What I Saw at the Tea Party Convention
by PubliusGlenn Reynolds in Saturday’s WSJ:
There were promises of transparency and of a new kind of collaborative politics where establishment figures listened to ordinary Americans. We were going to see net spending cuts, tax cuts for nearly all Americans, an end to earmarks, legislation posted online for the public to review before it is signed into law, and a line-by-line review of the federal budget to remove wasteful programs.
These weren’t the tea-party platforms I heard discussed in Nashville last weekend. They were the campaign promises of Barack Obama in 2008.
Mr. Obama made those promises because the ideas they represented were popular with average Americans. So popular, it turns out, that average Americans are organizing themselves in pursuit of the kind of good government Mr. Obama promised, but has not delivered. And that, in a nutshell, was the feel of the National Tea Party Convention. The political elites have failed, and citizens are stepping in to pick up the slack.
This response has brought millions of Americans to the streets over the past year, and brought quite a few people to the posh Opryland Resort (with its indoor waterfalls and boat rides, it’s like a casino without the gambling) for the convention.
Pundits claim the tea partiers are angry—and they are—but the most striking thing about the atmosphere in Nashville was how cheerful everyone seemed to be. I spoke with dozens of people, and the responses were surprisingly similar. Hardly any had ever been involved in politics before. Having gotten started, they were finding it to be not just worthwhile, but actually fun. Laughter rang out frequently, and when ne w-media mogul Andrew Breitbart held forth on a TV interview, a crowd gathered and broke into spontaneous applause.
A year ago, many told me, they were depressed about the future of America. Watching television pundits talk about President Obama’s transformative plans for big government, they felt alone, isolated and helpless. That changed when protests, organized by bloggers, met Mr. Obama a year ago in Denver, Colo., Mesa, Ariz., and Seattle, Wash. Then came CNBC talker Rick Santelli’s famous on-air rant on Feb. 19, 2009, which gave the tea-party movement its name.
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At last weekend’s inaugural Tea Party Convention, there was much bloviating about “oppressed” Americans “suffering” under the Obama Administration’s “tyranny.” Judge Roy More, former Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, even delivered a rousing sermon comparing our President to King George III, the British ruler overthrown in the American Revolution.
Nothing better illustrates the utter absurdity of these delusions than contrasting the Tea Party with an actual, grassroots, democratic movement created to confront real, rather than imagined, tyranny: Iran's Green Movement.
Armed with camera phones, laptops and an iron will, these courageous individuals communicate their message to the world even without the journalists imprisoned by Ahmadinejad’s repressive regime.
Moreover, while Americans generally use Facebook and Twitter to pour over the excruciating minutae of modern life, the Greens employ these social networking websites to disseminate information, plan operations and mobilize their organization.
Censorship, harassment, intimidation, coercion, mass arrests, public beatings and de-facto executions by government-sponsored death squads. These are the harsh realities of living under tyranny. If the Tea Party movement’s petulant populists want to witness its horrors first-hand, I implore them to purchase a one-way ticket to Tehran. I suspect they’ll be in for a rude awakening.
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"If 2009 was the year of taking it to the streets, 2010 is the year of taking it to the polls. With ordinary Americans setting out to reclaim the political process, it's likely to be a bumpy ride for incumbents of both parties. I suspect the Founding Fathers would approve."
That sure sums it up.
We are awake, we are vigilant, and we are ready.
And you will get the same results you got with Obama if you believe the platitudes without holding the candidates feet to the fire. Obama's actions were entirely predictable from his previous actions. If you put up CFR candidates you will get the same results.
OOOOO a little testy aren't you. Hey we don;t want to get in the same situation as is going on in Tehran, which your affiliates seem to void of the guts to do anything about except promise to sit down and talk. Zero is a real wuss.
Too late, they already have electronic voting. Your vote doesn't count.
We are awake, we are vigilant, and we are ready.
You bet. grab your horse I'll get on the bike. Let's go to D/C and raise hell LOL
Arthur, there you go again, just like the broken clock being right twice a day. That was the first time for you today, but you have an hour yet to go, to ring the bell twice.
I wholeheartedly agree with 100% of the content of your post.
Why do you think Biden is VP? He is in the CFR; he is Obama's "minder", just like in Iraq, or Iran……..
We can't.
Too much Global Warming on the ground.
My horse would slip and fall, and I doubt you have snow tires on your bike.
