Comments on: People everywhere are mad at their politicians

By: About that GOP momentum | Kyle Wingfield

About that GOP momentum | Kyle Wingfield — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:02:15 +0000

[...] Some of us have been warning for months now that the small-government, anti-Democrat movement manifested in tea-party protests around the country since April didn’t necessarily represent a mother lode of votes for the GOP to mine. No doubt, many of these voters would prefer not to vote for the party of Obama, Pelosi and Reid. And so would many Americans: Since June 28, Republicans have been leading Democrats on Rasmussen’s weekly “generic ballot” poll (which asks whether you would vote for your congressional district’s Republican candidate or Democratic candidate, without specific candidate names). In recent weeks, that gap has been in the range of 43-44 percent Republican/37-38 percent Democrat. [...]

By: ATLPRINCE

ATLPRINCE — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:21:42 +0000

Thank him
No one has talked about the stock market for months, why? Cause it’s UP.
Thank him
American car company’s just posted a huge profit because of “cash 4
clunkers”.
Thank him
The American government just made more than 4 Billion Dollars from the
loans that it made to banks and stands to make a ton more to help pay
down the deficit that was created when the last Administration
sqaundered our surplus and redirected it to their buddies in the war
contracting business.
Thank Him
Americans can now go to more places safely globally now that we as
Americans are looked at differently compared to the last administration.
Thank Him
He is trying to make sure every citizen has access to basic health
care, but you don’t care unless your “social” Medicare is cut.
Thank Him
AND YOU HAVE ENOUGH NERVE TO QUESTION A FORMER HARVARD COLLEGE PROFFESOR ABOUT
TALKING TO YOUR KIDS ABOUT THE VALUE OF STAYING IN SCHOOL! HOW DARE YOU, YOU UNGRATEFUL UNCONCIOUS
BIGOTS!!!!!

YOU SHOULD THANK PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA FOR CARING ABOUT EVEN YOUR
MEAN, SELFISH, NARCACISTIC, UNDERCOVER RACIST, CAUCASION BUTT!!!!

By: Ga Values

Ga Values — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:16:53 +0000

Joan

September 4th, 2009
11:38 am

Very well put, thanks

By: Joan

Joan — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:38:36 +0000

We need not just lobby for term limits, but we also need to understand that an awful lot “conservatives” are fiscal conservatives and social libertarians. In fact, that may be the majority of the population. We need a new face, and a party receptive to that approach, rather than the all or nothing approach both of the instant parties take. As a conservative, I would love to see a new face, and a bright mind emerge who embraced fiscal responsibility, social live and let live, and was responsive to the populace. Right now Congress and the White House are populated by egomaniacs.

By: Ga Values

Ga Values — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:19:04 +0000

Which party stands for the voters? The Democrats are owned by the trial lawyers and the Republicans are owned by the Insurance Companies. Does anyone know a single voter who really wanted to vote for Saxby Chambliss but he was reelected. We need TERM LIMITS NOW.

By: @@

@@ — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:06:20 +0000

Feel free to re-post that comment without the links.

That wouldn’t be any fun, Kyle! It would require literary descriptions. You know what they say…

a picture’s worth a thousand words.

A THOUSAND WORDS?

J/K hope you enjoyed it at least.

(ISH) Insert smile here. I don’t do silly emoticons.

By: Maxwell Snark

Maxwell Snark — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:20:06 +0000

I think you’ve got a point, Mr. Wingfield, that perhaps people are tired of the brainlock of incumbents of both parties, which leads to wrong-headed “solutions” to problems here and elsewhere. Often, even when you get a “new” person in office, it’s someone who has spent years in ideological lockstep with the previous person.

By: Michael H. Smith

Michael H. Smith — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:37:31 +0000

Jessica, what assurances do the people have that the NEW Republicans will be any different than the OLD Republicans?

The adage of putting lipstick on a pig does comes to mind, as many have too often seen a NEW label put on an OLD product which claims to be NEW and IMPROVED only to dismally provide less efficacy than previously obtained at a higher purchase price.

A fresh face on a rotting carcass does not a pleasant stench produce.

Unquestionably this country is a center-right or right of center nation via citizen self-proclamation, where 40% identify themselves as conservatives and 39% identifying themselves as centrists, clearly liberalism at only a mere 21% is out of keeping with the mainstream ideologies of the national heart and soul of America. At the moment, excuse the overuse of parlance, but the tail is wagging the dog!

In truth it would be a far easier task to reform a political party than to reform the entire body of politic in this country. Unfortunately time has come that “We the People” may well have to do exactly that risky and untenable, as some may rightly question it, the unthinkable thing.

In review of the present and past administrations far too much power has been centralized at the Federal level, even have powers been unduly conceded to executive branch meant to forever remain in the domain of the legislative branch, same said in regards to the judicial branch when law is legislated from the bench, all contrary to our founder’s foundation of governance as laid out in the simple though effective concept of Federalism: The checks and balances thereof have all but been unchecked and meant to serve an imbalance.

To correctly address the Constitutional misgivings that have evolved over time, even to arguably best approach the change of terms served in limiting the years of service of a Representative in the House the several States should call for a Constitutional Convention.

Do not take this as a personal attack or anything in any manner of speaking as an effort to demean you, Jessica. Quite to the contrary, you have only made me think and re-think my challenged positions that I’ve long held against the use of Constitutional Convention where I’ve resisted it in the times past knowing the risk involved that might lead to an undoing of the Union.

John Adams, Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson never held to the beliefs of Lincoln and Eisenhower of an indestructible union, as they held it would likely not endure the span of their own lifetimes. Ben Franklin was asked upon exiting the Constitutional Convention of 1787, “Well, Doctor, what have we got: A republic or a monarchy?” With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, “A republic, if you can keep it.”

“I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed
of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in
politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for
myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and
moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I
would not go there at all.”

–Thomas Jefferson to Francis
Hopkinson, 1789.

“Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every
fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence
of a God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the
homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.”

–Thomas Jefferson to Peter Carr, 1787.

“I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment
will still prove that men can be governed by reason.”

–Thomas Jefferson to George Mason, 1791.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:58:22 +0000

American workers are getting less compensation and longer hours thanks to unrestrained corporate power. Congress has done little, if any, to protect workers (regardless of one’s view of health care, for example). I am allowed so little time off and work for such cheap wages ($8/hr.) just to survive. So, no, I don’t think my government cares one iota about me, nor do I care anymore about them. Total disconnect/distrust. Little wonder the cynicism!

By: jconservative

jconservative — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:28:37 +0000

Stannie September 3rd, 2009 1:20 pm
“Incumbancy is the real problem. Term limits are the solution.”

I believe you are wrong. The solution is not term limits. The solution is NOT voting for Incumbents. And it would help if there were a true Conservative Party. Libertarian comes close, but not close enough (although they have certainly gotten a lot of votes from me).

To my mind, Conservative means Political Conservative. Social Conservatives, for example, are Political Liberals because they want the central government to “fix” a lot of problems (whether perceived or real). Political Conservatives, on the other hand, want the central government to keep hands off most everything.