Monday, October 14, 2013
It Is Time for Democrats to Join Republicans in Silencing Obama and His Leftist Agenda
A crowd of veterans and their supporters converged on the World War II Memorial on the National Mall Sunday, pushing through barriers to protest the Memorial being closed under the government shutdown. Republican Senators Mike Lee of Utah and Ted Cruz of Texas were among those present, along with former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Cruz said President Barack Obama is using veterans as pawns in the shutdown. Echoing the famous Reagan challenge to Gorbachev, the crowd shouted, "Tear down these walls." Protesters also shouted, "You work for us'" and sang "God bless America" and other patriotic songs as they entered the Memorial plaza, which has become a political symbol in the bitter fight between Democrats and Republicans over how yo resolve the shutdown and debt ceiling crises. Earlier rallies focused on allowing access for WWII veterans visiting from across the country with the Honor Flight Network, but Sunday's rally was political. A simultaneous protest by thousands of truckers joined with a rally by a group called the Million Vet March at the World War II Memorial. Participants cut the links between metal barriers at the National Park Service site and pushed them aside. A protester said he was there because people fought and died for the freedom to visit public spaces and to protest. "Our constitutional rights are being taken away,...People made the ultimate sacrifice, and they should be open to the public, open to everyone to come down here and see this." Some of the trucker protesters carried the tubular metal Memorial barricades more than a mile to the White House and stacked them up outside the gates, confronting police in riot gear. Some protesters carried signs reading “Impeach Obama.” Police moved the protesters back to set up barricades between the crowd and the White House gate. Some demonstrators chanted “shame on you” at the officers. Others chanted “You work for us.” Many of the frustrated protesters blame President Barack Obama for the closure of the Memorial. ~~~~~ Dear readers, the United States Congress and the President will almost surely settle their differences and paste together at least a temporary solution to end the government shutdown and the debt ceiling problem. But, that is not the real trouble facing America. The real trouble is that the leftist Democrat Washington leadership and the national media are completely disconnected from the Real America outside Washington. The Real America is disgusted with Washington insider politicians who put party election victory and making the other party look bad far above the important interests of the country. A good example of that was President Obama's gratuitous slam at Republicans spoken today at the same time that those Republicans and his Democrat Senate Majority Leader were honestly trying to save the US from debt default. Obama said : "If we don't start making some real progress both in the House and the Senate, and if Republicans aren't willing to set aside some of their partisan concerns in order to do what's right for the country, we stand a good chance of defaulting." Gratuitous. Partisan. Undignified for a President whose party leaders are finally facing reality. Reality -- is that the GOP represents the views of the majority of Americans, who want : A balanced budget. A cap and reduction of federal spending splurge that has exploded the national debt from $10 trillion to $17 trillion under Obama. An end to Obama's effort to force socialized medicine on America. A Constitution that is honored with more than lip service. The voices of protest are getting louder. The anti-Obama committees and marches are increasing. It is time for the Democrat Party to abandon its support for Obama's leftist-socialist agenda and join the citizens of America in silencing him and unwinding his socialist program. The budget and the debt ceiling are the right place to begin the Democrat Party's long march back into the hearts of the Real America.
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"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."
ReplyDelete~ Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006
This is a leaderless leader that has no agenda of his own except to rifle his own Progressive Socialists platform at us.
"A tree that stands ridgit and straight will snap at it's roots." Told to me years ago by a young Monk in Cambodia.
“An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity. ”
ReplyDelete— Winston Churchill
The fact is that even with all of the idiocy from the GOP, many of us can never embrace even some of the most basic pieces of the progressive agenda. For instance, I would like everyone to have access to healthcare, but I don't think asking the federal government to play caretaker of the process is the way to do it. I want temporary safety nets for the poor and unfortunate, but that isn't one of the choices. The government system currently is helping some people, and enabling many others. We all know of people who have been on disability for their entire working lives, but we still run into them in combat class at the gym (true story). In other words, I am not even remotely the rich, smug, heartless person that the left believes me to be, but I am conservative and convinced that the progressive agenda leads to the mess that is going on in the United States right now.
ReplyDeleteSo when the Republican Party is done imploding and has been supposedly banished to the dustbin of history (as has been predicted by the progressive pundits who daily via talk show offer their advice to the GOP), well over half half of the population will still be eager to choose conservative principles over progressive, liberal ones.
The Democrats are worried about being re-elected and therefore will do anything to appease the American electorate and to hell with the President.
ReplyDeleteReasonable people compromise, Unreasonable people do not. Instead, they trample over those around them to selfishly get their way. And the government is shut down this chilly October day in 2013 because unreasonable Democrats behaving like spoiled children would rather refuse treatment to terminally ill children, ravage the economy, disparage veterans and make the rest of our lives miserable — than compromise.
ReplyDeleteThe GOP has its share of problems, but one thing is absolute: Republicans made reasonable effort to pass legislation intended to keep non-partisan government agency programs running. All they asked for in return was to delay implementation of Obamacare, the Democrat Party’s illegitimate lovechild that nobody wants.
Sometimes it’s best to walk away. Sir Winston Churchill once so poetically quipped: “In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.” The GOP offered Democrats an easy out…a way to save face…even raise Obama’s approval numbers. But sadly, and to the country’s detriment, Democrats don’t understand the art and value of compromise, let alone engage in it.
The republicans continue to try to compromise. The latest offer I think is going a wee bit too far in orders to end the stalemate. To compromise is honorable - To genuflect is demeaning when dealing with disreputable people .
“A way of reaching agreement in which each person or group gives up something that was wanted in order to end an argument or dispute.” - Merriam-Webster definition of compromise: