Vitter, DeMint, et al: time to go Patrick Henry on Obama’s assault on conservatives


It is now officially time: burn the Obama brownshirt agenda to the ground. Sift the ashes. Grind the shards into powder.

Now, the official Obama administration policy is that being a conservative makes you a threat to the security of America (actual report in pdf form here). Being a military veteran makes you doubly suspect as a dangerous subversive. It is clear from Napolitano’s non-apology when cornered on it, that the directive came from higher up [i.e., Obama himself], and further, that they have no intention of backing down on it.

Yesterday, seven GOP Senators (some of our favorites) sent a letter to Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano. It was a sharply toned letter, with pointed, well-formed questions that indeed demand answers that all of America would like to hear. Warner Todd Huston has the details, including the text of the letter and the signees.

But the Senators did not go far enough. It is time to draw the line : This far, and no further. Follow the jump to see the letter they should have written.

They take territory, we fall back. They grow an obscenely large and intrusive government bit by bit, we accept it. They take the courts, we retreat and regroup. They turn public schools and universities into indoctrination camps. And still, we retreat. They blatantly steal Senate seats [Stevens and Coleman, this time around], publicly laugh about it, and we fall back.

No more.
[warning, minor language]

“I will not sacrifice the Enterprise. We’ve made too many compromises already, too may retreats. They invade our space, and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds, and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no farther! And I will make them pay for what they’ve done!”

In case you think a sci-fi movie quote is too trite, then I’ll just say we’ve been here before. In REAL history, in a REAL war, under REAL oppression. Patrick Henry put it this way.

Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation…. They are meant for us; they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer on the subject? Nothing.

We have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament.

They tell us, sir, that we are weak — unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house?

There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come!

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, “Peace! Peace!” — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

Fellas, did you SEE the Tea Parties? Do you think you are in this alone? You are most assuredly not. The masses are with you. The media is not, but have you no courage in the face of those embarrassingly infantile hacks and liars?

Now here’s the letter you should have written. No questions, there is no need, when you know the answers.

Dear Secretary Napolitano:

Here’s the deal.

  • You can retract and dismantle that whole report, the policy that the report underwrites, and the entire program you intend to implement on the basis of it.
  • You personally make a nationally-broadcast, prime-time apology for using your position to try to outlaw conservatism.
  • Then you can resign. You are unworthy and unable to be a servant of the United States.

Failing that, the 41 will turn the Senate into a great big hole that legislation falls into. We, the 41, will filibuster every single thing that comes through the Senate that can be filibustered, from now until Jan 2 of 2011. That means:

  • No more appointments.
  • No more judges. Unless, of course, you want to confirm Henry Saad for appeals court.
  • No more continuing resolutions. Except for funding of the troops.
  • and for darned sure no more porkulus.

All business is done, until you do all those things. If you think we are bluffing, call it. We’ll be happy to make this the front-page headline every day until the government shuts down and bureaucrats get laid off by the thousand.

Hugs and kisses:
Vitter
Brownback
DeMint
Coburn
Burr
Markowski
Inhofe

America has spoken on April 15. You gonna man up or not, Senators? Talk time is over. Get your 41 together, make your “liberty-or-death pact”, and make your stand.


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How do I send this to all GOP Senators.

djemi (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 2:14PM EST (link)

Highly recommended. 5*5*5*5*5.

“If I can’t shoot rabbits,then I can’t shoot fascist”
“With age, comes Wisdom, but only if you are paying Attention, son” my ‘Old Man’
RS Help files (h/t JLenardDetroit) Grassroots in Michigan
Moes Strategy

1. Copy (control c) the article. 2. Go to their web email site...

Praying (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 10:49PM EST (link)

(http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm). Sort by party, and start with the first (R) name. Click on web link at bottom of entry.
3. Find the “message” box. Position cursor in the box. Paste (control v).
4. Fill out personal contact information.
5. Press send
6. Return to senate page, scroll down to the next senator, repeat.

You can make a game of it. I’ve gotten through all 41 in just over 40 minutes. I think I’ll play this game myself tomorrow. Thanks for the inspiration!

