Ramirez on Reid’s Heathcare Reform
An object lesson in hubris that reminds us to be careful what we wish for lest we get it. The only thing missing from this picture is the mob of villagers brandishing torches and pitchforks - although I suppose that if Reid’s Monster does acquire a pulse it won’t be long before an angry mob - armed with more than protest posters and Gadsden flags - really does descend upon Washington.
According to the latest Rasmussen polls:
…28% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -13 (see trends).
For the first time in the Obama Administration, the Approval Index has been in negative double digits for nine straight days. Among men, the President’s Approval Index rating is -20. Among women, it is -7 (see other recent demographic highlights from the tracking poll).
Support for the health care plan proposed by the President and Congressional Democrats has fallen to a new low of 38%. Sixty percent (60%) of voters believe passage of the bill will lead to higher health care costs.
The clock is ticking down to November 2010. In a week or so the Democrats and the Man-Child will have precisely 10 months to ram their agenda down the collective gullet of this nation.
As I (and others) have pointed out, they don’t care what we think. All the letters, e-mails, phone calls, office visits, protest rallies, Tea parties and town hall meetings between now and then will amount to precisely nothing. They know perfectly well what a majority of the American public wants on this and other issues. They don’t care.
This is their one chance to inflict a fatal wound on our free market republic and even if they go down politically in 2010 and again in 2012, they will do so confident that the incoming Republican majority will be too feckless and pusillanimous to dismantle the bureaucracy they created. In time the sheer weight of the federal government in terms of its size, the scope of its power and the crushing density of a multi-trillion dollar debt - coupled with a currency that is becoming increasingly worthless will trigger the economic and political collapse of the republic, at which point they believe they will be able to saunter back and pick up the reins of power.
That is the plan. The sooner you reconcile yourself to the reality of this strategy the easier it will be for you take action when the time comes.
So, basically, Obama is calling upon all of Congress to be Kamikaze Pilots. Pass his plans for taking control of our lives and ruining our country, and sacrifice their re-elections in obedience to him.
Not so much him as the cause itself. Even Obama is willing to face defeat and become a one-term President if it means establishing a beachhead.
Think of it as D-Day in a mirror universe, where the statists are trying to invade and take over the United States. Much like Eisenhower at Normandy, they are willing to sustain massive political casualties if it means establishing a secure staging area from which they can proceed with the invasion and subsequent conquest.
Don’t forget: statists always think long-term and adjust their strategies and tactics accordingly.
This is why it is critical that we not only defeat them in 2010 and 2012 but utterly destroy them politically. If a majority of conservative Republicans ever succeeds in gaining control of Congress they must have the cojones to strip the Democrats of any and every kind of power imaginable and mercilessly stomp them at every opportunity, including depriving them of choice office space and suspending their franking privileges indefinitely.
I, for one, would love to see a Republican-dominated House of Representatives relocate Nancy Pelosi’s office to one of the ladies bathrooms in the basement of the Capitol Building.
None of this will ever happen, of course, but it’s still a delicious fantasy.
Every phone call, every fax, every office vist, every march into Washington, amounts to “pot-shots” at the multiple heads of a beast that has buried itself underground and is determined to stay.
What we have to keep doing is continue taking pot-shots at this monster until it’s compromised!!
You may want to consider rewording your comment in light of the definition of the term “potshot.”
Hark, the sound from the bowels of a self-imposed exhile, a question really; how does one reword a comment that’s already posted? This inquiring mind would like to know for future reference.
I think “pot-shots” expresses the idea perfectly.
By the way, it might be helpful if we concentrated on emailing Sen. Lieberman. The way I see it, he is the only one that can stop a vote on the libs fantasy health care from happening. But I don’t see why he didn’t save us all the trouble Nov. 21. If Lieberman lets us down, then things will become quite “hot”.
Elementary, CF…one writes a follow-up comment to clarify its predecessor.
Manly on November 24, 2009 at 2:07 pm
“Pot-shots” not pot-shot.
Happy now?
All of the four (4) Senators that voted for cloture reluctantly, are very vulnerable if a bunch of people marched into their offices like the 20,000 did during the house debate on the bill.
