We Want Smaller Government: An Open Letter To ALL Politicians (Video)
Video: America Rising -- An Open Letter to Democrats
Slick, well produced clip (last 90 seconds are impressive) that is unfortunately only half-correct. I don't think it comes from the RNC, but it might as well have been produced by Michael Steele.
Once again and for the record, the Republican party lost their claim as the party of small government based on their truly disgusting spending record from 2000 through 2008. It very much still remains to be seen whether they will deviate from recent history and actually deliver smaller government if they re-assume House leadership this Fall from Pelosi and her useless crew. And yes, for the record, Democrats also have an abominable record when it comes to irresponsible deficit spending.
Forced to guess, I would say the answer is 'no' -- they will not shrink the federal government in any meaningful manner. In that sense, this clip should have been aimed at both parties instead of solely at Democrats. Regardless, I think the small government message is important to promote.
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(Just a screenshot...video is at the top)
Jan 23, 2010 at 3:20 PM
Reader Comments (31)
In a 2-party system, any attack on 1 party bears an implied support for the other party. And the other party is the Republican party. Remember them? Remember George Bush? Remember Hank Paulson? Remember Dick Cheney?
The only way to really 'throw the bums out' and get revenge is to vote only for independents. Yes, there are exceptions but there are so few that I'm willing to do without Ron Paul and Peter Schiff if we can also do without all the Pelosis, Shumers, Franks, Voinoviches, Alexanders, etc.
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Paul...That's why I was careful, lest anyone misinterpret me, careful to demonstrate that it's a problem that afflicts both sides...Paul, assuming you are who i think you are, i would think you had similar feelings personally when the rnc sponsored your trip to DC to showcase your truly outstanding (and successful) videos...knowing your thinking through your videos, I am aware that you understand these issues completely...
In case it sounds that way, I want to be clear...i am not knocking you in any way, shape or form for accepting the RNC trip...to the contrary, when you're attempting to be a messenger of TRUTH, as you are in my view, you have to take whatever help you can get so that your message GETS OUT to the people...
I hope that makes sense....as for voting for independents, i agree in principle with the exception that with voting , often your vote is determined by how others vote...in other words, even if the independent is the right person, if NO ONE ELSE is voting for the independent, than your vote for this candidate becomes worthless in a sense...it's a fine line, but i think you know what i mean...
REALISTICALLY, you CANNOT expect our government officials to vote themselves OUT OF A JOB simply by ASKING them to do so. When a bully has got their big fat foot painfully crushing your toes intentionally, any request for relief would only be met with laughter and then probably MORE abuse.
What we need to do is threaten to VIOLENTLY REMOVE these douchebags from office like they did in Argentina with their "que se vayan todos!" campaign ("let's kick them ALL out!"). However unlike in Argentina we should NOT seek to thereafter REPLACE them with new politicians (who inevitably pick-up where the previous douchebags left-off) but rather take advantage of the opportunity to completely & PERMANENTLY ELIMINATE unnecessary, unproductive or redundant political positions. The few politicians left after the carnage would feel OBLIGATED to work efficiently and effectively in order to maintain their posts, while the greater competition for fewer political appointments would ensure a steady stream of qualified candidates at all times.
The WSJ has a very good Bernanke vote breakdown:
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2010/01/22/tally-of-senate-vote-count-on-bernanke-confirmation/
In a MAKE BELIEVE "two party system" however such as we have here in the U.S., any attack on one party SHOULD be construed as an attack against the OTHER PARTY AS WELL given that in reality there is NO DIFFERENCE amongst them.
As long as the USA falsely hypes the ILLUSION of being "free to choose" and then only offers us the option of selecting between just COKE & PEPSI (two almost indistinguishable carbonated soft drinks, very similar to our two carbonated political parties) then all other Americans who would prefer ORANGE JUICE or WATER or MILK or freaking COCONUT JUICE will ALWAYS lack the capability of instituting REAL CHANGE (*).
(*) Real Change = As OPPOSED to the stupid inane BULLSHIT that Obama wants to ram down our throats.
If it was from the right it would have said something like this…
We voted against your Saul Alinsky version of hope and change…
We knew you would not be fair and balanced (difficult for all liberals)…
We knew the free world would mock your Marxist efforts…
We knew you would continue to denigrate the traditional family…
Our future would be more uncertain in the hands of a community organizer…
We don’t trust you and the people that surround you…
You got Colin Powel’s support but only got Jesse Jackson’s support after the Oprah effect.
So we voted for the other guy…
We regret having so few choices…
We didn’t care that Oprah was telling us you would be the first black President…
We saw no historical significance in you…
The left did but let’s not go there again…
We needed to see your birth records to prove your Constitutional eligibility…
We needed to see your college transcripts.
We needed to know how you got into Harvard law, who got you in, and who paid for it…
We needed to know why you got such a cushy job right out of Harvard (Business International Corporation)
We needed to know who the rich white girl at Columbia was (your only other girlfriend)…
Yes, the one you lived with, the one with the ancestral home in Germany (not too many of those)…
As Rumsfeld would say, we needed to know the known unknowns and the unknown unknowns…
We needed to know about your Islamic teachings in Indonesia…
We needed to know that your mother worked for Tim Geithner’s father…
We needed to know why you shun your Kenyan roots (Kenyan grandmother who says she was at your birth, the six half brother and two half sisters)…
We needed to know if your mother was married when you were born…
We needed to know why you sealed your Hawaiian state records…
We needed to know how you got into Pakistan with a US passport…
We needed to know why you lived with a Pakistani drug dealer for two years in NYC…
We needed to know how bad your cocaine habit was and what other drugs you might be addicted to…
We needed to know if Bill Ayers wrote your two autobiographies.
