If Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) is not trying to investigate 
conservatives, he is trying to squelch their voices. Waxman has jumped into the so-called Fairness Doctrine discussion as of late. Waxman, however, has added another dimension to the issue...the internet (h/t The Prowler).
Media Research Center's Jeff Poor spoke with FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell last year about the internet and the Fairness Doctrine. McDowell talked about a real possibility of internet content being regulated in the near future.
According to The Prowler, Waxman and his staff are already looking at ways to police content on the web. (emphasis mine throughout)
Senior FCC staff working for acting Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Copps held meetings last week with policy and legislative advisers to House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman to discuss ways the committee can create openings for the FCC to put in place a form of the "Fairness Doctrine" without actually calling it such.
Waxman is also interested, say sources, in looking at how the Internet is being used for content and free speech purposes. "It's all about diversity in media," says a House Energy staffer, familiar with the meetings. "Does one radio station or one station group control four of the five most powerful outlets in one community? Do four stations in one region carry Rush Limbaugh, and nothing else during the same time slot? Does one heavily trafficked Internet site present one side of an issue and not link to sites that present alternative views? These are some of the questions the chairman is thinking about right now, and we are going to have an FCC that will finally have the people in place to answer them."
Waxman and his staff are also thinking about creating congressionally mandated advisory boards to police both radio and TV programming:
One idea Waxman's committee staff is looking at is a congressionally mandated policy that would require all TV and radio stations to have in place "advisory boards" that would act as watchdogs to ensure "community needs and opinions" are given fair treatment. Reports from those advisory boards would be used for license renewals and summaries would be reviewed at least annually by FCC staff.
What about policing internet content? According to The Prowler, the House Energy and Commerce Committee is already looking into this.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee is also looking at how it can put in place policies that would allow it greater oversight of the Internet. "Internet radio is becoming a big deal, and we're seeing that some web sites are able to control traffic and information, while other sites that may be of interest or use to citizens get limited traffic because of the way the people search and look for information," says on committee staffer. "We're at very early stages on this, but the chairman has made it clear that oversight of the Internet is one of his top priorities."
This is all hardly a surprise, as liberals have never liked that internet content is not regulated in some way.
Hillary Clinton made her views known on this issue back in 1998, when her husband was embroiled in the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. Matt Drudge reported on Clinton’s comments about regulating internet content.
Hillary Clinton Continued:
I don't have any clue about what we're going to do legally, regulatorily, technologically -- I don't have a clue. But I do think we always have to keep competing interests in balance. I'm a big pro-balance person. That's why I love the founders -- checks and balances; accountable power. Anytime an individual or an institution or an invention leaps so far out ahead of that balance and throws a system, whatever it might be -- political, economic, technological --out of balance, you've got a problem, because then it can lead to the oppression people's rights, it can lead to the manipulation of information, it can lead to all kinds of bad outcomes which we have seen historically. So we're going to have to deal with that. And I hope a lot of smart people are going to --"
In 1999, then-Deputy Attorney General (now Attorney General) Eric Holder talked about “reasonable restrictions” on internet content following the tragedy of the Columbine Massacre. VIDEO
Last November, I asked FCC Commissioner and Fairness Doctrine cheerleader Michael Copps about his thoughts on applying the Fairness Doctrine to the Internet. VIDEO:
I think we do have to have an expectation that the internet, if that is going to become the primary vehicle for even broadcast over the years...not tomorrow or the next day, but over the years, there has to be some discussion about how the internet encourages a civic dialogue that’s adequate to the needs of the country, but I think that’s way premature too say exactly this. We haven’t even teed up the question. I’m trying to get people to talk about it. If we can talk about it then maybe we can come up with some intelligent answers.
However, government regulation of private citizen’s speech is un-constitutional. Waxman and company may be biting off more than they can chew on this one.
Liberals only quieted down some about internet content regulation, when they found how the internet could benefit themselves in elections.
Angering a liberal base that enjoys reading websites like Daily Kos, Huffington Post, and Democratic Underground would be risky. After all, if Waxman is insistent that all internet content is to be policed for so-called balance, that should include liberal sites as well….right, Congressman Waxman?
Photo credit: PBS
Crossposted at Picketlines.org
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Waxman
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 02:17 ET by NorthCoasterIt's either all sites or none!
All or none
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 09:44 ET by 10ksnookerFor everything. Radio, TV, Cable, Internet, all or nothing.
Can't wait until Katie Couric gets a minder.
After all, if Waxman is
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 15:26 ET by SouthernRootsBut who decides what is balanced? Once government becomes the arbiter of what is acceptable speech, we have lost our freedoms.
