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This is a fight I’m willing to have – first, the stage setter, from Byron York at the Washington Examiner:

On “Meet the Press” this morning, host David Gregory played a brief clip of Limbaugh’s monologue — a sentence in which Limbaugh said, “There are far more similarities between Nancy Pelosi and Adolf Hitler than between these people showing up at town halls to protest a Hitler-like policy” — and then asked guest David Brooks to comment. “I hadn’t seen the Rush Limbaugh thing,” Brooks said. “That is insane. What he’s saying is insane.”

I asked Limbaugh for a reaction, and here is his answer:

Everyone seems to ignore that Pelosi started this, saying town hall participants were showing up with swastikas, etc. That’s calling them Nazis, as Dick Durbin referred to our Gitmo interrogators from the Senate floor. I’ve been listening to the left compare George W. Bush to Hitler for eight years. I’ve been listening to Democrats and the left compare conservatism to Nazis my whole career. This time I responded. In kind, by comparing the radical left policies of the Nazis to today’s radical left leadership of the Democrat Party. I’m not surprised they don’t like it.

I, too, am sick of this ignorant accusation that conservatism comes within a country mile of Nazism. The truth is that liberalism, feminism, socialism, communism, fascism, Nazism and the like all stem from the same revolt against Christianity – from the same desire to have done with Judeo-Christian civilization because, in the views of the varied proponents of these beliefs, it has all been wrong. Some aspect or other of our civilization displeases and the baby is to be thrown out with the bath water. While there might be differences of means, the fact remains that all of them want our religious convictions ripped out by the roots so that a new humanity can be ushered in.

Here is something for all to ponder – a quote:

…these dying nationalities, the Bohemians, Carinthians, Dalmations, etc., had tried to profit by the universal confusion … in order to restore their political status quo ante of A.D. 800. The history of a thousand years ought to have shown them that such a retrogression was impossible; that if all the territory east of the Elbe and Saale had at one time been occupied by kindred Slavonians, this fact merely proved the historical tendency, and at the same time the physical and intellectual power of the German nation to subdue, absorb and assimilate its ancient eastern neighbors; that this tendency of absorption on the part of the Germans had always been, and still was, one of the mightiest means by which the civilization of Western Europe had been spread in the east of that continent; that it could only cease whenever the process of Germanization had reached the frontier of large, compact, unbroken nations, capable of an independent national life, such as the Hungarians and in some degree the Poles; and that therefore the natural and inevitable fate of these dying nations was to allow this process of dissolution and absorption by their stronger neighbors to complete itself.

Sounds a bit Hitlerian, doesn’t it? Could be right out of Mein Kampf – but, its not: its Karl Marx, writing in the wake of the abortive 1848 revolutions in Europe. He’s writing off the entirely of the slavic population of Europe outside Russia and basically saying that the Germans were a natural master race from whom these dying peoples should gratefully accept instruction and absorption. This is the Jewish founder of modern communism saying that the Germans are a master race! There is zero surprise that Hitler was able to cobble to together his program – it was a grab bag of Marxism, nationalism, fascism, Darwinism and occultism…and each and every last aspect of it was in opposition to what we conservative hold dear.

If a conservative really wishes to be an extremist, he’d start calling for the revival of the Holy Roman Empire, or some such. Conservatism may make many mistakes, but it cannot have a love of Nazism – its not possible; it is like trying mix to oil and water, or Christian humility with prideful arrogance. The thing just cannot be done.

Part of the problem is, quite simply, that the left has run the debate – and has classed religion and patriotism as aspects of fascism. It was said that fascism would come to America carrying a cross and wrapped in a flag. This is, for us patriots and believers, just an absurdly stupid statement to make. Its like saying that greed will come to America carrying a Salvation Army bucket and wrapped in clothing for the poor. The flag will always remind us of Washington and Lincoln and our glorious Founders; the cross will always remind us of our Savior who suffered so that we might live. People carrying the cross – wrapped in a flag or not – will make errors; but to imagine that a million Christians would never think for a moment about Christ’s injunction to love our neighbors as ourselves or that patriots will never remember, “give me liberty, or give me death” is, well, to be willfully blind.

Let us have this out – let us find out who is sending thugs to intimidate voters; thugs to beat up protesters; telling lies about the opposition. Let us see who is whom and then let the people judge which side is more akin to our fascist and Nazi enemies of old – with Limbaugh, I say that it is Nancy Pelosi, and those like her.

