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1. #1
   On March 26th, 2009 at 5:10 pm, Jet Jaguar said:

   We can call it the “Obama Youth”

2. #2
   On March 26th, 2009 at 5:13 pm, cwbois said:

   Jet Jaguar said:

   We can call it the “Obama Youth”

   No I think you call it slavery

3. #3
   On March 26th, 2009 at 5:17 pm, sambo said:

   Jet Jaguar said:
   We can call it the “Obama Youth”

   and don’t forget…’they will be as well funded as our military’.

4. #4
   On March 26th, 2009 at 5:20 pm, Schweggie said:

   Well, the whole American Experiment sure was a blast while it lasted. See yall on the other side!

5. #5
   On March 26th, 2009 at 5:25 pm, Cosmo said:

   I wonder what the sound reasoning was behind allowing ACORN to be eligible for the cash grab?

   “Obama said so” would seem feasible.

6. #6
   On March 26th, 2009 at 5:26 pm, Zippy_Slug said:

   You can have my kids when you pry them from my cold dead fingers.!

   But I shouldn’t give them any ideas..

7. #7
   On March 26th, 2009 at 5:26 pm, Jet Jaguar said:

   Well, I’m going to turn my family into a singing troupe just in case. “Edelweiss, Edelweiss…”

8. #8
   On March 26th, 2009 at 5:33 pm, jjmurphy said:

   I think they only took the “mandatory” section out to try and reduce the anger, knowing they can put it right back in later.

9. #9
   On March 26th, 2009 at 5:34 pm, DesertLover said:

   Haven’t you figured it out yet? … We are soon to be the United States of ACORN … The Organizer in Chief is in the process of replacing every American institution with ACORN …

10. #10
    On March 26th, 2009 at 5:36 pm, DagneyT said:

    Wahoo! Got the TV back online just in time to get Michelle!

    My God is an AWESOME God! “Ask and ye shall receive” is no lie!

11. #11
    On March 26th, 2009 at 5:38 pm, jjmurphy said:

    ACORN receiving federal money shouldn’t even be in the realm of possibilities. Instead, they get millions. This is madness.

12. #12
    On March 26th, 2009 at 5:39 pm, trailortrash said:

    nice job MM :thumbsup:

13. #13
    On March 26th, 2009 at 5:41 pm, purealchemy said:

    I am scared to death. It’s like Hitler Youth redux.
    Why does no one hear speak of the John Society?

14. #14
    On March 26th, 2009 at 5:45 pm, Jet Jaguar said:

    gj, Michelle! You’re a tiger (tigress)!

15. #15
    On March 26th, 2009 at 5:47 pm, Jet Jaguar said:

    On March 26th, 2009 at 5:41 pm, purealchemy said:

    I am scared to death. It’s like Hitler Youth redux.
    Why does no one hear speak of the John Society?

    John Society?

16. #16
    On March 26th, 2009 at 5:53 pm, walterc said:

    purealchemy said:

    I am scared to death. It’s like Hitler Youth redux.
    Why does no one hear speak of the John Society?

    Are you referring to John Birch, John Galt or some other John Society that I’m not aware of?

17. #17
    On March 26th, 2009 at 5:53 pm, DagneyT said:

    Instead, they get millions.

    Make that BILLIONS JJ

18. #18
    On March 26th, 2009 at 5:55 pm, 24Klady said:

    I like Glenn very much, but was ready to yell out, “let her talk, she knows what she’s talking about.” That’s why, MM needs her own show. Period. The. End.

    This bill scares the bejeebers out of me. I spent high school and college years obsessed by the evil that was done all over the planet in the name of making everyone equal/working for the state. Read everything I could get my hands on and many papers, if given a choice, addressed that issue. We are following too many paths here that have already proven to be wrong.

19. #19
    On March 26th, 2009 at 5:55 pm, raybury said:

    I’m still concerned about Orrin Hatch’s support. Most of the young people of his state already serve society for two years as Mormon missionaries. Is he expecting them to do two additional years in secular service or, worse, does this bill somehow get the guvmint involved in religious volunteerism? That would be one slippery slope.

20. #20
    On March 26th, 2009 at 6:01 pm, RogerCfromSD said:

    I’m telling you: A true April 15th Tea Party means we refuse to submit our tax forms. All of us.

