Charles Krauthammer of the Washington Post has written an outstanding article this week characterizing the new levels of frustration being internalized by the leftist elite. The rejection of their 18 month old brand of “hope and change” by moderate mainstream Americans finds them now vilifying any potential voter that dares question or disagree with their political ideology. Mr. Krauthammer describes the new “Let Them Eat Cake” ruling class that has emerged in Washington. He characterizes the arrogance in their ridicule of those who dare question the validity of their so called “progressive” ideology. Mr. Krauthammer illustrates the depths to which the liberal left will sink in order to desperately justify – mostly to themselves – their secular progressive ideology, regardless of the opinions of the vast majority of Americans. He speaks about the elitist attitudes that have permeated the Democrat party and the dilemma of moderate Democrats who are now in conflict with the most radical elements of their party and in conflict with more and more of their constituency. From the article…
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Another lecture from the podium to main stream Americans that we need to CHANGE. Rather than use his influence to publicly request that the Imam seeking to build this controversial mosque on the hallowed grounds of 9/11 respect the sensitives of millions of New Yorkers and most Americans, the President has chosen overtly to come out of the closet and advance his Middle Eastern and Islamic “reconciliation” agenda disguised in yet another sermon to the American people. This time on religious tolerance. Flash… religious tolerance is not the point.
As a New York Area resident I am outraged at Obama and the left facilitating this blatantly obvious POKE IN THE EYE action by a purportedly less than moderate Imam. There is fundamental lack of respect being shown here to the families who have lost loved ones during the 9/11 massacre and indeed to all Americans. There are other sites in NYC where this mosque can be built. As time moves on Obama is indeed showing his true colors and biased agenda.
This issue is NOT about religious freedom Mr. President, it is about your choices and your decision to instead of using your position power to at least make an open and public request to the Imam to consider the sensitivities of the people in the community and seek a different location for this controversial mosque, you once again, in your typical condescending style, “preach platitudes” to the majority of Americans who are opposed to this decision. Worse yet you do it with a clear … let them eat cake attitude. Your choice to lecture the American people on religious freedom, rather than lecture Muslim leaders against fanning the flames of conflict and mistrust, especially showing a lack of respect, shows once again how inexperienced you are as a leader. Clearly we are all beginning to know now the CHANGE that you have promised America.
The US president, Barack Obama, has defended controversial plans to build a mosque near the site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York, saying to oppose them would be un-American.
Prominent Republicans have led protests against the construction of an Islamic cultural centre and mosque two blocks from the site of the former World Trade Centre. The proposed building would not be visible from Ground Zero.
Obama acknowledged that “sensitivities” surrounded the 9/11 site, which he described as “hallowed ground”, but he said Muslims had the same right to practice their religion “as anyone else”.
In a speech at a White House dinner celebrating Ramadan, he said: “As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country.
“That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community centre on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances.
“This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable.”
The White House has not previously taken a stand on the mosque. Its press secretary, Robert Gibbs, has described the issue as a local matter.
Republicans including Sarah Palin, the former vice-presidential candidate, and Newt Gingrich, the Republican former speaker of the House of Representatives, have been vocal opponents of the scheme, describing it as an insult to the memory of those killed by Islamist terrorists in the 2001 attacks. – Guardian
It isn’t a matter of religious tolerance… it’s a matter of respect. Its not being “in your face” particularly when moderate Muslims don’t want to see radicals add gas to the fire. Rep. Boehner has it right…
House Republican Leader John A. Boehner of Ohio took issue with Obama’s remarks. “The fact that someone has the right to do something doesn’t necessarily make it the right thing to do,” Boehner said in a statement. “That is the essence of tolerance, peace and understanding. This is not an issue of law, whether religious freedom or local zoning. This is a basic issue of respect for a tragic moment in our history.” — LA Times
You can see the entire speech on the White House Website as part of Obama celebrating Ramadan http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2010/08/13/celebrating-ramadan-white-house
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To The Honorable Chris Christie,
I am the enemy. I never realized this until your election to governor. In a few short weeks, you have made this fact explicitly clear to me. A large portion of your budget address was about my profession, and how we have caused the problems this state now faces. I want to thank you for opening my eyes to this fact. However, I am not sure I understand how I am the problem or how I have caused the state to be in such debt.
