A Remarkable Day

[maxparrish]

I find yesterday’s events remarkable, if not unprecedented. When has a grassroots effort demolished landmark legislation much against the will of our Senate, it’s difficult to remember anything quite so truely grassroots and yet so powerful (perhaps the temperance movement?).

In what seemed like a “Mad as hell and we won’t take it anymore” moment (an event wherein reality imitates art) the revolutionary dreams of the '60s radicals of participatory democracy and the unfettered free speech movement was fulfilled, not by the Left, but by conservatives.

Think of it. The left’s idea of grassroots has been Hollywood soirees, academic conferences passing resolutions, MSM sympathy stories, and non-profit activists sallying forth with foundation money to declare what the people want. When a cause or person became a target, one has been as likey to get ‘the people’ protests with the likes of Daryl Hannah living in a tree as a stack of condemnations from alphabet organizations (NOW, NAACP, etc.) - all this being their ersatz ‘grassroots’.

In contrast, we had no 1000 dollar a plate fund raisers, no Hollywood celebrities, no political party support, little support in the press, and just a few ‘expert’ organizations to assist (e.g. American Heritage Foundation). All we had were millions of angry citizens, talk show hosts, and Internet blogs. Even our Senate supporters were drab unknowns going up against both the Senate leadership and the President.

Still, none of this should strike us as unusual, this is what the founders expected of the early Republic - hundreds of independent presses churning out the people’s will and directing the people’s servants. Free speech was the root of democracy and liberty, the ability to express the people’s will was more than a right, it was a Republican duty.

Many of our Senate are angry, and demanding accountability - to bring the revolt leaders to heel. Former radical John Kerry, and Chamber of Commerce Republican Trent Lott are calling for our return to servile deference, to return to our supplication. They have reason to fear, all this free speech and participation has chilled the people’s betters and stung them with a grand old American belief that just because you have a title it does not make you any better or brighter than your fellow citizen.

This is revolutionary to our Senate Imperium.

Have no doubt, the Senators will strike back. They have had their way for at least a half century and will not tolerate old style reform movements and new style free speech. And the more we exert our will without them, the more harsh the retribution will be.

But till then enjoy the sun - the masters in our imperial Senate have faced the revolt of the slaves, and they will demand to know which of us is the Sparticus that defied the will of the Senate, who ought to be held to be punished for this rebellion.

And there are a million of us worthy of standing up and declaring “I am, I am Sparticus”.

[Wyatt_Junker]

Listening to Ted Kennedy literally GO OFF yesterday upon learning of the sinking of the amnesty legislation was more than eerie. This guy when into full-on diva mode worse than a Whitney Houston post-crack meltdown.

He sounded nearly evangelical as his emotional eruption of accusatory tones took on more and more momentum, still not fully believing that democracy itself could usurp his pet agenda. Did anyone hear him on Univision sing that Mexican song on Rush the other day? This guy isn't just off his rocker, he's off his meds.

Anyway, regarding fattie's rant yesterday it went something like this: "This is a dark dark day in American politics where the will of the few can hold the rest of us hostage. This important piece of legislation would have been the key to a stronger America."

And further, "I have a question, America, how are you going to enforce legal immigration? How are you going to hunt down 18 million people? Are you going to hire A GESTAPO to go around and yank these poor, poor people from their living rooms at gunpoint? I WANT TO KNOW! You who were against this bill, what are you going to do now?"

Yes, that's right, by inference he associated all of us with the 'gestapo'. Let's do a little word search shall we?

Ge·sta·po (gə-stä'pō, -shtä'-) Pronunciation Key

n.

1. The German internal security police as organized under the Nazi regime, known for its terrorist methods directed against those suspected of treason or questionable loyalty.

2. gestapo pl. ge·sta·pos A police organization that employs terroristic methods to control a populace.

And there you have it. That's how T.K. thinks of all you yahoos out there. As uncreative and cliched as it gets, we are nazis for opposing the softening of our laws. We are backers of some kind of invisible gestapo! We are the luftwaffe from on high bombing his pet legislation.

This is the sound of a child in a grown man's body(or what should be two men's bodies). Piss & vinegar.

This is what the sound of the left is, broken down, screaming and whining in their own shit.

