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Washington : DC : USA | 2 months ago  
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  • Rules for Radicals
    Rules for Radicals
    Posted by: Redhanded101
    Rules for Radical
Rules for Radicals

If you're a virtous and patriotic American, get used to the concerted effort from the White House, Media & Loon Jobs called Liberals, to thwart your efforts and attempts to keep you from using your First Amendment Rights to put a halt to the trainwreck that has become this administration.

They are having Fits

How dare these people organize and protest against Healthcare choices & free markets.. This is so unbecoming of Americans. They can't all be law abiding well-intentioned individuals. This must be the work of narrow minded racists..Radicals or interest groups.We can't have this. This is Anarchy. Organizing & protesting is only allowed by free thinkers & ideologically sound citizens groups like Unions or Code Pink or Abortionists.

Organizing is Ok When....

Organizing & protesting takes on a new meaning when of course the President sends out e-mails to the entire nation imploring us to "Organize for America""This is the moment our movement was built for."

Organizing for America is putting together thousands of events this month," the president goes on, "where you can reach out to neighbors, show your support, and make certain your members of Congress know that you're counting on them to act."

Hypocrisy all the time

It is so easy to point out the hypocrisy of Democrats & Liberals and how they ridicule any well meant & oraganized grass-roots movements by concerned citizens. If you protest against the runaway spending and the trillions being added to our debt, you are now some kind of radical or racist. If you protest against the takeover of 1/6th of our economy by a bunch of beancounters that can't even run a tiny program to give away cars for free correctly, you are labeled as ignorant and out of touch.

In this new way of thinking, if you have the guts to ask a legislator if they have read the bills they sign, you are a Right Wing Nut. This is the Radical Way of thinking. This is the Left's version of the Constitution. Rules for Radicals. They have been taught well.

My guess is that many Liberals have never read the Constitution or care to. They don't believe in it. They can quote from Saul Alinsky and their playbook , Rules for Radicals, but they will not defend our Constitution. Which clearly states:

That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Putting the playbook to work

Instead, the Left uses tactics right out of their founding father's version of the Constitution, Rules for Radicals. It is how they try and get things done. It is how a President learned his craft and is now applying some of the same tactics . Liberals could not be happier.

They have learned their lessons well - Two in particular come to mind:

1. Rule#5 - "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." There is no defense. It's irrational. It's infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? Heard the ridicules? Angry Mobs, Racists, Ignorants, Radicals. Sound Familiar?)

2. Rule#12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works. These personal attacks on Teaparty Protestors has crystallized this. The support network, is non existent. There is no Media coverag of these Protests because the media is complicit with this administration.)

I can name a couple of Allvocies contributors that are mastering these two rules. They have them down to a tee. But you know who you are and I will save you the embarrassment.

Through it all, us Radicals & Racists as we have been labeled, have made significant progress and have brought about change.

Our small & tiny group of organized protestors have brought to light the abuses of Acorn and they will finally be defunded by the federal Government.

We have exposed the Radicalism and treasonous diatribes of our wondefrul ex-Green Jobs Czar Van Jones. he is no longer on the tax payer rolls. The focus has shifted to talk of vetting and having the rest of these czars go through Confirmation hearings and bring about the transparency that Barack Obama promised.

We have opened the dialogue on Death Panels and the concerns of many Seniors on this matter. It is no longer part of any Healthcare Bill.

We have started a conversation on Illegal immigrants and the extent to which they would be covered.

And the biggest concession to date has been the backtracking of any Public Option or government option to any Healthcare Bill being proposed. It is safe to say, that the Trophy piece of the Liberal agenda to include a Public option is dead.

We have started a conversation on Tort Reform and interstate commerce amongst Insurers . All of these things would have never been brought about if it were not for those pesky " radicals & racists" who thought enough of their country and it's future.

So, to all of those who bravely stand up and protest for the causes of many Americans across the country, I salute you.

References:

Realclearpolitics

Wall Street Journal

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Posted By firesisle firesisle | 2 months ago
Good job Red; what you say is spot on. If American people had allowed the original version of the legislation to fast track, we'd now be on course for a major train wreck.
Reply By Redhanded101 Redhanded101 | 2 months ago
Fireside,We should all be grateful to these people that take time away from their families, jobs and personal interests to represent each and every American citizen that wants to see our politicians held accountable. People should not sell their souls for something they don't believe in return for short term acceptance or fear of retribution. This is about putting our country first not about putting any President first.It is a total disgrace at how the media in this country has allowed this to go unchecked for so long. I'd be damned if I'm going to allow anyone to smear or belittle the efforts of so many that have chosen to say enough is enough. What people need to do is use the power of the vote and vote out all of these bums we call politicians that are selling their souls and throwing their constituents under the bus for the sake of staying in power.
Reply By firesisle firesisle | 2 months ago
I'm with you on that. No President should fear being held accountable for their actions, nor should anybody else have any objections to it.

