Remaking John Wayne?
There are certain things that are sacred in these United States and while we watch as our federal government attempts to dismantle icon after icon, business model after business model, economic theory after economic theory, and the very fiber of the Constitution I sit here and wonder what next? But as soon as I become concerned about the direction the country might be taking something happens. I see ‘We the People’ standing up and being heard and realize that no matter how much politicians today want to control our lives, taking away as many liberties and rights in their quest for ultimate power, the country and the people will push back.
You can see more and more the frustration on the faces of staunch liberals who agreed with the President when he said, “We won, and we can do what we want.” One of the leaders of the frustrated liberals is Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, whining at a microphone yesterday that we should stop fighting the Senate health care bill and let the government take care of us. His cries of desperation ran over the airwaves as he looked ahead to his next election when it looks like the people of Nevada will be booting him out of office, and all the while he will be scratching his head and saying, ‘But I did it for the common people, surely they are smart enough to understand that?’ Mr. Reid you underestimate the people of your State and of this country. Underestimating the people is happening a great deal lately.
Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, now there is rare intellect –she is the Congresswoman who believes that natural gas is an excellent energy source and alternative to fossil fuels. She gives speeches where she talks to the crowd as if they are elderly and senile or in the 2nd grade. She is the one who accused the CIA of lying to her but after witnesses came forward to debunk her comments she retreated, not apologizing, just retreating. She has almost as many gaffs in her speeches as VP Biden…well maybe more. Here is her take on a Value Added Tax (VAT), a tax on manufacturers at each stage of production on the amount of value an additional producer adds to a product. She thinks it is a good idea because:
“The VAT would level the playing field between U.S. and foreign manufacturers, the latter of which do not have pension and healthcare costs included in the price of their goods because their governments provide those services, financed by similar taxes.”
"They get a tax off of that and they use that money to pay the healthcare for their own workers," Pelosi said, using the example of auto manufacturers. "So their cars coming into our country don't have a healthcare component cost.”
"Somewhere along the way, a value-added tax plays into this. Of course, we want to take down the healthcare cost, that's one part of it…"
What in the world is she saying? I guess a lot of folks are wondering the same thing since her poll numbers are less than stellar at 33% approval in her district. Speaker of the House or not there are still those upstart voters out there who just might send her packing.
Does the President’s actions help ease the minds of the centrist liberals as he plays golf and basketball and parties at the White House? Does it ease their minds with the daily deaths in Afghanistan of U.S. military troops and his still being undecided on what he wants to do? What is the cringe factor when the President takes the time to greet the fallen soldiers at Edward’s AFB as their coffins are returned from Afghanistan? He made sure the press was there. And how long did this man stay with the returning heroes? The total time he took was 15 minutes from the time the helicopter left the White House until it returned to the White House, press corps in tow. Sounds a bit like his visits to Yellowstone Park and the Grand Canyon, both seen in one day – but it shows how much he cares for the environment. He brought the family along, and like a scene from the movie National Lampoons Vacation to Wally-World they jumped out of their cars, ran to the edge, looked over, and then left. He then took his family on a real vacation, something all Americans can identify with; he went to play golf on Martha’s Vineyard (also not a very smart choice given politicians and their histories there).
To his credit Bill Clinton figured it out. He worked with businesses not against them, and that included the Chamber of Commerce. He knew that healthcare was a topic that Americans didn’t want to be messed around with and he put it on a back burner. He spoke to any news channel that wanted to listen and never singled out any people as enemies of the state. He was doing what he was elected to do – please the people enough that they would re-elect him.
The liberal media has had its opinions, one of which was that Conservatism was dead. Conservatism is not dead for all of you willing to start the funeral marches, it just needed a wake-up call much the same way a man named Jimmy from Plains, Georgia opened the door for Ronald Reagan to walk through.
If the far left in this country hasn’t received the message yet wait until the next set of elections and realize that what Thomas Jefferson said two hundred years ago is as true today as it ever was, “A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned – this is the sum of good government.”
And as for John Wayne? Hollywood is in the process of remaking True Grit with Matt Damon and Josh Brolin. They have the freedom to do so just like we the people have the freedom not to spend our money to see it.
There are certain things that are sacred in these United States and while we watch as our federal government attempts to dismantle icon after icon, business model after business model, economic theory after economic theory, and the very fiber of the Constitution I sit here and wonder what next? But as soon as I become concerned about the direction the country might be taking something happens. I see ‘We the People’ standing up and being heard and realize that no matter how much politicians today want to control our lives, taking away as many liberties and rights in their quest for ultimate power, the country and the people will push back.
You can see more and more the frustration on the faces of staunch liberals who agreed with the President when he said, “We won, and we can do what we want.” One of the leaders of the frustrated liberals is Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, whining at a microphone yesterday that we should stop fighting the Senate health care bill and let the government take care of us. His cries of desperation ran over the airwaves as he looked ahead to his next election when it looks like the people of Nevada will be booting him out of office, and all the while he will be scratching his head and saying, ‘But I did it for the common people, surely they are smart enough to understand that?’ Mr. Reid you underestimate the people of your State and of this country. Underestimating the people is happening a great deal lately.
Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, now there is rare intellect –she is the Congresswoman who believes that natural gas is an excellent energy source and alternative to fossil fuels. She gives speeches where she talks to the crowd as if they are elderly and senile or in the 2nd grade. She is the one who accused the CIA of lying to her but after witnesses came forward to debunk her comments she retreated, not apologizing, just retreating. She has almost as many gaffs in her speeches as VP Biden…well maybe more. Here is her take on a Value Added Tax (VAT), a tax on manufacturers at each stage of production on the amount of value an additional producer adds to a product. She thinks it is a good idea because:
“The VAT would level the playing field between U.S. and foreign manufacturers, the latter of which do not have pension and healthcare costs included in the price of their goods because their governments provide those services, financed by similar taxes.”
"They get a tax off of that and they use that money to pay the healthcare for their own workers," Pelosi said, using the example of auto manufacturers. "So their cars coming into our country don't have a healthcare component cost.”
"Somewhere along the way, a value-added tax plays into this. Of course, we want to take down the healthcare cost, that's one part of it…"
What in the world is she saying? I guess a lot of folks are wondering the same thing since her poll numbers are less than stellar at 33% approval in her district. Speaker of the House or not there are still those upstart voters out there who just might send her packing.
Does the President’s actions help ease the minds of the centrist liberals as he plays golf and basketball and parties at the White House? Does it ease their minds with the daily deaths in Afghanistan of U.S. military troops and his still being undecided on what he wants to do? What is the cringe factor when the President takes the time to greet the fallen soldiers at Edward’s AFB as their coffins are returned from Afghanistan? He made sure the press was there. And how long did this man stay with the returning heroes? The total time he took was 15 minutes from the time the helicopter left the White House until it returned to the White House, press corps in tow. Sounds a bit like his visits to Yellowstone Park and the Grand Canyon, both seen in one day – but it shows how much he cares for the environment. He brought the family along, and like a scene from the movie National Lampoons Vacation to Wally-World they jumped out of their cars, ran to the edge, looked over, and then left. He then took his family on a real vacation, something all Americans can identify with; he went to play golf on Martha’s Vineyard (also not a very smart choice given politicians and their histories there).
To his credit Bill Clinton figured it out. He worked with businesses not against them, and that included the Chamber of Commerce. He knew that healthcare was a topic that Americans didn’t want to be messed around with and he put it on a back burner. He spoke to any news channel that wanted to listen and never singled out any people as enemies of the state. He was doing what he was elected to do – please the people enough that they would re-elect him.
The liberal media has had its opinions, one of which was that Conservatism was dead. Conservatism is not dead for all of you willing to start the funeral marches, it just needed a wake-up call much the same way a man named Jimmy from Plains, Georgia opened the door for Ronald Reagan to walk through.
If the far left in this country hasn’t received the message yet wait until the next set of elections and realize that what Thomas Jefferson said two hundred years ago is as true today as it ever was, “A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned – this is the sum of good government.”
And as for John Wayne? Hollywood is in the process of remaking True Grit with Matt Damon and Josh Brolin. They have the freedom to do so just like we the people have the freedom not to spend our money to see it.
