Jan 12 2010
Throw The Political Industrial Class Out Of Power In 2010!
Why are there so many independents (like myself)? Why is ‘independent’ the largest growing political movement in the nation?
Because Americans are so fed up with the partisan BS that they are not only questioning the motives and capabilities of government in general, they are abandoning the entrenched parties and their army of talking heads, special interests, political consultants and media allies.
The reason the Tea Party movement is so popular and white hot with intent is because we have had it with ‘holier than thou’, ‘slimier than all’ power trippers in DC who have driven this country into the ditch. This sentiment was perfectly summed up last night by Scott Brown in a the MA special election debate for the open senate seat previously held by Ted Kennedy:
Yeah – remember us? We The People?
If you don’t, you will soon enough. Americans are starting to feel like George Bush on the rubble of the Twin Towers after 9-11, except now we are standing upon the rubble of the ruined economy of America. As Bush so famously said (and paraphrasing a bit) – “you folks in DC will all be hearing from us soon”.
H/T Neo Neocon and Memeorandum
Update: This is a clear indication of the bankrupt nature of the two established parties:
Frantic over the possibility that a Democrat might lose the race to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts, the Democratic National Committee has sent its top spinner, Hari Sevugan, to the aid of Democratic candidate Martha Coakley, who appears to be rapidly losing ground to Republican Scott Brown. But what can Sevugan do to shore up Coakley’s struggling campaign? Well, he spent his first day on the job trying to tie Brown to Sarah Palin.
What a waste of time and effort. No substance, just attempted smearing.
interesting review of “Game Change” in Politico this morning:
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=1DB86A27-18FE-70B2-A8A1FCF1283F819F
On top of the devastating revelations about John and Elizabeth Edwards, I’m beginning to think that this one book may destroy the reputations of anyone involved in the 2008 campaign, with the exception of Obama, who is doing a good job of destroying his reputation all on his own, and Sarah Palin, who is ironically not hurt anymore by people saying bad things about her, since so much of that has already been spewed out. Too much of one thing, good or bad, and people turn out.
Sarah’s future is going to be determined by how she handles herself the next couple of years. It will be interesting to see how she handles the Fox affiliation – does she try to play up to Beck, or does she stay away from him? It’s an interesting choice she has to make.
From a Democrat point of view, the future is suddenly horrific – who runs in 2012 if Barak is discredited? Everyone else is discredited is well, and their only fall back is a Howard Dean retread. Not a pretty prospect.
The Democrats are all in on Barak now. If he goes down, the entire party goes down with him.
At this point in time Sarah Palin is uniquely qualified to be President of These United States. I say that because of her record as a reformer who took on the Good Old Boy Republicans in Alaska and threw the bums out. She is an articulate spokesperson for free enterprise and individual freedoms while protecting the sanctity of life. She is a common person and as such takes the slings and arrows the bitter barbs from the elitist, pandering, political industrial complex whores from both sides of the isle.
We need a 1000 Sarah Palins in DC to drive out the corruptocrats and Good Old Boy, back slappin, rippoff artists that the Peoples House, Senate and Whitehouse has become infested with.
Out with the arrogant, elist, panders, and career politicians,
in with the common citizens who have to go to work everyday in real jobs and make this country work with real solutions and common sense!
We must wrest control of our country away from the elite media and political hacks who arrogantly tell us what is good for us while driving this country off the cliff!
I find it ironical that President Obama claims that he and the Democrats have saved our country’s economy from falling into an abyss.
“With all due respect, this is the people’s seat”, a beautiful moment!
I’m not clear……does Obama take credit for TARP, or not?
“I find it ironical that President Obama claims that he and the Democrats have saved our country’s economy from falling into an abyss.”
When you look and realize that *everything* that Obama and the Dems say is the exact opposite of what they are really doing and thinking, then it makes perfect sense.
The way things are going. Palin is going to need Brown’s endorsement.
AJ,
Sarah Palin joining Fox News is her imitating Reagan, not “Becoming the Red State Oprah Winfrey” as the media talking heads are spouting.
Ronald Reagan used his 1954-62 radio show for General Electric as a vehicle to sharpen his writing and oral presentation skills as well as for media exposure. The notes he wrote for his GE show depict a natural politician honing his skills to a receptive audience.
Palin’s show for Fox could easily do the same for her, as well as being very profitable both her and Fox.
Plus the Democrats will go nuts responding to her, and alienate lots more independent voters by doing so.
This is a win-win for everyone but Democrats and Big Government Republicans.
Massachusetts can be the Midway of our time in turning back the progressive communists. A victory this large would embolden the citizenry that real change in DC is possible. I may even learn to become indifferent towards the Red Sox if that happens.
There are not enough independents or republicans in Massachusetts to make anything more than an interesting few days of news. The Unions, double voting, and illegal immigrant votes will see to it that Liberal Democrats retain control of Massachusetts … has anyone noticed that there is no polling of illegal immigrant votes?
The liberal Democrats will retain Massachusetts and embolden those in Washington to ever greater levels of tom-foolery and theft.
“With all due respect… it’s not the Kennedy’s seat… it’s not the Democrat’s seat… it’s the People’s seat…”
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In these deals… I always wonder… Did he have that line ready to go … or… out of thin air on the spur of the moment… Either way, David Gergen inadvertently served up the “Kennedy’s seat” [possessive] moment and Brown seized the moment…
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And, as a matter of logic, Aj… the premise that another 15 years will pass is highly questionable… Faulty premise = the conclusion is [true] or [untrue] … But one cannot conclude either from a faulty premise..
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Credit Brown for the “People’s seat” moment instead of putting down the false premise question… I think he had it ready to go…
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IF he can pull this long shot off, I opine THAT line will rank up there in the all time political one liners…
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Thanks for posting that clip, Aj… I couldn’t find the entire debate to listen live… Does someone have an internet link for me?
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Add on question… Does the word “People’s” properly get capitalized in this context?
I agree with Trent. Her move to Fox will do nothing but improve her abilities and image. People will see her as attractive and smart (not intellectual) plus it will enhance her media savvy. And it will give the added benefit of driving the dems off a cliff. I would like to seen the wad Sullivan’s panties were in when he heard the news.
Good to have you back WWS! I’ve missed your contribution.
Alert and WWS – I agree, this will allow everyone to get to know Palin directly, no media spin.
And may I also send a hear felt ‘welcome back’ to WWS!
>Credit Brown for the “People’s seat†moment instead of
>putting down the false premise question… I think he had it
>ready to go…
No, credit Brown for labeling health care reform “a real jobs killer.”
People care about jobs and the first thing out of brown’s mouth was about jobs and how Democrats are killing them with health care reform.
That is why Gergan changed the subject to “The Kennedy Seat.”
Anytime jobs is the subject, Democrats lose.
Sevugan is trying to tie Brown to Palin because Palin, who’s been branded as a right-wing nutter by the left, can’t help right now in liberal Mass. He’s baiting her to step in. She won’t.
Palin’s still learning, but she’s not going to get sucked into this one, since it won’t help Brown.
Coakley bought and paid for by Big Pharma and Health Insurance Companies
From http://biggovernment.com/ Which reproduces the invitation:
With Democrat Martha Coakley in trouble in the Massachusetts special election to fill Ted Kennedy’s seat, Democrats could lose vote No. 60 for President Obama’s health-care bill. In response, an army of lobbyists for drug companies, health insurance companies, and hospitals has teamed up to throw a high-dollar Capitol Hill fundraiser for Coakley next Tuesday night.
Of the 22 names on the host committee–meaning they raised $10,000 or more for Coakley–17 are federally registered lobbyists, 15 of whom have health-care clients. Of the other five hosts, one is married to a lobbyist, one was a lobbyist in Pennsylvania, another is a lawyer at a lobbying firm, and another is a corporate CEO. Oh, and of course, there’s also the political action committee for Boston Scientific Corporation.