Even after Ted Kennedy took off his sombrero after his Univision publicity stunt, and walked back to the bar for another fifth of tequila, he still couldn't shake it off, as the lyrics of that Beck song overtook him, I am a loser.

[Wolfcounsel]

"Have no doubt, the Senators will strike back. They have had their way for at least a half century and will not tolerate old style reform movements and new style free speech. And the more we exert our will without them, the more harsh the retribution will be." --maxparrish

And they can kiss my ass! They will be hobbled if necessary! Also, they were NEVER "the people's betters". Never will be! And they can tattoo that on their asses. Ted Kennedy on his fat ass with a four inch wide needle!

[Maggie_T]

Yes, Teddy's PMS-like hysterics were a pleasure to hear. :evilgrin: Talk about pulling a tantrum. How dare lesser mortals like us stand in his way!

This drunken sod has outlived his usefulness a long, long, long time ago.

[Lazarus]

Only a handful of Senators will try this vengence... Only those who over the last few weeks have tried desperately to raise themselves as kings over us...

Mitch McConnell has lost control of the loose canons on the Pub side... Those even-headed Pubs who are still in the Senate need to seriously consider electing a new minority leader - McConnell is not in control...

McCain has been building his little fifedom for several years now, and Trent Lott is as out of touch with reality as Ted Kennedy is... As noisy and ridiculous as kennedy is, Trent Lott enrages me with his open, blatant hatred and betrayal for those who put him in the Senate... Lott is the Senatorial schoolyard bully - The state of Mississippi needs to send him home to the swamps...

And Lindsey Gramnesty is a slithering snake - all smooth and compremising - but compremising with the enemy... What gave Gramnesty they idea that Republicans were sent by the Right to do deals with the devil?

What burns me the most from yesterday's victory are all the media talkin heads who are blaming/crediting Rush fo stirring up the unwashed masses... I was listening to Fox News yesterday when Britt Hume was hashing it out with the "panel of experts"...

If I had been there I would have turned over their table and started an all-day-butt-kicking-with-dinner-on-the-ground! Fred, Mort, and Myra insulted the American people in a continuous condescending analysis of how Rush Limbaugh is leading us along like rats and how he used us to kill good legistlation... Britt Hume was the only one trying to look at the situation objectively...

THEY DON'T GET IT! Listen up you media whores: THIS IS OUR GOVERNMENT - THEY SERVE AT OUR PLEASURE - WE, THE PEOPLE, STOPPED THIS ABOMINATION...!!!!:flame:

[Maggie_T]

What burns me the most from yesterday's victory are all the media talkin heads who are blaming/crediting Rush fo stirring up the unwashed masses... I was listening to Fox News yesterday when Britt Hume was hashing it out with the "panel of experts"...

If I had been there I would have turned over their table and started an all-day-butt-kicking-with-dinner-on-the-ground! Fred, Mort, and Myra insulted the American people in a continuous condescending analysis of how Rush Limbaugh is leading us along like rats and how he used us to kill good legistlation... Britt Hume was the only one trying to look at the situation objectively...



Yes, I heard them, too. And they pissed me off royally, too. What part of "the vast majority of Americans - on both sides of the political aisle, I may add - were against this travesty" didn't these morons get? :flame:

With folks like that on Fox, who needs CNN, ABC, CBS, and all the rest of the bullshit media? :flame:

[Riverboat]

I couldn't help laughing as Tedster continued ranting. His voice reminded me of Cartman. Come to think of it, he looks like him, too.

http://nellodesign.com/nellysdiary/permanentpics/cartman.jpg

[Lazarus]

Yes, I heard them, too. And they pissed me off royally, too. What part of "the vast majority of Americans - on both sides of the political aisle, I may add - were against this travesty" didn't these morons get? :flame:

With folks like that on Fox, who needs CNN, ABC, CBS, and all the rest of the bullshit media? :flame:Im done with Fred Barnes - I've lost all respect for that moron... He and Mort Kondrake have their little love-fest show they call the "Beltway Boys", which is indicative of where the problem rises from - They live INSIDE the beltway and are utterly disconnected with America... They are little goldfish who think the confines of their bowl is the full extent of the world... What a bunch of asses...:flame:

I was screaming at the radio saying, "You bastards wouldn't be saying that shit if Charles Krauthammer was sitting there!!!"

