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What's In Your Tea?

Monday, April 5, 2010 at 04:00AM

by Lance Thompson

The Obama administration, their surrogates, and their media servants have gone to great lengths to tie the Tea Party to dimwits, extremists, terrorists, those who incite violence against the government. These are serious charges, and would be enough to discredit any political party–unless that political party is the Democrats, and they control the White House and the Congress.

Dimwits? Does the Tea Party have any members who believe the island of Guam, (the eroded tip of an undersea volcano) could sink under the weight of too much military hardware? Democrat Congressman Hank Johnson of Georgia expressed that very concern when questioning Admiral Robert Willard, commander of the US Pacific Fleet. Nancy Pelosi’s campaign to pass health care reform included the famous call-to-action, “We have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it.” This may not be dimwitted, since it turns out to be true. Only now are we coming to know the true nature of health care reform–after it’s been passed into law. Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano told the nation that after the terrorist bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was thwarted by alert airline passengers last Christmas, that “the system worked.” If so, it was the system of American citizens looking out for themselves while their government looked the other way. If dimwits taint a party, the Dems better clean house.

Extremists? The Dems believe the Tea Party is extreme because its members hold the Constitution to be sacred, believe in the right of free assembly and free speech, and make their views known to their representatives. Does the Tea Party have anyone who cites Mao Tse Tung as a philosophical model, as White House Communications Director Anita Dun, Obama car czar Ron Bloom, or Obama “green czar” Van Jones have done? You can’t get more extreme than Mao–runner-up to Stalin for greatest mass murderer in history. If extremism earns demerits, the Dems have cornered the market.

Terrorists? The Tea Party has no terrorists, either avowed, accused, or convicted. But the Obama administration battled long and hard to free terrorists from Guantanamo Bay; afford terrorists the rights of American citizens; give terrorists access to American courts (and by rules of evidence, American sources of intelligence); normalize relations with state sponsors of terrorism such as Venezuela, Iran and Cuba; and to redefine terrorist acts as “man-caused disasters.” If there are no terrorists in the Obama administration, there are certainly strong supporters.

Inciting violence against the government? There have been no acts of violence against government tied to the Tea Party. Their rhetoric is strong, but no stronger than the threats the Democrats have hurled against the American people in the last few years. In May, 2008, California Congresswoman Maxine Waters threatened a government takeover of the American oil industry. Of course, such an extreme threat pales in comparison to the actual government takeover of banks, car companies, and all health care–all of which have happened since the Democrats took over two branches of government in November 2008. Democrats are enraged by Sarah Palin’s words to Tea Partiers, “Don’t retreat, reload.” Compare that mere phrase to the partisan piling on of debt to unsustainable levels; to Justice Department abrogation of investigations into ACORN voter fraud, Black Panther voter intimidation, not to mention the corruption charges against New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson; to the circumvention and contravention of the Constitution that goes further every day.

The Democrats cannot defend their own actions, so they attack and demean and accuse the most vocal opposition they face. The Tea Party points out where they are wrong and demand redress and satisfaction. This is the way American democracy has always worked–until the Democrats came to power. Now protest, once lauded by Speaker Nancy Pelosi as the highest form of patriotism, is seen as subversive. To resist is unAmerican. To demand one’s rights is tantamount to crime.

The Democrats must discredit the Tea Party before November, for no other force poses a greater threat to their hold on power. The campaign to silence these patriots will be no less widespread, savage, or unscrupulous than that to pass health care reform. Choose sides and prepare for battle.

I’m going to put the tea pot on to boil.

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Thursday

Mar252010

Remember

Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 04:00AM

by Lance Thompson

A Democrat Congress with overwhelming majorities and a Democrat president with a hard left agenda have enacted into law a massive takeover of a vast sector of our economy. They did this over the objections of what every poll showed to be a majority of Americans. Health care reform was also enacted over bipartisan objection–no Republicans voted for the bill, but several Democrats voted against it. Health care reform was achieved at the cost of crippling debt and the certainty of seismic disruption of our health care system. Liberals consider this a victory. Conservatives should see it as a declaration of war.