Perhaps it would be safer if we waited a month or so until the spring thaw.
Perhaps by then, Algore will beout of hibernation.
We could chase his fat azz around the mall a lap or two.
Finally "We The People" is beginning to means something, that the true power of government resides always within the people. and that our "representatives" are now directly answerable to us. Just as the Founding Fathers had planned. My how fortuitous that they often called upon a Higher Power to create our Republic and to make it work. And most important of all, these respected Founding Fathers placed their faith in the common man.
Biden is one mixed up, dumbass "minder"…we need a minder for the minder.
The Tea Partiers are Americans in America exercising their rights. If you don't exercise them, like muscles , you lose them…Freedom… I recommend it.
As a true tea party patriot, can I nomate James Delingpole, a British Journalist for his outstanding, tireless and dedicated work in our defense, while our own 'free press' continues to destroy us with stifling Obama driven censorship?
Can I see some tribute to this guy? Can I see a tribute to the conservatives outside this country, struggling on our behalf?
Here is my favorite Biden photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/1porchlife/411414746...
The caption should read: "I just farted and I think I pooped my britches."
Gotta love Joe, he is more entertaining than Dan Quayle, and I doubt he could spell POTATOe……..
Here is my favorite Biden photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/1porchlife/411414746...
The caption should read: "I just farted and I think I pooped my britches."
Gotta love Joe, he is more entertaining than Dan Quayle, and I doubt he could spell POTATOe……..
Well, my wife just came back tonight from a scrapbooking session with friends of our and fell off her chair when she heard the words "Communism and Socialism are GREAT when implemented properly". Unfortunately it was from our daughters' godmother. UGH! We new they moved left but that was just shocking.
I am going to do all I can to make sure my 3 kids know what the founders intended this country to be and to be self-reliant. I just hope I can counteract whatever they are getting in school.
Can you see a tribute to James Delingpole?
Hell yes, I'll give you a Hell Yes!
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole...
I have been singing his praises for months now, and Breitbart finally has him at the top of the page. Kudos to Breitbart also for taking notice.
There is a lot of free press outside of the MSM here in America, that is awake, and taking notice. The UK Telegraph is awake, as is the Financial Times of London. The whole world is awakening, as is the sleeping giant. The winds of change are upon US.
I would seriously consider homeschooling them.
It is important that the Dem-lite and RINO branches of the Republican party do not take over any leadership in the TPM.
Maybe they were speaking of the plan they have in Alaska that Sarah Palin embraced and even expanded where the residents share the wealth from the oil companies pumping the oil. What is that if not communism? Implemented right and you get to be considered a candidate for the Republican party.
Compare that to the banker bailouts which, though not capitalism, represent what "capitalism" has become in the US. Care to have a poll who is in favor of Palin's communism or banker bailouts? These were the choices of people in other countries and I don't blame them for choosing the former.
Cowboy: JD's appearance reminds me of Ron Reagan Jr….too bad RR Jr. isn't more like JD in politics.
I like Mark Steyn too!
I assumed they already have if Palin is speaking there.
Fonz,
You are wrong, and I have heard enough of your nonsense. You have been spouting that speech for weeks now, about Alaska, the evil oil companies, the evil Sarah Palin and Communism. Nobody has held you to the task and calling you on it, so I will right now. You are an ignorant imbecile. Just because you continue to repeat your rant, does not makeit so.
I happen to have forgot more about the oil business, than you will ever know. When Alaska first leased State acreage for development back in the 50's and 60's, when the oil business was in its infancy there, Alaska was still a frontier. The Alaska Legislature voted, that should oil ever be discovered in commercial quanaties, that all citizens of the State would share in the bounty. THAT, is the reason that registered QAlaskan citizens all get a check from the General Fund. No conspiracy, no bullshit. Just straight up law.
Shut your mouth, and you won't appear so friggen stupid.
I couldn't agree with you more.
The Tea Party Movement needs to shy away from the likes of Mike Huckabee, and especially Newtered Newt Gingrich.
Fully agree with the homeschooling. We (wife and I) started with homeschooling for our daughters then transitioned them to a very conservative private school. When they finally went to the public education system in high school, they were ready to face the liberal BS head on with a sound mind and ability to think for themselves.
Yes.
There are some good young folks coming on. Smart, savvy folks, who understand the technical aspects of the new millenium.