I have been teaching in our public school system for 9 years. I started at $36,000 a year. My college roommate started as an office worker at an accounting firm for $75,000. It was the same year. He told me he mostly made copies and plugged numbers into a computer. I was designing lesson plans, teaching classes of 30+ students, some of whom had problems with drug abuse, crime, and depression. After nine years experience I made $52,000 last year. I would like to point out that this is $8,000 less
than your “media relations” person. You know, the 25 year old who runs your Twitter and Facebook accounts. My college roommate? He makes double what I do now. We both have bachelor’s degrees. But what do I know? I am the problem.
You tell the people of New Jersey that we teachers get a free ride on the pension “gravy train”. Well, I contribute to my pension. It has been deducted from every paycheck I have ever received. Thousands. You do not contribute to my pension even though it is legally and contractually required. You have lied to the people of New Jersey and your refusal to pay the pension just puts off the inevitable. Leave the problem for the next generation, I suppose. I also paid over $6,000 in property taxes. It’s convenient that you leave us to be blamed for property taxes when we pay just as much as everyone else. You and those who attack us seem to forget that. But what do I know? I am the problem.
During my time as a teacher, I have volunteered many late hours….volunteered. Although you seem to think all I care about is me, me, me, I have coached girl’s powder-puff football for nothing. I have chaperoned school dances, plays, and fundraisers. I have worked the concession stand at football games. I wasn’t paid for any of this. I have bought hundreds of dollars worth of shirts, cookie dough, pizzas and countless other items I didn’t really need because I wanted to help support my students and their activities. I have “canned” at football games to help needy students, stayed late waiting for parents to pick up kids who missed their buses, and bought classes pizzas and breakfast to reward them for their excellence. I cooked a class eggs and waffles once because they brought in over 500 canned goods for our local homeless shelter. I have been in a dunk tank not once, but twice to fund-raise for my school. I have taken pies to the face and almost had to kiss a ram, all for my students. My coworker and I once organized a pancake breakfast for a student battling cancer. We and many of our colleagues whom you demean were at school at 4:30 in the morning to prepare pancakes for a school of over 2,000 students. We raised over ten thousand dollars for that student. I never asked once, “What is in it for me?”
You have declared open season on teachers. You have made us the bane of New Jersey’s existence. I know, I read the comments on the APP.com and Press of Atlantic City websites. Teachers are lazy, overpaid, under-worked. We are whiners. I guess that is what I am doing right now. You have made it okay to bash us. Some of the public are rejoicing that my colleagues will lose their jobs. Until you opened my eyes and opened their mouths, I never realized what a terrible person I was.
When I decided to study education in college my mother warned me that I had better not teach unless it was a passion. She told me if I just wanted summers off I wouldn’t last. She was a teacher herself. She said I could get paid better doing other things. She told me my efforts would not be appreciated, that it was only a matter of time before politics made us the enemy again. I didn’t listen. Teaching was a calling for me, and I thought that even though I wouldn’t be paid a lot, at least I would have good benefits, a pension, and job security.
What a fool I was. I thought I was doing the right thing, helping kids, improving society. Turns out the whole time I was none of these things. I was the enemy. I was the problem. My own government has forsaken me; my own community would like to banish me. For the first time in my career, I am questioning my decision, feeling my passion diminish. Thank you for showing me the light. My only hope is that the next generation does not see the light, and does not listen to you, because if they do there will be no more problems like me, there will be no public education. You will have won your war against the middle and lower class. You will create a society where the rich get educated and the poor do not. But then again, what do I know? I am the problem.