The other side has named the stakes. They want a dependent population that will have to rely upon and petition the government for health care, and enslave the same population with massive debt. If they prevail, government will be the highest authority in every aspect of your private life–not simply medical care. Government will tell us what we can eat, how much we can weigh, what activities we can participate in, and how old is too old to receive medical treatment. All of these are part of the new health bill. All this comes at a multi-trillion dollar price. Even the CBO (Cooked Book Office) estimate says the cost will be at least one trillion dollars, but they can’t predict most of the fiscal effects. The end of personal liberty for every American and fiscal ruin for the nation’s economy are the stakes.

The other side has established the tactics. “By Any Means Necessary” is the name of the play book which inspired the statements “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” from Rahm Emmanuel; “We have to pass the bill to see what’s in it,” from Nancy Pelosi; “We make up the rules as we go along,” from Alcee Hastings; and “I won, you lost,” from Barack Obama himself. These attitudes were embodied in secret partisan meetings to draft voluminous and unintelligible legislation, blatant bribes to curry favor and win Congressional votes, bookkeeping and accounting tricks to hide the unsustainable costs, and lie upon lie about the nature and consequences of socialist health policy.

We could certainly respond to these tactics by adopting them, but the unscrupulous actions of the Democrats in the White House and Congress contribute greatly to the dissatisfaction most Americans have expressed. We must use Constitutional means to wage this war, not unconstitutional. But we must use every legal weapon, tactic and strategy in the arsenal our Founding Fathers provided.

Republicans and responsible Democrats in Congress must use every legislative rule and loophole to delay, disrupt and repeal this attack on American liberty. Our Constitution was created to keep any one political entity from quickly and easily passing such sweeping legislation. Those on the left have trampled the checks and balances, the deliberative processes, and the careful framework of governance that have served this country so well throughout its history. We must not stoop that low, but we must meet this assault with every legitimate countermeasure afforded us.

We must not be silent when those in the media choose to cheerlead for one party, overlook ethical lapses, or ignore outright graft and corruption. We must contradict every false statement, challenge every illicit maneuver, and indict every guilty party regardless of the rules of decorum. Too much is at stake to let a single falsehood stand or any charlatan to act with impunity. We must raise our voices, stand our ground, and demand justice and accountability from our elected representatives.

This is not a war we sought, but there is too much at stake to falter in the face of this enemy. Americans have often found themselves bruised and bloodied at the beginning of such conflicts. In the opening months of the Revolution, General Washington retreated across nearly the entire breadth of Colonial America. In the Civil War, the Union was rocked by a succession of costly defeats. In World War II, Japanese forces advanced halfway across the Pacific before being checked. We have always recovered from initial defeats, rallied against the enemy, and prevailed in the long struggle to protect our freedoms. We must do the same in this fight. The enemy wins only if we roll over and accept the loss of our liberty.

In earlier conflicts, we have coined phrases that reminded us of the cause, and stiffened our resolve. “Remember the Alamo,” “Remember the Maine,” “Remember Pearl Harbor,” “Remember 9/11.” We, too, must remember the continual assaults on our Constitution, our freedom, and our individual rights. We must remember during every day of this struggle, and particularly on November 2nd, all those who took part in and made possible this outrage, and demonstrate to them that it is the people who have the final say–at the ballot box.

When she became Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi was fond of pointing out that “elections have consequences.” We must remind her and her fellow Democrats that Congressional votes have consequences as well, and that we won’t forget. Those responsible will be held accountable. Perhaps we can add another phrase to the list of stirring American rallying cries in the cause of freedom: “Remember in November.”