We needed to see that LA Times video of you giving a speech at the dinner to honor Rashid Khalidi’s…
We needed to know why you never wrote anything for the Harvard Law Review…
We needed to know why Michelle was being paid $317,000 (after a big raise in 2005) working for the University of Chicago Hospitals (accused of patient dumping)part time (yes, 20 solid hours a week)…
We needed to know about your shady Chicago land deal…
We needed to know where you came from and who made you the anointed one…
Now we just want you out of office…
We want to know why your Wikipedia page is such horse shit (yes, that is worse than bull shit)…
No more socialism, we hate Lenin.
We are not Marxists. Better dead than red.
We have always known you are a threat to our freedom and our way of life…
We want you in the dustbin of history…just words…
We have had enough…
The Reagan Conservatives are Back! Yes, we hope you fail! So far so goooooooood!
We know the truth. We know who and what you are and we are going to vote you out.
End dramatic music here…
*gasp!*
... just kidding. I see your point. : /
"Bernanke has become the focus of increased criticism since Republican Scott Brown won a Senate seat in an upset election in Massachusetts this past week."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_bernanke_senate
I also heard the other day that the Dems were in a tizzy about Bernanke after the Coakley loss. Why? I've been in a tizzy about Bernanke for YEARS, but why are the Dems connecting Bernanke to Brown's victory?
This is just strange.
He is a solid member of the "raygun weebleution"
weebles wobble but they don't fall down, hey!
Somebody has been impersonating you the last couple of days...
Come on Goby, who else likes Saul Alinsky, remember saying his work was the new weepubican Bible? Everyone else does...
You did an excellent job explaining your viewpoint, DB.
As for me, I'm done playing with the devil. We've suffered a Rasputin this past year and a half. I will counsel people to refrain from turning back to the Goethe again. They are both fantasy worlds.
The corollary is that any criticism of our SYSTEM of make-believe representation puts you right on the terror suspect list.
Solely because of incompetence(as are all of the outrages against us) I'm (nearly)sure...
Sorry 'bout that.
-the ScrewUps In Power
And I have noticed in your other posts that you share my contempt for partisanship - it's one of the things I like about your site. This video, however, bashes only the Dems, which, while valid, could convince some to support a Republican party that is equally captured by corporate interests.
The answer is, drum role please................. Gobias bluth!
"I am just another student of Saul Alinsky (you say emotional bs, I say rules for radicals or the new rules for republicans) -- you should take a look at the rules."
Gobias Bluth
Hat tip.
Napoleon said, 'give me ten men who are absolutely trustworthy and I will take over the world.' He said this knowing full well that it is impossible to find such men.
World literature, going back to our ancient Hebrew and Greek heritage, makes it clear that even brothers betray each other for gold and women, among other less significant things.
Napoleon used force to take over the world, just as every other man of action has. Machiavelli wrote his field guide, not Saul Alinsky. Every government or other group, from Microsoft to the Mafia, has used Machiavelli's rules to achieve power and to maintain it.
By temperament I am a libertarian but my practical experience is with groups, mostly sports teams when I was young, a brief stint with a fraternity and work with several corporations and academic institutions.
It is obvious, to me at least, that the world is organized around teams of people who are made to feel lucky to make the team, to be selected by the fraternity, or to be hired by the corporation. Loyalty to the team is the bedrock of every such organization of people.
These teams are run by the best "players" who lead them to victory.
Teams battle other teams for victory.
The government is such a team, as are worker's unions, baseball teams, the Communist Party, the Republican Party and all corporations and other organized groups of people.
Trying to weaken or destroy "the Government" is like trying to weaken or get rid of Harvard, Microsoft or the Democratic Party. All four will diminish in power, increase in power or collapse, from internal forces, or none of the above, and there is nothing anyone can do about it except battle against them from within another organization of people dedicated to the goal of destroying them or of diminishing or increasing their power.
But be forewarned, if you don't already know it: Whatever group of organized human beings you attack will dedicate their forces to destroy your group if it seems dangerous enough.
This should be common sense but doesn't seem to be.
To explain the confusion...there is someone on youtube who goes by the name of 'Political Math' which when slightly shortened, sounds exactly like Paul E. Math...
I've posted some of his videos and he emailed saying he reads the site...so i thought it was you... sorry for the confusion...
Again, I agree that people could misinterpret the video to show support for Republicans, which is WHY I went to such lengths to explain that is was NOT my intention...
I am just a student, too old to go to West Point but young enough to take Barry’s teaching moment and learn his tactics so I can fight fire with fire.
My rewrite of the video above should help you become clearer on where I stand.
Lol. Those of us who follow you know that it would be EASIER for a CAMEL to pass thru the eye of a NEEDLE
SIDEWAYS.
:-)
Some believe that when they dance with the Devil, they are the one leading...
I would really burn the book. The game has advanced alot since 1972...
PS--I have no idea why you think I'm into the L word and granola. I am a completely domesticated animal and always have been. Don't use that against me now.