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I’m frequently wrong but never in doubt.

Rachel, you know my position on this. I’ve made it clear elsewhere.
The problems faced by America are the same problems faced by a number of Western countries. (perhaps all of them bar Switzerland) The problem isn’t any particular political party or ideology but rather with the political class, along with their allies in the bureaucracies. They’re utterly indifferent to the will of the people because they’re able to buy enough support by bribing and threatening the uninformed, the indifferent, the apathetic and the cowardly with money and services taken from others.
And we enable it by our acquiescence and cowardice.
The ballot box will not fix this.
A determined minority, prepared to stand together and demand change- and threaten real violence or crippling disruption if change isn’t forthcoming- just might.
We don’t need a majority for change and majority rule--however obtained--will never deliver it in any case.
The unforseen consequences of such action could well turn out to be horrible.
But not half as horrible as a slow descent into serfdom.

KG,

Can the American people, the governed which Obama has lost the consent of, afford to use stretched legal means, albeit extra legal means, to unseat Obama? And with haste? You and I both know, we can’t afford not to.

The Constitutional, political, social, economic and military ramifications are too dire; the carnage Obama leaves in his wake at every turn makes two years the equivalent of an eternity. Hitler’s reign to destroy Germany lasted twelve. Obama is aiming to destroy America in four.

When the voters remove this mole, it won’t necessarily be with the vote. We all know what you do when confronted with a school yard bully. You hit him where it hurts.

I know Obama is no school yard bully. School yard bullies need a certain amount of courage before their cowardness comes out. Obama will run, but not for another election.

He has two more years to do more of this kind of thing Rachel:
http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/?p=1514
Can America afford to wait that long? because the Republicans aren’t going to wind back very much of what the Democrats have wrought so far, that’s for sure.

I’m an amateur in these matters, but it seems to me that there’s every chance that China will be riven by its own internal contradictions (one-child policy/gender imbalance; artificial economy/what happens if we stop buying?; more exposure to the West/restive population; local arguments/Japan/Korea, etc) before it becomes a real threat to anyone.

Good point about the federal system, Colonel, I hope you’re right.

Thomas Friedman is a real piece of work, that’s for sure.  Is there anybody out there who actually takes him seriously?

There are a whole lotta issues tied up in China’s real estate bubble.  But it is a most interesting observation:  overwhelming interest in one particular market when it comes to individual Chinese spending power. Raises the question--how exactly is the Chinese economy supposed to develop to service such patterns of consumer demand? I have a post in the works on the subject.  Hopefully it’ll be out… sometime.

I’m not really out to China-bash myself, and I hate sometimes coming off that way.  I like the place, actually.  I prefer to think of myself in everybody’s corner, because I feel like I know enough about what it takes to produce a wealthy society that there’s really fundamentally only one way to do it, and I wish that for everybody. 

Still, if nobody bothers to point out exactly what is wrong and why it is so disastrous, rather than pooh-poohing the issue of corruption as so many do, there really isn’t much hope for real progress.

Geez, your wife drives just like mine! Does she sit up straight or lean forward grasping the wheel with both hands at all times? And glaring at the car in front? HEh HEH HEH!

Shh, Scott!  Don’t tell this to Thomas Friedman!  Why, just a few months ago he was asking an interviewer with all sincerity “Don’t you just wish we could be China for a day?” What will happen to his poor heart when he finds out China’s corrupt dictatorship is mostly good for enriching itself and shooting dissidents?

In all seriousness, you can credit China with some attempt to stimulate domestic demand—except it appears to have done so by creating a real estate bubble that dwarfs even our own.  Civil war by decade’s end is a more likely outcome than world domination.  I do not wish misery on the Chinese people, but it continues to amaze that the West’s useful idiots fall for totalitarian scams time and time again.

Good to see you back in one piece, FP!
The economy here is in deep trouble but everybody--especially the government--seems to be in deep denial about it. We’re moving to Australia and I very much doubt we’ll find a buyer for the house.

