The Educated Idiots Award (Vol. 1, No. 1): “Baby, You Can’t Drive My Car”
by Rep. Thaddeus G. McCotter (R-MI)My late father had a phrase to describe the arrogant intellectuals unacquainted with real life who foist their insane ideas on the “unenlightened” rest of us: The phrase was “educated idiots.”
Sadly, today his words ring ever truer. To witless:
(In what is rarely a good sign) a New York Times blog reports the Harvard-based Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs has determined fuel prices must rise significantly to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Thus, in the name of discredited Leftist psuedo-science, your gas prices could reach $7 a gallon.
In this tepid spat of Think Tanks vs. Gas Tanks, we glean two things: these researchers have recession-proof jobs; and they are unconcerned you don’t.
How else to explain these researchers’ cavalier demand that your shrinking family budget must get smaller and your job must become more tenuous all so Goddess Gaia can keep her cool?
In our real world, the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics’ 2009 annual summary reports that unemployment rates rose last year in all regions, divisions, and states. And nowhere is the pain of this recessed economy deeper than in my Michigan, which had the largest increase in unemployment percentage from last year (5.3%); and has held the nation’s highest unemployment rate since this recession began (at times exceeding 15%).
In Michigan and across the country, hard-working Americans cannot afford a government-dictated increase in fuel prices or any other energy source. This simple fact is lost upon the educated idiots who egotistically believe they can control the weather by hiking your taxes and cost of living; taking your job; and dictating your life.
Ergo, the inaugural Educated Idiots Award goes to the Harvard-based Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. While you can still afford to do so, feel free to honk your displeasure at them as they segue into work.
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wolverines!!!!!
You rock Congressman!
I love your sense of profound irony and eccentrically devilish humor, oh and you play a mean guitar!
Thanks!
"Bring it all down baby, bring it all down", M Savage says this was their battle cry during the 60's.
Curious to me how this all seems to be somewhat coordinated, & at much seems to emanate
from the major Universities. GRIDLOCK ANYONE ???
Nice looking site there, Mr. McCotter.
And yes, you do rock. We need more reps like you, sir.
The sad truth Thad, is that the more you tax something the less you get of that particular activity. And while i whole-heartedly agree that this is a BassAckwards approach to economics patriotic Americans are pining for just a few honorable men or women to do the right thing in our government. You need to look no further than to those states, municipalities and communities that have been goverened by decades of Liberalism. Most of the tax legislation comes in the form of 'hidden taxes and unintended consequences' that most people don't even realize is taking place. Wisconsin has taxed tobacco so heavily, ostensibly to pay for healthcare for children, that those revenues are dwindling fast. When folks stop smoking or chewing then the game turns to the next target for some innane tax levy on goods, services and yes….vices.
The only ones more dangerous than educated idiots are 'useful idiots.' Useful idiots are the kind that various totalitarian regimes used to get into power (think Hitler's SA). They lay most of the ground work but are then liquidated when they begin to pose a greater threat to the party than they are useful to it.
I'm having problems with the interpretation of this article. To me it sounds like this study is actually holding liberals accountable for policies that won't actually reach their stated goals
" options now being discussed in Congress cannot by themselves achieve the significant reductions in the transportation sector needed to meet the Obama administration's targets for total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. "
so in this case I think, the "think tank" is actually doing something correct when it shows how unfeasible these things are. The tone of the article says that gas would reach 7 bucks a gallon, I do not see where it says that we should actually do it.
Welcome back, Mr. Cotter, your dreams were your ticket out!
I emmigrated from the great socialist, Marxist collective called MICHIGAN over ten years ago. Sold my properties and my corporation as I saw the auto industry annexing their interests to the unions and other special interests. That wonderful state that "won" World War II with armament production and innovation has been reduced to insolvency and a statewide ghetto due to the liberal goverment at all levels.
We can all appreciate, Rep McCotter, your loyalty to the people of Michigan but it IS a lost cause. Your efforts are appreciated and respected but the Michigan legislature is beyond repair due to decades of corruption and graft. I was a lobbyist there during the mid 70's. Turn off what lights are left when you move south.
