As The Bama's Orwellian health care vision goes down in a giant ball of flames, liberals are turning on each other. It's a scene we usually see among Republicans and conservatives: the circular firing squad.
Over the last week or so, the following left-wing zanies have attacked The Bama and the Democrats for being weak-kneed, directionless pansies:
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Ed Schultz, and Chris Matthews; The Washington Post's Eugene Robinson and Richard Cohen; and The New York Times's Bob Herbert and Paul Krugman. Perhaps the unkindest cuts of all are coming from "The Daily Show's" Jon Stewart.
Conservatives have always been in revolt against the radical agenda of Team Bama. Most other Americans have awoken to find that this was not the kind of "change" they thought was coming. And now, liberals are in revolt because the agenda is getting watered down and abandoned.
Liberals are also beginning to realize that their Great Hope of a President is turning out to be a rather lame hack pol who doesn't know how to lead. As Jon Stewart has just said, the Bush Team led, even if liberals thought it was in the wrong direction. Team Bama talks itself into circles and has ended up paralyzed.
The Bama chose to leave most major legislation in the hands of the Far Left in Congress: Sister Pelosi, Brother Frank, et al commandeered the economic stimulus, now regarded by a vast majority of Americans as a total waste of a trillion dollars, the cap and trade fiasco, and now, health care. Whatever the Far Left touches turns to chaos, then to crap.
The Bama is one of them, of course, but his lack of leadership---on anything---shows that he's just a community organizer in way, way over his head.
A Bamaquery from gringoVision:
We are always hearing, from Democrats and the Purple Hand and (more sotto voce) from RINOS, that Barack Obama has got something that Sarah Palin does not have.
Why do liberals keep thinking that Sarah Palin's got Teleprompter Envy?
Posted by: gringoman | August 18, 2009 at 02:57 PM
Bur all kidding and Freudian trips aside, there is clear and indisputable evidence that Barack Obama can do something that Sarah Palin has never done, and very likely never will do.
FOTO http://news.newsmax.com/images/16329/bho_bows_to_muslims.jpg
Posted by: gringoman | August 18, 2009 at 03:07 PM
OBAMA (Coolly) "Look, don't fall for these scare tactics." (Not so coolly) "I don't want to kill Grandma."
CITIZEN "Glad to hear it, Mr. President. That does include 'typical white person' grandmas?
Posted by: gringoman | August 18, 2009 at 03:20 PM
gringoNOTE: The following is an excerpt from a new blogger who has burst on the scene this year, drawing kudos from the "known" and the "unknown" alike. Re-posting here does not necessarily mean that gV agrees or disagrees with any of it.....
////////THE BREATH OF THE BEAST
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Warning to Republicans- We are Not Doing This for You!
yaacov Ben Moshe/////////Not so fast, Republican scum. This is not just about how the American public is discovering that the Democrats have deceived them. We are looking at you too.
We hate the greed, the lies, and the naked hypocrisy. Most of all though, it is that arrogant, self-congratulatory air of moral, social and intellectual superiority we can’t abide. There isn’t a tenth of the senators or congressmen on either side of the aisle, in Washington, who I don’t hate. Yes, I mean hate. I loathe those politicians. I despise the president. I think a lot of people are feeling the same way.
I especially despise the knee-jerk partisans who publicly display their ignorance by lowering the general level of discourse with snide and derisive comments about those with whom they disagree. Don’t call us “a mob” just because you’ve been ignoring us so effectively that we have to shout to be heard. We will not silence ourselves. And don’t think, just because you may be against the health care bill, that we are going to give you a pass. That sound you hear in the town hall meetings about health care is not the agitation of a partisan mob and it is not (at least not yet) the howl of a revolutionary rabble. If you look closely, you will see that it is every day people who are realizing and beginning to articulate that they are feeling betrayed.
http://breathofthebeast.blogspot.com...not-doing.html
www.gringoman.com
Escaping Politically Correct
Posted by: gringoman | August 18, 2009 at 03:28 PM
Woodstock
by Debbie Schlussel (dubbed by gV 'The Hebrew Hammer'. She is also a real attorney, not a cyberstalker.)
Their anti-war peace and love was really just America-hatred which glamorized violent protest against the country and parents and authorities who gave them everything; it was uber-tolerance for Black panther racism, violence, and murder (of cops and others); and it was the big love and tolerance of those who hate and want to destroy us. Woodstock was anti-patriotism-palooza.
Yup, the drugged-out Woodstock free-lovers of 40 years ago are the aging ACLU lawyers for Islamic terrorists of today. And don’t forget how they spit on our Vietnam Veterans . . . the ones who didn’t return in body bags, while their fellow Americans–Woodstock pondscum–had educational deferments and other methods of staying in America for this stupid self-esteem-on-steroids party.