21. #21
    On March 26th, 2009 at 6:07 pm, JonB said:

    The youth of this nation, having been brainwashed in public schools for years, told to rebel against their parents repeatedly, etc., will make no second thoughts about turning on their own families, even if the end result was execution.
    “I believe the children are our future” has become
    “I believe the children are our death”

22. #22
    On March 26th, 2009 at 6:09 pm, rambler said:

    Manditory youth service…. why not just take all the children and make the wards of the state? What better way to indoctrinate them into little acorns. They would have the education the state wants without all those nasty parents interfering with the system.

23. #23
    On March 26th, 2009 at 6:17 pm, Buy Danish said:

    What about this? Is this something new, or just old wording going back to 1965 (coincidentally, the year American began to fall apart):
    Under -
    ‘SEC. 122. NATIONAL SERVICE PROGRAMS ELIGIBLE FOR PROGRAM ASSISTANCE.

    ‘(v) providing assistance to a school in expanding the school day by strengthening the quality of staff and expanding the academic programming offered in an expanded learning time initiative, a program of a 21st century community learning center (as defined in section 4201 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7171)), or a high-quality after-school program;

    Obama wants to extend the school week/day/year. Like…South Korea.

24. #24
    On March 26th, 2009 at 6:19 pm, purealchemy said:

    On March 26th, 2009 at 5:47 pm, Jet Jaguar said:
    On March 26th, 2009 at 5:41 pm, purealchemy said:

    I am scared to death. It’s like Hitler Youth redux.
    Why does no one hear speak of the John Society?
    John Society?

    Sorry. John Birch Society

25. #25
    On March 26th, 2009 at 6:22 pm, purealchemy said:

    On March 26th, 2009 at 5:53 pm, walterc said:
    purealchemy said:

    I am scared to death. It’s like Hitler Youth redux.
    Why does no one hear speak of the John Society?
    Are you referring to John Birch, John Galt or some other John Society that I’m not aware of?

    Yes, John Birch. My extreme apologies.
    My hope is the folks here, if they haven’t paid sufficient attention to the John Birch Society will start to REALLY fast.

26. #26
    On March 26th, 2009 at 6:29 pm, purealchemy said:

    PLEASE eveybody here, get thee as fast as possible to :www.thenewamerican.com.

    Trust me on this one.

27. #27
    On March 26th, 2009 at 6:29 pm, Southpaw said:

    Oh yea, this is going to go over real well. Talk about pitchforks and torches in the streets, just wait until the government asks you to send your teeenage sons and daughters to government service training camps. These NeroBama people are so smart, maybe they’ll come up with a brilliant idea to combine two programs for the price of one: Parolees doing work release can run the camps. Should work out well.

    Will politicians and celebrities children be exempt?

28. #28
    On March 26th, 2009 at 6:33 pm, WarTip said:

    And people wonder how it happened in Germany? What will the future wonder about how we allowed it to happen in Amerika?

    Farewell, Farewell to all my Greatness!
    (Federalist paper number ten or number two? I cannot remember offhand)

29. #29
    On March 26th, 2009 at 6:43 pm, 24Klady said:

    rambler#22
    By engaging children at an earlier age in pre-school, or right out of the crib, they effectively will have longer and greater access to shape what your children believe and their world view will be created by the state, not parents. Parents already face this problem when their children enroll in public school.

30. #30
    On March 26th, 2009 at 6:44 pm, MuscleDaddy said:

    It gets worse, the closer you look.

    http://www.e3gazette.com/2009/03/hr-1388-is-arbeit-macht-frei-too-strong.html

    – MuscleDaddy

31. #31
    On March 26th, 2009 at 6:45 pm, Southpaw said:

    What about illegal alien teenagers? Will they be exempt? They have a right to attend school, but I’m sure there are international treaties against forcing foreigners into government service.
    Will Tom Cruises kids be picking up trash along highways?
    Does Nancy Pelosi have teenagers? Will they be forced to work in homeless shelters?
    50% of L.A. school children drop out of school. How are you going to force them to actually do work?

    This administration gets stupider by the day.

32. #32
    On March 26th, 2009 at 6:47 pm, tarpon said:

    Green-shirts, since brown-shirts have already been used for the same thing.