You sho' nuff waste your share of bandwidth with your juvenille, puerile remarks.
Nope, I know exactly what they were referring to and I am getting to the point where things I thought I supported has contributed to the problem. You can spin and remind me of the Patriot Act and Medicare D and I will say that these are programs that I would not support today. I see the window it opens. A society where there seems to be an innate goal to prevent teaching right from wrong and that no one is in a position to judge your behavior is what is leading to politicians AND corporate leaders that have NO MORALS. Capitalism did not fail. The corporate leaders that forgot their morals and focused strictly on profits are JUST AS CORRUPT as the politicians that hide behind the "I'm for the little guy" argument when they haven't been a little guy for the past 30 years.
Bottom line, the oil companies should have FREELY SHARED some of this wealth because it is the RIGHT thing to do and it looks like that was the case. In the same vain, the politicians in Washington need to remember the document they swore to uphold and protect, not transform it into the justification for the nanny state.
You always crack me up!
Now you sound like the French Unions who only picket in the spring when the weather is good.
Yeah I know they are more experienced than American Unions and they their socialist government has given them more rights so they don't have to get out there when it's cold. If we let the unions, here, run us over they will demand to picket in good weather too.
Thanks Cowboy Logic and Rad Rooster. It is good that individual freedom still thrives in the west of the Magna Carta.
That is in the Frenchmans Union contract manual.
No picketing during inclement weather.
Smoke breaks, potty breaks, not too much time on their feet.
Free wine and cheese.
Ample shade.
The signs can't be too heavy………..
I don't remember where the Magna Carta is, but individual freedoms are still alive and well north of the Yellowstone. The law even calls in advance for an appointment, before crossing the river………
In addition to the bitch slapping you just got from Cowboy, Arthur, the Alaskan Permanent Fund is a semi-independent CORPORATION established in 1976 to over see the fund. The fund has grown, GROWN from roughly $750,000.00 to over $28,000,000,000.00 as of 2008. Why is that? Because the legislature can't raid it like Social Security.
None of that is relevant. What matters is that the so-called conservatives seem to embrace this idea. It flies in the face of the free-market BS brainwashing taught in every school. Plus they seem to have a blindspot since it is Alaska. As I recall, people like Castro and Chavez preaching the same thing don't get the same reception. Nothing to do with law or lawlessness. The objection is based on some propagandist calling it "communism."
I heard someone say the Republicans have aligned themselves with Big Business when they should have aligned themselves with free markets – the two are definitely not the same. I would add in they should align themselves with LIBERTY but they have aligned themselves with the most dangerous enemy to liberty – the war machine.
Here it is brother… http://www.usconstitution.net/magna.html. Consider it a cornerstone, in the founders' constitution.
It strongly suggests a concept adopted by the founders. Create a document, without human emotion, which has the authority to decide our destiny, until changed by a rigorous process. That is real thought behind law. We should celebrate the members of the SCOTUS who now share this view.
Your link was bad.
I was being facetious about the Magna Carta.
You could not be more wrong.
It is simply convienent for you to dismiss something, out of hand, as "irrelevant", when it proves you wrong. You blather incessantly, about inconsequential ramblings and babblings that are no importante' to anyone but you.
I still think Biden was the only one dumb enough to take the job.
North of the Yellowstone and east of the Cascades, Cowboy.
I would like to know if Bill Hemrick was setting the Convention planners up to be trashed and demoralized
There is a lot of Romney operatives already working it for 2012, Im just saying….
Sarah, please watch your back
Only So many Left.
Whatever right we don't use, we lose.
That comment should not have been allowed to stand.
As simplly as I can, A Corporation is a Political Entity 1st of all, and Licensed to do business, 2ndly. It has no moral foundation I would expect, other than The Corporate Laws. In addition, a corporation is licensed by their State, so is That State Moral?
It appears that the State of Alaska sub-contracted the Oil Industry work to those who have the Know-How. Alaska, being the General Contractor or Prime Contractor to obtain the resource can make the various rules & guidelines to get their share of their State resource from their sub-contractor.
I also agree. The TPM needs to give a wide berth to all the '08 candidates, who with few exceptions were all progressive republicans and continue to be today. The TPM is not interested in hearing about realpolitik, party before principle candidates. Nobody, and I mean nobody, gets my vote again who sends up even a whiff of big government.
Amen.