I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them. - J.B. Books (John Wayne)
What country am I living in?
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 02:17 ET by KevroyWhat country am I living in?
Kevroy
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 02:19 ET by NorthCoasterAccording to Newsweek, it's now the Socialist States of America.
we have enough eastern
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 13:48 ET by TruthMongerwe have enough eastern blockers to be called the "new soviet union..."
turns out the poor dweebs defected here for no damn reason:(
USSA...
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 13:58 ET by danybhoyPeople like Waxman want ain't what the founding fathers had in mind. What Waxman stands for is un-American on it's face. His vision of America is to have a gigantic, overbearing, all-knowing, all-seeing gov't that can never have enough control over our lives. This requires high rates of taxation & crushes economic growth. This is the sort of crap that got the British crown thrown out of this country, & we should'nt put up with it now, or ever.
Sad thing is, Waxman is from Beverly Hills, & he will die in office. He'll never lose his seat unless he quits, & I afraid he loves power too much to quit. Term limits anyone?
"...it's still We The People, Right?" Megadeth
Does that mean we can't say how ugly Waxman is anymore?
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 02:27 ET by JWFSo we can't say stuff like this?
Oh my lord, I can see right into his skull! What is wrong with his nose?
Sincerely,
a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.
Good morning JWF
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 02:36 ET by cocodrieIt's just that he has very large fingers.
Jesus Loves You
~Cocodrie
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 08:58 ET by choselife3xYou said EXACTLY what I thought when I read JWF's post! *laughing* This site makes me laugh and cry at the same time....
In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.
You made me laugh
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 11:32 ET by 5kidsnadogfor the first time today. When I saw this article, I had to go for a walk. I walked like a madman for an hour, came back just a little less criminally insane, but still pretty mad.
I have five kids, and one of my jokes when I catch someone picking their noses is that if God didn't mean for you to clean your nose out with your finger, then why'd he make it fit so nice? We need to see the mitts on Waxman - how'd he miss out on baseball as a career?
JWF
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 02:55 ET by DoktorFrankenI think you can officially change your tagline to:
''a Veteran of a 1001 psychic wars.''
It never freakin' ends, does it, Comrades?
Cartoon
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 11:42 ET by cvgbuckeyeWhen I was a kid, there was this cartoon called Mighty Mouse. There was a "mouse villain" in the cartoon. I can't remember his name but he wore a cape and had an evil looking mustache.
Waxman is a dead ringer for this mouse villain. Hmmmmm; he's about the same age to;;;Hmmmm.
Somewhere, deep in the bowels of hell,
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 03:41 ET by old croKarl Marx is smiling.
Simple Answer to All of the Liberal-Socialists in Office:
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 03:55 ET by RogerCfromSDNO.
And not just NO, but HELL NO, you bunch of socially-maladroit, power-hungry, pretentious hypocrites.
That should wake them up from their delusional aspirations of grandeur.
A nation cannot be free without a free, unbiased media. We are not free.
I have had about enough of
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 04:27 ET by SlicksterI have had about enough of this moron. He looks like a sex offender. It's time to get very vocal about this issue.
Hiya Roger
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 18:07 ET by AnotherFedUpOne.........And not just NO, but HELL NO, you bunch of socially-maladroit, power-hungry, pretentious hypocrites.
You know Roger.......you need to learn to come out of your shell a little bit and learn to express yourself! Your gonna get a heart attack by holding it all in like that.....
Just kiddin ya....I feel the same way, I just cant put it as well as you!
Thanks, needed that today...
Crazy how looney lefties are
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 05:03 ET by mostlymoderateCrazy how looney lefties are always wanting to tell American's what they can and can't do. They already try to infringe on every constitutional right we have but now they want to infringe on the granddaddy of ALL constitutional safeguards: the 1st Amendment. I get the impression lefties want to simply draft an entirely new constitution because they obviously don't like the one we have had for over 200 years.
P.S. I can see it now, the lefties will try to pass a bill that gives billions of $$$ to under-represented groups for website creation, presence, hosting etc. Kind of like a PBS for the internet. Wanna bet they will?
I get the impression
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 06:29 ET by motherbeltI get the impression lefties want to simply draft an entirely new
constitution because they obviously don't like the one we have had for
over 200 years.
I really hate to ruin your day right off the bat, but you need to see this....they are working on it.
A New Constitutional Convention?
I'll admit that I'm not sure how accurate this is...but nonetheless, it's frightening.
I fear for my grandchildren.
