doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

And one day you may actually say something worth hearing. So far, though …

I won’t point anyone to the source unless asked, but there is a defense of communism available online that explains that the failures of all past efforts is because it has been impossible to accurately predict and plan every aspect of economic need and activity for everyone in an economy. Well, obviously! The speaker then goes on to say that computer systems will, in the future, allow governments to accurately predict and plan every apect of economic need and activity and so there will be no more reasons not to convert to communism.

As Ronald Reagan said, to control an economy, you have to control the people. I ask people who watch this with me if they like the idea of a computer program telling them with force of law what to learn, where to live, what to eat, what to work at, where to work and how to get there, how much to earn, where and when to vacation, and so on.

Truly dedicated progressives, bless their bee-like souls, think this is great. But everyone else recoils in horror at the prospect of surrendering every feature of personal liberrty over to commands issued by a computer, even or especially one run by government.

Let progressives keep making their case. The more details they reveal, the worse progressivism looks.

Really, libs, it was just bad salesmanship that led to your demolition last fall.
Really.

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.
Abraham Lincoln

To understand the left, you need to understand that statism is a religion. If you don’t think so, consider the typical elements of religion. There is a deity(ies)-in this case, the state, clerics, zealots, venerables, shrines, rituals a creed…it’s all there. It also explains why the left is so adamantly opposed to faith in a supernatural divinity, as the creator of their god, they must defend it from rivalry and subordination.

Government healthcare is the holiest of holys for the left, a key component of the heaven on earth they are convinced they can bring about once they have subjected us to their benevolent subjugation. They will not give it up easily, Obamacare is the “Star of Bethlehem” they sought for a century-they see it as a sign of the coming of the omnipotent state. If you don’t want this, only three things can be true-you are evil, stupid or insufficiently evangelized.

Every time I watch “The Ten Commandments”, I realize how immutable human folly really is-nobody is hammering out golden calves in the desert anymore, the newest masters of the “temple arts” are hypergraphics who work with pens and word processors to cobble ponderous tomes into legislation. The greatest folly is not realizing we are no different than those folks leaving Egypt so long ago.

All hail the good and holy state-the state knows all and it loves you.

I see that Nancy Pelosi is now blaming Bush for the Democrats defeat.

GWB is a very powerful man.

It has worked for years Oboma care was sold exactly how the mill stone of Social Security was sold to your Grate Grand Parents, do you think they would have agreed to putting the millstone of Social Security around your necks if they would have understood the stress that it would put on the lives of their Great Grand Children. In high school it would work string together irrelevant related facts and a there for and most would agree that is what the left is trying to do baffle us with bull sh__. History in the United States and overseas has shown no mater what the good intentions of government it cannot provide anything for the masses over an extended amount of time but national defense with a positive outcome.

That they are terrible at messaging while being perceived as good at it is what got Obama elected. He made it abundantly clear, to those of us actually paying attention, just Who he was and What he was about all throughout his public career. But the MSLM focused, quite narrowly, on the ONLY thing that mattered to them: The Color of his Skin. Everything else was mere window dressing.

In just two short years, the electorate actually got to SEE the results of their folly and decided to make a mid-course correction and the unwinding of this legislative debacle is the consequence.

Since they can no longer score any legislative achievements, (a vast amount of socialist work already accomplished) they need to convince whoever will listen that they’ve found God, with more moderate faces out front, across the board.

This signals at least another Obama run (subject to change WON), so worth watching. Look for the fight to move to the executive pen.

VB

the blind sheperd leading his flock over a cliff, only the proverbial lambs are checking out the plunge and deciding that maybe this pasture is just fine. but rhe blind dude, he just keeps marching! “maybe, they just don’t hear me.” WHOMP! over the cliff the sheperd goes! behind him all the lambs stand on their hind legs, slapping high fives, “we should have pushed him over sooner”, they baaaa. we are at the push moment here. the dems are truely LOST. we wrap obamacare around their necks with their insane mary todd lincoln spending, and hang them with it! us lambs have had it. it time to baaaaaa!

but keep it quiet….let’s not tip the White House off to the fools errand they are engaged in…

heh

http://levellers.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/framing-moral-debates-the-work-of-george-lakoff-for-progressives/

“I want to meet the person who managed to infect enough Democrats with this meme to reach the critical threshold of delusion, and send him/her a fruit basket.”

. . . that would be Dr. George Lakoff, Professor of Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley:

In Don’t Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate (2004), Lakoff argues that far too often conservatives win because they successfully “frame” the debate in their terms and liberals and progressives end up playing on their turf.

get total media message support and there is still close to half the electorate who are, sorry to say, stupid, well maybe ignorant is a better word.

Now we know here at RS that framing for the left is LYING but if all you hear from the MSM is the Dms are good and the Reps are bad you have them still in the senate majority and not totally wiped out in the house.

So I agree with everyone’s initial reaction of “it will never work” but we should never let down our guard and in fact redouble our efforts to educate the electorate on Constitutional and conservative principles.

stupidity never learns. Someday I will have to discover what it takes to be a Democratic strategist {??]. The fool Axelrod didn’t notice that they have just lost 63 House seats, neither has The O ?
Keep it up and 2012 may be even better then 2010 for Normal People
These creatures live totally in the cocoon of the media, who are as crazy as they are.

Moe Lane seems to miss the irony of his headline. The Republicans have had 65 days to come up with a plan to help small business create more jobs, define how to make government smaller, improve health care delivery, etc.. Have you heard of any outline or narrative that address the enormous issues we have today? Do they have any ideas or are they still figuring out how to frame them.