Master CraftsMon - Aired Monday, March 27, 2006 at about 11pm CST - Segment 6
Master CraftsMon - Aired Monday, March 27, 2006 at about 11pm CST
Segment 6
We are having our Spring fund drive. Call in and make a pledge. I shall play some music and take your pledge. I have no engineers or someone to take the phone, so that is what needs to be done. Don't be shy. Call right now at 779-5367 or 779-KEOS or donate securely at www.keos.org.
The last Liberal web site I want to look in on tonight is moveon.org. Wikipedia says of them:
What are some of their big campaigns right now?
A popular campaign on the front page of moveon.org right now has the title: "Join Feingold: Censure Bush". Here's the problem with censuring Bush in the Senate. It requires fifty votes. The Democrats have 45. They are going to have to get 6 Republicans to agree with them that "It is clear now that the president has been repeatedly and willingly breaking the law to wiretap American citizens without a warrant. Congress must hold him accountable, and a reasonable first step is censure to show formal Congressional condemnation for his lawbreaking." We are in the middle of a war with the Irreconcilables. A LARGE number of people are frightened. I draw your attention to the Dubai Ports World controversy. Why does it Make sense to censure the President in the middle of a war while he is trying to protect us against an implacable foe? This action will rev up the base, but it will alienate too many moderates, because it shows a lack of sense on the part of the center of the Democratic Party.
There is a scene in Animal House where Otter says, "I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part." If there was ever a futile and stupid gesture, this is it. Why you might ask. The Congress has the power to stop the warrantless wiretaps. The Democrats could simply introduce a bill that precluded the President from doing warrantless wiretaps. By doing it that way, the Democratic Party could put on record those members of Congress in the Senate and the House of Representatives as to how they viewed the warrantless wiretaps. The Democratic Party doesn't want to do that. They do NOT want to go on record as saying that they do not support wiretapping conversation of alleged terrorists. The base of the Democratic Party desperately wants their leaders to do that. Their leaders KNOW that if they do, many of the people voting FOR repealing warrantless wiretaps will lose their seat in Congress this fall. Any sane person would be able to see that in light of the Dubai Ports World debacle.
Moveon.org doesn't see it that way. They are convinced that the censure of the President will cause people to vote for them in November. That's crazy. Again, because the base of the Democratic Party has imbibed of postmodernism, they perceive that they can pull off a censure AND not have any negative consequences befall them. There's no damned way. Ah, it doesn't matter. Russ Feingold wants to beat Hillary out and get the base to vote for him in the 2008 primaries. He's launching this to please the base of the Democratic Party without much expectation that he will actually get anything done. Again, this is "a really futile and stupid gesture". Look! That's what you get when you won't listen to the other side in any debate format.
Let me show you one more of the moveon.org campaigns on the front page of the web site. It says, "Going Bigger: 2006 Plan for Victory". When you click on the link it says on the second page, "The 2006 elections are only a few months away - and if we keep our eyes on the goal, we're in a position to win big. Democratic control of Congress will mean we can finally move forward with big ideas like health care for all Americans or energy independence, and make sure the troops get home safely and soon from Iraq. This week, we're aiming to expand our election plan with a new TV ad program that will get the truth to voters early in the most important elections across the country"
Think about that for a minute. The big issues for moveon.org are "health care for all Americans or energy independence, and make sure the troops get home safely and soon from Iraq."
How do they plan to get health care for all Americans? It's been tried in Europe, Canada and God knows where else in the world. Universal health insurance with the government being the primary health provider leads quickly to a degrading of the health care system. People in this country know that. Universal health care has no traction. If it was going to get people elected, it would have done so in the past. It's not a new idea.
How are they going to achieve energy independence without drilling for oil and expanding the number of refineries in this country? Oh, yes, oh, yes, oh, yes, Conservation... Wind power... Ethanol... What? That's stupid. All of those have been tried in the U.S. and Europe and Canada. They didn't work. These are new ideas? No way. The Democratic Party is associated with the environmentalist obstruction of drilling for new oil. Conservation, wind power and ethanol don't have traction with the American people. Sorry. No sale.
