For A Guy With A Hearing Aid, He Sees Pretty Well

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/02/28/video-limbaugh-brings-down-the-house-at-cpac/

Here is a brief excerpt from near the end:

I mean, there's some people you can't say you want the President to fail. Ladies and gentlemen of the United States, the Democrat Party has actively not just sought the failure of Republican presidents and policies and now wars for the first time, the Democrat Party doesn't stop at failure. Talk to Judge Robert Bork or Justice Clarence Thomas about how they tried to destroy lives, reputations and character, and I'm supposed to say I don't want the President to fail? We're in for a real battle. We are talking about the United States of America -- and there will always be an America, don't misunderstand me -- we're talking about it remaining the country we were all born into and reared and grown into. And it's under assault. It's always under assault. But it's never been under assault like this from within before. And it's a serious, serious battle.

Reminds me of a quote I just recently saw somewhere...

A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.*

Sam Adams

Full transcript available here.

*emphasis added

I don't need you anymore, but I love you just the same.

If they come near you, go see them. You'll thank me.

This is them. And this is about them.

Sign of the Living Dead

I found this relatively hilarious.

A Letter to My Representatives

With regard to H.R. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009:

As a Conservative, I firmly disagree with Democrats on the stimulus. I believe that the end of the recession and the growth of our economy depend not on extracting even more money from the private sector for the government to redistribute at its whim but on the ingenuity and daring of the entrepreneurs with the capital reinvesting it into their efforts to be profitable. Increasing the tax burden on those who create jobs will simply stifle innovation, reducing the amount of capital reinvestment and increasing the cost of goods and services in order to generate substantive profit. By increasing taxes on the wealthy, the federal government will achieve, in effect, a tax hike on all low and middle income-earners in the form of price increases. The solution to our economic woes requires the reduction of government spending and the deregulation of the free market. How do we regulate something supposedly free anyway? The economy is better served when I decide what to do with my money than when the government does.

Margaret Thatcher demonstrated the merits of this philosophy when she led efforts to privatize British Airways and British Steel - who transformed from court jesters to princes in their respective industries. I believe that in our free market, just as in life, failure simply provides the opportunity to achieve greater success.

Please stand firmly against President Obama and Speaker Pelosi on this. I believe our integrity as Conservatives depends on uniting against this.

Sincerely,
Jason M. Hopkins