I just answered a question that went through my head, with that one word above. The place to start is at the beginning, with fundamentals. Start by asking the new slate of candidates exactly where they stand on Prayer, and go on from there. Broaden the question base: border security, Homeland Security,, withdrawl from the UN, the Patriot Act, a balanced budget, term limits…………..
Our attitude of surrender developed because we were tricked into believing that there was nothing I (we) could do to stop them. At the Tea Parties we found out that we don't have to shrug and take it anymore. The real power was in us all along and we will exercise that God given power to take our Republic back.
Fonz, there really is no hope for you. You believe the military is the most dangerous enemy to liberty? Why don't you ask the men and women who fought for our liberty? What about the families of those who DIED to preserve our liberty? And not just OUR liberty, but the liberty of the people around the world for whom brave Americans have fought and died? Are you truly as big a jerk as your posts make you sound? Or do you just live in San Francisco, and therefore can claim that you are culturally mentally ill?
The #1 Constitutional requirement of our government is the protection of the country. The requires the military. All of the "social justice" BS that you and your fellow travelers espouse is most definitely outside of the constitution.
Andrew Breitbart told Glenn Beck yesterday that he is going to launch a Big Education blog.
You can run "educators", but you can't hide.
The mighty Breitbart will find you!
go Andrew, go Andrew!
Would somebody hit the jukebox that damn record is skipping again
Did the people share any characteristics in common? Or is this venue to PC to address that issue?
I see several posts concerned with our children's education. Now is an important moment to be vigelent about that. Accurate history is at risk. Just as the progressives did in the early 1900s, there is serious risk right now that our history books will not address anything that happened in the United States before 1877. The very same date then and now. They just don't want our first 100 years to be taught. The fight for founding principles will be damaged in a major way if this comes to fruition and this decision is being made right now. To be implemented on the next shool system order-cycle date. Many states use the same standard that is in the process of being decided now.
Just like the tenured professor at the local community college. he wanted to hang around for four more years, to increase his retirement benefits package. Gonna go for that free healthcare perk.
Exactly.
Further, when that fund was created by the Alaskan Legislature, it was a bi=partisan effort that effectuated it. it was not something created by one party, or the other, and rammed down their throats, or up their azzes, whatever your respective perspective might be.
Jeez, some of these bloggers are sure dense. I am sure the Fonz is a long distance runner. In the Special Olympics.
Mr Chuck Balwin of the Constitution Party has an excellent article about this…
http://www.constitutionparty.com
The State School Board, Austin, TX has a committee of l5 that directs what is or isn't in our text books. They're teaching our kids "Globalism"
Do our students say The Pledge of Allegiance anymore?
I was accused by a protester to the Tea Party at New Lenox, IL on last Labor Day that the only reason I was there was because I wanted to be seen.
I responded to her that I did not want to there, that I would have preferred being in my back yard cooking some ribs or chicken…..
However, thanks to Obama, I felt compelled to do something I never dreamed that I would be doing….
Take to the streets…….
BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!
Proud Tea Party Member! We saw our country turning socialist, big spending, and loss of our freedoms. We knew it had to be stopped before that happened. I've never been involved in any kind of demonstration, but I'm proud of what these folks represent and are doing. Politicians had better wake up. We are soo FED UP with the status quo of career politicians. Our children and grandchildren deserve a real future, not one where they are in debt beyond belief. We need politicians who will listen to the populus, not tell us to SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP! It is our money you are spending.
I think what this administration is doing is by design. Saul Alinskyites. Get everyone on the government dole and then you own them. WE DON'T WANT TO BE OWNED AND WANT OUR CONSTITUTION UPHELD, NOT USED FOR TOILET PAPER. IMPEACH SEVERAL POLS AND THE COUNTRY MIGHT START TO HEAL.
Well at least you are asking and not accusing… let's just hope you are sincere
SINCE THE EDUCATION SYSTEM HAS BEEN CORRUPTED BY POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, PARENTS NEED TO START TEACHING HISTORY AND THE CONSTITUTION AT HOME, IF THE CHILDREN AREN'T GETTING IT AT SCHOOL. OUR FOUNDING FATHERS WERE IMPORTANT, INTELLIGENT, PATRIOTIC MEN. TO LEAVE OUT HISTORY, IS TO FORGET WHERE WE CAME FROM. TEACH IT, AND LEARN IT, SO YOU CAN FIGHT THE PROGRESSIVE TAKE OVER OF OUR SCHOOLS. TO LEAVE OUT HISTORY PRIOR TO 1877 IS A DISGRACE. BTW, BE SURE HISTORY IS TAUGHT CORRECTLY, NOT THE PC WAY.