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Jul202009

Applied Intelligence

Monday, July 20, 2009 at 04:00AM

by Lance Thompson

“It is the nature of an intelligence service that it must receive encouragement and support from the government of the day; if the government lacks interest in or expert understanding for its intelligence service, not even the best service will succeed in overcoming external prejudices against it.” These are the words of Reinhard Gehlen, chief of the German federal intelligence service , the BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst), in 1971, in his excellent memoir, “The Service.” (English edition: World Publishing, New York, 1972). Gehlen brought invaluable intelligence assets to the United States regarding Russia after

World War II, and founded the BND which continues its important work to this day.

Gehlen’s wisdom is alarmingly relevant today, as the American foreign intelligence service, the CIA, is battered by politically motivated attacks by Democrats and the Obama administration. The CIA, whose mission is to inform our leaders about the capabilities and intentions of our adversaries and allies, has always been a favorite target of liberals. But in recent weeks, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi accused the CIA of deceiving her when she was caught lying about briefings she received concerning interrogation techniques. When Pelosi’s false claims were exposed, she chose to denigrate the CIA rather than admit her deliberate deception.

Now, we learn that the House Intelligence Committee is investigating Democrat charges that former Vice President Cheney ordered the CIA not to inform Congress of a secret CIA plan to target al Qaeda terrorist leaders. This charge, of course, ignores the fact that the CIA reports directly to the President, is not under the command of the Vice President, and that both houses of Congress have independent intelligence committees who oversee the CIA.

Since the charge involves actions that took place years ago, under an administration that is no longer in power, it is evident that this is not a matter of urgency. Thus, it is obvious that this issue was chosen for other reasons–primarily to embarrass the previous administration. For such an exposure to be effective, the previous administration must be shown to have done something wrong.

The CIA is an intelligence agency, and many of its activities are effective only if kept secret. Therefore, the secrecy of the plans in question is not in itself questionable. Whether the vice president wanted greater secrecy or not is irrelevant–he did not have the authority or ability to demand what information the CIA revealed to congressional intelligence committees.

Therefore, the Democrats who want so badly to bring this investigation to light must believe that the plan itself–killing al Qaeda terrorist leaders–is wrong. They must believe that if Americans knew that the previous administration was studying ways of destroying our enemies who murdered thousands of Americans and were devising ways to murder thousands more, then it would bring shame and opprobrium upon that administration.

The Obama administration seeks closer ties to terrorist-sponsoring governments in Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela. They seek to extend the Constitutional rights of American citizens to terrorists who will sacrifice themselves in our destruction. The Obama state department won’t even call the war on terror the war on terror, or even call terrorists terrorists. So it is quite possible that Democrats believe that a plan to kill terrorists is not only contrary to current policy, but legally and morally wrong. So wrong, in fact, that if the American people discovered that the previous administration was planning such acts, that they would be filled with indignation and revulsion.

The Democrats, then, must believe that the oaths sworn by their president and congressmen to defend the United States are not only non-binding, but that any action or decision made to augment that defense is a transgression. Thus, the Bush administration, with its war on terror, its detention and prosecution of terrorists, and its covert efforts to expose and prevent further terrorists attacks, has been caught doing something that the American people won’t stand for. The Democrats believe that standing against the war on terror is the morally superior position, and using the CIA as a scapegoat is a politically smart strategy.

With this view, the majority party has succeeded in undercutting our efforts to counter the terrorist threat. In the few short months of the Obama administration, America has gone from the great arsenal of democracy to the great apologist for terrorism and the great enabler of tyranny. The Democrats believe this is what Americans want. Whether you agree or disagree, there is one place to let your voice be heard–the ballot box next year.

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Wednesday

Mar042009

The Good, the Bad and the Stupid

Wednesday, March 4, 2009 at 05:00AM

by Rose Pedenko and Tanya Simon

The words “subversive” and “subversion” once were used only to describe enemy combatants at the time of military conflict. Today those same words have been labeled inflammatory – not behind an iron curtain but right here in the United States of America.

