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| The Collapse of a Rotten Edifice |
| 2011-06-07 |
| Nemesis is always hot on the trail of hubris, across time and space, and the goddess has been particularly busy in destroying the carefully crafted images of Bono, John Edwards, Timothy Geithner, Al Gore, Eliot Spitzer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Anthony Weiner, and a host of others. What do their tax hypocrisies, sexual indulgences, and aristocratic socialist lifestyles all have in common? Collectively, they represent a self-appointed or elected global elite that oversees, lectures about — in sanctimonious fashion — the ethical responsibilities of the redistributive state. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #6 Frank, FDR was re-elected after it was (should have been) obvious his policies were not working. Scared sheeple will elect those who tell them it will be even worse if the other guy wins. And the one thing Zero has succeeded in doing is generating a majority of scared sheeple. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2011-06-07 21:08 |
| #5 not so sure. A lot of his voter support was a novelty and a repudiation of racism accusations: "if you don't vote for him, you're a racist". Now we know he's an incompetent socialist f*ck with bad advisors and out of touch czars. "Are you better off than you were 4 yrs ago" will be a strong argument, as will "he may not have meant to harm the economy, national security, foreign policy...but if he did, what would he have done different?" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-06-07 18:44 |
| #4 Any country stupid enough to elect Obama once is stupid enough to re-elect him. Yes, Anguper. Sad but way too true. |
| Posted by: Bugs Ghibelline6228 2011-06-07 18:40 |
| #3 Every congresscritter, every appointed official, and every "bureaucrat" above a GS-9 should remember that every day of their lives. The problem IMHO seems to be more with that huge percentage that supported Obama in 2008, and in a smaller sphere, the percentage that keeps re-electing Barney Frank. As best I can tell from reading, most of them are still out to lunch. Any country stupid enough to elect Obama once is stupid enough to re-elect him. The redistributive state will continue until there is nothing left to redistribute. That's when the civil unrest will start. The US still has a chance, but it diminishes month by month. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-06-07 13:25 |
| #2 Our entire government, from the "President" down to about the GS-9 level is rotten and needs to be excised and cast aside. Our current government is about three times the size it should be. We, the PEOPLE, need to ensure it's downsized. We also need to make it harder for government to grow after we've severely pruned it. The soapbox is still available, and we need to use it more often, and more effectively. The ballot box seems to be working in the direction we want it to. If all else fails, there's always the cartridge box, and there are ten or twelve million of us that are capable and experienced in using it. Every congresscritter, every appointed official, and every "bureaucrat" above a GS-9 should remember that every day of their lives. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2011-06-07 13:13 |
| #1 Compare wid FREEREPUBLIC > [James] CARVILLE: THERE WILL BE CIVIL UNREST [uprisings in US?] - OVER THE ECONOMY. Dare the Motherly Commie Airborne arrive in time to save Amerika + our sacred National Communism from Amerika + Communism??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-06-07 03:27 |