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Gun Counter Gomer uses an impressive 1000+ words to finally get around to saying that he is open to taking up arms against the Northern Aggressors if they free the slaves offer uninsured people a public option for health care.
Ultimately, laws are only lawful if the govern find them fair and justified. All else is dogma.
And so when power-mad legislatures and executives use direct lies and emotional rhetoric in order to deceive their constituencies in an attempt at tyranny that serves to increase their power while undermining the principles that has enabled this government of the people, for the people and by the people, we owe them no more allegiance.
One may even begin to speculate on whether we owe them civility for their transgressions, which amount to a fundamental betrayal of oursocial contract as Americans.
Unlike other nations and states in times both past and present, we have the possibility of correcting our mistakes and removing the disloyal via the ballot instead of the barrel of a gun.
Let us hope that our elected officials recognize, however, that our patience is not finite, nor our obligation to bear their indecent assault on our liberties unlimited.
It’s not that Gomer has anything against healthy people. Hellfire and tarnation, he might even let one of them marry his sister. Once he divorces her…
(Update) – Upon further reflection or, as he might put it ‘hard thinkin’”, Gomer decides to hightail it away from his previous veiled threat:
And so when power-mad legislatures and executives use direct lies and emotional rhetoric in order to deceive their constituencies in attempts at tyranny that serve to increase their power while undermining the principles that has enabled this government of the people, for the people and by the people, we then owe them no more allegiance.
Fortunately, unlike other nations and states in times both past and present, we have the possibility of correcting our mistakes and removing the disloyal via the ballot instead of by the barrel of a gun. Tomorrow, November 3, gives many Americans an opportunity to use their ballot as a declaration that they will not trade their liberties for the certainty of serfdom.
Let us hope that the report at the end of the day is as resounding as the shots fired at Concord.
Obviously when he wrote the original version he was feelin’ secessional, drinkin’ doubles, and wound up in a whole lot of trouble.
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A definite Snark of the Month Club selection!
I’m picturing someone writing this about Bush during the eight years of his literal tyranny and…well the picture inevitably ends with them being sent to Gitmo by the Bush administration.
Oh. For a minute there, I thought you were threatening to take up arms against the legally constituted authorities of the government. But since your patience is infinite, I guess you’re just going to whine for all eternity.
Does that mean that our patience is infinite? Am I missing or misreading something here?
Yes, well our patience with whining is definitely finite.
Perhaps Gomer should have a little chat with Douglas Holtz-Eakin. In addition to a shortage of razors, the COBRA on the health care from the McCain campaign is running out, and… I bet Doug’s patience isn’t finite.
The combination of grammatical error, logical inconsistency and run-on sentences along with the hackneyed attempt to shoe-horn some college level vocabulary into his essay betrays poor Gomer’s educational deficiency. It’s quite stunning.
Rhetorical fail.
Comments on that site fail; of course, so does the editorial opinion. There were other stupid grammatical errors as weel.
I never knew it was tyrannical for people to try to pass laws exactly according to our constitution. Who knew?
Now if a real, that is to say white Republican, president was pushing the very same health care reforms Gomer would be wagging his tail and writing reams of praise for Our Leader’s patriotic bestowal of blessings on the masses.
Had to double check, but I confirmed what I remembered: that the blogger known as Confederate Yankee has a masters in English. Coursin’ he got it at East Carolina University, which explains a lot.
All else is dogma. Which, considering the source, I read as, “Tarnation woman. Git the dawg, ma!”
Wow. East Carolina English Department fail.
I guess I know where not to send my kids for higher learning.
Are they going to ‘Go Galt’ or invade the north? I can’t keep track. Is it an even/odd day thing? I just wish they would do one or the other. My patience is not finite.
And that composition would have gotten a “D” at best in Comp 101, even at East Carolina.
I’d like to see single-payer passed through reconciliation, then listen to the wingnuts and the criminal insurance company CEOs howl.
There’s nothing wrong with East Carolina University. It may not be the Harvard of the south but it’s a fully accredited university with some outstanding faculty. As someone who has worked in academics for over 20 years, I hate that kind of academic snobbery.
Well, it’s not academic snobbery to point out that a holder of one of their Masters’ degrees in English can’t seem to write a coherent sentence. Hell, I’m a college drop-out and I write better than that. This guy is a testament to the “quality” of an East Carolina State education. It’s not snobbery to assume, based on the quality of the work by one of their more famous (or notorious) graduates that they aren’t exactly stretching the minds of young Jimmy and Sally.
