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  1. I just sent the following e-mail to my Congress Critters. They may not listen, but there is a movement afoot, even in the People’s Republic of Puget Sound, to defeat these rascals if they continnue on their present course.

    “I am a retired 76 year old Navy pilot and airline pilot. I’ve always been a voter and tried to stay informed about political issues. However, I’ve never been involved in any kind of protest on the streets……..until now! In the last few months I have participated in two TEA Parties and two Healthcare Reform protests. Never did I ever think I would be involved in such a thing. Let me tell you why I have taken to the streets.
    !. I don’t feel my elected representatives are listening to me.
    2. I don’t feel my elected representatives are paying any attention to the Constitution.
    3. I am frightened that this Democrat controlled Congress is out of control as far as fiscal responsibility goes. You folks are spending too much money! And it’s most all borrowed money! You give drunken sailors (I know because I was one once) a bad name – at least we were spending our own money.
    4. You people are passing bills (The stimulus bill, the omnibus budget bill, the Waxman-Markey bill) that you haven’t read. You have become so reckless in your legislative work and fiscal duties that I, and many other good citizens like me, are alarmed.
    5. We, unlike many of your colleagues, have read HR 3200 and found its provisions alarming and primarily aimed at producing – over a period of time – a single payer health insurance system run by the government. When we look at single payer systems in Canada, England, and other countries we don’t like what we see. Which is primarily rationing based on bureaucratic decrees. We also do not see how it reduces healthcare costs. These things alarm us!
    6. You, your Democrat colleagues, and President Obama seem to be intent on passing this healthcare reform over the objections of a majority of citizens. This alarms us!

    I am just one voice, but I have found others who see the issues much as I do and we have met freely, openly, and publicly to petition you, our representatives, to hear our voices. Yet, your Speaker has called us hired demonstrators, astro-turfers, or even Nazis. We citizens are shocked and insulted that our representatives would be so disdainful of the voluntary and peaceable assembly of citizens. Shame on Speaker Pelosi and others who have deigned to insult us.

    Let me tell you this. The actions of this Democrat controlled Congress have stirred anger and resentment among citizens who much prefer to worry about other things. But you have, by your actions, (innumerated above) given us no other choice. We are in this to the end. November 2010 is fast approaching, and we are working to retire those who don’t listen to the voters.”

  2. I am still stunned at how much damage he has done in just half a year since his inauguration.

    To think that we have three and a half more to go, and possibly four more beyond that, is downright depressing.

    I hope that the 2010 elections deliver some kind of correction, but we’re still literally in the early stages of this presidency. Sadly.

  3. I think [Obama] believed, however, that he could be successful in pushing his agenda through despite its unpopularity, if he managed to do so fast enough and furiously enough.

    That is pretty clear.

    The fact that no one has corrected Gibbs’s claim that Obama is “quite comfortable” being a one-term president means that must be true too.

    In the past month the picture of Obama has gained far greater focus.

    Obama is indeed a leftist ideologue willing to sacrifice his second-term to remake America to his vision. Furthermore he has no compunctions about running roughshod over the high-minded principles of honesty, transparency, bipartisanship, post-racialness and unity on which he campaigned.

    So ideology trumps narcissism. I got that one wrong. And it does make him a more dangerous person.

  4. The good news, though, is that America is not a left-wing country and it will not accept the rough rule of a leftist ideologue president.

    Obama has revealed himself and squandered most of his political capital in a mere seven months.

    He may pull a few head fakes, but otherwise I believe he will continue to double-down to get his way, as in the latest move of his administration to set the dogs of Holder and the DOJ on the CIA. That will backfire too.

  5. huxley: It was an understandable error, since Obama is also very much a narcissist. But for quite a while his performance as President has indicated the sorry truth that he is an idealogue above all else.

    That doesn’t mean he couldn’t reverse course somewhat, if only for strategic and temporary reasons, because he might calculate that he has revealed his true nature a bit too much.

  6. Obama may have revealed himself but America’s ethical violations and delusions that lead to Obama’s throne is still here and very much prospering.

  7. I do not believe he can neo.

    He believes in his ideology so much that it will pain him to do otherwise.

    I hope I’m wrong.

  8. I posted this quote before from Richard Epstein, a law prof colleague of Obama’s in Chicago.

    His positions are not close to the middle, and so he sees no reason to compromise with Republicans unless and until they can mount a veto threat in the Senate. He is very, very dogmatic about his substantive positions. He knows what he believes and he knows why he believes it, and it is extremely difficult for people on the outside to change his mind.

    It seems more true than ever. Thank you, Prof. Epstein.

  9. Let us pray that our politicians’ most important goal in life, to stay in office, will remain paramount. With the ire of “the silent majority” becoming manifest and their actually taking notice, this turkey is hopefully going nowhere.

  10. Given his takeover of the census, his appointment of dozens of unaccountable czars, and ACORN gaining billions in tax money for their election activities, I don’t believe that Obama is worried about future elections.

    I guess we’ll have to wait and see whether Congress rams through the government takeover of healthcare. If they do, then that means they aren’t worried either.

  11. Obama and the Democrats will never stop pursuing their Marxist agenda until the entire country is under their thumbs. They will always grasp for the fruit of your labor. They are rapacious, rejecting all limits. “Not for me, but for thee” is their slogan. The question is this: Do you still want to be free men and women, or do you want to be serfs of the state?

  12. Maybe some legal types could start legal proceedings against legislators who pass bills without reading them.

    Surely there are laws against “dereliction of duty” or whatever.

  13. If you believe Obama is “quite comfortable” being a one-term president, I have a bridge I can sell you.

  14. Steve: I agree that he’s not the least bit comfortable with it.

    But I have come to believe that he’d rather be a one-termer than give up his far Left agenda.

    I always believe he thinks he can have both. If necessary, though some ACORN plus census machinations.

  15. I will bet money that his current poll numbers and general unhappiness with his performance are being concealed by his staff, possibly involving fear of reprisal. I doubt he will have any idea of the shifting mood of the country.
    In his mind its just special interests “manufacturing it” and besides he has a mandate to change everything in his image, after all, its what the voters wanted.

  16. CV Says:

    To think that we have three and a half more to go, and possibly four more beyond that, is downright depressing.

    It could be longer than that if Rep. Serrano (D-NJ) gets a repeal of the 22nd Amendement passed. He’s pushed it for years, but with a Dem Congress, passage of a repeal is now possible. Just like Chavez, we could have Emperor For Life Obama!

  17. Welcome, huxley. Obama is and has always been best understood as a quasi-Marxist quasi-academic of no particular distinction other than a pleasant speaking voice. You and I should lift a glass to the shade of FredHjr.

  18. It is my fervent hope that he will resign before his first term is up. When Congress is reorganized next year he will no longer have the willing participants he needs to advance his agenda and he will quickly lose interest. He will give some spectacular speech about racism, stir up a race war and then drop it all in Joe Biden’s lap.

  19. If they dont stop them for violating the constitution to irrelevency they certainly arent going to prosecute themselves for deriliction of anything. at that point what is their duty?

  20. Supposedly, 53% now oppose Obamacare. If his 52% win was a mandate, wouldn’t that make opposition to Obamacare a “mandate” as well?

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