Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Levin: 'Folks, these are very, very dark times in this country'

"Government is not reason, nor eloquence. It is force. And like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearsome master." ~ George Washington

Initially addressing his disappointment in the Hagel confirmation, Levin expanded the topic, addressing his discouragement (as well as that of many) in this administration's societal onslaught...
"Folks, these are very, very dark times in this country... We have an enormously powerful government that's getting more and more powerful by the day, and your liberties are diminishing each and every day, whether it's guns, whether it's ammunition, whether it's the school lunch program, whether it's the environment used to shut down businesses and drive up electricity cost and food costs. The 'circle of liberty', I like to call it, is getting tighter and smaller, and smaller and tighter. And we're preached to about illegal aliens and same-sex marriage and...the individual in this country, I don't care what their sexual preference is, I don't care if they're legal or illegal; the fact of the matter is we are losing our liberty in this country, gradually, but steadily. And the people who pretend otherwise, are ignorant, absolutely ignorant. It has happened to other societies over time, but it's happening right now."

"These are dark times for this nation, and the Republicans do not have the will to fight this."


Turning more ire towards our so-called Republican leaders: "What is it gonna take to wake these fools up?!"
"When you have a chance to stand up and stop [Obama], by God, stand up and stop him! The Constitution gives you the power to do it! If you don't stop this man and his policies, if you don't stop the destruction he's doing to this nation, his hollowing out the United States military, his destroying our capitalist system, if you damn Republicans in Congress aren't gonna do it, then who the hell is gonna do it?! You wanna be a Senator? Then act like a Senator! You wanna be a Congressman? Then act like a damn Congressman! Otherwise, get the hell out of the way! These are not the times for timid souls! This isn't the time for cowards! And yet, we're surrounded by them."
And then there's these Republican governors, one buckling after another, pushing higher taxes, buying into Obamacare...on Monday, Mark addressed the statist slide of Bob McDonnell (VA) and Rick Scott (FL), and then in the above segment, the latest-yet-unsurprising casualty, Chris Christie.
"These Republican governors are buckling one after another... Meanwhile, the problem is we, the People. The problem's conservatism; the problem's the tea party; the problem's the constitutionalists out there. Just listen to Rove, you know, we're the problem. The people who pay for this crap, the people who this country was built to support, and who built this country, we're the problem. Not the illegal aliens, not the radical President, not these left-wing policies, no, We the People, we're the problem! If we'd just shut the hell up and get out of the way, everything would be perfectly fine. And when you don't, you're a 'radical', you're an 'extremist'. Not the people who are destroying the country, no, we are, who don't do anything to bother anybody, accept work, take care of our families, pay our bills and pay our taxes. We're the radicals! You know, we gotta give into these, eh, we need comprehensive immigration reform. People from other countries come into our country, we don't invite them in, they violate our laws, and if we don't capitulate to this and accept it, there's something wrong with us. If we don't reject our faith and our religious teachings when it comes to a whole host of issues, there's something wrong with us. And when we say 'that's enough, leave us alone', we're told 'that's not a political agenda, we have to stand, you know, for bigger government; we gotta give up our faith, we gotta give up these things'. This is the advice we get FROM REPUBLICANS!"
‎"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." ~ Benjamin Franklin