Sipsey Street Irregulars: Not an unreasonable conclusion.

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Not an unreasonable conclusion.

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Anonymous said...: So.?...you were expecting more? Last week one of your posts featured a photo of U.S.Grant. Gen.Grant shortly before the battle of Cold Harbor Va. made this remark "I will fight it out on this line if it takes all summer". That kind of resolve and determination does not exist in public officials today. This,is why Holder can sit there with that little smirk on his face all the time. He knows what he is dealing with." A politic body of Cowards"Lets face it the only thing that will result from all this is,maybe a few low level expendables will be given a little San Fransisco fanny spank,then sent on their way to seven figure jobs in the corporate side of this fascist government.Its amazing that some in this country still expect Washington officials to stay within the guidelines of the Constitution. That document no longer exists. It has been shredded by the last 3 administrations. The only thing people like Obama and Holder are doing is picking up the pieces and wiping their asses on it.; February 12, 2012 at 7:20 AM
Anonymous said...: Anonymous at 0520:
That is actually a pretty apt analogy. Grant knew that he could win via a war of attrition, holder etal apparently believe the same ie they don't care about body counts or time lines. The longer they drag things out (like at Cold Harbor) the less likely they will ever be held to account for their actions. Grant had essentially assured Lincoln that he could 'win' the war if given a free hand and casualty figures didn't matter.; February 12, 2012 at 1:48 PM
Anonymous said...: Blink? Hell! He plain folded. Even though he freaking well KNEW he held the higher hand he folded. Wonder what they had on Issa (or Bone-er or someone else) to get him to fold that way> Hells bells! I seriously doubt he ever intended to go the distance.

I believe, if memory serves, that when all this began and the news of Holder being summoned before Issa's committee was announced, I predicted nothing would come of it.

This makes me VERY mad. I built my house hoping to live in it until I died. I really did intend to leave it for the last time riding on a gurney and wearing a toe tag. Doesn't look like I'm going to get that opportunity now.

I wish all the federal drones who read this blog - AND THEIR MASTERS - would come down with penile or vaginal cancer and have to have their junk SURGICALLY REMOVED!!! May all leftists - in government or out - be banished to the deepest, darkest, most painful and loathsome pit in hell and have to spend rammed headfirst up to their waists in Satan's asshole!!!

Coprophagic, Urolalic, Patri-fellating Oedipae the lot of them!; February 12, 2012 at 2:45 PM
Anonymous said...: I'll give Issa, et al. until about mid April. If these guys actually want to time the F&F fireworks finale for Obama's Re-election Parade, you light the fuse about then. Wait any longer and you run the risk of Obama/Holder playing out the clock.; February 13, 2012 at 12:03 PM
Anonymous said...: BadCyborg-- sometimes you have the higher hand and you check or raise to get more in the pot. Frankly, that is what I might do if I knew I had a winning hand. Could it be that Issa has the winning hand and knows it and is only playing for more chips? It is not clear to me that this is a fold-- yet.; February 13, 2012 at 12:07 PM

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"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.

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"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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Not an unreasonable conclusion.

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