We all need to take a page from Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Henry Gates, Spike Lee, and the rest of the Race Industry. Say whatever you want about these opportunist hucksters, they sure know how to mobilize people. We can’t remember the last time Al Sharpton spoke without a megaphone. Henry Gates can wail and cry and dry media attention at the drop of a soiled diaper, claiming RAAACISM! is responsible for whatever vexes him that day (“Damn dirty RAAACIST pickle jar! I want my gerkins, but I CAN’T GET TO THEM because RAAACISTS made the jar too tight! I need reinforcements…get me Sharpton, get me Jackson, get me the Justice Department, get me the White House. I WANTS MY PICKLES!). Jesse Jackson can assemble a rainbow coalition of lunatics and fools at a moment’s notice, indignant with every cell of their being over an issue they didn’t know boo about an hour before.
These men are brilliant at what they do.
You might, like us, believe they are vile, duplicitous, opportunists who exploit racial tension for their own personal benefit and revel in the MSM’s need for race clowns to provide infotainment to liberals, but THEY ARE GOOD AT WHAT THEY DO.
Case in point: Nancy Pelosi’s locking down the US Capitol like it’s her own private Louis Vuitton trunk, keeping the public out of her press conference announcing the Utopiacare legislation (the way she tries, unsuccessfully, to keep bugs out of her caked-on, spatula-applied, Max Factor).
If anyone tried to keep black people out of something, ANYTHING, even a burning building, Sharpton, Gates, and Jackson would be airlifted to the protest assembled nanoseconds later.
But, normal people, with jobs, lives, and real purpose, can’t seem to mobilize that quickly.
Pelosi has no right to shut the Capitol down.
None.
She has no right to push through legislation without allowing the public — or even Members of Congress — read it first.
That’s what she’s trying to do here, too, to force Utopiacare upon us all without anyone reading a 1.990 page bill, riddled with waste and pork, crammed to bursting with inane bureaucracy and a concerted effort to destroy 1/6 of the US economy and render us into a banana republic.
People need to stand up and resist the Liberals before it’s too late.
There’s no Sharpton with a megaphone to lead us…so we have to find a way to lead ourselves…before it is too late to stop this.
October 29, 2009 at 4:40 pm
The battle has to take place “within” the democratic party. Evan Bayh (D-IND) said this will definitely cost taxpayers more than it did before. And my question is: If states are allowed to “opt” out, who decides that one for each state? Will there be an “opt-in or opt-out” referendum in the next election?
October 29, 2009 at 5:40 pm
What are states going to opt-out to if all the private insurance companies are killed off?
October 29, 2009 at 6:32 pm
It sounds to me like a ruse. No state, in the end, will be able to opt-out. If that was even possible who would decide, like Gizmo asked, a panel. No it would be the legislature, maybe the Gov. could override it, but come on. We poor saps in blue states will be screwed as we will take the brunt of the taxes. The states that can opt-out certainly can’t be taxed for something they won’t be part of. I have already written my Senators and Congressman. All Dems, all stating thanks for your input, but………..
October 29, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Ummm, Arizona has not been part of the federal health plan for the poor for years. We have our own version (ACCCHS, but don’t ask me what it stands for.) Maybe we are finally getting some fed funds, but intially, we got none – and were taxed for the fed plan anyway.
Do not underestimate the ability of government.
October 29, 2009 at 6:59 pm
Did anyone else hear Obama’s big lie today (among the many others today) about how the Health Care Bill WAS ALREADY PAID FOR??????
October 30, 2009 at 5:02 am
I almost choked when I heard him say that. It’s a good thing I wasn’t drinking tea.
October 29, 2009 at 7:28 pm
CBO says Piglosi’s bill is going to cost 1.055 TRILLION dollars.
Why is it that when people say a billion now…I don’t even get shocked anymore.?
October 29, 2009 at 8:20 pm
I wonder if botox and facelifts are covered under this new bill? I sure hope so, as I can’t wait to kill every bit of feeling in my face too!
October 29, 2009 at 8:49 pm
How can it cost so darn much when all it is doing is forcing us to purchase insurance and fining people who don’t?
October 29, 2009 at 8:53 pm
can anyone from San Francisco please tell me WHY she keeps getting elected?
October 30, 2009 at 6:10 am
(MQ-C waves hand furiously…call on me…call on me!!!)
I know the answer to this one. The district in San Francisco she reps is even more far left wing than she is. She is considered a ‘centrist’ compared to what (feebly) challenges her policies.
That and she is uber, duber wealthy.
October 30, 2009 at 11:22 am
This is Nancy’s base: http://zombietime.com/
Warning: Not safe for work, and not safe for kids.
Scan through Zombie’s Hall of Shame, then visit each one of Zombie’s photo essays. And every time you think to yourself “I’m gonna puke all over my keyboard” remember that these are the people who vote for both Nancy Pelosi and barbara Boxer year after year.
October 29, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Stand up and resist what? These a-holes that have usurped our paychecks and our government out from under us? You can’t even get them on phone anymore to curse them to eternal life with Ted Kennedy, never mind fax them stupid. America is so fed up with these liars — The next time 2.3 million patriots clomp down on these traitors, grandma and the kids better stay home.
October 29, 2009 at 10:36 pm
What a lot (and I mean a lot) of people do not understand: Yes! this is happening in America…NO! they do not care about us or our health care! They are Marxists, Statists, Communists and they will do what they must to destroy our freedom and take powere and control over us…it is a plan, a strategy and it is working…it may very well come down to another civil war…no joke!
October 30, 2009 at 12:29 pm
What I find most discouraging –isn’t there anyone in the MSM or in the Beltway that has a shred of patriotism? Anyone? Any Secret Serviceperson that knows the true goings on? The complete refusal to stand on principles that our country is founded on by every D.C. insider is disheartening.
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