I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson
Motherbelt
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 09:52 ET by sherylsimsI heard about this a little while back. My husband was saying it was coming. It scares the pants off of me. I am also scared for my children and grandchildren. I wish we knew how to turn this ship around before we all get to ride down the big waterfall. (Or are we already on our way down and are just waiting for the "landing" at the bottom?) Prayer. That is all we can do I think. But that is a lot. Right?
No, it is not all we can do....
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 11:12 ET by kirch66Or this...
We should not lay down and watch our country be legislated by unconstitutional means out from under us. This country was not forged in peace, it was not kept in peace, and it will not be sustained by peacefully laying supine and "hoping" for it to "change"!
What are you willing to do for the liberty of our children and grandchildren?
They did for us...
"The moment you give up your principles and your values, the moment you laugh at those principles and those values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period." - Oriana Fallaci
That is beautiful
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 11:16 ET by sherylsimsAnd I love every word of it. Now, as an individual, tell me WHAT can be done. I have called and written my representatives and they do not represent me. I have stated my displeasure. I vote. I do every little thing that one person can do. I want to do MORE. But there is nothing more I can do. And protesting in front of the Senate (or House or White House) is probably unrealistic because I live on the other side of the country and have responsibilities here that I cannot abandon to go hold up a sign (that will also be ignored). I love the Constitution. I memorized a lot of it when I was in school. I hate that this is happening. But I don't have any control over it.
Sheryl,
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 11:29 ET by 5kidsnadogthat's what they're counting on. That you will feel too small to do anything significant. I am critical of my own efforts (heck, my own father is further left than Nancy Pelosi, and I don't seem to make a dent with him at all), but I still keep going. Sometimes I even apologize to the people that I send articles out to, that I know they're tired and they don't really want to hear it, but I can't shut up. Maybe everybody just sees my name in their inbox and hits the delete, but maybe there's one person who gets it and takes it to heart. At any rate, I'm not ABLE to shut up about it, so they either need to go into a witness protection program, or put up with me......
Sheryl, no that's not all we can do....
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 11:21 ET by 5kidsnadogSheryl, I believe in the power of prayer, but I don't think God is an intercessor. Your faith may dictate otherwise, but I my own faith doesn't lead me to believe that God intervenes to fix things for those who pray. Pray for the wisdom to know what to do that will make a difference, and I think that prayer can be answered, but many, many people who pray have been and still are enslaved by their governments. We can not sit back in our homes and pray that God will fix this for us. The power has to be in our own hands and hearts.
What can you do? I'm so discouraged, my first instinct is to say "Hell if I know", but we all need to be pulling. I scour the internet daily for information, and it looks like you might be of that vein as well. How much do you pass on to your family, neighbors, and friends? I see a web of sorts forming -- all sorts of disparate information that seems to come together into something in my head. Maybe my tinfoil hat is too tight or has a leak or something, but just about every day I find something that adds to that web. When I see it, I send it on to people and ask them to open their address books to me by forwarding whatever makes sense on. I want them to see just a little of what I see and feel to be true. To tell you the truth, I have no idea if I am effective with this at all, but maybe I have opened the eyes of some who might not have been inclined to do so otherwise. Maybe you have some other way that you feel you can contribute. I think we can all come up with some ways that we can open the eyes of those who are refusing to see, including our blind representatives in Washington.
I feel like they are flooding us with all of this so that it will wear us out to the point that we will stop protesting. Some days, I think that will work. I know there are times where I have a sense of a physical weight pressing down on me, and I think - what's the use? But I refuse to hole up in my house and knit socks while the country that I love is handed over to a bunch of thumb sucking whiners.
I received an e-mail the other day describing a divorce of sorts where we can amicably break up with liberals. It was supposed to be sarcastic, but honestly, in my heart of hearts, I see it as an option. Give us a place to go where we can have land to grow food on, access to fresh water, ocean front for shipping, etc. and I think we have a deal. They can have their utopia where no one has to work, or pay for gas, or worry about paying their mortgage again. I'll take the portion of the country where they still believe that the harder you work, the luckier you get.
Power of prayer
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 11:30 ET by QueenMumSkids: I consider myself a pretty down to earth sort of person. But I'm a firm believer in the power of prayer. I've seen answers in my own life. Perhaps the "answers" are nothing more than wishes fulfilled. But whether one believes that there is a God who intervenes or one thinks it's all a coincidence, to those who pray it works. My own take on prayer is that it's a way to align our wills with God's. I believe that God set the whole of man's future in motion. He knows how things are going to turn out. When we pray, we give ourselves over to God's plan. It's when we are at our most vulnerable that prayer is most powerful.
queenmum,
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 11:46 ET by 5kidsnadogI get what you're saying, and I believe in the power of prayer, but I guess I'm more along the lines of asking God to help me to know what is the right thing to do, or to have the wisdom to understand all of this, or the fortitude to keep on going. I look at all the bad things that happen to good people in this world and know that it's not because they just didn't pray enough, it's just that God doesn't control any of us, and therefore doesn't intercede to align things in a way that will fix it.
