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INTELLECTUAL CONSERVATISM ISN'T DEAD: IT'S RESTING
"I’ve finally hit on a system to filter the comments based on Beckian faith and Conservative philosophy."
I've got an even better one. Just go back to watching Cartoon Network ... no, I mean, MSNBC ... oh, same difference, just so long as its not ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLrrBs8JBQo&feature=player_embedded
See also:
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 5.10.2009 @ 21:22
http://travismonitor.blogspot.com/2009/07/needed-braveheart-spirit.html
"I’m on the side of a just and prosperous America which actually innovates and progresses (intelligence and intellectual strength indeed helps tremendously)."
That's a side which should have nothing to do with the intellectually bankrupt and corrupt Democratic party and the shape-shifting ideological left allies. They are advocates for programs that don't work, costing money we don't have to solve misdescribed/phony hobgoblin problems (like the bogus 'problem' of CO2), while ignoring real challenges (such as the challenge of economic supremacy/success for USA).
"Transplanted Lawyer, you’re a sign of hope that a day will come when the GOP contributes toward problem solving instead of shrieking with hyperbole. I heard an interesting interview yesterday in which it was described that GOPers who have ideas (I assume conservative ideas) and want to work with Dems to try and add conservative views toward a joint solution for the mammoth problems facing us are treated as “treasonous collaborators.” You see it clearly with Olympia Snow."
Please name a single conservative idea Olympia Snowe has. I can't. Nor can conservatives. The populist base has seen far too many cases of 'conservative' input to 'bipartisan' bills be used as nothing more than political PR for liberal Democrat bills. It's not that there aren't conservative ideas out there: men like Senator Coburn, Rep Paul Ryan, and folks in many state-level think tanks have great ideas. There are fantastic ideas in healthcare and in education and in economic growth. It's that the liberal Democrats know instinctively to completely ignore *real* conservative ideals, and instead work with hollow vacuous non-conservative GOP politicians.
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 5.10.2009 @ 21:09
WHERE ARE ALL THE 'GOOD GOVERNMENT' LIBERALS?
Busboy made some okay points, but ... "Blaming the nutjobs is just as justified as blaming Obama, because there is no actual proof for either. I could also blame solar flares"
... you lost your argument here. Nobody on the right went to Copenhagen. Obama did. The analogy doesnt hold.
Obama went to Copenhagen personally to sell Chicago 2016 Olympic bid to the IOC. Chicago lost. Whether Obama was the cause of the failed bid (doubtful), the fact remains that Obama attempted to get X to happen (Chicago 2016 Olympics) and it didnt happen. If he could influence the IOC, whatever he did didnt measure up (knocked out in first round). If he himself could not influence the IOC decision outcome on this to any extent anyway, then he never should have gone in the first place.
Either way, that makes his trip a failure, and only Obama is responsible for that.
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 4.10.2009 @ 21:08
"Additionally Obama commented in a speech about a week or two ago about how an unnamed world leader asked him about the people making Hitler/Stalin analogies . . . but of course that’s straight from Obama so how credible you find that may vary."
Yawn. Obama pushing the lamestream narrative only shows he and they are locked at hips or lips or both. Reality check: That narrative is not the main substance of the disagreement and dissent of Obama's Government power grabs, but a hyperbolization of it, designed to marginalize all Obama criticisms in order NOT to actually respond to it.
The Obama Power grabs of concern are:
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 4.10.2009 @ 20:55
1. Health Care Reform ($1.7 trillion+ in 10 years, with more in the out years)
2. Cap and Trade.
3. The Stimulus ($787 billion)
4. The Omnibus ($410 billion) & massive planned deficit spending ($9 trillion in deficits)
5. Antitrust lawsuits against Google, et al.
6. Czarist power: Pay Czar, Green Jobs Czar (oops, by Van Jones), Car Czar, etc.
7. Turning Pell Grants into an entitlement.
8. Having the Food and Drug Administration regulate tobacco.
9. Consumer Financial Protection Agency.
10. Federal Trade Commission overreach.
"Only one measure is needed to illustrate the point: the latest prediction of the national debt under Obama, in the year 2019, is $31 trillion, without considering Obamacare.