Keep in mind just what sort of people we’re dealing with:

How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin. – Ronald Reagan

For giving us this visual:

Reporting dissent is the highest form of patriotism! Is your neighbor suspiciously “well-dressed”? Is he mouthing off about cancer-survival rates under socialized-medical systems while wearing a cravat? Give us his name, and we’ll give you his spats! Just go to flag@whitehouse.gov, not to be confused with flagging@whitehouse.gov, which is the e-mail address for reporting President Obama’s latest approval rating. Go to flay@whitehouse.gov if you’d like Speaker Pelosi to walk across your back as a whip-wielding SS dominatrix barking “Vee haff vays of making you tokk less casually, dummkopf!”

Of course, I’m pretty lousy, myself, for bringing it to more peoples attention. Ah well, the truth must come out about these creeps in government.

In the 1929 stock market crash, the DOW lost a bit more than 45% of its value – and then rebounded about 50% off that low…only to drop to 90% off its 1929 high before it bottomed out. People were happy during the brief, post-1929 crash run up, too. Prosperity was just around the corner.

5,000 is not the bottom for the DOW.

We’ve got them on the run:

Tensions are running so high at town hall meetings that Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat, yelled at a local doctor concerned about health care after mistaking him for an “astroturf” political operative looking for a fight.

Mr. Scott became visibly agitated when one of his constituents, a practicing doctor, asked a few questions about health care reform during a town hall meeting. The meeting was held to discuss a road project, but was opened up for questions near the end. That’s when Dr. Brian Hill stood up to speak.

Dr. Hill asked Mr. Scott why he was going to vote for a health care plan similar to that implemented in Massachusetts “that is shown not to work” and if he supported a government-provided health care insurance option.

The congressman replied by accusing the doctor of “hijacking” his event.

“I’m listening to my constituents, OK?” Scott said, “These are people who live in the 13th Congressional district, who vote in this district. That’s who I’ve got to respond to … So what you’ve got to understand, those of you who are here, who have taken and came and hijacked this event we dealing with here, this is not a health care event.”

“You chose to come and to do it on your own,” he yelled. “Not a single one of you had the decency to call my office and set up for a meeting.” He went on, in a threatening voice, “You want a meeting with me on health care, I’ll give it to you!”

The Congressman is clearly a dolt – and thus a perfect Democrat backbencher. He’s been told that the people causing a ruckus at the town halls are bogus and he simply believed it…thus, when a local doctor rose to ask reasonable questions about health care, he went ballistic (probably as he was coached to do) and tried to play the tribune of the people defending reasoned debate. What a tool.

But it also shows we’ve got them very badly rattled – and I just pray that Reid and my own House member hold a town hall…Reid probably won’t as he’s afraid to show his face among his fellow Nevadans these days, but Buckley might…yes, she just might. We shall see.

There’s just this creeping sense of complete stupidity I’m getting out of DC these days – well, I hope its stupidity, because if its a plan, then we’re all in trouble:

U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. is poised to appoint a criminal prosecutor to investigate alleged CIA abuses committed during the interrogation of terrorism suspects, current and former U.S. government officials said.

A senior Justice Department official said that Holder envisioned an inquiry that would be narrow in scope, focusing on “whether people went beyond the techniques that were authorized” in Bush administration memos that liberally interpreted anti-torture laws.

Current and former CIA and Justice Department officials who have firsthand knowledge of the interrogation files contend that criminal convictions will be difficult to obtain because the quality of evidence is poor and the legal underpinnings have never been tested.

We’re wasting time, wasting resources, turning up the heat on domestic divisions…and, for what? So that some kooks on the left can be thrown a sop? We get to rake our intelligence people over the coals while Black Panther fascists are given a free ride?

As I said, it’s gonna be a loooong four years…and we can at least be happy that its 1/8th over.

He’s hated, he’s reviled – he’s the man Obama will blame for everything, including his defeat in 2012. But he’s better that what we’ve got now, and far better than we actually deserved:

What if a president, on his own initiative, under no demands from staff or from supporters or opponents, set out to spend an unprecedented amount of money on AIDS in Africa, literally billions of dollars, at a time when the nation could not afford it, citing his faith as a primary motivation and, ultimately, saved more than a million lives?