On the lighter side......... Boat, you're killin me over here...:rotflmbo:

[MrSanity]

I couldn't help laughing as Tedster continued ranting. His voice reminded me of Cartman. Come to think of it, he looks like him, too.

http://nellodesign.com/nellysdiary/permanentpics/cartman.jpgI couldn't resist such a worthless waste of time...

[Lazarus]

:rotflmbo::roar::biglaugh:

All he needs is a button that reads "Hey little girl - Wanna ride in my car? The road along the river is beautiful in the moonlight.."

[Timberwolf]

"Have no doubt, the Senators will strike back. They have had their way for at least a half century and will not tolerate old style reform movements and new style free speech. And the more we exert our will without them, the more harsh the retribution will be." --maxparrish

And they can kiss my ass! They will be hobbled if necessary! Also, they were NEVER "the people's betters". Never will be! And they can tattoo that on their asses. Ted Kennedy on his fat ass with a four inch wide needle!
Kiss my ass, my hairy, lilly white Irish ass. :smirk:

He needs to suck on the business end of a .40cal S&W...maybe if the Chevas does its work properly, one day soon, he will.

Someone said it the other day...Booth & Sirhan both shot the wrong Kennedy...too bad someone didn't go for the trifecta 40 years ago.

This scum-sucking beached whale needs to be put down like the rabid dog he is. :evilgrin:

[Timberwolf]

Only a handful of Senators will try this vengence... Only those who over the last few weeks have tried desperately to raise themselves as kings over us...

Mitch McConnell has lost control of the loose canons on the Pub side... Those even-headed Pubs who are still in the Senate need to seriously consider electing a new minority leader - McConnell is not in control...

McCain has been building his little fifedom for several years now, and Trent Lott is as out of touch with reality as Ted Kennedy is... As noisy and ridiculous as kennedy is, Trent Lott enrages me with his open, blatant hatred and betrayal for those who put him in the Senate... Lott is the Senatorial schoolyard bully - The state of Mississippi needs to send him home to the swamps...

And Lindsey Gramnesty is a slithering snake - all smooth and compremising - but compremising with the enemy... What gave Gramnesty they idea that Republicans were sent by the Right to do deals with the devil?

What burns me the most from yesterday's victory are all the media talkin heads who are blaming/crediting Rush fo stirring up the unwashed masses... I was listening to Fox News yesterday when Britt Hume was hashing it out with the "panel of experts"...

If I had been there I would have turned over their table and started an all-day-butt-kicking-with-dinner-on-the-ground! Fred, Mort, and Myra insulted the American people in a continuous condescending analysis of how Rush Limbaugh is leading us along like rats and how he used us to kill good legistlation... Britt Hume was the only one trying to look at the situation objectively...

THEY DON'T GET IT! Listen up you media whores: THIS IS OUR GOVERNMENT - THEY SERVE AT OUR PLEASURE - WE, THE PEOPLE, STOPPED THIS ABOMINATION...!!!!:flame:
:claps::claps::claps:

Right on, bro'!!

[maxparrish]

Listening to Ted Kennedy literally GO OFF yesterday upon learning of the sinking of the amnesty legislation was more than eerie. This guy when into full-on diva mode worse than a Whitney Houston post-crack meltdown.

He sounded nearly evangelical as his emotional eruption of accusatory tones took on more and more momentum, still not fully believing that democracy itself could usurp his pet agenda. ...

Anyway, regarding fattie's rant yesterday it went something like this: "This is a dark dark day in American politics where the will of the few can hold the rest of us hostage. This important piece of legislation would have been the key to a stronger America." ...
" I WANT TO KNOW! You who were against this bill, what are you going to do now?"

... As uncreative and clichéd as it gets, we are nazis for opposing the softening of our laws. We are backers of some kind of invisible gestapo! We are the luftwaffe from on high bombing his pet legislation.

This is the sound of a child in a grown man's body(or what should be two men's bodies). ...Even after Ted Kennedy took off his sombrero after his Univision publicity stunt, and walked back to the bar for another fifth of tequila, he still couldn't shake it off, as the lyrics of that Beck song overtook him, I am a loser.