I look at all of this and think that there must be a reason for all of this - that maybe out of this, we will find a new way of being. Maybe in the end we will stop being a nation that embraces the idea that up is down, right is wrong, bad is good. Maybe it will take pain on our part to emerge on the other side with some of this ugliness expunged.
I am not looking forward with bright eyed anticipation for what is to come over the next few years. In fact, it fills me with fear, but I know that if I ask for it, I will be up to the task. That's what my prayers are about anyway.
5kidsandadog
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 11:30 ET by sherylsimsI truly believe that "we" outnumber "them". They have taken control of quite a few very important elements of society and it has taken an entire generation, but have reaped the results of Christians and conservatives not following their principles and staying in there and fighting. I am in no way saying that I won't "stay in there and fight". I just don't know what to do anymore. Nothing we do makes a difference (or seems to). I "educate" everyone I know to the point where that is what I am known for. But what difference does it make when our representatives won't represent us? Or when they can win over the masses by buying them off, or forging documents, or doing all sorts of heinous things and it is never reported. I am just to the point where I feel as though we have lost. It took a long time, and I am not saying I am giving up. I am just saying I don't have much hope for the future and don't see what us (the majority) can do when the tables are so slanted they are nearly vertical.
I largely agree with your assessment...
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 16:45 ET by unkeeafAny reasonable reading of the situation and the institutions they control would tell you we are royally humped. I think there is a very real chance that a constitutional convention could be called and that would eliminate this country once and for all.
MSM = PR firm for the Democrat Party
Are they doing this in
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 10:04 ET by ForeverOnTheRightAre they doing this in secret? Is the MSM complicit in their silence? Will we have a second American revolution when they take our freedoms away, such as freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and perhaps ban the Republican party?
All I know about it (very little)
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 10:08 ET by sherylsimsIs that in declaring it a "living document" it can be changed to fit how society needs it to be now. I really doubt there will be a vote on it. It is already in the works. And yes, the MSM is silent.
I think we could look for
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 11:10 ET by motherbeltI think we could look for restrictions on "possibly offensive" speech and "sensible restrictions" (\sarc) on the second amendment.
This is all being done very quietly. And once it opens, the entire Constitution is fair game; no restrictions.
I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson
What part of...
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 11:54 ET by kirch66...this article of the constitution have our "leaders" (notice I didn't say representative - that euphemism hasn't existed for decades) been operating under for the past 50+ years? The moment they take their "oath" to uphold the Constitution, they immediately begin trying to find ways around it - or now to ignore it and not let the dumb masses (us) realize what it actually says.Article [X.] The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.Look up what the Fabian Socialists methodology was. Look up what we were told was going to be done to America over a long period of time in order to bring us down. (link) (link)In 1942, Stuart Chase, in his book "The Road We Are Traveling" spelled out the system of planning the Fabians had in mind; the interesting thing is to look at that plan in comparison to 2008 America.1. Strong, centralized government.2. Powerful Executive at the expense of Congress and the Judicial.3. Government controlled banking, credit and securities exchange.4. Government control over employment.5. Unemployment insurance, old age pensions.6. Universal medical care, food and housing programs.7. Access to unlimited government borrowing.8. A managed monetary system.9. Government control over foreign trade.10. Government control over natural energy sources, transportation and agricultural production.11. Government regulation of labor.12. Youth camps devoted to health discipline, community service and ideological teaching consistent with those of the authorities. (just wait for this one folks)13. Heavy progressive taxation.[ACLU] Board Member John H. Holmes admitted that they were only using the “civil liberties issue” in supporting the “cause of radicalism”
Founder Roger Baldwin said, “Civil liberties, like democracy, are useful only as tools for social change.” (source)...(excerpt)...a conference on theory was held [1957] at the Communist party’s political University in Prague, Czechoslovakia. The results of that conference became a communist document which British intelligence heard about and tried hard to obtain. They tried through several channels but were always advised that it was "out of print." Three years later, a copy was finally obtained in 1961. It was translated into English and was published in the United States in October, 1961.The English title assigned to the document is : "And Not A Shot Is Fired." The original Czech title, translated to English is: "How Parliament Can Play a Revolutionary Part In The Transition To Socialism, And The Role Of The Popular Masses." Certainly not something you would pick out at the local bookstore for an evening’s casual reading. (source)...2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State. ...and others similar to what we have now. (source)FDR and the End of Economic Liberty (link)...and finally the communist goals set forth in an entry into the congressional record in 1963 by Florida congressman A. S. HERLONG, JR. It spells out the specific goals the USSR had in order to bring down the United States through social and legislative means rather than outright warfare. Read them and count how many of them have come about, and realize that when this was written, NONE of them had been enacted in the US. (link)Man this is coming like a tidal wave. Right now we are at the point where the surf is receeding from the shore and nothing looks like the huge wave just over the horizon...This is going to get very ugly for many of us on the conservative side."The moment you give up your principles and your values, the moment you laugh at those principles and those values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period." - Oriana Fallaci
Well, let's start with
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 05:08 ET by stancoyleWell, let's start with PBS..then CNN...then MSNBC.....ABC, CBS, and NBC. Did I mention FOX....LOL
Liberals will never stop
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 05:33 ET by Andrew H.Liberals will never stop proving they have no understanding or knowledge of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Obviously they make it up as they go and will always seek to enslave the masses.
