Obama: Beware of the Silent Majority

A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet

The Silent Majority At Work

The “Silent Majority."  Where are they today?

Remember during the Nixon Administration the “Silent Majority” was often spoken of in the press.  The President (Nixon), himself, gave them credit for supporting him… not only in elections but supporting him generally. 

Well, where did they go?

Oh, they’re still here… and just as powerful as before.  You see them everyday.  They're all around you.  They are the folks you see at parties who stand around the edges of a group discussing politics.  They never have any input into the discussion, they just absorb it.  They’re the folks who do not sit in on the coffee klatch discussion on politics and world affairs.  They’re the people who go to church, nearly every Sunday, and raise their children to be respectful of others and live useful, productive lives.  They send their kids to church-supported universities and colleges for a good education, rather than an indoctrination in the ways of the political left.

The Silent Majority is the folk who never miss an opportunity to vote.  They believe men and women died to give them that opportunity, and they will not abuse the memory of those heroic Americans by not going to the polls to vote. 

They are also the people who will not tell those taking the exit polls who they voted for.  They voted in secret, it’s their secret, and they will keep it, often never even divulging it to their families. 

They are, for the most part, conservative in politics as well as religion.

These are the people who shop at Wal-Mart, and K-mart, and drive 2, 3, or 4 year old cars.  Most own their own homes. They have savings accounts and they have a family budget, which they will not abuse. 

Their lives are built around their families and their church.   Many are veterans of America’s armed forces. 
They believe this country is worth fighting for and they will put their own lives on the line to protect her.

They view politics as a necessary evil.  They believe they should always vote for the man who best represents their belief.  They will not support a candidate just because he, or she, wears the label of the party to which they, themselves, are registered. 

They wield enormous power.  These people can make, or break, a presidential election.  When they step into the voting booth, they speak, loud and clear.   It is there that the Silent Majority rejects their silence and shouts their politics to the world. 

They did it again in November of 2010.

So, politicians, you neglect the Silent Majority at your peril. 

The press makes fun of one of the mightiest forces in American politics.  The Silent Majority never fails to notice the MsM's stifled giggles and backhanded insults of conservative politics.  They see it all and… they remember… as they did in November, two years ago.

... And they've had enough.

For four years they have heard all the lies disguised as promises. They've cringed as our leader sucks-up to foreign powers by bowing and scraping and apologizing -- just because America is America.

They are concerned and deeply, deeply, angry. 

They have watched the country they love being torn apart by class warfare plotted and led from the White House.

They have watched the government bail-out and prop-up companies that, by rights, should have been allowed to fail.  All of it done with taxpayer money ... their money.

They've watched the government borrow and spend as though there is no tomorrow and they have watched the debt pile up and pile up until the next two generations of Americans are already buried in debt, even those yet unborn.

They have watched the President's power grab and the intrusion of government into nearly every facet of their lives ... unbidden ...  and they are outraged.

They have seen the government pass a law, against the will of the people, and take over the country's health care system.  They've watched as the government began to dismantle it so they (the government) can, eventually, take it over under a single-payer system in which all Americans get sub-par healthcare -- equally. 

They watch the government spy, relentlessly, upon their every waking moment.  Their movement, their communications, their purchases, every move they make is monitored by the government  -- and they are mad as hell about it.

They've watched socialism replace capitalism and love of state replace love of God and they are incensed. 

They've watched the President reject the one people that God, Himself, chose.  As people of faith, they know the curse which befalls the people of a nation that acts toward the Jewish state as America, through its leader, Obama, has done.    

And they are aware of the quiet planning in  the corridors of power in Washington to find a way to by-pass their Second Amendment rights.  Rest assured -- they DO know -- and they are quietly arming themselves against the day they may be called upon -- by their country -- to defend the constitution. 

They remember the oath they took as members of America's military -- and as police officers -- to defend the constitution against ALL enemies, domestic and foreign, and they remember, too, there was no expiration date on that oath.
Silent, they may be -- but silent they shall not remain.  They are ready to set things aright.

This is the unseen, uncounted, power the pollsters miss.  It is the power of deep conviction that things are terribly wrong in America and they, the so-called Silent Majority, have a responsibility to the constitution, to the country, to their fellow Americans, and yes, to their families and themselves,  to step up, to lean in, and to reclaim their birthright -- before it is lost forever.

These quiet Americans have the fortitude and the determination of the all the ancient defenders of freedom. They know -- and they understand -- the stakes for America.   Losing THIS fight it not an option. 