Yes, yes…Our Founders told us not get involved with Foreign Affairs. And, doesn't our various treaties with them supercede our Constitution somehow? Getting out of the United Nations is what our Decl of Independence is all about, right. It's a Bill of Divorcement from World Powers, whether political or religious bodies.
The new media moguls might not survive the market-driven evolutions if they fail to understand they are no different than traditional medai moguls the minute they, like those before them, grow-up to ego-centric controllers. Example: the use of Terms Of Use letigiousness to control free-speech and drive/manipulate the "moguls" agenda. The evolution of the Breitbart brand appears to be more in line with FOX than "new media". Hope I am wrong though, FYI, word is out and spreading.
I understand for liability purposes corporations are a legal construct and entity, but they are still created and destroyed by people. Those people should have morals and a desire to do things honestly and fairly in the conduct of the business the Corporation operates in. This is why I believe that corporations do have a right to free speech and expression that reflect the views of the people running them.
It is also why when those people take excessive risk and make poor decisions, they should be allowed to fail. That is how to remove the risk from the system and show the other corporations what NOT to do. That strengthens the whole system.
I stand by my statement that the push to say everyone is a winner and to protect our children from failure and the hard knocks known as life has generated politicians, corporate executives and many others that feel that no matter what they do, someone will say it's OK and bail them out.
Does the godmother BELIEVE in God? As far as I have understood it, the duty of a godparent is to ensure the development of a child's relationship to God and the church. God and Statism don't mix, as there is no room for God in a Statist society- the State is God.
Somebody better have an intervention with the godmother, and quickly.
without the past there is no fjuture
Fonz, when you answer a pointed and informed answer to one of your assertions with a "none of that is relevant", you show everyone how intellectually weak and dishonest you are. No one here takes you the least bit seriously. You are a joke.
The only meaningful contribution you have ever made here is your click. Your travels on Breitbart translate to TRAFFIC, which ups the ad rates and brings in more cash so this site can continue to do its good work, and dissolve the lies of the Left. For that, and that alone, I thank you.
I heard someone say that Obama has given up pot for crack.
Our Founders didn't have ICBMs to deal with.
NOt the one we grew up with. They have a "Pledge of Allegiance toThe Earth" now.
Mine do thank God ! Every morning and God Bless Texas !
My children receievd an investigation booklet MANDATORY completion FROM OUR UTILITY CO. IN TEXAS)
in science class for a home survey of 60 + questions pertaining to our personal usagae of gas, electric, water, a/c, square foootage, insulation, sprinkler systems, window and door allocation, a/c unit numbers , water heater size and model, washer and dryer model, refridgerator cubic size and model, uhhh microwave model number, dishwasher EVERYTHING in our home and was called e-mailed 2x's daily until student returned to school with completion or FAILIRE OF CLASS —– can u say green is the new red ?
Very funny. Nice response.
My 80 year Mother has like thinking, but w/o the phrases, "Communism or Socialism". They are learning this attitude from the Major News Medias. The kids are learning to become "global citizens"…w/o God of the scriptures.
The kids are being subjected to the Progressive Education system which started with John Dewey in 1904. The Origninal goal of the school system was "To learn & search for the truth." That's a good approach becuz our minds are "truth seeking entities". J. Dewey changed the goals to "produce a happy, compliant, social person who has learned talents to be used for society and business."…Denying the Truth of the scriiptures, and trying to become wise.
The content of our childrens' school books is primarily controlled by a Board of 15, of Austin, TX School Board. This on a National Level.
Patriot Parents might want to consider demanding that our students receive their own personal copies of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, and your State Constitution.
The education of our childrren have been corrupted by the Left in this country. I suggest that the adults should examine their children's textbooks and evaluate the contents compared as how you know America. I think you might find some surprises.
No politicians, lawyers or government operatives should be involved with the Tea Party movement. They diminish the impact and give ammunition to the opposition as evidenced in the increasingly venomous attacks mounted by the left since that god-awful convention. The vigor of its founding momentum grew from spontaneity and honest emotions. Everyone who tries to make a name for himself or make a profit off of it is sucking the life from it! Watch "Meet John Doe" again and see what I'm talking about!!
do not let congress read such.
