Yup, I couldn't stay away from the blog for too long. Told you I'd post if something important came up. And it did.
Last week, I got into a political debate with a co-traveler. I had just spent nearly week at a conference with several hundred fellow Jews -- all of them (as far as I know) liberal Democrats. Despite promising myself I would not get into politics at this event, I was admittedly chomping at the bit to get into some "trouble." Well, a group of us were waiting at the airport for flights back East when one friend -- who was so offended by my right-of-center Facebook comments she actually admitted to resorting to blocking my posts altogether. (I know, liberals are oh-so tolerant and open-minded. Blah blah, f**king blah.)
Anyway, she followed up that admission with the question of how I can support the Tea Party, when some of them are just so crazy. (Yes, that was her word.) I wasn't going to go off on this person right there in front of other friends and colleagues, so I responded simply that all parties have "crazies." "Look at Barack Obama," I said plainly, "and all the czars and cabinet members he's appointed, and what about his Supreme Court nominees."
"But those people don't really have any authority," some objected.
"Oh, really?" I pressed. "Obama's czars, etc., were not elected by the American people, yet they have virtually unlimited and unchecked policy-making power."
That was really the end of that debate. For my friends, there was really nothing else to say. The conversation ultimately turned to right-wing talk radio and how offensive and hateful Rush Limbaugh supposedly is. I asked my interlocutor if she ever actually listened to Rush Limbaugh. Of course, she did not but she assured me all she needed to know was the clips played for her on her favorite hosts (on MSNBC and NPR, naturally). With an involuntary rolling of the eyes, I insisted those liberal commentators are very adept at taking Rush out of context. They have to. There's no other way to marginalize and polarize him.
But anyway, back to my temporary return this evening to blog-hood. I was catching up on the past two weeks of talk radio when I got to Mark Levin's show Thursday. The first hour was devoted to a vote by the Senate to give the EPA -- an unelected unaccountable organization -- unconstitutional regulatory powers, namely, to create and enforce policies related to carbon dioxide emissions and other so-called pollutants. The vast majority of yay votes came from 53 Democrats (No surprise there).
Aside from the fact that Mark's entire report made my blood boil, I couldn't help recalling the conversation with my liberal Jewish friends at that Midwestern airport. To them, certain Tea Party politicians were "crazy." What about the 53 Democrats who just crapped on the Constitution for the umpteenth time, by giving an unelected body legislative and executive powers. Because of these Democrats, Mark explains, energy costs and everything related to energy (which means just about everything you can possibly think of) is about to go through the roof.
So here's 15 minutes of the Great One Mark Levin telling it like it is. I dedicate this clip to my liberal Jewish friend who has blocked my posts on Facebook because she's too offended to read anything that doesn't jibe with her MSNBC-NPR-filtered reality. I'm sure if any one of those two stations actually report what the Senate did on Thursday afternoon, you would have no problem with it anyway. It's OK to cr@p on the Constitution, as long as you're doing it to further the Leftist agenda.
[Edited for commercials, long pauses, and other extraneous content]
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