Nobody says it like Zo. He has a way with words that all can understand.

You gotta love Saturday Night Live. This is the opening skit for last night’s show and lampooned President Obama and his visit to China. I wonder if CNN and the rest of the MSM will be “fact checking” this skit too?

Are we forcing our kids to make this pledge, whether they recite it or not? Stop the spending.

I know I spend too much time on YouTube.

Everyone sing along with me….

Take this speech and listen to it objectively.  Reagan gave this speech in the 1960’s but it could easily be given today!  However, you will not hear a speech like this from any politicians in DC.  And the numbers would be drastically higher.

Get this. 1948. With some minor changes it could be 2009… well, 2008 really. All too many already drank the brew and now we are seeing what it brings. Remember, in 1948 the United States had a national debt that was over four times the GNP as a result of WW-II. (And you thought we have a huge debt!) Our nation had a lot of choices to make.

Of course, most of the people who owned US Bonds then were Americans… not Chinese. But now we are waaaaay too smart to buy our own junk. Goes for cars, too.

There is not much on this earth that cannot be undone… except death and the passing of time. Most everything else can be undone… or perhaps fixed would be a better word. Make no mistake, though, the bottle of “ISM” has already been purchased and consumed by more than half of the population. Call it what you want… “liberalISM,” “socialISM” or whatever.

It’s funny that this actually came from a college. Nowadays, you’d be more likely to have a college or university produce a cartoon extolling the virtues of “ISM.”

It’s still nothing new. You know what is new?

So many people bought it.

Cap and Trade, “Healthcare Reform,” a new Supreme Court Justice. The Democrats have control of Congress and the White House. Americans gave it to them. Very often it feels as if liberalism is all the rage in the United States.

Let them have it.

You can’t stop it, anyway. We are still a year and a half from the next Congressional elections. Forestalling the “program” will only keep the horrible effects of the Democratic domestic agenda from fully taking hold before the next elections. They’re going to take what they want, anyway. Let them have it. Let them have what they want. You don’t have to vote for it. The time to vote is past. Sit back and watch them tear this mother down.

It won’t take long for those in the middle… those caught up in the “spirit of the moment,” those who were so easily convinced that our lives suck so much that we needed such “change” to feel the discomfort of the weight of government on their backs. Don’t let it be eased upon them, let it slam into all of our shoulders with the full weight of the overlord that is to become. Let us all feel the crushing weight of having those who would legislate against us for our own good succeed. It will happen, anyway. They have the votes… because many Americans didn’t.

Sit back, relax as best you can, and watch the show as America kicks her own ass. The “majority” has asked for a good asskicking, and they shall have it. You cannot stop them. Your next best hope is a year and a half away, and Dick Cheney is still taking point against the liberals and progressives. Rush Limbaugh is still shrilly crying out in ridiculous ways. Cheney has no credibility with the common American and Limbaugh is doing more harm than good. He makes so little sense to the average American that he is actually driving people away and helping the other side. The Tea Parties make an awesome statement, but they are not able to influence the liberal lawmakers who have all the votes they need without having to court the right.

The right doesn’t have a point man, or woman, who can coherently stand against the left. McCain is doing an admirable job. He’s the only one on his side of the aisle who is making reasoned statements. He’s also the “failed presidential candidate.” The liberals revel in the fact that there is no acceptable leader, none who anyone outside of the far right, will follow. McCain has been rendered moot. Republicans wouldn’t even vote for him. McCain wasn’t good enough for them.

So six million of them… or more… failed to vote. While Democrats turned out in unprecedented numbers, there were still millions fewer votes cast in 2008 than in 2004. Fewer votes cast! A minimum of six million Republicans failed to live up their responsibilities to vote.

You know that they did. Who didn’t hear Republicans claiming that there wasn’t really a Republican in the race? We all did. Well, that’s fine then. They made their little personal protest by not voting for anyone. In so doing, they screwed themselves and the rest of the country. It wasn’t just the presidency, it was Congress as well. If you are one of them who failed to get off their ass and vote, shame, shame on you!

