In the aftermath of the debt deal, I have heard some jawdroppingly ridiculous statements. One such meme is that the Tea Party had somehow forced the most recent deal of supposed fiscal austerity through chicanery. The entire conservative movement has been labeled as terrorists by chuck Schumer, Joe Biden, Lawrence O’Donnel, Chris Matthews and many, many more. This, from the same fine folks who refused to, “jump to conclusions,” about Major Nidal Hassan shooting unarmed soldiers reporting for duty at Fort Hood while shouting Allah Hu Akhbar. when they found his manifesto an hour or two later, clearly stating that this was an act of Islamic Terrorism, we were told that the problem was religious zealots of all stripes, and not in fact an actual act of terrorism. That label it seems is reserved solely for elected representatives who are showing an actual desire to represent the very plainly stated wishes of the people who elected them into office. Elections have consequences, and November of 2010, you know the election which the alphabet media wishes to ignore for some reason, was a very emphatically stated restraining order filed by the voters in this country to stop the Obama Agenda from proceeding. It is not an act of terrorism for the people elected in this election to actually vote in a manner consistent with their campaign promises. It in fact is a shining example of a representative form of government working in the exact manner in which it is supposed to work.
Something terrible has happened to the Democrat Party over the last 50 years. John Kennedy got elected on a platform of projecting American strength, simplifying the Tax Code, lowering taxes, and promising fewer government handouts and deregulation of our economic system. I firmly believe that people will vote a party line out of some form of political momentum rather than serious thought. I have friends who are voting with the Democrats simply because they always have, and are not equating the consequences of those decisions with the cause. The reason for the blind hatred of all things conservative is two fold. One, the expectation for eventual capitulation is an earned expectation. Newt Gingrich let us down years ago. We all cheered him on during his House takeover of 1994. Just a few years later, we watched him appear on a couch with Nancy Pelosi talking about capping carbon emissions and the need to limit executive pay. Tom Delay turned his Republican led house into a Democrat Lite version of a rubber stamp for increased entitlement spending. What the American people were not ready for, was a group of Republican Freshman House Members who would employ an actual backbone. Conservatives it seems, are supposed to give minimal lip service to themes like free market economies and fiscal responsibility while eventually just giving up and taking some solace in empty compromises which they can point to as moral victories. To this I say, sorry. That is not us anymore. America can no longer afford the shenanigans of the left. The other reason of course, we are threatening to stop the party. Like junkies, the ruling elite enjoy a system which affords them greater amounts of power and authority in exchange for handing out an ever increasing amount of free goodies from the public largess which someone else is paying for. The fact that those paying for the free goodies are not able to keep up with the demands of the gift givers nor the chosen victim classes receiving the bounty is of no concern. It is simply a matter for some future entity to deal with, and all we need to do to make this magic happen is to completely ignore reality.
To you committed leftists out there, take warning. That low pitched rumbling sound you hear is an angry America who is about to make their voices heard once again. A recent Gallup Pole, (hardly an outfit free from a liberal bent,) showed that a majority of Americans consider themselves conservatives. The percentage as a matter of fact is larger even than the number achieved during the Reagan years. With 23 out of 33 Senatorial seats to defend for the Democrats in the Senate in 2012, and with the 700 seat swing in State Legislature seats and 11 seat swing in Governorships, and with the bloom completely off of the Obama Rose, 2012 does not look like a banner year for the Liberal Political Machine, at least not from an electoral sense. That rumbling sound you are ignoring is an American Electorate who is about to relegate you to severe minority status. You will not want in the future to have created the precedent of anyone voting their conscious as being considered a terrorist. I would also try to caution you to remember just exactly how you got elected to power in the first place. You were able to engineer your Congressional and Senatorial takeovers by running Conservative Democrats. It is not the fault of Conservative that you governed as Socialists once in power. You did this to yourselves, when you made the conscious decision to govern against the expressed will of the American People and against the express promises you made while pretending to be fiscally conservative. Facing an opposition to your destructive agenda does not make one a terrorist, it just means that they are capable of critical thought.
Cross Posted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.
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