The Woodstock alumni are the 60-something-year-old cat ladies who watch America’s Al-Jazeera, PBS (while your tax dollars subsidize it), and idolized Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan, and they are the converse: the aging groupies who slept with every hippie and druggie that ever professed a hatred of Nixon and the Vietnam war (the chicks who now look like burnt leather in overstretched lace camisoles and tank tops covered by ugly multi-colored jackets from Chico’s). They slept around so much, they brought us abortion on demand to help eliminate the “baggage.”
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/6999/woodstock-40-years-ago-the-start-of-the-quickening-of-americas-fall/#more-6999
Posted by: gringoman | August 18, 2009 at 03:40 PM
(Monica)Whatever the Far Left touches turns to chaos, then to crap.
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And the thought of them running the health care industry is so scary that the American people are shocked and dismayed that these people are about to control their medical decisions. Their original plan was to pass this bill in the dark of the night before they went on summer vacation. It would have been another 1,000 page bill like their "stimulus bill" that nobody read and has turned out to be a pathetic disaster. That's what they wanted because when the American people had time to read and digest the details of this bill we have found out that there is no way in hell we want Nancy Peloser and Harry Reid to control our medical decisions.
We owe a big thanks to people like Monica who were on the front line exposing these scammers and explaining to the American people what a travesty this would be. And thanks to the thousands of brave Americans who went to the Townhall Meetings and told their politicians to keep their stinking hands of their medical decisions.
Posted by: SteveOk | August 18, 2009 at 03:47 PM
I am still waiting for a law to restrict legislation to readable form, by nonlawyer types. The legislation should also be limited to a single theme or subject, rather than sprawling all over the place. This would be the path to rational law creation, in case someone is interested in that.
The more I think about it, the more apparent it becomes that a pay as you go system with a sliding scale, that requires no insurance, would have a transitioning problem with previous capital investments. Therefore since reform is necessary, and fostering competition in the only rational course, a plain, unadulterated public option may look more promising when the law makers return. Now, if the lobbyists do not hand too many people a couple hundred pages of amendments, and gratuities, they might have something there.... but I would not hold my breath.
Posted by: Dgscol | August 18, 2009 at 05:01 PM
How about that Tom Daschle? Wasn't he defeated, and then booted out of Obama's cabinet for not paying taxes? Now he is leaving the FAA and trotting over to the new location of the MedFed. Politicians never die, they just moving over to lobbying and get a pay increase. What has to happen to get rid of them? Slash their tires?
Would he MedFed oversee its own activities? Would it have a hedge fund operation? Who can tell?
Posted by: Dgscol | August 18, 2009 at 05:49 PM
Look, Woodstock was not just about hippies. My cousin claimed that she had a ticket but she never went, and she was definitely not a hippie.
This was a defining "baby boomer" moment filled with great musicians. After looking at the clips last weekend, I'm GLAD I WASN'T there, but I LOVE some of that music, especially Janis Joplin and Creedence Cleawater Revival.
As for the article in the NY Post about the Vietnam Vets fighting the Vietnam War while the hippies were partying, that is just not true. My cousins went to school with BOYS who were DRAFTED. They KNEW people for their high school who didn't come back. They taught me to respect for Vietnam Vets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec0XKhAHR5I&feature=PlayList&p=05D9D56C133DA0CE&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=5
I still LOVE John Fogerty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaHOahO8qnE
Posted by: M/M | August 18, 2009 at 07:52 PM
Janis Joplin said at Woodstock:
“Music is for groovin’. Music’s not for putting yourself through bad changes. You don’t have to take anyone’s s*&t just to like music… So, if you’re getting more s%*t than you deserve, you know what to do about it. Its just music. Music is supposed to be different than that.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vThD7ot9oII
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbGfwzMZAEM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FMhnl0__Vo
Posted by: M/M | August 18, 2009 at 08:07 PM
As for the article in the NY Post about the Vietnam Vets fighting the Vietnam War while the hippies were partying, that is just not true. My cousins went to school with BOYS who were DRAFTED. They KNEW people for their high school who didn't come back. They taught me to respect for Vietnam Vets.
Posted by: M/M | August 18, 2009 at 07:52 PM
I understand that to mean that some young Americans did the Sixties in Sixties Land, i.e. the US, and others did the Sixties in Vietnam.
And then you have some like Bill Clinton (and I don't exempt certain Republicans either) who dodged the draft and did the Sixties in the UK on a Fulbright scholarship.
