Red meat: Angry guy dressed as Founding Father calls for march on D.C. or something
posted at 8:40 pm on March 18, 2009 by Allahpundit
Jokes Karl, “How soon ’till he turns up on Glenn Beck?” Pretty soon, I figure: His last video drew more than 2.5 million hits and this one’s bound to do big business as well, although it leaves me ice cold. So ambitious is his agenda, in fact, that I half-suspect it’s a parody of enraged populist demagoguery. Indifferent politicians, taxation without representation, jobs being outsourced, national suicide, “wake up, America!”, more money for troops’ salaries, universal service — all of it sprinkled with rhetoric about “the almighty wrath of we the people” and marching on Washington and a second American revolution and buying a gun if things don’t work out. As if there aren’t enough destabilizing threats to worry about, now there’s this guy and his contingent to fret over if Congress doesn’t snap to attention when they get those tea bags in the mail. Exit question: Is this Thomas Paine or Robespierre?
Update: Commenters tell me that Beck actually already played this on today’s radio show. Perfect.
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It should be clear to the HA people that you, AP, are the enemy.
klickink.wordpress.com on March 18, 2009 at 10:06 PM
It should be clear to the HA people that you are a nitwit.
MadisonConservative on March 18, 2009 at 10:09 PM
AP – are you American born and educated? Or are you a muslim immigrant?
Ever heard of the American Revolution?
Patrick Henry.
John Adams.
Benjamin Franklin.
Jefferson.
Paine?
Jeez, do you come to work wearing your “The One” button?
Good grief.
klickink.wordpress.com on March 18, 2009 at 10:09 PM
And you’re a p*ssy.
I mean, you want to name call.
klickink.wordpress.com on March 18, 2009 at 10:10 PM
Crystal clear.
MadisonConservative on March 18, 2009 at 10:10 PM
I havent been here as long as most posters. Was beginning to think I missunderestimated (great word) AP. Thank you Odie for confirming my original impression of blind elitism.
Our f**kwad smiley faced babykiller plastic banana good time rocknroller narcissist marxist in chief and his merry band of criminals and tax cheats are systematically destroying our country. What part of this does AP not get?
Maybe Glenn hurts APs widdle feewings with all that wadical talk about taking our freakin country back.
kooziegirl on March 18, 2009 at 10:12 PM
He lost me when he mentioned abolishing the electoral college (there goes federalism) and when he argued for the draft (involuntary servitude) right after asking for a raise for the military (quite the contradiction).
This is just populist nonsense.
ebrawer on March 18, 2009 at 10:12 PM
Definitely “good cop/bad cop”……….
SondraK on March 18, 2009 at 10:13 PM
Well, I liked it anyway. Heh and indeed. I was glad to read upthread that GB is apparently re-writing Common Sense. That was my original plan back when I started my (now derelict) blog, glad that someone with the energy (and talent!) is updating it. I already put in my time-off request at work for my Tax Day Tea Party march on the state capitol (Salem Oregon). The bosses (owners of ~15 employee manufacturing company) just chuckled. They know. I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve overheard my boss (an engineer originally from Midwest) tell suppliers/vendors/customers/etc when they call how “spooky” it is out there. Spooky is right. My current favorite motto to put on my protest sign: “Screw shovel-ready, I’m pitchfork-ready!” Along with printouts of the Debt Star etc etc. Like the recently re-located Rachl Lukis might say, I. Can’t. Wait.
T.Paine on March 18, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Shep, thanks for proving my point about ignorance….
SDN on March 18, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Rock on.
klickink.wordpress.com on March 18, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Oh, and athensboy, my getting used to tyranny is a call you’ll never get to make.
SDN on March 18, 2009 at 10:16 PM
Without George Soros Baracko couldnt have been elected to dogcatcher. Soros owns this country and all Soros men surround and dictate Barackos every move. Read Horowitzs Shadow Party – its all laid out, every disgusting facet of the way Soros has taken power. He despises everything this country stands for. He will destroy us if he can. He is hell bent on it.
kooziegirl on March 18, 2009 at 10:18 PM
SDN,
It was humor. However, thanks for being the poster-child for ignorance.
