GovernmentGoneWild (among others) On Special Interests

GovernmentGoneWild.org says that government is the biggest special interest of all. 

Hat tip to John Uhrig, Plano, TX

The Newnan (Georgia)Times-Herald discusses GWG and their message with some agreement.

"No one was doing the math at the meeting, but Westmoreland said he felt that that was not an accurate statement.

"It wasn't exactly accurate. Instead, it appears that it would take 392 years to pay off the $14.325 trillion national debt at $100 million a day. Paying $100 million a day equals $36.5 billion a year -- which, of course, is no where near what the federal government spends in a year.
"Of course, the future deficit numbers only apply if the government stays on the same course."

Liberal Decay  "This transformation of liberalism from an earnest though deeply misguided crusade into a corrupt politics of influence peddling has been going on for at least a half century, but my writer has failed to notice."

More on the special interests GGW is addressing  "Thus, the radical environmentalists have seized the EPA and related agencies, where they get to block economic activity and energy extraction for the greater glory of Gaia.  The unions have taken over labor and the NLRB. The tax code is so riddled with special favors that fully half of the tax that would be collected under neutral principles is forgiven.  The Treasury and the Fed are the pillars of the financial establishment."
...."There is no resemblance between this current government and any coherent idea of a welfare state.  The only "welfare" involved is that of the myriad groups, not of the collective public."

The Party of Big Business  "Duke Energy is one of the most active members of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership. About half the electricity the company supplies comes from traditional coal-fired plants; the other half comes from nuclear power. The Obama administration’s punishing policies for traditional energy sources have made Duke’s nuclear plants—which don’t emit any greenhouse gases—much more valuable, and most of the company’s coal-powered energy plants are in areas where they have a government-enforced monopoly."....

Politicizing Justice "Attorney General Eric Holder’s agenda begins and ends with delivering favors to Obama’s constituencies."

 

Amity Schlaes: 'Public interest' or 'special interest' in disguise?  "I soon found that public-choice theory explained the tendency of bureaucracy to create more work for itself. Health officials' interests in testing small children's blood for lead, for instance, made sense when one considered that finding poisoned children validated their jobs."

U.S. Navy SEALs express extreme lack of confidence in this president

Posted by Ronbo at the Freedom Fighter's Journal
This comes too late to help in the 2012 election, but keep this in mind for the 2014 elections.

Low-information feature; the news in cartoons

 From the OC Register:

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Breitbart Rule 1: Bring the fight to your enemy

http://hopenchangecartoons.blogspot.com/

Rick's Conservative Blog
"(from "Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World" by Andrew Breitbart: Chapter 7, "Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Revolutionaries" - pp 147-160)"

"The army of the emboldened and gleefully ill-informed is growing. Groupthink happens, and we have to take it head-on. We can't win the political war until we win the cultural war. The Frankfurt School knew that - that's why they won the cultural war and then, on it's back, the political war. We can do the same, but we have to be willing to enter the arena. By neglecting The View or, worse, by ignoring Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Maher, and David Letterman - we allow them to distort and demean us as they romanticize and elevate themselves. It's harder to attack people to their faces than behind their backs. and we have to confront them face-to-face. Young people suckle at the teat of pop culture - but by refusing to fight for their attention, we lose by default."

Video: Andrew Breitbart doing what he does best in exposing Occupy Wall Street for the troublemakers they are.

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"The key to the conversation was that I didn't start defending myself against his baseless charge of racism. I dismissed it out of hand as ridiculous because it was ridiculous. He was a punk for leveling that kind of charge without any basis whatsoever. I don't let my enemies characterize me without any evidence, and you shouldn't let them characterize you. Name-calling is their best strategy, and if you don't lend it credence, and instead force them to back up their charges with specifics, you win. Revel in the name calling - it means you've got them reduced to their lowest, basest tactic, and the one that carries the least weight if you refuse to abide by their definition of you."
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 "Most of us aren't experts on the latest budget package or stem-cell line regulation, but that doesn't mean we're powerless - it means we get to play Socrates, asking pointed questions rather than citing facts we may not be sure of."

 “If you’re not for this candidate, more than shame on you; you’re on the other side” In fact, take a listen to his words for yourself:

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"Don't let them pretend to know more than they do: This is really the converse of the last rule. Your opponents will pretend to be experts if you don't, but that's okay, because you can always puncture their balloon with one word: why. Asking them to provide evidence for their assertions is always fun, and it's even more fun asking them to provide the sources for that evidence. Attacking the fundamental basis of their arguments if fun, too - if they tell you health care is a right, ask why. Liberals don't have a why, other than their own utopianism and their dyspeptic view of the status quo and America. Reason is not their strong suit - emotion is."   Read more.

Hat tip to Rick Bulow for this most excellent counsel and for the links in this post. Below are links to all Andrew Breitbart's blogs:

Big Government

Breitbart TV

Big Hollywood

Breitbart Sports

Big Journalism

Big Peace
The Conversation
The Wires

Dialogue between TD and two who took issue with a recent post

The TW posted this article in Facebook on Wednesday, March 6th:

 And representing the United States of America...

 "This little incident, which in itself ranks up there on the sanity scale with Maxine Waters' warning of 170,000,000 Americans losing their jobs due to the sequester, is nevertheless a timely reminder of just how power-mad progressives really are, and how thoroughly their power-madness obliterates any notions of conscience or decency."

The following is a dialogue TD had with two people who made Facebook comments on this post:

 

J----; Or is it that culture in America is influencing politics? Creative minds tend to be liberal. Creative minds are required in the media. The media reflects the ideology of those that create it.

G-----; I like how every right-wing news source that I listen to mentions the MSM being liberal every 30 minutes or so. It's a brainwashing program that's working wonders on people. You literally cannot watch Fox News for 30 minutes without hearing how the  liberal media is doing (or not doing) this or that. Why would Fox want to turn their viewers staunchly against other sources of media? Hmmm.. I'd say that they have a vested interest in doing so. Luckily for them, their viewers buy every word of it. I'm not saying that the media doesn't lean left, but what Fox news and other right-wing sources are doing is insuring that their viewers/listeners don't hear any side of the story other than what they provide them.

TD; And MSNBC...?

G-----; MSNBC = left-wing FOX. I don't understand why that's even at question. I always love to see Hannity do his media mash and then use MSNBC as an example of left-wing bias. MSNBC = Left, FOX = Right. I thought we all understood that.

TD; This just in: O’Reilly-Colmes Family Spat Shows Why There’s Fox News…And There’s Everyone Else | Mediaite 

"George W. Bush wins the 2000 Presidential Election by (in essence) 537 votes; Fo...x News goes to #1 in the cable news race a few months later. Bush narrowly beats John Kerry in 2004. Not surprisingly, Fox is still #1, and by a wider margin. Barack Obama soundly defeats John McCain in 2008; Fox is stil...See More"

G-----; That's great, B---, but I'm not sure what your point is. I don't watch MSNBC nearly as much as I watch Fox News. MSNBC is pretty boring to me because a lot of it is in line with things I already know. Fox is interesting to me because it challenges me to see different views and ideas. "Conservatives" who watch Fox news are watching it for comfort because Fox does all they can to reassure those people that they're right. The same goes for liberals who watch MSNBC. I happen to favor programming that's going to make me think, rather than programming that tells me what I should think.

J-----; The only 'news' I watch is in the morning to see what the traffic and weather is going to be. I never tune into those stations for political updates. And neither should anyone else.

TD; Perhaps our difference is that with Fox I associate Brit Hume, Charles Krauthammer and Chris Wallace; with MSNBC I think of Al Sharpton, Chris Matthews and Toure' and that is a big wall I feel the left has to climb for me.