33. #33
    On March 26th, 2009 at 6:55 pm, 3Angela said:

    I am taken aback that you all are so reluctant to go along with our new Marxist overlords. sarc/ This is nothing more than an attempt to systematically enslave and indoctrinate first the kids (especially those they haven’t manage to convert in the public schools), and eventually everyone else. Just like what they did in China and Cuba. “This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.” – Plato

34. #34
    On March 26th, 2009 at 6:58 pm, letget said:

    I would NOT miss Glenn, and to have Michelle on was a plus. If we American’s don’t wake up, we are going to be sol.
    Thanks Michelle and HA for giving us the real news. Some think Glenn is a nut, but he tells it like it is.
    L

35. #35
    On March 26th, 2009 at 7:07 pm, RogerCfromSD said:

    If Congress is intent on enabling ACORN, then we need to organize ourselves into the very same thing: A “Conservative Community Organization;” one that’s every bit as armed and funded as the U.S. Military.

    Let’s find our own version of Soros as our benefactors.

36. #36
    On March 26th, 2009 at 7:10 pm, 24Klady said:

    3Angela #32
    I had so forgotten Plato’s words/wisdom. Thank you and I am going to use them, at every opportunity.

37. #37
    On March 26th, 2009 at 7:28 pm, katablog said:

    Oh yea, this is going to go over real well.

    What do you mean “going to” – it’s gone! Our “esteemed” senators said so.

38. #38
    On March 26th, 2009 at 7:31 pm, ajmontana said:

    T.H.E.Y.A.R.E.O.U.T.O.F.C.O.N.T.R.O.L.

39. #39
    On March 26th, 2009 at 7:35 pm, William Amos said:

    On March 26th, 2009 at 7:07 pm, RogerCfromSD said:
    If Congress is intent on enabling ACORN, then we need to organize ourselves into the very same thing: A “Conservative Community Organization;” one that’s every bit as armed and funded as the U.S. Military.

    Let’s find our own version of Soros as our benefactors.

    I aruged for over a decade to the RNC that the democrats were organizing and preparing a massive election army. To deaf ears.

    And they are still deaf over there.

    We MUST FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE ! Where is the conservative grassroots organization that can take back America from the new tide that is turing down a dark road ?

    I still see no signs of this. The RNC and the GOP and conservative backers are all either still playing the old media campaign worthless game or are just figuring that sitting back and listening to Rush Limbaugh trash Obama is enough.

    Not this time Im afraid. We either organize or accept what is happening.

40. #40
    On March 26th, 2009 at 7:36 pm, jjmurphy said:

    T.H.E.Y.A.R.E.O.U.T.O.F.C.O.N.T.R.O.L.

    It sure does seem that way, doesn’t it? And it has only been a little over two months.

41. #41
    On March 26th, 2009 at 7:39 pm, chapoutier said:

    We MUST FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE ! Where is the conservative grassroots organization that can take back America from the new tide that is turing down a dark road ?

    What are you talking about? The Republican grassroots GOTV always kicked the Dem’s butt up until this past year.

42. #42
    On March 26th, 2009 at 7:46 pm, traveler49 said:

    “a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people” and a possible requirement for “all individuals in the United States” to perform such service.

    So essentially we will all be SLAVES.

43. #43
    On March 26th, 2009 at 7:49 pm, William Amos said:

    What are you talking about? The Republican grassroots GOTV always kicked the Dem’s butt up until this past year.

    I have worked on GOP Grassroots GOOTV Chap have you ? Dont talk about what you dont know about.

    And I mean ALL GOTV not just the ones the DNC will admit to. There are hundreds of others afflicated but not directly linked to the DNC.

44. #44
    On March 26th, 2009 at 7:51 pm, rcool487 said:

    I don’t really have time to read all of the comments tonight due to homework…but the “required volunteerism” did get passed? Sheesh, this is really scary.

    I’m reading a series of books by Terry Goodkind called “The Sword of Truth”. I’m on book 6 and it’s like a glimpse into this nation if it keeps spiraling into socialism. Trust me, it’s frightening.