Shep on March 18, 2009 at 10:19 PM
This is not about the obama administration. If only it was that simple. What is wrong with America goes back decades now. Thomas Paine is talking about throwing the elitist bums out of congress and getting the people to become activist to save the republic from the endemic rot. He is calling for activism. And I’d say putting a teabag into an envelope is pretty tepid activism. Strangely enough, some people think even that is too much like Robespierre. Dangerous. Scary. LOL.
keep the change on March 18, 2009 at 10:25 PM
This is one of those posts that makes me think AP has finally grown into an alpha male.
Setting himself up for friendly fire just to get a 200 hit post….
Very admirable…
katy on March 18, 2009 at 10:26 PM
I can’t say I agree with all of this guy’s points, but he is right that we should be angry.
Obama is busy giving away trillions of dollars of our childrens’ money to his friends and allies. This isn’t business as usual – this is unprecedented theft that would make the guys at Worldcom blush.
18-1 on March 18, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Hmmm, so I guess we will be cleaning house across the board.
They never read any bill they sign – any of them.
AprilOrit on March 18, 2009 at 10:28 PM
Allah –
Why isn’t the “Holder says GITMO detainess may be released in America” thread up yet?”
From Reuters:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090318/us_nm/us_guantanamo_holder
Let me guess, it got in the way of feiging outrage at the Kittens video while perusing YouTube…
Odie1941 on March 18, 2009 at 10:28 PM
Well done in general. Unfortunately the “Abolish the Electoral College” piece makes me wonder. Why is this guy willing to toss out a key piece of the Founders design?
I live in a blood red district of SoCal. Every year we get a few “conservative” voting guides in the mail with a list of recommendations that have one egregiously socialist initiative checked Yes. A trap set for the unwary to get you voting against your own interest.
Same here. Everything he lists save one is conservative red meat but if the Electoral College was overturned there would never be a Red State candidate for president again. All campaigns would focus on the urban voter and the 80% of the country between the coasts and Chicago could go to hell for all anyone in Washington would care.
If this guy was honest and/or smart he’d be pushing Repeal of the 17th Amendment to return the proper State’s Rights balance instead of stripping more of the original republican vision.
rcl on March 18, 2009 at 10:29 PM
AP, just re-read the title and your little caption.
It would appear that you are in favor of sitting back and putting up with tyranny.
Well done, Tokyo Rose.
fossten on March 18, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Well … if the neo-Pravda media hadn’t been working actively for the idiot messiah and the left, or if the sources of BHO’s campaign donations had gotten the real scrutiny that it should have gotten (which would have landed a lot of people in jail) then the people might have had a real chance to decide. They are lazy, though, and didn’t bother to investigate much further than what the MSM told them.
There won’t be anything left, by then. That’s how things are going. The Precedent is a retard. His whole administration are fools and morons. The Congress is full of lunatics. And they are all moving in a chaotic unison of incompetence and anti-Americanism, dragging this down the chasm.
Brilliant. He’s done more damage in 2 months than most thought possible over 4 years. People are realizing this – even many of the zombies who support The Precedent. He is a JOKE! But governing is real. Very dangerous stuff, and everyone in the world knows it. Everyone with a brain, that is.
progressoverpeace on March 18, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Screw the mailing teabags crap. Start a campaign now to start ejecting piggy incumbents from Congress in 2010.
flipflop on March 18, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Novel idea.
MadisonConservative on March 18, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Yep, I disagreed on those too. But the rest… I liked it. How many times did he say “…and they ignored you.”? Were any of those lies? No… Congress, and now our President, have gotten into the easy habit of ignoring us. Time to remind them who they work for. Our Chickenlittle-in-Chief thinks it helps him get his way if he scares us. Perhaps we should give him, the Democrats, and the RINOs all a lesson in what happens if you try to play games with free Americans, and give them a little fear for their jobs too?
drunyan8315 on March 18, 2009 at 10:36 PM
As to the Electoral College – it should be “disbanded”, but should reflect the TACTICS of consensus, gerrymandering, redistricting and apportionment of today’s politics.
The rules have changed.
Solution: Nebraska and Maine’s split Electoral votes per state to better reflect the republic our Founding Fathers envisioned.
Problem solved.
Consideirng the other 40 or so valid points he made, I’ll hold my “rage”…
Odie1941 on March 18, 2009 at 10:37 PM
*shouldn’t
Odie1941 on March 18, 2009 at 10:38 PM
Allahpundit, that is a little harsh, don’t you think?