The nation has spoken while a goodly portion of the right side of its brain was asleep. A single party has full control and has been running rampant. We had the equivalent of a national stroke, and we did it willfully. The checks and balances built in by the framers of the Constitution have had their hard work rendered useless by millions of petulant “Republicans.” While the left cries out that it has a mandate, all you have to do is look at the numbers. They didn’t have a landslide, millions stayed home and failed to vote. It wasn’t a victory of the left so much as a failure of the right.

Let them have their agenda. Let them have it. Let them have it all quickly so that we can feel the sting more fully and perhaps be woken up by the slap of oppression on our backs. Let us begin to feel the crushing “kindness and fairness” of liberalism. Let socialism begin to make an impact on our daily lives and let it come come quickly so that there is no creeping anesthesia… because this is going to hurt, and we as a nation deserve it. Find new leadership, as the left did, and back him or her.

Here’s a hint: Sarah Palin is not that point woman. She may be a player, but she is not the point woman. That bolt has been shot.

Perhaps the slap of overwhelming governmental control will awaken the nation (or enough of it) from its opiated state, quit selling its liberty for the siren song of governmental coddling, and vote again. Perhaps liberalism will finally show itself for what it is, perhaps strong men and women will never again lay down and let socialism walk over them, and the tree of liberty will again be refreshed. Do it before the memory of handing over our liberty for the sake of “safety” and being “taken care of” fades. Do while patriots still walk the earth and have strength in their arms.

We will always have our weak-minded. We will always have those who yearn for the government to take care of them, those who will gladly hand over their liberty for the mock safety of the blanket of government. There will always be those whose higher power is the government… it is their solution to the ills of the world.

Let them have it, and let us all taste it so that we will know the bitterness of it and remember. I am convinced that most of us will rebel against it, and a revolution of sorts will occur… people will remember why it’s important to vote, even if it is not a perfect choice… and those couch potatoes who protested McCain by sitting on their butts will realize that such self-destructive “statements” are never the answer to a threat to liberty. Perhaps they will show up and vote. We will have a chance to restore personal liberty and responsibility and reestablish some balance in Congress so that no one agenda can rule this nation in this way again. For now, there is nothing that anyone can do except interfere momentarily with the progress of the liberal agenda. That only softens the blow. We need to have it all crash down on us like a ton of bricks, as painfully as possible, so that there will be the will to roll it back.

Add these $63 billion Washingtons to the ever growing list of “hope and change.” Emphasis mine.

WASHINGTON, May 5 (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama will seek congressional approval for a $63 billion for a six-year global health initiative, a senior administration official said on Tuesday.

The money will go toward efforts to fight AIDS, tropical diseases and other illness and to help improve maternal health. It will be aimed at addressing “some of the biggest global health challenges,” said Deputy Secretary of State Jack Lew.

$63 billion dollars to global health? Yes, health is very important to all of us. However, with the economy still in the tank, children of Washington D.C. no longer getting school vouchers, and our taxes launching into orbit, do we really need to be funding this global initiative with our tax dollars? I don’t know about you, but I would feel a bit better about this spending if it was put towards solving these problems in AMERICA.

What else could we fund with our hard earned American tax dollars that would benefit America? Discuss in the comments.

With the latest national health emergency (150 people in Mexico died, and we have declared an emergency,) concerning the swine flu, the Democrats have come out swining… er… swinging.

Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., said in a statement…

“Not only is pandemic preparation essential to any responsible plan for renewing the U.S. economy, but to the world’s overall public health.”

One simple question: “Huh?”

Since when is disease prevention part of an economic stimulus? First of all, “stimulus” is a misleading term. It is a catch-all for spending a shitload of money on causes that have been held tightly in the left’s bosom for years. ACORN is not, nor will it ever be, a key driver of a healthy economy in the United States or any country. Not. Now. Not. Ever. It is a key driver of Democratic success in 2008, but good for the economy? Feh.

No, fellow patriots, pandemic flu preparation spending belongs in the annual budget. If you want it, put it in the budget. The problem is, the administration wants to claim a budget that is closer to balanced… without counting the over $1 trillion in bailouts and “stimulus” that has been tossed around like the insides of a pinata. A big budget for pandemic flu preparedness would just screw that all up. That wouldn’t suit the propaganda porpoises at all.

Here’s a clue, folks. Federal spending is federal spending. You can later “claim” a balanced, or more nearly balanced, budget… but throwing money around like it’s nobody’s business and not counting it towards the budget is just lying.

