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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 02 February 2012 |
I've been talking to a lot of folks here in Washington after
Romney's Florida romp over Gingrich on Tuesday (1/31). The consensus is that Mittens has sewn it
up. As Jack Kelly says, either Romney
killed Gingrich or Gingrich committed suicide, but either way Newton's
candidacy is a dead man walking. Romney
is the last man standing.
This is obnoxious.
The Gravy Train Party has triumphed over the Tea Party. Gravy Train Republicans pay lip service to "limited
government" as long as nothing actually threatens to derail the flow of
government gravy to their lobbyists and their perks of power. Romney is their guy. So what do we do? Are there any ponies in this giant pile of
horse manure?
Let's see, proceeding on the assumption that Mittens wins. The two biggest ponies in his pile are Marco
Rubio, who will be his Vice-President, and John Bolton, who will be his
Secretary of State.
Bolton would be our #1 SecState choice whomever would be the
Pub president. We would have the most
pro-American foreign policy of our lifetimes - and that certainly includes
Reagan's, for his SecState George Schultz fought the
Reagan Doctrine every step of the way.
Rubio would be our #1 VP choice whomever would be the Pub
president as well. It's the reverse of
Reagan-Bush. Romney-Rubio would be a
squish president and conservative vice-president. Rubio could do to the Romney Administration
what Bush did to Reagan's.
With Rubio, Tea Party Conservatives have the opportunity to
make a deal with Romney. It would go
something like this:
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HOW MUCH TIME DO WE HAVE? |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 26 January 2012 |
Is there a road so long that, no matter how many times you
kick a can down it, you will never reach the end?
The answer is yes, there is - because the operative word in
the question is not "road" or "long," but "you." The game is to keep kicking your can down the
road until you're able to force others to make it their can, like taxpayers or
your children when you die. Another
proven successful alternative is to blame the existence of the can on a
scapegoat, like "the 1%" or "capitalism."
Most successful of all is to deny there is a can at all, and
demonize anyone who says there really is one.
All of these strategies work - until they don't. Reality exists, no matter how much people engage
in reality-denial. Thus the time always
comes when reality bites. So the
question we all need to face is, how much time do we have until it does?
For reality is getting ready to bite us all in our backsides
big time. When almost everyone engages
in reality-denial, the kicked can really does reach the end of the road, and
that's just about where we are right now.
Here are two screamingly unpalatable facts. The first is, the odds are growing now that
Zero will be reelected. The second is,
it may not make much difference if Zero is defeated.
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DOES AMERICA STILL HAVE THE COURAGE TO BE FREE? |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 19 January 2012 |
"It does little
good to summon those very citizens who have been made so dependent on the
central power to choose from time to time the representatives of that power. However important, this brief and occasional
exercise of their free choice will not prevent them from gradually losing the
faculties of thinking, feeling, and acting for themselves, and thus slowly
falling below the level of humanity." -- Alexis de
Tocqueville, Democracy In America, 1835
De Tocqueville wrote at a time when large numbers of
Americans not only were alive during the Revolution but had fought in it. Yet his astounding prescience accurately
depicts exactly the unique form of tyranny enveloping and strangling us right
now. He had no name for it, as "the type
of oppression which threatens democracies is different from anything there has
ever been in the world before."
It is an oppression that its subjects willingly submit
to. It is a voluntary surrender of freedom.
It achieves an "immense protective power" through keeping people in "perpetual
childhood."
Under such an "administrative despotism," he concluded that "It
really is difficult to imagine how people who have entirely given up managing
their own affairs could make a wise choice of those who are to do that for
them."
Today, that "administrative despotism" in America has in
fact finally been achieved. We're
there. De Tocqueville's future is
now. So - what do we do about it?
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PERRY, OBAMA, AND HARRY TRUMAN |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 12 January 2012 |
It's starting to look like 1948 all over again.
Mark Twain observed that while history doesn't repeat
itself, it often rhymes. The 2012
presidential campaign is now rhyming with that of 1948 in iambic trimeter - the
poetic form tragedians of Ancient Greece such as Aeschylus and Sophocles used
to best express portending doom.
So let's revisit that extraordinary yesteryear of 1948,
resulting in the most famous upset in American politics - Democrat Harry
Truman defeating Republican Tom Dewey - and see how we can avoid a similar
outcome by using it to our advantage.
How to do so is an opportunity being
handed to Rick Perry on a platter. The
opportunity is to agree with Zero...
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THE MEETING THAT CAN CHANGE THE WORLD |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 05 January 2012 |
Gobsmacked. It's the word Brits use when they are stunned
by something ridiculously astounding.
Late Tuesday night (1/03), I was beyond gobsmacked when I heard the
results of the Iowa Caucuses. Now it is Thursday
(1/05), and I remain profoundly shaken by the stupefying stupidity of the Iowa
caucus voters.
It tells me that Zero's election in 2008 was no fluke, no
spasm of temporary masochistic insanity. That voters are into
reality-denial up to their ears. That whatever part of their brain they
are using to vote with, it is most assuredly not their ratiocinative part.
Iowans have no idea what they did to their country Tuesday:
they substantially increased the odds that Zero will win re-election in
November. It wasn't Romney or Santorum
who won in Iowa. It was Zero who won,
hands down.
So let me tell you about a meeting that could change the
world.
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