Down at the Mob ‘n’ Rabble Big Box Store
Hi Muffy,
I owe you a letter, but this is worth blogging, too! So, hope you don’t mind if I am letter/blogging!!!! First, you must must must go read this from the excellent Michelle Malkin.
She has all kinds of fashion hints for would-be community organizers and mob or rabble member people. These terms supposedly include people like us! I have been as appalled as you at what President Obama has been proposing: government growing exponentially, and paid for how???
So I thought I should do some shopping! If I’m going to go join the dangerous mob of malcontents and dissidents, I figure I ought to be properly kitted out, no? So I went to the local home and garden place! It was my aim to go get a pitchfork. I think those things, plus torches are what really make a classic mob, don’t you?
Ha, I lucked out – we have a “community” “organizer” in the White House, and here this store is having some kind of Organization Event!
So I look at the garden supplies for the pitchforks. Hmm, not here…
Oh look, they carry our Revolutionary Flag! Super! Things are looking up!
Look, paint chips! Pretty!
But, as they say in Democratic circles, “That’s just a distraction.” Ah, this is what I came for: a pitchfork!
But, are you kidding me? Muffy, they wanted $34 for one of these! I’m not a trust fund baby, and I can assure you that no one is paying me to attend any rally or meeting to protest Logan’s Run style health care! I can tell you my Republican Woman’s Club has NEVER paid me to have or express an opinion! I am going on my own because I think Obama’s ideas are outrageous and it is my right to say so.
I didn’t buy the pitchfork. I have no need for one. I’m no more a dangerous and violent person than you are, Muffy! When I go to protest the creeping socialism the Democrats are trying to foist off on us, I will bring my camera and iPhone (thus, Internet connection). Sunlight, disinfectant: those are powerful weapons, if we will use them, against dishonest politicians.
And I don’t want to be mistaken for some sort of Hippie, so I will be dressed as I often am, in my Brooks Brothers blazer, and pearls. With a white T-shirt, for the common touch. (See the elephant scarf? So cute!)
Muffy, you too read up and speak up. It’s our right as citizens. Dressed like hippies or preppies.
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The scarf’s a nice touch.
Jane, I love it! Good humored yet gets the point across … I’ll be linking over at my site. Not to worry … those of us in the country have all those gardening tools so just let me know if you find a need.
~Lynn
I forgot to mention Jane that the $34 pitchfork is probably due to administration imposing its new pitchfork tax to pay for health care.
Oh…and for those emailing the White House, that’s H-O-E-F-T. Please include the “O”.
Yanno, the pitchforks were right next to the shovels. Which might be even more useful considering what’s coming out of Congress these days.
[...] Jane goes shopping for Townhall attire and accessories: Down at the Mob ‘n’ Rabble Big Box Store. [...]
SwacGirl, how are the organized birther protests going? You know, the ones you are planning behind the scenes for here in Virginia?
I hope security keeps a close eye on you, especially after your big debut as a violent, lying, tax dollar wasting FRAUD at that second George Allen/ Mike Stark incident.
Remember When?
A worker went to work for a company and they actually paid to train them for the job.
How much do YOU have left to pay on that BS degree, in your entry level position?
Remember When?
Your dad retired after thirty years and the company gave him a gold watch and a living wage pension.
How’s YOUR 401′s and IRA’s working out? Or did you become a ward of the government benefit fund, receiving pennies on the dollars your company robbed from the pension you were promised?
Remember When?
Union leaders looked out for your interests.
Have you gotten tired of their lame excuses at contract time about how “times are hard and it was the best deal we could get” from their next door neighbor, the CEO?
Remember When?
Pay was based on performance and frequent promotions.
Isn’t today’s name of the game called job shopping before you exceed your position’s wage range, dutifully accepting the same COLA raise others received for doing less work, or taking the first job offer that comes along before the lay off money runs out?
Remember When?
