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They just don’t get it, at all – from the Washington Post:

If imitation is the highest form of flattery, the “tea party” movement must be honored.

In an effort to replicate the tea party’s success, 170 liberal and civil rights groups are forming a coalition that they hope will match the movement’s political energy and influence. They promise to “counter the tea party narrative” and help the progressive movement find its voice again after 18 months of floundering.

The large-scale attempt at liberal unity, dubbed “One Nation,” will try to revive themes that energized the progressive grassroots two years ago…

First of all, its an incredible thing for the MSM to suddenly come ’round and say that the progressive movement has been “floundering” for 18 months. They aren’t “floundering” – they are doing precisely what they’ve wanted to do. That its unpopular with the people and a complete failure in practice is just a fact of life. This isn’t floundering, its failure.

Outside of that, the left also doesn’t understand that grass roots efforts must rise from the grass roots. No surprise they don’t get it – remember, our President was a “community organizer”. That is liberal-speak for “you’re not smart enough to figure out what you want or need, so I’ll graciously stoop to your level and tell you what to do”. To a complete leftists, there’s just no way to conceptualize a system in which regular folks set the agenda – regular folks don’t have what it takes to do it, in their view.

But, they are gravely threatened by a bunch of knuckle-dragging, toothless hicks in the TEA Party movement. They don’t understand how it came to be. Projecting from their own methods, they figure it simply must be the creation of some nefarious gathering of right wing groups. So, their program of countering the TEA Party is to “duplicate” what they think happened – and so we’ve got “One Nation” (one wag has already suggested that they take as their slogan “one people, one nation, one leader”…but “ein volk, ein Reich, ein fuhrer” has already been used. No doubt to the dismay of our progressive friends).

This will fail as badly as the absurd “Coffee Party” failed – and it has been noted that the WaPo article acts as if the Coffee Party idea never even existed. In the report, this is about the left finally starting to counter the TEA Party…as if they hadn’t gone through a half dozen expedients so far in the attempt to defuse the popular revolution embodied in the TEA Party. The left is alien to America because it doesn’t take in to consideration the fact that Americans run their own lives – or, at least, want very much to, if they can just get the government off their backs.

Found this video linked over at The Distributist Review and it is an excellent, short explanation of what our consumerist culture is all about.

The maker of the video seems to be of leftist ideology, at least to some extent, and so figures that the government should protect us from consumerism. This is a bit like asking a tiger to protect the sheep from the wolf. The only way to kill off consumerism is for a change of heart on the part of the people – a rejection of get-rich-quick; a rejection of mindless celebrities determining our judgments of good and bad; a rejection of borrowing money to pay for un-necessary items.

We’re in the soup not because of some nefarious plot – we’re in it because we eagerly jumped in to it. We wanted everything and we wanted it now – when some stupid ad came on telling us that we “deserve” some grand thing, we said, “yes”. Just as when some grafting politician said we needed welfare, social security, medicare and all manner of “free” government goodies we jumped at it. We need to jump back.

Change can happen, but it has to happen in each of our hearts – a humble begging of forgiveness for our errors, a determination to do better, and we’re half way there. It is up to us – we can choose to decline and die, or we can choose to advance and live. Its really all up to us.

Col. West, Republican candidate for Congress, gets this headline over at Politico:

Bombastic West rakes in cash

Bombastic? Can you imagine any MSMer, anywhere, describing any on the left side of the aisle as “bombastic”? Of course not. But, they have to do something about a black man who is extraordinarily knowledgeable, speaks very well and and who is conservative to the core…and is, as they say, raking in the cash:

West, a former Army colonel challenging Democratic Rep. Ron Klein, raised $1.4 million in the second quarter of 2010 – an astonishing number that puts him in the same league as Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, the inflammatory conservative who raked in $1.7 million over the same period, and Florida Rep. Alan Grayson, the caustic liberal cable news fixture who vacuumed up $800,000 in the first three months of 2010. (emphasis added)

You catch that? West is “bombastic”; Bachmann is “inflammatory”; but Grayson is “caustic”. Two quotes:

Liberty is about each and every person having the abiliy to do what they want with the fruits of their labor but tyranny is when someone else comes in and tries to make the decision about what you should be doing. – Lt. Col Allen West (Ret.), July 4, 2010

And:

How about tracking down every person who said ‘drill, baby, drill’ and putting them all in prison? – Rep. Allen Grayson (D-FL), June 4th, 2010

Is West “bombastic”? It Grayson merely “caustic”? No, West is merely stating first principles – bedrock, American beliefs. Grayson is calling for the jailing of people for holding certain opinions – and if you listen to the audio, its clear he’s not joking and that quote is not out of context: Grayson is of that leftist type who views opposition to leftism as criminal behavior.

This is the media bias – essentially slandering a Republican by making him out to be terrible when he’s not; white-washing the downright evil being said and done by Democrats.

Given that a recent poll shows 55% of Americans agree that Obama is a socialist, this is a great time to have a good example of just what we’re dealing with regarding socialists:

From Pajamas Media:

…Our current Department of Justice is anxious to encourage the obligations to get everyone registered, but explicitly unwilling to enforce federal law requiring states to remove the dead or ineligible from the rolls.

In November 2009, the entire Voting Section was invited to a meeting with Deputy Assistant Attorney General Julie Fernandes, a political employee serving at the pleasure of the attorney general. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss Motor Voter enforcement decisions.

The room was packed with dozens of Voting Section employees when she made her announcement regarding the provisions related to voter list integrity:

We have no interest in enforcing this provision of the law. It has nothing to do with increasing turnout, and we are just not going to do it.

As I’ve said before, once we do get back in to power we’re going to have to steel ourselves to the task of ruthlessly investigating the rampant criminality in the Obama Administration and the Democrat party and start sending a lot of people to jail. For too long now we Republicans can been unwilling, when able, to fully enforce laws against political corruption. This fear must stop – we are now reaping the whirlwind of not strictly enforcing the law.

The problem of corruption in the Democrat party fundamentally stems from the fact that Democrats either heartily approve of corruption, or are unwilling to stop anything which might, by some means, advance their cause. While corruption has always existed in both parties, the problem became endemic with the Democrat party when Clinton got away with perjury and Gore got away with “no controlling legal authority”. Once Democrats saw them both prosper after clear violations of the law, the flood gates opened.

For the sake of our Republic and, indeed, for the sake of the Democrat party, this must be brought to an end. Once we get back in to power, anti-corruption must be a top priority.

Let’s face it, the Nevada battle is America’s battle – if we can’t get rid of Reid, we can’t get rid of liberalism.

The good news is that Reid, even after quite a lot of smear efforts against Angle, still trails badly.

Now he’s brought Obama out – and we’ve seen how well that worked out elsewhere.

And she’s raised more than $1.6 million since the primary.

From Rasmussen:

Over one-third of current homeowners say they owe more on their mortgage than their home is worth, and outlooks for the housing market in the short and long-term are growing more pessimistic.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of homeowners shows 53% report the value of their homes are worth more than the amount they still owe on their mortgages. But 35% report the opposite and say they owe more on their mortgage than their home is worth…

This probably understates the full picture – unless you actively think about it and look in to housing prices, you wouldn’t really know. The other day I saw a new sticker on a new home development sign…prices start at $130,000.00. When I first saw that sign, I think it was starting in the low 200s. Been watching it drop all year. A friend of mine who bought a “bargain” house last year for 210k just had her neighbors house sell for 140k or some such.

And there is still the “shadow inventory” of, perhaps, a couple million homes nationwide being kept off the market by the banks for fear of a complete collapse of home prices. Eventually, though, they’ll have to disgorge…I fully expect my house, which I bought for 396k, to drop to less than 100k before its all said and done.

Just part of Great Depression II, good people.

The “Mom Awakening”…

Keep in mind they are still terrified of her – and with good reason

This may go down to the wire:

Florida’s Senate race remains all about Republican-turned-independent Charlie Crist and likely GOP nominee Marco Rubio.

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Florida finds the two candidates neck-and-neck again this month, with Rubio earning 36% support and Crist, the state’s current Republican governor, capturing 34% of the vote. Prospective Democratic candidate Kendrick Meek remains a distant third, picking up 15%. Fourteen percent (14%) of the state’s voters remain undecided…

Absolutely this is anyone’s race – except Meek’s; he might as well write his concession speech early and start lobbying for an Administration job.

Crist’s eroding approval rating as Governor might eventually tell the tale for him here – he’s down 7 points since Rasmussen’s last survey, and that can probably be traced to the continuing bad economy in Florida coupled with the increasing disaster along Florida’s Gulf coast; that oil swings ’round to Miami, and that might be all she wrote for Crist.

Rubio’s problem is to get better with GOP voters – Democrats are splitting fairly evenly between Meeks and Crist and as election day nears, there is a chance that this Democrat support for Crist will both solidify and grow. Rasmussen has Rubio with 60% support among Republicans – it’ll probably take at least 70% of them to secure Rubio’s victory, unless Crist really melts down over the next couple months.

The key is to remind Florida Republicans and Republican-leaning Independents that a vote for Crist is a vote for Reid and Obama – Crist is certain to back the Democrats in organizational matters and will vote with them most of the time. If that can be driven home, then the overwhelming bulk of GOP voters will come home and what will then be a split Democrat vote will ensure GOP victory.

Ready to rumble with the TEA Party on the National Mall.

Have at it, Shabazz, you twit. You’ll find that the TEA Partiers are not pants-wetting liberals who tremble in fear of loud mouthed morons.