45. #45
    On March 26th, 2009 at 7:53 pm, Buy Danish said:

    William Amos

    I don’t know how you feel about the Fair Tax, but Herman Cain has a group called The Intelligent Thinkers Movement (20,000 strong now) that I like. The Fair Tax is one of his issues (which I happen to support) but he is also spot on on a lot of conservative issues.

46. #46
    On March 26th, 2009 at 7:58 pm, William Amos said:

    I was thinking more of a GOP organized effort Buydanish. Its still frustrating to me we seem to have a GOP still mired in 1980′s style campaigning of using big media to win elections. When big Media is so hostile to use and we simply enrich them.

    I want the GOP to collect and spend money on it workers. The GOP could feild a million strong organized massive GOTV effort that would get the conservatives message out there and compete with the democrats.

    Instead we get a GOP that is still far too focused on message management and “saying the right things” to create a “big Tent”

    The biggest tent will go to the party that can feild the better team not the one who manages a message better.

47. #47
    On March 26th, 2009 at 8:01 pm, chapoutier said:

    I have worked on GOP Grassroots GOOTV Chap have you ?

    Certainly not GOP grassroots. All i know is that, until McCain came along and lulled you guys to sleep, a Dem would be polling 1 or 2 points ahead, and would invariably lose by 1 or 2. Maybe bad polling. But more likely Republicans have always had a rep for being able to get their constituency out. This is hardly a unique idea.

    I would be curious as to what, prior to this election, you say the Dems were doing that you thought was so much better (strictly organizationally speaking).

48. #48
    On March 26th, 2009 at 8:06 pm, William Amos said:

    I would be curious as to what, prior to this election, you say the Dems were doing that you thought was so much better (strictly organizationally speaking).

    I have seen with my own eyes groups like ACORN, Moveon.org, VOTE Project, Various Green organizations and others all going door to door. And their numbers have been growing. There are hundreds of left leaning groups that have focused on winning elections. The only difference is that the GOP has had more money to spend and it eqalized things until 2006 when it became more obvious that the Left had started to catch up in the money game.

    Until the GOP starts organizing to counter the left it wont be competitive again. The money gap is gone until the right gets its act together.

49. #49
    On March 26th, 2009 at 8:07 pm, William Amos said:

    Case in point

    Some GOPers were crowing that the RNC had outraised the DNC in last month’s earnings. Obama just erased that in one week.

50. #50
    On March 26th, 2009 at 8:24 pm, 24Klady said:

    The best we have to offer are those that have been carrying signs and protesting with tea bags. They are out there and vocal. Organize them and you’ve got the beginnings of a real movement. My hat is off to them and feel they have a message that is resonating to the locals.

51. #51
    On March 26th, 2009 at 8:26 pm, Jet Jaguar said:

    I see that it was Senator Cornyn’s turn to vote conservative. Next time he’ll vote with the collectivists while Hutchison can show her patriotism.

52. #52
    On March 26th, 2009 at 8:29 pm, chapoutier said:

    Some GOPers were crowing that the RNC had outraised the DNC in last month’s earnings. Obama just erased that in one week.

    Yeah, but my point I guess is is it really something systemic, or is it just the fact that we had a very strong grassroots candidate this time, and you guys had a particularly weak one?

    And I would not consider that type of fundraising “grassroots” in any case.

53. #53
    On March 26th, 2009 at 9:20 pm, dadinseattle said:

    Every federal program has strings attached by these socialists.

    Reject federal money whenever possible.
    Continue to only support programs that do not receive federal assistance.

    Organizing locally is the key to growing effective dissent to the status quo.

    ACORN has been funded with just about every spending proposition to date and now has multiple channels of money flowing into its coffers.
    this is forming Alinsky/Socialist armies designed to provoke radical change.

    Many people are forming conservative underground organizations at the local level and surgeusa.org has great advice and multiple resources listed.

    Less than 20% of the populous has the actual hate America, damn America, and screw America of these leftist “statists”(Levin term).

    Than there are those just buying their garbage or asleep that we need to reach.

    The thread parasites that show up here for attention are obedient “first groupers” and they have given up on their lives already, waste everyone’s time and make you dumb as them if you give them any credibility!

