"...Rather
than just putting on a show, he's encouraging people to waste their
time on completely ineffective "tea parties" that are supposedly
grassroots but which are promoted by questionable groups and through
things like a video surreptitiously from the GOP."
"The
Pledge Project Canvass is an unprecedented effort by a president to
reach beyond Congress and tap grassroots supporters for help.
Volunteers recruited online by Obama's Organizing for America, a
post-election group, will ask citizens to sign a pledge in support of
the president's policies on energy, health care and education. [...]
"This
is just the beginning for us," said Jeremy Bird, deputy national
director of Organizing for America, in an online video to Obama
supporters this week. "The establishment in Washington won't welcome
this new direction easily. We can't let this plan be debated solely
behind closed doors in Washington, D.C."
And here's the heart of it, from Deputy Director Bird:
"For
anyone who questions why the President has offered this plan, these
pledges will be the answer: because the American people demanded it.
The
Pledge Canvass will also be the first step in growing our movement, and
growing a nation-wide network to support our agenda for change. This is
just the beginning for us. Throughout this year, we'll be organizing to
bring an end to this economic crisis, and to build a solid foundation
for America's economy. We'll be mobilizing people everywhere and
holding our elected officials accountable until we see bold change: the
change we need."
******
Orwell would have a field day with this administration.
"That is one aspect of the definition of liberal..one who
changes and adapts."
>From Bertrand Russell's "A History of Western Philosophy" Chapter XV:
Kant,like
Darwin, gave rise to a movement which he would have detested. Kant was
a liberal, a democrat, a pacifist, but those who professed to develop
his philosophy were none of these things. Or,if they still called
themselves Liberals, they were Liberals of a new species. Since
Rousseau and Kant, there have been two schools of liberalism, which may
be distinguished as the hard-headed and the soft-hearted. The
hard-headed developed, through Bentham, Ricardo, and Marx, by logical
stages into Stalin; the soft-hearted, by other logical stages through
Fichte, Byron, Carlyle, and Nietzsche, into Hitler. This statement, of
course, is too schematic to be quite true, but it may serve as a map
and a mnemonic. The stages in the evolution of ideas have had almost
the quality of the Hegelian dialectic: doctrines have developed, by
steps that each seem natural, into their opposites.
Now to moron number 1 (boy I hate to do this so early but if we must to
get back to the topic, then shall be it)...FEN.
I think I just said enough by saying the name of the dark one.
Then
moron #2.. enter KNOX..according to this nitwit i'm "childishly
insulting... and yet attempt to achieve some sort of high-mindedness at
the same time"
kinda like a kid on stilts right?
A
typical lyrical post from that erudite wit HD House whose incoherence
is only matched by his bile. While chiding others for being “Childishly
insulting” he never fails to try to mock Sarah Palin by such cute
phrases as “you betcha” to mock the unwashed masses he presumes worship
the Alaskan governor who he holds in contempt. As he is contemptuous of
most of his fellow citizens and commenters. As an elitist liberal of
the old school, HD knows better than his fellow citizens what should be
done in the governance of our democracy. A mere plumber or even an
Alaskan governor should sit down and shut up and pay their confiscatory
taxes in silence while their betters determine how the ship of state
will sail. You see these are the people who scare him and who he must
mock and denigrate. The electrician who fixes his mansion in the
Hamptons. The waitress who serves him his oatmeal at the diner. The
plumber who clears his toilet. Working people who foolishly think they
should keep their hard earned pay instead of turning it over to their
betters who will redistribute to others in more favored classes that
dwell in a state of perpetual victimization. You know to spread it
around. To be fair.
Once the liberal group think and media
manipulation by a malignant cabal of leftist journalists and Democratic
activists was exposed, old warhorse HD sprang into action. He
immediately tried to throw sand in the face of everyone by attacking to
change the topic much as little Ezra Klein did in his twitter message.
“Look over here not at the topic at hand.” A tried and true tactic of
the Stalinist left. He raised the tired old chestnut of anti-Semitism
as though this was something the commenters at Althouse supported. When
in fact Seven bitch slapped the same old miscreants who trot out the
same tired memes. When in fact I mocked them. In Yiddish. When the rest
of the commenters ignored the tripe that so often pollutes these
threads, hd demanded that we change the subject to talk about that
instead of the matter at hand. Althouse has a commendable habit of
allowing full first amendment protection to all who comment. Even
trolls such as Luckyoldson who destroy thread after thread with
constant multiple posts of mindless vituperation are allowed to stand
because people are allowed to expose themselves for what they are by
their own words. You the higher the monkey climbs up the tree the more
of his ass you will see. (Please note that this is not a reference to
any contemporary political personages so save you indignation for
another time).
Young punks like Ezra Klein have learned
at the feet of masters as HD House whose whole career was based on
manipulating the populace through false advertising and the creation of
an alternative reality. Where your shirts can lose their ring around
the collar. Where you can teach the world to sing. Where you could get
a piece of the rock. Well the rock has broken. The money men know a
cipher and a weak front man when they see one. They pulled a masterful
bait and switch. Sign the bill now, don’t look at it, don’t question
it, something must be done or the world will come to an end. Of course
when it is all said and done the money men will have cashed in and the
people will be left holding the bag. And the people who voted against
it and said it was a bad idea will be the ones who caused the debacle.
Because that is the party line that will be preached by the group think
of the master media manipulators who are the subject of our discussion.
Don’t look at what has just happened; look over here at the guy who
just said the wrong word. You see ultimately these media whores, HD
House and the President are just tools. In every sense of the word.
"...Rather than just putting on a show, he's encouraging people to waste their time on completely ineffective "tea parties" that are supposedly grassroots but which are promoted by questionable groups and through things like a video surreptitiously from the GOP."