Wyatt's insight is exhaustive of his subject - but it is unusually brief because there is so little of Ted Kennedy to analyze. He is (as his biography amply demonstrates) neither bright, nor complex, nor entertaining. A dull student, a drunk, a sexual predator, a glutton, a careless killer, and a man without any virtue in his public service or his marriage, and having most of the classic sins. And unlike Byrd, he has always existed in a grey twilight without consequence for good or evil, except on the occasion he advances the destruction of America with monstrous immigration policies.

What bothers us about 'Cape Cod Orca' is his buffoonery - his red faced rage of cliques layered on his unreflective and shallow soul. There is nothing of substance within the man, unpeel his few layers and there is no core. He is not even a ranting lunatic - he is much worse, he is a ranting bore.

But there he is - every six years he is sent to the Senate to represent the home of our revolution. A tragic insult to our history.

[Riverboat]

[T]here is so little of Ted Kennedy to analyze. He is (as his biography amply demonstrates) neither bright, nor complex, nor entertaining. A dull student, a drunk, a sexual predator, a glutton, a careless killer, and a man without any virtue in his public service or his marriage, and having most of the classic sins. And unlike Byrd, he has always existed in a grey twilight without consequence for good or evil, except on the occasion he advances the destruction of America with monstruous immigration policies. Bullseye! I can't remember the last time I read so much in so few words. This is worthy of recognition. Maybe even a Pulitzer Prize.

And I fixed the spelling of monstruous at no extra charge! ;)

[DesertFox]

Have no doubt, the Senators will strike back But the Roberts bench (http://www.freeconservatives.com/vb/showthread.php?t=48746) is in our corner.

[Riverboat]

Ssssh! It's sposed to be a secret!

[maxparrish]

Only a handful of Senators will try this vengence... Only those who over the last few weeks have tried desperately to raise themselves as kings over us...

Mitch McConnell has lost control of the loose canons on the Pub side...

McCain has been building his little fifedom for several years now, and Trent Lott is as out of touch with reality as Ted Kennedy is... a schoolyard bully.

And Lindsey Gramnesty is a slithering snake - all smooth and compremising - but compremising with the enemy...

... Fred, Mort, and Myra insulted the American people in a continuous condescending analysis of how Rush Limbaugh is leading us along like rats and how he used us to kill good legistlation... Britt Hume was the only one trying to look at the situation objectively...

THEY DON'T GET IT! Listen up you media whores: THIS IS OUR GOVERNMENT - THEY SERVE AT OUR PLEASURE - WE, THE PEOPLE, STOPPED THIS ABOMINATION...!!!!:flame:

It seems that they do not yet have the power to suppress us - and if we return to our political hovels, and doff our hats and step off the sidewalk into the street at their passing they will return to self reassured pontification, and denial...and stay the lash.

Fred, Mort, and Myra are also threatened - they are little more that the the tiny scavenger fish that follow the great sharks, or at worst loyal gadflys. They fear the people as much as any Senator, and crave to be thought of as 'important' to the great Republic. Elitists and syncophants...

But we are watching - a million men and women who tasted freedom...each of us a Sparticus...we the people.

[maxparrish]

By the way, having been caught screaming at the Radio myself I appreciate Laz's point. And yes Mr.Sanity, I think Cartman is a dead on analogy.

And Timber, I also liked your 'white Irish ass' (although I'd not like to kiss it) rant. A small correction, you meant "Oswald" not Booth - but you are right. The stupidest and least moral brother survived. Thankfully Teddy was not a part of the Cuban Missle Crisis team (as were the two older brothers). We would have been singing in Russian and Spanish with a Cuban dialect much sooner.

[BuckeyeMike]

No we wouldn't......I was shipped down to within 90 miles of Cuba as the "Crises" unfolded.....Uncle Nikky didn't have a chance.....guess he heard I was on duty.... and "blinked"!

[Riverboat]

Im done with Fred Barnes - I've lost all respect for that moron... On the lighter side......... Boat, you're killin me over here...:rotflmbo:Glad I could amuse you. Someone should put that cartoon in a car driving off a bridge.