As we see most of the print media, Hollywod and television write in liberalism, the writers have no clue who really seeks to quash freedom and skip merrily and smugly along the way--as many of us who know laugh at them, choose not to buy and write posts such as we do on Newsbusters.
At what point do we hold the politicians accountable for their abridgement of our rights? What would be the best form? It's going to take an honest Justice department and honest judges.
Liberalism is a convenient lie.
If I wanted to live in China,
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 06:02 ET by thebutlerdiditI would have just moved there. Not brought it here.
All a Democrat needs is the upper-story window of public attention and the chamber pot of rhetoric. How else to explain the rise of Joe Biden? P.J. O' Rourke
Wasn't there some
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 07:28 ET by sdanbig story about not being able to regulate porn on the internet? They can't regulate porn but all of a sudden they can regulate all content? This is unfreakinbelieveable. Do they still have "1984" or "Animal Farm" as required reading in school anymore?
Nope. At least not at my
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 08:09 ET by ThatDudeNope. At least not at my schools. I stumbled across them on my own and read for fun. Farenheit 451 is still a required reading. That's somewhat close, and should be used by educators to denounce these freedom infringing policies. I do not know how anybody could read one of these books and still support socialism/communism/Democrats. 1984 does an especially good job in outlining in rational terms that it is the nature of such policies that bring about the outcome. More trust in the integrity of those governing just leads to a quicker infringement of freedom.
Pigface strikes again.
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 07:30 ET by WorriedI just sent an email to my Democrat senator in Colorado (lucky us, Obama comes here today to sign the "Generational Theft Act of 2009"). I expressed to him my concerns over everything going with the Obama admin. and how it is reminiscent of what was happening in Germany in the late 20s. (Is everyone aware the State Dept. sent congrats to Hugo Chavez on his taking over as dictator for life in Venezulua? I think that's a first.)
Now Pigface wants to control the internet. Well, Google is working with the White House so maybe that's the goal. To hire Obamabots to weed out anything that don't agree with. Let them try. China has been trying this and yet people still are able to get through.
A POX ON ALL THEIR ANTI-AMERICANS HOUSES!
I will assure you only sites
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 07:39 ET by nadadhimmiI will assure you only sites that are conservative, or Christian will be censored. Muslim, porn, queer, bestiality, pedophile, etc, sites will be protected by "free speech". Sites that seek to protect the 2nd Amendment will be banned by ignoring the 1st. After all, NEWSWEEK states we are all socialist now. Well, BULLSHIT. Fuck the mess-iah and the Kenyen horse he rode into this world on.
Clean up your post or the
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 07:45 ET by motherbeltClean up your post or the administrators will do it for you.
This is not DU or Kos...most of us here don't appreciated that kind of stuff.
Surely you can make your point without the nasty language.
I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson
You're kidding, right? Are
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 09:50 ET by redmikeYou're kidding, right? Are you actually trying to censor a post about censorship?
Noone wants
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 10:48 ET by sdanto censor your opinion at all. Just try to keep it PG please.
Al Gore, I think I found
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 08:06 ET by ChadAl Gore, I think I found Man-Bear-Pig.
~Chad
Cincinnati, OH
Or maybe.....
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 09:13 ET by motherbeltThis guy????
LOL!!
I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson
A little more juvenile than
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 18:07 ET by ChadA little more juvenile than that. :-)
http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/103675
~Chad
Cincinnati, OH
If this isn't a wake-up call to Conservatives, we're doomed!!!