The economy won't run on $7 p/g at the pump, just look what happened after we hit only $4 at the pump. High gasoline prices are a tax on consumer incomes and consumer spending. Slow those two down and you have a tax on new jobs, a tax on economic expansion and a tax on growth. Meanwhile we enrich the enemy–OPEC, the tax receipts goes to Islamoterrorism. America's cycle of wealth creation becomes a cycle on poverty creation and national security is put at risk. Everyone's stand of living declines, we become a banana republic.
The real story here is that this is the kind of 'work' that comes out of a HARVARD think tank!! If they are not embarrassed, then I am ashamed to have ever held their education in any high regard. This quality of work could just have been as easily done by the brain trusts found in Berkley.
exhibit A:
A while back Roland Burris refered to the Head Marxist as "an educated fool". Nuff said.
the tipping point is no longer somewhere out there, folks… it is now. If we lose now, there will be no reclamation of the wonderful gift our founding fathers bestowed upon us. Start calling all your friends… set up telephone trees… get out there knocking on neighborhood doors even if it's only for one hour once a week.
watch/tivo/dvr Beck today… it's all about what the schools are doing to ("teaching") our children.
"Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs." why does it seem like every time some group tries to link 'science' with, well, anything, they're always more focused on the other stuff more than the actual science? shouldn't that be "…Intentionally-Skewed-Pseudo-Science and Sticking-Our-Noses-In-Things-That-Are-None-Of-Our-Affair"?
I have determined that Haaaaaaaaaaarvard employees must be paid no more than the minimun wage for Americans to have a better life. Just sayin……………………REV Wright
You give to much credit and assume that the article does not advocate the raising of fuel cost through taxation. I can think of one quote from Obama about skyrocketing energy cost. The interpretation I have from that quote is that it was completely acceptable and that he has no clue how business works. I.e. he claims that a simple government subsidy will help the poor with higher energy cost. What is not taken in to account is the fact that the middle class get squeezed through the higher cost of goods and services. This increase is due to passing on the cost of cap and trade to the consumer. Please think about what others have said before this article was published and then put the article in to context. Have a nice day
Socialism does work! Despite the numerous failed attempts that history has so amply recorded, Obama remains convinced that they failed because they didn't do it the right way. You have to admire him because of his unwaivering committment to keep trying to figure it out. He will get it right or kill us trying!
Keep it up Obama, you could be the catalyst we have needed for generations, the ONE who was able to stir the stasis into action and pound an oaken stake into the heart of progessivism once and for all.
I like coal. It just is "there". It doesn't spill, you can leave it out in the rain, it doesn't blow up if the pilot light goes out, who cares if Iran wants to build a coal power plant and it is cheap. How did those windmills work during the blizzards or the solar panels with 2 ft. of snow on them? Nat gas is everywhere these days …oil and nukes work fine. I guess using that "new fangled" wind and sun was never thought of before Obama. They are just so brilliant to notice the sun makes things warm and this wind thing might be used to move ships across the sea if we only could figure out how. We need a government grant with borrowed money to figure that out.
But it will never happen: HR-1835 is going to croak it. We have over a 100 years supply of NG right under our asses that can be easily converted into LNG needed to power our 8 million 18-wheelers and city buses, we have already begun the conversion. We can easily halve our dependence on OPEC in fairly short order by using the new technologies that combine directional drilling with "fracing" our massive shale fields (which have trapped all this NG and even oil) while creating hundreds of thousands of new jobs.
Go Blue!
Obama is useful idiot by your definition. I would call him a useless idiot, but he may be worse than that….
I vote no to more drill or mining of coal until all the progressives have been booted from office. To give them the benefit of the revenue will only serve to keep them spending.
"It's not that my liberal friends are wrong, is is just that, their heads are full of so much that just isn't so." President Reagan
There are lots of useful idiots over on HuffPo crying how they need more government to survive.
The trouble with Michigan and California is that it is like having a hole in a boat. Sooner or later it sinks. California has a huge progressive hole, Michigan has another, and they are not alone. Soon with ObamaCare the whole ship will have a huge progressive hole. It always ends the same, a few benefit–unions–the rest suffer, we end up as all serfs in the end with an elite??class controlling everything about us, and trying to control our beliefs as well..msm.
See, and thats the difference, I'm not going to put the article in a context based on previous statements from other people because I don't see the logic in that. It's like me holding you accountable for what some other conservative said because you're both conservative. That does not make sense to me.
