I’ve seen this word conspiracy thrown around a lot lately. It is becoming a popular label for conservatives to level at other conservatives who look at the aggregate picture and draw conclusions based on what they observe.

It’s as if certain folks think that legitimate framing of the debate can only take place when all the facts are coldly analyzed and digested separately from one another, and that somehow drawing conclusions from those facts as to the nature, character, or intentions of the opposition inherent in the aggregate picture is somehow illegitimate, or embarrassing.

And well, I don’t like that. I don’t do it to others, and I don’t like it done to me. There’s nothing wrong with seeing what is going on around ones self and drawing conclusions about the nature of the enemy we face. It’s not conspiratorial – it’s conclusive opinion based on personal discernment.

Or at least I hope not. I’ve always felt McCain’s candidacy was officially doomed when gas prices spiked in the summer of ’08. 4th of July 2008 it cost over $4/gallon to fill your tank. That sealed it for people who weren’t sure they were ready to try something different.

So while some elements of the disaster that is Obamanomics may be nebulous – you don’t care that the housing market has gotten worse unless you were looking to move, your health care costs jumped but you’ve come to expect that (and have forgotten Obama promised to lower it $2,500/year), etc. – but people will get hacked off every time they fill up their tanks for the next year. And they’re not going to blame George Bush for it.

may need to fortify the White House with heavy artillery. The union protests will look like a little girls tea party compared to what will be going on in America.
Americans are sick of Obama’s crap – we are mad as hell and we are not going to take it anymore. Obama must go – now!

I’m not so sure on that one, since lefties like Sheryl Crow promote the use of one-sheet of toilet paper … “one square normally, two to three squares on ‘pesky occasions’”

You nailed perfectly as usual. I can’t tell you how beneficial, timely, and pertinent your post is on this, especially today.

With only a couple notable exceptions, everywhere it is implemented, high speed rail is a boondoggle that requires taxpayer subsidy in perpetuity for something very few people use, and it does nothing tangible to alleviate traffic.

The justifications governments use to ram these boondoggles through always claim that traffic will be alleviated and that it will pay for itself. The evidence against these justifications is conclusive.

Therefore, as always with Democrats, one needs to look for their true motivation, and I think Erick nails it, spot-on.

Socialists love playing with trains.

Looks like a billboard campaign at gas stations around the country would be a good idea.
” Like $4 a gallon gas? Thank Barack Obama. It’s his idea” . Maybe put in an e-mail address. We have got to start a PR camapign against this man/boy with his Marxist Utopia dreams from his alleged father. Can states just start drilling?
Obama is not paying attention to any rulings, why should states? Defund EPA? Eliminate Chu’s position?

We have to do or start something. NAACP was protesting a gas station for “price gouging” trying to deflect away from Bam Bam. How long before oil profits are marched out as the sole reason?

Yes. Each one of us has to “do or start something.’

As long as the Republican Party still has over half of its precinct committeemen slots vacant, with about a third of the precincts having zero precinct committeemen, I suggest each one of us, if at all possible, get to our respective local Republican Party committee meetings and sign up to become a “voting member” of the Party — a precinct committeemen.

Do you think that might be something you could do if you have not already done so?

Thank you.

For Liberty,

ColdWarrior

the nation needs, a Mussolini in the WH. Benito rides again, now where’s the funny hat? O has the chin thing down pat, but he needs that tassled thing on top of his head.

I agree that the Obama administration wants to see gas prices at $5 per gallon or more, and they would also love to see the gasoline-powered engine go away. But I don’t see how high-speed rail is the future in Obama’s mind.

I think high-speed rail is nothing but a distraction – a shiny object for us to focus on while everything else around us goes somewhere in a handbasket. I don’t thnk the Obama administration cares if a high-speed rail line actually gets built; I think they just want to use it as a vehicle to funnel ‘stimulus’ money to favored groups.

I guess I just don’t see how the dots are connected in this piece. Sorry if I’m being dense. But what purpose does high-speed rail serve Obama and his ilk?

The best conspiracies are ‘hidden’ out in the open.

I don’t know what all the hub bub is worrying about the term conspiracy is anyway. It is now being used with in and against our own to level some charge in a negative light.

