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2008-10-28 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by tipper 2008-10-28 03:40|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 I can give another reason. For writers like this, that don't get it, I will use Sesame Street language. Todays letter is the letter M.

Media malfeasance marketing messiahs mark the media malignant,
makes media's market mark the messiah mainly and mostly malodorous.

Posted by Bunyip 2008-10-28 04:30|| 2008-10-28 04:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Hurrah for Bunyip! :-D

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-10-28 04:45|| 2008-10-28 04:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Amen, Bunyip. However, this article might be better title "Eight Reasons Why We Need All the Chicago Voters - Dead or Alive - to Vote".

Posted by Bobby 2008-10-28 05:47|| 2008-10-28 05:47|| Front Page Top

#4 setting up their excuses early?

Posted by Betty 2008-10-28 06:46|| 2008-10-28 06:46|| Front Page Top

#5 What about the letter N? That's what Murtha is saying in code.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2008-10-28 06:56|| 2008-10-28 06:56|| Front Page Top

#6 We can only hope and pray that The Chosen One (TM) and his followers get a cream pie in the face next week. Else, many R-Burgers may eventually find themselves sentenced to change.

Posted by Uncle Phester 2008-10-28 08:54|| 2008-10-28 08:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Unfortunately, O-man is going to win. Have all you Rantburg guys figured out where you are going into hiding? After Backdoor Barney Frank cuts the military budget by 25% and we have to pull our troops back to the Potomac, what are you guys going to do?

Posted by Carbon Monoxide">Carbon Monoxide 2008-10-28 09:46|| 2008-10-28 09:46|| Front Page Top

#8 I have total confidence that a team of President Obama and Speaker Nancy Pelosi can, in their first hundred days, alienate enough people to lose their majority in 2010 and lose the presidency in 2012.

Posted by Darrell 2008-10-28 09:56|| 2008-10-28 09:56|| Front Page Top

#9 Don't count your chitlins while the hogs is still run'n CM.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-10-28 09:59|| 2008-10-28 09:59|| Front Page Top

#10 "lose the presidency in 2012."

Not a chance. The fairness doctrine will silence talk radio. It will, eventually, be applied to folks like you. When this happens, there will be a series of events that will be blamed on "right wing extremists" that will "necessitate" a state of emergency. All of your property will be seized. There will be "camps" for "re-education". It will pretty much be patterned after the Rhodesia-Zimbabwe transition. And Obama (Peace be Upon Him) will be there for good.

Posted by Carbon Monoxide">Carbon Monoxide 2008-10-28 10:54|| 2008-10-28 10:54|| Front Page Top

#11 Don't worry CM. We can always cross the Rubicon.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-10-28 10:56|| 2008-10-28 10:56|| Front Page Top

#12 Rubicon. We will need grassroots in the Military. We might start by setting up PR teams in major off base Military towns. Helping with jobs and Food Stamps for the NCO's who will want to take care of their families. Learning which men in the key units are our people. That sort of thing. Approach senior Officers to sound them out. Choose leaders.

Wouldnt it be delicious to see Obama lose next week? Pride and arrogance make a man too confident. I would like to see a "Whaahhtt ?" on his face. And then we call a cab for him and shut the door.

Posted by Angleton9 2008-10-28 11:37|| 2008-10-28 11:37|| Front Page Top

#13 You guys will just have stubs if you keep hand-wringing this way for another week.

Posted by Darrell 2008-10-28 11:43|| 2008-10-28 11:43|| Front Page Top

#14 Seven Days in May.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2008-10-28 12:46|| 2008-10-28 12:46|| Front Page Top

#15 9, I'd like to see more details on the Rubicon plan. (Just in case.)

Posted by Hellfish 2008-10-28 12:58|| 2008-10-28 12:58|| Front Page Top

#16 For a totalitarian takeover to succeed, the prime requirements are a submissive, splintered, and uninformed populace. Americans are by nature and nurture activist, self-organizing and know how to inform themselves on subjects of interest -- which means they can turn that skill to new interests. Nor are those charged with enforcing the law likely to enforce property seizure from select groups or mass seizure of persons for educational purposes -- both the Left and the Right teach that "just following orders" never excuses wrong behaviour, nor are there anything close to the numbers of careerists that would be necessary to suppress refusal in the ranks to get blatantly unjust actions enforced.

Finally, the control of information. A great many IT people are more or less libertarian; they tend to become highly creative when challenged, as they would be were an Obama government to try to shut down the free flow of information on the internet, China-style. Then, too, there are fax machines everywhere -- how to control high-pitched squeals over the phone lines?; private printers attached to personal computers, which make Samizdata documents so much easier to disburse than the methods used in the Soviet Union; and enough citizens have personal experience living under totalitarian rule to quickly start up a nationwide underground -- my own mother was a runner for the Dutch Underground, a friend of hers from that time who forged documents under her father's direction is now a professor emeritus at a nearby university... not to mention how many of the generations of retired military have training that would be useful in forming an underground to suborn any attempt to keep the populace ignorant and compliant. All sorts of nefarious plots can be hatched over beer at a VA post by men and women innocently reminiscing about the past.

