NovemberRevolution2010

 
 
Pelosi said in an interview with Politics Daily that, “We haven’t really gotten the credit for what we have done”. Explaining further that Democrats were aware of what they voted for but that the message wasn’t getting out to the voters. Pelosi went on to blame the struggle with messaging on the millions of dollars raised by candidates running against Democrats. Saying, “You have all those forces at work, pouring millions of millions of dollars into the media, and now into the campaigns to mischaracterize everything that we did”.

I can only dream of being the reporter who interviewed Pelosi, because I would have had a number of tough questions to ask her in response to her statement. First, I would have ask her how she can claim that Democrats were aware of what they voted for, when she herself said about the health care law, “We must pass it so that we can then learn what is in it”. Oddly enough, when democratic supporters of the now law are questioned about the contents of the law they seem either ignorant of the subject or very confused. For example, perhaps Pelosi should speak with New York Representative Anthony Weiner about who exactly is responsible for enforcing the mandatory insurance for Americans. Mr. Weiner seemed rather defensive when questioned about the addition of IRS agents to “police” this enforcement of the Health care law. While on the O’Reilly Factor Weiner became angry and at one point refused to respond to questions about who would enforce the mandatory requirement if it was not the additional IRS agents added via the new Health Care Law, as he repeatedly denied. When pressed by Mr. O’Reilly to answer who is was, Mr. Weiner simply said there were no agents who would be enforcing the requirement. So, it’s a voluntarily self-enforced mandatory law?

Speaker Pelosi might also want to talk with her friend in the Senate Mr. Harry Reid, who seems to think he has no blame in the unemployment rate of Nevada, his home state. Reid also seems to believe that rather than governing over the worse unemployment rate in the country after 24 years in congress, that “but for me, we’d be in a world-wide depression “. I believe that those without work in Nevada would have no problem giving the credit to Harry Reid for their states current economic status. After all, he was the majority leader in the Senate who governed over a super majority for the better half of a year and who has been in a Senate with a Democratic majority since 2006.

While Pelosi is out talking about not getting credit for the work she and fellow democrats have accomplished she might also drop by the state of Georgia. While there perhaps she could talk with Representative Hank Johnson who should be credited with telling a Naval Admiral in response to 7000 more marines and family being stationed on the Isle of Guam that, “My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize”. Perhaps the Speaker can explain how islands form and that they are safe from the same fates that say a boat or ship might face. Then she can skip on over to South Carolina and help give some credit to the Democratic nominee for the Senate Mr. Alvin Greene. The party seems to think he is a loser and although he is unemployed, lacks any experience, can not form a complete idea or illustrate any actual plans for improving South Carolinas economy, let alone the nations, a MSM anchor said after interviewing him that “He is still better than DeMint”. This after asking Greene a variety of questions in which Green repeated the same talking point of “DeMint started the recession, DeMint is responsible for the recession”.

Yes indeed, Speaker Pelosi you Democrats have not been given the credit you so richly deserve. Or put another way, you Democrats have not been given the blame you so richly deserve. However, I believe come November 3 you will have all the credit and reward you will need for at least another two years. Then we voters get the chance to “thank” your fearless leader President Obama with an election night he will not soon forget. Americans are about to introduce you to lots of “credit” for all you have done and you are going to get your just deserts. Count on it!

 
 
If you have attended or watched a debate or a town hall meeting, you’ve likely encountered heated exchanges among opposing groups. In some instances, fist fights and other forms of violence have been recorded. The case for civility has been replaced by the case for being heard, even if it’s by shouting over the candidates speaking.

I certainly would never advocate violence or disruptive behavior in settings that are clearly reserved for cooler or calmer heads, but I can understand how this behavior transpires. When a large group is repeatedly denied access to simply have their opinions heard, you are likely to see frustration build to an eruption like we have seen in these debates and town hall meetings. For over two years a large section of Americans have sought to have their grievances heard by their representative government and this group has been ignored, castigated, vilified, and even mocked. Finally, the group has reached the boiling point and their anger is spilling over in the form of outburst like we’ve seen at debates and town halls around the nation.