Without America standing in the breech, the free world will fall as dominoes -- and the socialist/Marxist tyrants will truly rule the world.

These people who love their God, their families, their constitution, and their America -- these people who suffer so much scorn and derision from the elitist of the left WILL have their say.

These people are not to be trifled with.  It was THEY who coined the phrase:  "We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box."

And THESE are the people who have resolved to rescue their country from the practitioners of the philosophy of Lenin, Marx, and Engels NOW, before it is too late.

You'll find them standing in line when the polls open on November 6th.  You'll find them standing in line waiting to vote rather than taking a lunch break. You'll find them stopping at the polling place on their way home from work.  You'll find them hurrying through dinner so as to be in line before the polls close. It's that quiet determination we mentioned above.

These are the Americans with the legendary "true grit" -- fortitude and determination -- to rise to the challenge and save America again.           

So, here’s to the Silent Majority , the conscience of America, the steel in America's spine, the hope of Americans yet unborn.   May God bless them!

J. D. Longstreet

ABC's Brian Ross Should be Fired!

Hat Tip to Faultline USA

There is no words I can say to condemn Brian Ross for accusing an innocent man before all the fact concerning the Terror Attack in Aurora, Colorado by James Holmes.  Instead of actually waiting for all the facts to be revealed, Mr. Ross in his zeal to blame the Right and more specifically the TEA Party for this horror.

I happened to be watching ABC news this morning when "crack" investigative reporter, Brian Ross, said that he noticed on Facebook that a "Jim Holmes" was a member of the Colorado Tea Party.

Imagine that! He's dropped that little bomb just to tarnish the Tea Party and to link it with domestic terrorism. He didn't care if it was true or not. He did it with absolutely no facts to back up his allegation! He just wanted to make the connection in the viewer's minds. In the process, he tarnished every person who happens to be named James or Jim Holmes.

A number of people who were watching the news began to Tweet about this strange un-backed-up comment made by Ross.
It didn't take long for ABC to issue a wee little retraction in the Editor's Notes of a much longer article Aurora Suspect James Holmes' Mother: 'You Have the Right Person'

Here's the lame retraction:

By MATTHEW MOSK (@mattmosk) , BRIAN ROSS (@brianross) , PIERRE THOMAS (@PierreTABC) , RICHARD ESPOSITO and MEGAN CHUCHMACH (@megcourtney)
July 20, 2012
Editor's Note: An earlier ABC News broadcast report suggested that a Jim Holmes of a Colorado Tea Party organization might be the suspect, but that report was incorrect. ABC News and Brian Ross apologize for the mistake, and for disseminating that information before it was properly vetted.

That report was "incorrect"???  That one sentence above constitutes an apology??? No. A mistake. Hardly!

What Ross did  was intended as a hatchet job and Ross rushed it to the airwaves so he could be first just on the off chance it might be true. He obviously took that chance because he knew he wouldn't get into much trouble - a little hand slap or less? Perhaps even a congratulatory slap on the back from his bosses at ABC?

If ABC was sincere they'd fire Ross. The least they should do is a descent feature on tonight's news with a very penitent Brian Ross offering more than just a few mea culpas!
How sad that journalistic standards have fallen so low.

Fallen low is not the word that I would use.  Having a leftist agenda is more like it.  An agenda to rid Americans of their 2nd Amendment rights.

My heart is breaking over the terror seen last night.  May G-d avenge their deaths and may the families and friends of the dead find solace in the days ahead.  May those who are wounded recover fully and find it in their hearts to rejoice in their lives.  And may the Murderer James Holmes receive justice.  Not only in this world, but in the next.

Taxed For Living

That is the ruling of the Supreme Court.  Today in a 5-4 decision, the US Supreme Court just told the citizens of the United States that they not only must buy health insurance, but if they don't they will be taxes for the crime of living.

The Supreme Court has upheld the centerpiece of President Obama's health care overhaul, in effect allowing the law to survive.

In a 5-4 decision unveiled Thursday, the court ruled as constitutional the so-called individual mandate requiring most Americans to obtain health insurance starting in 2014.

The ruling is a victory for the president, ensuring for now that his signature domestic policy achievement remains intact.

It also ensures that the law will play a prominent role in the general election campaign, as Republican candidate Mitt Romney vows to repeal the law if elected.

Chief Justice John Roberts, who was appointed during a Republican administration, joined the four left-leaning justices on the bench in making the decision.

