> > Bob Calco wrote: > >> Hi Bob! > >> > >> Tell the truth, did you attend your local R party meeting the last > time > >> it was held? > > > > No. > > Hi Bob! > > Well, then . . . > > You could attend once in a while. Find out what is actually going on in > the party and perhaps even influence it.
Once in a while I do. You asked about the last meeting. I actually have been pretty embarrassed to be a Republican lately. Republicans no longer stand for anything, having sold their principles down the drain and become the party of Me-Too Fascism Lite even before the current crisis. Just bring us our local pork, we'll turn a blind eye to your shredding of the Constitution, Mr. President. When McCain came out railing against AIG, sounding no different than Obama, I got a call from the RNC asking for money. I told them there was no way in hell I was wasting another penny on the party until they cleaned house and rediscovered their testicles. Yes I actually said that. They obviously don't want my money. So that's where we stand. They're still neutered and I'm still feeling orphaned. Steel had a chance to impress me but so far has been a dud. What is going on at the national level right now is appalling. The sky really is falling, constitutionally speaking. And few if any Republicans are even trying to stop it. True, vote wise they can't, but at least show some spunk. The latest "listening tour" by a bunch of RINOs designed to rebrand us as the hip socialist alternative party made my stomach crawl. Where are the Daniel Websters and Patrick Henry's and Paul Reveres when we need them today? Not in the GOP, apparently. I warned last year Obama was all about nationalization and wealth redistribution, that he didn't give two wits about protecting and defending the Constitution. Everyone told me "no way he'd do that." Well here we are a little over 100 days into his presidency, and already he owns the big banks, is telling the little banks how much they can pay people, and is gobbling up auto companies as if the whole effort to swallow up American industry was some kind of PhD project at Community Organizer University. Chavez didn't even move that fast. He is using this (Cloward-Piven manufactured) crisis and every other crisis, real or perceived, to move an agenda that is hell-bent on destroying what's left of our constitutional safeguards, because fundamentally he hates them. They are obstacles to the kind of "progress" he thinks we need. Somehow, in Obama's world, our Constitution protects enemy combatants hell-bend on destroying us, but it doesn't protect bank executives or local car dealerships from government thuggery. He's even said as much -- it's on audio, but like everything else he says and does, if it's bad news its inadmissible as evidence of his intent. We only want the fluff that emphasizes his glorious blackness and handsome hipness, not the ominous substance of his troubling words and deeds. He is creating a cult of personality around himself designed to undermine the rule of law and bring us closer to the ideals embraced by his buddy Bill Ayers and their mutual friend Hugo Chavez, and their admirers in Europe--ideals of totalitarian command and control and extermination of the opposition. The Republican party is too afraid to call him what he is, an aspiring if not de facto totalitarian thug, and engage in all-out political war with him, because they care more about their image in the media than they do what's happening to our country and our way of life. The focus is still on "How can we do better in the next election by adopting 'moderate' socialist positions?" instead of "How can we save the Republic from this headlong national suicide?" Obama knows that he can get away with wrecking everything early on because it's still politically palatable to repeat the lie that all of the current woes are singularly George Bush's fault, instead of a shared bipartisan fiasco or national bipolar moment, which is what it really is. So he's taking a wrecking ball to all of it---our national deficit, our banking system and money supply, our remaining manufactures, taking all of it out at the kneecaps, so that he can later justify the draconian measures his very actions will ostensibly require to fix it, and buy time to put his command-and-control policies in place in as many sectors of the economy as possible. By then people won't remember how it all happened, and it will still be George Bush's fault. They're going to keep that meme alive well beyond it's normal half-life, and they can do it because they already own the media, which fawns over him in the most embarrassing way. Republicans ought to be sounding alarm bells and organizing to fight, not belly aching about their electoral situation and trying to remake themselves in the mirror image of Barack Obama. My whole point in posting the article about Dick Cheney's charitable giving is that these political "memes" -- about how stingy, mean and rotten he is, for example, or how righteous, caring and generous Al Gore is -- are controlling our politics because as a body politic we've completely lost our bearings. We treat politics like it's a reality TV show, and respond to good PR packaging even if it's a demonstrable lie; and soon this propensity for falsehood over truth is going to cost us our liberty and our prosperity for a generation or more. - Bob > > Regards, > > Pete _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