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 08:13 ET by c5thenI don't care what political party you belong to or agree with, if you are a conservative this is the proverbial "shot across the bow" from the "Liberal Dreadnought". How long until they try and mandate that we refer to everyone as comrade? Are we going to have a special salute that we must all use when speaking the name of The Obamanation? This is PRECISELY the danger that the Founder's forsaw when they placed the requirement that the President be a natural born citizen. Without that provision being enforced (as it was ignored in this election) then you run the risk of getting a President (as we have now) who has no loyalty to this country, but only to an ideology.
Hey, I got the wrong "CHANGE"!
Alan Keyes / Sarah Palin - 2012
Pushing back
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 08:40 ET by LCT688I am a free and sovereign citizen of a free and sovereign state. I relinquish certain of those rights to my state in exchange for that state’s guarantee to protect those and all of my God given rights, as enumerated in my state’s Constitution. Acting as an agent of its citizens, my state freely entered into a compact with other free and sovereign states to create a Federal government whose sole purpose is to act within a strictly limited authority granted to it by those member states; Said authority being too; 1. Act as the common agent of those member states and their citizens in relations with foreign powers, and to protect them from the infringement of their sovereign rights and the rights of their citizens by any foreign power. 2. To create and defend a common currency to be used within the several states and to set and control its value and its value in relation to foreign currency and, 3. To guarantee the free and unrestricted trade between the several states.
Further it is the responsibility of my state to protect my rights and its rights from usurpation by the Federal government should it seek to enact laws or exercise authority beyond those responsibilities granted to it by the several free and sovereign states.
I would sooner die fighting, with my personal liberty and moral integrity intact, going before my maker with a clear conscience on those accounts, than to surrender them to the usurpation of the Federal government. My personal liberty and moral integrity are not for sale at any price.
www.theeveningchronicle.blogspot.com
"A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves
Back to my record warning labels
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 09:05 ET by awffp1890Remember when Tipper Gore and Hubby pushed for warning labels on records? Those two are the face of liberalism. How is it that these liberals cry for free speech, yet are dying to take that liberty away from others?
"Not for fame or reward, not for place or rank, not lured by ambition or goaded by necessity. But in simple obedience to duty." - From the barracks at Ft. Benning
The fact that Marxist
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 09:40 ET by fitzfongThe fact that Marxist tyrants like Henry Waxman, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are empowered to shove their West Hollywood/Haight-Ashbury/Upper West Side "values" down our throats is largely the fault of the RNC. Time and time again, the RNC has exhibited a cowardice in vigorously opposing these aspiring dictators...backing off in the face of identity politics because the Party doesn't want to be seen as standing in the way of the "first" Woman/African-American/Hispanic/Gay to occupy a particular office. Pelosi should have been the target as Republicans ran against "Blue Dogs" in tight Congressional elections...a vote for Heath Schuler is really a vote for Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Henry Waxman, Brad Sherman, Maxine Waters, Maurice Hinchey, Jack Murtha and the other neo-Marxist crooks who currently run the Democrat Party (and who have been running the country into the ground). But Obama and Pelosi are "historic" figures, so the RNC has refused to portray them as the villains that they are...so now we're stuck having Beverly Hills scum like Henry Waxman attempting to trample on the First Ammendment. The sooner the RNC gets a spine and does a better job of linking moderate Democrat Congressmen to the abject failures of Nancy Pelosi, the better chance we have of reversing the damage done. Also, Steele must focus a lot of effort in Nevada...if there's a better opportunity to cut the tyrants off at the knees than by clipping the Senate Majority Leader in 2010, I'd like to know what it is.
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." -Winston Churchill
FITZY...
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 11:04 ET by danybhoyB I N G O !!!!!!!!!!!
You can quit posting now, you will never have a better post then that one. So why try?
"...it's still We The People, Right?" Megadeth
Fitz
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 13:41 ET by CTI pray Michael Steele hears and heeds your words.
Charm Offensive
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 09:41 ET by KC MulvilleIn the not-too-distant future, Obama's going to want to rein in the loopy liberals like Waxman and Pelosi, because their overreach will prove embarrassing. But, he's going to find that his (double entendre alert) Charm Offensive will work on his fellow Democrats about as well as it worked on Republicans - meaning, not at all. When that happens, he's not going to publicly insult them as he does Republicans. He won't highlight their intransigence and call it "bad habits" as he did with the GOP. Instead, he'll privately complain, but publicly he'll roll over.
Face it, he's the pleasant and charming front man for aggrieved Democrats looking for vengeance. Obama isn't the power. The moment he crosses them, they'll knock him down. They want him to keep looking pretty while they do the ugly. He's proof of the Douglas Adams rule: the purpose of the president is not to wield power, but to draw attention away from it.