54. #54
    On March 26th, 2009 at 9:25 pm, Jet Jaguar said:

    On March 26th, 2009 at 8:29 pm, chapoutier said:

    Yeah, but my point I guess is is it really something systemic, or is it just the fact that we had a very strong grassroots candidate this time, and you guys had a particularly weak one?

    Chap, I wonder if McCain was supposed to be the GOP nominee in order to help Obama win.

55. #55
    On March 26th, 2009 at 9:35 pm, txvet2 said:

    On March 26th, 2009 at 8:29 pm, chapoutier said:

    It’s not astrophysics (OK, rocket science to the unwashed). Much of the Democrat base is 18-35, i.e. young, stupid and lazy. Up until this past election, they have never turned out in large numbers. That’s tended to skew the polling.

56. #56
    On March 26th, 2009 at 9:37 pm, chapoutier said:

    It’s not astrophysics (OK, rocket science to the unwashed). Much of the Democrat base is 18-35, i.e. young, stupid and lazy. Up until this past election, they have never turned out in large numbers. That’s tended to skew the polling.

    So are you saying it was the candidate or a fundamental shift in organization ability that caused the influx?

57. #57
    On March 26th, 2009 at 9:48 pm, hazmatwa said:

    Gosh–Do you think the Public Service draftees will wear ObamaYouth armbands or neck scarves like the Soviet Young Pioneers?

58. #58
    On March 26th, 2009 at 9:56 pm, happy2behere said:

    Compulsory service has retunred, it just came in the back door. Would you like to bet that it won’t take Congress too long to resurect the draft?

59. #59
    On March 26th, 2009 at 10:11 pm, Send_Me said:

    Our culture has changed. Our epistemological foundations have changed. When this happens, when our fundamental beliefs change, as they collectively have over the last 100 years, then our society and government will change as well as a result. As Antonio Gramsci said: “A quiet revolution can be dispersed throughout a culture over a period of time to destroy it from within. Mass psychology and media can break the traditions, beliefs and morals and the will of a nation so there is no possibility of resistance.” Cultural hegemony is what we have lost and need to win back. A retaking of the culture is what we need; not more tea bags…

60. #60
    On March 26th, 2009 at 10:12 pm, postobitum said:

    Screw that, I’d like to see them make me do anything!

61. #61
    On March 26th, 2009 at 10:18 pm, RogerCfromSD said:

    Exactly, postobitum. They can pass an unconstitutional law. But that doesn’t mean we have to abide by it.

    I certainly won’t be.

62. #62
    On March 26th, 2009 at 10:37 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    Obama’s buddy could use some help–you white devils you-get busy.

    Brazil president blames white people for crisis

    By Jonathan Wheatley in São Paulo and agencies

    Published: March 27 2009 00:27 | Last updated: March 27 2009 00:27

    Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Thursday blamed the global economic crisis on “white people with blue eyes” and said it was wrong that black and indigenous people should pay for white people’s mistakes.

63. #63
    On March 26th, 2009 at 10:44 pm, MNUSMCDavid said:

    Michelle’s blog always makes me change my password…. but anyway……. Socialism lives and I must be armed every day….. I’m the nut? I don’t think so.

64. #64
    On March 26th, 2009 at 10:56 pm, Send_Me said:

    On March 26th, 2009 at 9:37 pm, chapoutier said:

    Much of the Democrat base is 18-35, i.e. young, stupid and lazy.

    So are you saying it was the candidate or a fundamental shift in organization ability that caused the influx?

    Neither. Both played a part, but weren’t the primary factor. They were merely the final two moves in the chess match. The setting of the pieces happened long before in the minds and souls of our people. We used to have the Christian work ethic: it’s gone. We used to have universal morality: it’s gone among this age group. We used to cherish freedom, because we knew it was accompanied by responsibility: that’s gone, too. Why? Perhaps that’s because of how they were taught and raised to believe. By their parents? Somewhat. By television? Certainly. Public education? Yep. Church? “Live your best life now.”

65. #65
    On March 26th, 2009 at 10:57 pm, Jet Jaguar said:

    On March 26th, 2009 at 10:44 pm, MNUSMCDavid said:

    Michelle’s blog always makes me change my password…. but anyway……. Socialism lives and I must be armed every day….. I’m the nut? I don’t think so.

    What? I’ve never had to change mine. Wonder what’s up? …and who said you were a “nut”?