The cry of "Bring the boys home from Iraq... Now..." is a nonstarter. The Republicans tried to get the Democrats to go on record as favoring immediate pullout and the Democrats almost all voted against the bill. The immediate withdrawal from Iraq looks like it will generate votes. It won't. That's crazy. Regardless of what the polls say, a majority of Americans are frightened that if we pull out of Iraq before they have a stable government, the terrorists will use Iraq as a staging area to attack the U.S. Regardless of whether that is true, that is how most Americans see it. Again. No traction.
Where is the policy statements on these wonderful Progressive sites? They do not exist. As I said to one of the activists on Democratic Underground in an email, "the Democrats are in the same position now that the Conservative movement was in the early 1960's. The Democrats are out of power, out of ideas and spoiling for a fight." Great. What did that buy the Republicans in 1964? It bought them a landslide defeat. It took 15 years for the Republicans to recover from that failure. As it stands now, I do not think the Democrats can recover from their failures for at least 15 years. It may be much longer because they refuse to learn from their failures and look for new ideas.
Ah, well. I have said what I wanted to say tonight. I wanted to introduce you to the present center of the Democratic Party, so that you can make your own assessments as to their sanity. You really do need to go out to these three sites and read through their posts. I consider all three of them to be trips into fantasy land, but maybe you would not.
The whole point of this exercise tonight was to get you to realize that the Left AND the Right in this country are not living in the same reality, because the Left has refused to admit that their policies no longer appeal to a majority of Americans. DailyKos, Democratic Underground and moveon.org are not helping. Their position appears to be that if they just found the magic packaging technique their policies will be acceptable to the majority of Americans. They aren't.
Anyway. MacKenzie Pequa the Third takes over now. She will play you some music for the rest of the night.
Take it away, Mac.
Segment 6
We are having our Spring fund drive. Call in and make a pledge. I shall play some music and take your pledge. I have no engineers or someone to take the phone, so that is what needs to be done. Don't be shy. Call right now at 779-5367 or 779-KEOS or donate securely at www.keos.org.
The last Liberal web site I want to look in on tonight is moveon.org. Wikipedia says of them:
MoveOn.org is a liberal political group based in the United States that organizes and informs an online community estimated at more than three million people. The group aims to promote grassroots advocacy by its members through various political activities including running a PAC, voter registration drives, and political advertising (especially in swing states).What I find fascinating about Moveon.org is that they were set up to defend Bill Clinton against a move to impeach him. With the advent of 9/11, they have changed their focus to general grassroots advocacy for Progressive causes. Moveon.org is part of the main stream of the Democratic Party. George Soros is pouring money into their efforts. They represent the face of the present Democratic Party.
What are some of their big campaigns right now?
A popular campaign on the front page of moveon.org right now has the title: "Join Feingold: Censure Bush". Here's the problem with censuring Bush in the Senate. It requires fifty votes. The Democrats have 45. They are going to have to get 6 Republicans to agree with them that "It is clear now that the president has been repeatedly and willingly breaking the law to wiretap American citizens without a warrant. Congress must hold him accountable, and a reasonable first step is censure to show formal Congressional condemnation for his lawbreaking." We are in the middle of a war with the Irreconcilables. A LARGE number of people are frightened. I draw your attention to the Dubai Ports World controversy. Why does it Make sense to censure the President in the middle of a war while he is trying to protect us against an implacable foe? This action will rev up the base, but it will alienate too many moderates, because it shows a lack of sense on the part of the center of the Democratic Party.
There is a scene in Animal House where Otter says, "I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part." If there was ever a futile and stupid gesture, this is it. Why you might ask. The Congress has the power to stop the warrantless wiretaps. The Democrats could simply introduce a bill that precluded the President from doing warrantless wiretaps. By doing it that way, the Democratic Party could put on record those members of Congress in the Senate and the House of Representatives as to how they viewed the warrantless wiretaps. The Democratic Party doesn't want to do that. They do NOT want to go on record as saying that they do not support wiretapping conversation of alleged terrorists. The base of the Democratic Party desperately wants their leaders to do that. Their leaders KNOW that if they do, many of the people voting FOR repealing warrantless wiretaps will lose their seat in Congress this fall. Any sane person would be able to see that in light of the Dubai Ports World debacle.