Welcome to the USSA (United
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 09:56 ET by Radar_OneWelcome to the USSA (United Socialist States of America), seems like thats gonna be on the new dollar they'll have to print out like Monopoly money to come up with the cashflow they are going to need to try to impliment all these "sweeping economic changes" that the Democrats want to use to "stimulate our economy.
Remember "Spending equals stimulus" - BHO
Barack Obama= Half Honkey...ALL Donkey
"Wax Man"
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 10:07 ET by NKurucEvery time I see this guy on the news, I can't help but wonder.....who keeps re-electing him? He's always part of some investigation that's going to make a major revelation....that ends up going nowhere. What the hell! Why is it that California seems to spawn all of these nut-jobs? One good question about this self serving idiot is how many of the taxpayer dollars has he spent over his years in office, and how many of his investigations have ended up benefiting this country? Perhaps an investigation is due!
"That's why I love the
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 10:35 ET by bradbenj5952"That's why I love the founders -- checks and balances; accountable power."
This is the ultimate twisting of logic. Senator Waxman, the checks and balances of which you speak are limits placed upon government...your power. The Bill of Rights enumerated those rights shared by American citizens, rights over which you have NO POWER...freedom of speech is not for you to regulate nor abridge. It is our right as free men and women in this country...as citizens of these United States. You have no power to regulate nor abridge my right to criticize you. You, and all tyrannical ilk like you, will never silence we Americans who remain free in our hearts. No matter how much you ignore the Constitution in violation of your oath of office, we will NEVER surrender our God given rights to you. Your party is nothing but a bunch of oath-breakers who know nothing of, nor understand, the Spirit of our Founding Fathers. You turn every definition of freedom which they embraced into anathema and turn those things which they despised into "rights". It is clear to me now that it is not the enemy without which Americans need to fear...it is the enemy within...it is people like you and all politicians who think like you.
"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house." Acts 16:31
I thought the same thing...
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 13:46 ET by kirch66I thought the same ting when I read his "take" on the check and balances of this country. What unmitigated ignorance or outright stupidity for him to say that in that context!!! That should be grounds for removing him from office. If an elected representative who swears an oath to UPHOLD the US Constitution can't even understand or has no knowledge of that Constitution then that should be grounds for disqualification of service in any legislature of this country. If we don't have the Constitution, we have nothing! If we won't support and defend IT then we have tyranny! The people in Washington are NOT our "leaders"! They are supposed to be our REPRESENTATIVES! There's a difference! They have forgotten that difference. They now see themselves as our leaders, who have power over us.
Read the Declaration of Independence carefully and see what our founding fathers said of a government that no longer supported the will and benefit of the people over the will and benefit of the government.
Just sayin...
"The moment you give up your principles and your values, the moment you laugh at those principles and those values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period." - Oriana Fallaci
Police the Internet? He
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 10:49 ET by jdhawkPolice the Internet? He either doesn't know how the Internet is setup or is just flapping his gums to hear himself talk. What a dork.
JDHAWK...
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 11:09 ET by danybhoyYeah you can police the internet, look at China. They do a good job of it. Also, when you can force people like Google, Yahoo, & internet providers to do what you say or there will be problems for you through the use of gov't control, it's not really a far fetched idea.
"...it's still We The People, Right?" Megadeth
JD....."....you can police
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 17:10 ET by celatorJD....."....you can police the internet..."
Isn't this what the new Smart Grid internet system the libs want and which is included in the "stimulus bill" all about--government control of the internet?
cel...I know you weren't
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 17:17 ET by bigtimercel...
I know you weren't talking to me...but it sure is!
Just one more perfect example of why I call it the Strangulation Bill.
BT... As I understand it,
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 17:48 ET by celatorBT... As I understand it, the project is pretty much scoped, some initial design has been done on the Smart Grid. Others here know more about than I do, I am sure. What was lacking was the $$$ to go foward with it. It's being sold, in part, as "bringing broadband to rural areas".
Wait until more people discover the real purpose of the Smart Grid.
Congressman Rhinoplasty...
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 11:21 ET by AMR1960Congress Waxman continues to shove yet another ridiculous ideal, up his nose...
What continues to fascinate is the amount of room still available for additional nasal residency...
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Long Live...THE REPUBLIC !
When I see Waxman...
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 11:27 ET by ckbennetttnI instantly think of the naked mole rat exhibit at our local zoo. The resemblance is uncanny. I'm sure he is part of some failed experiment.
Obama: 'I screwed up'--We're going to be seeing this a lot.
If Waxman has his way.........