If you look up multiple definition entries of conspiracy, many of them have no element of “secret”. Conspiracies can be public, out in the open with 2 or more people/groups conspiring together.

Here is the crux of the issue IMHO.

Obama does not come out every day and tell America he wants in the overall bigger plan, redistribution of wealth except for the elites, more govt control, people living in high density urban areas, depending on govt provided rail etc….

Instead of revealing his overall end game plan, he promotes each individual component on its own merits like it is good for America, meanwhile he is being deceptive by omission on the long term plan. Boiling the frog slowly.

In viewed through this lens, it looks pretty conspiratorial. Call it deceptive. Call it whatever. But the fact remains that the left is pursuing individual pieces of the puzzle WITHOUT telling you the big picture end game. When people such as Beck start connecting the dots, it is damn scary.

The problem is that the very word has a negative ominous hollyweird villian connotation and makes it hard for someone on the right to level the charge. Just another example of how we are manipulated into being politically correct by alinsky tactics (ridicule, nutjob accusations) in the lame stream media.

If you connect many dots to reveal a bigger picture/plot, or hint at calling obama or the left as conspiratorial or even disagreeing, you are instantly a kook. Win for the left and their media accomplices.

The word harmful, is a matter of opinion. One man’s harmful may be another man’s goal. In the court of public opinion of your average American, Obama’s push is harmful to America. I hope that is proven at the ballot box.

One can say we at RS, tea party, conservatives, Republicans are a conspiracy in order to push America back to conservative/constitutional ground which would be true.

Please clarify the intent of this diary but to me it is partially carrying the left’s water by reinforcing the false connotation of the intentionally charged word “conspiracy” by the alinsky left to prevent all of us from connecting the dots and seeing an ominous bigger picture and end game the Obama and the left does not tell you.

Let’s not have a circular firing squad on our own to maintain some “voter purity”, which Acat mentioned in a recent comment. Our ultimate success is to unite with a wide variety of groups, many that may disagree with us quite a bit or have radically different motivations, but ultimately they will be voting one way or another and that’s all that matters.

Have you ever noticed how mini-storage facilities are always located near apartment complexes that have no storage space in the apartments? Coinidence? Conspiracy in my book.

Eric, the Portland Plan is the actual name for the program whereby the suburb, the housing development, the family home, and the personal vehicle are all banned for the sake of forcing EVERYONE back into the cities, onto trains, and into apartment blocks like those in the former Soviet Union where the government controls your thermometer, your electricity usage, all your communication channels pass thru government control, and every aspect of your life, your health, your finances, and your whole life are under the control and scrutiny of some government agency every second of every day for the rest of your life.

The test platform for this has been in the process of being placed into operation in Portland, Oregon for a number of years now.

The city has taken possession of most open land within any sort of reasonable drive time, banning the further construction of single family homes, eliminated city-crossing highways, and limiting auto access to the city during working hours.

   I think the last time we had the sort of Utopia that seems to be implied by the Obama Administration in this post was the 14th Century.  If I read my world history right, the European population was densely packed into crowded and unclean city apartments, living under the thumbs of corrupt nobility, and quite subject to the whims of kings, dukes, counts and barons whose ideal good time was to gather up peasants press-ganged into serving as fodder for their personal wars with rival nobles.  Didn’t that turn out well?

   I believe that, in the middle of that century, the Plague struck and practically wiped out up to half of the population.  Somehow, I don’t think it’ll turn out so well, if our current Utopians get their way and I find my nieces and nephew herded into an apartment complex which becomes a death-trap when the next Plague hits (could be the “Zombie Plague” so often fantasized about these days).

   At least on the bright side, I may be greeting them in the afterlife.  I’m likely to get my head cut off by a Turk before all this takes place.

nobody will use, and will cost taxpayers now and for all future generations. This is insanity! The voters have said no repeatedly, the Governor is being sued. I have been writing about Florida high speed rail and Tampa light rail for months, Check out my latest article at http://www.examiner.com/political-buzz-in-tampa-bay/we-re-going-off-the-rails-on-a-crazy-train and many related ones. This is a fight for our freedom and way of life in America, it is not a jobs creator, it is a freedom KILLER!