Mark Levin tonight (courtesy of The Right Scoop, who provides a partial transcript):
I want to say this loud and clear to the people on Capitol Hill who are listening, to this administration. You lay one damn hand on one of those World War II vets at that memorial and I’ll bring half a million people to that damn memorial! You got that?!
I’m sitting here stewing thinking about this – playing these damn games? You’ll ignite a movement in this country like you’ve never seen before! The biker patriot army – veterans from all over the country, every single war and battle in this country, Republican, Democrat, Independent, whatever!
I’ll be damned if one president, with his feet up on the desk in the oval office, with a smirk on his face, looking at his golf card…I’ll be damned if this president or anybody else is going to shut down that WWII memorial. Period! These men are in their 80s and 90s.
So let me repeat! You lay one hand on one of those men and arrest them for going to their memorial, which they fought for, which was not paid by you dammit, it was paid by the American people – we will come out of every town and city in this nation! We will come out of every county. And both coasts! Both borders! And we will march on Washington against your tyranny!
You’ve been warned!
It’s even better when you listen to it.
Also, this photo, courtesy Doug Ross, puts Levin’s rant into a bit of perspective:
The contemporary Democrats are nothing more than the 60s New Left retreads tidied up and marketed. They hate everything this country stands for, and they particularly hate those of us who don’t.
(h/t Bob B and nr)
It’s pretty clear at this point that they don’t know what they’re playing with, like toddlers with a vial of unstable nitro.
NY Daily News go for cheap patriotism by front paging the memorial with portraits of Boehner and Cruz and impugning their lack of military service.
I guess they forgot that the Wan isn’t a veteran, either.
They are dumb one note agitators assuming that America is one great big chicago. This is cheap gutter theatre. I wonder how it is playing. It leaves me feeling like the country is being run by drooling clueless hoods who only know how to cancel the annual barbecue tasting and shut down the branch libraries any time they don’t get a funding package by the voters.
Can You See the Real Me?
Our greengrocer’s attempt to live within the truth may be confined
to not doing certain things. He decides not to put flags in his window
when his only motive for putting them there in the first place would
have been to avoid being reported by the house warden; he does not
vote in elections that he considers false; he does not hide his opinions
from his superiors. In other words, he may go no further than
‘merely’ refusing to comply with certain demands made on him by
the system (which of course is not an insignificant step to take). This
may, however, grow into something more. The greengrocer may
begin to do something concrete, something that goes beyond an
immediately personal self-defensive reaction against manipulation,
something that will manifest his new-found sense of higher responsibility.
He may, for example, organize his fellow greengrocers to
act together in defence of their interests. He may write letters to
various institutions, drawing their attention to instances of disorder
and injustice around him. He may seek out unofficial literature,
copy it and lend it to his friends.
If what I have called living within the truth is a basic existential
(and of course potentially political) starting point for all those ‘independent
citizens’ initiatives’ and ‘dissident’ or ‘opposition’ movements
dealt with in the essays to follow, this does not mean tha
every attempt to live within the truth automatically belongs in this
category.
havel et al page 64 potp
Liar! His Clownish Disastery-ness is TEH COMMANDER IN CHIEF! That’s, like, military and stuff!
Bellboy Lyrics – The Who
It’s all about the optics but they may not know what optics they are generating except what their trained lap-dogs regurgitate. If you live in the bubble of lies that your own PR people create for others to see and come to believe them yourself it never ends well.
– geoffb, theres an old parable about what happens to people and movements that make the mistake of believing their own press releases.
– I’ve long wrestled with the idea of hoping the Left overplays its hand and suffers the maximum for it, because while that would be poetic justice of the mellenia I know some good people will also get hurt, but maybe theres no avoiding it.
– What I do know is I would be right at the front of the pack in any march on the devils playground.
A clarion call that I will answer with relish.
Kabuki. At our expense.
Gov’t shutdown spreads to beaches of Normandy
Founding Fathers’ Tavern Closed by Government Shutdown
…people and movements that make the mistake of believing their own press releases.
I prefer “huffing their own fumes,” but to each his own.
… while that would be poetic justice of the millennium I know some good people will also get hurt, but maybe there’s no avoiding it.
Good people are getting hurt every day. Eight million people have given up on finding work; millions more are losing their health insurance. Millions of kids are stuck in failed schools at this very moment, their chances of being properly educated fading with each passing day. Tens of thousands of potential entrepreneurs sit unhappily at their day jobs, unable to start the businesses they dream of; their potential employees will never have the chance of taking the interesting jobs those new businesses would have created.
So forgive me if I don’t get all worked up about good people getting hurt in the upheaval that’s coming. As Mr. Paine once said: “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”
Besides which, I think people will be surprised at how good we are at taking care of our neighbors when circumstances demand it. It might be good to remind ourselves that compassion and charity and sacrifice are so much more meaningful and fulfilling when they’re performed personally and voluntarily, and not by an army of overpaid, overweening bureaucrats and their armed enforcers.
This could get really interesting, in the Chinese sense, if/when they start running barricades around all the Federal lands in the western States and Alaska. Better buy stock in the barricade and wire tie manufacturing companies.
Not to give them any ideas but the same “logic” which has them shutting down federal scenery like this in Georgia,
It would seem that they could also set up barricades closing the on and off ramps to all the Interstate Highways and at all railroad crossings that Amtrak and Conrail pass through.
