Harry Reid: Race-Baiter Extraordinaire

December 9, 2009 By

This would be funny if it wasn’t so bla­tantly wrong and seri­ous.  Actu­ally, I take that back.  It’s NEVER funny to play the “race card”.  Alas, Harry “The war is lost” Reid does it again.  On the Repub­li­cans oppos­ing the “pub­lic option” in healthcare:

“If you think you’ve heard these same excuses before, you’re right,” Reid said. “When this coun­try belat­edly rec­og­nized the wrongs of slav­ery, there were those who dug in their heels and said, ‘Slow down, it’s too early, things aren’t bad enough.’”

WRONG, Harry!  It was the Demo­c­rat Party who opposed the abo­li­tion of slav­ery:

The South­ern Democ­rats endorsed slav­ery, while the Repub­li­cans denounced it. The North­ern Democ­rats said democ­racy required the peo­ple to decide on slav­ery locally. The Con­sti­tu­tional Union Party said the sur­vival of the Union was at stake and every­thing else should be compromised.

Although the bill was sup­ported by a major­ity of both par­ties, it was Democ­rats in key posi­tions that opposed the legislation.

The bill was reported out of the Judi­ciary Com­mit­tee in Novem­ber 1963, and referred to the Rules Com­mit­tee, whose chair­man, Howard W. Smith, a Demo­c­rat and avid seg­re­ga­tion­ist from Vir­ginia, indi­cated his inten­tion to keep the bill bot­tled up indef­i­nitely. It was at this point that Pres­i­dent Kennedy was assas­si­nated. The new pres­i­dent, Lyn­don John­son, uti­lized his expe­ri­ence in leg­isla­tive pol­i­tics and the bully pul­pit he wielded as pres­i­dent in sup­port of the bill.

On June 10, 1964, Robert Byrd, the Demo­c­ra­tic Sen­a­tor from West Vir­ginia (and a mem­ber of the KKK, I might add), deliv­ered a long-winded speech dur­ing a fil­i­buster — 14 hours, 13 min­utes - oppos­ing the leg­is­la­tion.  Albert Gore, Sr. (D-TN) also opposed the legislation.

Harry Reid should be forced to apol­o­gize for this bla­tant and out­ra­geous lie, and for play­ing the race card on a total non-race issue.  If he doesn’t, he and all those who sup­port him should be forced out.

It’s time for this dem­a­goguery to stop.

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Government Should Fear the People

September 14, 2009 By

When the peo­ple fear their gov­ern­ment, there is tyranny; when the gov­ern­ment fears the peo­ple, there is lib­erty.  — Thomas Jefferson

There’s too much of the for­mer and not enough of the lat­ter.  But, hav­ing seen the pic­tures from the 9/12 rally in Wash­ing­ton, D.C. on Sat­ur­day, I’m hop­ing that the peo­ple are begin­ning to no longer fear the gov­ern­ment.  I have hope that the peo­ple are begin­ning to awaken to the enor­mous stran­gle­hold the gov­ern­ment has on us.  “The Fed” is just too big.  And if Oba­macare passes, it’ll just be that much bigger.

This morn­ing, I heard a quote from Obama that sent a chill down my spine.

You know, I intend to be pres­i­dent for a while and once this bill passes, I own it.

How long, Obama?  How long do you intend to be pres­i­dent?  I’m hop­ing that the peo­ple of this great coun­try only plan on giv­ing you three more years.  I truly hope you’re voted out in 2012.  Frankly, I don’t think we can sur­vive your inep­ti­tude for even that long.

I just pray that Obama will change and become the Pres­i­dent we all hope him to be, and not the one he’s becoming.

(See what I did there?)

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Wilson to Obama: “You Lie!”

September 10, 2009 By
Rep. Joe Wilson during the President's speech last night.
Rep. Joe Wilson during the President's speech last night.

Rep. Joe Wil­son yelled “You lie!” dur­ing the President’s speech last night.

I didn’t watch the Dear Leader’s speech to Con­gress and the Amer­i­can peo­ple last night, but boy I heard about it this morn­ing.  Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Joe Wil­son (R — South Car­olina) yelled “You lie!” to the Pres­i­dent last night after Obama’s state­ment that those who were say­ing the health­care bill would cover ille­gals were wrong.  (Dare I say he was call­ing them “liars”?)

I’m sorry, but I can’t con­done this act by Joe Wil­son.  Sure, I agree that Obama was lying, as he has been ever since he got in office.  But to heckle the Pres­i­dent while he’s mak­ing a tele­vised speech is just dis­re­spect­ful of the office.  I don’t care who it is — that is some­thing you don’t do.  I didn’t like it when Cindy Shee­han and all the idiot lib­er­als were doing it to Pres­i­dent Bush, and I don’t like it now.  It’s not the proper place or the time for that.  He is a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the peo­ple of South Car­olina and the Repub­li­can Party.  This action reflects poorly on the peo­ple back home.  There is a rea­son they have a time slot for the opposition’s response after the speech — and that is to rebut what you believe is wrong about what was said by the President.