It won't happen here because there are too many of us who won't let it. America really is different.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-10-28 13:05|| 2008-10-28 13:05|| Front Page Top

#17 Nice catch Jack. from the movie:

President Jordan Lyman: [to reporters at a televised press conference] There's been abroad in this land in recent months a whisper that we have somehow lost our greatness, that we do not have the strength to win without war the struggles for liberty throughout the world. This is slander, because our country is strong, strong enough to be a peacemaker. It is proud, proud enough to be patient. The whisperers and the detractors, the violent men are wrong. We will remain strong and proud, peaceful and patient, and we will see a day when on this earth all men will walk out of the long tunnels of tyranny into the bright sunshine of freedom.
[president exits; reporters stand and applaud]
Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, that was the President of the United States.

Sound like anyone we know?

Posted by Besoeker 2008-10-28 13:06|| 2008-10-28 13:06|| Front Page Top

#18 You guys will just have stubs if you keep hand-wringing this way for another week.

Not hand-wringing. Just in wait-and-see mode. I don't expect this to be even close to over until January. With all the voter fraud and suing that will take place. This election really has the potential to send this country straight into civil war with all the illegal shit going on.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-10-28 13:26|| 2008-10-28 13:26|| Front Page Top

#19 Well, I for one am hand-wringing.

TW, don't underestimate the power of the Left. I've seen perfectly good professors drummed out of their careers and ruined (despite being elected teacher of the year several years running, despite being widely published, despite bringing millions of research dollars into their university) by deconstructionists of the ilk of Ayers and Obama (and Pelosi, Reid, Dean, Clinton, etc.)--and the "good" people do nothing--they do nothing because they don't really know what's going on behind the scenes and the baddies paint a different picture for public consumption, or the "good" people are just too busy with their own lives and problems to be invested, or the "good" people are confused and don't really understand what's happening and think perhaps there are things they don't know about the victims that make the victim deserving of the actions, or the "good" people are worried over their own position and income.

I'm not going to list the details on a public blog, but it's already happening here. The Chicago/Lakes area is where a lot of this junk originates. It's where the whole term "politically correct" came from.

The other thing is that it's slow. Nothing happens in a big way or quickly, and that's how the Left assumes power.

Posted by ex-lib 2008-10-28 13:37|| 2008-10-28 13:37|| Front Page Top

#20 The world will "change" a lot by 20 Jan 2009, regardless of who wins.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2008-10-28 13:40|| 2008-10-28 13:40|| Front Page Top

#21 where the whole term "politically correct" came from I thought the term originated from Moscow-on-the-Charles.
The other thing is that it's slow. Nothing happens in a big way or quickly Disagree completely with this, at least for the next 12 months. The financial Panic is world-wide, HUGE, and happened very quickly, and it's still in progress. The Panic has completely swamped US politics, and our esteemed elected ones have been behind the times for about a year now, and the new batch will be about as bad.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2008-10-28 13:46|| 2008-10-28 13:46|| Front Page Top

#22 It can't happen here? It is happening here.

Posted by Carbon Monoxide">Carbon Monoxide 2008-10-28 15:24|| 2008-10-28 15:24|| Front Page Top

#23 We Need All the Chicago Voters - Dead or Alive - to Vote

Dead people get a vote, now there's an idea for the Republicans.

Posted by simple pieman 2008-10-28 20:04|| 2008-10-28 20:04|| Front Page Top

#24 How 'bout this letter 'M':

Marxist

Posted by DMFD 2008-10-28 20:21|| 2008-10-28 20:21|| Front Page Top

#25 Just maybe the truth is starting to get through on talk radio, Fox, and the internet. Screw the MSM. Those phony ba$stard jounalists. They shouldn't even be called journalists. I don't know what you call these liars.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-10-28 20:36|| 2008-10-28 20:36|| Front Page Top

#26 Gotta get the Fairness Doctrine past the Roberts Court or else wait until enough of the court is packed.

Most likely to be replaced due to age?

The 2 most liberal justices, Stevens and Ginzbitch who both love to legislate from the bench.

The key is how long Kennedy will last.

Conservative

Roberts 53
Alito 58
Thomas 60
Scalia 72

Swing

Kennedy 72

PlayDoh Constitution

Souter 69
Breyer 70
Ginzbitch 75
Stevens 88

I wish Stevens or Ginzburg would just drop dead and then Bush would get to put one more in there. It would be hilarious - maybe Fred THompson. Hah!

Posted by OldSpook 2008-10-28 23:37|| 2008-10-28 23:37|| Front Page Top

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