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Topic: Our looming national suicide dwarfs any fiscal cliff |
Our looming national suicide dwarfs any fiscal cliff
Washington Times, by Frank Kacer
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 12/3/2012 11:59:19 AM
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| To the stunned surprise of much of the nation, voters awarded Obama four years to continue his “transformation” of America. No matter what future historical research will claim, this election was driven more by personal self-interest than by any understanding of national imperatives. In one fell swoop, the world’s greatest experiment in limited government, personal liberty and self-rule took a dramatic turn towards self-extinction. When exit polling says: Obama phones; “free” Obamacare; reproductive services; entitlements; food stamps; unemployment benefits; raiding the rich; and even Hurricane Sandy decided a person’s vote,
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
jfodoch, 12/3/2012 12:11:18 PM (No. 9046043)
There´s gonna be a serious house-cleaning on December 21. Far too many in that septic tank, AKA congress, seem to be beyond redemption -- they are corrupt to the bone!
A bunch of strong conservative State Governors could help immensely.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MattMusson, 12/3/2012 12:15:14 PM (No. 9046057)
The working poor thought Obama was best. Just wait until millions of them are cut back from full time to 28 hours - because of ObamaCare.
Obama is shredding the poor. But, they are too loyal or too stupid to see it.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
peabody32, 12/3/2012 12:16:00 PM (No. 9046058)
This is a succinct and hard-hitting summary of the consequenses of a self-absorbed majority. A MUST Read.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Blackeagle, 12/3/2012 12:32:26 PM (No. 9046097)
#1, what happens on Dec. 21?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
FL_Absentee_Voter, 12/3/2012 12:41:23 PM (No. 9046115)
Would love to send this to some left-of-center friends but I know that Kacer´s generous use of Biblical references would discredit all of his good points in their view as merely the rantings of yet another right-wing religious bigot who probably hates homosexuals, too.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Rafter, 12/3/2012 12:57:10 PM (No. 9046148)
Writer is a doomsayer who repeatedly quotes scriptures.
Worse, he brushes over the looming 2014 midterm elections and speculates in rather ridiculous fashion about a DimWit supermajority in the Senate.
Not gonna happen. Second terms are bad news for most prez. Six years in, the second term midterms usually devastate. More likely that the GOP keeps House and retakes Senate.
We are not going to surrender all sovereignty by treaty. Bammy ain´t gonna have no clout, nutty MSM support notwithstanding. Kacer may not be in MSM... but he´s sounding nutty in this piece.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
TrikiTriki, 12/3/2012 1:13:33 PM (No. 9046185)
Completely turned off by all the religious references. I hate to see arguments that I agree with presented this way. There is a very good comment about this in the original source´s comment section. This kind of presentation plays right into the hands of the media to label all of us as fanatics.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
GreatPlains, 12/3/2012 1:23:39 PM (No. 9046205)
# 6 is putting on a much happier face to the present reality. The author did a very sobering analysis of today´s political climate. The media , Obama and the Democrats are going to endlessly savage Republicans - regardless of what they do . As this past election season demonstrated. The American public is now so dumbed down and so self absorbed , they are perfect subjects for the Obama media machine. Obama´s goal is to retake the House and increase his Senate majority for his last two years. Republicans lost 8 House seats in November. The House is now 242 Republicans / 193 Democrats. In 2013 , it will be 234 Republicans , 201 Democrats. 218 is the magic number for control of the House. A swing of 17 seats in 2014 is all the Democrats need. And the media and the Democrats are already working on that goal.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 12/3/2012 1:52:17 PM (No. 9046268)
If you feel a little ´put off´ by the threat of Sharia from the left....then put yourself in the shoes of a potential conservative VOTER who may not be a Christian.
Limited Government and FREEDOM to worship as one chooses must be the goal....not a particular religion.
The religious right means well but it´s a costly indulgence of religious enthusiasm.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
doctorfixit, 12/3/2012 2:52:45 PM (No. 9046411)
I don´t want my life run by the religious right any more than I want it run by the religious left. Tax me enough to pay for good roads, then please get out of my life. What other people do is none of my business, as long as they aren´t stealing from me or trying to kill me. All of this talk about "the country collapsing", maybe it means that finally people will start minding their own business.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
dbdiva, 12/3/2012 3:32:34 PM (No. 9046512)
#4 ~ Many ancient calendars (most specifically the Mayan calendar but there are others as well) plotted days all the way up to 12/21/12; and then they.......STOP. Thus the speculation that 12/21/12 is the ´end of all things´. The History Channel was besides itself this past weekend but there has been talk of this for the past several years. There was even a movie.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
kelty, 12/3/2012 3:39:25 PM (No. 9046523)
That is because globalism and entrenched interests had caused failure in the ´experimental´ system of self-rule - long before this election. No action was taken to correct these offenses and distortions. The looming national suicide is a *result*, not a cause.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
MDConservative, 12/3/2012 6:09:01 PM (No. 9046756)
Sometimes experiments fail...
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
jfodoch, 12/4/2012 11:43:37 AM (No. 9047941)
#4, That´s the date predicted to be the last day of our planet, on which the trash in dc will be taken out.
What, me worry? A big negatory!
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