my position on any specific you choose. But I’m not going to let you get away with a ploy to distract. The tea party is not going away and will not be ignore. They are the people the elite have ignored for too long. No longer. Gandolf is facing the Balrog.
Yep, just a angry mob. I wonder when some political operatives will take advantage of the Tea Party’s nativity and start manipulating them behind the scenes to their ends and for their profits. That is what usually happens with movements like this that are based on anger and not much else…
just a angry mob
Wrong. No points for you. Thank you for playing. We look forward to your next ignorant remark, but you’ll have to work hard to top this one.