In fact, Mitch McConnell seems to think that even Evan Bayh of Indiana is vulnerable.
The truth is all those up for reelection in 2010 are vulnerable.
The longer this Buried Monster is allowed to stay underground without us taking consistent “pot-shots” at it, the bolder it will become!!
Manly, where is Part 6 on how to Destroy Our Country?
A pot-shot is a random, haphazard and generally poorly aimed shot at someone or something - akin to shooting from the hip. The correct term is “snipe.” However, in the present context these efforts amount to little more than the cliched scenario of bank robbers emptying their revolvers at Superman’s chest in an effort to kill him. It ain’t gonna happen.
Does this mean we should abandon the effort? Not at all. I say: keep it up, but remember that the bullets of public outrage in the form of e-mails, phone calls and letters will not be nearly as effective as the Kryptonite of the ballot box.
Patience, young Jedi. Patience.
I remember you telling us that emails are our “musket” and computers are our “horse”.
The important thing to implement here is numerous tacticle battle plans, not knowing (just like any General in war) which one will actually be the decisive winning tactic.
Jim Demint is implementing term limits. Will it work? Well, not altogether.
The same is true of any war tactic(s) ever implemented in a greater strategy that is hoped to kill the beast.
I have pronounced this the Buried Monster, precisely because too many people see only the movement of it on the surface which is notated as “gopher heads” popping up here and there, and everywhere more recently. This monstrosity of a healthcare abomination bill is noted as the Buried Monster moving the dirt above it ever so slowly. One glances at it and thinks the ground moved, but unless you have keen exacting sights that measure it’s before-and-after movement it doesn’t seem to have really moved.
Rest assured it has moved and is moving.
Even a skilled sniper is resorted to shooting at the “gopher heads”, but with those “heads” popping back down quickly and showing up somewhere else, it amounts to “pot shots” of sorts.
However, no General of an army ever gives up trying, because just one of these time that “gopher head” could actually the “brain” of it all.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
the “brain of this Buried Monster” is indeed this health care bill.
If we have sufficient troops on top of the belly of this Buried Beast, staring down on it’s “eyes” in those Senators’ Washington, DC office, then we will kill it for good.
The analogy of our Internet activity to Paul Revere still applies, insofar as Revere did not ride to protest the British but rather to warn neighboring towns about their approach. In like manner we must make use of this medium to inform our neighbors of those things which the Drive-Bys prefer to ignore.
Victory lies in the ballot box and nowhere else, as nothing prompts a change of heart more quickly or with deeper and more lasting effect than when most of one’s cohorts have been voted out of office.
Even then they will continue, like a brain-eating zombie from a George Romero movie. Unless a conservative majority is secured next November followed by expansion and consolidation in 2012, all our e-mails, phone calls, letters, Tea parties and protest rallies will amount to little more than a fusillade of birdshot at the side of a battleship.
If our efforts fail in 2010 and 2012 the only other alternative will be armed revolution.
The sniper shots of the Tea Party/anti-big government movement in the form of protests, emails, faxes, phone calls, office visits and direct letters is needed to secure the right lurch at the ballot box.
Every time we protest we catch the attention of others who are like-minded but for some reason just haven’t had the time or resources to educate themselves.
The “crowd” admittedly moves slower than we like, sort of like the speed of the hour hand on a clock.
The minute hand people are those who attend “Tea Party” meetings and go to rallies, etc.
The voters at the ballot box are the “hour hand”.
The “second hand” people are those with their nose at the very front of the news cycle, seeing it in the manner it should viewed: From the angle of what is the truth, as it is really happening.
If it were not for the “second hand” people, the rest would not follow.
Glad you agree with me.
Aww….isn’t it nice to agree with each other?
So much better than being disagreeable.
/sarc..
That’s what happens when our elected officials get to Washington, they hate disagreeing so they start reaching “across the aisle” to make peace.
Manly, don’t leave us out of the equation. The two million people who joined with us on 9/12 will not be sleeping at the wheel again.
Are you willing to bet your life on it?
Aren’t we all?