Now if you actually look at what i said, i mentioned holding liberals acccountable. Because even though I'm not a conservative I think liberals do need to be held accountable for this horrible policy. Putting real numbers on that policy just helps you do it.
Sadly I fear that once you go down the commie route, there is almost no escape. I pray you are right and Americans get the idea.
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But under the name of Liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without knowing how it happened.”
– Norman Thomas, Socialist Party presidential candidate, 1940, 1944 and 1948 explaining why he quit running for president.
I also take the quote
"“Tax credits don’t address how much people use their cars,” said Ross Morrow, one of the report’s authors. “In reverse, they can make people drive more.”
to mean that tax credits will not help the poor. I'm open to other interpretations, I'm just asking it comes from the article itself and not assumptions born out of the fact that it comes from institutions you don't happen to like.
watch Glenn Beck today or dvr it…he'll be covering the indoctrination taking place in our schools…should be interesting to say the least….
Once "science" is linked to $ or carbon credits or Al Gore a big red flag is raised.
I just take exception to the fact that it took these Harvard Educated Professors to figure out something as apparent as the sun rising in the morning, and the fact that despite the obvious flaws in the whole concept that there are thousands of people who actually think this kind of approach could work,,,if they just figured out how to have the tax only affect the wealthy.
Obama has mandated that we will reduce our carbon emissions by 14% from 2005 levels by 2020.
The 14% target was set in the EPA's budget for fiscal 2010.
I have to agree. The researchers are not sasying we have to do this to save the planet, they are saying to meet Obama's goal, this is what we'd need to do.
It's a good idea to have some researcher put a price tag on what our poser wants. I just wish this information would come out before the budget is in place.
Actually, they are saying in oreder to meet Obama's mandated reduction in emissions, gas would need to rise to $7/gal.
I think they are doing a good thing by exposing the true costs of Obama's plan.
OK I had to go to the source of the article so as not to make assumptions on intent. I do not see how you can read the conclusion and not say that the intent is to raise gas Tax. Here is the conclusion with the link
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/1...
Conclusion
An economy-wide CO2 price combined with transportation sector-specific policies can reduce total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions below 2005 levels — a significant reduction from business-as-usual projections. However, options now being discussed in Congress cannot by themselves achieve the significant reductions in the transportation sector needed to meet the Obama administration's targets for total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. The most effective policy for reducing CO2 emissions and oil imports from transportation is to spur the development and sale of more efficient vehicles with strict efficiency standards while increasing the cost of driving with strong fuel taxes. Without addressing both, CO2 emissions from the U.S. transportation sector will continue to grow.
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A fair point, what usually happens with these models is that those who report on them strip away much of the key detail in order to make digestable points. Now yes, anyone could tell you that the price of gas would raise waaay too high. But the value of people who do the math and put an exact number, like $7, on that price is that when you argue you now have something factual to site and assumptions to debate. Now when someone says you're being hyperbolic and alarmist about climate change you have a report by a liberal institution to throw back at them. How is that anything but a good thing?
On an aside I'd like to say ive worked on these models on a local level before and I have two major complaints with how my own democratic party usually treats this issue,
1) the setting of unrealistic goals, this is nothing new, I've shown my own city that even if they put absolutely everyone on the bus they still wouldn't be able to meet some of obamas more optimistic goals. These models that show extremely drastic measures are nothing new, i've seen them for at least three years now.
2) Local and government funding that goes to projects that have no actual payback value. There are a number of measures that reduce carbon emissions and have short payback periods, most are as simple as resealing windows or updating the installation on public buildings. Yet expensive projects still get tons of funding instead because of their innate pr value.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
The problem is, these educated fools confuse knowledge with wisdom.
My computed has lots of knowledge stuffed in to it, but not a scrap of wisdom.
Excellent! I just hope that we haven't closed off to many hatches and are already doomed
We are Americans – we are at our best when times are at there worst – in 8 months, we will close this hatch and save the ship. You can count on it.
educated idiots = eggheads
These researchers (and politicians) have recession-proof jobs; and they are unconcerned you don’t.
They also have households with incomes above the average of $52,000.
The higher the income, the less impact gas prices have.
The average household uses 1,143 gallons of gas. At $3.00 pg that is $3,430 per year. At $7.00 pg that would climb to $8,000 per year, an increase of about $4,575.