Now Rep. Wil­son did call and apol­o­gize, and I applaud him for that.  It takes humil­ity to real­ize when you’re wrong.  That being said, I hap­pen to agree with Rep. Wil­son.  Obama has lied and lied to the Amer­i­can peo­ple about his true inten­tions, and what he hopes to achieve.  You only have to look at the peo­ple he sur­rounds him­self with to know that.  William Ayers, Jere­miah Wright, Van Jones, Cass Sun­stein.  He has had to dis­tance him­self from every one of these (except the last, but it’s coming…)

I just hope the Repub­li­can Party real­izes they’re going to have to be smarter than usual when rebut­ting this pres­i­dent.  Unfor­tu­nately he has a rabid fol­low­ing of peo­ple who will believe any­thing he says and will not research things on their own.  They are going to have to rise above the usual polit­i­cal rhetoric and behave more pro­fes­sion­ally than the lib­er­als did dur­ing the Bush  Admin­is­tra­tion.  That is the only way they can rebuild the party and get peo­ple (includ­ing me) to sup­port them again.  And they’re going to have to stick to their core beliefs.  Oth­er­wise, peo­ple like me will be vot­ing for a third party from here on out.

UPDATE:  Here’s a reminder of what the Democ­rats did dur­ing Bush’s State of the Union Speech in 2005.  Dis­re­spect­ful?  Yeah.

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California Representative Praises Castro

August 31, 2009 By
Diane Watson just loves Fidel Castro.
Diane Watson just loves Fidel Castro.

Diane Wat­son just loves Fidel Castro.

Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Diane Wat­son (D — Cal­i­for­nia) gives me the heeby-jeebies.  Here’s why:

It was just men­tioned to me by our esteemed speaker, “Did any­one say any­thing about the Cuban health system?”

And lemme tell ya, before you say “Oh, it’s a commu–”, you need to go down there and see what Fidel Cas­tro put in place. And I want you to know, now, you can think what­ever you want to about Fidel Cas­tro, but he was one of the bright­est lead­ers I have ever met. [APPLAUSE]

And you know, the Cuban rev­o­lu­tion that kicked out the wealthy, Che Gue­vara did that, and then, after they took over, they went out among the pop­u­la­tion to find some­one who could lead this new nation, and they found…well, just leave it there (laughs), an attor­ney by the name of Fidel Castro…

This is from a “town hall” she held in her dis­trict.  Yes, she’s prais­ing Fidel Cas­tro.  But she is a lit­tle con­fused on her his­tory.  Che Gue­vara did not “kick out the wealthy”.  That was actu­ally Cas­tro.  From Biog­ra­phy:

Cas­tro was released in 1955 under an amnesty deal with the Batista gov­ern­ment. He went to Mex­ico, where he met Ernesto “Che” Gue­vara. There he devised a new strat­egy to over­throw the Batista régime based on guer­rilla war­fare. Gue­vara believed that the plight of Latin America’s poor could be rec­ti­fied only through vio­lent rev­o­lu­tion. He joined Castro’s group and became an impor­tant con­fi­dante, shap­ing Castro’s polit­i­cal beliefs.…

Fidel Cas­tro was able to cap­i­tal­ize on the inci­dent to con­sol­i­date his power and fur­ther pro­mote his agenda. On May 1 [1961], Cas­tro announced an end to demo­c­ra­tic elec­tions in Cuba and denounced Amer­i­can impe­ri­al­ism. Then at year’s end, Cas­tro declared him­self a Marxist-Leninist and announced the Cuban gov­ern­ment was adopt­ing com­mu­nist eco­nomic and polit­i­cal poli­cies. On Feb­ru­ary 7, 1962, the United States imposed a full eco­nomic embargo on Cuba, a pol­icy that con­tin­ues to this day.

Any­one who calls Fidel Cas­tro one of the “bright­est” lead­ers needs to be expa­tri­ated to Cuba.  They need to be forced to live under that sys­tem to see just how “great” it is.  If it IS so great for the com­mon Cuban, then why have hun­dreds — if not thou­sands — risked their lives on makeshift rafts to come to Amer­ica?  Why are they still doing so? 

If that is the pol­i­tics these lib­er­als want to espouse, they need to leave our coun­try.  I’m telling you folks — if this is who has con­trol of our coun­try now, it won’t be long before the Amer­ica we know and love  will be gone (if it’s not already).  For the first time in my life, I’m gen­uinely scared of what is to come.  Pray, folks.  Pray for our coun­try — that the Peo­ple of this nation will wake up and rise up and take the coun­try back.

Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and sup­pli­ca­tions, with fast­ing, sack­cloth, and ashes. 4 And I prayed to the LORD my God, and made con­fes­sion, and said, “O Lord, great and awe­some God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His com­mand­ments, 5 we have sinned and com­mit­ted iniq­uity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by depart­ing from Your pre­cepts and Your judg­ments. 6 Nei­ther have we heeded Your ser­vants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings and our princes, to our fathers and all the peo­ple of the land. 7 O Lord, right­eous­ness belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as it is this day—to the men of Judah, to the inhab­i­tants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and those far off in all the coun­tries to which You have dri­ven them, because of the unfaith­ful­ness which they have com­mit­ted against You.

– Daniel 9:3–7

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Hoodwinked From Their Principles

August 14, 2009 By

I think this quote applies to what is going on in our nation today.  I just hope the lat­ter sen­tence is true.

Our fel­low cit­i­zens have been led hood­winked from their prin­ci­ples by a most extra­or­di­nary com­bi­na­tion of cir­cum­stances.  But the band is removed, and they now see for themselves.

–Thomas Jef­fer­son to John Dick­in­son, 1801

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Un-American?

August 10, 2009 By

I am utterly and com­pletely dis­gusted with politi­cians.  If you haven’t been liv­ing under a rock lately, then you know about the pas­sion­ate dis­courses that have been hap­pen­ing at town hall meet­ings around the nation on Oba­macare.  Well, accord­ing to Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer, the peo­ple that have been ask­ing ques­tions at the town hall meet­ings have been act­ing in an “un-American” way.

How­ever, it is now evi­dent that an ugly cam­paign is under­way not merely to mis­rep­re­sent the health insur­ance reform leg­is­la­tion, but to dis­rupt pub­lic meet­ings and pre­vent mem­bers of Con­gress and con­stituents from con­duct­ing a civil dia­logue,” the two lead­ers write. “These dis­rup­tions are occur­ring because oppo­nents are afraid not just of dif­fer­ing views — but of the facts them­selves. Drown­ing out oppos­ing views is sim­ply un-American.

This is straight from an op-ed essay the two wrote, pub­lished by USA Today.  I’m sorry, but I think they’re liv­ing in an Alice-in-Wonderland world.  Shov­ing a health­care reform bill, that no one has com­pletely read and is social­is­tic at best down the throats of The Peo­ple, is un-American.

This dis­course is the epit­ome of what our coun­try is about — every­day peo­ple being pas­sion­ate about what is hap­pen­ing in Wash­ing­ton and what will affect them directly.  Never in my life­time has this hap­pened.  I’m glad to see peo­ple stand­ing up for what they believe in and not tak­ing what their “rep­re­sen­ta­tives” say at face value.  The politi­cians need to be knocked off their high horse and brought back down to real­ity.  They’ve been liv­ing in their own dream world for far too long.

Per­son­ally, I would like to see GOOOH(Get Out Of Our House) suc­ceed in get­ting every sin­gle politi­cian out of Wash­ing­ton and replaced with aver­age peo­ple that will have the Nation’s best inter­ests at heart, peo­ple who won’t be on their own “ben­e­fits pack­age” or try­ing to secure their own per­sonal Gulf­streams to fly around in.

It’s about time for a real change — not a “Change to Social­ism” that Obama has been promis­ing to do.

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Starting from now

July 27, 2009 By

It’s been over a month since my last post.  With the state of our nation to things going on at work, I just haven’t found the time to sit down and jot down my thoughts.  I sup­pose I have just become so dis­gusted with our gov­ern­ment and politi­cians that I found myself with my mouth and mind wide open, but noth­ing com­ing out…I am that frustrated.

I’m sick of our Pres­i­dent stick­ing his nose where it doesn’t belong (à la “Gates-gate”).  I’m also sick and tired of him try­ing to push on ordi­nary Amer­i­cans his redicu­lous “Oba­macare” that isn’t going to do any­thing but fur­ther bank­rupt our coun­try and turn cit­i­zens into Obam­abots.  But of course, that’s what he wants.   He wants peo­ple to NOT be self-sufficient, but to rely on the gov­ern­ment for any­thing from tooth­paste to toupees to Tylenol.

I just lis­tened to an inter­est­ing clip of Fred Thompson’s show where he inter­viewed a woman by the name of Betsy McCaughey, for­mer lieu­tenant gov­er­nor of New York.  She had just read the House “Oba­macare” bill, which will deny health care to the elderly.  It’s almost Soy­lent Green come true — the only thing the big “G” isn’t doing is turn­ing the elderly into lit­tle green wafers.   She said that the bill makes it manda­tory that peo­ple in Medicare have to go through a coun­sel­ing ses­sion every five years that teaches them how to end their life sooner.  How crazy is this??

We must stop this crazy, out-of-control, run­away Gov­ern­ment train.  This is enough to make my eyes pop out of my head!

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