Then there are the rarer cases like Dolores Donovan, featured in The Saigon Post and SAIGON NOTES column as mentioned here recently in my on-going Vietnam Legacy Project, (LAWYER IN A MINI-SKIRT.) She did the Sixties in the US and Stanford Law School AND Vietnam. She had a ticket to ride and she rode, all the way from Paris.
Posted by: gringoman | August 18, 2009 at 08:37 PM
Then there are the rarer cases like Dolores Donovan, featured in The Saigon Post and SAIGON NOTES column as mentioned here recently in my on-going Vietnam Legacy Project, (LAWYER IN A MINI-SKIRT.) She did the Sixties in the US and Stanford Law School AND Vietnam. She had a ticket to ride and she rode, all the way from Paris.
Posted by: gringoman | August 18, 2009 at 08:37 PM
Dolores Donovan is unusual because women were still expected to be wives and mothers at that time. Look at what is expected of Elaine in “The Graduate”. The “Mary Tyler Moore” show as revolutionary and that didn’t come on t.v. until the 70s.
Not everyone was old enough to go to Vietnam during Woodstock. As mentioned previously, the military and society didn’t encourage women to go to war, but my cousins dated the guys who did.
I don’t see WHAT is so wrong about a bunch of kids going to a rock concert. I wish I could find political candidates who can represent normal people who don’t sound like they are out of the movie “Footloose”.
Posted by: M/M | August 18, 2009 at 08:56 PM
Hey Gringoman, there is a guy in this film that reminds me of you and it is not
Adrian Cronauer. Can you guess which one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mJoHqmtFcQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9_mED99cdk
From the REAL American Forces Vietnam Network
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uweMX6-kUPY&featur
Posted by: M/M | August 18, 2009 at 09:17 PM
More from the American Forces Vietnam Network
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ8NtlxKiQk
Posted by: M/M | August 18, 2009 at 09:21 PM
Hey, there was a G.I. Jill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHKipB_fc2U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kAvhoz_43g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kAvhoz_43g
Posted by: M/M | August 18, 2009 at 09:37 PM
http://chickaboomer.blogspot.com/2009/08/michelles-gam-bit.html
Posted by: M/M | August 18, 2009 at 09:51 PM
Condolences to TMG on the death of Robert Novak. We know he was a colleague of your colleagues (before you joined) and as such, will be missed. By them.
For the rest of us, he was an obnoxious arrogant gadfly who helped a corrupt administration commit treason by exposing a CIA agent.
The CIA has very long tentacles and an even longer memory, and won't be a Novak's funeral.
Posted by: xbjllb | August 18, 2009 at 10:12 PM
“LONG BEACH, Calif. — The police sergeant who sparked a national debate on race relations when he arrested a Harvard University professor in his home received a standing ovation Monday from thousands of police officers at a Fraternal Order of Police convention.
More than 3,000 officers cheered Cambridge, Mass., police Sgt. James Crowley when he briefly spoke to kick off the five-day meeting. Dozens left their seats to take snapshots of him on the podium at the Long Beach Convention Center.”
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1191614&format=comments&cnum=19
Posted by: M/M | August 18, 2009 at 10:18 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by nunyadb
Sounds a lot like Amerika under the O doesn't it.
In Orwellian terms, and to be politically correct (an absolute necessity in Oceania or even in Obamastan) should The One of color be referred to as 'Big Brother'? Would 'Big Bro' be politically incorrect? Would the Race Police approve or disapprove?
Maybe we need to consult with Glenn Beck, if the Race Police haven't taken him in custody yet?
www.gringoman.com
Escaping Politically Correct
Posted by: gringoman | August 18, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Hey Gringoman, there is a guy in this film that reminds me of you and it is not
Adrian Cronauer. Can you guess which one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mJoHqmtFcQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9_mED99cdk
From the REAL American Forces Vietnam Network
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uweMX6-kUPY&featur
Posted by: M/M | August 18, 2009 at 09:17 PM
M/M,
It's all popcorn to me. After being in a movie 24/7 that was five years long, rather exotic location, I barely remember those things that are normally called "movies." I know they still make them after CASABLANCA. That's a fact, isn't it? But without the Humphrey Bogarts and the Ingrid Bergmans etc, does the fact really matter?
Posted by: gringoman | August 18, 2009 at 11:05 PM
From the REAL American Forces Vietnam Network
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uweMX6-kUPY&featur
Posted by: M/M | August 18, 2009 at 09:17 PM
Probably the best series that AFVN ever did was 'CHICKEN MAN.'
Now that was radio. Ronald Reagan would have loved it, even though at the time I had not yet learned to love Ronald Reagan.