Wouldn’t the story be front-page news, especially in top, liberal newspapers? Wouldn’t it lead on CNN, MSNBC and the “CBS Evening News”? Might statues be erected to the man in the nation’s more “progressive” cities?

What if the president was George W. Bush?

I pose these uncomfortable questions for two reasons: 1) President Bush did precisely that regarding the African AIDS tragedy; and 2) a study claims that Bush’s remarkable action has indeed saved many precious lives.

And as someone who has closely followed Bush’s humanitarian gesture from the outset, I’m not surprised that the former president continues to not receive the accolades he deserves — including even from conservative supporters — for this generous act.

Bush himself realizes the lack of gratitude and media attention. I personally witnessed it very recently, on June 17, when I was in attendance for one of Bush’s first postpresidential speeches, in Erie, Pa. There, too, he mentioned the AIDS initiative — even adding that one of his daughters is in Africa today, working on the epidemic — and, there again, it received no press coverage whatsoever.

In a large sense, we deserve Barack Obama – a mindless drone who is all image and no grit. A nation which spends its time watching trash like “American Idol” deserves no better – only our military and our civil volunteers (those who actually do things, not those who “community organize”) redeem us. President Bush has a mind of his own and tremendous courage – and thus he was well suited both to those who get down and dirty fighting poverty and disease as well as those who don our nation’s uniform and battle for liberty around the world; and such people, especially in the military, showed untold devotion to the man’s ideas. Sacrificing again and again to bring this humane and, dare we say it?, Christian vision to the world.

One wonders how devoted people will be to Obama’s “soft” approach to terrorism and his plans for US government aid for abortion around the world? Not exactly the sort of thing one chargers over the top for, huh?

Once this generation is dead – especially this generation of hate-filled leftists – then, and only then, will the full truth about President Bush come out. Certainly, a flawed man. A sinner, as we all are. A man who made mistakes – but a man who always tried to do the right thing and who wasn’t a slave to polls, as Democrats are. I said we’d miss President Bush, and we do – but his legacy is secure, and the world is a better place for him having been President of the United States.

Putting things in proper perspective:

God doesn’t require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.

Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your own weakness. – Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

This is just downright weird:

Civil rights and religious freedom groups are criticizing the Rappahannock Regional Jail in northern Virginia, charging that the jail illegally censored the letters a Christian mother sent to her jailed son for being “too religious.” Jail authorities cut out so many Bible passages that her letters resembled “Swiss cheese,” the groups said.

The letters of inmate mother Anna Williams were stamped for censorship with the words “Religious Material from Home,” a press release from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty reports. On at least one occasion, all that was left of a three-page letter was its salutation, its first paragraph, and its signature “Love, Mom.”

There hasn’t, as far as I know, been a response to this, nor an explanation as to just why the censorship happened. It is legitimate to censor inmate’s mail, but such censorship is supposed to extend only to things affecting prison security (so, if you send a blueprint of the prison which might help a prisoner escape, that probably wouldn’t make it past the censor) – its not legitimate to censor religious material.

There seems to be a growing problem in official circles about religion – especially the Christian religion. Leftist propaganda has made out that religion, in itself, is a problem and thus has to be carefully watched. The result of this paranoia is such things as this censorship – and other efforts to expunge religious expression. We do need to get to the bottom of this and, in the long run, pass laws enforcing the Constitution’s “free exercise” clause.

Indeed:

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called President Barack Obama’s health plan “downright evil” Friday in her first online comments since leaving office, saying in a Facebook posting that he would create a “death panel” that would deny care to the neediest Americans.

“The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care,” the former Republican vice presidential candidate wrote.

“Such a system is downright evil,” Palin wrote on her page, which has nearly 700,000 supporters. She encouraged her supporters to be engaged in the debate.

Call it what you will, Obama-bots, but any government panel deciding health matters will eventually decide health matters based on the need of the bureaucrats who run the system and the politicians who want to keep problems under wraps. Its a certainty that if we go with Obamacare we’ll eventually all be forced in to single-payer (as Obama said we would – later obfuscations not withstanding) and then we’ll be forced in to rationed care because you can’t have an unlimited supply of anything which is “free”.

I don’t want my fate decided on the basis of anything other than God’s will – certainly not on the recommendation of a faceless, bureaucratic panel.