Moveon.org doesn't see it that way. They are convinced that the censure of the President will cause people to vote for them in November. That's crazy. Again, because the base of the Democratic Party has imbibed of postmodernism, they perceive that they can pull off a censure AND not have any negative consequences befall them. There's no damned way. Ah, it doesn't matter. Russ Feingold wants to beat Hillary out and get the base to vote for him in the 2008 primaries. He's launching this to please the base of the Democratic Party without much expectation that he will actually get anything done. Again, this is "a really futile and stupid gesture". Look! That's what you get when you won't listen to the other side in any debate format.
Let me show you one more of the moveon.org campaigns on the front page of the web site. It says, "Going Bigger: 2006 Plan for Victory". When you click on the link it says on the second page, "The 2006 elections are only a few months away - and if we keep our eyes on the goal, we're in a position to win big. Democratic control of Congress will mean we can finally move forward with big ideas like health care for all Americans or energy independence, and make sure the troops get home safely and soon from Iraq. This week, we're aiming to expand our election plan with a new TV ad program that will get the truth to voters early in the most important elections across the country"
Think about that for a minute. The big issues for moveon.org are "health care for all Americans or energy independence, and make sure the troops get home safely and soon from Iraq."
How do they plan to get health care for all Americans? It's been tried in Europe, Canada and God knows where else in the world. Universal health insurance with the government being the primary health provider leads quickly to a degrading of the health care system. People in this country know that. Universal health care has no traction. If it was going to get people elected, it would have done so in the past. It's not a new idea.
How are they going to achieve energy independence without drilling for oil and expanding the number of refineries in this country? Oh, yes, oh, yes, oh, yes, Conservation... Wind power... Ethanol... What? That's stupid. All of those have been tried in the U.S. and Europe and Canada. They didn't work. These are new ideas? No way. The Democratic Party is associated with the environmentalist obstruction of drilling for new oil. Conservation, wind power and ethanol don't have traction with the American people. Sorry. No sale.
The cry of "Bring the boys home from Iraq... Now..." is a nonstarter. The Republicans tried to get the Democrats to go on record as favoring immediate pullout and the Democrats almost all voted against the bill. The immediate withdrawal from Iraq looks like it will generate votes. It won't. That's crazy. Regardless of what the polls say, a majority of Americans are frightened that if we pull out of Iraq before they have a stable government, the terrorists will use Iraq as a staging area to attack the U.S. Regardless of whether that is true, that is how most Americans see it. Again. No traction.
Where is the policy statements on these wonderful Progressive sites? They do not exist. As I said to one of the activists on Democratic Underground in an email, "the Democrats are in the same position now that the Conservative movement was in the early 1960's. The Democrats are out of power, out of ideas and spoiling for a fight." Great. What did that buy the Republicans in 1964? It bought them a landslide defeat. It took 15 years for the Republicans to recover from that failure. As it stands now, I do not think the Democrats can recover from their failures for at least 15 years. It may be much longer because they refuse to learn from their failures and look for new ideas.
Ah, well. I have said what I wanted to say tonight. I wanted to introduce you to the present center of the Democratic Party, so that you can make your own assessments as to their sanity. You really do need to go out to these three sites and read through their posts. I consider all three of them to be trips into fantasy land, but maybe you would not.
The whole point of this exercise tonight was to get you to realize that the Left AND the Right in this country are not living in the same reality, because the Left has refused to admit that their policies no longer appeal to a majority of Americans. DailyKos, Democratic Underground and moveon.org are not helping. Their position appears to be that if they just found the magic packaging technique their policies will be acceptable to the majority of Americans. They aren't.
Anyway. MacKenzie Pequa the Third takes over now. She will play you some music for the rest of the night.
Take it away, Mac.
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