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The New Improved Civility: “All Conservatives Are Poopy Heads!”

by Flyovercountry ( 273 Comments › )
Filed under Democratic Party, Elections 2010, Elections 2012, Politics, Republican Party, Tea Parties at August 4th, 2011 - 2:00 pm

Michael Ramirez Cartoon

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.

Another Day, Another Palin Smear Which Turned Out To Be False.

by Flyovercountry ( 119 Comments › )
Filed under Uncategorized at June 6th, 2011 - 5:00 pm

So, here we are, June of 2011, a full 3 years past the op ed penned by Sarah Palin which appeared in Investors Business Daily. This was the first time I had ever heard of the Alaska Governor. The op ed was a very well written open letter to Congress explaining why America should be drilling in ANWR. I thought it was brilliantly written. Others must have thought so as well, as it eventually lead to Palin being named as a running mate for the Democrat Lite GOP nominee, John McCain. Sarah Palin gave a speech accepting her place on the ticket at the Republican National Convention. Even my most liberal friends were forced to admit that the speech was brilliant, and that Governor Palin knocked it out of the park. Then the baloney started.

Immediately after the convention, I began receiving a spam email from any one left of center which was purported to have been written from a citizen in Wasilla, Alaska. Governor Palin was painted in a less than complimentary light. The letter told of her stupidity, ineptitude, and puppy dog kicking days which led to her stumbling into being Alaska’s Governor. I do not believe that the identity of any actual person penning this letter has ever been verified. It was the coordinated astroturfing efforts of a very organized left attacking Governor Palin, more for being female and conservative, than for being conservative. SNL began lampooning her in vicious fashion. Tina Fey’s, “I can see Russia from my house,” line is still quoted by liberal chimpanzees as though it were an authentic quote. Democrat Party Apparatchiks flocked to Alaska and filed unfounded ethics complaints against the Governor. This was done during the election, and the complaints were filed by people living outside of Alaska, but with a clear agenda. Alaska it seems has a unique law. Politicians it seems, are required to fund their own defenses. So, during a Presidential election, Governor Palin was forced to attend to those complaints while running for VP. We were treated to the most bizarre stories and theories including the idea that her youngest child actually belonged to her daughter. She was vilified for choosing to give birth to a baby with Down’s Syndrome while having the nerve to be a career woman. (So much for feminism as a viable political movement.) Meanwhile, her obvious success at running Alaska was reduced to the belief that she just happened to be lucky enough to land in a State which was blessed with abundant natural resources. (I have to laugh at this. Plenty of states have abundant natural resources, but only Palin’s Alaska has the good sense to utilize those resources and limit the governments ability to screw that up.) The lunacy continued last week when CNN and CBS blamed America’s inability to operate motor vehicles on Governor Palin’s bus trip across country. Yesterday though, it reached a deliciously ironic crescendo.

Apparently, our national press corps only learns history by reading Longfellow’s poetry, and not from actually reading any history books.  Palin was brutalized yesterday for getting this bit of history wrong.  The whoops of laughter amongst the political left were loud and obnoxious.  As it turns out, Sarah Palin was correct.  Revere, in his own account of that night written 23 years later explained how he did in fact warn the British of what they were facing.  It takes a really smart person to actually know this bit of history.  It takes a person who is well read, and took the time to learn something beyond just what they heard in a school room poem.  This is the kind of person who would make a good President.

Crossposted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.

What if Cheney did it?

by Flyovercountry ( 4 Comments › )
Filed under Democratic Party, Headlines, Humor at March 29th, 2011 - 10:41 am

This one is nothing serious, but too fun to pass up. What if Cheney did this? http://drudgereport.com/flash7.html

What if any Republican locked away a reporter for an extended periond of time during one of their fundraising shin digs? We wouldn’t want any of the common folk hob knobbing with the important folk now would we. How do they claim this mantle of being for the little guy and keep a straight face?

Media Bias and The Uninformed

by Flyovercountry ( 104 Comments › )
Filed under Media, Politics, Progressives at March 16th, 2011 - 4:30 pm

So let’s start with the video, and afterwards, I’ll let you in on the joke.

Now as promised, here’s the joke. The sign asked if President Obama was a Keynesian and not if he was a Kenyan. How quickly the crowd of Obama supporters jumped to the conclusion that some wild conspiracy theory were being asserted. Two things jumped out at me. One, not very many of the enlightened liberal Obama supporters had a clue that there is something known as the Keynesian School of economics. None of them knew that Obama’s domestic policies are entirely based on that completely debunked economic theory. (Debunked from the standpoint of the benefit of government deficit spending acting as a catalyst for greater economic growth. Indeed, Maynard Keynes’ theory of aggregate markets are still useful.) Not one of the people in that crowd knew that it was indeed a Democrat Party Apparatchik working on the Hillary Clinton campaign named Phillip Berg who started and maintains to this day the Obama born in Kenya stupidity.

Sometime within the next month, and several times over the next two years, we will all read news stories which will tell us that people who get their information from sources perceived to be conservative are less informed. There will be, “studies,” cited in Newsweek and Time which prove this to be the case. As usual, it will be baloney. For those of you with short memories, let me show examples of this.

We’ve already seen how well informed the subscribers to liberal sources of information are, but why not one more example, because it’s fun.

None of the Obama voters realized that the Democrats were in control of Congress. None of the Obama voters could identify the Speaker of the House or the Senate Majority Leader.

Some things just get tiring. Many times people who wish to disagree with my position on something, they will immediately jump to an adhominem attack. Fly_O, quit getting your news from Faux News. I much rather would debate with someone who will take up the counter argument and offer their own position. I don’t really even watch Fox. It seems to be the default argument for anyone looking to deflate the conservative viewpoint. Attacking the messenger and not the message allows someone to sidestep debate and hide from any real statement of counter position. I have been told by several liberals that my arguments are misleading, but not supplied with actual examples of how. Oh, certainly people can pick the pepper from the fly shit, cite a factoid which may be in error, which seldom has any impact on the broader argument, but as for substantive refutation, not a chance. 

On this blog, I have cited and shown several instances of dishonesty posing as news on MSNBC, CNN, the NYT, NewsWeek, Time and several other sources. No real or tangible evidence of Fox distorting its reporting has been shown to me. I do not mean this as a piece glorifying Fox, but as a way to point out that people who live in glass houses should refrain from rock throwing.

Over the next two years, we will be inundated with stories of an Obama Boom, and told about how Barak Obama laid his hands on the economy and saved us all from the abyss.  Straw man arguments will be positioned routinely as though they represent the actual counter debate.  Through this all, liberals will try to convince themselves more than us really how informed they are.  It would all be funny, if they weren’t in charge, and their policies didn’t carry horrendous consequences.

Hat Tip: Osprey