Contributed by: filbert Saturday, February 20 2010 @ 05:06 AM CST
This is Red Alert stuff, right here: Only 21% Say U.S. Government Has Consent of the Governed. [*1]
just 21% of voters nationwide believe that the federal government enjoys the consent of the governed.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 61% disagree and say the government does not have the necessary consent. Eighteen percent (18%) of voters are not sure.
However, 63% of the Political Class think the government has the consent of the governed, but only six percent (6%) of those with Mainstream views agree.
Seventy-one percent (71%) of all voters now view the federal government as a special interest group, and 70% believe that the government and big business typically work together in ways that hurt consumers and investors.
. . .
Nearly half of all voters believe that people randomly selected from the phone book could do as good a job as the current Congress.
This scares the hell out of me. It ought to scare the hell out of the “political class.” They have become dangerously out of touch with the people who hold the ultimate power in the United States. They are in imminent danger of making dreadful, terrible mistakes. This is how people in power cause real, honest-to-God, bullets-in-the-air revolutions. The people don’t cause revolutions. Idiots in power cause revolutions, by pushing the people past what they’re willing to tolerate from their “leaders.” That’s basically what the Declaration of Independence is all about. We don’t have “leaders” in this country. We have “representatives.” There’s a big difference–one which I am very afraid Barack Obama, in his . . . unorthodox upbringing and subsequent education and political career, has never learned. I would be delighted if he would prove me wrong.
It might be a really, really, really good idea for every single person in the “political class” in Washington (and in the misguided “mainstream” media) to sit down, shut up, and listen to what the majority of the people in this country are saying. Listen, and understand. Before somebody (in power) does something really, really, really stupid. (As opposed to the normal, run-of-the-mill stupidity we’ve become accustomed to from our politicians since the founding of the Republic . . . )
This is not politics as usual. This is people’s lives, fortunes, and sacred honors (to recall another chilling phrase from the Declaration). The “political class” willrelent, or this could get very, very ugly indeed.
The New Deal party of “progressive” socialism is over in the United States. What comes next will either be painful, if we’re lucky and smart, or it will be horrific, if we’re not. The “political class” needs to focus on not making it worse. And “the hair of the dog” never works. SECTION TWO: Things That Amuse Me:
Simians and other aminals*:
Australian study finds cat food, meat ants powerful weapons in war against cane toads [*2]
Dog Takes Bullet to Save Family [*3]
Udderly awesome Holstein sets milk production record with 8,400 gallons of milk in one year [*4]
*Yes, I know it’s “animals,” it’s just that I always found the childhood mispronunciation really, really cute . . .
Travel:
And the world’s ‘strangest’ airports are … [*5]
Video: Top Reasons To River Cruise In Europe [*6]
Sports:
IUPUI routs UMKC 103-65 [*7]
Brewer’s double-double lifts Lady Vols past Crimson Tide [*8]
Jackrabbits shock Bison in Fargo [*9] — Wrestling . . .
This Actually Made Me Want to Defend The Winter Games! [*10]
Injury Updates, Postseason Possibilities [*11]
NASCAR > Winter Olympics [*12]
SDSU women square off against Mastodons [*13] — You gotta love Summit League team nicknames . . .
Summit Points (Feb. 19, 2010) [*14]
KC manager says outfield duty unlikely for Callaspo[*15]
Science Fiction and Writing:
He said, she said: thoughts on dialogue. [*16]
Books: Still a Load of Crap [*17]
Science, technology, and space:
Computer jargon baffles users, hinders security [*18]
Police push for warrantless searches of cell phones [*19] — This feels wrong to me . . . a disturbance in The Force, if you will . . .
The Internet will make you smarter, say experts [*20] — Experts who are all, oddly enough, on the Internet . . . hmmm . . .
Shuttle leaves station as NASA plans last flights [*21]
Straight News–Stuff sufficiently serious to deserve a serious treatment:
Pilot Deliberately Crashes Into IRS Office Building in Austin, Blames Tax Reform Act of 1986 [*22] — Ordinarily, I find surreality highly amusing. I make an exception here.
Miscellany (amusing things not fitting above, or below):
Bilingualism [*23]
The Best of British: The American’s guide to speaking British. [*24]
Romney’s Alleged Plane Attacker Was LA Rapper Sky Blu [*25]
Police: Man beaten with high-heel at Georgia Waffle House on Valentine’s Day [*26] — Speaking of surreality . . .
SECTION THREE: Politics: The neverending battle against blithering idiocy:
IT’S A TRAP! The Blair House Project–Obama’s Plot To Sucker-Punch the Republicans and all of America–AGAIN:
People doing potentially good things (including sightings of politicians doing something less than totally idiotic):
Republican Revivification [*27] — In order to reboot America, we first have to reboot at least one of the major political parties . . . preferably both, but you take what you can get . . .
Glenn Beck Gives To “Hippie” Charities, And Other Things You’ll Learn This Weekend [*28] — Essential to really understanding Glenn Beck is that he does things specifically intended to mess with people’s heads and by “mess” I mean “f*ck” . . .