No!!!11!1!!1!1! The Bilderbergers are coming

And if you have a Mac

TNJim (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 10:55PM EST (link)

It’d be command (Apple Symbol) c Follow praying’s step 2 , then command v for paste. Then praying’s final 3 steps.

Activism: What to do after the TEA party rally. Unified Patriots

 

This Game is a LOT of fun, nt

djemi (Diary) Saturday, April 18th at 10:59AM EST (link)

“If I can’t shoot rabbits,then I can’t shoot fascist”
“With age, comes Wisdom, but only if you are paying Attention, son” my ‘Old Man’
RS Help files (h/t JLenardDetroit) Grassroots in Michigan
Moes Strategy

 
 

Now, we're talking!

sarajean Saturday, April 18th at 4:38PM EST (link)

Please DO it (to all 41 and to your radio personalities!) and then, send it around (to your network)!

(Surely by now, any thinking person realizes that we have seen enough!…..)

 
 

Hear, hear, EPU! nt

Achance (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 2:15PM EST (link)

In Vino Veritas

I live to be the TX version of you

E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 3:41PM EST (link)

And I’m not joking even a little bit. Your Revanchist 101 words fell onto some fertile soil, brother.

As did your Love I Nor Honor More.

You see, I have a way with words that inspires. You have a way with words that persuades people to become different people.

Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO

Thank you for those very kind words, EPU! nt

Achance (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 7:26PM EST (link)

In Vino Veritas

 
 
 

Bravo! EPU. And now the sounds of numerous

janis (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 2:21PM EST (link)

squishy Senators’ heads going thud as they flat-out faint at the very notion of actually taking a stand on principle. Thud away!

 

55555

mom2oneson (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 2:22PM EST (link)

EPU You are so wonderful!!!!!!!!

 

Did you hear the rattling, now heed it -nt

DONTREADONME (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 2:23PM EST (link)

41 what?

RoscoeP Friday, April 17th at 2:27PM EST (link)

It’s a nice thought that we could get 41 senators that would disagree with this DHS report, but do you really think you could find 41 of them that disagree with the report and are willing to take a stand?

I Hate the Half Empty Glass but

kcdude (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 3:03PM EST (link)

you are correct. The seven cannot do anything alone and there still does not seem to be one voice for the 41 or the GOP for that matter. The DHS report was an attack on the 2008 GOP platform and very few elected GOP elected officials have responded. Has the RNC responded? This report was an outrage and it is being treated like a mild insult.

 

If we go in thinking we can't succeed

E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 3:23PM EST (link)

we will fulfill that thought.

Trust me on this, we have about 50 Senators that “disagree with the DHS report” . That’s not even a secret. What we need are 41 with the courage of their convictions.

Look we got 38 to oppose porkulus. The 3 that didn’t are regretting it, big-time, and that includes Specter. You take a GOP Senator retreat, and men and women with character take charge, make Pat-Henry speeches, and persuade them all that if we do not hang together, we shall assuredly hang separately.

You remember how the Declaration of Independence ends? No? Read this:

And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

I doubt they will endeavor to do this. But they might, if prodded.

And if they endeavor to do this, I doubt they’ll follow it through to its end. But they might, if prodded.

Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO

I loved the post...

davidingeorgia Friday, April 17th at 3:25PM EST (link)

…and I’d love to think you’re right, but it will take a different 41 than the “Republican” Party now has in the Senate to pull it off…

heck, a lot of the stuff in this “report” sounds like something John McCain would say (if you take out the ex-military bashing).

I agree, David

E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 3:34PM EST (link)

We didn’t ask for this war, but here it is, and this is the Army we have.

So for what it’s worth, I am “prodding” . If these 41 do not do it, it won’t get done. We can’t stop anything in the House.

Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO

 
 

Yep, when you stand for nothing, you'll fall for most anything. nt

Common_Cents (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 3:31PM EST (link)

Obama=Golfer in Chief, Leading from, behind, the Back Nine.
Leaders don’t create movements. Movements create leaders. Get involved. Your future depends on it.
Govt “invests” YOUR tax money for POLITICAL return rather than economic return.

 

Finally Speaking my Language

whitman4562001 (Diary) Monday, April 20th at 5:38AM EST (link)

Let’s stop basing our decisions on a fear of what the other side might do inorder to retaliate.