What DownSouth is saying is something felt by many Americans who truly appreciate freedom.
This country is in the midst of a Marxist coup that is unfolding very rapidly. He, like many of us, realize that the time remaining to preserve this nation in any meaningful form is growing shorter by the hour.
We do not have until 2012 to stop this, and might not have until 2010, either, if the Organizer manages to pull off a government takeover of our health care system, which the socialists are saying they plan to finalize by the end of the year.
Should they succeed, it won’t matter what happens in the 2010 mid-terms, much less the 2012 general election.
We the people are the ones who are supposed to be running this country, not them the government.
As things currently stand, the latter has ceased listening to the former.
-Dave
Dave R. on March 18, 2009 at 10:39 PM
That is actor – motovational speaker Brooklyn born
.
There’s a picture of him with Bob Hope and Senator McCain’s father.
AprilOrit on March 18, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Obama already destroyed in around 2 months, what GWB destroyed in 7 years. This will not end well.
Entelechy on March 18, 2009 at 10:47 PM
I first heard this on Glenn’s radio show today. After seeing it this evening I must say it was ten times more powerful when it was audio only.
Where did I put those tea bags? “Honey, Where’s the tea bags?”
Pole-Cat on March 18, 2009 at 10:47 PM
Allah’s a style snob like most young urbanites. Character matters less than wit or being well-read and current. Honor is a word virtually unused in their writing or speech. They are the opposite of upright and plain spoken which is, in my mind, the ultimate in American character.
My own prescription to give the guy some balance, a straight back and a steady gaze is to get a horse and learn to ride. There’s a reason all men of rank had to be horsemen in virtually every nation of power in world history. Civilization owes as much or more to the horse as it does to agriculture.
rcl on March 18, 2009 at 10:47 PM
katy on March 18, 2009 at 10:26 PM,
Good cop/bad cop :)
SondraK on March 18, 2009 at 10:49 PM
Allahpundit, if this guy scares you then you really and truly are a beta
maleperson.5:50 on is what he’s talking about doing in his revolution.
- The Cat
MirCat on March 18, 2009 at 10:50 PM
You’ve had 2 months of Obama, get used to it.
athensboy on March 18, 2009 at 10:00 PM
2 months was more than enough. Bush was an idiot but next to Obama Bush was Newton.
You want the free money you think one vote one time is enough. You think that because Obama hoodwinked the AMerician people with the willing help of the liberal press that we will just roll over and die.
a democracy does not mean one vote one time. A representive republic is not a one vote one time marist country. To be our leaders they have to lead, they have to obey they oath of office to protect and defend the consitution. They are not made kings, queens and lords on Nov 4. They are simply avg citizens that we have entrusted with massive power. If they fail in their obligation we have a duty to do everything in our power to stop them at the gates. To deny them their wishes if it goes agains tthe cosnitution.
You want to change that piece of paper find it can be changed. It is hard and it takes time but it can and has been changed.
Do not simply ignore the points of that paper you do not like.
I don’t know about the rest of you but I am ready to march on washington. And if it happens it will make the illegals protest and the million man march and the civil rights march look like chicken feed.
unseen on March 18, 2009 at 10:52 PM
As fas as the video I agree with everything but abolishing the electoral college. could you imagine the harm to the country if the liberals did not at least have to fake caring about flyover country?
unseen on March 18, 2009 at 10:54 PM
Beta Maledom aside, though I like the message I am getting scared myself by the messengers. I’m stocking up on ammo for the lefties and the populist righties who are getting wound up with our own version of class warfare rhetoric.
Rob Taylor on March 18, 2009 at 10:54 PM
I take it, Wall, that you don’t nedd no ed’cation
You don’t need no thought Control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Hey Teacher, leave those kids alone.
All in all, your another brick in the socialist wall
.
GunRunner on March 18, 2009 at 10:56 PM
g*d, you’re such an old lady, Allahpundit.
james23 on March 18, 2009 at 10:57 PM
Go curl up in the corner with the other dogs and li@& your balls and shut up.
thomasaur on March 18, 2009 at 10:58 PM
He’s a rich white guy, he can’t have anything useful to say.