In the third month of the year 2009 A.D., the time has finally come to call a spade a spade. For those on the left who inflame discourse by automatically reading malevolent racist meanings into that phrase, STOP NOW! America-loving Americans have finally been pushed over the edge, and frankly no longer care anymore what you – the ultra-liberals and the two-timing RINOs amongst you -- consider is bigoted. Are you listening, Eric Holder?

You have pushed us over the edge … by political correctness (which, in and of itself, is an insult to the American free spirit), by taxation and more taxation to come, and by our Constitutional rights and freedoms being mangled and distorted in order to fit the liberal agenda.

The “Sleeping Giant” awoke when Pearl Harbor was bombed -- and again after our country was attacked on September 11, 2001. The same giant, this time in the form of conservatives and clear-thinking Democrats, is rising up to confront and revolt against the subversions of our federal government.

For clarification, when we say “clear-thinking Democrats” we do not include the ultra-liberal waterbearers who soaked Barack Hussein Obama with unadulterated praise and elected him on their tidal wave of adulation. We’re talking about American citizens who joined the Democratic Party believing it would make a difference in creating a better, safer, stronger U.S.A., but discovered they’ve been shanghaied to pre-Stalinist Russia.

Book after best-selling book (albeit by conservative authors) have been clarifying with facts and figures (Kryptonite to the left) what has been unraveling in this country. We have the Right (the “Good”) stripping away the camouflage of the Left (the “Bad”), and endeavoring to educate the “Stupid” – a feat now thankfully hampered by the self-inflicted collapse of the once great metropolitan dailies, and the sinking ratings of liberal cable news networks.

And in case you weren’t listening, fiscal conservatives were not happy with President Bush either. He lost his base of support because of his unchecked Democratic-like spending. We did indeed need change, but not in the present form of throwing good money after bad. One need only look to the engagement of the Cloward-Piven Strategy (manufactured by the left), to clearly understand what has occurred in the United States over the last 43 years: Leftist academics have dealt irreparable societal damage.

Adding insult to injury is the fact these academics continue to poison the knowledge wells from which we drink – and they’re being paid to do it, courtesy of the American taxpayer.

Explaining how we got here (even with hard facts and indisputable figures) is never enough for the left. They don’t get the truth from the prolific liars in the mainstream media and refuse to entertain exceptions to their point of view. Those that actually take the time to read conservative articles do so by inhabiting right-wing blogs like resident cockroaches, commenting with wild abandon from sheer ignorance. Put simply, those who can, write – and those who can’t, rant.

There have been the decades of liberal out-on-the-street and in-your-face protests, which are as common and tiresome as illegal immigrants banging on our cars demanding work when we drive onto a Home Depot parking lot. The reason you don’t see loud and obnoxious conservative activists in melees with police or who are being thrown out of congressional meetings is they don’t exist. Okay, okay, we concede there are a few, like the wing-nut extremists who protest in front of abortion clinics. Shameful! How dare anyone fight for the life of an unborn human being!

Republicans and conservative-minded Democrats are busy working at our jobs, providing for our families and our communities. We’re building companies that employ people, and we pay the bulk of this country’s taxes and we mind our own business. But those days may be over, because revolution is in the air, and don’t you just love the smell of “rebellion” in the morning?

We are being forced to rebel because Obama has fogged up his followers’ senses – with endless campaign rhetoric, and it has now seeped into the fabric of this country like radioactive waste leeching into our drinking wells. The White House and the U.S. Congress have become hangouts for the ham-fisted and the desperate, where they’re all banging into each other like billiard balls on an uneven surface. And this administration’s pathological hunger for absolute power only serves to repudiate Obama’s hollow promises of hope and change.

Neither Obama nor the Democrat-controlled Congress has even once mentioned the phrases “family unity” or “American honor.” By ignoring the nucleus conventions on which our country was built, they have proven that none of them possesses any sense of responsibility for the offices they hold.

