Instapundit reports on who came to tea on the steps of the Pennsylvania Capitol. Hundreds came to the third of the weekly tea parties at the invitation of the Commonwealth Foundation and two local radio talk show hosts. “Harrisburg Tea Party” gives vent to their firmly held belief in limited federal and state government and definitely protests the government overstepping its role in our lives. There is more tea to be served along with sobering declarations in the days to come.
"Harrisburg Tea Party" - photo sent to Instapundit by Genny Grace
Seems Obama can make them swoooooon but they remember Limbaugh.
You go, Guy!
Rick Tucker writing for TownHall.com says Obama’s address to Congress accrued kudos for a day. Front pages applauded his audacious plans. By the weekend Barak was old news and lining garbage cans. Rush on the other hand mouthed four words that are still lighting fires and making headlines.
The words, part if a diatribe decrying socialist plans for America, were that Rush wanted “Barack Obama to fail. ” They were clearly and easily understood by people who understand context. That’s really all that matters. People do understand what Limbaugh meant. Some people just can’t stand that Limbaugh puts such a memorable stamp on it.
“We are paying for past sins in three principal areas: energy, health care and education”
“The ‘day of reckoning’ has arrived.”
Krauthammercalls Obama’s “sleight of hand” agenda (my emphasis):
“Amazing. As an explanation of our current economic difficulties, this is total fantasy. As a cure for rapidly growing joblessness, a massive destruction of wealth, a deepening worldwide recession, this is perhaps the greatest non sequitur ever foisted upon the American people.”
“Obama has come to redeem us with his far-seeing program of universal, heavily nationalized health care; a cap-and-trade tax on energy; and a major federalization of education with universal access to college as the goal.”
“At the very center of our economic near-depression is a credit bubble, a housing collapse and a systemic failure of the banking industry…List of causes of the collapse of the financial system does not include the absence of universal health care, let alone of computerized medical records. Nor the absence of an industry-killing cap-and-trade carbon levy. Nor the lack of college graduates.”
“Four months after winning the election, six weeks after his swearing-in, Obama has yet to unveil a plan to deal with the banking crisis.”
“Obama sees the continuing financial crisis as usefully creating the psychological conditions – the sense of crisis bordering on fear-itself panic — for enacting his “Big Bang” agenda to federalize and/or socialize health care, education”
“….intellectually dishonest to the core...The fraudulent claim that they are both cause and cure is the rhetorical device by which an ambitious president intends to enact the most radical agenda of social transformation seen in our lifetime”
How can the American people get a do-over? This is not the time for an impeachment proof Congress! Don’t tell me the pre-election crowd on the Left is still in la-la-land. They have homes and mortgages, college funds and grocery bills, don’t they? They have consciences, don’t they? Will they really be content with bread lines and government hand outs?
Since President Obama (that’s hard for me to say) has been in office he has done nothing to indicate that he loves this country as we know it. Is raising taxes on small businesses when it is small businesses that fuel the imagination and the entrepreneurial vision of America, truly in our best interest. Is Obama’s hand in the pocket of those companies that have worked and produced our economical growth any better than unscrupulous CEO’s plundering our dreams. Is raising the capital gains tax the end-all and be-all of his vision for America. I think 95% of the American people are beginning to get the picture; in place of promised tax cuts, and it’s $13 dollars a week.
When Obama gets through with America our charitable institutions will be needed more than ever but drained and stretched beyond their limits, thanks to putting punitive limits on tax breaks. America is charitable but if our money is owed the government coffer where will these heavenly pennies come from.
Obama, the community organizer, is proving to be no more than that. What can a golden tongue do to feed and fuel the nation. His charisma simply blinds you to the fact that we are a rather big and unwieldy “community” that needs more than an amateur at the helm. America needs our oil companies and power plants operating at the top of their game in this time of competitive pressure from China and other growing nations. This may not be a good time to cap carbon and punish success.
Growing government is not the kind of job growth America needs. The money in the pockets of the wealthy is best put to work not out to pasture. Crashing the stock market and taking it from their pockets to line those of government isn’t putting it in your pocket. Do you really want to fill out a government form and wait for approval when you want to go to a doctor or build an American dream of your own?
Just maybe your dream for America and Obama’s aren’t the same dream. His dream, call it what you may, is based on an ideology that has been tried and failed. It’s not life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
“Hey it’s amateur hour at our darkest moment!”
Cramer: President Obama has caused “the greatest wealth destruction I have seen by a president.”
“A young kid took me aside. He said I was right when I said ‘we’ve elected a Leninist’.”
In “Keepers of History,” Joanna Lotta asks the question: Who holds your history? Lotta describes the “griots” who have amazing memories and whose role it is within their West African society to recite long histories and genealogies as well as songs of praise.
We can ask this question of our own lives. When we came into this world, we already possessed a history; one going back in time to all our fore-bearers. We held recorded in our genes, if not our memories, our mother and our father, our grandparents and great grand-parents; add to that as many greats as it takes to take us back to the very beginning of human beginnings. Even for one so small as each of us was in our zygotic beginnings, that’s a weighty argument for the worth of our being. From the beginning, you and I are not a nothing, nor a nobody, nor a blob of substance. Each of us is one in the line of the order of Adam called into existence by the breathe of God and cooperation of our human nature.
So now, for the unborn, I ask, “Who holds their history?” Further, I ask, “Who holds their destiny?” Will industries such as Planned Parenthood, abortion mills, research institutes, and unethical fertilization plants, manipulate the Present and the Future by abrogating our mortal and moral Past. Our souls, as well as our genes, tell a story; one that will be sung one day before our Creator as a song of praise or profanation. Eternity waits on an answer.
Be Holy! 