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 11:27 ET by BEGRUNTstand by for the "torch and pitchforks" to decend upon Washington.......people are only going to be pushed so far....and these clowns are going for everything at once.......the backlash is going to be HUGE!!
"Blago got in touch with his inner dirt bag"
Dennis Miller
Houston, we have a problem.....
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 11:52 ET by OneunderIt seems we are in for some rocky times. I would love to see this fight come up within the next year or two. There are some heavy hitters who would take a huge pay cut if this was to happen. It will be a cold day in hell if it were to happen. It would be a good thing though. EIB, Premier Networks, Westwood One, Clear Channel would have their say and would win the fight as well as galvanize the conservative movement....
"Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
- Ronald Reagan
LOL
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 13:01 ET by marpelDamn! Doesn't he look like Topo Gigio???
Separated at Birth!
Waxman, Pelosi's little gargoyle.
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 13:35 ET by CTWhen I recently saw a picture of Waxman standing next to Queen Pelosi I couldn't get over what a tiny little pipsqueak this gargoyle of a man is. It's time to hold these mental midgets accountable for their anti-American promulgations.
"advisory boards"
"community needs and opinions"
“reasonable restrictions”
As determined by whom?
politicians like this...
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 15:26 ET by UndercoverConservativeare the *real* reason government wants to ban all firearms, especially single shot hunting rifles, here in CA.
"When the revolution comes, they'll be the first against the wall"
"to call an illegal immigrant an "undocumented alien" is like calling a streetcorner drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist".
"You spend your money anyway you want and respect other's rights to do the same&quo
I'm not a bit surprised. As
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 16:40 ET by pitter43I'm not a bit surprised. As long as there is one sane republican voice in America, democrat/liberals want it silenced. That way, the only thing you can hear are their socalist ideas.
1st amendment
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 16:55 ET by weirdonemotherbelt I have been saying for months that the left when in power will call for a Constitunal Convention to rewrite the Constitution. I do not know why they think this necessary as the only part of it that they follow as written is the 16th Amendment which allows them to tax to the max and therefore spend more than exists.
"War Is Peace." "Freedom is Slavery." "Ignorance is Strength." Orwell
I will not lose my country to Henry "Bat Boy" Waxman
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 17:03 ET by jefflebowskiThis country was not founded and built to be robbed from us by evil liberal socialists like what we now have running DC. If they insist on trying to take our liberties, they must be prepared for what will follow. And it will not end well for them.
Angry White Dude
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Waxman and Internet Censorship
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 17:17 ET by nandrelliThis should be interesting.
Traditionally, it has been left-wing internet weenies who have complained the most about possible censorship. Now that it is the lefties wanting to impose the censorship (undoubtedly to suppress the right-wing political opinion), it will be fun to see how the weenies react.
As a RIGHT-wing computer weenie, I am totally against internet censorship. I could accept site "classifications" (for example, to identify porn sites, so parents could help filter things out for their youngsters - and I realize there will be ways around it), but no GOVERNMENT restrictions based on those classifications.
And besides, I don't think that an alien from outerspace should be controlling information available on the internet, no matter how many people from California voted for him (I'm convinced Waxman was born in Roswell New Mexico in 1947, right after that "weather balloon" crashed, regardless what his birth certificate says).
There's only one way to stop them.
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 22:05 ET by pbthinkerTHere's only one way to stop them, on this issue and guns and that's to use the slippery slope theory and not allow them to have any inroads. Democrats are really, really good at incrementalism so you have to watch every move they make, even when it seem insignificant.
Look at the census arguments. How long did it take for the Congressional Black Caucus to come out against Judd Gregg and cite their fears about the census? Why would Obama want Rahm Emanuel taking charge of the census? It seems like a relatively minor issue and yet, here we are, overlooking the importance of it. If the Democrats think it's important, watch their every move.
The same thing goes for guns and free speech, if they get a foothold, watch your back because you will eventually lose your rights. Look at how long it took them to get their Democrats in place, in the courts, on the election boards, on the school boards, they had a plan and they got it done. They are not afraid to subvert our society and feel the only thing stopping them is the power to do it.
Henry Waxman is one of the leaders in this regard so listen carefully to what he says because he's not mis-speaking, he really means to do what he says.
Election 2008-God's way of showing us that elections count.
"Waxman to discuss ways the
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 23:17 ET by RR GOP"Waxman to discuss ways the committee can create openings for the FCC
to put in place a form of the "Fairness Doctrine" without actually
calling it such."
Um, I think "Fairness Doctrine" is a spot-on Orwellian euphemism, why monkey with it?
One of the 24% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 89% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.