Archive for December 21st, 2009
We are at the end of Act Two, in a story of Three Acts
Something occurred to us today, skewed as everything is through a cinematic lens, as we’re all Children of the 80s who grew up with TV and movies as our go-to analogies and references.
What we are seeing in American politics today is very much like the Lord of the Rings Trilogy; we’re talking about the Peter Jackson movies, as we have never read Tolkien’s books.
In the films, the first installment set up the opportunity for the forces of good and darkness to have the ultimate clash that had been building for years. Sauron, the leader of all things dark and destructive, had at last rebuilt his fortress of Mordor, where he began to assemble his forces for his takeover of the world. A ragtag collection of heroes, some of whom have never gotten along, came together to stand against this tide of darkness. A fellowship was born, with the ultimate goal of defeating Sauron and his minions once and for all.
Part Two, the Two Towers, further challenged the band of heroes, as it increasingly became more evident the Battle of the Ages was drawing near, with stakes never higher. The world as everyone knew it was about to end, as darkness rose to maximum strength and prepared to descend across the land.
In The Return of the King, the final installment, the great Fellowship had expanded to included millions — everyone who believed evil must be defeated, coming together, working hard, and in many cases sacrificing everything to save the world they loved. The Battle was fierce. For most of it, things worked against the heroes. The powers of darkness got in many good licks, and seemed unstoppable, but through raw courage and determination the Fellowship prevailed, Sauron was defeated, and a new age was born free (for the moment) from any further assaults from Mordor.
Great Merciful Zeus, we’re using Lord of the Rings analogies, but swear we’ve never been to a Renaissance Fair in our lives.
But, we really do feel like the nation’s at the opening credits of that Return of the King movie. The period of 2010-2012 is going to be a major tipping point in American history — the likes of which we have not seen in generations. Honestly, we hate that we are alive in this moment. We would much rather be our parents’ or grandparents’ ages, or be dead and buried already. Routinely, we keep thinking about our grandmothers, in particular, and how relieved we are they died years ago and don’t have to witness what the current administration is doing to this country. They would be heartbroken by what the Liberals are up to.
Liberals are doing to American what Hitler, Stalin, Khomeini, Hussein, Castro, the Kims of North Korea, and the Emperor of Japan could never do — they are destroying this country, from the inside, with the current president gleefully playing Romulus Augustus, achieving the goals our worst foreign threats could never realize.
We are laying on the melodrama thick, we know. But, we can’t help writing from a place of deep emotion here. It is a trying, taxing, soul-killing time for us.
There are no words to tell you how agonizing it is for us to watch moderate Democrats in the Senate vote for the Healthcare Rationing Bill, with all of its unconstitutional and un-American provisions. It reminds us of all the previously good characters in Lord of the Rings who were zombiefied by dark magic and turned against their own people by the seductive evil of Sauron. We are realizing this week that people we’ve supported for years are people we now need to boot from office at the first available opportunity. It’s like finding out your brother is a serial killer; you can’t look at him the same way ever again, you can’t in good faith allow him to remain positioned to do more of the same. Whatever you feel for him on a personal level is in direct opposition to the reality that he must be stopped. And this is how we feel about all 60 Democrats in the Senate.
There is no such thing as a good Democrat in Washington right now. There is no one standing up for the Constitution or the American people. There is not a single Democrat standing tall and firm demanding this legislation be properly debated, be conducted in broad daylight and not the cover of darkness, and be put before the American people to let Americans properly weigh in on what’s going on.
Instead of Sauron, we have Soros at the root of all of this. Somewhere, in one of his palaces, the evil he’s been plotting against this country for decades is finally coming to pass. He is close to reaching his endgame. It is more terrifying than any horror movie known to man. Our long-held hope that Mossad or MI5 would one day have the guts to do what the CIA seems prevented from doing itself has faded: there is no real-life James Bond in place to handle supervillains like Soros. This is Lex Luthor, Blofeld, Goldfinger, and Sauron on steroids. He is currently succeeding beyond his wildest dreams.
In a sick and perverse way, everything that is happening now is actually a good thing. Remember the movies. In Return of the King, the good guys got pummeled to within an inch of their lives. Sauron’s armies seemed unstoppable, and laid seige to everything good and just. Centuries of tradition were smashed…everything people had worked so hard for was destroyed…people’s lives were ruined. Sauron seemed close to final victory…but the forces of good stood firm, never gave up, didn’t surrender.
