The Coffee Party–A top-down Team Obama run astroturf organization, despite their claims to the country–is at it again. From the email:

Support Senate Filibuster Reform. On Wed. January 5th, the first day of the new session of Congress, the U.S. Senate will vote on a crucial change to cloture rules allowing a simple majority of 51 votes – instead of the current 60 – to close debate and allow the Senate to vote on legislation. Ending the constant threat of filibuster would go a long way toward easing the hyper-partisan gridlock we witnessed in the past two years.

You can see a similar call to action on the Coffee Party’s blog here.

This is nothing more than a very thinly-veiled Democratic Party–sponsored lobbying. Democrats have only a the thinnest majorities in the Senate: 51 – 47, with two members of the chamber (Joe Lieberman and Bernie Sanders) independents that caucus with Democrats. Because the Democrats lost their veto-proof majority in Congress, they want to continue their iron grip on the Senate instead of seeking true bipartisanship by including Republicans at the negotiating table.

While the Senate is free to change the rules of the chamber any time it pleases, this is exactly the kind of partisan behavior that the Coffee Party claims to oppose. The Coffee Party ought to be ashamed of itself and issue an immediately apology for playing to the Democrats tune on this issue. If the Coffee Party were an organization built on principle and character as they claim to be, supporting this rule change should never have been a topic of discussion.

The audacity of the Coffee Party to claim that the past two years were run by corporate interests is also laughable. While trying to blame Republicans as being lackeys of corporate America (which continues to suffer as a direct result of President Obama’s policies) without naming names, the Coffee Party has conveniently forgotten that it was Democrats that had a super majority in both houses and did not need a single Republican vote to pass any legislation. The fact of the matter is that the country is in the shape it is in because of a Democrat controlled White House coupled with a Democrat controlled Congress with two Leftists appointed to the bench of the Supreme Court.

As President George Washington told Thomas Jefferson, the Senate is where the storm in the teacup of the House goes to cool off. The Founding Fathers designed Congress to gridlock so that no legislation could be hastily enacted by any one special interest. The rule change that the Coffee Party is supporting would fundamentally change the Founding Father’s plan and would allow Democrats to continue their partisan efforts in the Senate.

Please call your senator today and tell them not to cave to the phony demands of the Democrat-facade astroturf called the Coffee Party.

The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant, that few stood against many, and before this battle was over, even a god-king can bleed.

This is the attitude that the incoming Congress needs to take wit Our Dear Leader Supreme Dictator for Life His Royal Majesty Lord Barrack Hussien Obama, The Most Merciful. Sadly, I think they will lay on their shields and become human pin cushions.

Best pull quote you’ll find on a blog this morning:

Because, let’s face it, we were askin’ for it, running around in short skirts and lipstick and telling pollsters we want to keep our tax cuts and get 99 weeks of unemployment benefits, too.

Voters to Congress: “Will you respect us in the morning?”

Congress to voters: “Hell, we don’t respect you now. What makes you think we’ll change our mind in the morning?”

–Robert Stacy McCain

In the midst of the New York Times’ write up of the FDA strengthening/tax-the-farmers-so-they-can-farm bill, we get this gem:

And in the midst of negotiations, the negotiators — nearly all women — took a field trip to a nearby food market so that a Republican staff member could teach the Democrats how to buy high-quality steaks.

I don’t know which is more ridculous: the fact that this paragraph made it into the article or the fact that Democrats don’t know how to buy their own damned steaks. Are they so damned rich that they don’t deign to go to market themselves? Douchebags!

Click here for full article.

Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Nebraska) has proposed a Senate vote to repeal the 1099 boondoggle imposed on the American people courtesy of Obamacare. The vote is scheduled for tomorrow.

Originally a document to track contract labor, Obamacare–in an effort to be deficit neutral–now compels businesses to issue a 1099 to any company they do business with in excess of $600. Buy a new laptop? Send Apple a 1099. Buy a new company car? Write the dealer a 1099. Despite a gross violation of Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights, this domestic spying program is designed to track every dollar in the economy so it can be taxed to pay for the oppressive regulation. (For more information, click here.)

Contrary to conventional wisdom, repealing this confiscatory requirement is not in Senator Johanns’ best interest. By relieving the oppression of the Obama administration’s most prized legislative accomplishment, Senator Johanns accepts the premise that the Obamacare legislation is basically good and simply needs refinement, repealing domestic spying via tax documents being one of the necessary refinements.

But this is an attempt to pick up a turd by the clean end; it simply can’t be done.

It was Democrats that were swept to power in the 2008 Presidential election and it was Democrats that passed the Obamacare legislation. Democrats have their grubby, fecal matter-infested handprints all over this abortion of a law. Trying to salvage any piece of this legislation is a caliber of blunder that borders on treason.

Senator Johanns would do better to wait until the new Congress is installed before pursuing any action on Obamacare at which point he should push for a full repeal. If Democrats want to vote against a full repeal, it will be their heads that will role as the economy comes to a grinding halt. Those Democrats that dare vote to keep in place confiscatory practices will pay the price at the polls in 2012 making the Republican’s pickups in the recent election cycle look minimal compare to the gains they would be guaranteed because of the repulsive yoke about the American people’s neck called Obamacare.

The 1099 oppression in Obamacare fails to be repealed. Another day passes and Democrats still own their abortion.

SHUT UP, SLAVE!

This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard: Obama’s Transportation czar wants all Americans to install jamming devices in their vehicles so they can’t text or talk while on the road.

What surprises me most about this column is that Malkin didn’t point out that with such jamming devices in place, there would be no way to contact emergency services in the event of an emergency.

Recently, Huntsville has imposed a texting ban, but it’s so watered down, I don’t think it’s enforced. As far as I know, there hasn’t been a substantial change in crash statistics in town, but then again, depending on local media for cover on this issue post-enactment is an act of insanity. My suspicion is that the stats haven’t changed because there haven’t been stories about motorists getting ticketed for texting while driving, because passing this ordinance was about the political posturing of appearing to do something instead of providing a genuine solution to problem.

Has anyone seen this farce about re-designing our currency to pay homage to Our Dear Leader and that dictator from yore, FDR?

ehowton and I have bickered a lot back and forth across our blogs over the years. We have argued incessantly about the difference between “left wing” and “right wing” and whether or not fascism and socialism lead to the same end.

I have contended for years that they have, arguing that step one in both actions is to take guns away “for your protection” only then to set up a dictatorship (compare Nazi German to Socialist Russia). ehowton has on a number of occasions called me a dumbass for taking this position.

But now I have a better way to make my point, one that was originally explained to me in The 5000 Year Leap and is re-hased briefly in The Making of America. In both of those tomes, discussion is ruler’s law vs. people’s law; here, the terms tyranny and anarchy are used.

So ehowton, please consider this video to be my latest response in our on-going argument: