The Real Democrat Party

June 10, 2009

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RUSH: I got an e-mail last night from a friend of mine in Detroit at our blowtorch affiliate there, WJR. He said, “Did you talk about this today?” I looked at it and I said, “No.” This was yesterday in the Detroit News, a story by Gordon Trowbridge, who I don’t think wrote the headline, but the headline is: “Right-Wing Radio Hosts Hewitt and Limbaugh Back GM Boycott — A pair of right-wing radio hosts says there’s only one choice for conservatives angry about government involvement in the auto industry: Boycott GM.” Now, for the record, ladies and gentlemen, I don’t do boycotts.  I do not sponsor them; I do not encourage them. I never have.  I think it is media childishness when people start urging boycotts.  I have never, ever done such a thing, and I didn’t do this with General Motors.  All I did, to clarify, was report a poll that said X number of Americans — what was it, 18 or 20% — say they are not going to buy a GM car anymore, after this bailout. Or a Chrysler. They’re not going to do it and then I said after that that I could understand it, and I had received e-mail from people who were not going to buy a car from General Motors anymore and they gave reasons. The reasons I got from people who just sent me e-mails was they don’t want to support Obama’s socialism. They don’t want to support the notion of government running the car companies, and they don’t want to patronize companies that have been bailed out.  People are coming up with this on their own.  I don’t know what the percentage is, but I urged no boycott of GM. General Motors is a sponsor here. (interruption)  I bought a General Motors –   That’s right! I bought a new Suburban last week. I bought one.  This is absolutely absurd.  This is just typical of the irresponsibility of the media.  Now, it just so happens here that I have… Let’s see, there’s one, two… Well, there’s two of them here but I’ve only got one of them.  It’s from the AmericanThinker.com by Gary Jason, “The Ethical Case for Boycotting Chrysler and General Motors.”  Now, I’m not going to read the whole thing to you. We’ll link to it at RushLimbaugh.com.  But it’s different.  This article is almost like a paper that somebody would write in a law school class, but it outlines the moral justifications for never buying a government-owned car. So we’ll link to it at my website so you can see it later on in the program.  But just for the record: I don’t do boycotts. I didn’t encourage one. I never have done so.  The Detroit News — or whoever they get their news from at the Detroit News — got it wrong.

This is literally a “church signs” debate, being played out in a southern town, between the Catholic church and a Presbyterian church that face each other across the street. From top to bottom, you will see the response and counter-response over time. The Catholics are displaying a much better sense of humor. You get the impression that the Presbyterians are actually taking this seriously!

One day, when I was a freshman in high school, I saw a kid from my class was walking home from school.

His name was Kyle.

It looked like he was carrying all of his books.

I thought to myself, “Why would anyone bring home all his books on a Friday?

He must really be a nerd.”

I had quite a weekend planned (parties and a football game with my friends tomorrow afternoon), so I shrugged my shoulders and went on.

As I was walking, I saw a bunch of kids running toward him.

They ran at him, knocking all his books out of his arms and tripping him so he landed in the dirt.

His glasses went flying, and I saw them land in the grass about ten feet from him.

He looked up and I saw this terrible sadness in his eyes.

My heart went out to him.

So, I jogged over to him as he crawled around looking for his glasses, and I saw a tear in his eye.

As I handed him his glasses, I said, “Those guys are jerks. They really should get lives.”

He looked at me and said, ‘Hey thanks!’

There was a big smile on his face.

It was one of those smiles that showed real gratitude.

I helped him pick up his books, and asked him where he lived.

As it turned out, he lived near me, so I asked him why I had never seen him before.

He said he had gone to private school before now.

I would have never hung out with a private school kid before.

We talked all the way home, and I carried some of his books.

He turned out to be a pretty cool kid.

I asked him if he wanted to play a little football with my friends He said yes.

We hung out all weekend and the more I got to know Kyle, the more I liked him, and my friends thought the same of him.

