The Joke's On US

Given the Democratic majority in the U.S. House of representatives, yesterday's 345 to 75 vote for cutting off all federal funding for ACORN was an eye-opener as a large majority finally recognized that it was time to throw this gang under the bus. EaBo Clipper, over at Red Mass Group, has an interesting POST which highlights the fact that eight of the ten members of the Massachusetts Congressional delegation voted against measure. Talk about drinking the Kool Aid?, the ACORN eight must have a Kool Aid IV. But to those of us in the Massachusetts 10th, the significant news was our Congressman Bill Delahunt who voted to keep the federal money flowing to those wonderful rascals at ACORN!

Some might say that at least he showed up, unlike Barney Frank, that tower of Jello, who managed to be AWOL for the vote in spite of having been present for a vote only minutes before. As a small blessing, we should also be glad that Bill wasn't in Caracas with his bud, Hugo Chavez, who seems to be doing his best to join the Iran-lead push to creating another atomic weapon coalition.

Meanwhile, back at health care debate, many of us in the 10th are wondering if we somehow missed Bill's Town Meeting to collect input from the constituency regarding this mother of all social programs. Not to worry, no such meeting was held. So just jot your thoughts down in an email and send it off to:

William.Delahunt@mail.house.gov

Unless the email servers are still in meltdown, Bill will surely appreciate your input.

And don't worry if you missed the August 22nd demonstration at Delahunt's Hyannis office. CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO. Apparently, Bill missed it too.

So during this, our summer of discontent, we can jokingly ask: "where is our Congressman?" But the punchline is not quite as pleasant. He appears to be running unopposed for re-election. The better question is where are the voters of the 10th?

Taking It To The Streets, II

To say that coverage of last Saturday's march in Washington drew minimal coverage from the MSM could be the understatement of the year. Not for nothin' the best article we could find was from the UK's Daily Mail Click HERE to read about the huge turnout of private citizens concerned enough about the left's raid on the U.S. Treasury to spend countless hours riding buses from all over the country to our nation's capital to express their frustration and concern directly to the federal government.

The few articles we could find in the MSM reported "tens of thousands" of demonstrators, clearly an attempt to minimize the impact of this historical event. The Mail mentions as many as one million in attendance, but before we get drawn into a side bar argument on attendance numbers, click on Sharilee's POSTING on Worcester County Freedom Trail to see the evidence that time-lapse photography produces.

Reporting in National Review On Line, Mark Hemingway provides some interesting insights into the makeup of the marchers:

As for the composition of the crowd, well I personally spoke to people from Ohio, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Idaho, Alaska, Delaware, Tennessee, Nevada, California, Montana, as well as Virginia and Maryland, natch. (And I'm probably forgetting a few.) What also bears noting is that a lot of people came by bus — and of the people that came to the march by bus, almost all came on privately chartered buses organized by someone they knew. I asked one guy, who came up from South Carolina with 160 people on three buses, who put his trip together. He laughed and said, "My neighbor." Can we drive a stake through the astroturf claim now?

Click HERE to read the rest of Mark's report and view the great photos.

Perhaps the lack of coverage may keep some uninformed, but you Can be sure that the members of Congress know about the march and now have even more reason to question whether they want to support the president's crusade to bankrupt the U.S. to finance his socialistic agenda.

Congressman Joe Wilson may have been impolite, but he sure wasn't wrong. Do the math.

Taking It To The Streets

The protests of the Sixties with vast crowds marching to call for the end of what they saw as an unjust Asian war, using tactics copied from the civil rights movement, brought a new dimension to American politics. And whether you agreed with the cause or not, you couldn't help but acknowledge the impact that these events had on the political establishment. Many, in those days, dismissed the protesters as rowdy hippies, but we were seeing what happens when elected officials fail to read a marked change in public sentiment. Frustration overcame the sending of polite letters to one's elected officials.

Which brings us to the September 12, 2009, March on Washington. This protest is being billed as an effort at defending liberty, and restoring our Constitution by reducing the size and scope of the federal government, especially with respect to the proposals for nationalizing health care. Put another way, In this march, the Tea Party Movement Goes to Capitol Hill.

This march represents a national focus on a movement that has grown up from the town hall meetings held across the country where many elected officials ran into a buzz saw of resistance to the Democratic plans for a socialistic national health care system. In an ironic reversal of roles from the Sixties, the liberal Democrats are labelling the their critics as a small band of right-wing nuts, a characterization that seeks to marginalize the growing breadth and strength of this movement.

An article by Ben Stein entitled, Why We Must March, provides an excellent analysis of the issues at stake, which extend well beyond the health care proposals.

In the last year or so those of us who cherish liberty have been pushed up against a wall. We have watched the federal government bail out the elites on Wall Street for their own bad decisions. We have seen a new president waste a trillion dollars on failed economic ideas and increase our debt to dangerous proportions.

We have heard the soaring rhetoric and watched the media fawn all over this new president who we are told is a new FDR. But we don’t want another FDR. We want our freedom, we want less government in our lives and we want to be left alone.

Which brings us to the present:

Now we come to the heat of August, and the protests and town hall meetings are keeping the pressure on the politicians. As one woman in Pennsylvania told a prominent senator, “You have awakened a sleeping giant.” This month the media and the left will continue to write us off, or malign us, but we will press on. And once the dust settles and the politicians return to Washington, they will think that it is all over. They only wish.

As the politicians return, we will follow them to Washington. We will come from every state, in big cities and small towns, to descend upon the capitol building with one voice. Our message will be a simple one: we demand our freedom. We reject the growth of the federal government and want our republic restored. This is not, and never will be, a socialist nation.

Read the entire ARTICLE. Better yet, send it to your elected officials. This is far from over.

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