Grafted on March 18, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Allah you should see no problem with this from gateway pundit:
The Missouri Information Analysis Center (a division of the state police) has compiled an enemies list of warning signs for state police officers, signs that are supposed to help them determine potential terrorists. Such signs include Ron Paul bumper stickers, or “Right to Carry” handgun stickers (I have to wonder: does it include Support Your Local Police stickers, too?) and our friendly state troopers are warned to proceed with extreme caution against such radicals.
unseen on March 18, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Who is being targeted in this report? The state police are warned that Christians, “sovereign citizens”, those opposed to abortion, tax revisionists, and anti-illegal immigrant advocates are potential would-be terrorists.
unseen on March 18, 2009 at 11:03 PM
The Founding Fathers never dreamed that ACORN would be the ones taking the Head Count that the Electoral College is based on.
Pole-Cat on March 18, 2009 at 11:06 PM
He can’t, they haven’t dropped yet.
nolapol on March 18, 2009 at 11:08 PM
Nah. AP is simply engaging in a little C.Y.A.
He wants to be included in the new tyranny once the last vestiges of freedom are gone. Better not to associate himself with ‘subversives.’
fossten on March 18, 2009 at 11:09 PM
alpha cop/beta cop ;)
katy on March 18, 2009 at 11:10 PM
Watched the video and I love it. I’m a bit iffy on abolishing the electoral college and the two years of “service,” otherwise I love it.
These boots are made for walkin’…
SET THE DATE!
Oink on March 18, 2009 at 11:12 PM
Answer: 9 Thermidor
Seven Percent Solution on March 18, 2009 at 11:14 PM
While I don’t believe GWB destroyed anything, I do agree with you that this isn’t going to end well.
Oink on March 18, 2009 at 11:16 PM
When we had the opportunity to govern from the right when we were in the majority, but instead W and the GOP decided to roll over and stick us in the phucking back every chance they got.
They were too worried about pandering to the media and their leftist comrades.
They were way too timid on way too many issues.
They gave us Rx drug program. More Fed involvement in education with NCLB. They refused to enforce our borders.
Refused to get the damn border fencing built.
Refused to make tax cuts permanent.
Refused to get domestic oil supplies drilled and refined.
Now we get to sit back and watch how they should have governed.
Agressive, fast, and at a furious pace.
They are moving ahead like a freight train with their agenda.
No holds barred.
I hope the GOP, especially conservatives, are watching.
If and when you get the majority back, you have to act fast and furious, and not allow our liberal enemies a chance to catch their breath.
We have to shove our agenda right down their friggen’ throats, the same way they are doing to us.
Wake up you sonsofbitches!!!!!!!!!!!!
roninacreage on March 18, 2009 at 11:18 PM
Dammit! I had oral surgery this am…. and I think you busted one of my stitches:)
SondraK on March 18, 2009 at 11:18 PM
The Words We Live By”
Linda R Monk
nolapol on March 18, 2009 at 11:23 PM
ouch. ;)
katy on March 18, 2009 at 11:26 PM
The stuff is screened and the thrown away. They don’t see the Tea Bags or anything that is sent. Unless it is important. I am not wasting my money for nothing.
sheebe on March 18, 2009 at 9:43 PM
Most, if not all, congress folk have local offices. Send it there. They’ll get it.
nolapol on March 18, 2009 at 11:26 PM
The GOP had their chances for 6 of Bushs 8 years and chose to blow it, instead of pushing our conservative agenda down their throats, the way the democrats are now doing to us.
Remember the GOP being more concerned with kicking Trent Lott to the curb, and sharing power in senate committees under Frist?
I hope they learned their lesson, because we are all paying for it now.
roninacreage on March 18, 2009 at 11:27 PM
Can anyone recommend a good book about the constitution?
gmoonster on March 18, 2009 at 9:12 PM
common sense
by Thomas Paine. Most of the founding thought process is in that book.
Also the Federalist papers
unseen on March 18, 2009 at 11:28 PM
I hope they learned their lesson, because we are all paying for it now.
roninacreage on March 18, 2009 at 11:27 PM
don’t forget their scheme to get senior citizens to vote for them the drug benefit. So how’s those bought votes wroking out for them? not so well
unseen on March 18, 2009 at 11:29 PM
“the second American revolution has just begun!”