Obama thinks he has things under control (the way Neville Chamberlain thought he had Hitler under control). He gave back to England the bust of Winston Churchill (which had been given to the White House as a gesture of solidarity after 9/11) and in so doing, revealed an arrogance that threatens to cut all ties with one of our most trusted allies in favor of dialogue with the enemy.

Americans of every stripe are saying “Enough is enough,” and we will rise up, including all of you who voted that Democrat to the presidency. It will happen, and it will be launched on the words of Patrick Henry’s American Revolution fervor of “Give me liberty or give me death.”

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Supporting the President

Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 05:00AM

by Lance Thompson

A recent controversy the media have embraced, rather than examining the wisdom of spending more money than America has ever had, was sparked by commentator Rush Limbaugh when he dared to say that he hoped that President Obama failed to remake the economy and the government. Liberals gasped at this, likening it to high treason.

Some Republicans on the Sunday shows have been quick to disavow Limbaugh’s statement as well. House Republican Whip Eric Cantor said “no one wants this president to fail.” Congressman Mike Pence echoed the sentiment. Congressional Republicans participated in Obama’s Fiscal Summit on 23 February, engaging in “break-out sessions” and reporting their “findings.” They acted as if the responsible Republican “no” votes on the stimulus package were in need of an apology, and that nothing would be worse than being labeled “partisan.”

For all those Republicans whose convictions lead them to go along to get along, I have a solution. And it is certain to be respected by the Left, because the Left came up with it.

While the outcome of the war in Iraq was still in doubt, the Democrats did everything they could to bring about defeat for the United States. Democrats in Congress called the war criminal, immoral, and unwinnable. Democrats introduced various resolutions to end the war, pull out the troops, and cut off funding. Of course, Democrats were smart enough to know that these actions, while solidifying their support among liberals, was not going over well with the families of our troops. Thus, they came up with a bumper sticker to plaster over their shameful actions: “We support the troops, but not the war.” This, they thought, allowed them to have it both ways.

This solution can easily be adopted by Republicans who can’t bring themselves openly to defy the president. All they have to say is, “I support the president, but not his policies.” Painless, isn’t it? Let’s all try it, shall we?

I support the president, but not his Politburo of a cabinet. I don’t support the collection of tax cheats, terrorist sympathizers, baby killers (if Governor Sebelius is confirmed as HHS Secretary) that the president has appointed to his administration to carry out his socialist agenda.

I support the president, but not his spendaholic stimulus bills, bailout bills, redistribution of income and tax hikes on anyone who actually works for a living. I don’t support his plunging the nation into a bottomless pit of debt and sticking responsible Americans with the tab.

I support the president, but not his Secretary of State’s nuzzling of Red China, subsidies for Hamas to rebuild Gaza into a terrorist base, and abandoning former Soviet Republics to the increasingly belligerent Russia.

I support the president, but not his outsourcing of executive policy to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, so they can rush legislation through Congress without letting most members of the legislative branch even read it.

I support the president, but not his plan to nationalize health care and give a bureaucrat authority over my own medical needs.

Wasn’t that easy? Republicans who still want to be invited to interviews on the MSM, chic Washington parties, and The View, can embrace this two-faced construction. They can gush over Obama’s diction, his wife’s taste in clothing, his lavish entertaining. But they can still oppose the policies that are remaking the nation in the socialist image.

Speaking for myself, I don’t support the president or his policies, and I doubt that any future conservative leaders do either. Those who like to play both sides will not earn, nor do they deserve, the support of conservative voters. Our future leaders will be those who are not afraid to state their principles and live by them.

Of course, if the president decides to reverse course, cut taxes, beef up the military, get rid of the criminals in his own administration, reduce spending, and stop giving the money of working people to non-working people, I’ll gladly support him and his policies. But I’m not holding my breath.

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