Child psychologist will quickly tell parents that if you ignore your children and allow the lines of communication to deteriorate they will lash out to get your attention. Marital counselors will expound upon the importance of two way communication to ensure a healthy marriage and spend countless hours counseling spouses on how to “listen” to your partner. In all relationships, when communication is halted or becomes a one way street, conflict arises.  So, why members of our government are shocked or appalled by the disruptive and sometimes violent reactions they are now seeing is stupefying.

When a large voter block calls your office, emails your office and snail-mails your office with their desire to be heard, you had better listen and then respond respectfully. Instead far too many of our supposed representatives have not only ignored their constituents but have gone so far as to blame them for policy failures. It is no secret that the group I’m referring to is none other than the Tea party. Americans who have joined this group are simply fed up with the over reach of a government bureaucracy that seems more interested in growing the size of its departments than in growing the size of our economy. A government that has put more time and spent more money for hypothetical climate change dangers than it has spent reducing factual real world unemployment.

Dear Representatives, if you do not like the way your constituents are yelling and screaming at you during your debates, perhaps you should have taken their calls when they were still willing to simply discuss their concerns. Perhaps you Representatives should have been available to reply to letters and email rather than running around celebrating your Hope and Change, while your constituents were left hopeless and with only change in their pockets. Finally, if you do not want voters picketing outside your office or your home, then perhaps you should remember that you were elected to represent that majority trying to get your attention. You were not elected to show your moral or intellectual superiority over voters, quite the contrary. You were elected to humble yourself in the service of those who entrusted you with their voice, putting aside your own personal desires to do the will of the people. If you cannot or do not wish to fulfill this form of representation, then you should excuse yourself from public service and make your way back to the private sector, where you are free (at least at the moment) to expound upon your own greatness.

 
 
When MTV agreed to set up a “Town Hall” for President Obama to talk candidly with the youth of America who knew they’d use a page from China’s oppressive regime. Understandably when the President is going to be face to face with the public it’s best to have an idea if there are any possible John Hinckley’s or John Wilkes Booths in the audience, but short of the Secret Service declaring that all males named John can’t attend…I doubt a questionnaire really ferrets out these type of individuals, nor does a photo of their faces or more specifically, their abs.

 

When the Chinese leadership agreed to have a town hall meeting with President Obama but then handpicked the college students and gave them the questions they were to ask on note cards, this action was decried by the President himself as typical of a regime stifling honest open debate. I suppose President Obama has learned from his socialist comrades and has now taken to supporting the implementation of this new tactic in an effort to boost his ratings. I’m sure the professional young black woman who stood and made the claim that she was growing, “Tired of defending you”…was both shocking and painful for the President of the United States, who takes criticism from any quarter very personally.

 

In the article Infiltrating the MTV Casting Call Evan Gassman takes us along as he attempts to gain access to the Presidential Town hall meeting via the MTV all call. Mr. Gassman astutely realizes that listing himself as a moderate is far more likely to gain him entrance than saying he is an enemy of the President, ah I mean, than saying he is a conservative…but then these days these two seem to be interchangeable. I am still uncertain as to how showing ones abs would demonstrate either support for or disapproval of the President or even pose as a threat, but then we are talking about MTV, so perhaps at this point the individual doing the interview was just looking for a date.

 

What startles me and should scare the heck out of Americans is that we are entering into the same types of “screening” that takes place in countries like China, North Korea, and Cuba. These incidentally, are all countries whose current form of government mirrors much of the policy President Obama and the Democrats are forcing upon Americans. God forbid that America should devolve into a Socialist or Communist nation before we are even able to vote this devastating regime out of office. There can be no acceptance of this type of tactic, and make no mistake about my motives. This type of action is not permissible by either party, Democrat or Republican. Though I am making light in some ways of this event I am also bringing to light how serious this issue and ones like are to the freedoms we Americans have come to take for granite. I fear that this attitude has lead to many of our freedoms now, simply being taken from us