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On November 2, 2010, the liberals suffered a defeat at the hands of the people over their policies implemented over the last two to four years. As a result, Many Republicans and Tea Party supporters are jubilant in their celebration, and even the often morose Glenn Beck has been heard to be excited about what he calls a turning point. However, the cold, hard reality is that liberalism suffered a defeat but not a crushing one, and the war is far from won. In the past, victories in these minor skirmishes have resulted in people becoming complacent. The battles that are not making the headlines in the war on freedom continue to rage despite the victory.

The aristocracy is still there in Washington. Although many incumbents were swept out of office, the vast number of them were reelected by their constituents. The ruling elite is still composed of self-styled aristocrats who know what is best for you, your family, and your children. They still look down on the masses as unwashed and slightly stupid. They still possess the same arrogance that allowed them to pass TARP and the auto bailouts over such huge numbers of people in bipartisan opposition. The bribery and corruption is still there and as virulent as ever. Furthermore, the aristocracy in Congress still exempts itself from laws it imposes on the serfs. Although term limits for all federal offices could go a long way in solving this problem, no directive to this effect was passed on the 2.

The bureaucracy in Washington has never been more powerful. The list of government agencies with the power to control every aspect of your life is astonishing. The FDA, EPA, IRS, DHS, FSOC, and HHS are still out there, and that doesn't even scratch the surface of the alphabet soup of unelected bureaucracies not beholden to the voter and the whims of the electorate. The power of these agencies has grown massively during the Bush and especially the Obama administrations. They are the government within our government.

The Federal Reserve still remains unchecked. There may be a bill garnering bipartisan support from nearly three-quarters of Congress to audit the Federal Reserve, but this bill has been stalled in committee, and the Fed still remains able to do pretty much anything it wants to our currency. Printing money is no longer necessary in a world governed by computers. All someone at the Fed has to do is enter a number in a computer somewhere, and there are suddenly billions more dollars in existence. The Federal Reserve is not an agency of Congress, and Congress has little power to audit it. In fact, the power of the Federal Reserve to control our economy is patently irrational. If you asked Americans if it would be OK that a private cartel of bankers would have the power to do anything they want with the economy and create money at will, I doubt few would say yes. However, that is currently the state of affairs.

The spending obligations are still there, and the economy is still bad. Walk around your neighborhood and ask people if it is OK that you cut their government check. Most will be happy if you cut the checks of others, but they don't want their cut of the supposed pie reduced. Our unfunded financial obligations totaling in the tens of trillions of dollars haven't gone away because of the election. They are still there, racking up interest and ticking away to financial disaster. Combined with high taxes and increasing regulation, the economy doesn't look about to improve much anytime soon. In fact, if taxes go up in January, it is likely to get much worse. Until we get taxes and regulation under control and people start to realize that they need to lose that government check, we are still in big trouble.

The unions still have control of the government. In this election cycle the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) has come out of the shadows and placed advertisements directly attacking candidates who wish to rein in AFSCME's ridiculous pension and benefit packages. The government is infested with unions who have lost all shyness in forwarding their free-stuff-for-us agenda. Through union dues collected from taxpayer-funded salaries, they use our tax money to run advertisements for candidates and issues. On top of that, these unions still get health care plans that no one in the private-sector middle class can afford, and they still get ridiculous pension plans that allow some to retire at 55 with 85% of their largest career salary pension as well as health benefits for life. Even this ridiculous compensation is not enough for AFSCME; they want more.

The Republican Party hasn't become conservative yet. The RINOs and progressives in the Republican Party have been dealt a blow, but not a severe one. Several RINOs got reelected, and the Republican Party establishment is still something of a good ol' boys network who believe they have a moral imperative to rein in those evil Tea Party people. Republican Party insiders are still coming up with revolting vitriol for Sarah Palin (never on the record, of course), and many of the party bosses are still entrenched in the idea that they are entitled to their power as part of the aristocracy. Those who would save the republic are still hampered by the party. Until the Republican Party changes course, the Tea Partiers and other independent conservatives and libertarians will still be rolling a rock uphill.

They still are neither reading nor writing their own legislation. Congress has become a somewhat sleazy money-raising, telemarketing center that sometimes actually votes on things. The fact that they don't read their own legislation has become infamous of late, but the fact is that they don't write it, either. The writing of the legislation is farmed out to armies of lawyers and often lobbyists. These lawyers draft immense pieces of legislation totaling in the thousands of pages that are not only impossible to read before voting, but impossible to understand without a hundred lawyers and ten years of work. Yet our congressmen and senators continue to approve these pieces of legislation without having a real clue what is in them.

It is still impossible to obey the law. If Congress doesn't know what is in its legislation with its army of lawyers, how likely is it that the average citizen will know what is in it? We have a situation where there are thousands, and perhaps tens of thousands, of pages of laws that every citizen is subject to every day. Do you know them all? Remember, ignorance is no defense for breaking the law. After you figure out all the laws that apply, now go work on the regulations. Regulations passed by the EPA, DHS, HHS, SEC, and so on still have the full force of law, and you can still go to jail for violating them. Of course, even the most diligent citizen would not be able to know the law because it is intentionally written in a confusing manner. Chances are you have violated a few laws and regulations today without even knowing it. When you have a state where it is impossible to obey the law, you have tyranny.

