Sipsey Street Irregulars: Connecting the Dots

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Connecting the Dots

There you have it. This is how the Left operates: they pay for lies to be published, and then demand investigations on the basis of those lies. Why are they out to get Issa? No secret there, either. His committee has embarrassed the Obama administration with its investigation of ATF’s Fast and Furious program. At this point, best case for the Obama administration is that the scandal ends with Attorney General Eric Holder. So Issa has become public enemy number one.

The word “corruption” is often tossed around in connection with politics, generally wrongly. In my opinion, this story illustrates the real corruption that infects our public life.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...: Another article, same topic;

http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/soros-and-afscme-funded-group-files-ethics-complaint-against-darrell-issa-as-he-probes-gunwalker-plot/; September 14, 2011 at 6:22 PM
Anonymous said...: Alaska governor Sarah Palin all over again.
Spend so much time and money fighting against frivolous and libelous lawsuits and allegations, you exhaust all your will, time, energy and money. Leftist goal accomplished.

B Woodman
IIi-per; September 14, 2011 at 9:08 PM
Anonymous said...: This is where real tort reform is needed, "Loser Pays". If you bring me to court for what turns out to be false and/or frivolous allegations, then YOU pay ALL court costs, including MY court and lawyer costs.
That would have stopped the Palin and now Issa attacks in short order.

B Woodman
III-per; September 15, 2011 at 6:13 AM
Bad Cyborg said...: I agree with Woodman. "Loser Pays" would do more to stop frivolous and harassing lawsuits than anything. Capping awards only hurts the victims.

Otherwise, nothing new here. SOSDD. Left is only doing what it always does. Every time those bastards start pointing fingers, somebody needs to remind them - publicly - that it is anatomically impossible to point a finger at someone without pointing three back at yourself.

Now, does anybody REALLY believe that the system is reparable? I know the alternative is drastic. Hell! So is hemicorporectomy! But sometimes you gotta DO what you gotta do.; September 15, 2011 at 6:40 AM
Anonymous said...: This is about the the seizure of power. It always has been. The left (and I don't mean your average latte liberal) lies, cheats, steals, extorts, assaults, and kills their way to power, while covering up their activities by, lying about who did what and how bad their enemies are.

When Mike calls the DC Post "Pravda" he isn't joking. It wouldn't be so bad but they aren't the only ones carrying water, for the commies at the brilliantly termed "Mordor on the Potomac".; September 15, 2011 at 9:46 AM
Jimmy the Saint said...: @Anonymous: "If you bring me to court for what turns out to be false and/or frivolous allegations, then YOU pay ALL court costs, including MY court and lawyer costs."

Stuff like SLAPP motions, Rule 11 motions, 128.7 motions (in the People's Republic of Commiefornia), and malicious prosecution actions basically take care of that already - so long as the judges are smart and strong enough to grant them. Stupid/weak judges are a huge problem.; September 15, 2011 at 1:05 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Connecting the Dots

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