A Plea to my Countrymen

First of all, I just need to say--for those who have been asleep for the past year--that Harry Reid is a disgrace and an embarrassment. This gnat of a man actually suggested that America was losing the War in Iraq. No, I'm not talking about earlier in the summer; I'm talking about this week. Captain Ed put it perfectly so I will not try and improve on his description:

Harry Reid doesn't know when to give up, or more precisely, when to give up on giving up. After spending the last several months trying to live down his declaration of America's defeat in Iraq on the Senate floor, Reid once again gave al-Qaeda a propaganda boost that sounds as if he took it from Ayman al-Zawahiri's latest video message:

Indeed, Republicans have gotten their way in the battle over spending, have forced Democrats to jettison rollbacks of tax breaks for oil companies, and have beaten back attempts to pay for expanded children's health care programs with a tobacco tax increase. Even though they're in the minority, the GOP, backed by President Bush, has used the filibuster to block Democratic priorities over and over this fall.

"Who's winning?" Reid asked a group of reporters. "Big Oil, Big Tobacco. ... Al Qaeda has regrouped and is able to fight a civil war in Iraq. ... The American people are losing."

Really? I realize that Reid spends most of his days in denial, but even the media has dropped this meme. The Petraeus surge has driven AQ to the brink of complete disaster in Iraq, so much so that many of them have shifted to Pakistan. The level of violence in Iraq has starkly decreased, avoiding the "civil war" that Reid seems eager to declare.

Remember Hillary's insult to David Petraeus involving a willful suspension of disbelief? Reid must have a willful suspension of reality.

OK, now that the despicable Mr. Reid has been dealt with, I have a real need to get a few things off my chest here because I am literally about to bust and the holidays are coming. This is my outlet for this kind of stuff, so for those readers who like heavy links and less commentary, tonight is going to be something else. I am angry, and I am not going to over edit this; sometimes you just need to let things fly for a bit of catharsis, so here goes nothing:

First of all, let's stop pretending; these are not Democrats in the traditional mold. That party is long gone. These are out-and-out Socialists, who spit on the Constitution every single day, who use filibusters to bury circuit judges (also unprecedented, but what goes around will come around...) who continue the insanity of trying the same thing (surrender) over and over again, and expecting a different result.

I truly have never been so disgusted in my entire life at a group of so called "statesmen" trying to tear my country apart at the seams; I thought I had seen it all but this is--quite simply--a "renegade" Congress; renegade as in a Clear and Present Danger to the Constitution, to the economy, to our standing in the world, and to our very lives.

They are running Medicare and Social Security into bankruptcy, yet we are supposed to entrust them to take care of all our medical care? Are you kidding me? We already have one of the highest corporate tax rates in the entire world (except countries like Zimbabwe; and that's worked out real well for them hasn't it...)--which has already served to send thousands of American jobs overseas--yet what are the Socialist Presidential candidates doing in the name of pandering to the race-baiting class warfare vote? They want to tax American corporations higher. Yeah, that's the ticket. Let's send even more jobs overseas to more foreign corporations as the stocks of our corporations plunge and unemployment soars. Because that is the only way American businesses will be able to stay afloat in a hostile Socialist environment. Hey, but at least we'll all be able to stand in line for six months to see a doctor!

Take the energy companies: they won't let our energy companies have access to our own boundless sources of energy--which of course would both lower oil prices AND our dependence on foreign oil--so we don't have to pay our enemies for it.

But no, we can't possibly go that route: didn't you hear, the sky is falling, the end of the world is nigh. They have only been saying that for about the last 2000 years--but this time they mean it. They haven't proven a damn thing--but my how they try and "play on our fears" (hey! that's Al Gore's line...) at every turn: "We will all be underwater in 50 years", they say. And they have been proven wrong by the science.

Here is a question I heard posed on Hewitt's show the other night and it is a powerful one: If they really believed the world was about to end if we don't do something drastic, then why in the world would they continue to block nuclear energy? Again: if they actually believed that the world were really coming to an end? Hmmm? Why did THIS "Gloom and Doom" Congress keep a proposal to dramatically shift our reliance to nuclear energy to heat and cool a much greater majority our homes and cities OUT of their energy bill, if moving forward with it would clearly DRAMATICALLY reduce CO2 emissions and thus do more to "save the planet" than any other thing we are doing or could do? Just ponder that for a moment.

No, instead they block nuclear energy, hell, they block American energy companies at every turn, they keep us from getting the plentiful oil out of our own ground--and then they cry "wolf" and "profiteering" when oil prices go through the roof!

And what is the Socialists' grand idea to fix this problem? Why to raise corporate taxes on the very companies whose job it is to make us energy independent! The same companies who are trying to put research dollars into alternatives even as they also try to wean us off of the tit of Arab oil--which fund weapons and terror to be used against us.

It is madness.

And yet the brain dead American public, led on by the brain dead Socialists in our "compassionate" government and media is buying The Great Lie hook, line and sinker. And buying the propaganda blaming the Republicans for the Democrats' own policies in action--or the result of the Socialists' attempts to block the Republicans at every turn from getting us out of this Godawful mess.

And it isn't just corporate taxes--they want more of your money too. You folks reading this out there might not know it, but if you have a decent job now, you are "the rich" that the class warriors are targeting. What do they care, these "mouthpieces" who have private jets to fly them to Helsinki and Save the Planet concerts and Bali conferences. They have 30,000 square foot houses who burn more energy in a month than most of us burn into an entire year. And these are the people speaking for the "common man"??? Are the Kennedy's "common"? Gore? Soros? The Clintons? Obama? Oprah? Edwards? Angelina freaking Jolie? These guys "feel our pain". Who the hell are they kidding?

What do these gazillionaire "feel gooders" care if the mindless non-productive bureaucrats soak up every last penny of our money. They have millions. We won't have any money to buy gifts or medical care, or vacations, or products that keep Americans empolyed, or to otherwise try and live the good life--but they won't have to trifle with such problems. They all have their nest egg--much of it from ill-gotten gain or money under the table. But who cares, right? Just think of all the other countries who will love us now--because their companies will then be getting all of our jobs. What kind of world are we setting up for our children and grandchildren?

If you didn't have a good answer on the "what do they care" question, it is pretty apparent: "they" could care less what happens to you. Because the ugly truth is that the less power (read: "money") you have over your own lives means the more dependent you will be on THEM. And power is their holy grail; they thirst for nothing less than power over every single aspect of your lives. More rules to tell you how you can and cannot live, what you can and cannot say, who you can and cannot offend by offering a freaking opinion--something much better Americas than these cretins gave their lives to protect.

Talk to a person from Eastern Europe. Ask them about living under state Socialism. Once they finish laughing at you they will say something like: "why in the hell do you think that we--and the entire rest of the world is trying to come to America? Yet you dumb Americans are tying to emulate that model of colossal failure??" And they will look at you like you are insane. Because you are--like it or not--a part of a collective insanity that threatens us all.

France has seen the light. Sweeden has seen the light. Ireland has seen the light. Those countries are reducing corporate taxes (some, like Japan pay NO corporate tax). Those societies can't wait to actually experience real economic growth and get away from the nightmare of socialism. But we can't even see past the last episode of The View or Oprah or E!

How proud our forefathers must be of us. Here, in the greatest experiment of capitalism, individual (not collective) rights and freedom that has ever existed on this Earth--we have a real nightmare in the making. And it is not as bad as I make it sound, it is worse; because this bunch of dogmatic anti-capitalist, anti-military, anti-freedom, anti-freedom of religion, anti-growth Marxists are in very great danger of consolidating even more power next year. All they have to do is to pull the wool over the eyes of enough zombie-like American "feel good, think not" automatons, who refuse to use the grey matter between their ears to think for themselves--perferring instead to go along to get along with this magnificent culture of celebrity debauchery we seem to worship--with the help of a willing media; and they get to enslave the rest of us. And I guess the bonus prize for this mental vacuity is that we all get to be flushed down the cosmic septic tank with the rest of them.

Unless we take it back.

Folks, we have got to stop this madness. We have got to pull up our bootstraps, put on our War gear and get out there and fight for what our Founding Fathers and many since have fought and died to give us. Because it is being stolen from right under our noses. And if we don't stand up now, I'm afraid four years from now will be too late. It is time for us to pick up the baton of sacrifice and to support the only party in America that can put a stop to this madness. That means giving to your candidates. That means volunteering for your candidates. That means not being too damn shy to argue with your mind-numbed liberal friends about the danger we are in. Not relying on others to do it. YOU do it. It is your country--to win or to lose. Franklin's remark in 1787 has never been more true: "A Republic...if you can keep it."

Personally, I think it is worth keeping.

I will close this rant with a few quotes from a three of the greatest speeches ever made, given by a great man who stood up against the forces of appeasement in the darkest days of the Battle of Britain:

• I hope that any of my friends and colleagues, or former colleagues, who are affected by the political reconstruction, will make allowance, all allowance, for any lack of ceremony with which it has been necessary to act. I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."

  We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim?

  I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. Let that be realised; no survival for the British Empire, no survival for all that the British Empire has stood for, no survival for the urge and impulse of the ages, that mankind will move forward towards its goal. But I take up my task with buoyancy and hope. I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among men. At this time I feel entitled to claim the aid of all, and I say, "come then, let us go forward together with our united strength."

• "I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once again able to defend our Island home, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone.

  At any rate, that is what we are going to try to do. That is the resolve of His Majesty's Government-every man of them. That is the will of Parliament and the nation.

  The British Empire and the French Republic, linked together in their cause and in their need, will defend to the death their native soil, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength.

  Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail.

  We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France,
  we shall fight on the seas and oceans,
  we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be,
  we shall fight on the beaches,
  we shall fight on the landing grounds,
  we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
  we shall fight in the hills;
  we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old."

• Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.

  Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.

  Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'
  

We could do worse right now than to heed the words of Winston Churchill.

UPDATE: Obama is serving Kool-Aid too.