The article below was written almost three years ago, but the content proves the adage that the “more things change, the more they stay the same.” The establishment Republicans, the RINO types, liberals are spewing their nonsense in 2012 just as in 2009. For the most part, the names and the subject are the same, only the year has  changed. The one elected in November 2012 will determine whether the republic begins a slow return to less government or continues headlong into full blown government control of more things that have always been none of the government’s business.

A column titled, Taking aim at the loudmouths, in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on 10-22-2009, by Dick Polman of the Philadelphia Inquirer, missed the mark a country mile with his comments concerning conservative talk radio. He wrote in the first paragraph: Ever so slowly, sane Republicans and conservatives are finally marshaling the courage to confront the unhinged broadcasters in their midst—and not a moment too soon, given the fact that these loons now seem to be running the asylum. He is very incensed that Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Glen Beck, and Michael Savage are (excuse the expression) savaging the current administration’s attempt at changing our constitutional republic into a quasi-dictatorship, if not a full blown one at some future date. He dredges up some nebulous notions from years ago, such as the image on the back of the dime being a 1916 fascist plot, to support his thinking. The commentators aren’t talking about what took place 93 years ago. They are looking at the events that are occurring now and are not using politically correct speech when they talk. 

Of course, the entrenched poobahs of the Republican Party have their knickers in a twist that the commentators are doing what they are afraid to do; that is taking on the nut job party destroying the republic. Senator Lindsey Graham is one of the Republicans who is irate at Beck and the others because he and the other linguine spine hacks of the party are being called to account for not standing on constitutional principles instead of playing “let’s get along”  with the leftists across the aisle. When challenged skunks always spray.

The commentators make light of the notion that the paranoia the citizens feel is foolish; A South Carolina Representative, Bob Inglis, said that “Glenn Beck seems to see is a place where we should all be fearful . . . . It sure does sell soap, but it sure does a disservice to America.” This man is as bad as Graham. When car companies are taken over; when executives are fired; when control of banks is undertaken; when pay levels for upper level business people are set; and when the people face mounting national debt, not to mention the soon to be health bill fiasco, the people have every right to be afraid. The disservice being done to the nation isn’t the commentators; it is the damage being done to the constitutional republic by the likes of the nut job  and his fellow nut jobs and jobettes, Graham, Inglis, McCain, Reid, Pelosi, Snowe, Collins, Leahy, Hoyer, Frank, Schumer et al as they push fascism and worse off onto to us.

One conservative author said that the commentators are “often embarrassingly ignorant.” It must be noted at this point that when the status quo is challenged, the ones who despise a challenge are the first to begin the tirades against sanity. The truth is that the aforementioned ones, plus many others are the ignorant ones. They should be embarrassed if they are ignorant of the truth; if they are ignorant they should learn; and if they aren’t ignorant, they need to be run out of office because their acts are deliberate.

Polman doesn’t like it that the conservative commentators are blowing the whistle on the tyrants now populating the government seats of power. The status quo is being challenged by the commentators who are urging the listeners to question the poobahs who think they are untouchable. He ended the column with the words of Edmund Burke, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”  The good men and women of this nation are doing something about the evil; and the Polman’s, Graham’s and others do not like the assault on their comfortable status quo. They are blind to the government’s decadence which they have caused and which the commentators are exposing. The very truth they are denying is that the lunatics of the left and wiener Republicans are running the asylum they created.

© 10-22-2009 DEC