Monday morning came, and there was Kyle with the huge stack of books again.

I stopped him and said, “Boy, you are gonna really build some serious muscles with this pile of books everyday!”

He just laughed and handed me half the books.

Over the next four years, Kyle and I became best friends…

When we were seniors we began to think about college.

Kyle decided on Georgetown and I was going to Duke.

I knew that we would always be friends, that the miles would never be a problem.

He was going to be a doctor and I was going for business on a football scholarship…

Kyle was valedictorian of our class.

I teased him all the time about being a nerd.

He had to prepare a speech for graduation.

I was so glad it wasn’t me having to get up there and speak Graduation day, I saw Kyle.

He looked great.

He was one of those guys that really found himself during high school.

He filled out and actually looked good in glasses.

He had more dates than I had and all the girls loved him.

Boy, sometimes I was jealous!

Today was one of those days.

I could see that he was nervous about his speech.

So, I smacked him on the back and said, ‘Hey, big guy, you’ll be great!’

He looked at me with one of those looks (the really grateful one) and smiled.

“Thanks,” he said.

As he started his speech, he cleared his throat, and began “Graduation is a time to thank those who helped you make it through those tough years. Your parents, your teachers, your siblings, maybe a coach…but mostly your friends…I am here to tell all of you that being a friend to someone is the best gift you can give them…I am going to tell you a story.”

I just looked at my friend with disbelief as he told the story of the first day we met.

He had planned to kill himself over the weekend.

He talked of how he had cleaned out his locker so his Mom wouldn’t have to do it later and was carrying his stuff home.

He looked hard at me and gave me a little smile.

“Thankfully, I was saved. My friend saved me from doing the unspeakable…”

I heard the gasp go through the crowd as this handsome, popular boy told us all about his weakest moment.

I saw his Mom and dad looking at me and smiling that same grateful smile.

Not until that moment did I realize it’s depth.

Never underestimate the power of your actions…

With one small gesture you can change a person’s life.

For better or for worse.

God puts us all in each other’s lives to impact one another in some way.

Look for God in others.

You now have two choices, you can:

1) Pass this on to your friends or

2) Delete it and act like it didn’t touch your heart.

By Dick Voell, former head of the Rockefeller Group

As little as a month ago I would have thrown this in the waste basket; after watching the outright deception of the President re the budget, earmarks, appointment of an Advisory Board (chaired by Volker), and signing off on legislation and forced budget upon Republicans before the Advisory Board even met, I’m having second thoughts.

“Something of Historic Proportion is Happening” by Pam Geller

I am a student of history. Professionally. I have written 15 books in six languages, and have studied it all my life. I think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is just a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes, these exist but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus.

Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about 10 – 15 years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.

We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people whom we know can never pay back? Why? We learn just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has “loaned” two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms. That is our money. Yours and mine. And that is three times the $700B we all argued about so strenuously just this past September.

Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a government of “We the People,” who loaned our powers to our elected leaders… Apparently not.

We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy. Why?

We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, and school boards continue to back mediocrity Why?

We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (now violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that it wants marriage to remain between one man and one woman. Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?). We have corrupted our sacred political process by all owing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way y of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic. To what purpose?

Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, Social Security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and our entire government. Our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and know precisely what I am talking about.) The list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth. It is potentially 1929 x 10. And we are at war with an enemy we cannot name for fear of offending people of the same religion who cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so.

And now we have elected a man no one knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla, Alaska… All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary (Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders? No? Oh, of course. The media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it. Sarah Palin’s pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe is more important.)
Mr. Obama’s winning platform can be boiled down to one word: Change. Why?

I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now. This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again.

And that is only the beginning.

I thought I would never be able to experience what the ordinary, moral German felt in the mid-1930s. In those times, the savior was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they did know was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory and promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his “brown shirts” would bully them into submission.

And then he was duly elected to office, with a full-throttled economic crisis at hand [the Great Depression]. Slowly but surely he seized the controls of government power, department by department, person by person, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The kids j joined a Youth Movement in his name, where they were taught what to think.