Right century, wrong revolution. I think the French Revolution would be more in line.
Imagine the cold sweat our state legislature would sense if we erected a guillotine in front of the building.
kurtzz3 on March 18, 2009 at 11:30 PM
They aren’t passing comments either.
He specifically mentions “the nation”, a concept which the founders avoided (the USA is a union of sovereign states, not a nation). This ties into his abolish the electoral college rhetoric. The founders held democracy in contempt, and for a good reason – the whole point of the constitution was to limit the power of mob rule. His direct appeal to populism is alarming in this regard once you factor in the abolition of the EC and the “nation” bit.
As for the draft, he first bemoans the servitude of the people to the government, but then clamors for “service”. He especially clarifies his view at the end when he mocks the concept of a professional army.
This doesn’t even cover the alarmingly mercantile notions he evokes.
Then comes his comment about greed… isn’t that what the “pursuit of happiness” is all about? Isn’t the reverse of involuntary servitude the pursuit of one’s own ambitions?
He also talks about funding social security but never mentions that it’s a new deal power grab that is incompatible with the principles of America’s founding.
This guy is no friend of the constitution, liberty, or capitalism.
He’s more like a founding father of the French Republic.
ebrawer on March 18, 2009 at 11:31 PM
Are you all ready for 30 million more democrats on the voter rolls?
Obama and Pelosi will be swearing them all in, in about 60-90 days.
Then they will be getting all the new government jobs that will be created with our stimulus money that was stolen from us.
Thanks to the GOP for refusing to deal with illegal immigrants.
roninacreage on March 18, 2009 at 11:35 PM
Hey ED your squishiness is not going over too well, eh?
Maybe you can take shelter under David Frum’s wing.
pseudonominus on March 18, 2009 at 11:37 PM
He’s more like a founding father of the French Republic.
ebrawer on March 18, 2009 at 11:31 PM
or more lke a Grant or Lee. civil war is coming and it is not going to be pretty IMO
unseen on March 18, 2009 at 11:38 PM
I had to stop and think for a bit…. but…
On the Electoral College… abolish it. It is no longer doing its intended duty. There are a few big states, where if you win, because of population and the winner take all idea, you win. Small states are ignored under the current system… their votes now count for nothing UNLESS it is a very close race. Tell me, do Conservative votes in California currently count?
As to two years of service… I’m torn. I am the product of the Post Viet Nam all volunteer Armed Service (USN Ret.), and yes, an all volunteer armed service will be superior to one with draftees…
HOWEVER, Profesional All volunteer armies are more likely to be used in foreign adventures than a drafted army (IMO), not used for home defense, as the founders, and myself, would prefer.
Civil War, WW1, WW2, Korea, VietNam… all used drafted armies made up of the totality of the civilian population… and thus the burden was more equaly shared… rather than the burden being thrust onto a smaller community of volunteers, while the rest sit back and remain safe, by spending the blood of those volunteers.
Romeo13 on March 18, 2009 at 11:41 PM
God forbid the people of this country actually get off thier asses and do something (even if it is just a small gesture like the tea bad thing). Voting people out has gotten this country where? Kick one out and another self serving representative rat takes the others place. Our Government has abused our power for so long and created such a divide between us, they no longer fear the people.
Get off your high horse.
americaslaststand on March 18, 2009 at 11:45 PM
Romeo13 on March 18, 2009 at 11:41 PM
so something is not working quite right and we should just get rid of it? How about the Maine and Neb models where you get the congressional districts electoral if you win that district? that way the politicans will still have to go into flyover country. You abolish the electoral college and politicians will concentrate all their energies and policies on urban people.
unseen on March 18, 2009 at 11:47 PM
And it is not reall yht e electoral college failing it is the fact that every congressional distrcit has been gerrymandered.
unseen on March 18, 2009 at 11:47 PM
You’ve got it all wrong. Take away the electoral college, and now candidates can literally just focus on the big cities, run up the score, and ignore Middle America. They wouldnt be campaigning in places like Iowa, Colorado, Montana, Maine, etc if it werent for the electoral college, because they could come across just as many people driving down a street in LA.
The Electoral College is a way of balancing state interests with individual interests. We dont live in a democracy, its a Republic where there are checks and balances. This is one of them – a check by the small states against the larger.