66. #66
    On March 26th, 2009 at 10:57 pm, WarTip said:

    On March 26th, 2009 at 7:07 pm, RogerCfromSD said:
    If Congress is intent on enabling ACORN, then we need to organize ourselves into the very same thing: A “Conservative Community Organization;” one that’s every bit as armed and funded as the U.S. Military.
    Let’s find our own version of Soros as our benefactors.

    If you can make this happen, let me know and I will find a way back to stand side by side with true Americans. As it is now though, I am looking for ways to disappear from the American roles forever! Crikey, Germany had nothing on this mess!

67. #67
    On March 26th, 2009 at 11:00 pm, Jet Jaguar said:

    off topic: Why did Stevie Wonder have to get his little dig in about loving Obama on American Idol tonight? He does it in his concerts, too. Why can’t entertainers just entertain? It’s depressing.

68. #68
    On March 26th, 2009 at 11:04 pm, chapoutier said:

    off topic: Why did Stevie Wonder have to get his little dig in about loving Obama on American Idol tonight? He does it in his concerts, too. Why can’t entertainers just entertain? It’s depressing.

    OH CRAP! I forgot! Who got voted off?

69. #69
    On March 26th, 2009 at 11:16 pm, Jet Jaguar said:

    On March 26th, 2009 at 10:37 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Thursday blamed the global economic crisis on “white people with blue eyes” and said it was wrong that black and indigenous people should pay for white people’s mistakes.

    All three of my young sons are white with blonde hair and blue eyes. Despite what da Silva thinks, my sons are no better or worse than him or his sons. We are all equally of great worth in God’s eyes. I wish he could realize that.

    As far as “indigenous” goes, people just didn’t spring up out of the ground in their native soil. Everyone who lives or has lived displaced someone else for property that they couldn’t defend.

    Something to think about: What if the American Pilgrims never came here (North America) in the 1600s? What if the USA, or something like it was delayed or never formed? What would have happened if Hitler or someone like him came into power without the goodness and strength of the USA as a protection? Would Hitler have had his way with the world? Who knows, but maybe people should be more thankful about our Western Judeo-Christian heritage. I shudder to think about the state of things had it not held sway.

70. #70
    On March 26th, 2009 at 11:23 pm, Jet Jaguar said:

    On March 26th, 2009 at 11:04 pm, chapoutier said:

    off topic: Why did Stevie Wonder have to get his little dig in about loving Obama on American Idol tonight? He does it in his concerts, too. Why can’t entertainers just entertain? It’s depressing.

    OH CRAP! I forgot! Who got voted off?

    Michael Sarver got voted off (the C&W dude). Our DVR cut it off literally in mid-sentence and we had to go to the web to find out! The guy is definitely a great entertainer, though…

71. #71
    On March 26th, 2009 at 11:24 pm, chapoutier said:

    Michael Sarver got voted off (the C&W dude). Our DVR cut it off literally in mid-sentence and we had to go to the web to find out! The guy is definitely a great entertainer, though…

    Not the kinda-hot-in-a-dirty-way chick with the tats on her arm?

    Okay.

72. #72
    On March 26th, 2009 at 11:24 pm, secondsight said:

    Does the Senate’s version also include compensation for ‘economically disadvantaged’ at twice the rate that ordinary (ie, white middle clase) souls get? Nice to know that our government has favorites.

73. #73
    On March 26th, 2009 at 11:26 pm, Jet Jaguar said:

    On March 26th, 2009 at 11:24 pm, chapoutier said:

    Not the kinda-hot-in-a-dirty-way chick with the tats on her arm?

    Okay.

    Yes. My wife and I are agreed that she is the least talented of the field and should have gone tonight.

74. #74
    On March 27th, 2009 at 2:14 am, GJCorby said:

    Slavery by any other name still smells like a democrat’s version of volunteerism.

75. #75
    On March 27th, 2009 at 3:12 am, Random63 said:

    I’ve come to the decision I am not going to pay taxes this year. This is an Unconstitutional government and I will not be forced to support it financially. I will take that money saved instead and continue to buy gold, silver, ammo, and seeds. A war is coming folks and I hope you all are doing more than just waving tea bags around preparing for it.

    Be safe and well.