The pluck and courage of the smallest of heroes saved the day.
The little guy, the weak, meek, and humble.
That’s who brought down Sauron and his minions.
Two little hobbits.
Well, folks, we’re all hobbits today. Here in Chicago, we have no idea what the future holds for any of us. On many a day, we’ve wondered how much better life would be to never think about any of this stuff. We see people out in Boystown who never read the news, do not follow Washington, and seem to have an awful lot of fun rocking out to Lady GaGa while looking at the pictures in (but never reading) People magazine. Our blood pressure would sure be lower if we were in that crowd. We’d have a lot more free time if we didn’t spend all waking hours on politics.
But, America is worth fighting for, as we’ve noted in other posts today. It feels like this is, indeed, our hour to serve. Like it or not, it’s your time to step up to the plate as well. What we THINK is happening, quietly, without the MSM even noticing, is that Americans are slowly organizing to take back this country from the Liberals. The GOP is not doing this. The RNC is not behind it. It’s coming from the PEOPLE. We would not be at all surprised if sometime in late 2010, early 2011, there’s a march on Washington in the millions and Congress is actually overtaken and occupied by the people. The military will not fire on American citizens. It seemed an impossibility just a few months ago, but we are starting to believe there’s a real chance the government could be dissolved in the next two years if public anger grows enough. The government only has the power it wields because the people have granted it that power.
When elected officials pass legislation in secret, in the dead of night, against the will of their consituents in efforts to deprive them of their rights and force them to buy things they do not want to while enriching the Senators themselves, that’s tyranny — and possibly treason.
We pledge to find some way in 2010 to work even harder than we do now, researching, writing, organizing, and revving Americans up to take back our government from the Liberals hellbent to destroy it on George Soros’ orders. This is definitely not what we want to be doing with our lives right now. But, it sure looks like it needs to be done.
Go watch Return of the King and be inspired. We’re going to play it tonight when we get home.
Things are bad. They will get worse in 2010. But something’s going to happen, we can feel it, where the country rises up at large and sets things right again. Soros will fail like Sauron before him, and heroes will arise to save this country from the fools who seek to destroy it.
We hope many of you out there are in the ranks of those heroes.
Senator Roland Burris has lost our support: No one gives money to ACORN and deserves any help from us
We will continue to like Roland Burris as a man, because we know him here in Chicago and know he is a good man. He has long been a friend to LGBTQ causes, and we will never forget that.
But, from today forward, we will no longer support him politically — we can’t, because he is working to get funding for ACORN in the Utopiacare Healthcare Rationing Bill.
ACORN is a trump card for us…if anyone stands with ACORN, and actively helps it get taxpayer money, that fact trumps anything we personally felt about the person before the ACORN-enabling. ACORN is one of the greatest threats to democracy in this country — it is a vile, destructive cancer.
It appears ACORN has roared back stronger than ever before, after being momentarily attacked a few months back. Democrats are proving themselves to be the party of corruption by their consistent support of ACORN.
We call upon Republicans to renew their assault on ACORN — destroying it in all its forms should be Priority Number One in 2010.
America is under assault from all sides in this Administration.
Liberals want to do to the nation what they did to Detroit
H/t Redstate
Watch this video and share with everyone you know.
Liberals ran Detroit into the ground, making it The Most Terrible Place on Earth.
This is what they will do to the whole country if you let them.
Somewhere in Europe, George Soros laughs, as all his wildest dreams come true.
Photoshop Challenge: Jokerize all 60 Democrats in the Senate
H/t Katie for the great job...just 58 more needed!
We love that Missourians have Jokerized Claire McCaskill and images of her as the Joker are appearing all over the state. The same needs to be done to every single Democrat voting for the Heatlhcare Rationing Bill.
The reason we are so up in arms about this is the way this legislation was handled: no bill this important, with nation-changing provisions, should be crafted in secret and voted on in the dead of night in the face of great public outrage.
There are 60 Democrats who are voting to cut off debate so this monstrosity can be shoved through the Senate before Christmas.
This is wrong.