Rangeley on March 18, 2009 at 11:59 PM
I had to stop and think for a bit…. but…
On the Electoral College… abolish it. It is no longer doing its intended duty. There are a few big states, where if you win, because of population and the winner take all idea, you win. Small states are ignored under the current system… their votes now count for nothing UNLESS it is a very close race. Tell me, do Conservative votes in California currently count?
As to two years of service… I’m torn. I am the product of the Post Viet Nam all volunteer Armed Service (USN Ret.), and yes, an all volunteer armed service will be superior to one with draftees…
HOWEVER, Profesional All volunteer armies are more likely to be used in foreign adventures than a drafted army (IMO), not used for home defense, as the founders, and myself, would prefer.
Civil War, WW1, WW2, Korea, VietNam… all used drafted armies made up of the totality of the civilian population… and thus the burden was more equaly shared… rather than the burden being thrust onto a smaller community of volunteers, while the rest sit back and remain safe, by spending the blood of those volunteers.
Romeo13 on March 18, 2009 at 11:41 PM
The goal of the electoral college is to make the states be the electors of the federal executive. Abolish the electoral college and federalism is gone. The states would become de facto provinces, and you’d have a nation-state.
As for the foreign adventure bit, it’s actually the reverse. With a draft army you got all the sacrificial wars of the US: WW1, WW2, Korea, and Vietnam. The draft didn’t stop foreign adventures, but rather created virtually limitless pools of manpower to run them.
As for sharing burden, I’ll first challenge the premise – how is protecting your country a burden? Professional soldiers voluntarily defend the republic and are compensated for their work. To call it a burden is to insult them. They fight because this country is worth defending. Only a country of serfs cannot find enough volunteers to defend it and must thus resort to a draft. Those who do not serve do their part by paying the taxes that fund the military.
Finally, if you hold “equal sharing of burden” to be a principle of value, what happens when you apply it to the economy? You get the Obama economic platform.
ebrawer on March 19, 2009 at 12:02 AM
Glory Glory Hallelujah hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmmmmm
sonnyspats1 on March 19, 2009 at 12:11 AM
Anybody seen the guys in the white coats?
I have found somebody for them to take away…
The Wall on March 19, 2009 at 12:29 AM
“Let’s Roll”
hopefloats on March 19, 2009 at 12:52 AM
This guy has it going on. And those of you who think anything less than a revolution will fix America, wake up and smell the coffee. There is trouble in paradise. It ain’t a spectator sport anymore.
apacalyps on March 19, 2009 at 1:00 AM
Oh great, wonderful, I’m just so excited. Along with everything else so far (in just two months!), and the upcoming cap and trade, amnesty for illegal immigrants, and the new “volunteer” programs complete with uniforms, my question is, how can anyone doubt that Obama is determined to destroy the country and turn it into his own design?
I know some of you doubt it. I simply don’t see how you can.
Alana on March 19, 2009 at 1:33 AM
No allah, this video shows just how sick and tired real AMERICANS are of the idiots in Washington, sick of the National Socialist Democrats and the Sorry RINOs who condone the violations of the Constitution. It hasn’t been the Conservatives in the U.S. that have shoveled heaps of manure on the Constitution, but the Democrats and Rinos, and seemingly, you can count yourself in the latter. Get OFF the fence, allah, before you find yourself violated by a fence post. The Federal Government is illegitimate and you so-called moderates, who basically CONDONE these Constitutional violations, need to remove your heads from you lower orifices and wake the hell up! Free and open elections are DONE in this country as long as Adolf Obama and his gang of Nazis can defraud the census and funnel money to ACORN.
nelsonknows on March 19, 2009 at 1:42 AM
You’ve got it backward. Small states aren’t ignored under the current system. Why do you think Obama and McCain kept going back to a place like Albuquerque during the campaign? No one would ever come within 500 miles of a contested state like New Mexico if the electoral college were abolished. You would just make a list of the 10 or so most populous cities in the country, and that’s where the candidates would commandeer entire hotels for their campaign entourages during the final 10 or so weeks, and go nowhere else.
Edouard on March 19, 2009 at 1:45 AM
Sorry, coffee is evil. The Lord said so in 1832 or something.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
PS. HUCK SUCKS!!!