    Long live these United States of America!

    P.S. Michelle, I would strongly suggest that you, and the other conservative commentators like Glenn Beck and Rush have some sort of bolt hole to escape to. Obama’s brownshirts will eventually try to come for you and your families. Please plan ahead and be careful. You are all too important to our nation.

76. #76
    On March 27th, 2009 at 3:18 am, smfoushee said:

    On March 26th, 2009 at 8:26 pm, Jet Jaguar said:
    I see that it was Senator Cornyn’s turn to vote conservative. Next time he’ll vote with the collectivists while Hutchison can show her patriotism.

    I’m not so sure, he’s been making back ground since voting with the dems in the first couple of weeks of the administration.

77. #77
    On March 27th, 2009 at 3:20 am, GaMidnightRider said:

    Well i hope we are already for the brown shirts next. They will be coming and forcing us to do their laundry, yard work or anything they will not do themselves. B. Hussein Obama has said he will make it that is elderly do not volunteer they will lose the S.S. and kids will not be allowed to attend school or college without having done so much volunteerism. Sounds like forces slavery to me.

78. #78
    On March 27th, 2009 at 9:21 am, NJ-Aviator said:

    chapoutier said:

    It’s not astrophysics (OK, rocket science to the unwashed). Much of the Democrat base is 18-35, i.e. young, stupid and lazy. Up until this past election, they have never turned out in large numbers. That’s tended to skew the polling.

    So are you saying it was the candidate or a fundamental shift in organization ability that caused the influx?

    In my opinion what fired up the “grassroots” for Dems and these 18-35 Dem voters was Bush and the media’s handling of him. They created, and he helped with people like Rumsfeld, create in their minds an evil emperor. Just think back to the anti-bush crowds, their signs, etc.

    It wasn’t anything unique on the part of Dems, but their vilification of Bush and by association, any Republican, that got them fired up and turned out.

79. #79
    On March 27th, 2009 at 9:31 am, NJ-Aviator said:

    But what I actually wanted to say in this thread was that I find it curious that we need $6 billion for a “volunteer” organization.

    That’s like paying for free GNU license software.

    Of course I know where all the money is going. They have an encyclopedia-sized list of “studies” to be done on these volunteer groups and projects. There is a huge bureaucracy built around this. It’s really sickening.

    Oh and if anyone thinks the cost of this is only going to be $6 nillion… think again. It will be more like $26 billion.

    This is exactly the kind of program that, had it already existed, should have been unceremoniously CUT from the budget. Instead, we have the Socialist in Chief … ADDING.. this to our unpayable tab, instead of removing it.

    This is a sign of things to come. He’s going to Canadize our health care next, regardless of whether we can afford it. So we’ll have the privilege of allowing people like Natasha Richardson to die unnecessarily here, like she did in Canada.

80. #80
    On March 27th, 2009 at 9:49 am, lgm said:

    Jet Jaguar said (#1):

    We can call it the “Obama Youth”

    It’s a free country. How about calling the unified military under the joint Chiefs the Wehrmacht? Not everyone’s a nazi.

81. #81
    On March 27th, 2009 at 10:05 am, corona said:

    See, folks – this is how to do it. No need to feed the troll. Just state your views on the subject and move on.

    I’m a little perplexed. Barry O has been bellowing about getting rid of programs that don’t work. Well, what do you call $6 billion for “volunteerism”?

82. #82
    On March 27th, 2009 at 10:15 am, chapoutier said:

    It wasn’t anything unique on the part of Dems, but their vilification of Bush and by association, any Republican, that got them fired up and turned out.

    Were it only that, I think we would have beaten him in 2004. All I am saying is I would not put too much faith in the Dem’s grass roots ability until we see it carry over when Obama is NOT on the ticket. Like 2010.

83. #83
    On March 27th, 2009 at 10:21 am, MBuck said:

    ATTENTION, EVERYBODY:

    The language about looking for a way to make it all mandatory was SHIFTED to:

    HR 1444.

    That’s HR 1444.

    This is your Public Service Announcement.
    That is all.

84. #84
    On March 27th, 2009 at 11:00 am, William Teach said:

    I’m just wondering, doesn’t this violate the 9th Amendment and 5th Amendments?