 
 
 

I knew I liked you, EPU.

evanm (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 2:28PM EST (link)

Patrick Henry, a man with true oratory skills.

RJD (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 2:37PM EST (link)

From the link above:

He spoke without any notes in a voice that became louder and louder, climaxing with the now famous ending. Following his speech, the vote was taken in which his resolutions passed by a narrow margin, and thus Virginia joined in the American Revolution.

What, no teleprompter?

 

Dang brotha...

Aaron Gardner (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 2:45PM EST (link)

That one got my eyes misty…It is long past time for *our* Senators and Reps to stiffen their spines and actually represent us!!

If you think we are bluffing, call it.

conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!

“We’d be much better off if We The People had desired small government enough to keep it.” acat


 

I'll quit my job to cook for them.

EvanWeeks (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 2:52PM EST (link)

… and keep them up and running 24/7. No sh*t.

I would give a lot of my life to see this happen.

EvanWeeks – Dad. Conservative. Patriot.

I'll help.

Steph C (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 3:04PM EST (link)

I’m a very good cook, :-)

Hubby and my own girth are testaments to that.

“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
Hillbilly Politics

I'm going to collect the change

mom2oneson (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 4:19PM EST (link)

under my couch and car seats and buy them a pizza hut gift card!
Maybe we need a places that deliver in DC gift card drive..
Where is the closest laundromat? :)

I'm not sure how to take that

Steph C (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 5:03PM EST (link)

LOL.

Are you telling me my cooking is bad?

“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
Hillbilly Politics

No..but mine isn't great :)

mom2oneson (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 7:51PM EST (link)

I was just joining in the effort. :) I can put socks in the dryer without burning them! LOL

So, I shouldn't ask you to stir the pots?

Steph C (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 8:39PM EST (link)

rofl

I don’t think you could be that bad. I used to be the worst cook in the world. I’m not joking. My mother tried to teach me and, being a hillbilly and in spite of the surreality of the Beverly Hillbillies, I was Ellie Mae Clampett.

Now, I learn to cook by taste. I taste something in a restaurant that I really like, I can go home and make it provided I have the ingredients available. Hubby, being from MS and living a lot of his early life in LA simply told me what went into gumbo and now, he can’t eat anyone else’s.

Except fish. I can’t ever seem to do a good fish fry. I can blacken it, grill it, etc. but not fry it and have it come out right.

If I can learn, anybody can.

“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
Hillbilly Politics

 
 
 
 
 
 

EPU for President! nt

Rod_Patrick (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 3:02PM EST (link)

I'll volunteer for a cabinet position without pay

Steph C (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 3:05PM EST (link)

except for expenses. I ain’t rich so there’s no way I could cover those on my own.

“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
Hillbilly Politics

 
 

Outstanding!

Josh Painter (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 3:19PM EST (link)

- JP

“An armed society is a polite society” – Robert A. Heinlein, “Beyond This Horizon” (1942)

 

The Patrick Henry Way

teresamerica (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 3:22PM EST (link)

I loved the article:)!!! Our GOP senators need to start meaning business just like Patrick Henry did. The Obama is far overreaching with their power and are violating the Constitution. We, as conservatives, need to take this country back. The TEA PARTIES was a great start!!!! Now we need to continue with such movements like the 912 PROJECT.

 

It is Time

nalora Friday, April 17th at 3:32PM EST (link)

The US and freedom is the only thing that keeps this whole earth from blowing itself to bits. We must preserve liberty, or the US and then the world goes with it.

Take a stand.
Nal

 

Patrick Henry? Kook. Invoked "Almighty God." Q.E.D. nt

Steve Maley (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 3:38PM EST (link)

The blogger formerly known as ‘Vladimir’.

Probably did not like the Tar Heels either! -nt

E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 3:43PM EST (link)

Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO

 
 

55555

woodsman (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 3:38PM EST (link)

Right on the money EPU. It’s time for the conservatives to stand up and go to the mat on this. For too long CongressCritters have done what they wanted to and have made a complete mess out of things.