Sincerely,
A 2007 Nominee for the Governor’s Teacher of the Year Award
The NJEA teacher union in the State of New Jersey has done a miserable job of representing the day to day reality of what teachers deal with on a daily basis in comparison to other jobs in America. Teacher unions need to change their public relations strategy and their approach to communicating the value their members provide the community and dispel the myths that exist in the public about the teaching profession. Most voters view teachers, and their unions, through the prism of salary and benefits negotiation, strikes and walkouts. This is one of the most misunderstood professions… especially in Elementary and Secondary Education where unfortunately too many parents view teachers and schools as just another enabling entitlement to make their lives easier. For many they see public schools as “free” day care which allows parents to go to work while the “nanny state” watches over their kids.
Gov. Christie… fault the entire system and overhaul it, don’t single out the teachers as the source of the problem!
Just so you know that there are also administrators that feel the same way as we do and they are not all part of the problem… take a minute and read this excellent letter sent to Gov. Christie by David Verducci PhD., Superintendent of Schools, Glen Rock School District, NJ. It’s a bit long (in .pdf) but worth reading if you would like to be better “educated” on the other side of this story and its true reality.
We find it very interesting that the mainstream media outlets, particularly those which are in bed with a “progressive” agenda ( you know who they are ) finds the recent backlash on the Democrats who flipped their votes so abhorrent, while not a peep was heard about from these same outlets when the same congressional representatives were receiving similar threats from the far left for holding out on flipping their votes for the health care bill. Should we be surprised?
Rep. Bart Stupack had complained to the very same media that his life had become hell for him and his family as a result of the threats from the progressive left to change his vote. The media did not seem to care… why? Because at that time Stupack was looked at as an enemy to the greater agenda of passing a bill at whatever cost.
The hypocrisy is flat out blatant now when the vitriol flows from the other side. The same media outlets in their blatant hypocrisy, waste no time to vilify all Republicans for the acts of a few. However these same neanderthals are quick to dismiss, or consider comedy, similar acts when they are launched against conservatives by people and organizations they know support the progressive agenda. It’s clear for all to see… just switch from MSNBC to CNN then to FOX when the same story is breaking.
Flash for the progressive far left!! The American people are not stupid. Neither are moderate Democrats that did not sign up for this brand of politics when they voted for Obama. We see the biased hypocrisy for what it is. A political game where the once radical left hippies of the 60′s are now wrenching power away from even Moderate Democrats and will attempt to blame Republicans for every act of stupidity and hatred directed at Washington. Now they are the new “man”, the new corrupt central authority, hell bent on even re-writing the Constitution and the Bill of Rights if given half the chance. Don’t play into their game! You can find any number of photos and graphics of GW Bush with target cross hairs placed on his photos when he called for the surge in Iraq.
This author remembers because he lived through the protests of the 60′s, the Chicago Democratic Convention, the SDS, the Weathermen groups and the backlash moderate America mounted against long haired political activists. Here we are 50 years later and the roles have been reversed! DON’T MAKE THE SAME MISTAKES THAT THE RADICAL LEFT MADE DURING THE 60′s !! Those in power now know exactingly how to play violent actions against you – some of them were SDS and Weather Underground sympathizers or even members. This issue is particularly important for a grass root movement like the Tea Party… TAKE THE HIGH ROAD and don’t play into their game because they have the state run media currently wrapped around their little fingers. It wasn’t this way back then… but it is so now. VOTE THEM OUT ALL OUT OF OFFICE…. Don’t become a far right radical and alienate the majority of America !!
RESTORE ACCOUNTABILITY IN OUR NATION’S CAPITOL — FIRE PELOSI BY REGAINING 40 SEATS !!
WE CAN DO THIS – SO SMILE AND BE HAPPY !
After laying the groundwork for a decisive vote this week on the Senate’s health-care bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Monday that she might attempt to pass the measure without having members vote on it.
Instead, Pelosi (D-Calif.) would rely on a procedural sleight of hand: The House would vote on a more popular package of fixes to the Senate bill; under the House rule for that vote, passage would signify that lawmakers “deem” the health-care bill to be passed.