The ruling relied on a technical explanation of how the individual mandate could be categorized. Roberts, in the opinion, said the mandate could not be upheld under the Constitution's Commerce Clause. However, it could be upheld under the government's power to tax.

"The Affordable Care Act is constitutional in part and unconstitutional in part The individual mandate cannot be upheld as an exercise of Congress's power under the Commerce Clause," Roberts wrote. "That Clause authorizes Congress to regulate interstate commerce, not to order individuals to engage it. In this case, however, it is reasonable to construe what Congress has done as increasing taxes on those who have a certain amount of income, but choose to go without health insurance. Such legislation is within Congress's power to tax."

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The clock is reset.  It is 2010 once again.  It is time to get out, vote the Donkeycrats out of office, vote Barack Hussein Obama out of office.  That is the only way to repeal this monstrosity of a bill.

We can now expect higher premiums.  Few doctors practicing, fewer new doctors.  We can now expect Obama and the left go farther and demand a single payer system.  G-d forbid that ever happens.

We need to get angry.  Angry enough to go to the polls.  We need to be so angry that this will be the last hurrah for Obama and the Donkeycrats!

Tea Party Debt Commission Meeting on Capitol Hill Shut Down by Chuck Schumer

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) shut down a long-planned gathering of Tea Party members on Capitol Hill by claiming a suspicious package was found. As you will see from the video below, the eviction of the fully "occupied" room in the Russell Senate office building had nothing to do with a suspicious package and everything to do with silencing a gathering of constituents designed to discuss U.S. debt.

The meeting, set-up by freshman Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), was moved to a property owned by Hillsdale College, and continued there. Republicans in attendance: Senators Mike Lee (the organizer) and Rand Paul, along with Congressmen Joe Walsh (IL), Steve King (IA), Mike Pence (IN), Mick Mulvaney (SC), and Paul Brown (GA).

Congressional Democrats, extending all the way to the Oval Office, have been very interested in listening to the occupiers on Wall Street and around the country, yet not a single Democrat show up to hear the ideas of Tea Partiers. Unbelievable! Thanks to Gateway Pundit.

Posted by Maggie @ Maggie's Notebook

Van Jones Speaks, Reagan Responds

Over the last few weeks Wall Street has been the target of Progressive Protesters, occupying the streets of Lower Manhattan and wanting the nation to become like Mao's China, believing that it was some sort of Utopia.  This believe has been imprinted upon these idiots by their teachers and professors.  All of whom forget the truth and cry the lies.  Told over and over to them, it is no wonder they have swallowed it hook, line and sinker.  And it is no wonder they will listen to a disgraced former Czar like Van Jones.

Making no secret of his disdain for Tea Party ideals and ideas, ex-White House adviser Van Jones on Monday nonetheless urged liberal activists to "steal" the Tea Party's playbook.

The former "green jobs" adviser, speaking at the top of a three-day conference in the nation's capital designed to galvanize liberal activists, spoke interchangeably in harsh and glowing terms about the Tea Party movement. He described their cause as "the worst" and "silly" and other unflattering adjectives. At the same time, he said progressives can learn from what the Tea Party has accomplished, as he tried to steer the crowd toward his own umbrella group which he's been working on since the summer.

Using the pick-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps tone President Obama has employed in recent days, Jones pointed to the Tea Party movement as an example of grassroots activism done right. He suggested liberals have relied too much on one person, Obama, to fix everything.

Only instead of taking to the streets in the name of lower taxes and less regulation, he urged the crowd to model its own Tea Party-style movement in the name of the middle class.

"If we can just be as warm and sharing and kind as the Tea Party, which one might suspect is a relatively low bar, we might be able to do something for our country," Jones said Monday.

Obama has stirred controversy in recent days by urging the base to quit complaining, take off their "bedroom slippers" and march with him. Jones used similar language, as the three-day Take Back the American Dream Conference got underway.

"We went from hopey to mopey and forgot to build a movement in the middle," Jones said.

He credited the Tea Party with building a "network" that operates without any individual leader. "There is no Tea Party. You can't land at the airport here in D.C., and get in the cab and say 'take me to Tea Party headquarters'," he said.

Jones described the movement as an "upgrade" over what progressives had done.

"They use their charismatic leaders to build something bigger than any leader," he said. "They talk rugged individualism, but they act collectively."

By contrast, he said, "we talk collectively ... but we have enacted the most individualistic strategy in the republic."

Jones, at several points in the speech, referred to the emergence of a new "movement."