BTW. That above piece is the only news article on Google news that mentions the shut down of the Appalachian Trail. Must be an optics thing.
On the other hand, there’s Governor Walker:
“The state Department of Natural Resources on Wednesday refused a directive from the National Park Service to close a host of popular state properties because of the federal government shutdown.”
The land of the cheese eaters looks more and more appealing every day…
It’s not just the National Park Service that has been directed to be petty. The census bureau has been directed to remove data from its website.
I understand not collecting and analyzing new data because of the shut down but to remove existing data?
That data can easily go feral and start attacking people, I would guess.
They go out of their way to deny us every service we want, because they are bound and determined to force us to pay for everything we don’t.
The purpose of government in the leftists’ view is to instruct, hence, the purpose of the implementation of government shut-down is to punish in order that the lesson government intends to teach will be learnt.
Obey. Or suffer.
It isn’t complicated. Hell, it can‘t be complicated, since it’s aimed at such simpletons as we.
Well the rumor is that a security fence is going up now, so Levin will get his chance.
Administration doubles down and has Park Service wire the WWII barry-cades together.
Fun fact about DC Police and car crashes on Garfield Circle:
This incident happened not far from where the woman was gunned down yesterday.
From the twitter comment reactions there Darth it looks as if the question, “Who will rule?” and the administration’s answer are beginning to peek out clearly from between the barricades. Somehow, though, I’m surprised at people who are surprised when they finally learn what it’s all about. With Mencken, I say “Let them have it, good and hard.”
On the other hand, the State of Arizona isn’t taking the closure of the Grand Canyon all to happily. Maybe they’ll consider just proceeding to open it on their own initiative, acting like Americans for a change, and simultaneously set up a confrontation about where it is the Fed’s powers come from?
PJ Tatler: Civil Disobedience Greets ‘Illegal’ Closure of the Claude Moore Colonial Farm
Punishment, plain and simple.
Destroy this little entity permanently just to satisfy the urge to whip people for disobedience? Sure, no skin off The Clown Disaster’s back. Besides, who wants people being educated in the ways of colonial times? Why teach such backward, non-progressive history? Why, it’s positively evil.
That farm looks like a nice place to visit. This weekend might be a good time for families of a civilly disobedient bent to make a trip to McLean VA and have fun despite The Man.
Heck, even Krauthammer is beginning to open his eyes, though he has his pride and can’t bring himself to fully articulate the problem as yet, for to do so would be tantamount to an admission that he had been a tad dishonest in his past criticisms, eliding what he would now make plain. But as the saying goes: baby steps. Even for those on wheels.
*** “It’s ridiculous,” said Arizona House Speaker Andy Tobin. “Why wouldn’t the federal government let local communities or states assist in keeping some of these things open?” ***
Got yer answer right here, dumbass. The Federal government seeks to instruct you as to who is The Boss! [And it ain’t you or your ignorant local peoples.] The Federal government seeks to punish you and your imbecilic local constituency for disobedience to the will of The Leader, The Clown Disaster his ownself. Wake up, moron. Smell the blood-iron raised by the whip-lash on your backside. Do it quick. The sooner you surrender, the sooner you recognize your subservience, the sooner you will be released from your pains.
More from the “mask slips” department:
http://www.freewoodpost.com/2012/11/14/willing-to-negotiate-obama-offers-to-set-up-isolationist-camps-for-those-who-dont-want-to-pay-taxes/
Ms. Wood’s cramped and dingy little vision of life seems to demonstrate she is incapable of seeing herself squatting there on the cave floor watching the shadows move on the cave-wall yonder. Would she be startled to learn where she is? Perhaps we ought not to let her in on her position, since it could just be too much for her to take, inducing a fatal strain on her miniscule capacities.
That looks like an Onion type site SBP. “News that’s ALMOST reliable”…?
Here is a man about to be furloughed I bet…
One of these days, I’m gonna have to set up a dummy Facebook account just so I can leave mocking commentary at all these sites that use Facebook commenting.
Bastards.
Even as a parody site, Lee, it’s an admission that lefties want only to see the Tea Party driven out of society and left to sit in the dark. Further, it’s more reinforcement of the idea that Tea Partiers are know-nothing anarchists who demand an end to government altogether, instead of well educated middle-class patriotic Americans who demand an end to government waste and overreach. Because as we’ve determined previously: people really support Tea Party ideals and ideas, once they’ve been presented with them. Thus, we must make sure that the masses only ever see the politically convenient cartoon version.
So yes: the mask slips.
“it’s an admission that lefties want only to see the Tea Party driven out of society”
One of the commenters claims that was the plot of an old Heinlein sci-fi book. I don’t know either way.
I do know there was no mention of TEA Partyers, but secessionists who don’t want to pay any taxes. That doesn’t equate to TEA Party for me.
“Many have said that this will be a popular idea among Tea Party activists and Ron Paul supporters.”
?
Ah, OK.
Still, there is a difference in what “many say” and what the intent of the camps were: “an effort to appease the uprising of secessionists”.
I won’t concede the idea the TEA Party is secessionist.
It’s good you wouldn’t concede such an absurdity Lee, if only because it isn’t so. The thing about the leftist lady’s vision is another matter, since it’s her
barelynaked contempt we’re talking about here.