Those are chilling thoughts, GWTW.  If world class vote fraud were not a reality here today, I’d be more sanguine about the ship of state righting itself after being broadsided by a rogue wave out of nowhere.  The fraud element is a threat of unknown dimension, however.  The closer the vote, the easier it is to pull off so maybe this time around we’ll survive it.  The hostile majorities are going to be hard to finesse.

The stridency and vitriol of the leftists is more in the nature of desperation, I think.  Or at least, I pray it is.  It’s still a stretch to believe that the left “knows” that the balance tipped in their favor irrevocably and thus are acting with the confidence that stems from this knowledge.  If read leftist sites or leftist comments, the words “cogent” and “insightful” don’t ever spring to mind.  “Headlong flight from hard facts” is more like it.

No time for complacency.  Still, unlike Germany in the ‘30s, Americans live in a federal system.  What was a bona fide tipping point there would not be a tipping point here.  Too many state governments and too many informed people.  I think we’ve sobered up too much from 2008 to be likely to put up with extraconstitutional maneuvering in 2010 or 2012.

The fiscal damage that has been done is, however, enormous and it will take a lot for it to be repaired.  It may be irreparable and default or horrible inflation may be the intended objective—ignoring the necessary incredible malevolence and stupidity that that objective would entail—but I think leftists are deluding themselves if they assume that would break in their direction as the night the day.

Right you are, KG.  I’m toying with practical ways to administer the cattle prod to the Snatchers that would effect a gigantic exit from the party system.  Nothing that the best of populist thinking didn’t come up 100 years ago to be quite honest.  Still and all, think referendum, initiative, write-in, and recall—all as augmenticalated by the resources available on the web.  Something wrong with an electoral system that survives on campaign contributions.  If they basically pay for print, radio, and tv communications with the voters, why would they be necessary if voter eyeballs could be steered to places that cost nothing to consult?

Voters seem to be determined to keep this system viable alas, but surely somehow the words Tweeter (gag), FB, Google, and Typepad can be invoked to instill paralyzing fear in the hearts of the political sellout class.

I’m just sayin’.

Thanks, Rach.  Any humor in my posts is strictly unintentional, I assure you. 

I didn’t catch your last two and will.  I was at a delightful wedding with the Bedrock People and I’m telling you it was a pleasure to see the culture of normal people step smartly on.  The groom’s father didn’t leave a dry eye in the house with his speech about how much he loves his son and new daughter-in-law.  A sight to behold for even the most jaundiced, of which I’m not one.

I enjoy the weekend’s respite from the web, a practice I’ve adopted for the most part.  Too much of it makes me crazy, like spending 24 hours in the Fun House at Six Flags over Mecca.  Hoo boy!

I am a luke warm golfer.  Basically a threat to other golfers, spectators, and innocent ducks.  No golf, no stress way I see it.

I B GLAD U R BACK, brief I know but to the point.
VETTOM III
we are everywhere

There was one other spot of visible activity: the Lincoln Memorial. 

The blatant fearless way that the left has choosen to “come out” scares me.  Either they are willing to expose themselves to the world as they really are (i.e want to flood us with illegal immigrants who will vote them into office, want to use lies propaganda and the government itself to fight and stop Americans who disagree with them, etc.) OR they recognize that they have already won this and they no longer need to hide behind the veil of democracy and we are lost.  Clearly a “politic” way to deal with Fox news and conservative voters would include more shmozzing and diplomacy even as they stab us in the back.  They seem to have abandoned that as though they don’t need any of the tea party votes or independents who believe what their lying eyes see on the news.  Either the Left is correct and they have won or they have made an incredibly stupid mistake.  Will 20 million illegals become legal and all vote Democrat in the future?  Will losing this midterm election all be worth is as they secure all national elections for the next 100 years (if we last that long).  Was selling out American citizens worth it?  Time will tell but clearly the left believes it is true.