How did he get the people on his side? He did it promising jobs to the jobless, money to the moneyless, and goodies for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe, and across the world.

He did it with a compliant media – Did you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and… change. And the people surely got what they voted for. (Look it up if you think I am exaggerating.) Read your history books. Many people objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and made fun of. When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though…

Don’t forget that Germany was the most educated, cultured country in Europe. It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And in less than six years – a shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency – it was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors. All with the best of intentions, of course. The road to Hell is paved with20them.

As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong, close my eyes, have another latte and ignore what is transpiring around me.

Some people scoff at me; others laugh or think I am foolish, naive, or both. Perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly what I believe – and why I believe it. I pray I am wrong.

I do not think I am.

About the author…

Pamela “Atlas” Geller began her publishing career at The New York Daily News and subsequently took over operation of The New York Observer as Associate Publisher.

She left The Observer after the birth of her fourth child but remained involved in various projects including American Associates, Ben Gurion University and being Senior Vice-President Strategic Planning and Performance Evaluation at The Brandeis School.

After 9/11, Atlas had the veil of oblivion violently lifted from her consciousness and immersed herself in the education and understanding of geopolitics, Islam, terror, foreign affairs and imminent threats the mainstream media and the government wouldn’t cover or discuss.

Her website, AtlasShrugged.com , winner of the “Best New Blog” 2005 Jewish and20Israeli Blog Award and finalist in the 2005 Weblog Awards, is a20counter terrorism site fighting the great fight, changing the world one word at a time. Leading authorities are regularly interviewed. She routinely confers with leading scholars on the Middle East, Islam, Eurabia, China and Russia. The objective of her website is to cover related but little reported events of great import. She provides an unblinking, glaring examination of global affairs and is a member of Pajamas Media.

“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.” – Benjamin Franklin

February 3, 2009, Juneau, Alaska – Governor Sarah Palin again today expressed her serious concerns with President Obama’s proposed stimulus package. In a joint letter sent to Alaska’s congressional delegation, Governor Palin, House Speaker Mike Chenault and Senate President Gary Stevens cautioned that unrestrained spending, initiation of new programs that the states may be asked to continue after the federal stimulus is gone, and the borrowing of hundreds of billions of dollars to pay for it may result in serious economic problems in the future.

Governor Palin recently traveled to the nation’s capital to personally express her concerns with the stimulus package with business, economic and political leaders. The trip was not an effort to endorse or lobby for the current stimulus package now before Congress.

“I agree with the decision of Senator Murkowski and Congressman Young to vote NO on the package,” Governor Palin said.

The governor has strongly supported funding for infrastructure that creates good American jobs and will have a positive effect on the nation for generations to come.

“It’s a given that a stimulus package is needed and will happen,” Palin said. “With guaranteed spending on the table, I am arguing for needed construction projects and tax breaks that will truly stimulate the economy and create jobs, and against increased federal programs that will become a state’s unfunded mandate to continue funding for generations.”

Senate President Gary Stevens agreed. “We need the funding but not more federal programs to maintain,” he said. “We need to make wise use of limited state funds.”

House Speaker Mike Chenault added, “The letter addressed to members of Congress and the Alaska Delegation basically tells those members where Alaska sits on the issues of the stimulus package and how it will affect Alaska as far as a funding formula goes. So it just gives them a little bit clearer picture on what the needs are for the state of Alaska in comparison with the rest of the nation.”

Governor Palin and the legislative leadership also highlighted the conventional fuels that Alaska has to offer and the need to find ways the federal government can help bring the state’s clean burning natural gas through a pipeline to the midwest.

A copy of the letter sent to Alaska’s congressional delegation can be found at: http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/StimLegLetter_Feb2-2009.pdf

On this day in 1901, the Alabama Democratic Party called for a convention to write a new state constitution that would prohibit African-Americans from voting.  Despite vocal opposition from Booker T. Washington and other Republican civil rights activists, the Democrat scam succeeded.