It is no secret that Fred Barnes is congenial to big government, although he stresses it should be the kinder, gentler one envisioned by Papa Bush. Neither Bush learned a damned thing from the Gipper.

[bannerman]

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[Timberwolf]

And Timber, I also liked your 'white Irish ass' (although I'd not like to kiss it) rant. A small correction, you meant "Oswald" not Booth - but you are right.
DUH!! Thanks, Max (been one of those weeks...at least he has 3 names...LOL)

The stupidest and least moral brother survived. Thankfully Teddy was not a part of the Cuban Missle Crisis team (as were the two older brothers). We would have been singing in Russian and Spanish with a Cuban dialect much sooner.
My turn. :D

I don't believe Teddy is stupid. He most certainly is as immoral as they come, and a hypocritical bastard to boot, but I believe him to be evil incarnate (only I envisioned evil incarnate to be much more handsome...devilishly handsome...and Teddy just don't fit the bill on that one).

[hdmundt]

Lott is the Senatorial schoolyard bully - The state of Mississippi needs to send him home to the swamps...

THIS IS OUR GOVERNMENT - THEY SERVE AT OUR PLEASURE - WE, THE PEOPLE, STOPPED THIS ABOMINATION...!!!!:flame:

:claps::claps::claps:




Kennedy is Chinese for "Poorly Driving Traitorous Swimmer"
:rotflmbo: (thus sayeth TW)

[DesertFox]

Teddy ain't handsome no mo, fo sho, but in his youth he was a real good looking bastard. The very face of Lucifer.

[Wolfcounsel]

"...in his youth he was a real good looking bastard. The very face of Lucifer." --DesertFox

I'm not picking up any real good-looking bastards my dog left in the back yard at this time of night!<!-- / message -->

[DesertFox]

Your back yards getting pretty full by now, Wolfiekins. Good-looking bastards, UFO's, imams, and a buncha others I don't even recollect. Call Orkin, dude. :D

[Wolfcounsel]

I have my handy dandy pooper scooper. It disposes of all that crap in no time. LA-LALA-LALA-LALA!

[Etaoin]

Wyatt's insight is exhaustive of his subject - but it is unusually brief because there is so little of Ted Kennedy to analyze. He is (as his biography amply demonstrates) neither bright, nor complex, nor entertaining. A dull student, a drunk, a sexual predator, a glutton, a careless killer, and a man without any virtue in his public service or his marriage, and having most of the classic sins. And unlike Byrd, he has always existed in a grey twilight without consequence for good or evil, except on the occasion he advances the destruction of America with monstrous immigration policies.

What bothers us about 'Cape Cod Orca' is his buffoonery - his red faced rage of cliques layered on his unreflective and shallow soul. There is nothing of substance within the man, unpeel his few layers and there is no core. He is not even a ranting lunatic - he is much worse, he is a ranting bore.

But there he is - every six years he is sent to the Senate to represent the home of our revolution. A tragic insult to our history.

We tend to forget that this is the precise reason that this nation was formed as a REPUBLIC rather than a democracy. We have degenerated into a democracy and rapidly approaching a mobocracy enroute to a totalitarian structure.

How many of you think that the destruction of the dollar and its effects on the world wide markets will not eventually lead to a crisis of confidence in this mation? In the event of a severe recession (depression), who on this board believes that any form of government other than totalitarian will result since the American populace (despite the access to an unbelieveable amount of information) will UNERRINGLY adopt a totalitarian government that promises them it will solve the problem!

Washington and Hollyweird will dance with joy at the American People's abandonment of responsibility!

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

We tend to forget that this is the precise reason that this nation was formed as a REPUBLIC rather than a democracy. We have degenerated into a democracy and rapidly approaching a mobocracy enroute to a totalitarian structure.

How many of you think that the destruction of the dollar and its effects on the world wide markets will not eventually lead to a crisis of confidence in this mation? In the event of a severe recession (depression), who on this board believes that any form of government other than totalitarian will result since the American populace (despite the access to an unbelieveable amount of information) will UNERRINGLY adopt a totalitarian government that promises them it will solve the problem!

Washington and Hollyweird will dance with joy at the American People's abandonment of responsibility!

And with that, Atlas Shrugged, :sad:

Excellent insight, Etaoin, sad, but true.