If the added cost was adjusted percentage wise, a household with $200,000 (more inline with researchers and politicians) income would pay $18,300 more for gas per year. Since gas used per year is relatively flat, they don't worry much about "the common family".
And since they tend to reside in cities, they don't concern themselves with rural lives. News flash – not everyone has the option of taking a subway to work, and not everyone has a grocery store or doctor, ect. within 1 or 2 miles from home.
And gasoline use in personal or family cars is just the tip of the iceberg to how these carbon taxes will impact our lives and economy.
well said Mr. McCotter – actually your Dad was being very kind when labeling the "Progressive" elite idiots; they
are actually "educated MORONS". Unfortunatly these same morons have propagated many, many more and
these morons have infiltrated our education system to the point of saturation. There is more "GOOD" news not
only have the MORONs gotten into our education system they also have managed to infest our government in the
past century or so. The time is nearing where thr Americam public will have to take action and STOP standing
by idling their way into what will become first a SOCIALIST state (almost there NOW) – then move to a totalitarion state. These "educated idiots" as your DAD kindly called them must be eradacated from the American landscape.
Oh, by the way, thanks for being a Representative in our government I'm sure your job is frustrating at best.
Aaron, I can't say that I agree with your politics but I do appreciate finding someone from your side that demonstrates common sense. Trouble is that this whole process has been polluted with the typical back room deal making and arm twisting to achieve the overly idealistic goals, all to the detriment of our country, to the point that I feel they are going to go ahead despite all the evidence to the contrary. Someone once said that all politicians should be limited to two terms, one in office, the other in prison.
Death to Progressivism! Revolution!
The statement once again, has no opinion put in it, It's just showing what is necessary to meet a policy goal. In other words, it never actually uses the word "should". And they could very well be right, but they don't actually state its a good idea. Those are two very different things.
By stating that the most optimal solution is something this drastic, and this obviously wrong, they make your argument for you.
Those who can; do. Those who cannot; teach liberal/progressive ideology.
Of course John Holdren's name is on this research…..go to the site and see for yourself. Science to support and effect change for Obama's agenda..
The most effective policy for reducing CO2 emissions …
and
Without addressing both, CO2 emissions from the U.S. transportation sector will continue to grow.
If these comments don't mean "should" to you, then you are just playing semantic games.
Oh shut up, Aaron… your stubborn defense of your silly assertion is making you look like an immature person,…. which I am sure you are not
My question to you is this: (assuming we are doomed ala green nonsense)
If the intent by the powers that be is to indeed lower CO2 emisions and the most fruitful way of doing it is by having $7 a gal. gas, …….will they do it???????
You are changing the argument. The tax credits referred to have nothing to do with helping the poor…they are referred to as an incentive to change driving behavior, regardless of income. The author of the report is not trying to link the two together, only you.
Interesting….how do you interpret this clause from the report:
Aggressive climate change policy need not bring the economy to a halt. Even under high-fuels-tax, high-carbon price scenarios, losses in annual GDP, relative to business-as-usual, are less than 1%, and the economy is still projected to grow at 2.1-3.7% per year assuming a portion of the revenues collected are recycled to taxpayers.
Example….CALIFORNIA….The word is PROGRESSIVE… Mr. McCotter your speech at CPAC was awesome! Here is the deal, I am from the 70’s but was raised with decent values by wonderful parents. I think alot of American people take some ideas from both sides of the isle to make up who we as AMERICANS really are, but we do not like what is happening in D>C>! It is very clear the House and Senate do not care about the American people unless we are footing the bill. My pic for President… Mike Pence and McCotter make a great team! Hang in there Sir keep up the good fight as alot of “WE THE PEOPLE” ARE COUNTING ON THE FEW WHO STILL REMEMBER US.
effective policy for reducing emissions does not mean a blanket endorsement to use policy. Given the details that they reveal, do you think that they would state these facts if they were actually endorsing policy change? No, they would hide them. It's not semantic games, I'm just taking the words that are there for what they actually mean.
You know, call me silly if you want, but if you actually read my statements youd see that i at no time state that i believe we are all doomed "ala green nonsense"
but hey, why read content when you can assume what i've said and make yourself feel right. And once again, if you've actually read what I've said, I also stated that most funding for this "green nonsense" doesn't go to reducing carbon emissions it goes to pr projects. Next time i suggest you actually read my statements before you get your panties in a bunch just because i failed to rabidly agree with you.
