A Town Hall Disrupter Speaks at RightOnline
Friday, August 14, 2009 at 3:48 pm
PITTSBURGH – At a RightOnline panel on “Blogging 101,” PoliticsDaily writer Matt Lewis showed a video of a health care meeting held by Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) that was short-circuited by conservative protests. One of the protesters, Sonja Bliss, happened to be in the room. Bliss, who owns a courier business in Austin, Texas, explained that she had no official connection to Americans for Prosperity or Patients First. “I found out about this on Facebook,” she said.
Bliss, who donated $1,000 to John McCain’s 2008 campaign, told me that she’d grown more involved in politics this year, attending a few “Tea Party” protests, but rejected the idea that people like her are the product of corporate “astroturf.” “Our America is being taken away,” she explained.
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Comment posted August 14, 2009 @ 7:59 pm
It's people like her who – through their inability to learn how to do things effectively – are helping the Dems. Chanting like baboons who can speak is not effective. Asking a question like this would be effective, but the people she's following are never going to ask others to ask things like that because it would interfere with their funding sources.
P.S. Maybe while Weigel's there, he can ask why I (“NoMoreBlatherDotCom”) was banned by TheNextRight. Soren Dayton has not AFAIK gotten back to me as he said with the name of the person who did it and an explanation. Maybe he could find out.
Comment posted August 14, 2009 @ 9:27 pm
To the contrary. It is people like Ms. Bliss who are showing the Republican Party – and, by God, it sorely needs showing – where and how resistance against the National Socialist (formerly “Democrat”) Party is rising, its sources, and how those who resist can no longer be contented with the Republicans' perpetual “Go along to get along” compromises.
There neither can be nor should there be compromises with the National Socialists' purposes and policies. Ever heard the old homily about how to boil a live frog? Well, the people like Ms. Bliss have long since been feeling the heat, and to extend the analogy, they're hopping mad.
The cement-headed leadership of the Republican Party had spent the first six years of Dubbya's misrule screwing up by the numbers, ignoring and wasting their opportunities to hammer the federal government into shape, to “bind [it] down from mischief with the chains of the Constitution.”
Starting in 2006, the majority of voters – still a narrow majority, but a majority – began demonstrating their discontent with the Republicans' “business as usual” attitude, their corruption and hypocrisy and bloody stupidity. So they allowed the federal government to fall into the hands of the National Socialists, and we're seeing what happens when the people – like Ms. Bliss and the rest of the real grassroots – “AstroTurf” be damned – of the nation understand that the RNC and the rest of the Republican Party's Secret Masters of Pork aren't doing the job they've sworn to do, to protect the Constitution of these United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic, including members of their own party.
And does it surprise anybody that the conservative grassroots people – like Ms. Bliss – have pulled up socialist Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals and are using the socialists' tactics against them?
Hey, they worked for Barry Soetoro and all his other “poverty pimp” ACORN buddies.
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Comment posted August 15, 2009 @ 2:00 am
Nicely recited talking points.
From Mark Levin, I'm guessing. No one, except other nut cases is ever going to take you seriously with your talk of National Socialists, Barry Soetoro and Saul Alinksy. You discredit yourself.
Comment posted August 15, 2009 @ 2:12 am
WTF d'ya mean “recited,” snubby? The only quote I pulled was from Jefferson's draft of the Kentucky Resolutions.
But thanks for the reference to Mark Levin. I'd not hitherto heard of him, as I'm not a conservative but rather one of those folks who prefers that American citizens be treated as self-responsible adults on all issues (or as one conservative shrieked when he discovered what us libertarians were all about: “Dear God, they're pro-choice on EVERYTHING!“).
Hey, but feel free to continue guessing. You National Socialist clowns are such a hoot.
You want to Wiki up “Saul Alinsky” and his “Rules For Radicals” to find out what those words mean, lapdog, or are you just gonna keep on “guessing”?
Comment posted August 15, 2009 @ 2:33 am
Nah. More like a sort of antichrist to you Barry-worshiping scum, nu?
I think of myself rather more as that little boy in “The Emperor's New Clothes,” the only person in the city willing to point at El Pomposo and observe – loudly – that the silly bastich has got his shriveled little dong hanging out.
How do you think of yourself, Binki? As a “left-wing blogger” getting your daily marching orders in an email push from Messiah Central?
Comment posted August 15, 2009 @ 2:16 pm
I know who Saul Alinksy is. And you know who Mark Levin is. C'mon, tell the truth now.
Libertarian? That's a right-winger who like to smoke dope, right?
Comment posted August 15, 2009 @ 4:33 pm
Well, you don't seem to know of Saul Alinsky well enough to spell his name correctly. Just as I'd not heard of him or his Rules For Radicals until I began reading into the background of Barry Soetoro, I'd no more heard of Mark Levin until you'd mentioned him. I just did a search and was directed to his Web page.
I don't think his radio program is even carried in my area, the way Limbaugh's bloviations and Hannity's stuff are. But, truth to tell, I didn't bother to check. Conservative talk radio, in my opinion, whacks ineffectively at the branches and never gets to the roots of “Liberal” evil. Nothing much productive ever comes out of time invested in listening to these people, except for the pleasure I get out of hearing “Liberals” howl with sputtering rage.
And libertarian is really the political expression of principled respect for one's neighbors rights to life, to liberty, and to property.
Some of us not only “like to smoke dope” (never did myself, but I'm the sort of cheap drunk who gets a buzz off the half-glass of champagne with which wedding toasts are offered, that being about the frequency and extent of my lifelong encounters with intoxicants of any kind; weird in a wine-making extended family like mine) but we're very good with firearms.
“An armed society is a polite society.”
It kinda has to be, don'tcha think?
Comment posted August 17, 2009 @ 10:18 pm
Just an aging dork poking douchebags on the internets. I in advance recognize and understand the futility of commenting on internet chat boards. I just wonder sometimes if people really believe the stuff they spout on the net and whether they would ever say that stuff in real life. Especially people who claim to have all the answers if only that pesky reality and human cussedness didn't constantly get in the way. Or think that just reciting talking points they got from some email forward makes rational sense.
I was rooting for John Edwards (so what if he's smoove with the ladies, he could have been Clinton II electric boogaloo), I thought (and still do) Obama was (is) too much of a yuppie. But compared to the dinosaur that is McCain, the trapped in high school nightmare of Palin, and the radical and racist baggage of the Paulistas, LaRouchians, Von Misery types I think we got off light. Watching the Republicans try and scare the old people into a frothing rebellion is a kind of sad funny, too. Google the SNL “Robot Insurance” bit, it's the same thing.
Comment posted August 18, 2009 @ 2:26 am
Us “old people” are a bit more sensitized to governmental damage than are the younger folks simply because we've had more proximal experience with politicians' knavery.
As for “all the answers,” there are the answers that objective reality implacably impose and the wishful stupidities that people denying reality fall into because they've been gulled into thinking those softer, sweeter, gauzy stupidities are viable alternatives to reality.
What you dismiss as “Paulistas” and “Von Misery types” are simply those of us who understand that the laws of economics work like the laws of physics. While you were “rooting for John Edwards” (a malpractice attorney? really!) because “he could have been Clinton II electric boogaloo” and you perhaps thought he could've suspended or repealed those laws of economics, those of us on the real-world side would quite naturally fight tooth and nail against your quest to open the scuttling cocks and sink the whole goddam ship with us and our families and friends aboard.
You go right ahead and jump overboard, if that's your taste. But keep your friggin' hands off the rest of the passengers and crew.
Matter of fact, let me help you over the rail. Us Sicilians like watching until the bubbles stop coming up.
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