But as long as they maintain their grip on the MSM and the education system, Col. we have a damn hard row to hoe.

Finally, an article from my most favorite American humorist since Will Rogers. Nice snappy article. Did you read my last two treatises. The kind of heavy lifting that results in groin pulls. Fran popped one out that got comments in the teens, but that’s probably from the lack of pressure while on vacation. I Played golf Sunday (first time out this summer). Nine holes. Three pars. One birdie. Two snow cones (eights). I pray to the patron Saint of consistency, but suffer Garth Brooks problems. Unanswered prayers. Glad your back. Rach

Jeff, somehow I doubt any person of goodwill and integrity will need to get measured for an asbestos suit.
Just a hunch--I’m no theologian.

"We should hang together or we will surely hang separately” - where did I hear that?
I’m a functioning pantheist and yet somehow I don’t have a problem with Glen Beck’s Mormonism or Francis’ Catholicism. Or even Billy Beck’s radical whatever. I’ve got your Six and I trust you’ve got my back.

If Beck’s call to religion makes any uncomfortable, they can go to hell.

Well, Rachel, I assure you that if Christians are correct in their more, um, acerbic teachings, I will. Otherwise, well, I suppose we’ll all find out when we’re dead.

Obama’s attempt to incinerate the ideals on which this nation were founded has blown back in his face, igniting a spark of patriotic nationalism that is about to sweep the country. Those who still cling to their political correctness are about to become politically extinct. America is readying a tremendous right cross that’s going to knock the voices of hatred for American values into next week. If Beck’s call to religion makes any uncomfortable, they can go to hell. We’re going to start by sentencing the Victory Mosque to a slow and painful death. Obama tried to transform America. America is about to transform him.

"The Democrats do not have my support, but the Republicans have not yet earned it.”

Perfectly put, Jeff, couldn’t agree more.
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“...a critical vein of energy: the Christian ethos.”

Dern tootin’ Francis:  America’s achievement in creating a nation that is the living embodiment of the Judeo-Christian ethic (which is the only one that works and is humane at the same time) is the legacy that we’re ALL fighting for. 

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“even atheists like Wakey” Cheers KG

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Yep folks, we’re all in the same foxhole here.  Keep yer powder dry, there’s a tipping point coming. 

(ps - and I’m not an American.  Jeff, being that close to history, you shoulda gone, if only to represent those of us who couldn’t.  Never mind. Onward.)

The Democrats do not have my support, but the Republicans have not yet earned it. Several years of Republican control, when their message was basically “we’re just like the Democrats, but cheaper, and did we mention God?” didn’t exactly endear me to them. On balance, yes, the Republicans are less destructive. That’s not good enough. The reality is that I believe in free minds and free markets, and Beck’s brand of public religion as motive political force threatens the former, as surely as anything the Democrats do threatens the latter. Better motivations don’t help to change the outcome. And that is why Beck makes me uncomfortable. Palin’s position, which is one of private faith inseparable from anything else she does, but as a force in her own life rather than a motive force for policy, is fine. I want the tea parties to remain focused on limited government, to the exclusion of all else. Once the government’s power is essentially neutered, then I’ll feel less ... itchy ... when Beck makes the kind of statements he does.

I am of two minds on Glenn Beck.  I know he started off as an infotainer and morphed into a reasonably-astute commentator.

I like his call to return to God, the Constitution and rule of law, to balance budgets, maintain political civility.  He makes many other good points.

Yet whenever we find a politician who also embraces that view Beck savages them.

He did that to Ron Paul and he totally derailed Debra Medina’s campaign for Texas Governor through a series of vicious and puerile ad hominem attacks to both of these good people.

It is for those two defamations that I have stopped listening to him.

For if he is wrong on Ron Paul, what else is he wrong about?

Interestingly, after Ron Paul’s campaign Beck has had him on the show several times asking his opinion and generally agreeing with Paul’s views.

Too late, Glenn, you already did the damage.