Link the report. I'd like to read a version other than the one I read.
when im responding to ." he claims that a simple government subsidy will help the poor with higher energy cost"
that exact quote I don't see how i am changing the subject. It wasn't the authors statement, it was that of another poster that I'm answering. And my answer to such a statement was that the author of the article is saying that "“Tax credits don’t address how much people use their cars,” said Ross Morrow, one of the report’s authors. “In reverse, they can make people drive more.” shows that such a thing will change behavior but be ineffective in solving the problem. So you see, I'm not changing the subject at all, im just acknowledging that as it is written, this is a pro conservative argument. It is literatly saying that a widescale government solution, a tax credit, will not work.
I pray you are right…and then the work begins in repairing the ship.
Thinking it over, I think we also have some confusion over the term "effective". In the strictest academic sense, it is not an endorsement. It just means efficient. Just as I could factually state that the quickest way to reduce your house hold expenses is to abandon your children, but that doesn't mean im saying you should actually do that. In my interpretation again, and once again, im just giving my interpretation, by showing how drastic these requirements are, they are actually doing a service, revealing how unrealistic such actions are.
I mean, if the point of the article was to spur climate change lunacy, do you really think they would bother to state hard numbers akin to a $7 gallon of gasoline?
My mother liked the term "educated beyond their intelligence."
Kalroy
I've come to the conclusion that ALL Harvard Grads can not be trusted in the real world, and are perfect examples of Mr. McCotter's "educated idiots". It seems there's a competition among them on who can cause bigger havoc to society, private AND public sectors.
The idiots become "useful" during the "education" process.
Thanks for saying it for me.
Would solve the debt problem, eh?
I'm with you Joe, ready to close the hatch!!! Along with the many others that can see the threat that these bills will impose among the American people!!!!
I like that you updated the anology!!!
It is a sad fact that Liberals are so stupid that they have failed to connect the dots. The Liberal Democratic Socialist Movement wants to, (in the name of Population control), kill the unborn in Abortion. They are willing to cut off seniors medical healthcare so they can have , and yes I'll say it, a death commission to decide if they are valuable enough for more healthcare. Liberals are big time into population control, they were the ones that were for Abortion to start with, but it was to slow down the birth rate of the black community! It is this kind of Liberal thinking that is taking this country to the brink of disaster. When I see the farmers in Bakersfield that are not allowed to grow food because of some tiny little fish, it all makes sense to me. You are a useful idiot if you voted for Obama and his Totalitarian Government takeover. Just think, Obama only needs you for a little while…and then…
These Alinskyite Marxists want to break our system. They want to control us from cradle to grave. This study gives eco-nazi oligarchs a goal to strive for. Here in Calif they've broken the system were finished ; so you good citizens in other states look at Ca. to see what your future holds if you don't fight back. Complacency always loses.
God bless our Troops
God bless America
we became a bannana republic the day obama the undertaker took office!
He never claimed you believe we are doomed ala green nonsense. It appear that it is simply a statement or an assumption to work from for the question. It looks like you are doing some of that pot calling the kettle black or did I read that incorrectly again.
Now you are being disingenuous. Let me quote you:
I (Aaron) also take the quote (a quote from the article, not another poster)…to mean that tax credits will not help the poor. I'm open to other interpretations…
Those are your words, and your interpretation. *You* specifically made the link between tax credits and helping the poor…this is another example of your flawed logic, and then your attempt to cover for yourself by obfuscation. Bad form, indeed.
Think about this. If a car engine was designed that ran on water would it ever make it to market? I think not. The same is said of a cure for cancer. There is too much money to be made in treating the symptoms. As long as there is money to be made such innovations will not be allowed to become available to the public. So instead of having us addicted to petroleum products they have now introduced vehicles that run on both petroleum products and electricity. Now as the demand for electricity grows so too will the cost. Just as it has been with fuel. What's more is that by controlling supplies they control price/profits. Just look at the effect of limited refining capacity has wrought here in the U.S. Add to that the restrictions place on oil drilling that have all but blocked access to our own resources thereby adding to the cost. Now there's talk of $7 a gallon? The same applies to the number of nuclear power plants in the U.S. The more efficient the process the less our government seems to like it.
My mother liked the term "educated beyond their intelligence."