It is a bill too important to not be debated properly, to not consider the public’s wishes on. Every Democrat in the Senate has the opportunity to do the right thing and vote against this so that a new bill could be crafted, out in the open, with complete transparency and none of the bribes worked in for Chris Dodd, Ben Nelson, Mary Landrieu and others.
As we have stated before, we do not believe anyone who votes for this monstrosity should be re-elected. That means we’re going to have to start opposing people we’ve long supported.
So be it.
We consider it a dereliction of their duties to allow Harry Reid to force this through the Senate in the dead of night. Any one of these people have the opportunity to do the right thing and stop this madness…so if they insist on voting party lines, then they all become Jokers like McCaskill.
From this week forward, Joker photos thus should be the only things ever used for any of them.
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Reports from Schakowsky and Durbin offices in Illinois
We highly encourage you to not just make phone calls to tell your Congressional delegations how upset you are with the way the Senate’s Healthcare Rationing bill has been handled, but to actually go to your Congress members’ and Senators’ field offices near you and tell them in person how disgusted you are.
Even if these people are committed Liberals who don’t give a damn about you or what you think, you can still rattle their staff and hopefully, if enough people out there do this, make the staff ultimately put the fear of God into the Congress critters and Senators.
Today, we went to Jan Schakowsky’s field office on Broadway here in Chicago and Dick Durbin’s Senate field office…we wanted to hit Roland Burris’ and Goveror Quinn’s offices, too, but ran out of time.
Obviously, we weren’t expecting to be treated nicely or even listened to by these people. We’ve dealt with Schakowsky before, and have told you that she, personally, and her entire staff are rude, nasty, and imperious people. There is no better word to describe them than vile. Schakowsky ran a skeleton crew today, and we didn’t get any further than the reception desk. No staffer would meet with us in a conference room, despite our insistance that as our Congressional rep, her staff has an obligation to. We were told, repeatedly, that “Congresswoman Schakowsky wins this district with 80% of the vote. She runs unopposed in the primaries. It doesn’t matter how mad you are, she’s never going to lose her seat so you coming here doesn’t matter. She supports this bill, Democrats all support this bill, this is a Democrat seat so there’s nothing else to say about this”.
This is the attitude Schakowsky’s staff always has. It’s like dealing with Madame Du Barry’s retainers…Schakowsky is the very epitome of entitlement, with an intense disdain for the general public. She also happens to be married to convicted felon Robert Creamer, who went on a bank fraud and check kiting crime spree earlier this decade, and served a stint in federal prison for it. Currently, he’s at his Congresswoman wife’s side, working with her on the Democrats’ Healthcare Rationing push (a plan he worked on while in prison, actually).
Dick Durbin’s office showed more class and the receptionist was at least polite, but we didn’t get a meeting with his staff either. They were, however, stunned the public’s coming forward to express outrage. It didn’t appear this happens much in the federal office building downtown. Schakowsky’s office is right on a main street in Chicago, with a door opening right onto the street, so more people seem to stop by randomly.
Neither office appeared to appreciate the public stopping by to tell them how terrible they are.
We believe if this became a daily occurance for them, the staff wouldn’t be able to handle it. Phones were ringing like crazy in the background in both offices, and the staff seemed frazzled and harried, definitely on edge.
We’re telling you, if a massive national effort was made in every state to keep showing up at these offices, it would drive these people crazy.
Jan Schakowsky, Robert Creamer, and Dick Durbin have not won yet. We plan on going back again and again in the days ahead, with as many people as we can, making it clear Democrats have really crossed a line this time.
Whatever you think of the Healthcare Rationing Bill, as an American you should be upset about the way this was all handled. This legislation was written in secret and is being passed in the dead of night. There has been no debate, no transparency, and no consideration for what the public wants. These are aristocrats ruling by fiat, working off plans drawn up by a felon in prison.
Democrats like Schakowsky insist their seats are safe and that no matter what they do they’ll always win re-election for as long as they want. In Illinois, the GOP rarely mounts any sort of actual challenge to this woman. It’s a damn shame, because she’s so terrible at everything she does if the election was actually contested by someone decent she’d probably lose.
The GOP in Illinois, however, can’t seem to wrap it’s head around this.
Mystery of the Day: Why isn't Rudy Giuliani running for Senate or NY Governor?