Democrats dominated Alabama’s 1901 constitutional convention, and its chairman was a Democrat.  In his opening address, he said:

“If we would have white supremacy, we must establish it by law — not by force or fraud… The negro is descended from a race lowest in intelligence and moral precepts of all the races of men.”

Alabama’s African-American citizens would not vote in appreciable numbers again until the 1950s.  It was a Republican federal judge, Frank Johnson, who in 1956 ruled in favor of Rosa Parks and who in 1965 ordered the Democrat governor, George Wallace, to permit Martin Luther King’s voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery.

At the 2000 Republican National Convention, Condoleezza Rice said:

“The first Republican I knew was my father, and he is still the Republican I most admire.  He joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote.  The Republicans did.  My father has never forgotten that day, and neither have I.”

Democrats do not want Americans to remember that Republicans supported the 1964 Civil Rights Act much more than did the Democrats.

Michael Zak is a popular speaker to Republican organizations around the country.  He is the author of Back to Basics for the Republican Party, cited by Clarence Thomas in a Supreme Court decision.  Each day, the Grand Old Partisan blog celebrates 155 years of Republican heroes and heroics.  See www.RepublicanBasics.com for more information.

h/t: Grand Old Partisan

Dear Freeper,

America needs your help electing John McCain and Sarah Palin as the president and vice president of the United States in November. And you can help.

If you are like me you feel helpless when it comes to media bias. The deck is clearly stacked against conservatives. But now is not the time to hang your head. Now is the time to take action.

First, do not let the media get you down. And if you are like me it’s hard staying up beat and optimistic. But now is not the time for whiners. Now is the time for action.

If you have noticed, the media has been trying to demoralize republicans. And for the most part it has worked. But now after watching the debate last night between Gov. Palin and Senator Biden I am here to tell you we will win.

That’s right, we will win this election. But it’s up to you and me now. It is up to us to turn the tables on the liberals in the media and the democrats. It’s time for you to make every effort possible not to stay silent. In order for bad people to prevail it takes good people to do nothing.

Over the last 2 weeks it became clear to me that our silence is a self feeding paradox. The media spits out bad and depressing news and we get depressed and stay silent. The more depressing news they spit out the more silent we become. And on and on and on…

They sense when they have us on the ropes. But they also sense when we are fighting back which easily brings them to their knees. Just by our silence, the liberals become emboldened. Remember, they are cowards by nature.

How to make a difference? One person does not an Army make. But one forum, Freerepublic’s Freepers, does a formidable fighting force emerge. In numbers we can make a huge difference in the media coverage. Here is how.

Take last nights debate for example, how many of you would be more inclined to write CNN or ABC or CBS if you knew thousands of like minded people did the same thing? I predict almost all of you. And that’s why I am calling on all freepers to take an oath to promise to make at least one correspondence a day with regard to defending conservatism, McCain/Palin or anything else that is vital to America.

I have some good news. It doesn’t take thousands of people to make a difference although it doesn’t hurt. Here’s what I mean.

There is a theory out there amongst people in government and in the media that goes like this. Whenever they get a complaint on an issue. For every one complaint, email, or phone call they receive 1,000 other people who feel the same way didn’t complain, email or make a phone call. Here’s the secret. They do not take complaints serious unless they receive at least 40 calls. Meaning that those 40 complaints roughly represent 40,000 people who feel the same way but didn’t take the time to complain.

That is why I need 40 freepers, at least, to take an oath. Here it is:

I Hereby pledge, that to the best of my ability, that on a daily basis I will write at least one email to a major media outlet expressing my support for conservatism, the McCain/Palin ticket and my belief that the election is all but won by McCain/Palin.

And in my correspondence I will include my strong belief that John McCain will win the Presidency in November and that Sarah Palin is a fantastic Vice Presidential choice with more experience than Barack Obama.

