Comments on: What’s Really Going On

By: Phillip Ellis Jackson

Phillip Ellis Jackson — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:36:22 +0000

Sedona: One way I’ve decided to do it is to delay paying off a note that I intended to retire this year. The interest rate is relatively low, and with the hyper inflation that’s coming, I can inflate my way out of the re-payment by paying it off in 2010 or 2011 with inflationary dollars.

By: sedonaman

sedonaman — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:20:33 +0000

Well, I guess where we go from here is to find a way to protect ourselves from the hyperinflation [à la 1923 Germany] sure to come.

By: From Inwood

From Inwood — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 04:43:51 +0000

In an exchange of e-mails with a friend who doesn’t blog, I sent him your article & all comments & we discused those who say that the GOP has to drop the social-con stuff or die.

He replied:

“Since we all know that at least 40% of Republican solons vote for pork spending and at least 3 agree with O’s bailout solution, if we dropped the social issues what reason would there be to vote for a Republican?”

By: From Inwood

From Inwood — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:43:23 +0000

I saw your “11972-976″ but I just figured that you were a Trekkie! (WWTD?, or What Would Trekkies Do?)

I hate to be cutting & pasting, but this is too good to ignore about the 180º turn on the Economy by The One (H/T Instapundit)

“They told me that if I voted for McCain I’d have a President who was an out-of-touch cheerleader for the economy. And they were right!”

FROM “CATASTROPHE” TO “NOT SO BAD?” We must distinguish between “bourgeois truth,” which is concerned with sterile facts, and “revolutionary truth,” which is concerned with what will promote the revolution. See:

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NmE0MTY3YWMxYzI3ZWM1OGUyZWMzOGQ1ZjRhNTMzYWQ=

By: jcscuba

jcscuba — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:04:46 +0000

Re: 912 Project: Do to the overwhelming amount of hits at this site as stated by Glenn on the show, the server keeps crashing, even the one he has running on his page at FoX. They will be getting this resolved shortly. Please be patient, I’ve been on a couple of times, nice format. J.C.

By: jcscuba

jcscuba — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:48:45 +0000

Hit that one out of the park again. Total agreement with your comment to Mickey G. let’s keep the GOP Banner and dump moderates and liberal Republicans at the ballot box. Glenn Beck had an interesting program where he rolled out http://the912project.com/ It’s called Project 9-12 in recognition of how we were one after 9-11. It seems that we are all feeling quite scared and wondering what is happening to us. It’s his contention that there are many millions of us and some 535 of them. They don’t listen to us, they don’t take our call or Emails, so he has provided a place where we can start talking and they will start listening. Call it the “If You Build it They Will Come” model. It’s my hope that this project becomes as big of a hit as Drudge and that they start going there to notice that one of my themes will be if they are in and have voted for pork, vote them out. TERM LIMITS AT THE BALLOT BOX.
http://stopsocialism.wordpress.com J.C.

By: Phillip Ellis Jackson

Phillip Ellis Jackson — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:24:54 +0000

Inwood. No problem. Apparently I have difficulty with writing the years properly (see #14).

By: From Inwood

From Inwood — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:47:42 +0000

Make my Lincoln-esque reference “two score and 12 days” Obama was in 52, not 62 days. My Bad.

Michelle Malkin has this note re the two BTWs I referred to in #11:

“Laughingstock: President Doom does a 180, cancels fear-mongering”.

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/03/12/laughingstock-president-doom-does-a-180-cancels-fear-mongering/

I don’t agree with the laughingstock part. I think that the public & the business community wants to hear happy news rather than doom & gloom & that this, as explained & reinforced by the MSM repeatedly will help his image.

It’s the image, stupid.

And you & folks like you (your #12)& me will be denounced as guilty of the sin of despair!

And anyway, it’s all Bush’s fault & the fault of deregulation & tax breaks for the rich. Give The One some time, for goodness sake.

Every American will be given 25 free DVDs.

By: Phillip Ellis Jackson

Phillip Ellis Jackson — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 02:20:40 +0000

michaelbp: I understand your position. But look at the Republican Party in 11972-976, and then in 1980. It took only one man to turn things around and give it a focus. If Reagan had abandoned the Democrats to start a new party (or join a small party and try to duplicate the infrastructure and voter roll of the Republican party), we’d have had carter again in 1980, and Mondale in 84.

The “alternative” is not to abandon the Republican party, but to support people with the best vision for the country, particularly if it means a primary fight with an incumbent Republican candidate.

And if we don’t win the battle in 2010 or 2012, we keep plugging away like Reagan did after losing to Ford in 1976.

If there are no Republican candidates anywhere with the right message and ideals who can gather a sufficient following of Republivan voters to win a primary battle, then we’ve lost, period. A third party effort would be even less successful.

By the way, regarding a Constitutional Convention, the States themselves can force this issue. It doesn’t come from Congress. There are enough state legislatures in smaller or conservative states where this would be a real possibility. For every NY there is an Alaska. For every california there is a Georgia, and then some.

By: michaelbp

michaelbp — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 02:07:40 +0000

Phil, in reference to your #8, once the incumbent parties’ primaries have slotted their respective candidates, then of course it makes no sense to sit things out. But in a greater sense it is important to seek an alternative to Orthrus. Whereas the the Repulbican party was originally founded as a base from which to pursue the policy of ending slavery expansion, the Republican party of today has become the Old Gentleman’s club and is too widely (and some would say too correctly) perceived as the party of Corporate Interests. Much as that original ideological spark inspired establishment of an effective organized opposition to pro-slavery Democrats then, a firm belief against government expansion today is the most combustible ideological material available to fuel an effective popular opposition populated by Conservatives. I do not see that either incumbent party would be willing take an unequivocal stand in this regard and then be held to account. And I cannot imagine either party overtly expressing its intention to pursue any other similarly unequivocal policy such as, for example, your previous proposal to hold a new Constitutional Convention.