Quotes of the day

posted at 10:41 pm on December 17, 2009 by Allahpundit

“‘People need to put this in perspective,’ Dan Pfeiffer, Mr. Obama’s communications director, said in an interview on Thursday. ‘Two years ago, the Democratic Party would have done anything for the opportunity to pass a health care reform like this. Let’s realize how far we’ve come, and how close we are to making history.’”

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“On Wednesday morning, Organizing for America, as Obama’s reconstituted campaign organization is now known, emailed its list of 13 million Obama supporters asking them to ‘call your senators now and help us ‘ring in reform.’

“The campaign yielded 150,000 calls – less than half the number of a similar effort in October – and it prompted a backlash among online and local activists who had logged countless volunteer supporting Obama’s campaign and legislative agenda, but who felt betrayed by recent Democratic concessions in the healthcare reform fight…

“Though he said he’s ‘still a great believer in Obama,’ [Hearn] said he didn’t participate in the OFA phone banking and won’t be volunteering for future healthcare-related efforts. ‘What am I going to say: ‘I hate this bill, but we’re Obama people, so let’s do it?’’ he said…

“‘We heard story after story from current Organizing for America volunteers about how they were getting disillusioned with Obama because he wasn’t fighting for the public option,’ Green said. ‘Obama’s email list may soon become a hallow shell if he does not fight Joe Lieberman and insist that there be a public option.’”

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“So why the stubborn insistence on passing health reform? Think big. The liberal wing of the party—the Barney Franks, the David Obeys—are focused beyond November 2010, to the long-term political prize. They want a health-care program that inevitably leads to a value-added tax and a permanent welfare state. Big government then becomes fact, and another Ronald Reagan becomes impossible. See Continental Europe.

“The entitlement crazes of the 1930s and 1960s also caused a backlash, but liberal Democrats know the programs of those periods survived. They are more than happy to sacrifice a few Blue Dogs, a Blanche Lincoln, a Michael Bennet, if they can expand government so that in the long run it benefits the party of government.

“What’s extraordinary is that more Democrats have not wised up to the fact that they are being used as pawns in this larger liberal game.”

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Nothing but unadulterated stupidity from DC….. both sides.

ultracon on December 18, 2009 at 7:57 AM

Where is that ‘civilian defense force’ that’s just as well- equipped and just as well-funded as the military?
Lanceman on December 17, 2009 at 10:49 PM

Maybe HERE.

MikeA on December 18, 2009 at 7:57 AM

J.J. Sefton on December 18, 2009 at 6:48 AM

Exactly. This is culture warfare. Political action in congress is the skirmish line along the front. Leftists have been hard at work for decades attacking American culture from the flanks, rear and center.

Fletch54 on December 18, 2009 at 8:04 AM

Here’s a Lenin quote:

“the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency … By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens … As the inflation proceeds and the real value of the currency fluctuates wildly from month to month, all permanent relations between debtors and creditors, which form the ultimate foundation of capitalism, become so utterly disordered as to be almost meaningless…”

This is but another piece.

There currently appears to be a very slim opportunity to reverse what is taking place on so many fronts.

We have a Congress that ignores the people and has for some time. Both parties. We have a President that appears to be intentionally destroying the country. We have a society rapidly and strong turning against both. We have an armed society. If things are not reversed, sooner or later, there will be violence on a significant scale.

CC

CapedConservative on December 18, 2009 at 8:07 AM

Bill is a Michelle Obama sycophant.

csdeven on December 18, 2009 at 8:10 AM

Communism, pure and simple. We’ve seen how that works out.

TinMan13 on December 18, 2009 at 8:22 AM

O’Reilly is an a$$.Nuuf said.

DDT on December 18, 2009 at 8:34 AM

The Supreme Court ALREADY struck down FDR New Deal programs as unconstitutional. Ignoring the Constitution and judicial precedence, today’s Congressional Marxist Democrats are legislating the dissolution of our Constitutional Republic along with the dissolution of US citizens’ unalienable rights.

Keynes spun whims, attracting bugs into his web of deceit. That he noted an injustice at the Versailles Treaty does not translate his own ideas as soundly revelatory. All sorts of ideologues saw the problem embedded in the heavy hand France dealt defeated Germany, notedly less harsh than the cruel hand Germany had dealt Russia in defeat. Keynes served himself, not humanity, with his economic theory, hardly humane considering his origins from extreme wealth. Note well that elitist Marxists and their subsequent subservient supporters all plot the return of the Dark Ages as they play the feudal order rulers over peons estranged from unalienable rights and any sense of identity or property.

John Maynard Keynes is considered one of the leading lights of liberal economics. Challenged by a critic who said that in the long run, Keynesian economics would lead to national bankruptcy, Keynes memorably responded with a witticism: “In the long run, we’re all dead.” Malcolm Muggeridge was a constant gadfly of British journalism. Saint Mugg could skewer even so high a personage as Lord Keynes. When someone repeated to Muggeridge Keynes’s famous dictum — in the long run we’re all dead — Muggeridge shot back. “Well, he would think that wouldn’t he? He was a predatory homosexual.” That line was considered below the belt. But there is more than an element of truth in it.

Conservatives are taught to think not only of ourselves, but of our children and of our children’s children. Conservative philosopher Edmund Burke memorably described all society as a compact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

Keynesian economics is back in fashion in the U.S. and Britain today. Will it shackle future generations with a debt that cannot be borne, a debt that will suffocate all their hopes and aspirations? We are about to raise the debt ceiling to $13,900,000,000,000 or perhaps $14 trillion.

These numbers are really beyond comprehension. Former Ohio State University political science professor Phil Burgess says if we think of Nixon’s resignation as a billion years ago, then a trillion years ago would be 31,000 B.C. [The 14 trillion figure would take things back to 434,000 B.C.] Let’s hope neo-Keynesian economics doesn’t push us backward.

Ken Blackwell

Cast the Democrats into their own hell. If we refuse to save ourselves from Marxist exploitation, we can save no one. Demand that our elected officials FIGHT TO WIN because these Democrats have declared war on Americans. WE ALL have the Constitution.

maverick muse on December 18, 2009 at 8:37 AM

Would you please ATTRIBUTE the f***ing quotes already?!? I just don’t get what is gained by that particular affectation.

DrZin on December 18, 2009 at 9:40 AM

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