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10/25 5:10p
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Rules for a Radical White House
Politico’s Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei report today:
President Obama is working systematically to marginalize the most powerful forces behind the Republican Party, setting loose top White House officials to undermine conservatives in the media, business and lobbying worlds.
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With a series of private meetings and public taunts, the White House has targeted the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the biggest-spending pro-business lobbying group in the country; Rush Limbaugh, the country’s most-listened-to conservative commentator; and now, with a new volley of combative rhetoric in recent days, the insurance industry, Wall Street executives and Fox News.
Obama aides are using their powerful White House platform, combined with techniques honed in the 2008 campaign, to cast some of the most powerful adversaries as out of the mainstream and their criticism as unworthy of serious discussion.
We are in no way the first to point this out, but this Obama administration strategy is taken directly from the pages of Chicago community organizer Saul Alinsky’s book Rules for Radicals. It identifies thirteen rules for progressive activists including, “The thirteenth rule: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Explaining just how far progressives must be willing to go to marginalize their “enemies” Alinsky explains a few pages later:
Many liberals during our attack on the then-school superintendent, were pointing out that after all he wasn’t a 100 percent devil, he was a regular churchgoer, he was a good family man, and he was generous in his contributions to charity. Can you imagine in the arena of conflict charging that so-and-so is a racist bastard but then diluting the impact of the attack with qualifying remarks such as, “He is a good churchgoing man, generous to charity and a good husband”? This becomes political idiocy.
And then in his final chapter, Alinsky reveals what progressives really think of the average American: “Our rebels have contemptuously rejected the values and way of life of the middle class. They have stigmatized it as materialistic, decadent, bourgeois, degenerate, imperialistic, war-mongering, brutalized, and corrupt. They are right.”
Contempt for average Americans, and the desire to marginalize their common sense questions is both at the core of the Progessive vision for governance and completely antithetical to the values of our Founding Fathers. Thomas G. West, author of The Progressive Revolution in Politics and Political Science, explains:
The Founders thought that laws should be made by a body of elected officials with roots in local communities. They should not be “experts,” but they should have “most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society” (Madison). The wisdom in question was the kind on display in The Federalist, which relentlessly dissected the political errors of the previous decade in terms accessible to any person of intelligence and common sense.
The Progressives wanted to sweep away what they regarded as this amateurism in politics. … Only those educated in the top universities, preferably in the social sciences, were thought to be capable of governing. Politics was regarded as too complex for common sense to cope with. … Only government agencies staffed by experts informed by the most advanced modern science could manage tasks previously handled within the private sphere.
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The Progressives did not intend to abolish democracy, to be sure. They wanted the people’s will to be more efficiently translated into government policy. But what democracy meant for the Progressives is that the people would take power out of the hands of locally elected officials and political parties and place it instead into the hands of the central government, which would in turn establish administrative agencies run by neutral experts, scientifically trained, to translate the people’s inchoate will into concrete policies.
This is why you have Obama’s Energy Secretary telling auto makers how they must build cars. This is why Obama’s health care plan empowers a panel of health care “experts” to reorganize one-sixth of our economy from the top down. Commonsense questions like, “;Won’t our electricity bills go up if we mandate power companies use more expensive alternative energy sources?”, and “Won’t our health insurance premiums go up if everyone is charged the same price and nobody can be refused coverage?” can’t be tolerated. People voicing such criticisms must be isolated and silenced. That’s what the White House campaign the Politico identifies today is all about.
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10/29 3:06a
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This is the Change that the Libs want, but America would seem to be waking up now, oh boy, that could be trouble!
 
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10/29 3:44a
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No Question....
America is Watching!
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10/29 7:38a
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Please show us the link where the US Government is directing which cars to build, how to build them and where to build them.
Thanks,
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10/29 7:02p
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Find it yourself the same way I had to, don`t do as I do but do as I say will not last much longer!!!
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10/30 7:19a
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Just as I thought, no proof to back up the comments in this fringe-con circle jerk.
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10/30 8:09a
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You know I love that after 8 years of Rove and Bush that fringe-cons with a straight face can call out Democrats or trying to marginalize the right.
POT MEET KETTLE.
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10/30 3:33p
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Let me tell you something, you must be able to see the forest for the trees to see everything that is going on, Obama is not the first nor the only problem with Government, your view is more is better, my view is less is still not small enough! Plane, you are in favor of government programs for each and every person, your posts show you to be a hard-left progressive, OC your posts show you to be left but more reasonable on some things. Big Government breeds over regulation of everything, which we have now. America`s hard products manufacturing level has now fallen below 10% of our GNP.
This over regulation is caused more due to special interests and pandering to them from the career politician then from legitment protection of anything. Everything this president has done so far has speeded up the march toward a socialist government with the professional political hack telling the one`s paying the bill what is best for them. America`s government is full of crooks, tax cheats and outright liars. Truth has no place in government today nor has it for some time, I can tell you something else, Change is coming, but not the type of change that anyone in government has spoken about to date!
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Count Diodati, 1807
3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)
Ask yourself just who in national politics can make this same claim today?
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson
How can it be that someone so old and out of touch could have seen so much of what had yet to happen but surely would happen?
PS C, Federal Gov. could have turned the water to the farmers back on, that’s how!
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10/30 5:06p
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Ahhhhh the new fox news chant "turn the water back on"......wtf! In the first place those producers would have never had fields to grow crops in if it wasn`t for that meddling big government of the thirties! There was never fields there in the past, just a desert.
Cause it will make ya mad:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/t.....things-are
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10/30 5:15p
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You know...maybe you got lost on your trip back in history to look for a reference to make you point but how but lets not go so far back. How about we look to the deregulation of the Reagan era that led to the S&L crisis... remember that? or how about the total lack of oversite during the Second Bush term that led to the worst recession since the depression.
I am not saying that the government is the answer for everything nor am I saying that more is better but obviously not enough is very bad.
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10/30 7:54p
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I`ll take the latter to the former any day of the week!!!
bladely, can`t make me mad, don`t care what he has to say!
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