Currently government receives taxes (5-9 times as much) as big oil does from fuel sales. Big oil's supposed obscene profits primarily derive from higher sales from what they produce unlike the government which produces nothing. The same occurs in the other markets that you mention. The only effect of increasing government taxation on a product is to reduce the sales, as you point out.
The problem with additional taxation on fuel is the affect on the populace, both personally and their local governments. People will have higher costs associated with getting back and forth to their work, higher costs associated with their daily living expenses (food, water, utilities, et.al.) Governments will have higher costs associated with their vehicle fleets (police, fire, ambulance, et.al.), will have higher costs associated with their operating expenses (utilities, fuel, et.al.) Just to mention a few of the unintended (possibly intended) consequences of progressive intellectual ideas on taxation.
I still do not want to believe that it just the insecurity, that is inherent in the liberal mindset, that is afflicting Aaron,……….
he does seem like an intelligent fellow,……if that's the case,… than I do believe you are…..
wasting far too many brain cells trying to make him realize it.
Ditto from me. Left Michigan after graduating from UM Go Blue liberal nut farm and moved elsewhere. I love Michigan, travel there every summer with my kids to see the family and spend some time up north. But I know I could never live there again. That makes me sadder than you can believe.
You've stated that more effectively than I……thanks!
Thanks to people like Glenn, Rush, Ann, AB, and others we are on to their agenda now!!!
They have woke up the sleeping giant, and we won't go back to sleep!!!!
I empathize with you regarding Michigan. I loved the state for many years….my two daughters graduated from the University of Michigan. THANK GOD they stayed conservative but what a series of battles they fought. I have been gone for nearly 11 years and will never return. A slice of multi-season paradise lost. Truly a shame…..
Pain tells the body that something is wrong, something needs to be fixed. I hope that the pain my fellow americans are feeling that are out of work and being taxed to death will help them diagnose the illness correctly
We only have a few shots at the cure before the cancer makes it impossible to treat. The dolts that think slowing the economy even further need to be the first ones to feel the wrath of the people.
You could reduce government payroll by 30%, starting with the staff budgets of senators and congressional representatives, then cutting all grants to left wing think tanks next etc. bye bye NEA, bye bye EPA etc. and so on prioritizing out all the fat then trimming the rest.
The only ones that would notice are the government workers and the politicians, they don't care about the people that pay their salaries?
Ok, that makes it even easier and I wont lose a winks sleep.
How about if I call you insanely over the top beyond the shadow of a doubt idiotic?
Haven't you been biatch slapped enough yet ass'rod?
Do we need to give you a few more whacks upside your inbred progressive truther lop sides brusied and battered ugly trollish head?
Tea Partiers msm calls violent racists, thug college kids demaning and begging for education funds well …what do you call them?… tell them to get a job!
…the Harvard-based Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs has determined fuel prices must rise significantly to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.
I always enjoy McCotter when he's a guest on RedEye. They should have him on more often.
He has a wonderful sense of humor, and is always entertaining.
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But under the name of Liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without knowing how it happened.”
– Norman Thomas, Socialist Party presidential candidate, 1940, 1944 and 1948 explaining why he quit running for president.
Rep. McCotter – KEEP IT UP BABY!
February 24, 2010
To the Editor:
Submarines have always fascinated me. Their role in the last century cannot be overstated. From the simple man powered submarines of the civil war to the USS Nautilus’s journey under the North Pole to the modern submarines that form a critical part of the US nuclear deterrent. As over engineered as these ships are, when a torpedo hits, decisions have to be made to save the ship. Sometimes those decisions have to be made under extreme stress, and the result of the orders leads to the death of fellow crew mates. As one space fills with water, pulling the ship inexorably to the bottom, a sailor in the dry space must close the hatch to save the ship.
The United States is analogous to a submarine wounded by enemy action. Instead of an enemy firing a torpedo, we, via all of our poor political leadership have fired one upon ourselves. The political classes collective record, how ever well intentioned, has lead us here, through massive spending, borrowing, and making promises to citizens that cannot be met. Character at a point of pressure is the most important asset a leader, officer, or soldier possesses. Why? Because sometimes it is necessary to close the hatch to save the ship. The question to my mind is which party possesses the capacity to do that now.