So, failing that, Congressional Democrats, without any real consequences and pointing at 150 people in Mexico who are “suspected to have died of swine flu,” seize upon another opportunity to lash out at the only ones who stand in their way.

It makes me wonder how we all survived the swine flu epidemic in the ’70’s.

Oh… the Federal Government has 12 million doses of Tamiflu in storage. That’s enough to save the Democratic power elite plus some key Dem players in each state… and Perez Hilton, so that he will be available to judge next year’s Miss PCUSA Pageant. That’s really all we need to protect the public anyway, because everyone knows that the Democrats are the guardians of the public conscience.

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.

In the meantime, if anyone can explain to me how pandemic flu preparedness is going to stimulate millions, or even tens of thousands of new jobs, I’d like to hear it. Failing that, I’d like to cordially invite the honorable gentleman from Arizona to STFU and put it in the budget if he can. It’s public health policy, not part of a “responsible plan” for economic renewal.

Swine flu has become the poster child of the day for Democratic pork in the “stimulus.”

Keith Olbermann has provided us with a new folk hero to compete with Joe the Plumber. I would like for you to meet “Jeff the Unemployed Blogger,” Olbermann’s nickname for the man who attended a Tea Party in Pensacola, Florida… but not because he wanted to add his voice to their call. His real name is Jeff Spoeri of Pensacola, Florida. No, Jeff and Sid the Cameraman attended the Tea Party with some sort of mischief in mind and the ability to videotape it for Mr Unemployedblogger’s (spelled Spoeri) website. The experience exceeded Jeff’s expectations when, in true “grassroots” fashion, they started offering the microphone around to whoever wanted to contribute. Jeff excitedly took the microphone, happy for the opportunity to “exercise his First Amendment rights.”

Except it wasn’t to contribute. It was to heckle and disrupt the rally, and it was rather artful. However artfully asshattery is performed, it is asshattery nonetheless. Our little Jeffy, who is as proud as the Code Pink protester who all made us throw up in our mouths a little at the RNC back in August, has taken asshattery to a new level. This man wears Oprah’s ass as a hat. Now that’s an asshat.

Keith Olbermann lost his freakin’ mind enthusing about this guy. Olbermann, the propagandist who ran a “list” of Tea Parties which downplayed the significance of 800 simultaneous rallies across the United States (skewing the news as only MSNBC can… it’s not like they’re a real news network, after all,) included his video in his nightly hatefest.

I’m sorry, but anyone who accepts political commentary from Garofalo as being anything other than a lame attempt at substance-addled comedy is just so misguided. Keith Olbermann does. ‘Nuff said. If she wasn’t so outlandishly offensive, it would be funny. She is funnier than 6 out of 10 angry barstool drunks, though. Those guys are hard to beat for blithering rages, but she keeps right up with them. “Teabagging rednecks.” Come on, that’s funny, I don’t care who you are.

I don’t know what she’s into, but if Garofalo keeps it up, she’s going to sound like Mohammad Ali. She doesn’t really look well, and she’s got a hint of a slur. That’s over and above the racist slurs, just to clarify. The rage disorder is a hint, too. Gets cranky when she has to sober up enough to talk on the TV, I guess. She does make a nice counterpoint to Olbermann’s self-righteousness, though, doesn’t she?

But I digress.

Back to our boy Jeffy. So Jeffy takes gets an opportunity to get on the microphone and he has a strategy; draw them in with things they’ll agree with and then blame it all on the previous administration. He starts off by thanking the veterans, which I have thanked him for in his comments, always a crowd-pleaser in the type of crowd a Tea Party might attract and an excellent rhetorical ploy, and then he begins his diatribe when he realizes he’s losing them. Hundreds of people are staring at Mr. Spoeri at this point as if he has a cucumber growing out of his forehead. Jeff pauses, sensing that he’s made a tactical error. Quickly regaining his composure, like the Grinch confronted by little Cindy Lou Who, he asks a leading question: “Who here is making less than $250,000 a year? Cheer! Let’s hear you cheer!”