All the leading drug companies have lobbyists on Coakley’s host committee: Pfizer, Merck, Amgen, Sanofi-Aventis, Eli Lilly, Novartis, Astra-Zeneca, and more. On the insurance side of things, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Cigna, Humana, HealthSouth, and United Health all are represented on the host committee.
“Why is ‘independent’ the largest growing political movement in the nation?”
so give us a prediction, when will an independent get elected President?
my prediction: Never.
After the election last November, the Repubs were doomed forever, because of the independents. Now the independents have changed their collectives minds and decided that the Dims are all bad and a Repub has a chance to win in a Dimocrat bastion of Massachusetts. Is there a problem with independents measuring which way the wind is blowing, ahead of time?
I knew that when the Dims got elected that the ‘independents’ that elected them would quickly recognize that they had been snookered. That’s what happens when you don’t have core beliefs and just blow with the breeze.
I’m a conservative. I voted correctly last November, I’ll vote correctly next time. See, I know that I don’t want the liberal-socialist complex running things. That’s what Obama’s crowd is. I don’t have to ‘label’ myself as independent to know that.
I believed last November, and still do, that Sarah Palin is a conservative, I don’t believe she is an independent. If she runs for any higher office, VP or Potus, she will run as a Republican because that is the only way she would have any possibility of winning. So the growing ‘independent’ movement does not and will not include her. I believe her affilitation with Fox will be a good thing because siding with ‘right’ vs ‘wrong’ is never a bad thing.
Ronald Reagan would never have declared himself to be independent, in my opinion. He had conservative principles and stood for them proudly. He ran as a Republican because that is the only party that is basically conservative.
I believe the facade of ‘independent’ is maintained to give the threat of voting for a dimocrat instead of a Republican to send a message. Well, that message is usually that they don’t like what some Republican did, so the pretense is that voting for a dimocrat would be better. Well, that got us Obama. So, we got the message.
Just as extreme protectionism is listed as the cause of the Great Depression which started with the 1929 stock market crash, Laize Faire free trade will go down in history as the cause of the Second Great Depression we are just now entering. The US as been carrying the entire world on its back since WWII. This is evidenced by the fact that when our economy coughs the whole world goes into a tailspin. Although China is now touted as the leader in exports etc etc etc. If Their US market was shut down, China’s industrial base would collapse. Or it would as soon as it runs out of the US dollars they have amassed by selling here and refusing to let us sell there. The reason Obama’s much touted drop in the number of jobs lost per month is because we are running out of jobs to lose. The unfettered Free trade policies that got us into this situation didn’t work because we did not insist that everybody play by the same rules. When Bill Clinton threw open our markets so his beloved Chairman Mao’s China could dump their slave labor made products in this country while at the same time hamstringing our industries with unreasonable and questionable regs and not even demanding that China reciprocate by allowing our manufacturers free access to China’s markets, he in effect, doomed our industrial manufacturing base, which was faced with two choices. Either move to China or go out of business. If the US is to rebuild it’s industrial base it is going to have to protect it’s domestic industries like China and India do theirs. These do gooders who think everyone in the world deserves the have a car and the same standard of living as we have…Aren’t they the same ones who are now trying to get us on bicycles and out cars. ? The moral is…these snooks in charge of leading this country don’t have a clue about what they are doing. We need to go back to policies we know work and quit trying out all these new theories that have just about destroyed our country’s ability to survive. Free trade has worked for everyone but us. It’s time to rethink this theory.
If we don’t take care of our own, nobody else is going to.
momdear1,
Obama’s policies have taken a recession and made it an 18(+) month and growing recession that has lost more jobs than we created in the last 25 years.
Fear, uncertainty and doubt about Democratic Party taxes and regulations have killed the private sector by scaring the productive into hide the capital activities until Obama is no longer in office.
It is unfortunate that every other American generation since WW2 must learn what single party Democratic rule in DC means for them.