A No-Cost Stimulus That Can Create Real Jobs for the American People [*29]
Palin Populism [*30]
Politics: Proles Have Gotten Under the Egalitarians’ Skin [*31]
Rejuvenated conservatives see good times ahead [*32]
Anti-Gay CPAC Speaker Booed Off The Stage [*33]
Video: CPAC boos speaker for condemning invite to gay conservative group [*34]
The Day Everything Changed
The cure for blithering idiocy: freedom and individual liberty (yeah, I know–ooh, ick, philosophy!):
Scientism [*35]
The System Isn’t Broken: Partisanship is par for the course [*36]
Limiting Leviathan: The States’ Role in Protecting Liberty [*37]
Does Justice Scalia Think the Second Amendment Applies Only to the Federal Government? [*38]
The reality of President Obama and his entire Administration as blithering idiots:
The Cure Is the Same as the Disease: How Convenient! [*39]
Opposite Day Obama [*40]
Mission Accomplished? [*41]
Las Vegas Mayor Fights Back and Snubs Obama [*42]
Krauthammer: Obama Failed Because The System Worked [*43]
61% in US Want Government Out of Housing Business — Obama Blows Another $1.5 Billion on Housing Business [*44]
White House Offered Joe Sestak High-Profile Administration Job — Possibly Even Secretary of the Navy — If He’d Drop Out of Primary and Let Specter Run Unopposed [*45]
Eric Holder: Okay, So Maybe Nine Justice Department Political Appointees Previously Worked for Terrorist Clients… And Your Point Is…?
The reality of Washington Democrats (and Independents, and Socialists) as blithering idiots:
Hm. Nothing today? Remarkable!
The reality of Washington Republicans as blithering idiots:
Hm. Nothing today? Remarkable!
Other blithering idiots at large making life difficult for regular folks:
Healthcare Protestors Wield Pitchforks, Torches in CT [*46]
George Will: *sigh* [*47]
Atomic Welfare [*48]
Opposition Research: because blithering idiocy can be dangerous, especially when organized into idiotic groups with idiotic ideologies:
Brain-Dead in Berkeley [*49]
Aren’t We Supposed to Win? [*50] — Oh, my, no. “From each according to their ability . . .”
Follow the Leader [*51] — Sometimes, a crazed, desperate psychopath is just a crazed, desperate psychopath . . .
What Does ‘Racial Socialism’ Sound Like to You? [*52] — That sounds a bit . . . um . . . German, don’t you think? And guess who the Juden are this time? “First they came for the bankers, and I was silent . . .”
Is Think Progress Capable of Publishing the Truth? [*53] — Well, no . . . Soros-funded web sites like Think Progress, MoveOn, Media Matters and the like are propaganda outlets–they have absolutely no interest in the truth . . . they have their agenda, and that’s what they’re going to push, come hell or high water . . . IMHO of course . . .
They Are Popping The Corks At The DNC! The Economy Is Growing!! [*54]
The Dems’ dependency agenda [*55]
The Keith Olbermann Memorial “Special Comment” on blithering idiots in the Media:
NY Democrats seek to avoid Massachusetts debacle [*56] — A better headline would have been “NY Democrats in disarray” but that would have been objective of Reuters . . . can’t have that, when there are Democrat seats at stake . . .
It’s all the Tea Party’s fault [*57]
Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey Responds To Olbermann: Where Are The People of Color? [*58]
Andrew Breitbart Slams Failed MSNBC Host Rachel Maddow (Video) [*59]
WaPo columnist: I stand by what I said about that insane pilot and some tea partiers [*60]
Breitbart to NY Times Reporter for Alleging Racial Tones at CPAC: ‘You’re a Despicable Human Being’[*61]
Breitbart to NYT reporter at CPAC: “You’re a despicable human being” [*62]
How dare these uppity people show up at Tea parties! [*63]
Daily Gut: People Died, WaPo Lied [*64]
What MSM Won’t Tell You: Doctors Are Challenging Government Health Care-and the AMA [*65] — I know that our primary care physician is pretty well terrified of what they’re trying to do to health care in this country–see The Word above . . .
SECTION FOUR: Case Studies in Blithering Idiocy
“Global warming” aka “Climate change” — or should that be “Climate Reform?”:
Caveats Regarding Dr. Phil Jones’ Phenological Arguments for Global Warming [*66]
“Global Warming” – More Like a Snow Job [*67] — The ‘Cuda weighs in . . .
North American snow models miss the mark – observed trend opposite of the predictions [*68]
Lindzen on climate science advocacy and modeling – “at this point, the models seem to be failing” [*69]
Health care “reform” aka health insurance “reform” — or should that be health care “change?” Perhaps “Global healthing?:
Why the Healthcare Overhaul Is Almost Surely Unconstitutional [*70] — But since much of what the Federal Government currently does is quite arguably unconstitutional, why should they stop now?
Obamacare Bends the Cost Curve Up: Here Is How to Bend It Down [*71]
Obama & Dems to Ram Through Unpopular Health Care Bill With 51 Votes [*72]
Reconciliation, the public option, and Demcare revival [*73]
Health Care Nuclear Option – Liberals Ready to Launch[*74]
A Taste of Health Care Reform [*75]
Hype of Global Warming Far Scarier Than Science Shows
The Economy (Can the blithering idiots bring down the most productive economy the world has ever seen? Yes, They Can! Will they?):
Euro falls below 9-month lows at $1.3493 [*76]
A Perfect Storm of Ignorance [*77] — How the housing bubble (and subsequent crash) really happened . . .
Foreign affairs and National Security (Will blithering idiots get us all killed, or make us all speak Spanish–or Chinese–or Arabic–or all three?):
An Attack on Israel is an Attack on Canada? [*78]
Flip-flop diplomacy with the Dalai Lama [*79]
Team Obama Will Give “Operation Iraqi Freedom” a New Name… But It Won’t Be “Victory” [*80]
Once in a Blue Moon [*81]
The Morning Whip is a (mostly) daily review of what’s out there that caught my attention, sometimes but not always posted before 11 am Central time in the U. S. of A., unless I just don’t feel like it that day, am out doing something more important or more fun, or I’ve been abducted, detained, arrested, or otherwise flummoxed by the agents of blithering idiotry.
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