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• More Saul Alinsky stories: here
• Rules for Radicals at amazon.com
• Rules for Radical Conservatives at at amazon.com
Individual liberty anywhere is a threat to the Progressive-Collectivist Cause everywhere.
In 2008, we elected a man who promised us “a net spending cut,” a guy who would go “line by line” through the budget with steely eyes under his green eyeshade and trim Washington down to the bone. We elected — we thought we elected — a tough man to do a tough job. Who is soft, Mr. President, the electorate who went crazy for the tough guy, or the president who broke his promises while refusing to make a single tough decision about spending?(from pajamasmedia.com)I saw the rise of a new political movement, a new Tea Party. This Tea Party didn’t throw fits. The rest of American didn’t have to endure tantrums as they went out on the streets, Greek-style, to demand more and more largess. No. They assembled peacefully, quietly, and asked you to do less to try and “help” them. That doesn’t seem soft to me, Mr. President.
I watched them endure taunts from your allies, and even from you, Mr. President. Your side called them wackos and nutjobs and racists and everything else in the book. And they endured the insults with a quiet determination worthy of John Wayne or Gary Cooper. But these weren’t brawny actors on the safety of a movie set. They were normal Americans who had decided they’d had enough, political neophytes going up against the best the Democrats and Republicans had to offer.
Then I saw them go to the voting booths last November to wage one of the most effective — and polite — revolutions in American political history. Their message:
Make the tough decisions, Mr. President. Stop taxing and spending and borrowing and regulating this great country out of existence. We aren’t Europe — we don’t want to be coddled!
A note for those of you masked Marxists who may be reading this on the laptops that were created by ‘evil’ capitalists, here’s some food for thought: The Tea Party people you disparage hate the Big Bank Bailouts as much as you do.(full story from laborunionreport at redstate.com)The difference is, they know you cannot consume more than you produce (either as an individual or a nation); whereas, your ideology is to consume what others have produced in the name of ‘social justice’ and ‘fairness.’
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Tiberias massacre: Arabs murder 20 Jews (1938)
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b: Paul von Hindenburg (1897), Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. (1937); d: Samuel Adams (1803), Peter J. Brennan (1996), John Dunlop (2003)