Accountability is the most important component of competent administration.
Reply By amalgam80 amalgam80 | 2 months ago
"What people need to do is use the power of the vote and vote out all of these bums we call politicians that are selling their souls and throwing their constituents under the bus for the sake of staying in power."

I could have sworn the American people just did that last year. Isn't there another year before we do that again?
Reply By firesisle firesisle | 2 months ago
That's why we're starting early. That's how it gets done.
Posted By amalgam80 amalgam80 | 2 months ago
Hey about the Constitution, I know you think I'm a liberal and all but I do know a few things about the Constitution. One of the things I know is that it gave Congress a few powers.

Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution:

"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States..."

"general Welfare", it can be argued and is argued, is why the Congress has the authority to introduce a public option and even a single payer system.

It is the reason why Obama and healthcare reform is not Russia like socailism or communism, it is American style Democracy. The Constitution supports what the right is coining "socialized medicine". Though the public option is not that. It is socialized health care insurance.
Reply By firesisle firesisle | 2 months ago
There's nothing "American style" about democracy; it was specifically avoided by the founders of the US, in favor of a constitutional republic. Democracy is just another form of tyranny, whereby 51 dictate to the other 49. Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, all hated democracy and railed against it.

"general Welfare" can be argued until you're blue in the face. It would probably take a Constitutional lawyer to really interpret that correctly... here's an except from the Cornell University Law School site:

"The grant of power to “provide . . . for the general welfare” raises a two–fold question: How may Congress provide for “the general welfare” and what is “the general welfare” that it is authorized to promote? The first half of this question was answered by Thomas Jefferson in his opinion on the Bank as follows: '[T]he laying of taxes is the power, and the general welfare the purpose for which the power is to be exercised. They [Congress] are not to lay taxes ad libitum for any purpose they please; but only to pay the debts or provide for the welfare of the Union. In like manner, they are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare, but only to lay taxes for that purpose.'”

It appears to me that they would be completely within their authority to institute an equally apportioned excise tax to pay for public health care, but denied the authority to create the public health care system, with that being reserved for the states. That's just my interpretation, however, and I'm certainly not a lawyer...
Reply By smartcookie1962 smartcookie1962 | 2 months ago
My favorite questions: Can you think of a better way? What is your brilliant idea?

Prove, in ORIGINAL documentation, that any of the afore mentioned members of the 2nd Continental Congress and our first few Presidents and the writers of the Constitution ever "railed" against democracy. They knew that it wasn't perfect, they understood it's challenges, but they could not deny that it is the only best way to avoid tyrrany and dictatiorship. You think you know more than they did? The only thing they did not anticipate was the Professional Politician.
Reply By Redhanded101 Redhanded101 | 2 months ago
Amalgam,

We all know that the government must collect taxes to run it's business. It is the excessive spending and misuse of taxpayer dollars that people are upset about. All the Pork Barrel spending, the Stimulus pkgs, Bailouts, Entitlement Programs, Earmarks for corrupt organizations like Acorn and La Raza and Planned parenthood. All of this stuff is wasteful spending and it has to be reigned in. This country will be bankrupt in a few years at the pace that this administration is printing money.
On top of all of this, we want to tack on another 1.6 trillion to revamp a Healthcare system that works 85% of the time.

Where does it end?
Reply By amalgam80 amalgam80 | 2 months ago
You see Red this is the only real argument the conservatives have and it is this argument they should stick to. The money is the problem. Funding is the problem. Stick with that while criticizing the government and the liberals.

The name calling and hyperbolic statements do not help anyone in this discussion.

So you want to discuss the money, I'm sure you've heard the arguments before.

The money will come from cutting back from other places in the budget. There won't be a Bush tax cut any longer, that will be a giant chunk of money. I know you just read that article about money in Swiss bank accounts and how the Americans are trying to get money from offshore accounts to be taxed. There will be alot of money coming in from there. The wrapping up of the Iraq War, Even it is not really a wrap up but an extreme cutting of the duties and forces, will save the U.S. some money to give toward health care.

Just these three things combined can pay for the healthcare reform bill(now i don't have a calculator handy but)two or three times over.

The Bush tax cut did not come from the budget, the money was borrowed from China to give these tax breaks. The said tax cut's ten year cost to the government is equivalent to the cost of ten years of the healthcare proposal. The tax cut is higher than the healthcare reform if you include the interest we pay to the Chinese for the money we borrowed.

Stimulus packages, bail outs, ear marks, pork is really for these things. I want to know when I will start to see the benefits of bailing out those big banks. I know what I was told were the reasons for the bail outs, but I want proof that it had real effects. I want the proof. But I also know that the proof takes sometime to see and it is just too early to see how the stimulus helps main street. That's just how economics works.

In order to make sure that banks are more stable they need to hold more money in the banks than they did before. That means tighter credit. Which may not be that bad of a thing at the moment. There are many that would take out loans right now, default on them and cause even a deeper problem. Credit needs to be tight a bit longer.