There are better places to send my kids for college than E. Carolina.
There’s the local Vo-Tech for one, as well as Miss Betty’s Beauty Academy and Chainsaw Repair School for another.
as W and John Yoo are testaments to a Yale/Harvard education ?
I’m sure Bobo Wens will be on the frontlines of the insurrection. Assuming, of course, his trick knee isn’t acting up or his charcoal grill hasn’t suffered a mishap.
Gomer’s estrangement from his mother tongue says more about Gomer than it does about East Carolina State University.
Of course, East Carolina State didn’t have to validate his estrangement from his mother tongue by awarding him a degree in it…
Unless, of course, you happen to be on the losing side. That’s the thing that Gomer really can’t get over; eight years of W in power convinced him and his that they were the new ruling class, and their subsequent fall from power (and realization of just how overextended they were on their home equity loans and credit cards) has left them believing that they are, at one and the same time, the oppressed masses that are gathering their will to overthrow the Tory yoke and the ruling class that will show those ACORN-roused rabble who’s the boss come the glorious Restoration. It’s the same process whereby the descendant of some no-’count Johnny Reb who got plowed under at Gettysberg dresses up as the sort of plantation owner who wouldn’t have given his ancestor the time of day.
Wow. What a bunch of pussies they are. Not even a year into the Islofascist regime of Barack Hussein Obama, and they are already threatening to
go Galt, I mean,take up armswhine us to death. I thought they were sore winners, but they are really motherfucking ugly sore losers. Just secede already so we can bomb YOUR ass into oblivion.But remember, liberals are the traitors. Encouraging armed insurrection is patriotic. Passing laws according to the rules laid-out in the Constitution is treason.
Thomas Jeffetrson he isn’t.
“as W and John Yoo are testaments to a Yale/Harvard education ?”
SASQ: Yes.
Right. I don’t think it’s right to malign a whole university because of one stupid alum.
I’ve always felt that conservatism was a progressively-more-debilitating disease. I’d bet that when Gomer was in his early Twenties he could still tie his own shoes and even feed himself.
Yep. I’d hate to see Annapolis take the fall for McCain.
.. as it should – if McCain failed in military strategy. But no one is claiming that (Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran is actually consistent with an Annapolis education). But here we have a University conferring a Masters Degree in English. On Gun Counter Gomer. Who, by the evidence in front of us, can barely string a sentence together.
Watch as the government shivers in its boots…
As for the diagnosis for Confederate Yankee? Well, that would be tertiary syphilis complicated by many generations of inbreeding.
I am sure if the Founding Fathers could come here today, they would be in favor of taking up arms against the idea of providing affordable health coverage for the poor. Because the health care reform effort is every bit as tyrannical as quartering British soldiers or being taxed without representation.
Let us not even go there. Every legal and illegal non-citizen in this country is taxed by the IRS and various state and local governments with absolutely no representation.
Pah!
Yeah, Provide for the Common Welfare is just SUCH a non-starter for them.
Right, if Congress passes a law you don’t like, you have every right to go out and shoot somebody. Especially a kind of law that helps people. The nerve!
Why do so many conservatives affect this strange diction? It’s like they’re going out of their way to sound like supervillains.
I just noticed the phrase
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That would mean that their patience is, in fact, infinite, would it not?
New diagnosis: epic language fail.
They really are as stupid as their ideas are, are they not?
I think it’s supposed to sound like the classical, measured cadences of The Federalist. As you point out, it comes out instead like cut-rate Ernst Stavro Blofeld. “My patience is not finite, Mr. Bond, nor is my obligation to bear your indecent assault on my liberties unlimited.” (Claps hands to have his henchmen suspend Bond over shark tank.)
The rhetoric coming out of these people is the same kind of crap that I heard coming out of the racists back in the Sixties when the Civil Rights Act was going through Congress. They remain ignorant, bigoted, crybabies and they unanimously overlook the fact that every one of their beloved Deep South Red States has been on the federal dole for decades. When something happens that they don’t like they all get up on their hind legs and start spewing about their “rights” and “tyranny”. They want to be free of everything except our money. Until they wean themselves off of that they’re nothing more than a bunch of cocksucking little posers.
Meanwhile, Creed will appear tonight on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, who regrets losing that bet even more than Gomer regrets that post.
Amazing. Over 1,000 words, and not one sentence that informs the reader why Gomer is so cheesed-off.
The issue isn’t helps people, its helps THOSE people…