There is no animal quite as dangerous as a lame duck. Right now there are dozens of quasi-socialist legislators who have nothing left to lose. Although we have seen an unprecedented expansion of executive branch powers under the last two presidents, it could very well get much worse in the coming months. Until January, the liberals have an iron grip on both the House and Senate, and they no longer have to fear the voting populace. They are caged and cornered, and they will most likely lash out. You can expect to see several pieces of legislation fly through Congress at breakneck speed. The card check bill, cap and trade, and every other piece of left-wing legislation will potentially be on the table. The liberals know that Republicans will have to wait at least two years to get any of it reversed, and they see this as a golden opportunity to push through such legislation now, when Obama will veto any attempt to repeal it. Furthermore, they know, as I do, that any hopes that Obama will tack to the right and moderate are the very foundation of naiveté.
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after 2 years of republicans people will run to vote for democrats. they are all about the rich man. they proved that by not passing unemployment extensions through the holidays for theunemployed. greedy selfish self centered braggers is al they are. i didn;t vote for obama but i dam sure will next time. republicans hd 8 years to straighten thing out and they succeeded in screwing things up and now will not accept there mistakes. you know if they can vote against unemployment ext they are heartless. christian my azz.
You should be condemning Obama, unemployment has gone up to 9.7 under him. Bush had 4.5.

If Obama cares so much, why did he just leave again for another trip? Who is going to extend the tax cuts for the poor and middle class?
Why is Congress trying to push the Dream Act and 'don't ask don't tell' in a lame duck session?

Unemployment is already 99 weeks, do you want people on it permanently? Do you know how much entitlements are adding to the deficit?

The crap about reps being for the rich, is just that, crap.

That upper 2% pay forty percent of federal taxes.

Vote for who ever you want, but you have to live with the choice.
It is a full time job just pointing out the lies in b50m's post. Bush was well past 5% by the time he left office and his policies contributed to the rate we have today. As for unemployment, the republicans only agenda so far has been to stand up the President for a meeting to discuss points of compromise so Mitch McConnell could give a speech stating his intention to repeal healthcare reform and extend tax cuts for the top 2%.
The Dream Act thing is manufactured outrage from her media overlords at Fox.
It really is time consuming posting the truth to all these lies that b50m and her right wing radical buddy's post, no wonder there is a whole network that is in business to debunk Fox.

November 11, 2008
U.S. Unemployment Rates Under President Bush Continue to Climb
Posted by Kristina Cowan

U.S. unemployment rates under President Bush have reached a 14-year high. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, unemployment climbed to 6.5 percent in October, as the country shed 240,000 jobs. U.S. unemployment rates under President Bush have certainly increased--for example, the unemployment rate for October 2007 was 4.7 percent. So far this year, the country has lost 1.2 million jobs, and over half of the decrease took place in just the last three months. Some suggest the situation could grow more bleak: Goldman Sachs projects the unemployment rate will reach 8.5 percent by the end of 2009. Another source I spoke with recently believes it could soar as high as 10 percent in the near future
Oh and one other thing about b50m's lie about the top 2% paying 40% of federal taxes. This is something that really floors me because the obvious is she or nobody on this forum will EVER rise to this percent, but this often qouted line is misleading. It doesn't include the rate of wealth expansion (the top 1% have 25% of ALL income now) and it does not include payroll taxes. This is one case where the republican politicians, and on a side note did you know that the average wealth of a congessman is $911,000, have sold a line of bull and those like b50m are either too hard headed or stupid to admit it. They are fighting for the rich yet they are poor.
b50m, you are full of it. enjoy your christmas and remember a lot of families out there will not have one due to a bunch of greedy people. the deficet is important but not as important as our families that need help. there are other places to cut besides this. if you can live with this you must be a cruel human being. you may feel like your on top of the world now but things can change quickly to bring you down. have more compassion for your fellow man. we all come in this world for the same reason.
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Sez glide:
they proved that by not passing unemployment extensions through the holidays for theunemployed. greedy selfish self centered braggers is al they are. i didn;t vote for obama but i dam sure will next time. republicans hd 8 years to straighten thing out and they succeeded in screwing things up and now will not accept there mistakes. you know if they can vote against unemployment ext they are heartless. christian my azz.


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Sez glide:
b50m, you are full of it. enjoy your christmas and remember a lot of families out there will not have one due to a bunch of greedy people. the deficet is important but not as important as our families that need help. there are other places to cut besides this. if you can live with this you must be a cruel human being. you may feel like your on top of the world now but things can change quickly to bring you down. have more compassion for your fellow man. we all come in this world for the same reason.


Loosen the tin foil hat, Sparky.
The Dems held both houses. They didn't push the extention thru, using it as a carrot in front of the voter. The Reps asked twice to use the Stimulus money...you know, that's supposed to create jobs, that is STILL sitting there, instead of adding more to the deficit. You need to lay the blame on BOTH parties for this.
They will use the stimulus money just in time for the next election so that everyone will love them.
Also I have read before that the richest people are democrats...not Republicans. Also Republicans are the most charitable. However, the rich Dems need to create an illusion that they are for poor people so they will get the poor vote. In reality they only want to enslave the poor so that they will never get out. Republicans seem like they are against the poor but only because they are for personal responsibility. If poor people caught on to this they would pull themselves out of the hole and vote Republican. Have you ever noticed how immigrants who come in through the front door are republican? A few examples...Rubio, Jendall, and even Scharzanegger(sp?). I used to be Dem but as you can see...we pulled ourselves up out of that pit!
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Originally posted by rocky:
IS there a crack in the right wing armor? Elintfilter is getting all philosophical."drag in the seige engines and lay seige to the strongholds of the left" Good Lord!!!!!! THOU DOTH PROTEST TOO MUCH!


I was speaking metaphorically, not philosophically! Simply emphasizing the damage done by the regressive can't be undone in a year or two. Its a long term campaign requiring fortitude and guts.

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