While the collusion of both parties are to blame for our sinking ship. It is the Republican party that is desperately trying to close the hatch and save the ship. The Republican party is standing against three pieces of legislation that will forever resign this nation to a continual decline and eventual ruin. The first is commonly understood to be “health care,” this legislation will forever alter a citizens relationship to their government. If it passes medical attention will become a right that must be met by force of law. As the saying goes, if you want to make something expensive, make it free. The failure of this solution to meeting the medical needs of people is deeply felt by those who lost loved ones because the English or the Canadian governments denied vital care. Liberal Democrats have another scheme to launch on the American people this one is called “Cap and Trade” – essentially this nightmare would allow the federal government to tax a citizen when they drive, breath or turn on the light switch. Kirsten Gillibrand has personally advocated for it in the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, I assume Senator Gillibrand expects that by creating the next Wall Street scam will lead to voluminous campaign contributions on the back of the American taxpayer. Finally, there is “Card Check,” this gem would eliminate the secret ballot from the process by which a business goes from being a non-union to a union shop. Thus, the Union leadership would be in a position to put massive pressure on those who voted “no.” Republicans have stood, and are standing against all of this – in fact on the “Cap and Trade” front Republicans have earned bipartisan opposition to it.
All the while the water is rushing into our ship and the choice must be made in nine months; will the citizens of this great nation choose to stand with the leadership of the liberal democratic party, that is trying to keep the hatch open, so we all go down, or will the American people choose to stand with the Republican party, that is trying to close the hatch? I have confidence that the American people are ready to not only support the Republican party, but help close the hatch and save the ship. America is ready to sacrifice all but our liberty and our economic freedom – this has, and will always be true, and has happened in the past, it is “We The People” leading the charge. Right now the only organized political party that has the capacity to close the hatch is the Republican party.
Faithfully Yours,
And what the schools have been doing over the past decade (if not longer). I'm proud to say both of my kids made it through High School and college (saturated by Liberal hack tenured professors) coming out the other side as Conservative as dear ole Dad. The key … discussing what they were taught in school and providing the proper counterpoints and discussions to the lacking or Liberal-laced lesson plans.
What a concept … parents taking a pert in their child's learning process.
Time for an anagram!
OSUCKA ASSS BAM
Yeehaw TM!!!
Entertainment time!
I gotta go make some popcorn and get a soda pop, be right back!
Well, let's tax stupidity and failure, then!
I like Thad, too. Problem is, it is crunch time and he caves like the rest of the RINOs. Case in point: his recent appearance on RedEye wherein he was asked his opinion on Sen. Bunning's attempt to compel the body to pay for the "temporary" extension of unemployment benefits out of the stimulus (slush) fund. Poor Thad tap-danced, bobbed and weaved, ultimately saying that this is the wrong issue upon which to take a stand, appealing to our sense of compassion for those out of work and in need. Nothing wrong with compassion, and for that matter, what was Thad supposed to do, given the plight of his base in MI. I call Thad's attention to the submarine metaphor posted earlier in this string of comments. Not sure if it was Thad or some other weasel who said that it was irresponsible of Sen. Bunning to do what he did since he was not running for re-election and had nothing to loose. Good argument there for term limits.
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Sarah "Drill Baby Drill" Palin is so far ahead of our Government when it comes to new energy resources that she can't see our Government in her rear view mirror. Palin has been the leading advocate of drilling, not for oil, but Natural Gas since before Obama decided to run for POTUS!
As Governor of Alaska Palin negotiated contracts with Trans-Canada to build a Natural Gas pipeline, and Exon-Mobile to bring the Natural Gas from underground to the pipeline. She did this right after successfully taxing the windfall profits of Big Oil. Something that the U.S. Government has never been able to do.
Now T. Boone Pickens has jumped on this bandwagon and claims it as his "Plan" to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Obama will surely lay claim to the idea, right after "Cap & Trade" meets the same "Death Panel" that Obamacare is about to meet.
Apparently The University of Idaho is turning out smarter people, with more common sense, than Harvard or Columbia. Or Yale for that matter. Harvard still leads the United States in educating Communists though.
yeah, because it takes a ton of effort to call someone assrod and not address any of the content in thread whatsoever. GO TEAM!
By severely rationing healthcare to seniors, this administration is killing 2 birds with 1 stone. They won't have to worry about handing out those pesky social security checks when seniors are killed off years earlier than they normally would have because the SS money has already been spent. So this is a win-win for Obamao.
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