I will not let the media dictate my outlook on this election. And I will do everything I can to make my views public.

I will stand up for my principles every chance I can. And I will not let any attack on McCain or Palin go without response.

This pledge is important for one very simple reason. So that every person who takes it knows they are not alone. And that every time they write an email to CNN or CBS that there is a great chance they are not the only ones. This is highly motivating and very effective. (Keep in mind, if you write an email or send in a comment, the more respectful you are the more impact you’ll have. Especially if the number of respectful emails and comments reach into the hundreds.)

My fellow Freepers, do you recall the way the media was demoralized after the Republican convention? Well it’s time to demoralize them again. And if you think it was just Gov. Palin’s speech that demoralized them you are wrong. It was all the emails and letters they received from people like you and me.

Time to take the gloves off and fight back. Who’s with me?

P.S. I need any help I can get from anybody willing to assist me on this. If you are willing to help or have any suggestions email me at coffee260@gmail.com

On Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, Barack Obama’s chief strategist, David Axelrod, said something profoundly amazing that nobody has picked up on. When discussing the candidates “judgment” Chris Wallace and David Axelrod had this exchange.

WALLACE: On a matter of judgment, the kind of thing that Rick Davis is talking about, wasn’t Obama wrong and McCain right about the troop surge?

AXELROD: Well, first of all, you want to talk about a matter of being profoundly wrong in judgment, it was the judgment to go into Iraq in the first place instead of going after Osama bin Laden, who’s resurgent today. But let’s leave that aside for a second.

What Senator Obama has said is that he believes that the surge reduced violence beyond what he and anybody expected. What it hasn’t done is created the political reconciliation between the parties in Iraq that you need for a stable peace.

WALLACE: Well, let me just pick up…

AXELROD: Hold on, Chris. It has enforced…

WALLACE: How can you say that it has reduced violence beyond what anybody expected? Reduced violence beyond what John McCain expected?

AXELROD: I believe it did. I think if you ask any of the military people involved and they answered honestly, they’d say, “We did not know,” and they got — and there were — the troops did a magnificent job.

General Petraeus deserves credit. But there was some serendipity involved as well in the Sunni “awakening,” in the decision of the Mahdi army to lay down…

WALLACE: Where did John McCain ever say, “The troop surge — I’m going to support it, but I don’t know that it’s going to really work?”

AXELROD: The point is this. We were told that the surge — the purpose of the surge, Chris, was to promote political reconciliation and to shift the responsibility to the Iraqis.

Today we are still spending $10 billion a month to defend Iraq, rebuild — to defend Iraq and rebuild Iraq, even as they have, the Iraqis, a $78 billion, $79 billion budget surplus. That is wrong, and I think the American people know it’s wrong.

And to say that this was a success when we’re still mired there at $10 billion a month, when we still have, you know, over 10,000 troops in Iraq is, I think — really miss the point.

But if we want to talk about judgment, let’s go back to the beginning and ask whether it was the right judgment to go in in the first place.

I understand that Governor Palin would like to talk about this aspect of it, but there’s a much larger discussion to be had about this. And on the broad sweep of things, including whether we should be in Afghanistan or Iraq, Barack Obama’s been right and John McCain has been wrong.

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What does that say about Obama’s judgment when he picks somebody as his running mate that according to his own chief strategist, David Axelrod, has bad judgment? Doesn’t that call into question Obama’s judgment, rather than those who voted for the Iraq war? Barack Obama’s judgment is so poignant and so homed that in his judgment Joe Biden’s judgment on the Iraq war was wrong but not so wrong as to disqualify him for vice president.

And did you notice how Axelrod quickly wanted to change the subject the first time he raised the judgment of voting for the Iraq war as if he knew he’d stepped in it? Wallace had an opportunity to tee off at that point. I would have asked, “What does that say about Obama’s judgment picking someone as his running mate who, according to your own statement, “profoundly wrong in judgment?” What a missed opportunity.