The tactic — known as a “self-executing rule” or a “deem and pass” — has been commonly used, although never to pass legislation as momentous as the $875 billion health-care bill. It is one of three options that Pelosi said she is considering for a late-week House vote, but she added that she prefers it because it would politically protect lawmakers who are reluctant to publicly support the measure.
More… Washington Post
The epitome of arrogance and a slap in the face to the American people and due process. We fought a revolution over 200 years ago to free our nation from tyranny like this. Here we are 200+ years later and we are facing down the same degree of “let them eat cake” arrogance from a bloated centralized government which will stop at nothing to pass this bill… flawed as it is… just to satisfy the mega ego of an aloof progressive President. Not only did he throw his grandmother under the bus during his campaign, he is now throwing the entire Democratic House under that same bus!
Come November there will be hell to pay if she does this. Just imagine … She (Pelosi) will pass an $875 Billion dollar bill WITHOUT having the House of Representatives vote on it !!! Where is the outrage??
So much for the process of Representation in the House of Representatives.
This is a seemingly simple question with what was once an obvious answer. Congress represents the will of the people of course! Senators and House Members reflect the will of the people of their constituencies. Most high schoolers will explain this one of the key principles and basis for the Separation of Powers that keeps the checks and balances between the 3 branches of government in check. Preventing any one branch from dominating the will of the people. This basic principle seems lost this past year with the President practically COMMANDING that Congress do his bidding. Well not so fast. Seems like most Americans have not forgotten their history and civics classes so quickly that they don’t see what is going on under this administration.
Obama would now have his own Democrats turn their backs on the very voices of the people who voted them into office. Why? All in the name of his insatiable ego and pride of passing any kind of a Health Care bill, even a severely flawed one rip, shit or bust! He apparently has no shame or concern even for the ethics of the members of his own party let alone any effort to respect the will of the vast majority of people in this country that wants them to slow down and make changes incrementally that make sense. (See any of the recent polls showing over 75% Americans are opposed to ramming this bill down their throats.) The back room promises are being made hot and heavy to the House Representatives this week. That “trust me” the Senate will make the changes you want to the bill later just please vote for the bill as is even if you don’t like it. We will fix it later… Trust me… says Obama.
This White House seems to have one insatiable agenda… to change the fundamental economic foundation of America and shift it from a free enterprise system to a system of strong centralized government power with strong socialistic big brother policy making overtones. A system closely predicated on what were once considered flawed pseudo-Marxist and socialist economic principles but of course those words will never be used from the Presidential podium.
If Democrats have any common sense at all, they WON’T take a fall for this President, Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid and other radical progressives who are all turning a deaf ear on the people of America. Moderate Democrats will be left out to hang by this administration. The elitism in Obama truly believes he knows what’s best for all of us and that we are all too ignorant to make our own decisions and we need the U.S. Government to run our lives for us.
My prediction is that individual rights and liberties, the fundamental basis for social freedom, will become even more eroded with the appetite for passing more central government controls running rampant as the white stars and stripes begin to seem more like yellow stars on a red background.
We have been remiss on keeping up with the news lately. I have been on sabbatical so to speak starting up a new company to help out the small business community locally. In particular the contracting trade that has been hit hard by the recession. These folks, upon which most home owners depend for remodeling and home maintenance, are getting crushed right now.
I spoke to one contractor and he said he has not seen it this bad in the 20 years he has been doing residential remodeling in the Florida area. The same story all across the nation… in fact probably world wide.
We will continue to post news here and political commentary, but I am also planning to set up a new look and feel for the site which has been active (up until rather recently) for more than 7 years. We plan to occasionally give some air time to the plight of the very small business owners who are struggling right now under the weight of the State and Federal tax structure and of course the number of workers who are losing their jobs while the White House and Congress insist in driving a square peg into a round healthcare hole.
Look forward to getting back in the saddle again. I would like to thank a number for contributing authors for submitting posts during my absence from the scene… ZZ Bachman
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