Posted by: gringoman | August 18, 2009 at 11:10 PM
M/M,
It's all popcorn to me. After being in a movie 24/7 that was five years long, rather exotic location, I barely remember those things that are normally called "movies." I know they still make them after CASABLANCA. That's a fact, isn't it? But without the Humphrey Bogarts and the Ingrid Bergmans etc, does the fact really matter?
Posted by: gringoman | August 18, 2009 at 11:05 PM
________________
My point is that Adrian Cronauer played was a "politically incorrect" D.J. that played the music you seem to despise, but that the popular culture loves. The character in the movie that reminds me of you is the officer who disapproves of Cronauer's wildly popular program and plays polka music when filling in for Cronauer.
Posted by: M/M | August 19, 2009 at 06:17 AM
If you missed Monica on Imus yesterday.
http://www.imus.com/article/monica_crowley_august_18__2009.guest.html
Posted by: M/M | August 19, 2009 at 06:18 AM
http://defendgle
nn.com/advertisers.php
Posted by: M/M | August 19, 2009 at 06:22 AM
Sorry
http://defendglenn.com/advertisers.php
Posted by: M/M | August 19, 2009 at 06:22 AM
M/M,
It's all popcorn to me. After being in a movie 24/7 that was five years long, rather exotic location, I barely remember those things that are normally called "movies." I know they still make them after CASABLANCA. That's a fact, isn't it? But without the Humphrey Bogarts and the Ingrid Bergmans etc, does the fact really matter?
Posted by: gringoman | August 18, 2009 at 11:05 PM
________________
My point is that Adrian Cronauer played was a "politically incorrect" D.J. that played the music you seem to despise, but that the popular culture loves. The character in the movie that reminds me of you is the officer who disapproves of Cronauer's wildly popular program and plays polka music when filling in for Cronauer.
Posted by: M/M | August 19, 2009 at 06:17 AM
Was that officer also holding black-and-white parties at his Powelton Village digs in Philly, with girls from Swarthmore and bruthas from the 'hood, and an Elvis-worshipping mad bud from Alabama, and the officer playing Ray Charles rolling it all out with "Baby, tell me what do you say, " and "Look at that girl with the red dress on, she sure can shake that thing!" and 50 people were moving their booties while another 50 watched, drinking the Gallo wine and nibbling the pretzels without any commie Race Police giving us the guidelines?
Is that the "polka officer" you mean?
Posted by: gringoman | August 19, 2009 at 09:17 AM
My point is that Adrian Cronauer played was a "politically incorrect" D.J. that played the music you seem to despise, but that the popular culture loves. The character in the movie that reminds me of you is the officer who disapproves of Cronauer's wildly popular program and plays polka music when filling in for Cronauer.
Posted by: M/M | August 19, 2009 at 06:17 AM
What do you mean "seem" to despise?
A poor, well-meaning schlub plays polka music, the sounds of real people with pride in themselves, the officer desperate to escape the nihilist cacaphony of phony "hipsters,", and you confuse him with someone who'd play Gregorian Chant, with non-union monks?
M/M, you've got to get a clue. Really.
Posted by: gringoman | August 19, 2009 at 09:36 AM
Sorry
http://defendglenn.com/advertisers.php
Posted by: M/M | August 19, 2009 at 06:22 AM
They say, when writing to the advertisers, urging them to resist the lefty assault on Glenn Beck, do not use words like "socialist" or "commie." Would the effort to avoid politically-charged cliche also apply to a term like the gringomanic, "Race Police," inspired by George Orwell's '1984,' with a nod to Aldous Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD?
Posted by: gringoman | August 19, 2009 at 09:44 AM
My point is that Adrian Cronauer played was a "politically incorrect" D.J. that played the music you seem to despise, but that the popular culture loves. The character in the movie that reminds me of you is the officer who disapproves of Cronauer's wildly popular program and plays polka music when filling in for Cronauer.
Posted by: M/M | August 19, 2009 at 06:17 AM
What do you mean "seem" to despise?
A poor, well-meaning schlub plays polka music, the sounds of real people with pride in themselves, the officer desperate to escape the nihilist cacaphony of phony "hipsters,", and you confuse him with someone who'd play Gregorian Chant, with non-union monks?
M/M, you've got to get a clue. Really.
Posted by: gringoman | August 19, 2009 at 09:36 AM
______________________
The officer was like Frank Burns in M*A*S*H, and Adrian Cronauer was like everyone else except Hot Lips. (Well, I guess he wasn't like the guy whore dresses either.)
I'm Polish and, believe me, I'd rather be listening to most of the bands who played in Woodstock.
Posted by: M/M | August 19, 2009 at 09:54 PM