Ah yes, as opposed to really authentic expressions of the will of the people like the The Pledge Project Canvass, described here: Obama plans huge pledge drive for his policies.
"The Pledge Project Canvass is an unprecedented effort by a president to reach beyond Congress and tap grassroots supporters for help. Volunteers recruited online by Obama's Organizing for America, a post-election group, will ask citizens to sign a pledge in support of the president's policies on energy, health care and education. [...]
"This is just the beginning for us," said Jeremy Bird, deputy national director of Organizing for America, in an online video to Obama supporters this week. "The establishment in Washington won't welcome this new direction easily. We can't let this plan be debated solely behind closed doors in Washington, D.C."
And here's the heart of it, from Deputy Director Bird:
"For anyone who questions why the President has offered this plan, these pledges will be the answer: because the American people demanded it.
The Pledge Canvass will also be the first step in growing our movement, and growing a nation-wide network to support our agenda for change. This is just the beginning for us. Throughout this year, we'll be organizing to bring an end to this economic crisis, and to build a solid foundation for America's economy. We'll be mobilizing people everywhere and holding our elected officials accountable until we see bold change: the change we need."
******
Orwell would have a field day with this administration.
"That is one aspect of the definition of liberal..one who changes and adapts."
>From Bertrand Russell's "A History of Western Philosophy" Chapter XV:
Kant,like Darwin, gave rise to a movement which he would have detested. Kant was a liberal, a democrat, a pacifist, but those who professed to develop his philosophy were none of these things. Or,if they still called themselves Liberals, they were Liberals of a new species. Since Rousseau and Kant, there have been two schools of liberalism, which may be distinguished as the hard-headed and the soft-hearted. The hard-headed developed, through Bentham, Ricardo, and Marx, by logical stages into Stalin; the soft-hearted, by other logical stages through Fichte, Byron, Carlyle, and Nietzsche, into Hitler. This statement, of course, is too schematic to be quite true, but it may serve as a map and a mnemonic. The stages in the evolution of ideas have had almost the quality of the Hegelian dialectic: doctrines have developed, by steps that each seem natural, into their opposites.
HD house said:
Now to moron number 1 (boy I hate to do this so early but if we must to get back to the topic, then shall be it)...FEN.
I think I just said enough by saying the name of the dark one.
Then moron #2.. enter KNOX..according to this nitwit i'm "childishly insulting... and yet attempt to achieve some sort of high-mindedness at the same time"
kinda like a kid on stilts right?
A typical lyrical post from that erudite wit HD House whose incoherence is only matched by his bile. While chiding others for being “Childishly insulting” he never fails to try to mock Sarah Palin by such cute phrases as “you betcha” to mock the unwashed masses he presumes worship the Alaskan governor who he holds in contempt. As he is contemptuous of most of his fellow citizens and commenters. As an elitist liberal of the old school, HD knows better than his fellow citizens what should be done in the governance of our democracy. A mere plumber or even an Alaskan governor should sit down and shut up and pay their confiscatory taxes in silence while their betters determine how the ship of state will sail. You see these are the people who scare him and who he must mock and denigrate. The electrician who fixes his mansion in the Hamptons. The waitress who serves him his oatmeal at the diner. The plumber who clears his toilet. Working people who foolishly think they should keep their hard earned pay instead of turning it over to their betters who will redistribute to others in more favored classes that dwell in a state of perpetual victimization. You know to spread it around. To be fair.
Once the liberal group think and media manipulation by a malignant cabal of leftist journalists and Democratic activists was exposed, old warhorse HD sprang into action. He immediately tried to throw sand in the face of everyone by attacking to change the topic much as little Ezra Klein did in his twitter message. “Look over here not at the topic at hand.” A tried and true tactic of the Stalinist left. He raised the tired old chestnut of anti-Semitism as though this was something the commenters at Althouse supported. When in fact Seven bitch slapped the same old miscreants who trot out the same tired memes. When in fact I mocked them. In Yiddish. When the rest of the commenters ignored the tripe that so often pollutes these threads, hd demanded that we change the subject to talk about that instead of the matter at hand. Althouse has a commendable habit of allowing full first amendment protection to all who comment. Even trolls such as Luckyoldson who destroy thread after thread with constant multiple posts of mindless vituperation are allowed to stand because people are allowed to expose themselves for what they are by their own words. You the higher the monkey climbs up the tree the more of his ass you will see. (Please note that this is not a reference to any contemporary political personages so save you indignation for another time).
Young punks like Ezra Klein have learned at the feet of masters as HD House whose whole career was based on manipulating the populace through false advertising and the creation of an alternative reality. Where your shirts can lose their ring around the collar. Where you can teach the world to sing. Where you could get a piece of the rock. Well the rock has broken. The money men know a cipher and a weak front man when they see one. They pulled a masterful bait and switch. Sign the bill now, don’t look at it, don’t question it, something must be done or the world will come to an end. Of course when it is all said and done the money men will have cashed in and the people will be left holding the bag. And the people who voted against it and said it was a bad idea will be the ones who caused the debacle. Because that is the party line that will be preached by the group think of the master media manipulators who are the subject of our discussion. Don’t look at what has just happened; look over here at the guy who just said the wrong word. You see ultimately these media whores, HD House and the President are just tools. In every sense of the word.
Or more simply, eat a shit sandwich and choke on it you senile commie bastard
You betcha.
I like Ezra Klein
I didn't know him before, but now that I do, he's on my radar as a racebaiting hate mongerer.
Trooper sums him up perfectly.
Woah...Trooper. Great post.
*reminder to self....don't piss off Trooper York*
*reminder to self....don't piss off Trooper York*
They know it Brooklyn. They know it in Queens. They know it on Althouse.