But when that starts to loosen up, but i hope not to the standards they were prior to the recession, then the jobs will start to form. It's a waiting game. it is just too early to pass judgement on the Stimulus plans of both Bush and Obama.

Now entitlement...I know there is no way we are going to agree on that topic, so I'm just going to ignore it.

Oh and if the government is saying that the healthcare reform will take 1.6 trillion dollars for the first ten years. I'm sure the real cost of the revamp will be around 3 trillion over the ten year period. But after that it will be a lot cheaper. And yes, even with the 3 trillion dollar number I think the government has enough money around to deal with it.

I have data to back up that claim, but I just don't feel like getting it right now.
Posted By smartcookie1962 smartcookie1962 | 2 months ago
Again with your conservative vitriol Red! You don't persuade! Your short term memory loss is showing. Wasn't it Cheney that was going on about if you aren't with us you're against us, "Patriotic" suspicions, serious infringement on the laws of the Constituution? blah, blah, blah.

Both sides are seriously flawed with loud mouths like yours and Nancy and Rush! You bring up Bushes tax cuts...He sold us out to China. You scream about the bail outs...there would have been no need for bailouts had the government agencies in charge had been paying attention instead of lining their pockets while distracting Joe and Betty Six-Pack with terrorism. Don't you find it interesting that just at the end of the previous administration gas prices went soaring out the roof giving oil companies billions in profits...Cheney, Haliburton isn't that floating around in your brain somewhere? Hmmm, Nixon was running a Soviet bugging operation out of the basement of the White House.

The current administration is only trying to deal with the residuals of years of political abuse, poor policy making, and worst of all neglect. Like the Bush administration, Obama is trying to do what he and those that believe like he does, which by the way is the other half of America, is best. I hate to burst your bubble but this is not some kind of socialist coup or hostile take over. You are just full of yourself. Really, you need to read a little more than one side. You need to have a little empathy for those less fortunate than yourself and you definitely need to realize you do not have the ABSOLUTE!
Reply By Redhanded101 Redhanded101 | 2 months ago
Smartcookie,

You obviously have drank the Obama koolaid. Unfortunately for you I have not.
I am not alone in this frame of thought, there are millions of other concerned Americans that have the same fears.
Reply By smartcookie1962 smartcookie1962 | 2 months ago
Redhanded,
I haven't been drinking anything, I don't agree with everything that Obama's doing, and you have just proved my point about extremists on the right, when you can't persuade with your arguements, you are reduced to belittling and demeaning challengers who can make just as valid opposing points as yourself. You are just like Ann Coulter, you can dish it out but you can't take it.
Anything you may have gotten across to me has now lost all credibility. You come off as a paranoid man that has bought into the conspiracies the right has created to keep themselves in power, just like the extremist Liberals have created their own myths to keep themselves in power. That is why we have the checks and balances of 3 legislative branches of government. I trust in that! Not the parties, not the politicians, but the wisdom of the Constitution that keeps you or anyone else from imposing your crap on the rest of us. That is why I remain an independent voter and why neither party speaks for me.
Reply By amalgam80 amalgam80 | 2 months ago
fears based on lies and half-truths they keep repeating to themselves.

Red you seem very intelligent, yet at the sametime I really have doubts. I am surprised at the blinders you have on that have skewed everything around you. Your political views seem to me based in fear and anger and nothing else.

All you mention is how angry and how afraid you are and then act as if the reasons for your fears are rational.

Keep on writing your articles, I'll keep critiqing them.
Reply By Redhanded101 Redhanded101 | 2 months ago
A,

You seem stuck in a cumbaya bubble full of smily faces. The reality is that it isnot only I that is concerned, it is millions across this country. I am only one voice and as I said, I call it like I see it. You may not agree, but I think that a lot of people including Democrats have a lot of apprehension about the direction that this country is going.

Americans are finally realizing that thier freedoms are slowly being taken away from them, and they want to put a stop to it.
I applaud each & every single one of them.
Reply By smartcookie1962 smartcookie1962 | 2 months ago
If government would operate like a business, we would not be in this mess. That's not Obama's fault! That's congress! This has been coming long before Obama got into office. this is the accumulation of years and years of abuses and neglects by our elected officials.
Posted By smartcookie1962 smartcookie1962 | 2 months ago
Redhanded, exactly what have you been caught red-handed doing? Twice now you have resorted to belittling voices that disagree with you in total. You don't make your case or if you do, you are disqualified with prejudice.

Don't bother responding, I'm not listening anyway! And that my friend, is your own fault.
Reply By smartcookie1962 smartcookie1962 | 2 months ago
His intelligence is very lopsided. Red needs to hug a tree. LOL If Red feels that his freedoms are being taken away from him perhaps he should discuss the Patriot Act and all of its implications. Gee, wasn't that a Republican thing?

I'm tired of this man, he's not a help, he's a hinderence.
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