He claimed the so-called American Dream Movement, which he launched over the summer, has attracted more interest from supporters than the Tea Party did in 2009. He and other progressive groups are trying to rally that sentiment into something more cohesive at the spirit-building conference in Washington.

But it also coincided with the more raucous anti-corporate protests on Wall Street and in cities across the country. The speakers with the Take Back the American Dream Conference tried to show some solidarity with those protesters -- Jones applauded them for going to the "scene of the crime."

The message of those protesters, though, is not quite as cohesive as the message in Washington. Some of the protesters in New York, while organizing under the banner of combating corporate greed, talk about demolishing the capitalist system altogether.

Tea Party Express strategist Sal Russo described the various demonstrations as unfounded.

"The direction of the county has been decidedly to the left," he said. "The policies have been so far left they don't have anything to be unhappy about."

But with unemployment topping 9 percent, Jones urged activists to focus on unemployment and standing up for those unable to find work. While protesters are calling for the abolition of capitalism on Wall Street, Jones urged activists to organize under a message that is both "positive" and "portable."

"You can't just have a principle that'll work in Berkeley," he said, adding that it has to resonate in "red states."

The conference is being co-sponsored by the Campaign for America's Future. The opening day of the conference featured several prominent speakers, including former Labor Secretary Robert Reich and Rep. Donna Edwards, D-Md. Jones' group plans to take the event a step further Wednesday, organizing a "rally for jobs not cuts" outside the U.S. Capitol.

Jones is the former "green jobs" adviser for Obama. He resigned following controversy over some of his public comments and his signing on a years-old petition from a group that suggests the U.S. government was complicit in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Jones disavowed the so-called Sept. 11 "truth" group when the petition came out.

Jones referenced the incident on stage Monday in Washington.

"You can get knocked down, that happens in politics. Ask me how I know," Jones said, as the crowd chuckled.

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He calls for non-Violence while screaming the lie that the TEA Party was both violent and racist.  (No proof of either has ever been recorded.)

These Progressive protesters have been both violent and racist.  They know not which way or what they back.  They are young, living off of Mommy and Daddy, and unemployed.  Many have never worked a day in their life.  Many have never experienced poverty, hunger, homelessness.  But they know what is best for the poor.  They have been taught by their professors what the truth is.

We too know what the truth is.  It has been taught to us by our families, our churches and synagogues, and at one time our schools and universities.  It was once reminded to us by our leaders.  Our leaders such as Ronald Wilson Reagan.



A far cry from the Manchurian Candidate now residing in the White House.

Revenge Of The Jews!

What started with Scott Brown and Chris Christie, blossomed into the TEA Party and the GOP take over of the House of Representatives, and now this.

NEW YORK – Republicans have scored an upset victory in a New York City House race that became a referendum on President Barack Obama's economic policies.

Retired media executive and political novice Bob Turner defeated Democratic state Assemblyman David Weprin (WEHP'-rihn) in a special election Tuesday to succeed Rep. Anthony Weiner, a seven-term Democrat who resigned in June after a sex texting scandal.

The heavily Democratic district spanning parts of Queens and Brooklyn had never sent a Republican to the House. But frustration with the continued weak national economy gave Republicans the edge.

Turner has vowed to bring business practicality to Washington and push back on spending and taxes.

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The 9th is a Blue Collar neighborhood.  It is considered the home of Archie Bunker.  Yet since 1923 it has voted Democrat.  Until today.  Today this Jewish-Italian neighborhood made a bold statement about Barack Hussein Obama and his policies both foreign and domestic.

If the 9th goes, will the state of New York be next?  We can now state very plainly that the beginning of Obama's reign has ended and his removal from office will now begin.

What's In A Name?

I received this article by my friend James Sharp.  I think it counters the Democrats and Hoffa beautifully.

What’s in a name? That rhetorical question has been asked throughout the ages. For instance, the name of an organization is often the key to determining the success of said organization. Take, for example, Waste Management. This corporation has been phenomenally successful hauling and disposing of trash and garbage.

The ability to take something unpalatable and give it a pleasing name is an art that has been practiced for eons. Imagine if Waste Management had chosen the name “Talking Trash” instead. Do you think that it would have enjoyed the same degree of success?

Lately, the Tea Party has come under a heavy degree of assault from those on the left. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) recently stated that members of the Tea Party can “go straight to hell”. Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) has made some very disparaging remarks regarding the Tea Party. Carson’s remarks were so incendiary that even New York civil rights leader Michael Meyers referred to them as “vile”. Most recently, Teamsters Union president James Hoffa proclaimed, in reference to the Tea Party, that he wanted to “...take these son of a bitches out.”