It is now the time to draw a line in the sand and say “Enough”. Quit being progressive Republicans and start voting conservative or go find another day job.

We need people with the strength of their convictions and character to fight this restructuring America movement. The founding fathers did this in much worse times, why can’t we find enough solid conservatives to do the right thing?

To think, we could have had Sen. Thompson and we got the complete opposite because he said what people wanted to hear.

 

That letter is spot on!

Gigi Friday, April 17th at 4:01PM EST (link)

All GOP Senators need a copy and need to live up to it.

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”
- Alexis de Tocqueville

 

Great post my fellow Texan.

TxCon (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 4:01PM EST (link)

Too bad Cornyn and KBH’s names weren’t on that list. These tea parties were as much as protest against the DC GOP as it was the Dems. We’ll see if the former got the message as the latter is to stupid to comprehend it.

 

We Need a PAC

red4ever (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 4:04PM EST (link)

the Heirs of Patrick Henry. (Yes, I stole that from a Robert Heinlein piece, we like him here). The PAC supports candidates who draw the line in the sand — at every level. If it means funding their campaign chests, you can get them to stand.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
Dante

 

Now let me get this straight.

davo119 Friday, April 17th at 4:08PM EST (link)

Men and women who have stood up to engage the enemies of the United States and protect the rights and the lives of her citizens are deemed a threat to the national security while convicted felons are actively being pursued as a voting block?!!. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1553510,00.html http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-felons29-2008oct29,0,4230101.story http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9785-2004Aug17.html (Guess which party.) What in the world happened to integrity and respect?

Never give in! Never! Never! Never!

 

If I could, I'd recommend this until my keyboard gave out

JustLeaveMeAlone (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 4:18PM EST (link)

God Bless that red-headed firebrand from Hanover County. And God Bless EPU!

Would that our Senators possessed 1/10th the moral courage of Henry.

“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” Thomas Jefferson

 

Right on, but if we don't demand conviction from our ElectedElite, we won't get it. Politics and results are trickle up. nt

Common_Cents (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 4:29PM EST (link)

Obama=Golfer in Chief, Leading from, behind, the Back Nine.
Leaders don’t create movements. Movements create leaders. Get involved. Your future depends on it.
Govt “invests” YOUR tax money for POLITICAL return rather than economic return.

 

Awesome EPU!

zeebeach Friday, April 17th at 4:41PM EST (link)

If the younger zee’s weren’t dedicated gators, I’d be moving the family to Texas now!

 

In which I recall Locke, Rosseau and Montesquieu.

Marcus_Traianus (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 5:20PM EST (link)

Articles 3&4 in The Declaration of the Rights of Man;

3. The principle of all sovereignty resides essentially in the nation. No body nor individual may exercise any authority which does not proceed directly from the nation.

4. Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights. These limits can only be determined by law.

Read it, believe it, understand it, live it. Accept no less, lead and never surrender.

http://www.elysee.fr/elysee/anglais/the_institutions/founding_texts/the_declaration_of_the_human_rights/the_declaration_of_the_human_rights.20240.html

There are very few instances in history when one can seize upon the righteous outrage of so many and embark upon a new course that leads to victoria populi. NOW is such a time.

“Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object—the public good; but they differ essentially in what they deem the means of promoting that good. One side believes it best done by one composition of the governing powers; the other, by a different one. One fears most the ignorance of the people; the other, the selfishness of rulers independent of them. Which is right, time and experience will prove.”.Thomas Jefferson

Which Episode Did Locke Say That

Swamp_Yankee (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 5:32PM EST (link)

I don’t recall Locke saying that. Isn’t Rousseau dead or are you referring to the Seventies Rousseau on the Island. Also, Is Montesquieu one of Widmore’s men?

Signed,

The Modern American

LOL!

E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 5:44PM EST (link)

Gee, thanks for reminding me how thoroughly and deeply I hate JJ Abrams.

Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO

 
 
 

55555

Michael DeWeese (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 5:37PM EST (link)

If only a congressman had the spine to stand up and read that.

I 2nd that emotion, Michael, and ^5 EPU! nt

TNJim (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 5:49PM EST (link)

Activism: What to do after the TEA party rally. Unified Patriots

 
 

This EPU...