OK, I can go to bed now.
The Wall on March 19, 2009 at 2:07 AM
Look, Walnut read the story and put on his THINKING cap.
apacalyps on March 19, 2009 at 2:24 AM
Hee’s a widdle question for our widdle woman crossdresser blogger that gets
hisher widdle weelings hut when Glen Beck talks:How many democrats voted just today for AIG employees to keep their bonuses?
Lets see that would be, count them….. from the letter A – Z:
Count them… how many…..?:
Abercrombie
Adler (NJ)
Altmire
Andrews
Arcuri
Baird
Baldwin
Bean
Berkley
Berry
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Boccieri
Boren
Boswell
Boucher
Boyd
Brady (PA)
Braley (IA)
Bright
Brown, Corrine
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Carnahan
Carney
Carson (IN)
Castor (FL)
Chandler
Clarke
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly (VA)
Conyers
Cooper
Costello
Courtney
Crowley
Cummings
Dahlkemper
Davis (AL)
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
Davis (TN)
DeFazio
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Donnelly (IN)
Doyle
Driehaus
Edwards (MD)
Edwards (TX)
Ellison
Ellsworth
Engel
Eshoo
Etheridge
Farr
Fattah
Filner
Foster
Frank (MA)
Fudge
Giffords
Gordon (TN)
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Griffith
Hall (NY)
Halvorson
Hare
Harman
Hastings (FL)
Heinrich
Herseth Sandlin
Higgins
Hill
Himes
Hirono
Hodes
Holden
Holt
Honda
Hoyer
Inslee
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Kagen
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kennedy
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Mcguyver on March 19, 2009 at 2:50 AM
I don’t agree that we should abolish the electoral college. IF we did, New York, Chicago and LA would carry the nation every time. It would disenfranchise rural and small town voters. Do it this way: 2 electoral votes for carrying the state and 1 electoral vote for each congressional district you carry. The popular vote will then more closely match the popular vote but rural and small town districts will be able to get their electoral votes in.
crosspatch on March 19, 2009 at 3:18 AM
Or you could just continue to complain about being a beta male and continue fantasy wooing of hot Democrat woman you won’t ever get.
JeffB. on March 19, 2009 at 3:23 AM
I agree completely
entagor on March 19, 2009 at 3:29 AM
Further proof that it’s about to hit the fan, Violation of the Posse Comitatus Act.
http://people.boston.com/forums/news/national/general/?p=discussiondetails&activityid=7352421004691257892
nelsonknows on March 19, 2009 at 3:38 AM
Shep, that you’re a joke was never in doubt.
SDN on March 19, 2009 at 6:01 AM
Oh, and as for 6 of the last 8 years: 2001-2002: Democrats control Senate, remember Jumpin’ Jim Jeffords?
2007-2008: Democrats control both Houses.
8-2-2 = 4.
Or is first grade math too much for you?
We won’t even discuss how Democrats threatened filibusters against defending the country unless they got bought off. The Republicans’ biggest mistake was thinking they were dealing with a “Loyal Opposition” instead of a nest of Copperheads.
SDN on March 19, 2009 at 6:09 AM
The Electoral College is a way of balancing state interests with individual interests. We dont live in a democracy, its a Republic where there are checks and balances. This is one of them – a check by the small states against the larger.
Rangeley on March 18, 2009
I would not want my future decided by the schlumps in New York, LA and Chicago. Talk about tyrrany of the minority.
Now if we could just do something about the primary process. It really sucked that I had no viable alternative when the primaries got here to Indiana. I ended up voting for Hillary just to keep the chaos going. And yes, I voted for Sarah in the general election.
And don’t be too hard on AP, fellow posters. His messiah is crumbling and he’s just lashing out.
SKYFOX on March 19, 2009 at 6:10 AM
I don’t like the “winner take all” aspect of how electoral votes are distributed. I know that the congressional district method leaves open the possibility of gerrymandering. But I still hate how two or three densely populated districts could tip the scales for the entire state (as is the case in California).
eaglescout1998 on March 19, 2009 at 6:13 AM
“Tom Paine” makes some very salient points, but I want to keep the electoral college (a brilliant institution purposefully created by the Founding Fathers) and while mandatory military service might seem like a good idea, I’m afraid that Ogabe would turn that into his own civilian army, so scratch that one, too.
Otherwise, TP makes a lot of sense.
Jenfidel on March 19, 2009 at 6:15 AM
That’s a state decision. Maine doesn’t do it. States can assign their electoral votes however they decide. The key to the electoral system is the number of votes that each state has, but everything else is up to the states, themselves.
progressoverpeace on March 19, 2009 at 6:17 AM
He lost me when he mentioned abolishing the electoral college (there goes federalism) and when he argued for the draft (involuntary servitude) right after asking for a raise for the military (quite the contradiction).
This is just populist nonsense.
ebrawer on March 18, 2009 at 10:12 PM
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I know, right? Edit the good stuff out and keep it simple, clear, and concise. More power that way.
marklmail on March 19, 2009 at 7:10 AM
This statement shows just how much Allah is out of touch these days. Newsflash – we’re out here, been out here – and we’re not happy. And we are growing more unhappy by the day. If things don’t turn around … expect to see some States (Capital “S”) openly ignoring Federal directives – that’s how it will start.
Oh my – it looks like it’s already started! Look at LA, MS, AL, SC and the stimulus.
Just the beginning.
HondaV65 on March 19, 2009 at 7:17 AM
I don’t agree with it all either – but most all of it is spot on. Frankly – I have no problem abolishing the electoral college. Also – what’s wrong with a couple of years of some kind of mandated Federal service? As long as it’s not political training – it works. The military takes kids right out of High School (40 percent now who have no fathers) and turns most all of them into outstanding tax paying citizens. What’s YOUR plan to recover from the fatherless nation of idiots that’s now coming up.
What’s your plan to instill values in these kids?
HondaV65 on March 19, 2009 at 7:20 AM
I’m in!
TheSitRep on March 19, 2009 at 7:28 AM
I think Americans take freedom for granted. It is an easy thing to do when one knows of nothing else. I think that many of the people that have come to this country from other nations (legally, of course) have a better appreciation for liberty than people who have lived their entire lives in this country.
But having said that, mandatory federal service is a bad idea. Involuntary servitude is slavery . . . and slaves make poor defenders of freedom.
eaglescout1998 on March 19, 2009 at 7:45 AM
Actually, let’s stay as far away from the French Rev as we can. Sheesh…talk about a wrong IDEOLOGY. My gosh.
Secondly, I liked this guy, minus the crazed abolish the electoral college/mandatory service garbage. I thought his head turned around and he became a liberal for a second.
Thirdly, COULD SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT THE CRACK ALLAH HAS EVER DONE WRONG?!?!?!?!?!? No one has explained this to me adequately…I realize he might be more moderate…and might not like some soco favorites, but, c’mon…he’s on the team!!!! Goodness.
Mommypundit on March 19, 2009 at 8:05 AM
No, I don’t want this guy running America, but there’s nothing wrong with scaring the crap out of our reps in Washington.
Little Boomer on March 19, 2009 at 8:13 AM
So how many people got banned last night ?
;-)
redrock on March 19, 2009 at 8:16 AM
I think WND.COM Joseph Farrah has put out a suggestion of a march on DC on July 4th.
I am all for it, and would do anything to stop congress working for a few days. I like the idea of surrounding the area with our cars and trucks to stop them from screwing up more of our country. I am also for sit ins in the halls like the stinky’s in Berkeley do.
Mercy4Me on March 19, 2009 at 8:20 AM
I think this might actually be a cultural separation. I would be that the people who viewed this video as inspirational and a call to action (NOT VIOLENCE!) are Southern or Western. AP is a NewYorker..different breed, different outlook, different view. We ALL are annoyed, frustruated, angry, frustrated and will behave/react differently.
Some of us will MARCH. Some of us will support the marchers, some will ring the bells of alarm. EVERYONE has a role, let’s NOT start infighting!
I liked this video. Do I agree with all of it? Nope, those universal service and electoral college things I could not support but Paine and a LOT of the Revolutionaries were just that..REVOLUTIONARY! Take the best and leave the rest!
AND STOP INFIGHTING!
If AP doesnt like GB, so be it. Not everyone likes AP but you must admit, we read his posts because he DOES THINK and we need ALL the brains we can get on this side!
labwrs on March 19, 2009 at 8:41 AM
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