The mere mention of the name “Tea Party”, among liberals, conjures up images of hate-filled, racist, Bible-thumping, gun-toting extremists. Their reaction to the term is much the same as the seething rage that wells up within them when the names Dick Cheney, Sarah Palin, and Scott Walker are uttered in their presence. For this reason, the Tea Party should fire back by rebranding itself. It should consider adopting a new moniker. Something to make it sound more pleasing to the media and others on the left.

UPTARG – Union of Productive Taxpayers Against Repressive Government has a nice ring to it. Who could possibly be against productive taxpayers (as long as they’re not rich)? And no one is really in favor of a repressive government, are they? Lastly, the organization’s new name contains the word “UNION”. What could possibly be better? The new name with the word “union” in it should allow the left to fawn over it ad infinitum. Who knows? Perhaps James Hoffa himself will become a fan. Then again, he might just try to muscle his way to power in the new Tea Party union. Perhaps UPTARG can charge its members dues so that Hoffa and his fellow union thugs can reap the benefits. After all, allowing union leaders to get filthy rich at the expense of the rank-and-file has been, for decades, the name of the game.

What do you say, Mr. Hoffa? Are you up to the challenge? Are you ready to fight THIS union?

A rose by any other name will smell as sweet.  And if we change the name of the TEA Party to something else will not change the fact that the American people are angry.

The MSM has the fact wrong.  Progressives/Liberals only make up 20% of the electorate.  Conservatives make up 40% of the electorate.  Independents are 40%.  It is the Independents that both sides need.  But many of the TEA Party are Independents.

Americans are screaming WE ARE THE TEA PARTY!  We want real change.  No matter what names we are called we will not be silenced.  We will not be scared into silenced.  Not by Maxine Waters, not by Jimmy Hoffa, not by Barack Hussein Obama.  Not any more.

Living Within Our Means

I guess that Dry Bones has said it best.  It is not the fault of the TEA Party.  Nor of Congress, the Banks, Standard & Poor, the Republicans or even the Hobbits.  This Down Grade of our credit rating is squarely on the back of Sheik Barack Hussein Obama.  King of the Porkulus, Sultan of the Stimulus, Prince of Unbridled Spending.

What Made Standard & Poor to down grade the US.  Here are their own words:

We lowered our long-term rating on the U.S. because we believe that the prolonged controversy over raising the statutory debt ceiling and the related fiscal policy debate indicate that further near-term progress containing the growth in public spending, especially on entitlements, or on reaching an agreement on raising revenues is less likely than we previously assumed and will remain a contentious and fitful process. We also believe that the fiscal consolidation plan that Congress and the Administration agreed to this week falls short of the amount that we believe is necessary to stabilize the general government debt burden by the middle of the decade.

Our lowering of the rating was prompted by our view on the rising public debt burden and our perception of greater policymaking uncertainty, consistent with our criteria. Nevertheless, we view the U.S. federal government's other economic, external, and monetary credit attributes, which form the basis for the sovereign rating, as broadly unchanged.

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In other words, you spend too much, you are continuing to spend beyond your means (revenue) and we don't see you cutting your spending and raising more revenue.

For a private citizen he or she would be in bad shape, facing eviction, facing a credit score of less than 500, facing bankruptcy.  While we haven't stooped to the bankruptcy level yet, we are in bad shape and need to work to increase revenue and lower costs.  In simpler terms we need to clean up the tax code so companies like General Electric (Who earned billions last year.) will actually pay taxes instead of paying no taxes.  We need to make an easier environment for small and medium sized businesses to thrive.  Too many regulations will drive them under or out of the country.  Taking the jobs so desperately needed with them.  We need to cut spending.  We can start with the Pork, the special interest bills that bring a project (usually worth millions of dollars and bringing only short term jobs and benefits.), go on to those idiotic "science" projects (Like the one which put shrimp on a treadmill.), cut out foreign aid to countries that either are able to afford to pay for their projects (China) or just give us lip service and are even openly hostile to us (Pakistan).  And we need to totally overhaul the Welfare and Food Stamp Programs.  Other than those souls who are unable to work due to physical or mental disability, there is no reason any other citizen not to work for their money.  In fact if we removed all immigrants (legal and illegal) from the program we just might be able to save it.  That alone would be a cost reducing measure.

It is time that Sheik Barack Hussein Obama stand up like a man and take the responsibility for this economic disaster.