This is unforgivable."
No wonder they are voting on Obamacare without scoring it! (They are hiding an over $2 trillion program over ten years, and it will grow.)
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 3.10.2009 @ 22:21
"They have heard his own citizens screaming that he is the living reincarnation of Hitler and Stalin rolled into one."
Busboy: Have they? Surely the lamestream media that IOC members read have relegated any Obama dissent to an irrelevent racist minority, barely stopping to recount the specifics. Please share the evidence that IOC voting members are readers of WorldNutDaily instead. That would be ... interesting!
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 3.10.2009 @ 22:19
WHERE ARE ALL THE ‘GOOD GOVERNMENT’ LIBERALS?"
This is a great question, but I thought you would raise in the context of more serious violations of basic ethical governance happening right now in the Senate's mad rush to pass ObamaCare.
I speak of the following:
- The outrageous and unseemly refusal of the Senate under Reid and the Baucus Senate Finance Committee to properly write legislative language and allow people to read bills before voting on it
- The comments of Sen Carper, Sen Kerry and others laughing at the very suggestion that Senators read bills
- The refusal to take the time to get the bill scored by CBO for cost ... so that the Senate and House will quickly pass THE LARGEST EXPANSION OF GOVERNMENT IN DECADES WITHOUT EVENT A BASIC UNDERSTANDING OF ITS ACTUAL COST ESTIMATE!
- The bait-and-switch of voting provisions down in committee and using the 'nuclear option' of reconciliation to get public option passed ...
http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/02/the-vapor-bill-%E2%80%93-congress%E2%80%99-secret-plan-to-pass-obamacare-update/
"Senator Reid uses all the procedural tactics in his toolbox to shut down debate and control the Amendment process to get this Senate debate completed by the end of October. They can add the Public Option as an amendment on the Senate floor with a simple majority if they have the will."You spoke of making prime rib out of hash. Right now the Senate has concocted uncooked hash, and are in a mad rush to pass whatever horrible bad bill they can, and do it in a way that makes a mockery of legislative consideration.
So I ask, with you: Where are the 'good Government' liberals on this horrendous act of sausage making?
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 3.10.2009 @ 12:09
POST HOC CRITICISM OF OBAMA TRIP JUSTIFIED
#4: "I just don’ see how the GOP celebrating a loss of prestige"
#15 "“Nobody is ‘celebrating’ except in Rio.”
#23 "I guess you don’t read too many conservative blogs except for this one Travis.."Point well taken, some right-blog commenters did enjoy and celebrate the come-uppance of Obama, akin to those lefties who jumped for joy at Bush administration setbacks at home and abroad. Frankly, I hadnt seen such comments when I posted.
Yet what I was responding to this was ... "GOP celebrating a loss of prestige". That did NOT happen.
- A few right-blog commenters does not equate to 'the GOP'
- Righties enjoying Obama's Olympic failure is quite distinct from 'celebrating a loss of prestige' ... “We’re cheering against Obama. Hosting the Olympics doesn’t do anything for the U.S.”This whole "you are against the USA because you dont like Obama" meme is absurd. It once again conflates person with country in a wrong way.
Likewise on your comparison of Rush quote - my point was the conflating of 'fail' at personal level vs country level. Rush said Obama's failure to pass his agenda would be best for the country, so to complete the analogy, he hoped the drunk driver goes into a ditch instead staying on the road and hitting a semi truck. But the key point is - Obama is behind the wheel.
Democrats need to get off the dime of blaming the right for Obama's setbacks, or trying to insinuate lack of patriotism for mere political dissent.
As I said: HE (Obama) is the leader, and HE is responsible for what happens to him - not the powerless right.
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 3.10.2009 @ 13:30
#24 : "“(…nobody actively opposed Chicago’s bid, that’s nuts.)”
"Rick Moran opposed Chicago’s bid on the basis of corruption…see his 9/28 posting.."Yes, but I said *actively* for a reason. We have leftists claiming that somehow the right managed to squash Obama/Chicago's hopes. That's nuts. The specific nutty claim I refer to can be found here:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2009/10/02/msnbc-s-schultz-blames-right-wing-talkers-obama-olympic-defeat-compares-g
Neither Rick Moran nor anyone else went to the IOC to actively oppose Chicago's bid in Copenhagen, or agitated for an effort. Nobody tried. It was merely his blogged opinion. It's wrong to blame Rick, the 45% of Chicagoans who opposed Chicago getting the 2016 Olympics, or anyone else worried about the corruption that would flow out of a Chicago 2016 Olympics, for Chicago's failed bid. Which is why Ed Shultz comparing the Republicans to "Hanoi Jane" is just ludicrous.
Rick Moran aint no Hanoi Jane.
PS. MSNBC's Ed Shultz also said ... ""Now, the same crowd that says they support the troops didn't support the United States getting the Olympics," Schultz said" ... hmmm, so anyone who opposed Chicago's Olympic bid is *unpatriotic* now!?? (eyes roll)
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 3.10.2009 @ 13:09
That was my point.
#4 "I just don’ see how the GOP celebrating a loss of prestige as a long term winner. "
Nobody is 'celebrating' except in Rio. As for 'loss of prestige' that is a true yawner. Didnt Obama tell the UN we are not above other nations now? shouldnt Obama supporters treat Rio's win as no big deal then? Its no BFD in my view.
#7 "For Obama it was a no win situation because people would have complained about if he hadn’t shown up."
Nonsense. It would have been a non-issue presidentially if he didnt put his personal charm on the line in the effort. I don't recall a single personage outside his coterie of Chicago cronies calling on him to make that particular trip. In the end, it was a futile waste of his time. He made a mistake. Move on.
#12 "This was your typical right wing, transparent, whiny, hypocritical, mountain out of a molehill, sour grapes, white noise, anti-American, echo chamber issue to begin with"
Please ... breathe into the brown paper bag ... slooowly.
12 hours since the announcement, and you've gone 'mountain out of a molehill'? Project much?!?We now have MSNBC in full meltdown, falsely claiming right-wingers *wanted* Obama/Chicago to fail. (well, concern over taxpayer-bilking and corruption that could arise was out there, but nobody actively opposed Chicago's bid, that's nuts.)
And now the vapid "criticizing Obama means you want America to fail" meme. ...
#12: "The right has been rooting for America to lose so they can blame Obama and his “leadership skills”"
This kind of "Blame Righty" left-liberal spin is both predictable and utterly insane. Point out that Obama goofed up and you get called "traitor" by lobotomized lefties. Are they incapable of taking any criticism of The One? Or noticing he might just be The Clod Who Goofed? That "our country" and "our Goverment" and "the current occupant of the White House" are 3 different entities? Their skin thickness is measured in nanometers. Bizarre!
None of us on the right are 'rooting for Obama to 'fail'. We are merely observers, akin to watching a drunk driver on the road, predicting and fearing the inevitable wreck that will follow. We lament not cheer the consequences of Obama's leftism and ineptitude. Predicting Obama's screwups, pointing out Obama's screwups, and analyzing Obama's screwups is NOT the same as 'rooting for' his screwups to happen. That ball is in Obama's court. HE is the leader, and HE is responsible for what happens to him - not the powerless right.
Personally, I am rooting for Obama to get a visit from the ghosts of Washington, Lincoln, and Reagan and wake up tomorrow a changed man. I can only hope.
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 2.10.2009 @ 20:41