Amy Miller (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 5:50PM EST (link)

…I think I like him!

Excellent! This is one of those that I will print out and tack to a wall, page by page, in my office (when I have an office, anyway).

I wish more people in positions of power had your guts.

“I’m a conservative, I’m a textualist, I’m an originalist, but I’m not a nut.”
~Scalia, J.

 

Awesome! 5^5^5^5^5! nt

azaeroprof (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 6:57PM EST (link)

RIGHT-on... Awesome post

reaganiterepublicanresistance Friday, April 17th at 7:16PM EST (link)

It’s not out of the question that the 2009 TEA party participants could someday be respected by history as patriots who made a difference- same as 1773. This was just the sort of public demonstration of outrage that’s needed to break through the media’s disingenuous, manufactured version of reality- and draw a line in the sand… and it was a HUGE success.

The vast majority of Americans DON’T want a massive government sector and all the weird totalitarian schemes Barack has up his sleeve- and now they’re starting to figure out just what he’s up to. Obama can expect SERIOUS resistance from this point-on… because what he’s doing both at-home and abroad is resolutely anti-American.

Now all you paid-drones from Plouffe’s internet squadrons can attack me, LOL.

-Rasmussen should be interesting tomorrow…

http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/

 

RS HoF qualifier. 5+! -nt-

Brian Simpson (Diary) Friday, April 17th at 8:37PM EST (link)


| My RedState archive |
Important principles may and must be inflexible. ~ Abraham Lincoln

 

God Bless you EPU

scrapiron Friday, April 17th at 9:55PM EST (link)

I would stand alongside of you on the frontlines of this battle, if it comes to that.

I’m a 53 y/o Marine Corps Veteran and I am still in good enough shape to open up some whup-ass on any two 20 something marshmello Obots.

I am so sick of Minnesota that I took a job for less money in Tennessee, just in case the Nation fractures. I never though i would see the day that an American President would bow to an Arab and cover up the symbol of Christ.

July 4th Tea Party….I’ll be there.

Call me when you are ready to form the resistance.

 

Awesome EPU...Mike Gundy hates Napolitano, too

6eorge Jetson (Diary) Saturday, April 18th at 7:26AM EST (link)

Paranoia

http://www.activistsandiego.org/wwwboard/viewtopic.php?t=18389 Saturday, April 18th at 7:59AM EST (link)

I’m sorry to dissent, but the report doesn’t express concern for conservatism; it’s about extremism, clearly about terrorist behavior like “the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and disrupted plots.”

This is like a Muslim community blog objecting to the “Bin Laden determined to strike in US” briefing.

Unless this emotional appeal is built on a faulty premise, it seems to imply that the author sees a link between conservative ideals and a penchant to subvert a democratically elected government. If there is such a link, then you are proving the very concerns of the DHS document.

Incidentally, we have seen such incitement here (and reposted on dozens of conservative blogs):
http://www.redstate.com/warner_todd_huston/2009/04/16/those-dangerous-tea-parties-are-you-the-threat-weve-been-waiting-for/

I hate to see such abandonment of rationality in favor of emotion. It’s as bad as liberal victimization, so let’s practice some restraint and rely on reason.

What? Did you read just the first couple of paragraphs

Steph C (Diary) Saturday, April 18th at 8:12AM EST (link)

and skip over the rest?

Does it concern you at all that all returning veterans are being investigated? Does it concern you at all that even the NYT said that people’s emails and other communications are being monitored, without due cause?

You’re full of it.

“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
Hillbilly Politics

 

Hey, Sparky! Have I ever mentioned how much I hate fakes?

Moe Lane (Diary) Saturday, April 18th at 8:13AM EST (link)

I let it go last time because I was busy and you never came back.

But then you came back.

http://www.activistsandiego.org/wwwboard/viewtopic.php?t=18389

Blam.

 
 

Excellent, EPU

itrytobenice (Diary) Sunday, April 19th at 5:05PM EST (link)

Excellent!!

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.


Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

 

After the Tea Parties

amr Monday, April 20th at 8:44AM EST (link)

Being one of those extremists in multiple ways as defined by DHS, I have been pushing at the 912ers meetings and website postings, tea party organizational meetings, and even hinted in my one tea party speech that if the tea party grass roots rallies do not move congress, and they apparently haven’t yet by recent votes since the tea parties started on February 16th, then following MLK’s civil rights movement tactics, picketing of local congressional offices of the politicians voting for spend and tax should commence. If that doesn’t work, then it would be on to civil disobedience with sit-ins. Of course this was the type of tactics that Shays’ people utilized in 1786 that led to the rebellion when the state government ignored their more civil actions. Hopefully congress is more astute than was the Massachusetts government in Shays time or Southern Democrats were during the civil rights movement.

The Greatest Generation saved our nation from Fascism so we owe future generations a serious effort to return to the economic and personal freedom they fought so bravely to retain. As I expected I have convinced few people of the necessity of such actions; therefore I may have go it alone.

 

I use the legislative capwiz...

realityunwound (Diary) Monday, April 20th at 9:29AM EST (link)

http://capwiz.com/humanevents/home/

One stop shopping for all your legislative contacting needs.

http://www.realityunwound.com

 

My letters are on their way. . .

RedWhite_and_Truth (Diary) Monday, April 20th at 11:54AM EST (link)

Outstanding post! These namby-pambys have got to go! 2010 can’t here fast enough for me.

Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
– Ronald Reagan

“Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he’ll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.”
—David Broder

 

Empty threats

Brad Smith (Diary) Monday, April 20th at 1:23PM EST (link)

Except for the fact that this proposed letter would just be an empty threat. There aren’t 41 senators who would do that.

But maybe we can vote all the “moderates” out (probably about 30 GOP Senators who would not sign this). Then we’d have the Democrats right we want them – with about 75 seats in the Senate.

You see, the problem is not that our Senators lack backbone. The problem is that we lack Senators, and we lack voters. Until more people want Republicans to win, this type of gesture is futile.

Brad Smith
Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Designated Professor of Law
Capital University Law School
Capital University website
Center for Competitive Politics website

Typical from you, Brad

E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Monday, April 20th at 3:30PM EST (link)

we got 38 out of 41 to vote against Porkulus. The 3 that did not have been paying the price. Every single Senator knows what happened in about 500 Tea Parties on the 15th.

But you, along with the establishment Republicans, will allow for no courage, no new spark set off by the tea parties, the nation-wide revolt over porkulus, the more and more evident lack of leadership qualities shown by Obama.

No, nothing can change. There’s no hope, no point in even trying to stir up something.

Do you know the context of Patrick Henry’s speech? Do you? The VA legislature was trying to figure out yet newer ways to kowtow to increasingly oppressive British demands. While Massachusetts was in full rebellion, VA was shirking any hard choices. They even met in Williamsburg in order to not draw negative attention from the Brits. Henry had had enough, so he made his speech. In the audience were Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, who sat in stunned silence when he was done.

He made a difference. It required SOMEBODY to make a stand.

Poo hoo it all you want. I’d rather die than surrender.

Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO

 
 

EPU: Thanks, I faxed it to all 41 with the following introductory comments:

ColdWarrior (Diary) Monday, April 20th at 2:18PM EST (link)

To all of you pathetic, wimpy, cowardly, stand-for-nothing Republican Senators (you know who you are):
I am sending to you the following letter, which was posted at:
http://www.redstate.com/e_pluribus_unum/2009/04/17/vitter-demint-et-al-time-to-go-patrick-henry/
Go read it there, too.
Then, try “growing a pair” and DO SOMETHING. SOMETHING REAL AND MEANINGFUL. For example, Teleprompter Boy said this morning he was going to request his cabinet come up with $100 M in spending cuts. Some reporter did the math and said on the radio that this was less than two-thousandths of a per cent of the entire spending Teleprompter Boy has proposed and you clowns will allow him to pass.
Want to grow the Republican Party? Then resurrect the Reagan Era principles. Gee, he only won in landslides. Wise up. Questions? Call me. My number’s below. If I don’t pick up, I’m working for a living. Leave a message, I’ll call you back.
Here’s the post, entitled “Vitter, DeMint, et al.: Time to go Patrick Henry on Obama’s Assault on Conservatives.”
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