Yeah, vote them out.Wonder how many vote lawsuits there will be in 2010-11.A lot of these races will be close, and crooked.
Howdy folks!!! Takin a break, gettin ready for "The Great American Race" It's on tomorrow, but tonight the truck race is on YEEEEEHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yup I be one of them teabaggin, gun totin, Bible thumpin, America lovin, rednecks!!!!! YEEEEHAH!!!!!!
Go Gordon !
Sorry I be a JR. fan although they are teammates now!!! YEEEHAH!!!!!! The STAR SPANGLED BANNER!!!!
YEEEEEEEEEEHAH!!!!!!!
Hey, after 1877 citizenship to America has only been given to immigrants that almost exclusively have no heritage with citizens in America before 1860! This is another reason we can't do the things that our forefathers did! More specifically, people living here before 1860 were socially internal personality types, meaning that they felt that they had control over their destiny, while people coming to America after 1877 are exclusively people with socially external personality types, or people who feel that they can't control their fate! That is Sociology's explanation why America's masses no longer think like our forefathers!
That's what I love about NASCAR, I get to hear the STAR SPANGLED BANNER and watch the AIR FORCE do a fly over at least once every weekend!!!! I get a tingle up my leg every time!!!!!!!!
Makes me proud to be an AMERICAN and live in the greatest country on MOTHER EARTH!!!!!!
YEEEEEEEEEEEHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I forgot Nascar lovin and hotdog eatin. How could I forget those, must be slippin!!!!!!!
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Did you allow them to comply? It would have been hard to explain to a child, but mine would have
failed the class. There will be more questionnaires coming, ie. list of foods in the fridge, pantry
etc. related to health class. Questions about family transportation, weekly & yearly travel etc.
There is no end to the info the Gvt can garner using this method.
Please name the utility co. I would love to know if they realize their survey is being used by the
school in this manner.
I am HORRIFIED.
In some small way we should commemorate Rick Santellis', 'shot heard round the world'. It seems as
if he would just as soon it be forgotten, too bad Rick, when you vocalize what everyone else in the free
world is thinking, you must not be allowed to hide from history.
if your heros castro and chavez actually would give to the people the bounty of their country then the people would not be trying to live on 1.50 a day and having to work for drug lords in order to feed their family. The reality is the tin pots take that which belongs to the country and uses it for power to keep a foot on the neck of the people.
plan ,simple to the point…..but so many Americas are to deep into themselves to under stand their rights are gone. most are to lazy to put the remote down and stand on the corner raising there voices. the TPM worked in the 60's, CHANGES were made. TPM worked last year…pudlosi filled her depends every weekend.
Senate rules make it exceedingly hard to change Senate rules. To modify, or eliminate the filibuster, would require a two-thirds majority, or 67 votes. Even if every Democrat voted for it — and there is no way that would happen — that would still mean eight Republicans would have to vote for it too.
Don't hold your breath — especially in light of a new Washington Post/ABC News poll. The pollsters asked whether the fact that Senate Republicans now have the votes to block Obama's initiatives is a good thing or a bad thing. Fifty-seven percent of those surveyed said it's a good thing, versus 36 percent who said it's a bad thing. They don't want the GOP to block everything, but they're glad to have a check on Obama's power.
Still, the biggest obstacle to change remains the Senate's collective memory. "I just don't see senators who understand that the roles of majority and minority can flip, and have flipped in the last 20 years or so, taking the bait," says Martin Gold, a Republican expert on the Senate's rules. Since 1981, when Gold worked for then-Majority Leader Howard Baker, control of the Senate has changed in 1986, and 1994, and 2001, and 2002, and 2006. "Lots of people have memories of being on both sides of this question," says Gold.
And that's why the filibuster won't be going anywhere.
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Perdenales Electric Corporation, Austin Texas…yes he complied after a long discussion…he is 12..he understands all our beliefs and is an honor student with a 100 average in class. My son did not want to give in but we finally deceided to not make him fight this fight, we will in another meeting)
The school should not punish his grades for this and we have requested meeting with Prinicipal. PEC was informed of this because a representative came to school to discuss with students how IMPORTANT this in home investigation was – I can honestly say that most parents I spoke with gave the most bogus information they could answer….times are changing and I feel like a loser for giving in to system this time..it was very hard to do – He did get a new light bulb
– tbc
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