Oh For Dog’s Frigging Sake
The Democratic Party is, overall, a joke. There are so many dems that are cozy with the corporatists and religious loons that they are not really a viable option for Americans who want to see real change. And yet, they’ve won a couple of election cycles decisively. Why is this?
The answer is depressingly easy to find. The rump Rushpubliscum Party is the only reason the dems ever win anything. The reason for that is also depressingly simple to divine; the Rushpubliscums stand for absolutely nothing but selfishness and bigotry. The Chimperial era tells us that they have no interest in smaller Government or greater personal freedom; on the contrary, the Rushpubliscums aim to create a “Big Daddy” state where everyone will adhere to the same religion, and only white males will have any rights. In this era of supposed greater tolerance and diversity, the Rushpubliscums have become ever more bigoted, white-and selfish.
Here is a prime example of what I speak. Because the President suggests service to our country in honor of thousands of our dead, he’s slapping Communist totalitarianism on us all. How DARE somebody suggest that you ought to help your fellow American, or your country! Stalin has been reincarnated! And he’s gonna snuff Grandma!
How on Earth do you have any kind of a serious discussion with such people?
Right-wing commentators are claiming that the White House is planning to “erase the meaning” of the 9/11 attacks and turn the anniversary into “a day of leftist celebration and statist idolatry” — despite the fact that the plan for a National Day of Service on 9/11 had broad bipartisan support.
An article by Matthew Vadum, published Monday in the American Spectator, states that the president’s plan for a National Day of Service, to be celebrated on September 11, would eliminate 9/11 as a political tool for Republicans.
“The plan is to turn a ‘day of fear’ that helps Republicans into a day of activism called the National Day of Service that helps the left,” writes Vadum. “In other words, nihilistic liberals are planning to drain 9/11 of all meaning.”
As some commentators have pointed out, Vadum’s article overlooks the fact that the idea to link the 9/11 anniversary to volunteerism was originally promoted by President George W. Bush, and the bill to make it law, passed this spring, had bipartisan support.
Seventy House Republicans and 22 GOP senators voted for the Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education (GIVE) Act, which established the National Day of Service and Remembrance on September 11.
“America came together in the aftermath of 9/11, reminding us what it truly means to be part of this great nation,” wrote Republican Congressman Peter King of New York, in a press release supporting the National Day of Service and Remembrance. “By making 9/11 a national day of service, that same spirit of giving will continue in a day of remembrance, unity, and selflessness.”
(Rep. King most recently made news when referred to Michael Jackson as a “pedophile” and a “low-life” shortly after the pop singer’s death. He is also known to have been a long-time supporter of the Irish Republican Army.)
Vadum’s article is “one way to look at it,” responds Marc Ambinder, sarcastically, at his Atlantic blog. “The idea is that the White House wants to take away 9/11’s GOP-helping power and turn it into something more community-organizing friendly, which, we all know, is radical — that 9/11 will turn into Earth Day, a platform to show concern for the environment — or that a positive activity like national service trivializes and obfuscates the true meaning of the day.”
But many conservative bloggers have already jumped at the new talking point.
“Sick,” writes Gateway Pundit. “Barack Obama and the radical Left plan on desecrating 9-11 into a Leftist holiday like they already did to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.”
Writer Michelle Malkin blogged that the National Day of Service “makes perfect sense coming from a president who believes that the root of 9/11 jihadi [sic] stems ‘from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers’.”
At the Washington Monthly, Steve Benen challenges Vadum’s assertions about the National Day of Service.
“First, George W. Bush called for community volunteer work on the anniversary of 9/11, and the right didn’t find it controversial,” Benen writes.
“Second, victims’ families have recommended making 9/11 a national day of service for years. Third, Alex Koppelman explained, ‘Check out the official Web site set up for the day: They’re asking people to come up with their own events. So if you don’t want to help out at anti-American places like food banks and community gardens, you can organize your own event.’
And the inbred self-loather jumps right on the bandwagon, as we knew she would. Is it not crystal clear by now that most 5 year old children are far more intelligent than Michelle Malkin is? If she wasn’t a right wing token, she’d surely be living on that evil socialist SSI program, because she’s too stupid to hold down any job that I know of.
Tags: ignorance, rushpublicans, selfishness, september 11
August 25th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
Whaaaaaah!! Obama’s gonna sully the meaning of 9/11 by calling on us to perform good deeds!! Well guess what?? Presidents Day is now more famous for Mattress sales than actual Presidents, Easter is all about spring fashions, Macys perverts the meaning of Thanksgiving with giant balloons and marching bands, and I shouldn’t need to remind you of the the flagrant materialism of 12/25. So 9/11 will no longer be the exclusive domain of fear mongers?? Cry me a river.
August 26th, 2009 at 12:26 am
http://www.capitalresearch.org/blog/2009/08/24/einem-nationalen-tag-der-zustellung/
Einem Nationalen Tag der Zustellung
August 24th, 2009 by Matthew Vadum
The whole idea of a National Day of Service on Sept. 11, whether voluntary or not and regardless of who is promoting the idea, ought to make advocates of limited government jittery.
I mean, aren’t taxes, by which the productive subsidize the nonproductive, enough? How much more service to the government is needed? Where does it end?
It reminds me of something that Michelle Obama, in her unintentional imitation of Evita Peron last year, said.
“Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you…move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.”
It turns out the First Lady might have meant it.
This all reminds me of the Reich Labor Service, a program instituted to help “green” the Third Reich. The members of the Reich Labor Service appeared prominently in the classic Nazi propaganda film, Triumph of the Will, (I had to watch it in college) bearing shovels in place of rifles.
Throughout this post are some screen grabs from the Leni Riefenstahl film that are worth pondering as we’re urged to plant community gardens and organize welfare recipients on Sept. 11.
I know this blog post will be misrepresented by liberals (and maybe a few conservatives) so for the record, I don’t think President Obama is intent on turning America into Nazi Germany but he is clearly an advocate of virtually unlimited government. The concept of national service as a duty generally does not gain a foothold in free countries nowadays. Note how many countries in socialist Europe require military service.
President Obama has definite Fascist (i.e. corporatist) tendencies in his economic policies, though, as did President Bush in the closing months of his presidency when he got nervous about his legacy and took leave of his senses. (Of course, I am assuming the circumstances made President Bush a corporatist. Perhaps he was one all along.)
Apparently, as a commenter at the American Spectator website just noted, President Bush also urged Americans to do community service. The linked Bush administration press release doesn’t, however, say to do it on Sept. 11 specifically and, unlike the Obama administration, doesn’t seem to put the power (for lack of a better word) of 9/11 to work promoting a particular political party or ideology. Nor does it try to suck all the meaning out of 9/11.
So, to the commenter I can only reply: Nice try. A National Day of Service (which isn’t actually referenced in the Bush document) is a creepy idea no matter who is advancing it.
We do not exist to serve the state. Politicians of both parties nowadays, though especially the Democrats, don’t seem to understand this.
August 26th, 2009 at 7:54 am
Whoever you are, “a.nonymous,” thanks for illustrating the point I was trying to make. That, and a special thanks for the stupid lie that the Rushpubliscum Administration prior to this one never engaged in “to put the power (for lack of a better word) of 9/11 to work promoting a particular political party or ideology.”
You erased any chance anyone could take you seriously with that one statement. Yes, most of the rest of your tripe doesn’t make sense either, but that particular statement shines.