We have a friend in Florida with whom it is always Giuliani this, and Giuliani that. He loves this man and would probably go gay for him if Rudy ever asked. On this we most definitely agree to disagree.
Personally, we have never in our lives liked this man. He became a weird national hero after 9/11, when we never felt he deserved to be: the Giuliani administration repeatedly refused to buy the police and fire departments the radio equipment they wanted that would have cut down on the miscommunication between the two branches…and miscommunication and faulty radios led to more deaths than they should have on that awful day. Giuliani also located the NYC emergency response center in the Trade Center, which was beyond foolish after the complex was already attacked once in 1993. Giuliani has always surrounded himself with the most blatant and shameless crooks — more so than even the current president. And then there’s what he did to his wife Donna Hanover: telling the mother of his children he’s divorcing her in a press conference. And that was after using city resources to squire his mistress Judith around — a woman who worked as a surgical sales rep ripping puppies’ stomachs open so she could demonstrate new advances in sutures.
Our friend in Florida doesn’t care about any of this, and is a Giuliani fan and always will be. So, we respect that. We’ve just never felt, nationally, that voters would be so forgiving of him. We also think the GOP base would sit a national election out, in greater numbers than they did with McCain, if Giuliani was ever on a ticket. No man who’s ever appeared willingly in drag will get the conservatives to support him in an election. Hear that, Charlie Crist?
But, Giuliani could have taken Kirsten Gillibrand out in 2010. We have no doubt he would have won that race. Because of Gillibrand’s support for the Healthcare Rationing bill, we no longer care what happens to her…and though we would never campaign to help Giuliani, we do want to see every Democrat voting for the Rationing Bill to be booted from the Senate with great prejudice by voters.
So, why isn’t Giuliani running?
Why is he letting Rick Lazlo take the governor’s race (where Lazlo will most surely lose)?
In our gut, it feels like Giuliani’s cancer is back…and he doesn’t have a lot of time left and knows it. He was here in Chicago recently for an event and looked like death walking. We hope that’s not the case, but for an ambitious man to give up the chance to add “Senator” to his resume with relatively little effort, SOMETHING big must be happening behind the scenes.
There are a lot of people who aren’t getting into races in 2010 that would seem to have easy walks of it. Maybe they don’t want to be in office having to deal with the next wave of economic disasters on the horizon. It will NOT be an easy time to govern in the next few years, that’s for sure.
But Giuliani’s decision with the Senate seat is the real head-scratcher, because he could have easily taken the Senate seat for two years, then not run for re-election in 2012 when the seat’s up for grabs again. He would have received a Congressional pension from that, and would have won the title “Senator Giuliani” for the rest of his life.
Why pass that up?
We wonder.
Every Democrat who votes to ration healthcare is a Joker
This image should be put everywhere possible throughout Missouri for the next two years
VIA GatewayPundit
Claire McCaskill, the second worst Senator alive today, is stirring rebellion in Missouri.
Across the state, images of Claire Bear as The Joker are popping up…caused by Missourians angry at her refusal to stop the government rationing of healthcare through Harry Reid’s dead of night, top secret, forced legislation.
Every single Democrat voting for this monstrous bill is a Joker.
This is not how legislation should be passed. This is not the American way. This is how the Soviet Union and banana republics operated.
McCaskill is not up for re-election until 2012, but we hope Missouri does not forget what she has done by then.
We are all Batman today…and need to work hard to put McCaskill and her band of thugs out of business in 2010, 2012, and 2014…until every last one of The Gang of 60 is defeated.
Every. Last. One. Of. Them.
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UPDATE: Some of you wonder why Claire McCaskill is now just the Second-Worst Living Senator. Previously, she has been listed as the Worst Living Senator in our book. Harry Reid, in our opinion, nudged her out of her title a few weeks back when he started calling opponents of Healthcare Rationing RAAACISTS, and said that opposing what he was doing with this secret, middle of the night legislation was tantamount to supporting slavery. That is so wrong, so inappropriate, and so patently INSANE that we couldn’t help but list him as the Worst of the Worst. McCaskill will, no doubt, regain her title in November 2010 when Reid is booted from office…and she will retain that title until she, too, is removed from the Senate in 2012.
