At the very beginning of his show yesterday, Mark Levin took strong exception to the reported remarks of Congressman Phil Gingrey (R-GA):
“I think that our leadership, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, are taking the right approach,†Gingrey said. “I mean, it’s easy if you’re Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh or even sometimes Newt Gingrich to stand back and throw bricks. You don’t have to try to do what’s best for your people and your party. You know you’re just on these talk shows and you’re living well and plus you stir up a bit of controversy and gin the base and that sort of that thing. But when it comes to true leadership, not that these people couldn’t be or wouldn’t be good leaders, they’re not in that position of John Boehner or Mitch McConnell.”
It turns out that Congressman Gingrey is a stand-up guy; he called Mark this evening:
The Editor’s note at Politico.com reads: “An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified the GOP member as Rep. Tom Price. Politico regrets the error.” If their reporter couldn’t even get the right name, I guess it would be too much to expect of him to double-check someone’s intent or frame their comments in the proper context.
Hannity looks nicer in person
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Rep. Gingrey sounds like a decent guy, with a good sense of humor. Conservative talk-radio just needed to prescribe him a colonic after he got too full of himself.
You have to give a lot of credit to the House republicans when each and every one delivered to their constituency and did the right thing. In regards to the democrats, who also voted no and whose names I have yet to see, they also deserve enormous credit as they will certainly be subjects of serious whipping from the demonic, tyrannical, fascist, queen witch whose socialist big spending porkopia was denied the same 100% solidarity the opposition displayed.
I have heard it said (Bill O’Reilly) that if Americans want socialism they should directly vote for it whereby it then somehow gains legitimacy. You cannot confer human rights, confiscate those rights or abrogate them even if you dismantle the constitution. These rights pre-existed the constitution. Catherine the Great understood this, the Magna Carta alludes to this, many Supreme Justices stated this, Locke and Burke philosophized about this, the Massachusetts Bill of Rights reflected this and so did the South Carolina Constitution. Some men, as a minority with power, or as a majority democracy with the plurality of a vote, do not have the authority to place others in bondage and when you co-op the property of others you co-op their freedom. Yes, we understand that the government needs to be financed but social engineering that actually argues against the rights of those that support it by the redistribution of their property cannot ever be tolerated and granted legitimacy. It deserves no start because it will never accept an end point.
This bill places American posterity into enormous debt and empowers the State in known and yet to be totally understood ways that trash liberty and freedom all in the name of stimulus when it is nothing more than just another big-spending pork laden bill empowering even bigger more authoritarian government.
For those who love European styled socialism I suggest you move there and try and speak above the quiet whispers of so many who are afraid to openly state what they experience and know is wrong. When you need competent medical care you better be prepared to pay big-time under the table to get less than mediocrity and learn to accept the philosophy of hospice even for those that can be cured. Europe has been denied the spirit of many who would resist because they have been removed by past failed regimes and many of those that survived and resisted moved to America where they would not be subject to lives of quiet discontent and where their posterity would not inherit the wind.
So I salute Gingrey, all the House Republicans and those democrats who stood on the side of the Constitution, on the side of the document that rightly confers order to the rights of humankind and contracts to stay away from those rights, to stay within the confines of the leash granting government limited powers and remember that government does not grant liberty and freedom to us because we already had it, as a natural right of birth, before our constitution and government even existed.
As a side note, what goes with the Politico lately. Most of us don’t have the advantage of an editorial staff so this error goes right up the line.