Are You Really That Daft?

If you listen to the sound bites from the left today, it would appear the left has learned nothing from last nights spanking in Massachusetts. As usual, the people and their voices are being ignored and marginalized. The disconnect in Washington is absolutely astounding. They just don’t get it.

Here are some examples of the disconnect:

1. House Majority Leader, Steny Hoyer: "You know why voters are angry? Because of GOP obstructionism."

Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t it a Republican who won a seat held by Democrat Senator Edward Kennedy for forty-seven years in a land slide victory last night in the bluest of blue states? And, didn’t that Republican run on a promise to be the 41st Republican vote against Obama’s health care legislation?

Hmmmm…I don't think the voters are angry at the Republicans, I think their angry with the President and those in Congress who are ignoring the will of the people. Wouldn’t that be Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and all of their lapdogs? I think those are all Democrats.

2. Senior Advisor to President Obama, David Axelrod: "I think the main thing that we saw in Massachusetts was the same sense of concern on the part of middle class folks about the economic situation, about their wages being stagnant, about jobs being lost, about their economic security that's been in jeopardy. And this is something that predated the big recession that we're going through. And that's something that we have to pay a great deal of attention to. It is the focus of this President's attention at all times. And we have to convey that."

Obama has proven time and time again that he is an ideologue. He is a true believer in the progressive agenda, which is not the American people's agenda. He is more concerned with fundamentally transforming this great nation into something that will be unrecognizable…a nation of subservient, dependent and mindless drones...than in solving the real problems facing the American people.

3. SEIU President, Andy Stern: “The reason Ted Kennedy’s seat is no longer controlled by a Democrat is clear: Washington’s inability to deliver the change voters demanded in November 2008. Make no mistake, political paralysis resulted in electoral failure...This is not the time for timidity. It is time to show the courage and strength of conviction to move this country forward and bring working families the change they need. It starts by passing health insurance reform..."

Oh really? Poll after poll shows that an overwhelming majority of Americans are against the health care legislation currently being discussed in Congress. According to the latest Rasmussen poll, 56% of Americans oppose the current legislation while only 38% are in favor.

If the President and Congress want to listen to people like Mr. Stern, they do so at their own peril.

We are not angry because they haven't passed health care reform, we are angry because they seem poised to ram this expensive and destructive piece of legislation down our throats no matter what we say.

Yes, we admit that the American health care system is not perfect. Yes, we admit that it needs to be improved, but it does not need to be over overhauled. The American health care system is the envy of the world. Let's work together to fix it, not destroy it.

You, in Washington, just keep it up. You’re going to get a very rude awakening!!!

The Shot Heard Around the Nation

For those in the political arena and their supporters, the Conservatives of this great nation have just sent you a message, “Listen to the people, or suffer the consequences.”

For those of you who believe Conservatism is dead or has been left wandering in the wilderness, we have sent you a message as well, “We are here. We are not going anywhere. We are banding together to defeat you. We will be your worst nightmare.”

Last night the Massachusetts voters elected Scott Brown, a Republican. This is just the third in a string of defeats the Liberals will suffer if they do not slow down, quit spending this country into oblivion and quit trying to take over our lives and our individual liberties with a bigger “nanny state” government.

WE JUST SHOT ACROSS YOUR BOW. WE ARE FED UP. WE ARE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY LONGER!!!!

The Ant and the Grasshopper

This little anecdote was sent to me via e-mail. I thought that it was quite appropriate for the new year. Here's looking to some real change for the better. Let's take back the government!!!

GOP VICTORY IN 2010...but only true GOP candidates...none of the usual Democrat Lite candidates.

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THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER

This one is a little different...Two Different Versions...Two Different Morals

OLD VERSION

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.

The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!

MODERN VERSION

The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.

CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.

America is stunned by the sharp contrast.

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green".

ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, "We shall overcome". Then Reverend Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper’s sake.

President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper’s plight.

Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood.

The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.

MORAL OF THE STORY: BE CAREFUL HOW YOU VOTE IN 2010.