A company offered health benefits that didn’t require you to give back most of your meager paycheck?
Welcome to the next step in the benefit reduction plan. Companies have for years been systematically reducing the average worker’s benefits without a corresponding increase in real wages. Don’t take my word for it, look it up. Now it’s time for the government to take over health care, paid for by your paycheck.
Does anyone really think this whole thing is about 45 million uninsured citizens and illegal immigrants? Come on you faithful party kool aid drinkers, be honest. Are companies going to continue their own health plans out the goodness of their heart if there is a public ‘option’ that they won’t have to pay for?
Are your union leaders going to duke it out with their buddies down at the country club? Are big business Republicans going to look out for the little guy? (Refer to the latest elections for the public’s opinion on that.)
And you Democrats whining about ‘paid mobsters’ at town hall meetings should check out health care company contributions to the Obama campaign before taking the high road. Why would employees who supposedly stand to lose their jobs give tons of money to the one candidate who’s key campaign platform would ‘kill’ the industry?
Because those companies stand to make a ton of money, and the slimy politicians from both parties know it. The difference of course is now it’s your money, not your employer’s. And don’t you dare expect your salary to increase to offset the loss of benefits. Ingrate!
All this huffing and puffing between the right and left makes for great sound bites and YouTube videos, but the fix is in. Once you cool down and think about it, 35 dollars for that pitchfork may have been the best deal of the next century.
1) I guess I missed where Malkin was complaining about Bush doubling our national debt from 5 to 10 trillion dollars. Her sudden fiscal conservatism is intellectually dishonest.
2) the reference to Logan’s Run is right up there with the logic of the birthers, or the 9/11 truthers, or other folks with tin on their heads to keep the CIA from reading their thoughts – actually go read the bill, then go to the American Medical Association – you’ll discover that what is being proposed, which is the opportunity to talk to your doctor about end of life care and wishes is EXACTLY what the AMA recommends. The twisting of good medical advice and open discussions between a doctor and patient into something nefarious is pure pravda-style propaganda meant for folks like you who can’t be bothered to actually read the bill and think for themselves.
Mark writes about Bush.
How surprising!
And Mark supports Logan’s Run care for ending life. We can only hope…
Mark, every person should discuss end of life matters, with family, attorneys, and doctors. But no one should be required to do so by the government.
The basic objection against too much government involvement in (many things) is this: if they are giving you money, they will tell you how to spend it and/or penalize you if you don’t spend it they way they want.
The second objection is that often government-run things are less efficient than privately-run things. Not always, of course. But often.
What amazes me is this: suppose this large, intrusive medical bill was being proposed near the start of the Bush administration. Bush-appointed/approved people would be running health administration, writing health care regulations, arranging funding for health studies, etc. Would that be okay with you? I’m guessing, no. Then why are you now so eager to allow a different administration so much power?
If it was bad to allow the Bush administration too many powers, then it is bad for the same reason to allow another administration too many powers.
One more objection to the bill: it’s too big. (I haven’t read the whole thing, but I bet you haven’t either, Mark). If we want to reform health care, why not a series of small bills, pilot programs, etc.? Try something in one area (of reform, not geographical area) and see how it works for a year or two. If it doesn’t, scrap it and do something better. But you just know that 1,000 pages of bill that no one has read just cannot be good law. Can’t be. C’mon, y’all.
So you guys are all cool with this then? Conservatives asking friends to bring weapons to Town Halls to beat down Obama supporters?
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/anti-health-care-reform-protester-encourages-physical-violence-use-of-firearms.php
Anti-Health Care Reform Protester Encourages Physical Violence, Use Of Firearms
By Brian Beutler – August 7, 2009, 2:20PM
Based on the news that health care events are edging into violence, an anti-health care reform protester in New Mexico named Scott Oskay is calling on his hundreds of online followers to bring firearms to town halls, and to ‘badly hurt’ SEIU and ACORN counter protesters.