85. #85
    On March 27th, 2009 at 11:06 am, pueblo1032 said:

    I see my FAVORITE SENATOR from AZ, OL’ JUAN, is still the MAVERICK… GOOD GRIEF, I cannot wait for the MAV’s election bid… I don’t care who runs against him, I will volunteer to empty waste baskets if that’s what they need… We in AZ will dump the trash when the time comes… All you people across this GREAT LAND, remember how your SENATOR voted for the O-BOZO YOUTH!!!

86. #86
    On March 27th, 2009 at 11:14 am, Blueline2 said:

    I note the number of Republican votes in favor of this garbage. It is past time to term-limit every incumbent in Congress. Fire them all in 2010 , all Reps., 1/3 of the Senate. None of them is indispensable. I care not about the party anymore. We simply must find, fund, support and vote for those who understand the Constitution, promise to faithfully adhere to it, and will defend it to their death.

87. #87
    On March 27th, 2009 at 11:20 am, guitarguy said:

    Obama is Mao.

    And we know what Mao did to his people…..

    All of O’s new ‘volunteers’ will, at some point, want to stand out from the ‘non-volunteers’.
    They’ll want a t-shirt…..jacket…..or perhaps, a uniform.

    And, at some point, they’ll decide to put all of O’s talking points and phrases into a handy little manual…..or book.

    And soon we’ll see O’s huge, smiling face plastered all over our nation. Huge billboards and placards will have his wise, all-knowing countenance for us to gaze upon.
    For hope.
    For inspiration.

    ObaMao

88. #88
    On March 27th, 2009 at 11:38 am, HappyMom said:

    I’ve called Sen Timmy-Geithner-is-Uniquely-Qualified Hatch’s offce twice this week. The answers I got:

    1. The language is different in the senate version–there is no “mandatory service” cuz that would be wrong!

    2. The bill is geared toward providing “service learning” opportunities ONLY for disadvatanged kids because it’s been proven to really help them progress.

    riiiiiight.

    When I said it bothered me that the feds were trying to force “service” in schools (already here in Utah as part of high school graduation requirements), the Hatchling said, I kid you not, “oh, it’s up to the states to decide that because the federal government doesn’t have, er, control . . . uh . . .”

    “Yet?” I asked politely.

    She laughed nervously, I laughed right along with her, then I hung up.

    I’m not sure what they’re smokin’ in DC and I too am completely blown away that Hatch would sign up for any of this, much less instigate it.

    But after talking to his office, I’m convinced they’re convinced it isn’t a big deal. I think they–at least the staffer I talked to–honestly believes it will benefit disadvantaged youth.

    I think it’s a HUGE deal and I agree, it is a slippery slope. The only answers I got to concerns about it morphing into all kinds of mandatory things, who would decide what’s “acceptable” servitude acts, or how to opt out (because my independing-thinking, homeschooled kids would be forced into this when they pry them from my dead, cold fingers) were breathless reassurances that “that would never happen. Service should always be voluntary and government would never, ever force it!”

    I didn’t even bother asking how she could be so naive.

    It was a lost cause.

89. #89
    On March 27th, 2009 at 2:58 pm, Random63 said:

    Congress is a lost cause. It’s now up to our state legislators to enforce the Constitution and for the people too. I cannot and will not support the Federal Government anymore. They do not have my consent to govern.

90. #90
    On March 27th, 2009 at 5:16 pm, Jet Jaguar said:

    On March 27th, 2009 at 9:49 am, lgm said:

    Jet Jaguar said (#1):

    We can call it the “Obama Youth”

    It’s a free country. How about calling the unified military under the joint Chiefs the Wehrmacht? Not everyone’s a nazi.

    The way it’s going? Yes. …and we can start calling the CIC “Der Fuehrer”. Isn’t that what you want, lgm?

91. #91
    On March 29th, 2009 at 8:34 am, Mach1Duck said:

    This whole experience has been the greatest thing since sliced bread. At least voting America is showing an acute interest in our political system. So now is the time to get involved, join a local party, canvas, contribute. It is time we, the voters, took the government back, starting at the local level, followed by the state and federal. In my opinion, GIVE/SERVE and ACORN will be the best thing to happen to this administration, it will destroy all confidence in it.