Just for Joanne–Shawn Hannity and Sarah Palin’s take
Mar 22nd, 2010 by David Anderson
From Governor Palin’s Facebook
We’ve been reminded many times that elections have consequences. Yesterday we saw the consequence of voting for those who believe in “fundamentally transforming” America whether we want it or not. Yesterday they voted. In November, we get to vote. We won’t forget what we saw yesterday. Congress passed a bill while Americans said “no,” and thousands of everyday citizens even surrounded the Capitol Building to beg them not to do it. Has there ever been a more obvious exhibition of a detached and imperious government?
In the weeks to come, we can expect them to try to change the subject, but we won’t forget. Don’t let them move on to further “transformational” steps while forgetting what Congress just did against the will of the people. Though Obamacare will inflict billions in new taxes on individuals and employers, at least it creates some jobs: the IRS might have to hire as many as 16,000 new employees to enforce all the new taxes and penalties the bill calls for! And that doesn’t include all the other government jobs from the 159 new agencies, panels, commissions and departments this bill will create. As the private sector shrinks, we can count on government to keep growing along with the deficits needed to keep it all afloat. (Is this the kind of “change” Americans asked for?)
In the end, this unsustainable bill jeopardizes the very thing it was supposed to fix – our health care system. Somewhere along the way we forgot that health care reform is about doctors and patients, not the IRS and politicians. Instead of helping doctors with tort reform, this bill has made primary care physicians think about getting out of medicine. It was supposed to make health care more affordable, but our premiums will continue to go up. It was supposed to help more people get coverage, but there will still be 23 million uninsured people by 2019.
Though they’d like us to forget, we will remember the corrupt deals, the corrupt process, the lack of transparency, the deceptive gimmicks to game the CBO score, and the utter disregard for the will of the American people. Elections have consequences, and we won’t forget those who promised to hold firm against government funding of abortion, but caved at the last minute in exchange for a non-binding executive order promised by the most pro-abortion president to ever occupy the White House.
All along we’ve said that we want real health care reform, but this isn’t it. We mustn’t be discouraged now. We must look to November when our goal will be to rebuke big government’s power grab, reject this unwanted “transformation” of America, and repeal dangerous portions of Obamacare that will bury us under more Big Government control.
This is just the beginning of our efforts to take back our country. Consider yesterday’s vote a clarion call and a spur to action. We will not let America sink into further debt without a fight. We will not abandon the American dream to government dependency, fewer freedoms and less opportunity. Change is made at the ballot box. If we work together, we can renew our optimistic pioneering spirit, revive our economy, and restore constitutional limits.
Stand tall, America. November is coming!
- Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin is absolutely correct, but i hope she’s not the one to do it.
Has anyone noticed that our presidential candidates are becoming cartoon caricatures of their respective parties.
The political pendulum is swinging farther out with each election, and not only is it swinging farther out but it’s swinging faster, and with more force, just look what happened to the Republicans last election, and what probably will happen to the Democrats this coming election.
This wild swinging , in my opinion, is part of what is keeping our economy from running consistently.
I guess i must sound like a moderate, but hey that’s ok.
Everyone practices some sort of moderation at some point.
I am a big fan of Sarah Palin. I have been since she was a commissioner. I would like to see her in the Oval office, just not right away. I would like her to get some experience in a Romney or Huckabee administration and help set a 16 year unbroken string of Republican rule. I thought being in the loop with a President McCain would have been excellent training. She has all of the right strengths to do the job. She is a competent administrator with the right first principles. She relates to the people because she is one of us. She fits the profile of the best Presidents. People like Lincoln, TR, Reagan, JQA, Authur, and McKinnley have similar profiles.
David, I like Sarah Palin , but the picture the media has painted of her, has turned her into a political hot button .
That is a good point. So was Warmongering, racist, poor hating, aged Reagan. The media will always attempt to destroy conservatives they preceive as a danger to them. It only works when we allow it to or the person gives them the tools to do it i.e. Sanford.
Most Americans don’t trust the media according to polls. The only media organization trusted by a majority happens to be Fox News. I think the biggest stumbling block for her was resigning not anything the media has said.
People need to realize that Obama, Pelosi, Frank, Dodd, Biden, Carper, Kuchinch and the rest of the Socialists were elected by citizens who were and are fully aware of their agenda.
Remember Reagan? At the end of the day, what changed? Didn’t we eventually get Clinton, Pelosi and BO?
Politics is a component of a much larger struggle- the culture war. The left controls Hollywood, the music industry, most television networks (even ESPN), academia, most print media, etc. Hence, conservative political victories, at the end of the day, have a negligible effect on the long-term cultural battle. Again, what was the long-term effect of Reagan?
This is why I predict one of two possible outcomes, ultimately; seccession by several states (and possible war) leading to a restoration of the U.S. Constitution, or a Socialist police state.
Political victories are ephemeral if the culture is controlled by dedicated socialists and Marxists. Little by little, through the media and academia (realms generally beyond the scope of elective politics), the population is moved, incrementally, toward the left.
And if Palin’s so smart, why is she backing McCain over a true conservative in AZ? He and his staff spit in her face, and she kisses his tired old rear end. Brilliant.
I admire loyalty. She would be an unkown if it were not for McCain. That is a virtue. Knowing that the voters can take that into the calculus. It is like Kara endorsing her father in the NY Senate race. If she didn’t do it, that would be news.