I enjoyed the part when I asked, “How many here make less than $250,000 a year?” and there’s a big cheer

He was drawing them in…

you have to “speak to your audience,” y’know

Wanting to believe that this man has some sort of plan to say something relevant, they cheer. His plan working perfectly now, Jeffy drops it on them, blaming the former administration for all the world’s woes and congratulating them on their new tax cut. His mission accomplished, Spoeri throws his hands in the air like a victorious fighter as boos rain down upon him.

But, like all good villains, I reveled in the booing just a bit … although I should have closed with “Enjoy the rest of your teabagging!” Maybe I should have paid more attention in rehearsal …

Jeffy hurried home to post his new video and seek his attention. He was largely successful, but he may have gone a little too far with the Daily Kos. This from mariosavio, a Daily Kos writer:

Nice job. But a little desperate for attention? (0+ / 0-)

“Yeah, I’m the guy…”

Thanks for the transcript of your speech.

You did a good job, but by posting here & bragging that you risked your life to do this you have only proven that you are desperation for attention & affirmation.

Are you really that insecure that you need pats on the back from us Kossacks? Come on, you’re better than the GOP.

To which our Jeffy replied on his blog (but not in his response to the writer on Kos, who would have disassembled him):

Seriously, d00d. That was a pretty dickish thing to say.

You know it’s pretty bad when you’re a liberal and your drive for attention brings a negative reaction from a Daily Kos contributor. You can tell it left a mark, too, by the response. This guy really doesn’t like to be called on it. You should read his responses to a woman who was actually there at the rally and who called him a liar.

He demanded an apology. *sniff, sniff* I can feel his pain. *sniff*

I wrote Spoeri in his comments, telling him that his trollish behavior had given me a teaching point with my children. He responded innocently that he had gone to a non-partisan rally and was simply participating in it. His web page shows otherwise, as he gloats about the unbelievable success of his mission.

Seriously — I didn’t realize there would be an opportunity to speak, but they were practically begging folks to come up and say a few words … and I was right there

Mr. Spoeri states that he was a participant, and that he was just trying to have his say in support of the theme of the rally. He claims that he was just trying to educate the poor misguided souls who, if they knew what he knows, would obviously be celebrating the Obama presidency like he is, not protesting the massive programs and bailouts being launched by our new and glorious messianic fiscal savior. He wasn’t trying to upset anyone or be trollish, he claims. Later he reveals what he really thinks of them.

Do you think I feel bad that I made them all look like asses? Nope, can’t say that I do. But the thing is, Andy, they already looked like asses

The thing about being a sneaky bag of shit is that you will out yourself in the process. While claiming innocence and batting his eyes like a little schoolgirl with a cookie hidden behind her back, he lets fly with this one.

My rhetorical style is not the issue here, although I must say that it worked better than I ever could have expected …

What would an innocent participant have expected? Hmmmm.

Mr. Jeff Spoeri, unemployed blogger from Pensacola, Florida, whose greatest accomplishment in this world is to have appeared on Jeopardy, I’ve got an award for you…

Asshat of the Month

Since you are the inaugural Asshat of the Month, we’ll have to come up with a certificate for you.

They may be teabaggers, but you are the teabagee. Suck it up, buddy. Tell me, does that taste like Earl Grey?

*UPDATE*

Jeff Spoeri has graciously accepted the award and posted an acceptance speech at his blog, which is overblown, but very nice. However, when pressed in comments, it’s amazing how quickly his “appreciation for the troops” evaporates when one disagrees with him. Here are two of his tweets from today.

New comment: Now I’ve got to go. Andy Wahl Bye, hero.

Nice, Jeff. Where’s your appreciation for those who have served now? Pretty thin, that soup you’re serving at the Tea Party. Although your “outrage” when I challenged your sincerity with your intro at the Tea Party was some stellar acting, it wears thin really fast. But then, most truly genuine things do, right?

Ummm… No.

New comment: I thought Andy left. The last refuge of a scoundrel is patriotism, Andy.

Oh, snap… there it is. Like I said, when you’re trying to pass asshattery off as something innocent, you will out yourself. I didn’t even have to push much.

This is the type of guy that Olbermann holds up as a good example, folks. Liberals want to compare him to Joe the Plumber… sort of… Uh… yeah.

Remember, folks… patriotism is for scoundrels.